Red Deer Advocate, July 28, 2012

‘CRUNCH TIME’ Blackfalds’ growth puts pressure on town

Nahanni Part I of a three-part series by Gerry Feehan about his adventures in Canada’s Great White North.

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Wildrose MLAs question timing of flood report

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The government’s release of a long-awaited report on how to cope with flooding has prompted questions about the delay and whether its recommendations will be adopted.

Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith called it a “shame” the report and its 18 recommendations were not made public sooner.

“There’s no telling how much damage and distress could have been avoided over the course of the last six flood seasons had this report been released and its recommendations implemented in a timely manner,” said Smith in a statement this week.

Joe Anglin, Wildrose MLA for the riding that includes Sundre, which was hit hard by flooding in 2005, echoed his leader’s concerns.

“Danielle’s right when she said what the heck took so long,” said Anglin, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. “It doesn’t make sense to me that they would hold it back.”

Anglin said the report’s recommendations are reasonable and the objective of cost-sharing flood mitigation measures with the federal, provincial and local governments is important.

“The question is is the government actually prepared to back that up?”

Mountain View County Reeve Bruce Beattie, hadn’t seen the report yet on Friday but said it will be of great interest to the municipality, which is seeking up to $2.5 million in provincial funding to extend a berm system on the Red Deer River to stop the river spilling its banks during high flows.

Minor flooding this spring, showed the worth of the existing berms and the need to lengthen them.

“There’s certainly potential for significant flooding if we aren’t able to add on to that berm.”

Beattie hopes that the recommendations provide some actions to help vulnerable municipalities.

Town of Sundre Deputy Mayor Chris Vardas had also not seen the report yet but said council will be looking at it closely at a future meeting.

Alberta Municipal Affairs spokesman Michael Norris said he can’t speak to why the previous administration did not release the report, but said Premier Alison Redford’s government is committed to openness and transparency and Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths released the report when the Town of Okotoks requested it about a month ago.

Norris said while the report was not made public many of its recommendations have been implemented, such as upgrading provincial flood maps and working with municipalities to see what sort of infrastructure they need to prevent flooding problems.

Also, since the report was completed in 2006, the province has provided millions in municipal sustainability initiative funding to communities that could be directed to anti-flooding projects.

The report does not recommend the project inject new cash into flood mitigations, but it does recommend the province share costs, while noting the federal government is mostly responsible for a range of emergency programs related to flooding.

It is recommended that a provincial flood mitigation strategy not include provincially operated or funded flood insurance. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Florida man gets 3 years for trying to smuggle 75 guns into Canada LETHBRIDGE — A Florida man has been sentenced to three years in jail for trying to smuggle 75 guns and ammunition into Canada.

Canada Border Services says George Foster arrived at the border crossing at Coutts, Alta., on Feb. 12.

He said he was driving to Alaska, and when asked if he had any firearms, he said no.

But when officers examined his vehicle, they a variety of rifles, 48 handguns — four which were loaded — one blowgun, a pistol crossbow and 12 highcapacity magazines hidden inside his pickup truck.

This week Foster, who is 54, pleaded guilty to four Criminal Code offences and two Custom Act offences.

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The ATCO CentreFest Kickoff Barbecue celebrating the opening of Central Alberta’s largest festival gave onlookers a sneak preview of some of the headlining performers scheduled for this coming weekend. Here Silver Elvis takes Emery Kay — whom he picked from the audience — for a quick dance routine making her look like a seasoned veteran.

Mountie in Dziekanski case gets no jail time for blocking unrelated police work

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A disgraced former RCMP corporal who first catapulted into the public eye after Robert Dziekanski’s Taser-related death in Vancouver is not getting jail time for an unrelated conviction stemming from a fatal crash.

Benjamin (Monty) Robinson was sentenced to a one-year conditional term on Friday for attempting to block the police investigation of the October 2008 collision that killed a 21-year-old motorcyclist.

It means the 42-year-old will serve only one month under house arrest.

“He’s prepared to take his medicine, and he’s taking it,” Robinson’s lawyer David Crossin said outside court after the sentence was delivered.

Robinson resigned from the RCMP last week on the same day a Crown lawyer asked for his imprisonment, ending years of frustration for B.C.’s top cop who had years earlier sought the man’s suspension.

But though a judge said the man’s misconduct “strikes at the heart of the justice system,” she handed down a sentence more lenient than the Crown had hoped.

Robinson made the choice to use his knowledge

learned as a police officer to mislead investigators, Janice Dillon said in her decision.

“His conduct discredited the police at a time when police conduct generally was under public scrutiny,” she said. “He has diminished the reputation of the RCMP and his fellow officers.”

Robinson has been cited as an example of the bad apples the force has been unable to fire. B.C. has taken repeated hits for cases over recent years in which Mounties have been discredited or remain accused of wrongdoing.

The highest profile case was Dziekanski’s death in 2007, where the Polish immigrant was stunned repeatedly with a Taser after he picked up a stapler at Vancouver’s airport. Robinson was the senior of four officers at the scene.

He had initially faced internal discipline in connection with the motorcyclist’s death, including a code-of-conduct investigation, but his discharge means those actions have been halted.

Family members of victim Orion Hutchinson were not happy with the court decision.

“That sentence just felt like he’s being grounded,” his mother Judith Hutchinson said angrily outside the New Westminister courthouse. “It doesn’t feel like a sentence to me, it feels like that’s not enough.”

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Clockwise from above: Fireworks light up the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday in London; The Olympic cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony; Team Canada athletes pose for pictures as they march into the stadium; Fireworks light up the night sky; Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee delivers his speech.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The Queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who. And the creative genius of Danny Boyle spliced it all together.

Brilliant. Cheeky, too.

The highlight of the Oscar-winning director’s $42 million show was pure movie magic, using trickery to make it seem that Britain’s beloved 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth II had parachuted into the stadium with the nation’s most famous spy.

A short film showed Daniel Craig as 007 driving to Buckingham Palace in a black London cab and, pursued by the royal corgis, meeting the queen, who played herself.

“Good evening, Mr. Bond,” she said.

They were shown flying in a helicopter over London landmarks and a waving statue of Winston Churchill — the queen in a salmoncolored dress, Bond dashing as ever in a black tuxedo — before leaping into the inky night over Olympic Park.

At the same moment, real skydivers appeared as the stadium throbbed to the James Bond theme. And moments after that, the monarch appeared in person, accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip.

Organizers said it was thought to be the first time she has acted on film.

“The queen made herself more accessible than ever before,” Boyle said.

In the stadium, Elizabeth stood solemnly while a children’s choir serenaded her with “God Save the Queen,” and members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force raised the Union Jack.

Boyle sprang another giant surprise and picked seven teenage athletes

for the supreme honour of igniting the Olympic cauldron.

Together, they touched flaming torches to trumpetlike tubes that spread into a ring of fire.

T h e flames rose and joined elegantly together to form the cauldron. Fireworks erupted over the stadium to music from Pink Floyd. And with a singalong of “Hey Jude,” Beatle Paul McCartney closed a show tthat ran 45 minu utes beyond its sscheduled three h hours.

Organizers ssaid the cauld dron would be m moved Sunday n night to the corn ner of the stad dium where a g giant bell tolled during the sshow.

Boyle turned the stadium into a giant jjuke box, with a nonstop rock a and pop homa age to cool Brittannia that enssured the show n never caught its b breath.

The highadrenaline soundtrack veered from c classical to irrreverent. Boyle daringly inc cluded the Sex P Pistols’ “Pretty V Vacant” and a ssnippet of its v version of “God S Save the Queen” — an anti-establlishment punk anthem once b banned by the B BBC. The encyclop pedic review of m modern British m music continu ued with a 1918 B Broadway stand dard adopted b h West Ham ffootball team, the by the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” by still another Queen, and other tracks too numerous to mention, but not to dance to.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — A smiling Simon Whitfield led Canada’s delegation into London’s Olympic Stadium during a whimsical and energetic opening ceremony at the Summer Games on Friday.

Now it gets real for Canadian athletes.

“Enjoyed watching the opening ceremonies with teammates,” tweeted Canadian soccer player Sophie Schmidt. “But now bed time. Game tomorrow.”

Canada faces South Africa in Coventry on Saturday as the Games begin in earnest. The Can adians, who skipped the ceremony to prepare for the game, opened preliminary play earlier in the week with a loss to Japan.

Canada’s best hope for a medal on Day 1 is swimmer Ryan Cochrane in the 400-metre freestyle.

The Victoria native won a bronze medal four years ago in Beijing in the 1,500, his bread-and-butter event.

An early medal would take the pressure off, especially after

BRILLIANT, CHEEKY MIX OF ROYALTY AND ROCK TURN STADIUM INTO A GIANT JUKEBOX AS LONDON WELCOMES THE WORLD TO THE SUMMER GAMES

Canada was shut out for the firstt seven days in Beijing.

While the COC did not set a hard medal target during a newss conference Friday, Canada’ss Olympic team is aiming to finish h ttop 12 in the medal standings.

“The only thing important here e is we did everything to get pre-pared,” COC president Marcell Aubut said. “The moment we are A e going to win one is going to be a g great moment. g “Of course, we all hope to have e tthat as soon as possible, but we e cannot do more than we did, turn-ing every stone and being ready y for any moment we have a chance.

It’s going to be a great momentt when that will happen and tough h to predict.”

It wasn’t all business Friday y for Canada’s athletes. Whitfield, Canada’s star triathlete, proud-ly waved the Maple Leaf as he e led the Canadian contingent in-to Olympic Stadium during the e opening ceremony.

“What a rush,” Whitfield said.

“It was so amazing and was such h an honour to be here tonight lead-ing all of the athletes that I re-spect.”

The sold-out crowd let out a roar when Canada was introduced d as thumping dance music blared d in the background.

Just under half of the 277 Cana-dian athletes who will compete in n London were able to take in the e ceremony. Many had to skip it to o prepare for their events.

Veteran equestrian Ian Mil-lar, who is competing in his 10th h Games, has often skipped ceremo-ny in the past but he chose to go o Friday.

“This is only my second one e since 1972, so I am a rookie to o opening ceremony,” he said. “Butt one word: proud.”

The Canadian team members, wearing red and white jackets, khakis and white sneakers, waved d to the crowd and took pictures ass they walked along the infield.

“It was surreal and so much h fun — so great to have my Cana-dian teammates behind me and d just feeling the vibe,” said Cana-dian wrestler Carol Huynh, who o won gold in 2008. “Last time, in n Beijing, I was fighting for position n with the water polo guys and thiss time I was right up front.”

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‘Crunch time’ for town as population booms BLACKFALDS

BY JESSICA JONES ADVOCATE STAFF The Town of Blackfalds, the fourth fastest growing community in Canada, is still experiencing a major growth spurt.

The town released the results of its annual municipal census on Tuesday. A head count earlier this year shows that the population of Blackfalds rose 5.75 per cent in 12 months.

The population officially stands at 6,767 — up from 6,399 in 2011.

In 10 years, Blackfalds’ population has more than tripled.

Even more staggering, said Mayor Melodie Stol, are the numbers showing how young the community is.

The census indicates that there are 180 threeyear-olds and 174 two-year-olds in the town.

“That is a lot of kindergarten-aged children coming up in just two short years,” Stol pointed out.

The numbers show a need for Alberta Education to approve an existing capital plan to add a kindergarten to Grade 6 school to Blackfalds. And the census is telling the province that the decision needs to be made sooner rather than later, Stol said.

“This is crunch time. We don’t want to be standing there looking foolish like we didn’t know that all these kindergartens are coming,” she said.

“This is not going to be a surprise to anyone so let’s get everyone to the table and make a good solid plan to meet these needs locally.”

Approximately 943 people are between the ages of 26 and 30 in the town.

While there are 180 children in one age group, there are only 146 people over the age of 66 living in Blackfalds.

Town officials went door-to-door from May 18 to June 4 to compile census numbers.

They also counted the number of occupied and unoccupied dwelling units.

There are approximately 3,083 homes in Blackfalds, up from 3,032 in 2011.

And, Stol pointed out, there are 98 more homes under construction.

“That is about 300 more people in less than a year,” she said.

Having a larger population means a positive impact when it comes to receiving provincial dollars.

But it also shows the need to have family-orientated businesses and services in Blackfalds, Stol said.

“Things like our fieldhouse project, if we were not growing things like this would not be possible.”

The Blackfalds fieldhouse is expected to be completed in the fall of 2014. It will be the home to various recreational activities such as indoor play spaces for a variety of sports, walking and running tracks, pools, fitness equipment and lease spaces for local businesses.

Stol said the census information will be distributed to the town’s important partners such as Alberta Health Services, school boards, businesses and the province for effective planning and decision-making purposes.

In 2006, the town’s population was 4,571. It has seen a 47 per cent growth rate, or 1,455 new residents ,since 2001. jjones@reddeeradvocate.com

Sick kid dreams of volunteering at orphanage

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — When 10-year-old Isabella Tonn of Edmonton started recovering from a rare form of cancer, she got to make a wish.

“If you could have anything you want in the whole wide world, what would it be?” her father, Ryan, asked her earlier this year.

The beautiful blond girl with big blue eyes briefly considered asking to meet Justin Bieber. But he was old news. She thought about wishing for a trip, but she’d already been to Walt Disney World with her family. Then she thought about doing something for others.

“Oh, I’d love to go to an orphanage and hold babies,” she decided. Her family tried to tempt her with other ideas, but she couldn’t be swayed.

The international Make-A-Wish foundation has granted about 250,000 wishes to children with lifethreatening illnesses.

In Canada, the charity grants about one wish a day. But spokeswoman Amber Benders says it’s unusual for sick kids to dream of doing volunteer work.

In the United States, there have been a few reports of selfless Make-A-Wish dreams. One teenage boy recently asked for lights and bleachers for his high school football stadium. Another teen wanted a donation sent to another charity, Doctors Without Borders.

“The whole point of a wish is for the child to pick what would give them ultimate happiness, hope, strength and joy,” Benders says. “For Isabella, that’s volunteering at an orphanage and we think that’s amazing.”

So the foundation is helping Isabella, her parents, and younger sister collect donations of clothes and toys before sending them off for a week to work at an orphanage in Baja California, Mexico. They arrive in Vicente Guerrero next month.

Her grandparents and an uncle were so inspired by her dream they have decided pay their own way so they can volunteer at the orphanage, too.

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Breyden Ruddick, 3, digs for treasure as his sister Jordynne, 7, watches in a Blackfalds field.

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BRIEFS Child porn guilty plea entered by Red Deer man A man pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to possessing child pornography.

Originally, Randy William Adams, 52, of Red Deer, was also charged with one count of making child pornography and one count of accessing child pornography after an electronic device containing images was found in the city last October and turned over to police.

An investigation was launched with the assistance of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team’s Southern Alberta Internet child exploitation unit, a team made up of the RCMP and police from Calgary, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.

On March 8, a search warrant was executed at local home, where police seized several electronic devices, including computers. Pre-sentence and psychological reports were ordered on Adams.

He will be sentenced on Nov. 28.

Olds College has partner Olds College has teamed up with an online school in Saskatchewan to offer students the opportunity to earn a diploma at home.

Starting in September, Credenda students will have the chance to earn a Business Administration diploma through the new agreement.

Credenda’s students are mostly First Nations peoples from Saskatchewan but there are some from Alberta.

To date, there are roughly 400 high school and 150 college students enrolled in the online school. “More and more students are wanting to stay within their communities,� said Vince Hill, Credenda chief executive officer. “Work a job and take a class part time and full time.�

Aboriginal students who take the certificate through Credenda can use their credits to transfer to other insti-

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, July 28, 2012 A5 “While the businesses are open tutions. Hill said there are talks with most days, this is a concerted effort to the college to offer more diplomas in really put their best foot forward and the future, including hospitality and have special things for people to see sports management. and do,� she said.

The 13 participating partners are in the counties of Red Deer, Lacombe and Mountain View.

A weekend of rural attractions, The names, locations and contact inevents, history, markets and local cuiformation of the participating partners sine is scheduled for Aug. 11 and 12 in can be found at www.countrydrive.ca Central Alberta. under Summer Showcase Weekend.

Country Drive is an organization of Among the Country Drive busi25 local rural tourism businesses. Next nesses are Billyco Junction Gardens, month, it will promote 13 of its memBowden Sun Maze, Edgar Farms, bers’ Central Alberta businesses.

Hilltop Greenhouses, The Blooming Tourism Red Deer executive diFields, Bowden Pioneer Museum, rector Liz Taylor said a map to the Danish Canadian National Museum locations is available by visiting www. and Gardens, Didsbury Museum, Hiscountrydrive.ca. toric Markerville, Stephanson House She said some visitors may only be Historic Site, HolmeHus Antiques interested in going to the antique spots and the Farm With the Good Food, or the museums.

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Darcy Wedlund, 38, was arrested and charged with 15 weapons offences, including trafficking in firearms, possession of prohibited weapons, possession of explosives, unsafe storage of firearms and possession of firearms while prohibited. On Jan. 25, police seized explosives, at least 70 long-barrelled firearms and eight handguns from the residence on Lincoln Road (Hwy 792), about four km south of Crestomere.

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B.C. premier overreaches on pipeline CLARK HAS VALID INTERESTS TO PROTECT, BUT ASSERTING OWNERSHIP STAKE IN OUR OIL IS LUDICROUS Imagine a train carrying potash from a northern Saskatchewan mine derailing while traversing Alberta, spilling part of its load and causing considerable environmental damage.

Now imagine a truck loaded with lumber from British Columbia overturning on an Alberta highway, blocking traffic and triggering serious traffic accidents.

Could the governments of Saskatchewan and JOE British ColumMCLAUGHLIN bia be held morally culpable or legally responsible for damages caused because the natural resources being transported originated in those provinces?

To ask the question is to answer it.

It’s perfect nonsense.

But that’s the kind of ridiculous scheme B.C. Premier Christy Clark wants to impose on Alberta for petroleum extracted here and transported through her province on its way to Asia and other parts of the world.

Alberta-based Enbridge Inc. plans to build a pipeline called Northern Gateway to carry crude oil from Northern Alberta to Kitimat B.C. From there, the oil will travel by tanker to Asia and other energy-hungry parts of the world.

It’s a huge, expensive project that will cost billions of dollars and create enormous wealth.

Like any other big project, it creates risks of many sorts, including financial, environmental and political.

The political risks are driving Clark these days. Her deeply unpopular Liberal government faces re-election next May. They seem doomed to lose to the New Democrats, who have never met an energy megaproject they didn’t love to hate.

Running scared, Clark has focused on the Northern Gateway pipeline. She says British Columbia is bearing an unfair burden of financial and envi-

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford, Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, left to right, listen to a choir at Province House during the annual Council of the Federation meeting in Halifax on Thursday. Clark has taken an impossible position on pipeline development. ronmental risk for the line and wants Alberta to pony up.

She wants royalties paid by Albertans for every barrel shipped through northern Gateway.

It’s nonsense and Clark knows it.

She also knows that regulatory hurdles needed to approve the Northern Gateway Pipeline — which include gaining consent of aboriginal tribes whose land must be crossed — will not be close to completion by the time the next provincial election rolls round.

She’s playing crass and cowardly politics today to preserve her hold on power next spring.

The pipeline proponent has made her task immeasurably easier.

Clark’s royalty confiscation scheme was announced only days after a U.S. government agency reported on a massive 2010 pipeline leak in Michigan.

The leak was by far the worst in that

state’s history.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board report on this debacle described some of the pipeline owner’s actions as a Keystone Kops operation.

That included having a broken valve leak oil into a watershed for 17 hours before it was detected.

That operator was Enbridge Inc., the same firm planning the Northern Gateway.

Understandably, news reports on the NTSB’s findings received enormous media play in British Columbia.

In fact, Enbridge’s poor performance in Michigan two years ago bodes well for B.C. today.

Enbridge president Pat Daniel spent three months in Michigan dealing non-stop with the disaster and learning ways to avoid a repeat.

His company spent almost $800

million cleaning up the spill, which included a paltry $3.8 million U.S. government fine.

There’s no doubt that Enbridge’s procedures and performance are better today than they were two years ago and will have to be stepped up again in British Columbia.

Enbridge has pledged improvements, including thicker pipeline walls for sections crossing streams, and more valves.

It has agreed to pay extra tolls on every barrel of oil shipped through Northern Gateway, creating a fund to deal with any emergencies or contingencies.

It will also need to carry more insurance coverage.

Citizens of British Columbia should expect nothing less. They should also expect honesty, decency and professionalism from their government.

Clark’s crass attempt to extract royalties from the owners of oil while it’s in the ground — the people of Alberta — fails on all three counts.

British Columbia will get enormous benefits from the Northern Gateway over time.

Studies by the respected McDonald Laurier Institute project $28.8 billion in job-creating revenue for British Columbia in the next 25 years from developments in Alberta’s oilsands.

B.C.’s total will rise to $42 billion, the institute says, if the Northern Gateway pipeline through B.C. and Keystone pipeline through the American plains are built.

Alberta can contribute directly to that wealth generation in B.C. It could, for example, fund tanker port construction at Kitimat, as Premier Peter Lougheed did in 1975 by investing Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund money in a new Prince Rupert grain terminal.

That initiative helped expand export markets for Alberta grains, while creating enduring new jobs for British Columbians.

What Alberta cannot and will never do is accept Clark’s presumptuous claim for an ownership stake in our oil.

Joe McLaughlin is the retired former managing editor of the Red Deer Advocate.

Enslaved by taxes? Not necessarily One of the best tax-avoidance tactics in the late Roman Empire was to sell yourself into slavery. You didn’t really have to work as somebody’s slave, of course — it was more like rock star Hotblack Desiato being “dead for a year for tax reasons” in Douglas Adams’ wondrous confection The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — but with the legal status of slave, you were exempt from taxation.

Nowadays, the legal manipulations used to avoid taxation are less dramatic, but they are spectacularly effective.

James Henry, former chief economist at business consultancy McKinsey and a member of the board of directors of Tax Justice Network, has just published a report, The Price of Offshore Revisited, that estimates the amount of wealth hidden in tax haGWYNNE vens by the super-rich at a DYER minimum of $21 trillion: i.e. $21,000,000,000,000.

It might be as much as $32 trillion, he adds, but greater precision is impossible when the whole point of holding money overseas is to keep it secret.

Henry came up with this range of numbers by sifting through data from the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and private sector analysts — and it does not even include yachts, mansions, art works and other forms of wealth held overseas.

It doesn’t matter. The point is that it’s a very large amount of money: equal to the annual gross domestic product of both the United States and Japan. Some of it is the laundered proceeds of crime, and much of it is money stolen from national budgets by corrupt national elites (an estimated $306 billion from Nigeria, $798 billion from Russia, $1,189 billion from China), but most is deposited by the respectable super-rich of the West.

Henry’s report, published in The Observer last weekend, calculates that almost half of the minimum estimate of $21 trillion is owned by just 92,000 people, some of whom pay no tax at all. A number of very small places (Liechtenstein, Cayman Islands, Jersey) and a few larger countries like Switzerland make a good living by providing these secret tax shelters, and work very hard to protect their clients from exposure.

Back home, the “high net-worth individuals” also

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enjoy the services of “a highly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting, and investment industries,” said Henry.

We always sort of knew about it; now we know the scale.

Information of this sort is dangerous. It annoys those who merely work for a salary or an hourly wage, and whose taxes have to fill the gap created by the defection of the super-rich. It might even destabilize the established social order.

But the British government, at least, knows how to deal with that sort of thing.

Less than 48 hours after Henry’s revelations, British politician David Gauke, one of the Treasury ministers, went public with the assertion that the lower orders cheat on their taxes just as much as the rich. “Getting a discount with your plumber by paying cash in hand is something that is a big cost to the Revenue and means others must pay more in tax,” he said.

Well, yes. Paying cash to a tradesman to get a discount (knowing that he will then not report this income to the tax authorities) is something that many people reading this article will have done. It is tax avoidance — and since there are a great many more of us than there are of the super-rich, these little private deals do add up to a serious loss of tax revenue.

Let him who always insists on a receipt cast the first stone.

Gauke was almost philosophical about it.

“Tax avoidance is not a recent problem,” he said.

“In the fourth century AD, the Roman Emperor Valens had to make it illegal for individuals to sell themselves into slavery to avoid tax. And while this particular ruse seems to have fallen out of fashion, there will always be some who seek to shirk their civic duty.”

But it’s clear enough to ordinary people that ultrarich people who avoid taxes on vast sums of money by employing expensive experts to hide their wealth

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And hard-pressed governments, desperate for more revenue, are beginning to go after the tax havens.

Britain has made a deal with the Swiss authorities in which U.K. residents with undeclared assets in Swiss banks can make a one-off payment to the British Treasury of between 21 and 41 per cent on their total assets, clear the slate, and remain anonymous.

The Swiss will then levy a withholding tax of 27 to 48 per cent on future money going into those accounts, which will also go to Britain.

Germany has negotiated a similar deal, although it is still awaiting ratification by the Bundestag (parliament).

The U.S. government has taken a different tack, demanding that Swiss banks hand over information on thousands of undeclared accounts held by American citizens.

The heat is definitely on, and yet. ...

Yet while all this was going on, the amount of wealth that is managed by the top 10 private banks, most of it held overseas in secret accounts, has more than doubled in the past five years.

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Climate change not taken seriously Environment Minister Peter Kent’s lackadaisical approach to climate change stands in sharp contrast to the growing incidence of extreme weather events, and the high temperatures and drought conditions this summer that are causing many food commodity prices to soar.

What climate scientists have been predicting for some time — volatile weather with droughts, floods and extreme heat waves — is now becoming a more regular occurrence.

This year’s DAVID “summer in CRANE March” saw temperatures soar in many areas, followed by a return to frost conditions, and decimated apple and cherry crops in Ontario and Great Lakes states. Drought is currently plaguing much of the U.S. Midwest Corn Belt and parts of southern Ontario, while record temperatures in cities such as Washington have caused deaths and destruction. Forest fires have devastated parts of Colorado.

Britain has been inundated with massive rainfalls, giving the wettest-ever April to June period. Russia has experienced flash floods while drought conditions are threatening the grain crops of Russia and Kazakhstan, two of the world’s major grain producers. India and Bangladesh have experienced severe monsoons.

As The New Scientist warned in an editorial, “our weather is not only becoming more extreme as a result of global warming, it is becoming even more extreme than climate scientists predicted,” so that we need to start planning for “ever more ferocious heat waves, storms, floods and droughts.”

This is the future we are building for today’s children, because of today’s inadequate policies, with the world mov-

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ing to a planet that is 4 degrees Celsius hotter by 2060.

There is now growing evidence that human-induced climate change is contributing to extreme weather events we have been experiencing in recent years. A series of articles by climate scientists published by the American Meteorological Society shows how the cumulative effect of rising greenhouse gas emissions increases the probability of extreme weather.

While the experts caution that climate change cannot be blamed for every instance of an extreme weather event, scientists are now in a position to demonstrate that climate change is playing a role in some extreme weather events.

For example, the scientists are able to show that the harsh drought that hit Texas last year was about 20 times more likely to have occurred due to climate change than because of natural vagaries in climate. Likewise, the unusually warm weather in Britain last year was 60 times more likely than due to natural variations. The scientists examined a number of other extreme weather events from 2011, including Thailand’s floods and East African drought, as well as the Texas drought and hot British weather.

Yet asked recently whether it was time, since we are barely half-way to meeting our 2020 greenhouse gas emission reduction target, for the federal government to look at carbon pricing, Kent replied that “it’s been off the table for some time.” Various forms of carbon pricing, such as a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, Kent claimed would “do nothing to reduce the greenhouse gas megatonnage. We believe sector-by-sector regulations will reduce actual GHG emissions.”

This is strange reasoning for a conservative since Kent’s regulatory approach entails much more government intervention in business decision-making than a carbon price, which relies on the market to respond. A carbon price not only changes investment behaviour, since businesses or consumers have to take the future car-

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Top: Rows of corn stalks stand under a cloudless sky south of Blair, Neb. Right: An under-developed ear of corn lies in a field after the droughtdamaged field was cut down for silage. bon price into account, but also provides a strong incentive for innovative entrepreneurs who know there will be a growing market for low-carbon innovations. The benefits of carbon pricing are well known to economists.

For example, a recent study by three economists at the International Monetary Fund argued, contrary to Kent, that “well-designed fiscal policies (emission taxes or their cap-and-trade equivalents, with allowance auctions) should form the centrepiece of efforts to promote greener economies.”

One reason, they said, is that there is “growing acceptance among policymakers that emissions pricing instruments are far more effective at exploiting the entire range of emissions reduction opportunities than are regulatory approaches.”

As a result, they recommended “levying environmental taxes directly on potential damages from the carbon and local pollution content of coal, natural gas and oil products as these fuels enter the economy, with a system of refunds for emissions capture at

downstream facilities.”

Kent is most unlikely to be our environment minister in 2020, so will not be around to explain our more extreme weather events. But he will, like the rest of us, be around to experience more instances of extreme weather and it won’t be pretty.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

I’m right chuffed about the 2012 London Games Finally! The 2012 Olympics that every Olympic Games have begun in earnest. Well, always bring. And since the actually they’ve begun in Lon- Summer Olympics hasn’t been don, England, but the point held in Britain since 1948, I is, the way I’ve got it figured thought it would be an idea it’s been two long years since (though not necessarily a good the last Olympics (2012 minus idea) to take a closer look at 2010=2). what makes the Brit And of course Games so unique. we all know where So, let’s review the 2010 Olymsome of the Olympic pic Games were events that are so exheld — they were clusive to the United held in Earnest.

Kingdom: No really, it was 1. Sheep Tipping Vancouver Can— how many sheep ada, which we can contestants tip (we=Canadians) over in a challengall know was the ing paddock course best Olympic in the middle of the Games ever held Yorkshire Dales?

HARLEY in the history of (Australia and New HAY the world because Zealand athletes are my own rotten kid medal favourites.) daughter danced 2. Full Contact in the Opening Lawn Bowling — helCeremonies. mets are required, And even aside from that, canes and walkers optional. let’s just say London 2012 has 3. Pint Lifting — weight lifta lot to live up to. I mean, we ing 20 ounces of beer at a time had the incredible short-track in various official London pub speedskating, skiing and skel- venues. Athletes must drain eton champions and, of course, the contents after each sucthe amazing men’s and wom- cessful lift. en’s hockey gold and all the 4. Abbey Road Crosswalking great Canuck athletes, medals — contestants speed-walk the or no medals. These highlights famous crosswalk from cover are going to be nearly impos- of The Beatles album. (British sible for London 2012 to beat athletes are favoured for medon account of it all took place als due to national pride). in the midst of a Canadian 5. Darts — England’s verwinter, ice and snow and all sion of hockey. (Russians are of that, which might be a little favoured.) tough for London, England, in 6. Swimming the Thames — July. Also, 2012 happens to be all water events will be held what they call “Summer Olym- in and on the Thames River. pics,” which doesn’t even con- Winners must complete each tain hockey or any other ice- event without contracting a seand-snow-related Canadian rious illness from the polluted activities. water.

But we Canadians have 7. The Who Guitar Throwing many non-ice-and-snow-relat- — the beefiest boys and girls ed summer-type Olympians of the sporting world whirl who are going to be every bit around and toss heavy Gibson as heroic and dramatic as the Les Paul guitars. Points are winter-type Canadian Olym- awarded for both distance and pians. I know they will give destruction. us a whole bunch of patriot8. The Kate Chase — the ic goose-bump moments in a fastest runners in the world memorable gaggle of interna- compete in this inaugural tional geese-bump moments Olympic event whereby sprint-

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ers must catch up to Prince William’s new wife, Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, and take her photograph. (Italy is favoured.)

9. Shooting Foxes — Athletes must provide their own horses, dogs and funny bugles.

10. Cricket Marathon — Highly conditioned athletes play one game of cricket for the entire duration of the Games (two weeks), which is normal for a cricket match.

A coin is flipped for medals since no one understands the game enough to keep accurate score.

There are also a number of events that may be less familiar to the 46 gazillion worldwide viewership of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

11. Walkies — athletes walk their dogs around Trafalgar Square, competing on 400-, 800- and 1500-metre courses.

Extra Bobbies are on duty to blow their whistles in an attempt to prevent the estimated 46 gazillion Trafalgar Square pigeons from soiling the contestants.

12. Driving Events — these include: Racing a London Taxi through downtown London on the wrong (i.e. left) side of the road with a steering wheel on the right (i.e. wrong) side. Negotiating a series of “roundabouts” without getting dazed and confused. Guiding speeding double-decker buses through one-lane cobble stone streets while being harassed by a busload of impatient senior citizen passengers. (Teams from Asian countries have once again failed to qualify for any of the Driving Events.)

13. Mick Jagger Aerobic Gyration — another marathon event involving intense random bodily paroxysm for three continuous hours. Tight pants are compulsory.

14. Team Darts — the goalies on the Dart Teams win medals automatically.

15. Competitive Standing —

athletes must wear thick red coats and tall heavy bearskin hats and stand at attention in front of small sheds. The last one standing wins a gold medal and a permanent job at Buckingham Palace. (Canadians are favoured to medal, as we are used to red serge and funny hats. Not to mention standing for hours in lineups for hockey tickets and Boxing Day sales.)

Other little known facts about the London 2012 Olympic Games centre on the rabid patriotism the Queendom of England is known for, ever since it colonized most of planet Earth. In fact, while all international athletes are being screened for performanceenhancing drugs, all home team British athletes must accurately list the names of all eight of Queen Elizabeth’s official grandchildren, recite from memory at least one Monty Python sketch word for word, and demonstrate a superior knack for making a decent

cuppa.

And speaking of tea — and really, you must speak of tea when talking about any and all things British — it has been recently revealed that in the interest of said partisanship, the athletes village menu is limited to United Kingdom tea with fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, bangers and mash and tea, crumpets and tea, scones and tea, and for dessert: spotted dick. And tea.

It’s early days but so far only the British athletes have complained about the food.

But I know we’re all in for a cracking good time, a full monty for a fortnight to be sure, and when all is said and done, we’ll all be right chuffed about the London 2012 Games. And that’s no bullocks, mate!

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician.

His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Depression can be dealt with through support and help Sitting at my desk, I just received a call from a person who felt they needed to explain to me why they had not been at the kitchen or in any public venue for the last week.

It took only about two minutes for me to recognize the onset of severe depression.

But for five or more minutes, I patiently listened while this person tried vainly to explain how they felt; my own feelings of inability to help CHRIS growing as the conSALOMONS versation carried on.

My initial reaction was to gloss over the situation, and then to use humour to override it. But therein was the problem. I don’t think I was

supposed to react at all; just shut up and listen. So I did, interjecting every so often only to give assurance of our friendship and my support.

So what exactly is depression?

My trusty Funk and Wagnalls states the following: sad, dejected; pressed down, flattened; lowered or sunk even with or below the surface; reduced in power, amount, and value.

Every one of these applied to this person plus more; even they could not explain the feeling.

We can all say that we know someone who suffers from depression; we recognize it, but we don’t always know what causes it.

I went online and found that the subject is so huge and so prevalent, that I don’t have enough space here to list it all. I know that in women it can be hormonal and in men a chemical imbalance, but probably one of the

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most prevalent causes is dealing with past hurts.

In speaking with my wife about the causes, she stated that she had heard it explained this way: it is anger turned inward.

It took a few minutes, but I was eventually able to wrap my head around that statement.

If sometime in the past someone hurt you or abused you, you have anger. And in the cases of abuse, degradation usually accompanies the abuse, so it is only natural at that point to redirect your anger inward, beating yourself up because you feel you deserved it.

Strangely enough, once you have been beaten down in that manner, it seems to be the hardest part to get rid of, so it becomes a cycle of self hatred and blame. Even constant assurance that they were not to blame doesn’t seem to help.

So now that I have had time to reflect on the matter, and barring hormonal or chemical influences, I have come up with the following conclusions: ● Depression is a process that the mind uses to sort through life items that it finds hard to process. ● As a lay person or a friend, I do not have the knowledge or the ability to help a person deal with depression. ● All I can do as a friend is to make myself available to listen, and to demonstrate concern and love.

Depression can be a devastating thing, but with the support of friends and loved ones, combined with professional help, this devastating affliction can be dealt with. So the statement “Love conquers all” may have some merit after all.

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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This is the first in a threepart series on Canada’s north.

Weich Ei means “soft egg” in German. This defines a person’s character. In Canada we call them wimps.

Charlie Kudlacek is from Frankfurt in the German state of Hesse and, as eggs

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We met Charlie and his wife Marion in a remote unserviced campground at Summit Lake on the British Columbia portion of the Alaska Hwy. The place is named due to its location on the highest point of this international highway.

The “Alcan” traverses 2,237 km from Dawson Creek in northeast British Columbia to its terminus at Delta Junction, Alaska.

Remarkably the highway was built in just eight months during 1942, designed to stave off a possible Second World War Japanese invasion.

Although June was nigh, this high-altitude lake was covered in ice.

We arrived late evening and set up camp. A solitary beaver, freshly emerged from winter lodging, coolly went about its business.

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Top: Charlie surveys the route up an icy creek.

Left: Late evening sun shimmers on a remote river.

I’D NEVER BEEN NORTH OF GRANDE PRAIRIE. SO WE DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO SEE MORE OF CANADA IN ITS SEASON OF WARMTH: THE GREAT WHITE NORTH CONVERTED GREEN BY BOREAL SPRINGTIME.

Below: Urs, clad in red suspenders, above the Nahanni River.

Bottom left: A de Havilland wing tip frames Virginia Falls.

Bottom right: A stone sheep casts a wary glance on an abandoned portion of the Alaska Hwy. Photos by GERRY FEEHAN Freelance

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Marion takes a leap of faith.

Canadian summers are brief. We Albertans tend to enjoy them near home, with perhaps a visit to the mountains or a week sunning and boating on a warm lake in the Okanagan. Winter is when we travel afar — invariably south — to destinations distant from home: Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii.

I’d never been north of Grande Prairie. So we decided it was time to see more of Canada in its season of warmth: the great white north converted green by boreal springtime.

My trip planning is poor: peruse a map, devise a vague strategy, perhaps talk to a couple of friends (over a beer) who have been to the parts we’re hoping to visit. I’ve attempted advance-planning — reading about the sights, the flora, the fauna — but somehow it just doesn’t sink in for me until the experience actually happens. I learn as I go, waiting to see what’s around the next corner.

A stranger at a campground in Fort Nelson, B.C., told us about a bush pilot who flew floatplane charters from Muncho Lake, B.C., to remote Virginia falls in Nahanni National Park, in the Northwest Territories.

I had no idea where Muncho Lake was. I checked the map and found it was two days up the road, directly on our path to the Yukon. I phoned and spoke to Marianne of Northern Rockies Lodge. She and her husband, the pilot Urs, own this beautiful spot on the lake. “Urs is in Vancouver getting the floatplane ready for the season,� said Marianne in a thick Swiss accent. “The lake still has ice and he can’t land until it clears. Perhaps call again in a day or two.�

That was the night we camped at Summit Lake and met Charlie and Marion. I asked them if they’d like to join us on a trip to Virginia Falls — if the ice cleared and Urs could fly in. I waxed eloquently, inflating my meager knowledge of the Nahanni (which I had gleaned from a guide book in the previous 15 minutes).

The floatplane seats nine and I’d been told Urs wouldn’t fly with less than four paying customers.

Germans have a propensity for austerity exceeded only by Scots, so I was not optimistic that our Alaska Hwy adventure would include a spur-of-the-moment side trip to the Northwest Territories. “We shall sleep on this,� announced Charlie.

In the morning crispness, Charlie informed me that, “Marion and I have slept on this and agree that we shall join you if the conditions permit.�

We spent the next two days in the company of our newfound German friends, enjoying wonderful hiking in this remote corner of northeastern B.C., enchanted by the sight of moose, bear, lynx, red fox, caribou, wood bison, stone sheep, and a countless variety of birds and other wildlife.

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NAHANNI: We were first visitors of 2012

Charlie and Marion have made five trips to more relaxed but without them we couldn’t do the Canada. They have seen more of our home and nacharter. tive land than have I — an embarrassing admission.

In the morning, the ice had moved. It was a blueThey never arrive unprepared. Their well-appointbird day. But still Urs was worried. He would decide ed camper van was reasonably priced and fully at noon. I’m not renowned for my patience; but I am equipped; except for the axe. Charlie brought his a biblical Job next to Charlie, who paced the mornown finely-edged Fiskar from Germany. ing away, unable to control the situation, awaiting “Charlie� seems like a strange name for a Gerword from Urs. man. Marion told us that he was actually christened “Impatience. This is a minus point for me,� Char“Karl.� But in West Germany in the 1960s, the name lie admitted.

Karl (for reasons I didn’t ask and he didn’t disclose) In the past, I’ve mentioned a phenomenon known had a negative connotation. So as a young man he ad- as “the Feehan thing.� This entails arriving at the opted a modern, western moniker. last possible moment, uninformed, ill prepared, no After a particularly tiring day-hike up a melting reservation in hand, expecting top-notch service. Inmountain creek, Charlie asked if I would like to join variably it works like a charm. him for a short run down the highway. Naturally I At noon, Urs announced it was a go. was stupid enough to agree. Ten km and an hour He gently lifted the retrofitted 1959 de Havilland later, I stumbled back to camp lamely following his off the emerald waters of Muncho and banked over tireless lead. the lodge. Our one-and-a-half-hour flight crossed the Charlie was apologetic. “In former times, I was B.C. border at 60 degrees north, swiping a corner of not so slow and the distance would be much greatthe Yukon before entering the N.W.T. er.�

We were Nahanni’s first visitors of 2012, arriving When I collapsed into bed that night, Charlie was even before the Parks Canada people set up camp alternating between calisthenics and wood-chopfor the short season. Urs treated us to a spectacular ping. In the morning, I stumbled out into the bright 360-degree view of Virginia Falls before landing upsun and found him washing in the cold creek. He’d stream, wary of deadheads floating down the swollen been up for hours, eaten his daily morning repast of Nahanni. eggs, meat, cheese, tea, fruit and five pieces of bread This world-renowned UNESCO site is twice the and had completed 50 push-ups and 100 sit-ups. Then height of Niagara Falls. An icy pillar hung precarihe buckled down to real breakfast: a hearty bowl of ously in the centre of the water’s 102-metre descent Muesli. to the raging river below. A kilometre downstream, Did I mention that Charlie is older than I? He’s no the torrent curved through ochre cliffs en route to its weich ei. confluence with the Mackenzie River and the Arctic They say the Irish would rule the world were it Ocean 3,000 km away. not for Guinness. After observing Charlie for a few It was well past 8 p.m.

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BY CAROL PATTERSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Recently, I flew to Churchill, Man., to watch hundreds of beluga whales gather at the mouth of the Churchill River. As I debated how many layers of fleece I needed to witness this spectacle of nature, it occurred to me that there are significant differences between travel to northern Canada and the south.

For starters, getting here is expensive. I could have visited the South Pacific for the price of the three-hour flight from Winnipeg to Churchill. Fortunately, I did not have to worry about the $2 per litre for milk or gasoline that locals fit into their budgets.

Wildlife viewing is a major attraction for visitors to Churchill. In October and November, the polar bears draw thousands of people, in July and August, it is the beluga whales. But, if you want to maximize your wildlife watching, come during the short summer when you can see whales, and once the melting ice forces them onto land, bears.

I was unnerved when the front desk clerk at our hotel, The Lazy Bear Lodge, explained what to do if we encountered an un-lazy bear on our walks about town. “The back doors of the recreation centre are kept open.

If you see a bear, back up slowly and head indoors,” she said.

The possibility of a bear encounter also explained the presence of a Parks Canada employee with a large rifle on our tour of Cape Merry. “If the ice had totally melted and we had the fog we are having today,” he explained, “we would have shut the site down. It is a very popular transit area for polar bears.”

There is a rhythm to life in the north you will not find in southern Canada.

Ice movement and tide tables dictate sightseeing. Restaurants stay open late if whale watchers, like me, get caught up in the excitement of belugas blowing bubbles under the kayaks.

At 10 o’clock each evening, an earpiercing alarm sounds a curfew for youth. It’s been sounding every night for 40 years, and by some accounts, been ignored for almost as long.

Everyone in town is multi-talented, a necessity in a town of 900 people and almost an equal number of polar bears. With roads that end a few kilometres out of town, I was heartened to hear that one of our guides was a

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Riding in a tundra buggy is the safest place for watching bears. licensed paramedic, and the other, Gerald Azure, was an accomplished dogsledder and member of the Canadian Rangers, a subcomponent of the Canadian Forces Reserves that patrol the north. I felt prepared for attacks, whether caused by heart, bear or terrorists!

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Five Canadians make the cut PIERCY, MCGIRT HOLD LEAD HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND AT CANADIAN OPEN

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LELAND IRVING

FLAMES SIGN IRVING TO ONE-YEAR DEAL CALGARY — The Calgary Flames re-signed goaltender Leland Irving to a oneyear, two-way contract on Friday The deal is worth US$687,500 if Irving plays in the NHL and $207,500 if he plays in the AHL. The 24-year-old played seven games for Calgary last season, recording his first career victory in a 3-1 win against Vancouver in December. A native of Swan Hill, Alta., the six-foot, 175-pound Irving was 1-3-3 with a .912 save percentage and a 3.20 goalsagainst average for the Flames in 2011-2012.

“Leland made some great strides last season in attempting to establish himself as being ready to carry the load as the backup goaltender in Calgary,” Flames general manager Jay Feaster said in a statement.

Calgary selected Irving 26th overall in the 2006 NHL draft.

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Today

● Soccer tournament: Red Deer City youth tournament, Sked TBA ● Midget AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves vs. St. Albert, noon and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Rugby: Red Deer Titans vs.Calgary Knights, Div. III, noon; Titans vs. Lethbridge, Div. II, 2 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe at Olds, 1 and 3 p.m.

HAMILTON, Ont. — Scott Piercy is discovering that not everything you dislike is bad for you.

After two birdie-filled rounds at the RBC Canadian Open, Piercy found himself holding a share of the midway lead with William McGirt. And he’d seen just about enough of Hamilton Golf and Country Club.

“I will tell you this golf course takes the juices out of it for me,” Piercy said Friday after he and McGirt matched the tournament’s 36-hole scoring record.

It was an unexpected comment from a player who has slept on a lead just six times in his PGA Tour career — including twice this week. After matching Hamilton’s course record with an opening-round 62 on Thursday, Piercy followed it up with a 67 to join McGirt (66) at 11-under 129.

That was one shot better than Robert Garrigus (66), two ahead of Bo Van Pelt (66) and three up on Vijay Singh (67), Tim Clark (62) and Josh Teater (65).

Piercy had a relatively easy time getting around the classic H.S. Colt design over the first two days, but didn’t like the path he had to travel to do it. The tight, tree-lined layout demands precision off the tee and often forces players to play it safe.

“This golf is boring golf for me,” said Piercy. “I’m not going for it, I’m not trying to put my foot on the accelerator. I’m kind

of touch and go.”

McGirt was in much better spirits than his fellow co-leader after a round that included a 50-foot birdie putt from the fringe on No. 8. The second-year tour player is chasing his first victory and he’s anxious to see how his game holds up over the pressure of the weekend.

“There are still 36 holes left,” said McGirt. “There is a lot of golf left.”

Even though none of Friday’s afternoon starters could match the score posted by Piercy and McGirt, a handful of more experienced players started to make their presence felt on the leaderboard.

Van Pelt sent up a roar from the gallery after holing out from 143 yards for eagle on No. 9 — his last of the day — while Clark reeled off six birdies and added a holed-out eagle of his own to match the course record with a 62.

“It was obviously a great day for me,” said Clark, a former winner on the Canadian Tour.

“I’m excited. It is nice to be back up in Canada, I have some good memories up here. The course suits me well, too, and I’ve enjoyed playing.”

Also lurking was Singh, who is looking for his first PGA Tour victory in four years.

Five Canadian players survived the cut led by David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., who shot a second straight 68 and is seven shots back. Matt McQuillan (67) of Kingston, Ont., amateur Albin Choi (68) of Toronto, Graham DeLaet (69) of Weyburn, Sask., and Matt Hill

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Scott Peircy hits off the 15th tee during second round play at the 2012 Canadian Open at the Hamilton Golf and County Club, Friday.

Peircy is tied for the lead despite saying it is ‘boring golf’ at the tournament.

(69) of Bright’s Grove, Ont., will also be around for the weekend.

Hearn was left hoping the course would start playing a bit tougher in the final two rounds.

“I was steady again today, I just didn’t make quite as many birdies as I would have liked,” he said. “I’m certainly not out of reach for this tournament — guys are shooting 62s and 63s.

If I was to get hot tomorrow and put one of those in, you never know what’ll happen.”

The week came to an abrupt end for British Open champion Ernie Els, who earned loud cheers wherever he went but

Owens leads Argos to win over Als

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 23 Alouettes 20 MONTREAL — Coach Scott Milanovich had a sense that his Toronto Argonauts were ready to have a big game.

Then they went into Percival Molson Stadium and beat the Montreal Alouettes on their home turf.

Ricky Ray threw a pair of touchdown passes to Chad Owens and Toronto’s defence shone as the Argonauts downed the

Alouettes 23-20 on Friday night.

“Our guys had an edge tonight, we felt it last night in the meeting room,” said the Argonauts’ first-year coach. ”These guys wanted it.

“We hadn’t played well on the road and we knew we’d have to come in here and really play hard for 60 minutes to get this win because we respect Montreal so much.”

Swayze Waters added three field goals, including two from 50 yards, for Toronto (3-2). The Argos became only the third CFL team after Saskatchewan and Edmonton to

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win away from home this season.

Part of what had Toronto jacked up was that Milanovich was making his first trip back to Montreal, where he had been Alouettes coach Marc Trestman’s offensive coordinator and right-hand man the last four years.

And ex-Als like safety Etienne Boulay were also playing their former team.

“There’s a lot of people (in Montreal) that I care about and always will, but this was about the Argos, about us getting a win. Not about me or anybody else,” said Milanovich.

Brandon London scored a TD and Sean Whyte had four field goals for Montreal (23), which has not won on the road and now has consecutive games in Winnipeg and Edmonton.

The crowd of 22,753 saw the Argonauts score on their first two possessions to take the lead. Then both defences came up big in the second half.

Ray passed for 236 yards in the first half, but only 44 the rest of the way. Montreal’s Anthony Calvillo, still looking uncomfortable with a sore left (non-throwing) shoulder, completed 25 passes for 317 yards, but found the end zone only once against Toronto’s league-best pass defence.

The difference in the game may have been two turnovers — an interception by Pat Watkins on Calvillo’s underthrown ball in the end zone late in the first half and Brandon Whitaker’s fumble that killed a drive early in the third quarter. Penalties also hurt Montreal.

“I think we showed signs of being a very good team tonight,” said Trestman. ”What stands out in my mind is we had a number of big plays negated by penalties, both offensively and defensively. We had some sacks that were negated. We had two or three big offensive plays and we went backwards because of penalties. And the turnovers.”

Mathis, Villanueva power Jays to victory

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missed the cut with rounds of 72 and 70. The South African was disappointed he couldn’t reward the fans with a performance like he put on at Royal Lytham & Ste. Annes last weekend.

“It’s unfortunate I didn’t have my game with me,” said Els. “There’s always next time.”

The scoring has been better at Hamilton than the last two times the Canadian Open was held here. Rain left the greens soft and receptive, and gave players the opportunity to lift, clean and place their balls in the fairway for both rounds.

Blue Jays 8 Tigers 3 TORONTO — Jeff Mathis’ three-run double keyed a fourrun fourth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Detroit Tigers 8-3 Friday to open a threegame series at Rogers Centre.

Carlos Villanueva went five innings for the win and improves to 6-0.

Mathis, who is catching in place of the injured J.P. Arencibia (fractured right hand), extended his hit streak to eight games with the bases-loaded two-out double against Rick Porcello. He also gave the Jays a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

Travis Snider hit a two-run home run in the eighth against Duane Below to put the game out of reach. It was Snider’s third homer since being recalled from triple-A Las Vegas on July 20.

It was the second win in a row for the Blue Jays (50-49) and the second loss in a row for the Tigers (53-47), who are second in

the AL Central. Villanueva gave up first-inning homers to Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder but did not give up another run in his five innings to win his fourth consecutive start. After allowing four hits, two walks and two runs while striking out three, Villaneuva is 4-0 with a 2.54 earned-run average in his five starts this season.

Porcello (7-6) allowed six hits, two walks and five runs and struck out one in six innings.

In the top of the first, the Tigers struck quickly in a threepitch span with two out as Cabrera and Fielder homered for a 2-0 lead. It was the 25th of the season for Cabrera and the 16th for Fielder.

The Blue Jays got one back in the bottom of the frame when Omar Vizquel doubled with one out and Edwin Encarnacion singled with two out.

With the game still tied in the fourth, the Blue Jays rallied for four runs. Colby Rasmus led off with a single. He appeared to slide into second base safely

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Detroit Tigers Miguel Cabrera is safe at home under the tag of Toronto Blue Jays catcher Jeff Mathis during action, Friday. on Encarnacion’s grounder to short but was called out on the force.

Kelly Johnson walked with one out and Snider did the same with two out to fill the bases.

Mathis sent everyone home with a double just beyond the reach of left-fielder Quintin Berry.

Anthony Gose singled on a

grounder to first that Fielder couldn’t handle and Mathis scored. Canadian Brett Lawrie and Vizquel hit consecutive triples against Octavio Dotel to extend the Blue Jays lead in the seventh. Blue Jays relievers Aaron Loup and Brandon Lyon held the Tigers through the seventh.

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New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto Boston

American League East Division W L Pct 60 39 .606 52 48 .520 51 49 .510 50 49 .505 49 51 .490

Golf GB — 8 9 10 11

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 54 45 .545 53 47 .530 50 50 .500 41 58 .414 41 58 .414

GB — 1 4 13 13

Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

West Division W L Pct 58 40 .592 55 45 .550 54 45 .545 45 57 .441

GB — 4 4 15

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Detroit 200 000 010 — 3 8 1 Toronto 100 400 12x — 8 9 0 Porcello, Dotel (7), Below (8) and Avila; Villanueva, Loup (6), Lyon (7), Oliver (8), Janssen (9) and Mathis. W—Villanueva 6-0. L—Porcello 7-6.

HRs—Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (25), Fielder (16). Toronto, Snider (3).

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Chicago 120 200 103 — 9 10 0 Texas 400 000 100 — 5 8 2 Sale, N.Jones (7), Thornton (7), Myers (8), Reed (9) and Flowers; Darvish, Ogando (7) and Torrealba.

W—Sale 12-3. L—Darvish 11-7. HRs—Chicago, Youkilis (10), Al.Ramirez (4). Texas, N.Cruz (14).

Cleveland 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Minnesota 300 503 00x — 11 15 0 Tomlin, Accardo (5), C.Allen (7) and Marson; Diamond and Mauer. W—Diamond 9-4. L—Tomlin 5-8.

HRs—Minnesota, Morneau (12), Willingham (26).

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Saturday’s Games Detroit (A.Sanchez 0-0) at Toronto (H.Alvarez 6-7), 11:07 a.m.

Boston (Lester 5-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 103), 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City (B.Chen 7-8) at Seattle (Millwood 3-8), 2:10 p.m.

Oakland (B.Colon 6-8) at Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 4-5), 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 7-8) at Minnesota (Deduno 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Humber 4-5) at Texas (M.Harrison 12-5), 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (M.Moore 6-7) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 9-6), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Toronto at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 410 003 006 — 14 16 0 Baltimore 011 040 030 — 9 15 0 J.Parker, Norberto (6), Balfour (7), Doolittle (7), R.Cook (8), Blevins (9) and D.Norris; Britton, Socolovich (6), Lindstrom (7), Patton (8), Ji.Johnson (9), Ayala (9) and Teagarden. W—Blevins 4-0.

L—Ji.Johnson 1-1. HRs—Oakland, Carter (7), Hicks (2). Baltimore, C.Davis (17), Ad.Jones (24).

Boston 101 100 000 — 3 8 0 New York 301 200 04x — 10 10 0 A.Cook, F.Morales (5), A.Miller (7), Melancon (8) and Saltalamacchia; P.Hughes, D.Robertson (8), Eppley (9) and R.Martin. W—P.Hughes 10-8. L—A. Cook 2-4. HRs—Boston, Pedroia (8), C.Crawford (1), Saltalamacchia (20). New York, Ibanez (13), R.Martin (11), Granderson (28).

Tampa Bay 010 000 000 — 1 6 0 Los Angeles003 000 00x — 3 9 0 Cobb, Farnsworth (8) and Lobaton; Haren, Jepsen (7), S.Downs (8), Frieri (9) and Bo.Wilson. W—Haren 8-8. L—Cobb 4-8. Sv—Frieri (12). HRs—Tampa Bay, Keppinger (4).

Kan. City 010 000 000 — 1 4 0 Seattle 320 001 00x — 6 11 0 Guthrie, Collins (6), K.Herrera (7), L.Coleman (8) and S.Perez; Beavan, Luetge (7), Kinney (8), League (9) and Jaso. W—Beavan 6-6. L—Guthrie 0-2. HRs—Seattle, Jaso (5), Carp (5).

Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 59 40 .596 55 44 .556 48 52 .480 45 54 .455 45 55 .450

GB — 4 11 14 14

Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Houston

Central Division W L Pct 59 40 .596 57 42 .576 54 46 .540 45 54 .455 40 58 .408 34 67 .337

GB — 2 5 14 18 26

West Division W L Pct 55 43 .561 53 47 .530 50 50 .500 43 58 .426 37 61 .378

GB — 3 6 13 18

San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado

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Saturday’s Games St. Louis (J.Kelly 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 7-8), 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 5-9) at San Francisco (Zito 8-6), 2:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 7-9) at Houston (Galarraga 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Blanton 8-8) at Atlanta (Minor 5-7), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Ohlendorf 3-0) at Miami (Eovaldi 1-6), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 7-6) at Milwaukee (Wolf 3-6), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 12-5) at Colorado (Friedrich 5-7), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (C.Young 2-4) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 8-8), 6:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Diego at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Houston, 12:05 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Cincinnati at Colorado, 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Miami at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Friday’s Major League Linescores NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 141 110 100 — 9 10 0 Chicago 303 000 000 — 6 10 1 Lynn, Fuentes (6), Browning (7), Salas (8), Rzepczynski (8), Motte (9) and Y.Molina; T.Wood, Beliveau (6), Corpas (7), Russell (8), Camp (9) and Soto. W—Lynn 13-4. L—T.Wood 4-6. Sv—Motte (23). HRs—St. Louis, Holliday (18), Y.Molina (16), Berkman (2), M.Carpenter (4), Craig (15). Chicago, Rizzo (6).

San Diego 000 005 200 — 7 8 1 Miami 000 200 000 — 2 7 1 K.Wells, Thayer (7), Brach (8) and Grandal; Zambrano, Gaudin (6), Da.Jennings (7), LeBlanc (7), H.Bell (9) and J.Buck. W—K.Wells 2-3. L—Zambrano 5-9.

Philadelphia100 000 000 — 1 7 2 Atlanta 020 031 00x — 6 5 0 Hamels, Horst (6), Savery (8) and Ruiz; Sheets, Venters (7), Durbin (8), C.Martinez (9) and McCann.

W—Sheets 3-0. L—Hamels 11-5. HRs—Atlanta, McCann (17).

Pittsburgh 000 120 102 — 6 9 0 Houston 021 100 100 — 5 11 0 Karstens, Resop (6), J.Hughes (7), Watson (8), Hanrahan (9) and McKenry, Barajas; Lyles, Fe.Rodriguez (7), W.Wright (8), W.Lopez (9), W.Wright (9), R.Cruz (10), X.Cedeno (10) and C.Snyder. W—Watson 5-1. L—R.Cruz 1-1. Sv— Hanrahan (31). HRs—Pittsburgh, Presley (7), McKenry (9). Houston, C.Johnson (8), B.Francisco (1).

Washington000 000 000 — 0 4 1 Milwaukee 000 240 00x — 6 10 0 Detwiler, Stammen (5), Storen (7), H.Rodriguez (8) and Leon; Fiers, L.Hernandez (7), Veras (9) and Lucroy. W—Fiers 4-4. L—Detwiler 5-4. HRs— Milwaukee, Hart (18), Ar.Ramirez (12).

Cincinnati 000 201 000 — 3 9 0 Colorado 000 000 000 — 0 8 0 Arroyo, Simon (7), Chapman (9) and Hanigan; D.Pomeranz, Ottavino (6), Mat.Reynolds (8), Ekstrom (8) and W.Rosario. W—Arroyo 6-6. L—D. Pomeranz 1-6. Sv—Chapman (20).

New York 023 000 000 — 5 7 1 Arizona 060 110 30x — 11 13 0 Niese, El.Ramirez (7), Acosta (8) and Thole; Collmenter, Ziegler (7), Breslow (8) and H.Blanco.

W—Collmenter 3-2. L—Niese 7-5. HRs—New York, I.Davis (17), D.Wright (16).

Hallberg tamed wind to take lead at British Senior Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TURNBERRY — Gary Hallberg tamed the stiff morning breeze to fire a second round 7-under par 63 at the Senior British Open on Friday and then sat back to watch as the wind got up throughout the afternoon and most of the overnight leaders slipped down the leaderboard.

Hallberg sits on 6 under 134 at the halfway stage, three ahead of overnight leader Bernhard Langer and fellow American Tom Lehman.

“I think Gary’s 63 is the round of the year.

Shooting 7 under today is like 10 or 11 under on a decent day. That’s how good it was and I take my hat off to him,” Langer said.

The German added a second-round 73 to his opening 64, hitting trouble on the way home at the 13th where he crashed to a triple bogey seven and the long 17th, where he dropped another shot.

Out in the third group of the morning, Hallberg dropped his only shot at the second hole but from there mastered the conditions with eight birdies. He got three on the run from the fifth, to be out in 33, and again at 10, 11, 13, 14 and the 17th to be back in 30.

“It was one of the greatest days I’ve had in many years, it was just a pleasure,” said Hallberg. “I played aggressively and had some great putts go in, but I started to choke a bit near the end and left putts at 15, 16 and 18 short.”

Langer showed his class when, in the worst of the afternoon weather, he birdied his first

two holes to move to 8 under, but he dropped shots at the fifth and seventh to be out in level par 35. He then birdied the tenth to take the lead again on 7 under, only to drop four more strokes to be back in 38.

“The conditions were extremely tough,” said Langer. “I had a lost ball and an unplayable ball on the back side. I started with two birdies and made some wonderful putts. I played okay for the most part but then hit a couple of bad shots coming home and paid the price.

“It wasn’t my best but I have to take it and move on.”

Like Langer, Lehman played when the wind was at its strongest and was delighted with his 71, having not been particularly pleased with his 66 on the opening day.

“I don’t think you’re ever happy in golf when you shoot the worst score you can possibly shoot, which was yesterday,” said Lehman.

“But you’re always pleased when you shoot the best score you can possibly shoot, which was today.”

Lehman managed just one birdie on the 17th and dropped shots on the 11th and 14th to finish on 3 under 137.

“When I saw Gary’s score going on the board I thought, ’Wow! Did he play the par three course across the road?’ He’s a bit of a character so nothing surprises me what he might shoot.”

Fred Couples’ 68 was one of only two subpar rounds during the day. He was out in 33 with birdies at the fifth and seventh, dropped a stroke at the 15th, birdied 16 and 17 before dropping another stroke at the last.

Lewis on top after two rounds at Evian Masters patient out there, climbing up that leaderboard.”

While Lewis’ form started to dip, Lee’s was peaking as she hit four straight birdies on the back nine to post a 5-under 67.

Creamer hit five birdies for a 5-under 67.

“I only missed two greens today, which is a lot better than yesterday,” Creamer said.

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — American Stacy Lewis hit a 3-under par 69 in the second round of the Evian Masters on Friday to keep the overall lead at 12 under, one shot ahead of South Korea’s Ilhee Lee. On Thursday, Lewis had nine birdies, including seven in a row, for a 9 under 63 — which was good enough to match three-time champion Helen Alfredsson’s tournament record round, set by the Swede in 2008.

Lewis looked like picking up where she left off with a birdie on holes four and an eagle on seven. But then her frustration began to show, and she made bogeys on 12 and 14.

“Today was actually a little bit of a struggle for me. I wasn’t really sure Truck Decks, Welding Skids, Headache how I would play coming Rack & Rocket Launchers and lots more. off a good score yesterday,” said Lewis, who is Ovens up to 37’ Long chasing her third U.S. LPGA Tour title of the year.

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contention, three shots behind Lewis. Park, who at the age of 19 was the youngest winner of the U.S Open in 2008, had the round of the day with eight birdies for an 8 under 64.

Lewis recovered to make birdies on 15 and 18 and just did enough to regain the lead from Lee, who was three shots behind Lewis overnight.

“You have to make birdies here. You can’t try and force it though — that’s the hard part,” Lewis said. “You want to try and birdie every hole but that’s usually when you get in trouble. So it’s just staying

Canadian Open Friday At Hamilton Golf & Country Club Ancaster, Ontario Purse: $5.2 million Yardage: 6,966; Par 70 Second Round a-denotes amateur Scott Piercy 62-67 William McGirt 63-66 Robert Garrigus 64-66 Bo Van Pelt 65-66 Vijay Singh 65-67 Tim Clark 70-62 Josh Teater 67-65 Bud Cauley 70-63 Troy Matteson 65-68 Camilo Villegas 69-64 Gavin Coles 65-69 Patrick Sheehan 68-66 Kevin Kisner 69-65 Russell Knox 68-66 Tommy Gainey 69-65 Stuart Appleby 65-69 Greg Owen 63-72 Ken Duke 70-65 Tom Gillis 70-65 Daniel Summerhays 67-68 Chris Kirk 69-66 Brendon Todd 69-66 Scott Stallings 69-66 Ted Potter, Jr. 69-66 Thomas Aiken 69-66 Cameron Tringale 67-69 Ryo Ishikawa 67-69 Bill Lunde 66-70 Ryan Palmer 69-67 Matt Kuchar 67-69 Jimmy Walker 68-68 Martin Flores 69-67 Will Claxton 70-66 David Hearn 68-68 Arjun Atwal 69-67 J.B. Holmes 68-68 Jason Kokrak 69-67 Garth Mulroy 73-63 Trevor Immelman 70-67 Nathan Green 70-67 Heath Slocum 67-70 Brian Gay 70-67 Matt McQuillan 70-67 Richard H. Lee 70-67 a-Albin Choi 69-68 Daniel Chopra 72-65 Brian Davis 69-68 Michael Bradley 69-68 Brandt Snedeker 70-67 John Huh 67-70 J.J. Henry 67-70 Brian Harman 74-63 Tim Herron 70-68 Tom Pernice Jr. 68-70 Seung-Yul Noh 72-66 Graham DeLaet 69-69 Michael Thompson 68-70 Chez Reavie 68-70 Retief Goosen 68-70 Scott Dunlap 69-69 John Daly 69-69 Ricky Barnes 71-67 Colt Knost 71-67 Jerry Kelly 70-68 Harrison Frazar 69-69 Kevin Streelman 68-71 Spencer Levin 68-71 Jeff Overton 71-68 Hunter Mahan 70-69 Billy Horschel 71-68 Miguel Angel Carballo 68-71 Matt Every 70-69 Jhonattan Vegas 65-74 Kyle Stanley 71-68 Charl Schwartzel 65-74 Chris Stroud 72-67 Patrick Cantlay 69-70 Matt Hill 70-69 Gary Christian 71-68 Failed to qualify Mathew Goggin 70-70 Roland Thatcher 66-74 Alexandre Rocha 72-68 Cory Renfrew 70-70 Bobby Gates 70-70 Adam Hadwin 66-74 Kyle Reifers 70-70 Scott Brown 70-70 Victor Ciesielski 74-66 Harris English 70-70 D.J. Trahan 68-72 Jason Bohn 68-72 Jim Furyk 70-70 Billy Mayfair 70-70 Shane Bertsch 70-70 Steve Wheatcroft 71-69 Danny Lee 70-70 David Markle 69-71 J.J. Killeen 72-69 Brad Fritsch 68-73 Hunter Hamrick 71-70 Garrett Willis 71-70 Chad Campbell 71-70 Kevin Chappell 69-72 Stephen Ames 70-71 Charley Hoffman 71-70 Robert Allenby 72-69 Ben Curtis 73-68 Billy Hurley III 71-70 Kyle Thompson 71-70 Nick O’Hern 69-73 Ernie Els 72-70 Mackenzie Hughes 71-71

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Senior British Open TURNBERRY — Scores Friday from the second round of the $US2-million Senior British Open, at the 7,105-yard, Par-70 Ailsa course at Turnberry resort: a-amateur Gary Hallberg 71-63 — 134 Tom Lehman 66-71 — 137 Bernard Langer 64-73 — 137 Jeff Sluman 70-68 — 138 Dick Mast 66-73 — 139 David Frost 66-73 — 139 Jay Don Blake 66-73 — 139 Peter Senior 68-71 — 139 Peter Fowler 68-72 — 140 Fred Couples 72-68 — 140 Mark McNulty 65-75 — 140 Michael Allen 66-74 — 140 Bobby Clampett 70-71 — 141 Mark Brooks 70-71 — 141 Mark Wiebe 70-71 — 141 John Cook 69-72 — 141 Ian Woosnam 71-70 — 141 Barry Lane 67-74 — 141 Anthony Gilligan 69-73 — 142 David J. Russell 69-73 — 142 Mike Goodes 69-73 — 142 Boonchu Ruangkit 69-73 — 142 John Huston 70-72 — 142 Olin Browne 69-73 — 142 Eduardo Romero 68-74 — 142 Corey Pavin 70-72 — 142 Andrew Oldcorn 72-70 — 142 Kirk Triplett 69-74 — 143 Gary Wolstenholme 70-73 — 143 Carl Mason 69-74 — 143 Mark Mouland 71-72 — 143 Anders Forsbrand 71-72 — 143 Loren Roberts 68-75 — 143 Fred Funk 69-74 — 143 Lu Chien-Soon 66-77 — 143 Philip Jonas 73-71 — 144 David Eger 74-70 — 144 Ross Drummond 70-74 — 144 Mark Calcavecchia 72-72 — 144 Chris Williams 71-73 — 144 Tom Watson 69-75 — 144 Phil Hinton 70-75 — 145 Jeff Hart 69-76 — 145 Lee Rinker 67-78 — 145 Kevin Spurgeon 72-73 — 145 Marc Farry 71-74 — 145 Larry Mize 71-74 — 145 Paul Wesselingh 69-76 — 145 Jeff Freeman 71-74 — 145 Rossouw Loubser 74-71 — 145 Des Smyth 75-70 — 145 Philip Golding 70-75 — 145 Tim Thelen 73-72 — 145 Kouki Idoki 69-76 — 145 Bob Gilder 72-74 — 146 Joel Edwards 69-77 — 146 Angel Franco 73-73 — 146 a-Chip Lutz 70-76 — 146 Steve Pate 71-75 — 146 John Ross 75-71 — 146 Rod Spittle 72-74 — 146 Tim Elliott 71-76 — 147 Seiki Okuda 73-74 — 147 Tom Kite 74-73 — 147 Jay Haas 73-74 — 147 Mitch Adcock 73-74 — 147 John Harrison 73-74 — 147 David Merriman 70-77 — 147 Juan Quiros 71-76 — 147 Andrew Murray 69-78 — 147 a-Randy Haag 74-74 — 148 Mike San Filippo 72-76 — 148 Bill Longmuir 71-77 — 148 Denis O’Sullivan 76-72 — 148 Mark James 74-74 — 148 Noel Ratcliffe 72-76 — 148 Mike Cunning 73-75 — 148 Missed cut Tom Eubank 77-72 — 149 Greg Norman 72-77 — 149 Bob Tway 69-80 — 149 Craig Stadler 70-80 — 150 Jim Rutledge 72-78 — 150 Sandy Lyle 72-78 — 150 Brad Faxon 71-79 — 150 Chip Beck 69-81 — 150 Costantino Rocca 76-77 — 153 Tommy Armour III 70-83 — 153 LPGA-Evian Masters Scores Friday At Evian Masters Golf Club Evian-les-Bains, France Purse: $3.25 million Yardage: 6,457; Par: 72 Second Round a-amateur Stacy Lewis Ilhee Lee Inbee Park Paula Creamer Mika Miyazato Beatriz Recari a-Hyo Joo Kim Hee Young Park So Yeon Ryu Azahara Munoz Natalie Gulbis Meena Lee

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West Division W L T PF 3 1 0 121 3 2 0 101 2 2 0 147 2 2 0 106

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Week Five Friday’s result Toronto 23 Montreal 20 Thursday’s result Winnipeg 23 Edmonton 22 Saturday’s games Hamilton at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Week Six Byes: Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Saskatchewan Friday, Aug. 3 Montreal at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 6 B.C. at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Week Seven Byes: B.C., Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg

Thursday, Aug. 9 Calgary at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 10 Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Summary Argonauts 23, Alouettes 20 First Quarter Mtl — FG Whyte 36 4:26 Tor — TD Owens 32 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 5:33 Mtl — TD London 14 pass from Calvillo (Whyte convert) 10:23 Second Quarter Tor — TD Owens 10 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 0:23 Tor — FG Waters 14 6:10 Mtl — FG Whyte 26 8:48 Tor — FG Waters 50 13:32 Third Quarter Mtl — FG Whyte 48 11:19 Fourth Quarter Mtl — Single Whyte 55 punt 0:15 Tor — FG Waters 50 4:08 Mtl — FG Whyte 33 6:47 Toronto 7 13 0 3—23 Montreal 10 3 3 4—20 Attendance — 22,752 at Montreal.

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Seattle arena hits proposal hits snags

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — With the King County Council potentially taking a vote next Monday on a proposed new arena in Seattle, sticking points and possible concessions on traffic and the city’s lease agreement with the Seattle Storm are building with the Seattle City Council.

Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien told The Associated Press on Friday that city officials continue to negotiate with investor Chris Hansen over changes to a proposed deal between the city and the private ownership group. Among those issues are dealing with traffic concerns in the city’s industrial SoDo neighbourhood, and the possibility of having Hansen’s ownership group take over the city’s current annual subsidy of the Seattle Storm.

The city’s lease agreement with the Storm currently calls for a $300,000 payment each year from the city to the WNBA franchise as part of a revenue sharing agreement.

Asked about talks on the Storm subsidy, O’Brien said: “I’m not exactly sure how that’s going to fall out. That remains an issue.”

A spokesman for Hansen did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

“Councilmembers have expressed to me that there are further concessions they are asking and if (Hansen) does not agree to those concessions we may lose this deal,” said Brian Robinson, head of Arena Solution, a group supporting efforts to bring a new arena to the Seattle region.

“My concern is the city will overreach in those concessions and they will lose this opportunity for the city of Seattle.”

Traffic concerns in the SoDo neighbourhood — where Safeco Field, CenturyLink Field and the Port all share limited neighbourhood space — have been at the core of arguments against Hansen’s plan to build the arena in that area. The Port of Seattle has been the loudest to voice dissent, saying that jobs would be lost, but hasn’t provided the data to back those claims.

But the possible concessions regarding the Seattle Storm are a new

wrinkle in the process. Storm President and CEO Karen Bryant said in an email that the city benefits from having the Storm at KeyArena, which is partly the reason for the current taxpayer subsidy of the team.

“The payment from the city is based on two factors. First, as the primary tenant of the building, the Storm’s stable and consistent presence represents a key asset when selling naming rights to the building. The city’s ability to sell naming rights is greatly fostered by having a primary tenant with an established brand and audience,” Bryant said.

“Secondly, naming rights would be sold with exclusivity, preventing the Storm from selling to anyone else in that category. This represents a revenue constraint for the Storm, so the payment is compensation for that exclusivity.”

Hansen’s proposal calls for a $490 million project including $290 million in private money that includes known investors Hansen, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and Peter and Erik Nordstrom.

The County Council is expected to vote on Hansen’s proposal on Monday, potentially putting pressure on the City Council to move forward with deliberations on the project.

O’Brien said he felt concerns about traffic impact to the area were more critical to discussions.

“I’m pretty confident that we’ll be able to work something out with the Storm, but I think the traffic issue is more challenging. In part because the traffic issues aren’t specific to the arena ... and they’re just really expensive issues.”

Additional competition for Seattle came forward this week when Chicago businessman and AHL owner Don Levin told The Seattle Times of his discussions with the suburb of Bellevue about the possibility of building an arena there and bringing in an NHL team. During a series of radio interviews on Friday, Levin said his plan would be unveiled within the next month.

But Hansen’s group is much further along in the process, although Robinson and his group are concerned the City Council will ask too much of Hansen on the traffic and Storm issues.

Rampage lose first game of division final The Red Deer TBS Rampage are looking to return to the Rocky Mountain Junior B Tier I Lacrosse League final for the first time in five years.

To do so the Rampage need to get past the Sherwood Park Titans this weekend in the best-of-three North Division final.

The series opened tonight at Strathcona in Edmonton with the Rampage losing 13-8. The second game takes place tonight at 8 p.m. in Blackfalds with the third game, if necessary, Sunday afternoon at Strathcona.

The Titans finished in first place in the North Division with a 13-5-1 record, just ahead of the Rampage, who were 13-6 after running into a string of inju-

ries. They started the season at 9-1, but were missing 40 per cent of their roster at one point in the season.

With their roster back intact the Rampage opened the playoffs last weekend beating the Saskatchewan SWAT 19-8 and 13-8 in the best-of-three series.

The Rampage defence is led by Dustin Reykdal, Ross Cunningham, Pearce Just and Adam Ferguson while 21-year-old Adam Mooney has been solid in goal.

Davis Reykdal had 19 points in the two games against the SWAT while Spencer Lee and Trey Christensen were solid offensively.

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The Red Deer Renegades goalkeeper is able to knock the ball away before Keshaun Francis of the Medicine Rattlers is able to connect with his head, as his teammate Alex Postnikoff looks for a rebound, during U-12 Tier II soccer action at the Red Deer City Soccer Associations’ 28th Annual July “Classic” Tournament.

The tournament for U10 to U18 boys and girls continues today and Sunday at McLean Fields and Edgar Park.

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BRIEFS Hill helps Canada to win FIFE, Scotland — Logan Hill of Red Deer played a significant role for Team Canada in winning the 2012 Euro Junior Golf Cup Friday.

Hill finished with a 3-2-1 record in his six matches against Scotland and the United States.

On Friday he halved his match against Josh Hogg of Scotland and dropped a 4 and 3 decision to American John Edwards.

Friday was the toughest day of the three for Team Canada, but they still came out on top with 16.5 points with Scotland picking up 16 and the Ameri-

cans 9.5. Overall Canada finished with 55.5 points with Scotland at 36.5 and the USA 34.

Two locals going to U18 female hockey nationals A pair of Central Albertans are among the 27 players short listed for the Team Alberta U18 female hockey team to compete in the national championships, Nov. 7-11 in Dawson Creek.

Taryn Baumgardt of Innisfail is one of the nine defencemen on the list with Jessyka Holt of Bashaw among the 15 forwards.

The players will compete in a tournament against the University of Alberta Pandas and a pair of bantam AAA boys teams Sept. 7-9 in Edmonton.

Following the tournament the players will return to their club teams. The top 20 players will make the Alberta team.

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Carstar Braves start weekend well The Red Deer Midget AAA Carstar Braves started their weekend off well with a win in Edmonton.

The Braves bats came out in full force and handed the Edmonton Cardinals 2 an 11-8 loss.

The Braves Ian Chevalier was 3 for 4 with a triple and two RBI’s while Brett Barrett also had two hits with a double

and two RBI’s. Starting pitcher Mitch Vanson allowed two earned runs on three hits over two innings while striking out three. In relief, Dylan Borman allowed five runs on three hits and struck out two in just over an inning of work.

Joel Mazurkewich got the win as he struck out three over 1 1/3 inning in relief for the Braves.

Barrett closed out the final inning of the game and was credited with the save.

The Braves have a lot more action this weekend as they play a double header today against St. Albert then play another double header on Sunday against Spruce Grove. The games will start at noon on both days at Great Chief Park.

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Stamps and Lions game could be another close matchup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The the last three games the Calgary Stampeders have played have been hotly contested affairs decided by three points or less.

They don’t expect Saturday’s matchup against the B.C. Lions to be any different.

The Stampeders (2-2) are coming off a thrilling 41-38 overtime win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders at home last week. Prior to that, they suffered a 33-32 loss to Montreal and a 39-36 defeat to Toronto in games that featured dramatic comebacks.

“With the way the CFL is right now, I couldn’t see any game not going down to the wire,” said Calgary receiver Nik Lewis, who caught three touchdown passes against the Riders including the game-winning score in overtime. “All the teams are so evenly matched that all the games are going to be great.”

Quarterback Kevin Glenn, starting in place of the injured Drew Tate,

THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Last winter, Andy Fantuz signed as a free agent with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, mainly because he wanted to be closer to his hometown of Chatham, Ont. On Saturday, the veteran slotback returns to Regina’s Mosaic Stadium and the city that was his home away from home for six stellar CFL seasons with the Saskatchewan Roughriders Players and coaches on both sides were downplaying his return Friday, but it has been top of mind with fans and media here all week.

For his part, Fantuz is prepared for mixed responses from Riders fans.

“Whatever happens at the start of the game will be different than what happens once the game has started,” he said.

Asked what it felt like to back on Riders turf, Fantuz used phrases like “awesome” and “fun weekend” and then addressed the sentimentality of the occasion.

“I have missed it out here,” he said, “but I’ve moved on. I’m enjoying things in Hamilton.”

The focus now is squarely on helping the 2-2 Tiger-Cats defeat the 3-1 Roughriders and avenge Hamilton’s 4316 loss to Saskatchewan in the season-opener at Ivor Wynn Stadium a month ago.

“The only time we talk about (the homecoming) is when we get asked questions about it,” Fantuz said. “This is a big game. We’re both fighting for first place in our divisions.”

If any of his Tiger-Cats teammates can appreciate Fantuz’s situation it is quarterback Henry Burris, who is still getting a hard time from the fans in Saskatchewan for leaving the Roughriders to sign with the Calgary Stampeders in 2005.

“We’ve been yelling his name all week (in practice) trying to get him ready,” Burris said with his customary smile. “I’m glad he’s with me, because now it’s a shared experience.”

Saskatchewan quarterback Darian Durant was a close friend of Fantuz in Regina, and he too predicts there will be two different responses before and after the opening kickoff.

“At first they’ll cheer him on a little bit,” Durant said, “but once the game starts they’ll be all over him.”

In Fantuz’s absence, Durant’s primary target has become slotback Weston Dressler, who scored four majors in the victory over Hamilton.

“Honestly, I think that’s typical of Weston Dressler,” Durant said.

“He’s definitely capable of doing that week to week.”

In turn, Lewis complimented Banks and the B.C. defence for their playmaking abilities.

“They’ll be able to capitalize on our mistakes, so we have to minimize the turnovers,” Lewis said. “They’re a team right now that’s looking to make big plays. If they make big plays, they’ll be back on that run, so we have to minimize that.”

After starting the season with two straight wins, the defending Grey Cup champion Lions dropped a 23-20 decision to the Riders in Regina on July 14 before also losing to the Eskimos at home six days later.

“Both of the last two games that we’ve lost, we’ve had opportunities to win those football games in the fourth quarter and we didn’t make the plays,” said B.C. quarterback Travis Lulay.

“I had a critical turnover late in that game last week and that was essentially the difference in the football game.”

Lulay, who was picked off twice by the Eskimos, said the Stampeders will be highly confident after their come-

back win last week.

“I put myself in their shoes,” he said. “Coming off a win the way they did, that’s a big win. That’s gut-check to come back and win the way they did on their home turf. They were getting beat soundly in the fourth quarter, and to come back and find a way to make the plays that they did, they showed a lot of grit, a lot of determination, and you’ve got to admire that. So we know what kind of team we’re facing.”

The last time the two teams met was on Oct. 8 last season when Paul McCallum kicked a clutch 53-yard field goal as time ran out in the fourth quarter to give the Lions a narrow 33-31 win.

“We’ve seen it all against Calgary,” Lulay said.

“It’s always a tough, hard-fought battle. We played them right down to the wire and won on literally on the last play of the game last year. The way games are going this year in the CFL, you know that’s a very real possibility every single week, so you have to play good all 60 minutes.”

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helped engineer Calgary’s comeback victory over the Riders after the tough losses.

“Out of the four games that we’ve played, three of them have been down to the wire,” said Glenn, who took over when Tate suffered a season-ending shoulder injury against the Argos on July 7. “We’ve built some kind of familiarity with going down to the wire and playing all 60 minutes. I think it’s good.

When you can get those kinds of games early in the year, it helps you later in the year.”

Veteran B.C. defensive back Korey Banks isn’t surprised to see Glenn have success as a starter with the Stamps.

“We definitely know it’s a dog-fight ahead of us,” said Banks, whose Lions (2-2) are looking to bounce back from a 27-14 setback in Vancouver to the Edmonton Eskimos.

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More than 160 Eastview Middle School Band students — under the direction of Maureen Chauvet — filled the Red Deer College Arts Centre stage at the school’s annual year-end concert.

Showcasing their hard work, dedication and musical talents, performing groups included the jazz band, Grade 6 band, Grade 7 band and Grade 8 band.

Highlights included the Music X class performing Fresh Trash, a vibrant rhythmic selection, on fluorescent-coloured garbage cans.

Making Eastview history, the celebration culminated with mass band performances of Party Rock Anthem and EVMS (aka YMCA).

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Big plans for Lacombe land

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

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ELLIS FARM BUG JAMBOREE Ellis Bird Farm will host its annual Bug Jamboree on Aug. 11.

Multiple bug experts will be available from 1 to 3 p.m. to share knowledge about insects and spiders.

The afternoon will start off with musical entertainment, with garden tours focusing on pollinators and pests to follow. There will also be several craft stations set up for children and families where they will have the opportunity to build and take home their own bumble bee nest box. At 3 p.m., John Acorn and Dr. Charley Bird will lead the annual butterfly count. The event is free with no requirements for pre-registration.

For more information, contact 403-8854477 or visit www. ellisbirdfarm.ca.

Some unused land in the middle of Lacombe will be turned into industrial lots as well as a new home for the city’s public works building.

The City of Lacombe recently bought 33.97 acres, including 3.97 acres within the flood way, from a private developer.

The land in Wolf Creek Industrial Park is located south of 55th Avenue and bordered to the west by the Canadian Pacific Railway line, Wolf Creek to the east and CPR line to the north.

Mayor Steve Christie said the city is presently without any serviced industrial lots.

“It’s in our best interest to maintain an inventory of serviced land in order to facilitate and promote industrial growth within our corporate limits.”

Infrastructure Services director Matthew Goudy said 20 of the acres would go towards industrial use.

The lots would be about two acres in

size, so in total there would be eight to 10 lots.

It’s hoped the lots will be serviced and ready to go for next year, so anyone interested in a lot is asked to contact the city.

Currently, the city has less than 10 industrial acres, all in use.

“There certainly is a need for this,” said Goudy on Friday. “We’re hoping for some quick sales. The land will be priced to move.”

The 3.97 acres would be used for the new Infrastructure Services building and storage yard.

Goudy said the existing building, located on 56th Avenue, is getting to point where it needs more upkeep. The new property would give more room for equipment and materials.

“It would also get us out of the residential area where we currently are, between two schools and near the Wolf Creek Schools bus barns,” said Goudy.

Lacombe city council has given initial approval to a 10-year capital plan, which would see the public works building con-

structed in about five years. Building costs are unknown at this point.

Goudy said the city has been negotiating with the developer for some time to acquire the land at a fair market price, which he said was achieved. “They had been working on the land for some time and the city approached them,” said Goudy.

The city bought 30 acres for $55,000 per acre, totalling $1.65 million. It will also provide the seller with a tax receipt for donating 3.97 acres valued at $218,350.

In order to acquire the land, council passed a resolution this week to amend the 2012 capital budget so that the $1.65 million could come out of short-term borrowing.

Council also passed bylaw 377, which authorized borrowing of the necessary funds.

As well, the creation and sale of the lots will help to offset borrowing and servicing costs, according to the city.

The city will now prepare an outline plan for developing the land, and will present the cost for servicing the land during the 2013 capital budget talks. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

BLUEGRASS CONCERT Help a hockey team get to Poland and hear some folk/ bluegrass music at the same time. An indoor concert featuring Andrew McLaren and Karl Neumann happens on Tuesday. It runs at Scott Block Theatre at 4816 50th Ave. in Red Deer. Tickets are $15 per person in advance, $20 a person at the door.

All proceeds go to the Alberta Ambassadors, a recreational hockey team from men in Red Deer and Lethbridge, who plan to attend the Friendship Games in Poland in January 2013. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., concert starts at 8 p.m. The event is open to ages 12 and over. Contact Edith McLaren at 403347-8129 or Crystal Neumann at 403-5971526 to buy tickets.

Tickets can also be bought at door.

HISTORIC WALKING TOURS Learn more about Red Deer’s history during a special walking tour this summer. Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery will host a historical walking tour of the downtown on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 5:30 p.m. and Thursday, Aug. 9, at 9:30 a.m.

Tour starts and ends at the museum. Cost is $5 per person or $3 for museum members. Call 403-309-8405 to preregister.

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Gardens stir the soul of Benalto artist

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Whether seeking solace or just a peaceful place to meditate, David More has always had a soft spot for gardens.

The Benalto artist has been painting the colourful foliage, raked dirt, and ordered disarray of public gardens for the past 35 years. Now a retrospective of his garden paintings is on at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

While only 15 works make up The Garden Ceremony exhibit, most are expansive, expressive pieces up to four metres in length or height. “It’s probably the most major show of my life,” said More.

It’s certainly the most personal.

His garden painting began in the mid 1970s when More’s first marriage was breaking up. The 64-year-old artist recalls trying to escape from the emotional trauma by immersing himself in the imaginary gardens he created in his studio.

A series of mostly black and white garden-scapes emerged, painted in India ink, conte crayon and charcoal. The two displayed in the exhibit were inspired by a trip he had taken to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with his first wife.

The “unsettling” mood of the subdued 2.5-metre works is at

odds with most people’s expectations of gardens being happy, bucolic places, said More. “But gardens can also be still places where solace is taken. . . .

“My imaginary gardens allowed me to return to moments and places (that were) remembered and hoped for, and now lamented.”

The large black and white paintings evolved into mixedmedia colourful ones during a more uplifting period when More was living on Vancouver Island in 1979 with his second and current wife, Yvette Brideau.

These depictions of embankments with arbutus tree trunks focus on the texture of grass and bark. The large Garden Ceremony with Autumn Screen, painted in the early 1980s, is a more abstract, lyrical work in browns with blue, yellow and orange accents. It depicts raking marks in the soil, but brings to mind musical bars and fiddle strings.

Another series was inspired

by More’s 1992 trip to India, where the balanced spirituality of the culture was reflected in serene and stately gardens, often enhanced by columns, stairs and pools.

In some of More’s early pieces, airplane wing shapes appear to be emerging from contours and colour blocks. While he believes it was an unconscious thing, a few years later, the art-

ist experienced a strong memory flashback.

He remembered the longago day when he and his father came across an “airplane graveyard” of rusted and wrecked war-time training planes near the old Penhold air base. “I must have been about three years old,” said More, who remembers the planes sinking into the Prairie landscape.

He recalled his childish excitement at being lifted into a cockpit. But a few moments later, the pre-school More become upset for no reason he can explain. “It was just a feeling . . . maybe bad karma” from the crashed planes, said More, who was inspired to twine his garden theme with the wartime experiences shared by his parents and other Second World War veterans.

What emerged are vast and impressive paintings contoured to reflect airplane wing shapes.

Spitfire Steps fuses his mother’s wartime experiences as a member of the Women Auxiliary Air Force, who plotted troop movements on a large magnetic map, with the crumbled garden steps she remembered from her childhood. He noted the layers of foliage in the painting mimic the camouflage patterns of RAF aircraft.

Night Garden, Corsair is in the shape of a corsair wing and was inspired by a hair-raising story More heard from his former

father-in-law about attempting a night-time landing into pitchblack onto an aircraft carrier in the North Sea. Although the indigo painting created to show a night garden looks virtually mono-colour, More built up 16 layers of paint, starting with vivid oranges and rusts.

Lancaster Moon combines the image of stone steps from a Red Deer park with a dark blue expanse of space. The idea for the painting was sparked by a story told by an Englishman about parachuting out of a burning Lancaster bomber at night. “It was very peaceful. Very quiet.

Nice. I looked up and the plane was now completely in flame, a beautiful giant burning cross, and it just kept flying, off into the dark distance,” the war veteran told him.

The preamble to More’s The Garden Ceremony exhibit is “We come and we go, guest of this greatest garden,” which, of course, is life.

The Scottish-born, Central Alberta-raised graduate of the Alberta School of Art and Design, said gardens continue to fascinate because they offer a chance for introspection and refuge. “I always think, I’m done with this, and then I think of another painting.”

The exhibit is on until Sept.

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Former RDC student president now in charge

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

COUNCIL OF CANADIANS

The local chapter of Council of Canadians has a new chairperson.

Derrick Callan, 25, of Red Deer, took over on May 31 when longtime chair Ken Collier stepped down from the position with the Red Deer and area chapter.

Council of Canadians is a citizen-based organization that promotes progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.

Callan, the former president of the Students’ Association of Red Deer College and a member of Occupy Red Deer, was treasurer for the Red Deer chapter for two years.

Callan said it’s important to keep the local chapter going.

“There aren’t too many advocacy groups in Red Deer,” said Callan, who is earning a psychology degree.

“Central Alberta is kind of a tough crowd. (Central Albertans) are not as pro-

gressive as other jurisdictions in Canada.

But there are people who are out there who do care.”

The chapter has about 40 regular members and meets the third Monday of the month at Sunnybrook United Church at 7 p.m.

Callan said people don’t need to be experts to get involved.

“We welcome anyone to come,” Callan said.

“If people want to ask more questions, they can email me at derrickcallan@hotmail.com.”

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Journalists must connect faith to Aurora facts Once again, shocked onlookers painted from familiar palettes as they described the latest young man to march into the public square with his guns blazing.

The alleged killer was a quiet loner who excelled at school.

He was a normal guy who loved movies and superhero tales, only he cheered for the villains.

When hanging out in bars, he was usually sitting alone.

Journalists also TERRY quoted people who MATTINGLY knew the family and said that suspect James Holmes was once, as The Los Angeles Times noted, “heavily involved in their local Presbyterian church” in San Diego.

You see, even a kid from a normal church can evolve into someone who dyes his hair red, allegedly buys 6,000 rounds of ammo, girds himself in a full-body armor suit and, when surrendering to Aurora, Colo., police, identifies himself as the Joker, the incarnation of postmodern evil.

“What does ‘Presbyterian’ mean in this context?

“It’s like no one really stopped to ask if there was something about this particular label — the actual content of this word — that connected in any way to this event,” said Aly Colon, a nationally known journalism-ethics consultant.

“Does this kind of label give readers anything to stand on? . . . It’s like these words are hovering up in the sky, with no connection to the facts on the ground.”

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Truth is, in Southern California, “Presbyterian” can describe everything from evangelical megachurches to old-line Protestant congregations on the religious left.

So was the Holmes family active in the liberal Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or the conservative Presbyterian Church in America?

How about the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Bible Presbyterian Synod, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America or the American Presbyterian Church?

Then again, journalists were soon reporting that this family has been active — for nearly a decade — in some kind of Lutheran congregation.

The problem, explained Colon, is that journalists assigned to cover these media storms in the digital age are trying to report as much information as they can, as fast as they can, as easily as they can, while competing against legions of websites, Twitter feeds, 24-hour cable news and, often, smartphone videos uploaded to YouTube by eyewitnesses.

Reporters are tempted to use as many easy labels and stereotypes as possible, simply to save time and space.

Almost a decade ago, Colon wrote a Poynter.org essay titled Preying Presbyterians? about a similar media blitz in which a gunman who killed an abortion-clinic doctor was constantly identified as a “former Presbyterian minister.” As it turned out, Paul Hill had become so radical that he had already been ejected from a small Presbyterian flock that was very conservative, but also opposed to any use of violence during protests.

None of the mainstream news reports that he read, wrote Colon, explained why it mattered that this man had once been some

kind of Presbyterian.

It was just a religious label with no real content.

“As journalists, we choose words carefully and conscientiously. We select nouns and adjectives to advance the story. We connect dots.

“We make points. We clarify. We explain,” wrote Colon. “So when I see the word ‘Presbyterian,’ I expect an explanation somewhere in the story that tells me why I need to know that. I would expect the same if other terms were used, such as ‘Catholic,’ ‘Episcopalian,’ ‘Christian,’ ‘Hindu,’ ‘Jew,’ ‘Mormon,’ . . . ‘Buddhist,’ ‘Muslim’ or ‘Pagan.’ ” What he wrote then remains true today, as journalists try to find and assemble the pieces of the bloody Aurora puzzle. If religion is going to be included in the coverage, stressed Colon, reporters must work to “connect faith to facts.”

In other words, it will be crucial to learn the details of Holmes’ real life, in the here and now.

Journalists must learn how he spent his time, spent his money and made the decisions that appear to have ended and altered so many lives. If faith — or some other worldview — is part of that equation, then so be it.

“It’s our duty to drill down and to find facts that add clarity,” said Colon. “Maybe this young man once had a membership in a particular Presbyterian church with a particular theology.

So what? How is that faith connected to the facts of what happened in Aurora?

There must be a connection or what’s the point?”

Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Contact him at tmattingly@cccu.org or through www.tmatt. net

LOCAL ACTIVITIES TUESDAY Scott Block Theatre presents Andrew McLaren and Karl Neumann on July 31.

Come out and enjoy folk/ bluegrass style music.

Tickets are $15 per person in advance, or $20 per person at the door.

All proceeds go towards the hockey team’s trip to Poland for a series of Friendship Games with a Polish hockey league in Jan. 2013. Doors open at 7 p.m., concert starts at 8. Open to ages twelve and over. Contact Edith McLaren at 403-347-8129 or Crystal Neumann at 403-5971526 to purchase tickets.

FRIDAY Mighty Fortress Lutheran Church presents Branches Band — A Milwaukee-based Christian band — on Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. This free concert will also have light refreshments following the show. Visit www. mightyfortress.ca, www. branchesband.com. Call 403-340-8045 for more information or directions.

Take Time To Enjoy Your Church This Summer

Established 1898

4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560

Balmoral Bible Chapel

Minister The Rev. Wayne Reid "Finding Spiritual Strengths" 10:30 a.m.

Worship Service "In The Grip Of The Holy"

West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave.

403-346-6036

SUNDAY WORSHIP 11:00 a.m.

403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 9:00 am Communion Service 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Jared Ott "Faith That Overcomes" #1 John 5 verses 1-12 Children's Summer Church 2-1/2 - Grade 3 www.balmoralchapel.ca

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service VBS - August 13-17 5:30-8:30 p.m.

e-mail: info@firstbaptistrd.ca www.firstbaptistrd.ca

Centre for Spiritual Living 11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Juliette Simoneau-Moore www.cslreddeer.org #3 - 6315 Horn Street

BAHÁ'í Faith Thousands of Bahai'is and their friends across Canada will be observing the centenaryt of 'Abdu'l-Baha's visit to Montreal in Aug./ Sept. 1912. The eldest son of Baha'u'llah and His appointed successor as head of the Bahai'i Faith, was freed after more than half a century of exile and imprisonment. Immediately, He began to plan how to present, in person, the Baha'i teachings to the world beyond the Middle East. Throughout the year of 1912, 'Abdu'l-Baha traversed the north American continent, continuing an exteraordinary journey that had already taken him to Egypt, England, France, and Switzerland.

For information on the Faith, call 403-343-0091 and check the web http://ca.bahai.org/

Listen To The Christian Science Sentinel Radio Edition

SUNDAY MORNING 8:00 A.M. CKMX AM Radio 1060

For information call 403-346-0811

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. WED. MEETING. 8:00 P.M., 2ND WED. EACH MONTH. Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

4907 GAETZ AVE.

Reaching Inward, Outward and Upward for Christ

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

Sunday, July 29

CC GOOD SHEPHERD ELCIC 40 Holmes St.

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL

403-340-1022 New Pastor: Rev. Marc Jerry

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

WORSHIP

10:30 a.m. - Worship Service & Church School

SUNDAY 10:30 AM Holy Communion at All Services

"Waters Of Faith" www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. – Worship Service

"Musical Interlude" Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Clubwww.sunnybrookunited.org

3901-44 Street 403-347-7900 www.bethanybaptist.ab.ca Pastor Dennis Burriss Pastor Peter Erratt

The Anglican Church of Canada Sunday, July 29

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

Everyone Welcome

“a Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street

Saved by grace - called to serve

www.stleonardsonthehill.org

MOUNT CALVARY (LC-C)

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

403-346-0811

10:30 Worship Service

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk DIVINE SERVICE 10:00 A.M. Kings Kids Playschool www.mtcalvarylutheran.lcc.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

403-346-6769 Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Combined Summer Service Monday, Tuesday, Friday & Saturday 9:15 Morning Prayer

ST. LUKE’S

"Old Church Blessing a New World"

Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402

www.saintlukereddeer.posterous.com

Celebrant Michael Thain

10:00 a.m. Family Friendly Worship Sunday School and Refreshments

Sunday Services: 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Evening Ministries: 7:00 p.m.

Phone: 403.347.7311 Web: www.livingstones.ab.ca Address: 2020 - 40th Avenue, Red Deer (East of the Centrium, corner of 19th Street & 40th Avenue)

Loving God . . . Loving People 10:15 am Worship Service Great questions from Malachi 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer

403.343.1511 www.deerparkchurch.ca 39528G28

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Shakespeare’s Irish play?

REWORKING OF MACBETH AS A DEPICTION OF THE IRA CRISIS IN THE 1960S RINGS TRUE IN OUTDOOR PRODUCTION Shakespeare’s “Scottish play” got the full-on Irish treatment at Bower Ponds on Thursday when Macbeth opened during the peak of the IRA crisis in the 1960s.

The actionpacked Bard on Bower production by Prime Stock Theatre recreated the Belfast-area conflict in broad strokes — and the plot didn’t suffer for being moved across the Irish Sea. In fact, MacLANA beth’s violence MICHELIN seemed all the more chilling because it took place in a relatable period in the not-so-distant past.

Anyone familiar with old news footage of the IRA conflict will recognize the two sides depicted: Black-suited British soldiers armed with clubs and bullet-proof shields, and rock-hurling angry separatists.

The two collided on gritty streets that spelled out in graffiti what people were dying for — to create an independent Ireland or remain under Great Britain’s control.

In this production, Macbeth, played

by Alex Mackie, appears to be a thirdtier Irish Republican Army commander who already has his eye on the leadership spot occupied by the gregarious and popular King Duncan (Matthew Taylor).

The three witches (Tara Rorke, Tori Grebinski, and Nicole Leal) who enter to foretell of Macbeth’s rise to the top are not depicted as hags, but attractive mini-skirted Belfast lasses.

Macbeth doesn’t yet know that the seemingly ordinary girls are capable of sinister, bloody deeds.

Thomas Usher, who directed this well-paced production that includes a throw to 1960s drug culture, understands that the closer to home violence strikes, the more we feel its effects.

Sure enough, the audience did feel a growing unease as the ambitious Macbeth committed more and more heinous acts to advance his own fortune and then hold onto ill-gotten power.

By the end, Macbeth didn’t just pick off people within the organization, he also murdered the innocent wife and child of an adversary — which is the play’s most wrenching moment.

Mackie portrayed a thickly Irish accented Macbeth who’s easily led into wrongdoing by his wife — despite his

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A murder scene plays out during a performance of Macbeth on the Bower Ponds stage. The Prime Stock Theatre production of Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish play’ gives the story a more contemporary feel, and the shift to 1960s Ireland works well. loud and blustery personality.

But Mackie made the strongest impression when he toned the bluster down. He delivered his grieving “brief candle” speech after Lady Macbeth’s suicide in halting tones, sobs and whispers — proving that the greatest intensity can often be achieved by lowering the volume.

Lisa Heinrichs was an outstanding Lady Macbeth, using her mocking tongue to lead her husband down a dark road without redemption. Her lilting singing voice was also used to great affect on a Gaelic tune that helped contrast a cheery party scene with the

ambush and murder of Banquo (Drue Oliver), Macbeth’s right-hand man.

The play’s strong 15-person cast not only made the Shakespearean speeches understandable, they also helped create a spooky mood in the daylight.

The witches were an ominous presence, and the appearance of Banquo’s bloody ghost at a banquet table was bone-chilling, despite Thursday’s pleasant Bower Ponds evening.

This unlikely Irish version of Macbeth proves yet again that Shakespeare was a master at writing about the human condition. Greed, ruthlessness, compulsion, guilt and remorse are all

Channelling Charles

DONALD RAY JOHNSON PLAYS HOMAGE TO RAY CHARLES WITH 10-PIECE ORCHESTRA AT THE SYLVAN LAKE JAZZ FESTIVAL ON AUG. 18

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF He might sing Ray Charles’s songs, but Donald Ray Johnson is the first to admit he’s no Ray Charles.

“Nobody can do Ray Charles, except for Ray Charles. . . . He was a genius. All you can do is give it your best try,” said the Calgary-based Texas native, who will front the 10-piece Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra at the Sylvan Lake Jazz festival on Saturday, Aug. 18.

Johnson goes for Charles’ emotional delivery of such timeless tunes as Georgia On my Mind, What I Say?, Mess Around, Night Time is the Right Time and Cry, but stops short of mimicking the singer/pianist’s

idiosyncratic movements.

Johnson said he isn’t aiming for an impersonation, but an honest performance of songs that crossed genre lines, incorporating soul, gospel, blues — even country.

Despite Johnson’s frank assessment of his own abilities (he jokingly admits that he won’t play the piano publicly), a couple of similarities exist between him and the legendary Charles, who helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s and who is No. 2 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time list.

Johnson has also won a Grammy Award and is legally blind.

The 63-year-old, who also performs around Alberta with the four-piece Donald Ray Johnson Band, started out banging the drums in Bryan, Tex. His

qualities that have, sadly, been replayed so often throughout history that the play’s time period and setting don’t matter.

Since this is an interesting two-hour interpretation of Shakespeare’s shortest and (arguably) most engaging tragedy — go see it!

Just bring a blanket, lawn chair and bug spray — and let the wickedness begin.

Admission is by donation. Macbeth runs tonight at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. It’s also on at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 1, 3, and 4. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com Photo submitted

Donald Ray Johnson says he isn’t aiming for an impersonation of Ray Charles, just an honest performance of the songs Charles took across musical genres. home was across from the Allen Military Academy and he was inspired by hearing marching bands practise.

Johnson became seasoned enough through school band drumming lessons to begin his professional career at age 14 with the blues piano legend Nat Dove.

Years later, after serving two Vietnam tours aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, Johnson relocated to San Diego, where he rubbed shoulders with California’s biggest blues and R&B artists while performing with the house band at the Downtown Hustler’s Club.

By 1971, Johnson was playing with the Philip Walker Band and Joe Houston Big Band in Los Angeles. Soon after he joined the soul/disco group A Taste of Honey, which in 1979 became the first AfroAmerican band to win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Johnson was beyond thrilled to be nominated with such performers as Elvis Costello, The Cars, Toto and English singer/songwriter Chris Rea. “People work their whole life and don’t get that kind of recognition.”

Although A Taste of Honey, known for the hits Boogie Oogie Oogie and Sukiyaki, had folded by the early 1980s, Johnson’s career had longer legs — despite his worsening vision problems.

By 1986, he was nearly totally blind due to glaucoma and other degenerative conditions.

The musician did what many people do when beset by health troubles — he returned home to the bosom of his family. But it didn’t take him long to realize “there’s was nothing for me to do,” since Bryan had a negligible music scene.

Johnson got back onto a stage by accepting a friend’s invitation to join his band of musicians in Montana. He was then lured by a girlfriend to move across the border to Calgary, arriving in November of 1989.

He can still remember his first taste of an Alberta winter: “It started snowing and didn’t stop . . . I thought, what the hell have I gotten myself into now?”

His romantic relationship fizzled, but Johnson’s affinity for this province grew to the point that he’s now married to another Albertan, is a fixture on Calgary’s music scene, and a dual Canada-U.S. citizen.

Johnson performed at last year’s Jazz at the Lake Festival with his four-piece band and is looking forward to his return appearance with the larger orchestra. “I just hope people turn out to support live music and have some fun.

“Music, for me, has always been a love affair. If it stops being fun, I won’t do it.”

Johnson will perform from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion in Sylvan Lake, 4916 50th Ave. Tickets are $20. For more schedule, performance and ticket information for Jazz at the Lake festival events, go to www.jazzatthelake.com. Tickets are also available from the Sylvan Lake Tourist Information, 4719 50th Ave. Call toll free: 1-866-887-5550. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Episode 2 puts more emphasis on decisions The Walking Dead: Episode 2 — Starving for Help Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC Genre: Action Publisher: Telltale Games ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: four stars (out of five) If The Walking Dead video-game series teaches us anything, it’s that when the undead come alookin’ for flesh to feast upon, no decision you are forced to make is ever a good one.

Telltale is doing wonders with the franchise, CHRIS even with only CAMPBELL two episodes released. Instead of pumping out one 30-hour game on a disc, gamers are being treated to slowly released chapters that feel distinct while remaining part of a larger narrative. The pace forces you to appreciate the characters and interactions because you’ll see them again (or maybe not, depending on your choices) in a few months when the next episode comes out.

If you haven’t played the first episode, stop now and do that first. Ignoring the initial episode would starve you of some character setup and the ability to immerse yourself in the encampment and surrounding areas. The focus is still on Lee, our freed convict.

He’s not quite sure of his role in this new zombie apocalypse, but he’s not exactly thrilled with the cast of charac-

GAME ON

ters he’s stuck with.

The gameplay is similar to that of the first episode, with plenty of shooting and general survival-themed elements, but the focus is clearly on making decisions. Choosing who gets food when the rations dwindle and whether to kill an enemy while a child watches are not trivial matters, and the game makes you feel the weight of them long after you’ve made your choice.

Most downloadable games are oneoff experiences where you play, walk away and never think about them again. Brilliantly staggering the game out into smaller portions allows you to ruminate on what a failing society would be like in a zombie apocalypse, and leaves you eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next chapter.

The Amazing Spider-Man Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, 3DS Genre: Action Publisher: Activision ESRB Rating: T, for Teen Grade: Three stars My opening salvo: I haven’t seen the movie yet. Yes, I reside in the fuddy-duddy camp that says it’s too soon since the last trilogy for me to shell out $12 to see an all-new origin story. Despite loving to watch comicbook movies and agreeing that Emma Stone could soon assume the mantle of “America’s Sweetheart,” I’m just not interested.

But wait! You say they rebooted the video-game franchise as well? Now that I can get on board with. The previous games featuring our favorite web-slinger never completely captured what I imagine could be a neverending endorphin high from swinging

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What’s the No. 1 rule of the horror genre? Don’t go see what’s at the top of the stairs! The Walking Dead video game forces you to make a lot of difficult decisions. through the big city.

Things are much different now, as The Amazing Spider-Man delivers this thrilling sensation by leaps and bounds over earlier games. Even if you question whether at times your web is actually attaching to anything to swing from, it’s possible you’ll play this game for hours longer than planned just to whip around Manhattan and look for goodies to collect.

Sadly, the exhilaration takes a sharp decline once you hit terra firma.

Combat borrows heavily from “Batman Arkham Asylum,” which sounds awe-

some except lots of games do this now and no one is building upon that model. The enemy artificial intelligence is also so dumb that working to unlock new moves and attacks isn’t necessary against such middling foes.

The bones of a winning franchise exist if developers continue to expand beyond just releasing a game that ties into a movie. In the meantime, throw on the Spidey suit for at least a weekend or two.

It will be worth it.

Follow Chris Campbell @campbler or email him at game_on_games@mac.com.

At the Revolution not a Step Up for series

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Step Up Revolution One and a half stars (out of four) Rated: PG The revolution will be dancified.

The earnest hoofers who take over Miami to flash mob their way to Internet glory in Step Up Revolution decide to move their feet for the greater good in this silly bit of summer frippery, the fourth instalment in the dance-romance franchise that made Channing Tatum a star.

The fancy-stepping leads (MMA fighter and model Ryan Guzman and So You Think You Can Dance cast member Kathryn McCormick) have zero acting experience — and it shows.

Kathryn McCormick Same goes for the first-time movie director, Scott Speer, and Ryan Guzman who can’t coax even a passdance in a scene from able performance from his Step Up Revolution. amateurish cast, save for TV veterans who already have the goods: Peter Gallagher as a property developer and Aussie charmer Cleopatra Coleman in an all-but wordless role as deejay Penelope.

There’s no help from the script, which appears to have been written on a napkin by high-schoolers on their lunch break. Luckily they had just finished studying Romeo and Juliet. Awesome!

The showboating moves that are the real reason for the Step Up flicks are more acrobatics and precision drills than dance (even low-rider hydraulic cars get in on the action), although the kids sure do know how to shake a tail feather in the most suggestive ways when called upon. I haven’t seen so many heads of hair being raked since lice-check day at school.

The story revolves around a rich hotel developer’s daughter and aspiring dancer, Emily (McCormick).

She falls for hot waiter Sean (Ryan Guzman), whose poor parents loved to dance at a rundown salsa bar in Miami’s Little Havana. Everybody in the movie is a great dancer, except for Emily’s dad (The O.C.’s Gallagher), who wants to develop the waterfront strip and toss the patrons out on the street, razing Sean’s home and his sister’s employer in the process.

Sean and his pals anonymously take over streets and public spaces with impressive spontaneous-

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A scene from Step Up Revolution: a script written on a napkin by high-schoolers during lunch break. seeming dance performances. Called The Mob, their goal is hitting one million YouTube views so they can win some cash and do something else that I can’t remember. It doesn’t really matter. Emily, now aware of the plight of the 99 per cent thanks to Sean, joins The Mob, which has decided to use its dance prowess for good rather than commerce by alerting Miami to the injustice of the evil developer. Art can’t be for fun anymore, Emily earnestly tells them, bowing to Sean’s insistence that she not tell the crew who her father is. She agrees. Daddy would never understand her loving a boy from the poor side of town and besides, they have to dance for political reasons. And also because she looks totally hot in this outfit.

It’s all good, clean stupid fun and the steamy Miami setting lends itself to plenty of shots of very fit bikini-clad gals and shirtless dudes grinding it out under the tropical sun. Some of the dance numbers, especially one featuring a briefcase-toting lock-’n’pop legion and a living art gallery display, are impressive but don’t bother with the 3-D glasses, which aren’t.

What’s next for these politically aware dancers?

Step Up Limit Roaming Fees has a nice ring to it. Power to the people — dance on!

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY JULY 27, 2012 TO THURSDAY AUGUST 2, 2012 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, VIOLENCE, FRIGHTENING SCENES) FRISUN 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10; MON-THURS 2:30, 6:30, 9:40

THE WATCH (18A) (CRUDE, SEXUAL CONTENT) NO PASSES FRI-SUN 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; MONTUE,THURS 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45; WED 4:10, 7:00, 9:45

MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, VIOLENCE) FRI-THURS 1:45

THE WATCH (18A) (CRUDE SEXUAL CONTENT) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING, NO PASSES WED 1:00

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) FRI-THURS 12:50

STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) FRI-SUN 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; MONTHURS 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25

BRAVE (G) FRI-SUN 12:40; MON-THURS 2:00 BRAVE 3D (G) FRI-SUN 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:50; MON-THURS 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) FRI,SUN 12:10; MON-THURS 12:40 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (G) FRI-SUN 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00; MON-THURS 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 TED (18A) (CRUDE CONTENT, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) FRI-SUN 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50; MONTHURS 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50

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1950: The Dominion Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Canada) reported Canada’s population was 13,845,000.

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OTTAWA REPORTS SHRINKING DEFICIT IN APRIL, MAY OTTAWA — Canada appears to be successfully dodging much of the economic flak currently circling the globe, having more than halved the federal deficit for the first two months of the current fiscal year. The federal government rang up a small deficit during the April-May period, spending $832 million more than it collected in revenue, Finance Canada reported Friday in its Fiscal Monitor report.

The two-month deficit — $19 million in April, $813 million in May — is a significant improvement over the $2 billion reported during the same period a year ago.

Revenues in April and May were five per cent higher than a year earlier, with both corporate tax and GST revenues rising 9.3 per cent. On the other side of the ledger, program expenses were up 3.4 per cent from the previous year, mainly due to higher transfer payments — an expenditure Finance Minister Jim Flaherty appears to have in his sights, much to the chagrin of Canada’s premiers.

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Count Clark out for now B.C. PREMIER WON’T SIGN NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY UNTIL PIPELINE DISPUTE RESOLVED

BY ALISON AULD THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — British Columbia Premier Christy Clark refused Friday to join her provincial counterparts in crafting a national energy strategy, insisting that a public feud over the Northern Gateway pipeline has to be resolved before she can proceed.

Clark stepped out of meetings at the Council of the Federation in Halifax to make the announcement as premiers tried to cobble together a pan-Canadian strategy on energy and before they broke for their final news conference.

She said she wouldn’t endorse a deal before discussions take place with Ottawa and Alberta over how B.C. would be compensated for allowing the $6-billion pipeline to carry heavy oil to the B.C. coast to be loaded onto tankers bound for Asia.

“British Columbia will not be participating in any of those discussions until after we’ve seen some progress that our requirements for the shipment of heavy oil will be met,” she told a hastily called news conference.

“It’s not a national energy strategy if British Columbia hasn’t signed on.”

Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford have been locked in an intractable dispute over economic benefits associated with the megaproject proposed by Enbridge (TSX:ENB), with Clark saying the sides must talk before there can be any movement.

She said the two had a “very frank discussion” about it Friday morning, but didn’t reveal details or if they planned on holding further talks on the matter.

Redford has said she sees no point in talking since the pipeline project is a private venture and British Columbia has to decide on its own how to proceed with try-

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British Columbia Premier Christy Clark fields questions about a national energy strategy at the annual Council of the Federation meeting in Halifax on Friday. ing to secure more revenue from it.

At the closing news conference, Redford said the lack of unanimity on a national energy plan wasn’t something that concerned her.

“I don’t think we should lament the fact that we’re not all the way there yet,” Redford said.

“I think we should actually celebrate a tremendous amount of success in that we had almost every premier in the country talking about the fact that we need to come together and talk about how to grow Canada’s energy economy.”

But after much talk going into the meeting of co-operation and the evolution of a pan-Canadian energy strategy, the premiers

Port report ‘good news’ for Canada: Jacobson

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to Canada is praising a report by an American agency even as two of its commissioners take public issue with the study that examined Canadian “cargo diversion” and cited suggestions to remedy the problem that could prove prohibitively costly to importers.

The report by the five-member Federal Maritime Commission is complimentary to Canada while fully advocating healthy competition among ports in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, David Jacobson said from Ottawa in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“It emphasizes the need for competition ... from where I’m sitting, I read this as good news for Canadian ports,” he said.

Two commissioners, however, disagree.

Rebecca Dye and Michael Khouri released statements Friday that are starkly

critical of the agency’s study into allegations from two Washington state senators that Canada was luring lucrative cargo away from U.S. West Coast ports.

“I believe the study fails to assist or advance meaningful discussion or debate concerning either the federal HMT or the broader subject of a national transportation policy,” Khouri said in his statement.

Of particular concern to Dye was the suggestion that the port of Prince Rupert, B.C., lacks the type of security available at other destinations, including American ones, because it is not a so-called “CSI” port.

CSI is an acronym for the Container Security Initiative, a program implemented 11 years ago by U.S. Customs and Border Control to pre-screen more than 86 per cent of U.S.-bound container cargo.

“Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax are CSI ports; Prince Rupert is not,” reads the report.

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LOONIE FIND LIFT FROM ECB PLEDGE TO SAVE EURO TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Friday amid further indications that European leaders are finally getting a grip on the region’s sovereign debt crisis.

The loonie gained 0.51 of a cent to 99.56 cents US as the loonie and other riskier assets such as commodities continued to find lift after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande released a joint statement saying they will do anything they can to stop the 17 countries that use the euro from breaking up. They didn’t offer details.

Markets had rallied Thursday after the European Central Bank president pledged to do whatever it takes to save the euro currency union.

Mario Draghi suggested that the central bank could intervene in markets to lower the borrowing rates of financially weak countries like Spain.

— The Canadian Press

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Shoppers try out Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S III smartphones at a showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Friday.

Samsung extends lead over Apple

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NEW YORK — Samsung has extended its lead over Apple in smartphones, in part because its new Galaxy phones came out before Apple updated its iPhone, research group IDC said Friday.

Samsung’s Galaxy S3 phones got good reviews when it was released late in the second quarter. In the U.S., the phones work with the faster fourth-generation, or 4G, cellular networks that major wireless companies have been building.

The Galaxy’s screen is larger than the iPhone’s, while the Samsung phone is lighter and thinner.

An iPhone with 4G capabilities isn’t expected until this fall. The current model,

the iPhone 4S, came out in October, and sales typically drop several months after each release.

According to IDC, Samsung Electronics Co. shipped 50.2 million smartphones worldwide in the second quarter and had a market share of 33 per cent, up from 17 per cent a year ago. Apple Inc.’s fell slightly to 17 per cent, from 19 per cent a year ago. It sold 26 million iPhones in the April-June quarter.

Besides having the Galaxy S3 out months before a new iPhone, Samsung also benefited from its strategy of developing several devices for a range of consumers.

appeared to leave with little more than the creation of a working group of premiers that will build on a 2007 plan.

Still, the host of the annual meeting, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter, said he wasn’t disappointed in the results of the gathering, which addressed health care, transfer payments, changes to employment insurance and aboriginal issues. He said the work of the council can continue despite the tussle between Alberta and B.C. “I would like to see that work that we’re doing as a bridge over any kind of division,” he said.

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FACEBOOK

Investors who wait will be rewarded — someday

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Investors are dumping Facebook’s stock, spooked by slowing revenue growth, the lack of a financial outlook and plans to spend more money in the coming months.

Are they right?

Only if they are thinking in the short term. Investors can expect Facebook’s stock to be volatile for a few years. But analysts say those willing to wait will likely be rewarded — someday.

“I view it as a tomorrow stock,” says Christian Bertelsen, chief investment officer at wealth management firm Global Financial Private Capital.

“The whole thing on Facebook is, look, if your time horizon is hourly, weekly or even monthly, this is not the stock for you,” he adds. “You need to take a much longerterm view on it.”

That’s about three or four years, he says.

Founded in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room in 2004, Facebook was a product of the PC era. Now, in the age of mobile computing, a growing number of people are accessing Facebook through their iPhones, Android gadgets and tablet computers. Yet Facebook is only now starting to figure out how to make money from its mobile audience.

“The company is going through an almost painful transition from desktop to mobile,” Baird analyst Colin Sebastian says.

He calls Facebook “a speculative investment,” but one with plenty of potential.

“With almost one billion users, Facebook is amassing the most comprehensive user profile database in existence,” Sebastian says. This, he adds, offers a “significant opportunity” to reap a big chunk of the global advertising market, which is currently at $500 billion a year.

“Amazon comes to mind immediately,” Bertelsen says.

After that company went public in 1997, at the time mainly just an online bookstore, critics were quick to cry dot-com bust, call its business a broken, and so on. Today, it is the world’s biggest online retailer, selling everything from DVDs to vacuum cleaners to Web storage.

“Now they are the retailer to the world,” he adds.

Amazon.com Inc.’s stock price grew to more than $200 a share, from less than $2.

Of course, Facebook has started out much higher, at $38.

Facebook’s first earnings report since its rocky initial public offering on May 18 was the second coming that didn’t quite materialize. So investors sent Facebook’s stock to its lowest level ever on Friday. Shares fell $3.14, or nearly 12 per cent, to close at $23.71 after hitting $22.28 in the morning.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 97.30 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 75.00 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.38 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.62 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.18 Cdn. National Railway . . 88.40 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 83.18 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 3.75 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 69.69 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.71 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.15 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 29.08 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 42.12 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.05 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.30 General Motors Co. . . . . 19.67 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 14.91 Research in Motion. . . . . . 7.41 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.93 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 27.85 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.83 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 15.58 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.85 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.01 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 67.28 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.65 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 32.15 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 10.05 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.87

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.30 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 53.88 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.52 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 15.99 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 32.49 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.08 First Quantum Minerals . 18.60 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 36.45 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.55 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 39.09 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.54 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 45.88 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.45 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.66 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 25.66 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 25.87 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.35 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.55 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 46.00 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 28.14 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.00 Canyon Services Group. 10.28 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.57 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.30 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.19 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.45 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 33.62 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.660

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.25 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.64 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.20 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.00 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.23 Penn West Energy . . . . . 13.62 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.93 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.01 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 7.38 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.89 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.71 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.57 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.80 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 47.21 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 58.31 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 52.02 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.34 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 26.46 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 24.39 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 21.84 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.28 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.49 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 10.80 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.75 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.900 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 51.73 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 21.40 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.48

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Stock markets surged Friday on further indications that a long-awaited fix to the eurozone debt crisis could be at hand.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 126.61 points to 11,766.36 and the TSX Venture Exchange climbed 9.22 points to 1,190.64 after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French

President Francois Hollande released a joint statement saying they will do anything they can to stop the 17 countries that use the euro from breaking up. They didn’t offer details.

Markets have rallied strongly since the European Central Bank president pledged Thursday to do whatever it takes to save the euro currency union.

Mario Draghi suggested that

the central bank could intervene in markets to lower the borrowing rates of financially weak countries like Spain.

“At the end of the day, the only institution that is critical to resolving the issue is the European Central Bank,” said Patrick Blais, managing director and portfolio manager at MFC Global Investment Management.

“They’re the only institution

with the capacity and the ability to at the end of the day to monetize part of the debt.”

The Canadian dollar rose 0.51 of a cent to 99.56 cents US amid rising prices for oil and metals.

New York markets were also sharply higher despite data showing economic growth slowed during the second quarter to its lowest pace in a year.

Gross domestic product rose 1.5 per cent, which was roughly in line with expectations. That’s down from a revised two per cent gain in the first quarter. But the data raised expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will indicate next week that another round of economic stimulus is in the works.

The Dow Jones industrials surged 187.73 points to 13,075.66.

The Nasdaq composite index was ahead 64.84 points to 2,958.09 and the S&P 500 index climbed 25.95 points to 1,385.97.

Stocks have been depressed in recent weeks as the focus of the European government debt crisis moved to Spain. Traders skeptical over the government’s ability to manage high debt levels have driven up bond yields past the seven per cent level, which is considered unsustainable in the long run.

Draghi suggested that the ECB considers it part of its job to keep government borrowing rates at normal levels. It could do so by buying government bonds, which has the effect of lowering their yield, or interest rate.

Hopes for central bank assistance in Europe and the U.S. helped push the TSX up 1.23 per cent this week.

Commodity prices advanced with September copper ahead three cents to US$3.43 a pound. The base metals sector led gains, up 2.5 per cent. First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) improved by 53 cents to $18.60.

The September crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange ahead 74 cents to US$90.13 a barrel, helping take the energy sector up 1.84

per cent. Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) moved ahead 87 cents to $43.64.

The financial sector rose 1.53 per cent with Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF) ahead 53 cents to $21.40.

Shares in insurance and investment giant Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (TSX:FFH) shed $2.01 to $377.99 after it said quarterly profit rose 14 per cent, largely due to improved underwriting results and a jump in revenues from premiums written by its insurance and reinsurance businesses.

Techs also lent support with shares in electronics manufacturer Celestica Inc. (TSX:CKS) ahead 53 cents or 7.17 per cent to $7.92 after it said quarterly net income fell 48 per cent as it prepares for the end of its relationship with Research In Motion Ltd., for which it had assembled BlackBerry phones. Revenue for the three months dropped five per cent to $1.74 billion, above expectations for $1.69 billion.

The gold sector turned positive while August gold gained $2.90 to US$1,618 an ounce.

Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) continued to lose ground after issuing a disappointing earnings report Thursday, down 55 cents to $32.49.

Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD) gained 58 cents to $11.10 after it reported quarterly net income of $46.6 million or seven cents share. That is down 38 per cent from a year ago. Revenues from gold sales for the quarter came in at $214.2 million, down 13 per cent from a year earlier. Eldorado also revised its 2012 production guidance downward.

Elsewhere on the earnings front, Facebook shares plunged 11.7 per cent to US$23.70 after the social networking site reported stronger-than-expected revenue and a gain in user numbers Thursday. But investors weren’t impressed with the fact that growth has slowed. Also, Facebook didn’t offer an outlook for the rest of the year.

Starbucks dropped 9.4 per cent to US$47.47 after the cof-

fee retailer reported Thursday that net income in its fiscal third quarter rose 19 per cent from a year ago. But analysts expected more, and were further disappointed when the company cut its outlook for the current quarter because of a recent slowdown in U.S. customer traffic and persisting challenges in hard-hit European regions.

In Canada, TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) posted secondquarter net income attributable to common shares of $272 million or 39 cents per share, down from $353 million or 50 cents per common shares in the same period last year. Revenue came in at $1.8 billion compared to $1.79 billion year over year.

TransCanada also said it has won final approval on three permits needed to build an oil pipeline to refineries on the Texas coast. Its shares edged five cents higher to $44.85.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov.’12 $6.40 higher $607.90; Jan ’13 $6.60 higher $610.20; March ’13 $6.80 higher $612.00; May ’13 $6.20 higher $604.40; July ’13 $4.80 higher $590.60; Nov. ’13 $9.20 higher $535.00; Jan. ’14 $9.20 higher $529.80; March ’14 $9.20 higher $529.80; May ’14 $9.20 higher $529.80; July ’14 $9.20 higher $529.80; Nov. ’14 $9.20 higher $529.80.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $257.00; Dec. ’12 unchanged $262.00; March ’13 unchanged $265.00; May ’13 unchanged $269.00; July ’13 unchanged $269.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $269.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $269.00; March ’14 unchanged $269.00; May ’14 unchanged $269.00; July ’14 unchanged $269.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $269.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 193,220 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 193,220.

Weak U.S. consumer spending slows growth

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — High unemployment isn’t going away — not as long as the economy grows as slowly as it did in the April-June quarter.

Weak consumer spending held growth to an annual rate of just 1.5 per cent, even less than the 2 per cent rate in the first quarter. And few expect the economy to accelerate in the second half of the year as Europe’s financial woes and a U.S. budget crisis restrain businesses and consumers.

The growth estimate Friday from the government suggested that the U.S. economy could be at risk of stalling three years after the recession ended. Economists generally say even 2 per cent annual growth would add only about 90,000 jobs a month. That’s too few to keep up with population growth and drive down the unemployment rate, which is stuck at 8.2

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ENERGY: Asked for cut after analysis of development Clark has said she decided to ask for an unspecified share of benefits from the Northern Gateway after doing analysis on the development, which will move bitumen from Alberta to the B.C. coast for shipment to Asia.

Her government has released five conditions she says need to be met before she can move forward with the pipeline. In addition to the demand for a greater portion of the economic benefits, they include the completion of an environmental review now underway, assurances that the “best” responses will be available for potential spills on land and at sea, and that aboriginal rights will be recognized.

Clark repeated her position that the province bears too much risk from oil spills at sea or on land, while receiving only eight per cent in tax benefits.

She added another wrinkle to the feud when she called on Ottawa on Wednesday to sit down with her and Redford to hash out the issue. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird responded bluntly by questioning Clark’s stance and reiterating the federal government’s support for the project.

Redford has flatly dismissed Clark’s position as one that would “fundamentally change Confederation” because it would mean new negotiations for projects throughout the country.

According to research in an application filed by Enbridge, 8.2 per cent of the Northern Gateway’s projected $81 billion tax revenue would flow to B.C. over a 30-year period. That equates to $6.7 billion for B.C., while Ottawa is expected to receive $36 billion

per cent. The figures came in the Commerce Department’s quarterly report on gross domestic product.

GDP measures the country’s total output of goods and services, from the purchase of a cup of coffee to the sale of fighter jets.

“The main takeaway from today’s report, the specifics aside, is that the U.S. economy is barely growing,” said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at BTIG LLC. “It’s no wonder the unemployment rate cannot move lower.”

Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, expects the unemployment rate to end this year — and next year — at 8.3 per cent. He said he foresees no decline in unemployment because of how tepid he thinks economic growth will remain: 2.2 per cent for all of 2012 and 2 per cent for 2013.

Stocks rose as investors shrugged off the sluggish U.S growth and focused instead on pledges from Eu-

ropean leaders to preserve the union of the 17 countries that use the euro. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up more than 187 points. Broader indexes also jumped.

The lacklustre economy is raising pressure on President Barack Obama in his re-election fight with Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But few think the Fed, the White House or Congress can or will do anything soon that might rejuvenate the economy quickly. Many lawmakers, for example, refuse to increase federal spending in light of historically large budget deficits.

No president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the depths of the Great Depression, has been re-elected when the unemployment rate exceeded 8 per cent.

Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were ousted when unemployment was well below 8 per cent.

and Alberta would earn $32 billion.

Saskatchewan is expected to top the remainder of the provinces in terms of tax benefit, receiving about $4 billion.

Enbridge’s proposed 1,177-kilometre twin line would carry heavy oil from Alberta across a vast swath of pristine B.C. wilderness and First Nations territory to a port at Kitimat, B.C., for shipment to Asia.

Last week, the company announced it will shore up $500 million in safety improvements.

Next year’s Council of the Federation meeting will be held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.

in the Canada-U.S. Beyond The Border initiative.

“The Beyond the Border Action Plan ... selected Prince Rupert for a pilot project for a Cargo Targeting Initiative, which will involve perimeter vetting and examination of inbound marine cargo at the port and destined for Chicago by rail.”

But Jacobson objected strenuously to any suggestion the commission was raising concerns about security at Prince Rupert. The study was simply making a factual statement by mentioning that Prince Rupert wasn’t a CSI port, he said.

“It did not question the security of Prince Rupert; it did not, full stop,” he said.

The report, to be delivered to Congress, divided the panel’s members down party lines. The two Republicans voted against its release, questioning its methodology and finding it too negative toward Canadian port authorities, and the three Democrats voted to sanction it.

Richard Lidinsky, the commission’s chairman, said in a news release that the report provides Congress with a wealth of information.

“This study provides facts U.S. policy makers can rely upon as they make the important choices affecting this country’s ability to compete in a global transportation marketplace,” he said.

PORT: Red herring Dye said the point was a silly one to raise, while a Canada-U.S. trade expert called it a potentially dangerous “red herring.”

“While the Container Security Initiative was begun in the fall of 2001, the Port of Prince Rupert did not begin operations until 2007,” Dye said in her statement. “Ports were selected for the Container Security Initiative according to greatest volume of cargo destined for the United States.”

Canadian port security practices are airD tight, she said, with all I U.S.-bound cargo arrivL ing in Canada screened B via radiation at the port, E and then screened again R when it crosses the borT der via Canadian railways.

Prince Rupert, Dye also noted, is a key player

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If you can’t be cool at the Olympics, try not to sweat it at home We’re Scottish (did we mention?) and, as such, have an innate inability to deal with rising temperatures. Back home, you see, we’re unaccustomed to thermostatic elevation beyond 15C. And that’s on a good day.

Guess it goes without saying that it’s significantly cooler (we mean significantly cooler) in Britain than it is in Canada. And we speak from firsthand — current — experience; as you read this we’ll have been in Britain since Thursday and we’ll remain here COLIN & for a three-week JUSTIN cool down. Pre-departure, a puddle jump was seldom more urgent; our wee Gallic frames simply weren’t designed to cope with a humidex hell of 40C plus.

Home to run at speed across the Olympic hospitality scene, we fully expect to grab party gold. But worry not; we haven’t forgotten our Canuck pals.

Even though we’re basking, sorry balking, in seasonal lows akin to Canadian springtime, we’ve got your back, as far as temperatures are concerned, across the ocean. Indeed to keep you cool we’ve collated a hit list of tweaks which — played properly — will ‘drop’ temps chez vous.

From cooling interior colour palettes to minor decorative adjustments, we’re on the case.

First up, who (without leaving home) fancies a spot of cottaging? Wouldn’t it be lovely to bring some rural buzz to your downtown apartment, your suburban semi or your urban townhouse? To embrace — in atmospheric terms at least — the seductive wind that’s so welcome at the end of balmy country days. Confused?

Well fret not, we can help; our breezy précis will help those temperatures drop.

So go on; dive into the cool. C&J style.

Fan tactic — Blades, darlings, are so last year. We suction dust with our trusty Dyson and now use the same brand to cool our condo. So how do they work? Well, Dyson fans use Air Multiplier technology, a system which draws in — and then ampliPhoto contributed fies — surrounding air.

You see, the Dyson bladeless fan works by . . . who cares how it works? It works! However you accomplish it, just Due to an absence of fast-spinning moving air through a room cools and freshens the space, without the need for air conditioning. blades, there’s no need for safety grilles and the resultant stream of smooth air cools our living room in a jiffy. We still generally means loads of junior activity around the Melissa Stripe panel (just $19.99), you needn’t worry haven’t figured out quite how the technology works about overspending. house. To fill time, organize summer arts and crafts but, suffice to say, we’re already considering the sisAn alternative would be to opt for blinds; stores projects using seashells, pine cones and other nater model, a fan heater, for our Scottish abode. such Home Depot stock an affordable range, or you ture-inspired finds. It’s all about conjuring up atmoFurniture — Darker items, aesthetically speaking, might like to invest in Hunter Douglas, one of our sphere and projects like this will help settle mood are perfect for fall and winter, but come on; don’t favourite suppliers. We use while bringing the you yearn for lighter, airier tones as summer rolls HD on most of our projects, family closer together. forward? While some peeps have the budget to start TO LIGHTEN YOUR INDOOR VIEW both on and off screen, and Switch up your coffrom scratch each time a new season dawns, we certheir quality is second to FOR SUMMER, WITHOUT INVESTING fee table library — OK, tainly don’t and we imagine many of you are in the none. so this category might same position.

IN A SECOND SET OF FURNITURE, Say it with flowers — sound a little bonkers To preserve funds, try removable jewel toned slipLOOK FOR LIGHT, OR BEJEWELLED Another cost-effective but, as you attempt to covers, decorative throws and pillows — these will route with which to estabmanage atmospheric ‘manage’ colour temperature — and jaunty ceramics SLIPCOVERS, OR JUST A FEW lish cooling impact is via temperature, every to tempt your wintry dining table out of hibernation.

DECORATIVE THROWS OR PILLOWS. little helps, right? freshly cut flowers and the If you prefer neutrals, experiment with white and foyer, kitchen, bedroom Here goes; it’s time khaki slipcovers; these can be embellished (no matand bathroom are perfect to shuffle your coffee ter what the season) with jazzy throw pillows for an locations to let your arttable books to suit the instant update. Just remember you don’t need to go istry gene run wild. season. overboard to effect change and that even a simple Bright blooms, plucked from the garden or even Pack away your wintry titles and display tomes white lace doily, tablecloth or runner will invite a your local supermarket (where standards have inthat show dreamy temperate gardens or decor books cool and airy feeling. creased in recent years) will impart a jaunty, sumdepicting beach homes or cottage escapes. PsychoSub out winter accessories — As the mercury mery feel. somatically you’ll be reminded of the season every climbs higher, consider stashing away earthy-hued And take a tip; don’t stress about expensive vases time you glance at your on table library. accessories which can appear ‘heavy’ at this time of — choose simple glass options and let Mother NaReflect on this — Mirrors add sparkle and exciteyear. We love to seasonally pepper our year-round ture’s bounty speak for itself. ment. In our own living room, for example, we used a schemes and indeed relish the annual prospect of Set the juice loose — One of our favourite summer embracing lighter colours. glass framed mirror (relocated from our study area) Stores, at this time of year, are bulging with prodstyling tricks is to fill large vases or mason jars with instead of the chunky wooden tray that, during colduct; from Pier 1 to Crate & Barrel and from Ikea to lemons and limes propped across dining-room tables er months, resides on our coffee table.

Pottery Barn, there’s a wonderful range of product or living room shelves. These arrangements look On the mirror we arranged driftwood, decorative from which to choose. best when composed in vessels of varying heights. balls and a gently flickering candle, all of which In an attempt to cool down our grey-toned condo, To optimize results, use only one type of fruit in serve to instantly lighten mood. we’ve used loads of yellow ceramics — but you could each jar so that its vivid colour makes a strong, conSo think on. As you fluster, maligning the fact it’s just as successfully try blue in its myriad guises. fident statement. Similarly, bowls bulging with juicy unseasonably warm, spare a thought for us, your pals Even a splash of cooling aqua will help emotionally oranges will help set a temptingly tangy tone. on the other side of the ocean. Over here we can only counteract soaring temperatures. Lighter colours Views — What better way to welcome summer dream of temperatures sufficiently warm enough to like lilac, delicate pink or pale green are also ideal than by embracing a breathtaking view? This in throw open our windows, turn up our blade-free Dyfor summer decoration. Lime (particularly charmind, max up furniture placement by positioning son and wallow in the free-flowing, circulatory air. treuse variants) is a great splash to play via ceramics chairs and sofas to take advantage of lake, pool or So don’t sweat it; it goes without saying that, with and artworks and a tone which works particularly garden views. the right approach to home design — and just a smatwell as freshening punctuation on grey or black furRemember that, for the most part, home enjoytering of seasonal adjustment — you, too, could have niture. ment is based upon your emotions; if throwing open a home that, in climatic terms, will be every bit as Curtains for you? — To seasonalize your window windows to hear nature makes you feel good, then cool as your perfectly executed decor. area, replace traditional curtains with diaphanous what are you waiting for? Conversely, if you don’t And that really would be a breath of fresh air. fabric panels. Drapery material tends to be heavy love the view from your window, orientate your furColin McAllister and Justin Ryan are the hosts of and dark, whereas sheers are much lighter and proniture accordingly and invest in a painting or a wall HGTV’s Colin & Justin’s Home Heist and the authors vide better flexibility in the summer months. decal that conjures up the essence of the great outof Colin & Justin’s Home Heist Style Guide, published Stores such as Bouclair purvey a stellar collecdoors.

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Building a reliably dry basement If you’re building a new home, major addition or renovation that involves foundation work, then there are three features required to make your basement reliably dry: a waterproof foundation wall; vertical drainage channels that allow water to move downwards; and horizontal drainage pathways that allow water to flow away from your building.

Many dry basements in Canada don’t have all or even any of these features in place, but why take chances?

You never really know for sure how a new basement will behave until it’s all done, but then it’s too late to create meaningful moisture control features. Multiple layers of safety makes sense, especially when it’s still easy to make them happen.

There’s no shortage of exterior foundation coatings that STEVE claim to keep basements dry, and it’s essential that someMAXWELL thing be applied to the outside of basement walls for the most reliably-dry operation.

Even solid masonry is remarkably porous stuff.

Blocks are especially vulnerable to leaks because they’re mostly hollow. Exterior tar brushed onto the outside is the minimum foundation coating required.

Vertical drainage membranes offer the most effective improvement in basement moisture control over the last 20 years, despite how unlikely they look.

These dimpled plastic sheets are secured to the outside of masonry foundation walls, leading from soil level at the top, all the way down to drainage pipes at the bottom of the foundation wall.

The idea is to keep soil pressure away from the wall surface, and this makes all the difference.

Without soil pressure, water is free to trickle downwards by gravity, without being driven horizontally through the masonry and into your basement.

Vertical drainage membranes are amazing.

Directing water away from the underground part of your foundation is the third ingredient required for building reliably dry basements, and it’s where things usually fall apart.

Perforated pipes (called “drainage tiles”) collect

water down near the footings, and direct it away to some lower area of land.

These pipes need to be nestled in clean, crushed stone, sloped downwards slightly and covered with landscape fabric to prevent silt from clogging the passages.

It pays to learn the details behind proper foundation drainage installations, then watch and make sure there are no short-cuts on your job.

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Strongly encouraged by a growing number of municipalities, the $100 price tag of a backwater valve is cheap insurance.

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The benefits of long-life fabrics Dear Debbie: We purchased coated wicker furniture for our patio eight years ago and it’s still going strong.

However, the cushions are falling apart and we need to replace them. They are larger than the standard size that you can purchase off the shelf. Suggestions? Thank you. — Karin Dear Karin: To locate a store that sells readymade replacement cushions in different sizes, it’s helpful to do a search, key words ‘outdoor furniture cushions’.

Or call a garden furniture retailer near you. They will DEBBIE be able to direct TRAVIS you back to the manufacturer, or some retailers carry more than one standard size. Another option is to make the cushions yourself, or have them made by an upholsterer.

This will give you the freedom of choosing fabrics that appeal to your personal style. There are many patterns and punchy colours available in all-weather fabrics now, which allows you to design your outdoor space with the same flexibility and finesse that you enjoy indoors. The beautiful Sunbrella fabrics that have been combined in the backyard shown here are Steeplechase Malibu (stripe), and Canvas Natural, Macaw, Hot Pink and Navy. Check out their website www. sunbrella.com, you’ll find just what you want. With custom-made cushions you can add piping, trims, buttons and fringes that enhance the quality of the overall look and feel of your sitting area.

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Dear Debbie : Our 10th floor condo has a long, narrow balcony that is our “summer garden” in the air. Flower pots are filled and we have set up a table and chairs and a lounge. The balcony floor is painted concrete. Do you have any suggestions for rugs or is that not appropriate for outside? Thanks for your great ideas year round. — Theresa Dear Theresa: Here’s a great place for a floorcloth, but there is one drawback to placing any covering over the concrete — rain and dampness will either soak in or creep under the carpet and ruin the surface of your balcony floor.

So, be aware that periodically you must roll up the carpet and allow the floor to dry thoroughly.

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Loud, non-stop talkers could be mentally ill

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New York: Sharon has a compulsive disorder. Maybe an intervention is necessary.

Cut a piece of duct tape about six inches long, and the next time you see her, place the tape over her mouth with a big smile and say, “Now maybe someone else can talk for a change.”

If she gets angry and decides to “unfriend” you, you haven’t lost much. She is too self-centered to be interested in you anyway. (Dear Readers: We don’t recommend this one. — Annie) Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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They became more so, dominating the conversations, veering back to familiar subjects, deflecting questions to familiar ground, rarely asking questions in conversation. To continue a friendship in these situations is difficult, but it’s easier if you understand the cause and limit the amount of time in each contact.

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Texas: There is a good Mental illnesses compossibility that Sharon is on monly start in young people in their diet pills or uppers. late teens or early 20s. However, peoMidwest: It would be better in the ple who are not severely afflicted can long run to tell Sharon the truth. She go undiagnosed for years, and Sharon should take Sharon’s hand, look diis described as having been talkative rectly into her eyes and say, “Do you and tangential for some time. The best realize that you do all of the talking thing “Speechless” can do is encour- and interrupt me constantly? age Sharon to see a doctor. She might I feel like you have no interest in start by asking Sharon whether she has me at all.” This is the kindest and bravbeen under stress or feeling anxious est thing to do (it’s called moral courlately. age), and it’s better not to indulge her People with mental illnesses often friend’s greed for attention. do not perceive that there is anything California: She might inquire whethwrong with them. er Sharon has increased her coffee If “Speechless” knows her friend’s intake. I have seen people order a doctor, informing him or her of her quadruple shot of espresso at a coffee observations would be very helpful. store and get unbelievably chatty. That Though a provider can never divulge was enough for me to switch to decaf. anything about a patient without conOhio: There is a possibility that Sha-

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REAL LIFE ADVENTURES

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THE ARGYLE SWEATER

IN THE BLEACHERS BETWEEN FRIENDS

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PARDON MY PLANET

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MY LIFE AS A GRUM

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Mon - Fri Fax: 403-341-4772

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announcements Engagements

Obituaries CARROLL A Graveside Service for Irene Eleanor will be held at the Bradshaw Cemetery Township 41-4, Range Road East 4-0 on August 4, 2012 at 1 pm. Lunch to follow at the Aurora Hall, Hwy. 761 North 415058. Please come and share this time with the family. Signs will be posted.

From , Merrrilyn George and Jacquie, and Brad & Ashlea.

Grandchildren, Adam, Christy, Brooklyn, (Emery), Randi, Presley, and Owen.

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You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Graduations

Clerical

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Dental

740

P/T DENTAL ASSISTANT

to join our team as soon as possible. Hours starting, 4 days per wk. with potential to increase.

Must be willing to assist with dentist as well as work in front reception.

Fax resume to 403-885-5764 or email: contact@blackfaldsdentistry.ca Start your career!

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Dental

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RDA II With reception experience.

In Lacombe Mon. - Thurs.

Fax resume to 403-782-6326

AURORA DENTAL GROUP Celebrate your life / Sylvan Lake Looking for F/T R.D.A. with a Classified LOOKING for live in F. for a growing practice.

ANNOUNCEMENT companion, 30-55 yrs. Re- Please email resume to: ply to Box 999, c/o R. D. sylvanlake@adental.ca WA N T E D R D A I I M o n . MISSING FROM KENTWOOD Advocate, 2950 Bremner Thurs. for General dental SINCE MAY 7.

Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 CELEBRATIONS practice in Rimbey. PreviAnswers to PUFF. HAPPEN EVERY DAY ous exp. preferred. Please Long haired, light orange/ WHITE M N/S, Non DrinkIN CLASSIFIEDS fax resume to 403-843-2607 beige and white. Any info e r, 4 2 , h a s v a r i e t y o f interests, seeks SF (any or sightings appreciated. race), must speak english, Please call 403-392-8135 Caregivers/ easy going for marriage, or 403-350-9953 no players please. Must Aides live in Red Deer or able to move. Reply to Box 997, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

McWILLIAM - WILSON Rod and Beverly McWilliam are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Elizabeth to Timothy Wilson son of Bill and Ellen Wilson of Wetaskiwin. Wedding to take place June 1, 2013 in Palm Springs, California.

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Bring your staff, case. 403-782-2770 personable Dec. 14 or Dec. 15.

F/T CLINICAL ASSISTANT Buffet, Stage show, 2 in Red Deer. Must be well Live Bands. Book early organized, detail oriented and save. Early bird price Found & able to multi-task. until Aug 31, $56.00 per Computer skills an asset. person. Order most of FOUND† -† HONDA KEY Send resume to Box 998, your tickets at the early c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 at Jarvis Bay Prov. Park bird price and add more Bremner Ave., Red Deer, in parking lot. seats to your group later AB T4R 1M9 Call 403-358-0502 as needed. Held at WestGILMAR Const. is seeking KEYS found on Spruce Dr. e r n e r P a r k R e d D e e r. a P/T receptionist with a More info call 1-888-856-9282 & 32 St. 403-342-1490 pleasant telephone Tired of Standing? manner, knowledge of Find something to sit on Microsoft Office & Simply in Classifieds Acct. Please hand deliver Lost resume.Call 403-343-1028 PRESCRIPTION glasses for directions. in black case at Westerner days, owner claim to identify , call 403-302-3935

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Personals MISSING: Please help me find Keera. She only weighs 2 lbs. & is a very tiny Tea-cup Yorkiere Terrier.

Missing from Bower area.

Please call Whitney at 403-358-0249

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wegot CLASSIFIEDS’ CIVIC HOLIDAY Hours & Deadlines OFFICE & PHONES CLOSED MON. AUGUST 6, 2012 Red Deer Advocate & Red Deer Life Publication dates: SAT. AUG. 4 SUN. AUG. 5 TUES. AUG. 7 Deadline is: Fri. August 3 at 5 p.m.

Central AB Life Publication date: MON. AUG. 6 Deadline; Wed. August 1 at 5 p.m.

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Rimbey Publication date; TUES. AUG. 7 Deadline is: Thurs. August 2 at NOON

A day we’ll never forget.

He had a nature you could not help loving

His memory will never grow old.

Now that you have a couple of weeks, before hiring begins again isn’t this a good time to re-certify so that you don’t find yourself in a tough spot this winter when are hot and heavy again. Now taking registrations for H2S Alive, the best prices around. Call 1-403-746-5349 for details I have room for 20 people at one time but it tends to fill fast.

Semi Annual Sale 30% to 70% off Shop early for best selection

We lost you four years ago today

Please give Brent our love too Who we lost Sept. 27, 1971.

We miss you both so much.

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CUMMERFORD, Jack Sept. 29, 1943 - July 28, 2008

And to those who knew hm & loved him

CLASSIFICATIONS Class Registrations

In Memoriam

And a heart that was pure gold.

WHAT’S HAPPENING 50-70

BLISH - McCORMICK Jeff and Pam Redmond and Hugh Blish, together with Gary and Linda McCormick are very happy to announce the engagement of Amanda Blish and Trevor McCormick.

Wedding to take place August 25, 2012 at the Innisfail United Church.

WRIGHT Norma 1939 - 2012 Norma Jeannette Wright was born on September 24, 1939 in Camrose, Alberta and passed away on July 26, 2012 in Camrose, Alberta at the age of 72 years. She will be lovingly remembered by her sons, Terry Wright and Kary (Terryll) Wright; her grandchildren, Tyler and Shania; her mother, Jeannette Holt; and her brother, Jim (Chloe) Holt all of Bashaw; her very special friend, Lloyd Greenough of Sylvan Lake; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was predeceased by her husband Al and her father Norman Holt. A Funeral Service will be held at the Bashaw Community Centre on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.

Interment will follow in the Bashaw Cemetery. Memorial donations are gratefully accepted to the Alberta Cancer Foundation.

To express condolences to Norma’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com Arrangements Entrusted To BASHAW FUNERAL HOME ~ A Wombold Family Funeral Home ~ 780.372.2353

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Catholic Social Services are offering a rewarding opportunity with the Approved Home Program serving an adult female with developmental disabilities. As an Approved Home proprietor you will provide ongoing training and daily structure in a positive supportive home environment.

Catholic Social Services provides the Community Outreach worker, who assists the individual with community activities during the week for 20 hours. Catholic Social Services also ensures one weekend Respite care out of your home.

The successful candidate will benefit from experience with OCD behaviors, creative approaches for elevating internal stressors as well as an appreciation for the arts.

The individual volunteers and is an active member of several community groups in Red Deer. The individual will pay Room & Board.

Part of the hiring process demands proof of a current Criminal Record check prior to starting the position.

Catholic Social Services will facilitate an orientation session to the Approved Home Program and on-going monthly training is offered as well.

The monthly remuneration for the successful candidate is $1176.00.

Interested applicants please contact Catholic Social Services @ 403-3478844 ext. 2917 253595G19-28

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ANDREW COLE Congratulations on receiving your diploma in Civil Engineering Technology from SAIT. We wish you success as you start your career in Edmonton. We are so proud of both of you.

Love, your family.

Publication date: WED. AUG. 8 FRI. AUG. 10 Deadline is: Fri. August 3 at NOON Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo Publication date: THUR. AUG. 9 Deadline is: Fri. August 3 at 5 p.m.

Bashaw Publication date: TUES.AUG. 7 Deadline is: Thur. August 2 at NOON Castor - Regular deadline Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

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Extendicare Michener Hill invites applications to the following positions: Occupational Therapist 0.6 fte temporary to September, 2013 Physical Therapist 0.7 fte permanent

Competitive salary and benefits provided - salary range $33.63 to $44.75 Speech Language Pathologist 0.4 fte permanent position

Competitive salary & benefit package provided - salary range $35.72 to $48.48 Full position details available at www.extendicare.com Interested candidates please apply with resume by: email to spriest@extendicare.com or fax to 403-348-5970

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

BUCHANAN Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary, July 29 Merv and Mary-May Love from your family

KATHERINE COLE Congratulations on receiving First Class Honors upon completion of your Bachelor of Science with Honors Degree in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Alberta. We wish you continued success as you begin your medical degree at McGill University, Montreal.

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143 ALLAN ST. Sat. & Sun. July 28 & 29, 9-5.

Household items plus more!

Sunnybrook COLLECTIBLES AND ANTIQUE SALE. Sat. July 28. noon-4.

33 SPENCER ST.

West Park

Downtown

10 am Electric wheelchair, household, sports cards, camping, tools, etc.

38 Wishart St.

Fairview - Upper YARD SALE 1 day only Sat. July 28, 9-5 14 Fairway Ave. (back yard)

800 Industrial & Oilfield Waste Management

DOWNSIZING 47 Anders St(back alley) Sat. July 28, 8-4. Home decor, crystal, roll a way cot, Workmate, antiques, much more

4402 55 ST. North doors.

Red Deer Armory.

WHISKER RESCUE GARAGE SALE, starts July 27, 10-8 July 28 & 29, 10-6 p.m.

Lots of baby items, toys, books, china, ornaments lots of everything.

Oilfield

THURS. FRI. & SAT

Out of Town HUGE MULTI FAMILY RAIN OR SHINE 1/2 MI South of Delburne Golf Course, Rng. Rd. 233 House #37264 Thurs. July 26 - Sun. July 29 9 am -6 pm all days.

Fibreglass steps, clocks, collectibles, household etc.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

BRANCH MANAGERS – NORTHERN ALBERTA AND BC (REF # 12-0149) Newalta is currently looking for Branch Managers for Northern Alberta and British Columbia.

Branch Managers are accountable for all aspects of branch operations, customer service and the delivery of branch results consistent with business unit plans. The ideal candidates will have knowledge of waste management along with eight years of experience. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership capabilities, as well as being solutions oriented and safety focused.

Find out more about this and other exciting opportunities under Careers at www.newalta.com. Please email your resumé to westerncareers@newalta.com stating the job reference number 12-0149, or fax to 403-806-7076.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Farm workers needed for harvest season. Experienced combine (case 8010), grain cart and class 1 semi drivers needed for harvest in south eastern alberta in the Foremost area. Room, board and meals included. Call Richard at 403-647-7391.

LOOKING FOR

FULL & PART TIME CHICKEN CATCHERS willing to work night/early morning shifts.

Immediate openings.

Full Benefits.

Contact Mike 403-848-1478

Janitorial

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2 P/T CLEANERS req’d.

Commercial cleaning.

403-318-7625 or leave msg. 403-600-4958 ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Starting wage $13/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

Oilfield

I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N Technician Job Description The successful candidate will be responsible for the manufacture, repair and calibration of electronic instrumentation.

Preference will be given to those with a Post secondary certification in Electronics Engineering or Instrumentation Strong computer skills Lonkar offers an immediate benefits package including a matching RRSP plan. Please submit your resume to: 8080 Edgar Industrial Drive Red Deer AB, T4P 3R3 Fax: 403-309-1644 Email: careers@lonkar. com

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Please submit resumes to hr@alstaroc.com or fax to 780 865 5829

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* Oilfield/Pipeline crew dispatch experience (an asset) * Ability to pay attention to Detail * Excellent Organizational and People Skills * Problem Solving Skills * Good Computer Skills with MS Office * Managerial Experience, will be an asset Must pass an in-house Drug and Alcohol Test.

IS looking to fill the following positions in the: HINTON AND FOX CREEK LOCATION * Oilfield Construction Supervisors * Oilfield Construction Lead Hands * Stainless and Carbon Welders * B-Pressure Welders * Pipefitters * Experienced Pipeline Equipment Operators * Experienced oilfield labourers * Industrial Painters * 7-30 tonne Picker Truck Operator with Class 1 H2S Alive ( Enform), St. John (Red Cross) standard first aid) & in-house drug and alcohol tests are required.

Please submit resume to hr@alstaroc.com or Fax to 780-865-5829 Quote job #61971 on resume

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PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D BONUS INCENTIVE PROGRAM, BENEFITS!!

Join Our Fast GrowinTeam!!

QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Kevin Becker by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email

Westcan Fabricating Ltd is a fast growing oil and gas fabricating company based out of Ponoka AB. The successful candidate will have: *2 years Post-Secondary Education in either Business/Oil & Gas Technology *Good Computer Skills with MS Office; *Detailed Orientated individual who can deal with multi-tasking and changing priorities and staff on a daily basis. *Experience working in fabricating oil and gas production equipment an asset.

Competitive wages with benefit packages available.

Interested candidates please send resume to admin@westcanfab.ca Of fax to 403-775-4014

NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR EXP. WINCH TRACTOR OPERATORS BED TRUCK OPERATORS JOURNEYMAN PICKER OPERATORS & MECHANICS FOR RED DEER AREA. Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 No phone calls please.

kbecker@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds PROJECT MANAGER with Oilsands Experience Req’d. Fax resume and ref’s to: 403-340-8686 QUINN PUMPS CANADA Ltd. Is looking for a Pump Technician in their Red Deer location. Apply within with resume 6788-65 Ave. Red Deer. No prior experience is necessary

SURE-TEST PRODUCTION SEPARATORS

is looking to hire General helpers, supervisors and assistants and Night operators.

Must have all tickets & driver’s licence required Must be prepared to work out of town for long periods of time.

Fax 403.347.9629 No phone calls please.

SWAMPERS

ROAD TRAIN OILFIELD TRANSPORT LTD

Oilfield

is looking for journeyman picker operator.Top wages and benefits. Safety tickets required. Fax or drop off resume 403-346-6128.

No phone calls.

for busy oilfield trucking company. Top wages Fax resume to: 403-346-6128, Attn: Pierre No phone calls please!

TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring exp’d snubbing operators and helpers.

Only those WITH experience need apply. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com or fax 403-844-2148

WANTED

EXPERIENCED SHOP HAND, self motivated, team player for coil tubing service center.

Physically demanding.

Varied, long hours. Must have own transportation.

Benefits after 3 months. email resume : service.rd@qtcanada.com

CLASS 3

VAC/steamer Truck driver Lacombe area, Fax resume to 403-782-0507 WATER & VAC DRIVER needed. All oilfield tickets req’d. Call 885-4373 or fax resume 403-885-4374

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RED DEER • EDMONTON • GRANDE PRAIRIE

Required Immediately

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Established and very busy Oilfield Trucking Company is now hiring for the following: CLASS 1 DRIVERS

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SWAMPERS Heavy Duty Journeyman Technician Journeyman Welder Wash Bay Attendant

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floorhands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350

Rig move/Oilfield Pipe Haul/Highway/Long Haul

Professionals

Program Coordinator - Disaster Management and Humanitarian Issues Plans, coordinates and organizes the delivery of Disaster Managemen t services and programs and assists in establishing new opportunities in the Red Deer and District area.

Participates in regional planning and development activities. Supports the development of youth engagement strategies as they relate to humanitarian issues.

If this is your perfect job and life choice, view all responsibilities and qualifications on our website at: http:// www.redcross.ca/article. asp?id=43770&tid=001

Canada’s largest home health care supplier has an exciting opportunity for a

SERVICE COORDINATOR

Plans organize coordinate the sales and repairs of equipment.

Knows the importance of offering Superior customer service.

Service technician experience is an asset.

Computer literacy.

Excellent time management skills.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Establish relationships and be liaison with funding agencies.

Send resumes by fax to 403-342-4516 Attn: Robert or email: Rhogan@ Shoppershomehealthcare .ca

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANT $11/hr. 6 positions, SUPERVISORS $13/hr. 5 positions Apply at 6620 Orr Drive.

Fax: 403-782-9685 Call 403-341-3561 or apply in person COME JOIN OUR TEAM DBA Menchies Frozen Yogurt Restaurant - Red Deer AB Food & Beverage Servers - Full Time. 2 locations.

DUTIES: Serve food & beverages, general plate services, handle customer complaints, clear and clean tables, present bills and accept payment, describe menu items and advise on menu selections, food counter prep, replenish condiments.

QUALIFICATIONS: Customer service an asset.

Job knowledge & communication. Food sanitation, WHIMIS & First Aid are an asset.

WAGES: $10-10.25/hr Fax resume to Deon Beaupre 403-309-4418 Mail resume to Box 28038, Red Deer, AB T4P 1K4 F/T & P/T COOK, prep cook , and SERVERS Sylvan Lake. 403-396-5031 RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s. F/T MAINTENANCE PERSON... Experience preferred. Pool operation an asset.

On call rotation. Bonuses, Drop off resume to 6853 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR P/T

For the position of CLASS 1 Drivers, consideration will only be given to those with some experience.

Call HR Dept: 780-467-9897 • Fax: 780-463-3346 jobs@vdmtrucking.com

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PACIFIC VALVE SERVICES Red Deer is hiring for SHOP LABORERS & FULL TIME DRIVER to start immediately.

Must be able to work evenings, weekends and overtime. Driver’s Abstract and license required.

We offer competitive wage, bonus program and excellent Benefits.

Please apply by fax to (403) 346-8847, or email: rflageol@pacificvalve.com.

Only those being considered will be contacted.

No phone calls please.

Professionals

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MANAGEMENT Trainee Required

Please submit resumes to hr@alstaroc.com or fax to 780 865 5829

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The successful candidate will have:

email: curtis@ironhorsedrilling.ca.ca

FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Shop & Yard Laborers. $16/hr. to start Apply w/resume to: 4115 39139 HWY 2A (Blindman Industrial Park)

Oilfield

FLEET MANAGER

LEADING facility services company is seeking hard working, safety conscious cleaners for janitorial team.

F/T work. Fax resume to 403-314-7504

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COCKTAIL PERSON ALSTAR is a long standing and quickly growing Gas & Oilfield Construction Company and is looking to fill the following position:

Human Resources Coordinator

Successful candidate will be required to relocate to Hinton, Alberta For complete Job Description & Application Form, please go to our website www.alstaroilfield.com Please Quote Job #61972 Start your career!

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PREMIER SPA BOUTIQUE is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor for our Parkland Mall location, Red Deer. $17.40/hr.

Email resume: premierjobrd1@gmail.com Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Franchise Available for Location on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, A.B. This location includes the completely redeveloped Smitty’s Restaurant, Lounge, Convenience Store, New Husky Gas Bar and Car Wash.

Further Smitty’s Franchise rights to the city of Red Deer are also negotiable.

For more information, contact Scott Amberson SMITTY’S CANADA LIMITED #600 – 501, 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 (403) 229-3838 Fax (403) 229-3899 Email: samberson@smittys.ca www.smittys.ca Canada’s Largest Full Service Family Restaurant Chain - Since 1960

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15 INDUSTRIAL maintenance painters, F/T year round work $17-$21/per hr. min. 3 yrs exp. with sandblasting and spray painting. Duties: sandblasting, sanding, painting, coating and hydoblasting. Apply at Hall Industrial Contracting, BURBANK INDUSTRIAL PARK, Site 9, Box 147, Blackfalds, AB or email: wayne@ hallindustrialcontracting. com or fax 403-885-8886 ABEL CORPORATION is looking for candidates for the following positions:

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Woodworking machine operators $17.00- $21.50 hourly - 40 hrs. per wk.

Furniture manufacturing labourers $13.95 - $17. hourly - 40 hrs. per wk.

Cabinetmakers $18.50$22.50 hourly - $40.00 hrs. per wk.

Send resumes to Box 5324 Lacombe, Alberta T4L 1X1; apply by email at Abel.Corporation@ canadaemail.net or by fax to (403) 782-2729

CALIBER PAINT & BODY INC.

We are looking for a DETAILER/CLEAN UP PERSON We offer a good working environment & benefits.

Please apply with-in at 6424 Golden West Ave. or email resume to: caliberpaint@telus.net CARPENTER’S Helpers needed. D.L. & trans req’’d. Start wage 17.00/hr.

Bring resume to GILMAR Const. Call 403-343-1028 for directions.

Central Alberta Fabrication Facility Now Hiring!

We require a crew leader with strong leadership skills, attention to detail, strong work ethic and a firm commitment to safety to lead a crew erecting self-framing and foam panel buildings and insulating

oilfield equipment.

Also require a knowledgeable crew to perform the work mentioned above.

3 POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR MANUFACTURING SHOP TECHNICIANS. Duties to include fabrication prep, hydro-testing, general shop maintenance, operation of new product line manufacturing equipment, such as tube mill, corrugating equipment and other hose manufacturing equipment. and occasional on-site work with our mobile hydro-testing trailer unit.

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PRESSURE WELDER Duties to include fabrication of A.R. Thomson specialized Stainless Steel Hose Product Line and will include successfully obtaining certification on product welding procedures. Preference will be given to candidates with TIG welding experience.

Sales & Distributors

Preference to registered Apprentices For interview phone Brent or Brian @ 403-309-8301 Fax or email resume to 403-309-8302 or info@ComfortecHeating.com

FRAMER req’d. 2-3 yrs. residential exp. own vehicle a must. 403-350-5103

FLOORING INSTALLER Req’d immediately, exp’d flooring installer (carpet, tile, lino, hardwood, etc.), for very busy Central Alberta flooring company. Must be neat, clean, professional, friendly and works well with others or alone.

Driver’s license req’d.

Excellent wages, benefits & great working environment. Please fax resume to 403-309-3000 or drop off at 9-7619 50 Ave Red Deer

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JOURNEYMAN H.D. mechanic based out of our red deer location.

Successful applicant will be required to pass mandatory drug screening.

Fax resume with current driver abstract 403-346-6721

LOOKING FOR A CAREER? KAL TIRE

has an opening for a JOURNEYMAN LIGHT DUTY MECHANIC Preference will be given to those w/alignment exp.

Great pay, profit share and full benefits.

Bring your resume to: 5139 - 50 Street, Innisfail LOOKING for apprentice or jouneyman mechanic.

Pipe bending skills would be a great asset. Wages depend on exp. Going concern shop, Fax resume to: 403-346-9909 or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. Phone 403-346-7911 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Machinist

Journeyman or apprentice for General Repair/ Manufacturing shop. CNC & Welding experience an asset. Competitive wages and benefit package avail.

Email resume to: deansmachineinc@ gmail.com or fax to 403-742-8833

NEXUS ENGINEERING, an oilfield based company, is currently looking for a

Shipper/ Receiver/ Material Handler

HD MECHANIC. Journeymen/3rd Year Apprentices. Exp - Oilfield Trucks/Trailers.

Great Pay, Benefits!

Fax Resume: 780-826-4152. hrdept@breckels.com Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

JOIN OUR TEAM!

JOIN THE BLUE GRASS TEAM!

BLUE GRASS SOD FARMS LTD is seeking 2nd. or 3rd. yr. heavy duty mechanic apprentice with experience in agriculture equipment and trucks. bluesod@xplornet.com or fax to 403-342-7488

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Inside Sales Representative/ Estimator

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Required Exp’d Fabricator For a Ponoka Manufacturing Shop.

Machinists Needed Immed.

Knowledge of ASME code bolt up, basic instrumentation and a commitment to excellence are prerequisites.

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TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

Competitive wages with benefit packages available.

Residential exp. only and Welders with CNC Competitive wages and manual experience.

Interested candidates & benefits.

Pace is a well-established, please send resume to Fax resume to: long standing business in admin@westcanfab.ca 403-314-5599 Red Deer. Our company Of fax to 403-775-4014 is focused on providing the highest of quality to all our WELDERS customers. We are We are expanding and presently looking for selflooking for Apprentice & motivated, goal-oriented Journeyman Welders to individuals, willing to learn, work with us. We specialize possessing high in Repair and Maintestandards, looking for longSIDING INSTALLER nance as well as custom term employment and with or without trailer & fabrication of shacks & would like the opportunity tools. F.T. year round components. We have a to join our team. Please work, must have truck and variety of jobs coming drop off your resume, in 2 yrs. exp. .85 cents per through our door on a daily person, Or mail to sq.ft. 403-358-8580 basis. The ideal candidate Pace Manufacturing at would have some 6820-52 Ave., Red Deer, mechanical ability and a AB, T4N 4L1 desire to learn. Please E-mail: pace@telus.net send your resume & or Fax to: 403-340-2985 references by email to PIKE WHEATON CHEVinfo@absolutefusion.ca or ROLET IS CURRENTLY fax your resume to accepting resumes for 403-309-7134. No Phone SERVICE ADVISIOR Tornado Hydrovacs, a Calls Please POSITION. division of Petrofield Must have good communiIndustries is accepting cation skills and have the Looking for a place resumes for: Assembly ability to work indepento live?

Department: Industrial dently or with a group..

Take a tour through the Painters, Electrical Excellent company benefits.

CLASSIFIEDS Technicians; Welders Please submit resume in (Journeyman or person along with wage Apprentice); and expectations to Joey.

Labourers. Our Company Truckers/ has an enthusiastic, fast Drivers paced working environment with advancement for motivated individuals, and an excellent benefit package. Please forward REBEL METAL resume to hr@ FABRICATORS petrofield.com or Fax 403 742-1905 DRAFTSPERSON Immediate Opportunity.

V C P PA I N T I N G r e q ’ s This position is responsible painters & workers with for ABSA drawings and shop layout drawings for acrylic stucco exp. Call 403-340-9486 between 8 truck mounted vacuum systems using Autodesk a m - 4 p m . o r f a x Central AB based trucking 403--342-4985 or email Inventor. Production company reqires vcppainting@xplornet.com Bonuses Comp.

OWNER OPERATORS wages & benefits.

WANTED honest reliable, in AB. Home the odd Long term employment person/persons to rebuild night. Weekends off. Late Please email resume to a deck, in Sylvan Lake, model tractor pref. hr@rebelvac.ca contact Wendy or George 403-586-4558 or fax to: 403-314-2249 403-887-2113 STRONG Insulation Inc. Looking for exp. residential insulators w/drivers licence Trades (Batt And Poly, Blow-in).

Call 403-848-2402 STUCCO LABOURERS needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. Call 403-588-5306

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APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER Family owned & operated, Trail Appliances continues to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our delivery department. Trail offers excellent training and a competitive compensation and benefit plan.

We are currently looking for an experienced Delivery Driver to work out of our Red Deer Warehouse.

The ideal candidate will: * be able to maneuver merchandise in excess of 100 lbs * possess exceptional customer service skills * enjoy working within a diverse team * hold a valid driver’s license and a clear drivers abstract Launch your career with a well known and respected company. Become a part o f t h e s u c c e s s f u l Tr a i l team by applying in person to: Colin Parsons in person at #6 4622 61 Street in the Riverside Industrial District, Red Deer. Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class 1 drivers to pull decks.

Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated.

Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm Busy Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

Req’d in Sylvan Lake Immediately.

Phone 1-877-463-9664 or email resume to info@

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Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Millwright position.

The position includes maintenance inspections, lubes, PM’s and repairs to all types of equipment in order to maintain the safe operation and fulfill production requirements of Rahr Malting.

The position is rated under the Heavy Job classification.

Applicants must have a valid trade certificate for work in Alberta.

This position will work in coordination with the Operations group and is accountable to the Maintenance Supervisor.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

Application Closing Date: August 3rd, 2012.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta,T0C 0B0 Fax: (403) 747-2660 No Phone Calls Please

CLASS 1 and 3 drivers req’d for road construction.

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We would like to hear from you. Please forward your resume to jobs@abetterpanel.com

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* Must be computer proficient * Multi task oriented and Valid Driver’s Licence organized preferred. Fax or email * General shipping/ info@goodmenroofing.ca receiving duties or (403)341-6722 * Inventory control NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! experience an asset GROWING after market Company paid benefit plan diesel and suspension and RRSP. Please send shop, for 3/4 ton / 1 ton resumes to: resume@ trucks, looking for 1st. or nexusengineering.ca 2nd yr mechanics.

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Independent Paint & Body is currently accepting resumes for experienced autobody technicians and refinishers. Apply with resume to 7453 - 50 ave Red Deer, AB or email resume to indy2000@telus.net.

We are looking to hire: • Sales Associates – Part Time For our Penningtons store in RED DEER, AB We offer competitive compensation, an outstanding clothing discount, a motivating team environment, and job opportunities that ¿t your lifestyle.

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FLOORING ESTIMATOR Very busy flooring company is currently seeking a professional & experienced estimator.

Duties include flooring inspection, measuring, reading blueprints & quoting. Requirements: Minimum of 2 yrs. experience, driver license, friendly and professional attitude. Wages based on experience, benefits avail.

403-309-3000 or drop off at 9-7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

FRAMERS NEEDED. Some experience req’d and must have own transportaDrug / Alcohol screening and a background check tion. Apprentices welcome.

Call 403-588-7066 will be required.

Hours of work are Monday - Friday, 7:30am to 4:00pm (with sporadic overtime available) Excellent benefits package and RRSP plan are also Furix Energy Inc. is hiring F/T B-Pressure Welder available.

The successful candidate Please Email Resumes to: must have vessel lay out and piping experience.

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Must have valid AB Bcom Pressure license.

Fax Resumes to: We will pay a starting 403-341-4243 wage of $45.00/hour with EXPERIENCED full benefit packages.

SHEET METAL If interested please call Mike 403-391-2689 or INSTALLERS email: kayla@furixenergy.com Req’d for Residential

We offer Permanent fulltime positions with Steady Explosive Solutions Work, Multiple shifts and Specialists overtime available. is seeking We provide a safety first EXPERIENCED work environment, STRUCTURAL competitive wages, overWELDERS time bonus, health CWB tickets an asset, benefits, fully supplied competitive wages & benefits. tools, room for advance- Please submit applications ment and a mentorship by fax to 403-347-4516 program. or email esshiring@gmail.com Please forward resumes to F/T PAINTERS REQ’D centralalbertacareers@ Painting exp. necessary. gmail.com Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, DSM INC. self motivated & reliable. looking for laborers, Recognized as a top safety in the Innisfail area. award winning company.

Salary is $14.30/hr. Fax Phone 403-596-1829 resume to: 403-314-0676.

EXP’D SIDER , must have truck and tools.

Call 403-347-2522

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Riverside Energy Services Ltd,Ltd. a leader in the oilďŹ eld looking industry, Riverside Energy Services is growing and is looking for motivated, hard working people to join their people to join their team. for motivated, hard working team.

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Strong communications skills and customer service is a must.

Newalta has much to offer including great beneďŹ ts and room for you to grow with the company. Find out more at www.newalta.com and email your resumĂŠ to: westerncareers@newalta.com stating the job reference number 12-0146.

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

Due to continued growth we are currently seeking:

FULL TIME PERMANENT JOURNEYMAN REFRIGERATION MECHANICS OPPORTUNITIES FOR:

4 Day/40 Hour Work Week Petrochemical Facility in the Red Deer Area

SAVANNA OFFERS EMPLOYEES

The ideal candidate will require the following for this position: • Specific experience in preventative maintenance and building checks • Work experience on advanced controls; electric, pneumatic, DDS systems • Compressor and heat pump change outs • Well organized with good time management skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Computer literate

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Human Resources Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

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ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED EXPERIENCED

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net

Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life In GLENDALE Goodall Ave & Grimson St. Gunn St. & Goodacre Cl. PINES Pearson Crsc.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

FOR recycling company in Central Alberta. Must be able to work independently and enjoy sales. Class 3 license needed. Call 403-635-4123 or fax 403-329-1585 or email tdtren@telus.net LOCAL ACID Transport company looking for expd’ F/T Class 1 truck driver.

Top wages and exc. benefit pkg., Fax resume and driver’s abstract to 403-346-3766

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ROUTE AVAIL.

51 Street & 43 Ave. area ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

TOW TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

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ADULT UPGRADING

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available! * GED Preparation * Trades Entrance Exam Preparation * Women in the Trades

Academic Express

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For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in LANCASTER Lampard Crsc. area & Lord Close area.

RED DEER BASED Oilfield Hauling Company requires exp. Picker Operators with Class 1 license and picker ticket. Top wages paid to the right people.

P/T position also avail.

Please fax resume with current abstract and oilfield related tickets to: 403-309-7409. or email to apioffice@platinum.ca

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in EASTVIEW 82 Advocate $430/month $5165/year

Career Opportunity

MOUNTVIEW 71 Advocate $372/month $4473/year GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life twice weekly in

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Stettler Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details

314-4307 Blue Grass Sod Farms is looking for Yard personnel Seasonal full time. Must have a class 5 license.

Please send all resume’s attn. Nursery Dept. Fax 403-342-7488, Email nursery.man@bg-rd.com

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Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes INGLEWOOD AREA ANDERS AREA VANIER AREA LANCASTER AREA FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA: Anders Close Ackerman Crsc.

Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close INGLEWOOD AREA: Imbeau Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Enseco is currently hiring for the following full-time Production Testing position based in Red Deer, Alberta.

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TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

$18.36/hr. + bonuses. Red Deer distribution company beginning 2nd. successful year of growth in the Red Deer area. We are currently seeking energetic individuals looking to get ahead. Positons include: Water quality advisers, customer service and general labor. P/T & F/T positions avail. Rapid advancement avail. Please call Sat. Mon. & Tues.

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WEST LAKE 77 Advocate $404/month $4851/year

Team members enjoy industry leading compensation packages including competitive wages and a fully comprehensive health benefits plan.

Energy Services

F/T Customer Service Representative. Must be avail. weekdays and Sat’s. Some outside work req’d. Computer skills an asset. Fax resume to 403-347-0788

CHIEF RETURNING OFFICER

STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION OF RDC Are you a highly motivated individual with an interest in marketing?

Are you organized and able to work with a large group of people?

Duties include: overseeing the Fall & Winter elections; ensuring the election process follows the bylaws & polices of the Association; ensuring candidates follow guidelines set out; developing promotional materials to encourage high voter turnout.

This position is a paid temporary position.

Open to anyone in the community, including students and faculty.

Apply by Aug 15 to Brandy Newman, VP Operations: brandy.newman@rdc.ab.ca

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F/T or P/T Seamstress needed for busy alteration shop ASAP. Must have sewing exp. Please drop off resume to Gloria’s Alterations in Bower Mall.

F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 2 positions $14.90/hr.

F/T Food Service Supervisor 1 position $13.00/hr.

F/T Food counter attendants 2 positions $10.70/hr.

1105903 AB Ltd. o/a Eckville Gas & Snacks, 5008 - 48 St. Eckville, AB T0M 0X0 F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 1 position $14.90/hr.

F/T Food Service Supervisor 1 position $13.20/hr.

F/T Food counter attendant 2 positions $11.50/hr 1105903 AB LTD. o/a Alhambra corner Hwy.11 R R 54 AB TOM OCO F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 1 position $14.90/hr.

F/T food service supervisor, 1 position $13.20/hr.

F/T food counter attendants 2 positions $11.50/hr 1373883 AB Ltd. o/a Caroline Gas & Snacks. #1 4903 50 Ave. Caroline AB T0M 0M0 Please send resumes by e-mail, mail, fax or in person Fax: 403-746-3229 shinbukap@hanmail.net or mail to Box 506 Eckville T0M 0X0 until July 31, 2012

F/T YARD LABORER * Great customer service * Must have a valid driver’s license * Clean drivers abstract * Ability to work unsupervised * Ability to work with others * Lumber experience an asset but not a requirement * Physically demanding * High pace * Must be able to work weekends Please forward resumes Attention Manager to fax # 403-887-3625 Or email to: resumes@ lakesiderona.com Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Interior Designer

Very busy Red Deer Flooring Company is seeking Interior designer (male or female). Must have an eye for design and professional attitude.

Commercial & Residential Estimating: Floor & Wall Tile, Hardwood, Laminate and Carpet. Wages are negotiable based on experience & benefits avail. Fax 403-309-3000 LOCAL GOLF COURSE requires Full Time grounds personnel. Fax resume to 403-343-3886 or email par@reddeergolf.com

LE

BEN’ S

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.com SYNIK Clothing, Gas. Alley. P/T - F/T Apply within

Employment Training

900

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

oers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , ConďŹ ned Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we oer on a regular basis.

As well, we oer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

SAFETY

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1530

Auctions

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

EquipmentHeavy

1650

Farmers' Market

ALBERTA Spring lamb, cut and wrapped by the piece, 1/2 or whole carcass.

Come see our 100 mile radius store. Brown Eggs and Lamb 403-782-4095 BISON meat cut & wrapped, no medicine or growth hormones 340-9111 or 342-0891 after 6 EAST Hill SASKATOONS OPENING Fri. July 27, 3 kms. East of 30th Ave. on Hwy. 11 Open Sat. - Sun. 9-5, Mon. - Fri. Noon-8 . 4L, $10 U-pick 403-342-6213 or 392-6025 RASPBERRIES ready, U-pick open www.staniforthfarm.com Phone 403-746-3681

1660

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost� Quality Training

Firewood

403.341.4544 RAVEN TRUCK ACCESSORIES Has an opening for an INSTALLER POSITION, must be self-motivated, have strong leadership skills & be mechanically inclined.

Fax 343-8864 or apply in person with resume to 4961-78th Street, Red Deer RENTAL STORE looking for tent laborers. Seasonal full-time. Apply within 5929-48 Ave. or sales@ parklandrentals.com

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS, Exp’d. Drivers & Swampers required.

MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

TRAINING CENTRE

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

AFFORDABLE

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

Homestead Firewood

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

FIREWOOD. All Types.

P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 birchfirewoodsales.com

(across from Totem)

920

Career Planning

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

FREE

for all Albertans

Employment Training

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

1680

Garden Supplies

LANDSCAPING mulch, $10.00 yard. Phone 403-346-3800 weekdays or 403-343-6182 eves. & wknds.

1690

Lawn Tractors

2003 20 H.P Craftsman riding mower. 42� cut. Exc. cond. Used very little. $1200 obo. 403-887-3372

900

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call ClassiďŹ eds 403-309-3300 classiďŹ eds@reddeeradvocate.com

Cleaning

1010

1070

Complete Janitorial

www.performancemaint.ca 403-358-9256

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

Maintenance Person

Req’d. F/T employment.

Carpentry or flooring installation exp. is an asset (carpet, tile, lino & hardwood) but not necessary.

Must be neat, clean, professional, friendly, works well with others or alone.

Drivers License req’d.

Exc. wages, benefits & great working environment.

Please fax rĂŠsumĂŠ to 403-309-3000 or drop off at 9-7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

Our driveline division requires a Shop Labourer with an interest in pursuing an apprenticeship in the machining trade. A positive attitude and willingness to learn is all you need as training will be provided. Interested candidates please submit resume to careers@tgcgjobs.com or fax toll free to: 1(888)452-9910

• This is a career position. • Salary based on experience and ability. • Profit sharing and company benefits.

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

- Concrete Batch Plant Operator - Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers - Steel Reinforcement Labourers - Overhead Crane Operators - General Labourers

Are you an energetic person with great people skills?

We need a strong team player who can work independently,and has reliable transportation. We offer training, wage, plus bonus and benefits after 3 months.

Fast paced Property Management firm is looking for the right people to show suites, do inspections and more!†If you are looking for flexible hours, have common sense and are a quick learner, this position might be for you.

Email: info@hpman.ca

wegot

stuff

Shop Labourer

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Accounting

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

LEASING TEAM

880

Misc.

Help

SERVICE WRITER

UNC

F/T DISPATCHER, day shift, Mon. - Fri. Please send resume to fax # 403-346-0295

is expanding its facility to double production.

880

880

Misc.

Help

Needs a Drivers licence, some heavy & light lifting, friendly, personnel.

Monday-Friday, with some Saturdays, exc. wages & benefits.

Fax to: 403-309-3000.

Drop off: #9 - 7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

880

Misc.

Help

246823F8-G31

Misc.

Help

217865

860

254944G28-H3

Truckers/ Drivers

QUALITY CLEANING 403-755-7570

Contractors

1100

Black Cat Concrete

Sidewalks, driveways, garages, patios, bsmts. RV pads. Dean 403-505-2542 BLACK PEARL CONCRETE Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

CONCRETE! CONCRETE! CONCRETE!

Stamp finish, exposed finish, basements, garages, patio pads, driveways & sidewalks. etc.

Anything concrete, call Mark 403-597-0095 COR CONSTRUCTION ~Garages ~Decks ~ Fencing ~ Reno’s.

35 years exp. 403-598-5390

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT Busty Babe w/My Own Car! EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 HOT SUPER SEXY ESCORTS Largest variety in town 403-505-3738 avail. 24/7 ROXY 26 Hot Blonde 403-848-2300

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. We do fencing, decks, reno’s landscape and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured.

TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. Specializing in mobile home leveling and winterizing 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. 403-348-5650 Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling blue, under the weather? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

Moving & Storage

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

Yard Work / Reno / Tree / Junk Removal 403-396-4777

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for an honest reliable person to help on small renovations or jobs around your house? Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship, helping you/helping your family. Call 403-346-7777 Low Price Guarantee. www. helpinghandshomesupport.com

Yard Care IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

1300

1430

Tree Pruning,Topping and Removal by a Certified Arborist,Hedges too! call Randy at 403-350-0216 YARD maintenance, hedge trimming services Call Paul 587-679-0917

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, July 28, 2012 E5

1700

Health & Beauty

*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown! 587 377 - 1298 open 10am 6pm Monday - Friday!

Household Appliances

1830

Cats

Condos/ Townhouses

45 IRONSTONE

2 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY Aprx. 6 weeks old.

Great for farm or as pets.

403-343-0730

1710

SIAMESE kitten for sale.

Male. $100.

403-887-3649

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances Dogs 403-342-1042 STOVES AUSTRALIAN Shepherd 24” Frigidaire, new. pups, mini. & toy blue merles, 30” Kenmore. $250-$500. 1st shots, $100 each. 403-340-3309 de-wormed. 780-372-2387

1840

Household Furnishings

1720

1860

WANTED

Misc. for Sale

Piano & Organs

Travel Packages

1760

2 WINE BOTTLE RACKS One - 60 bottle & one - 24 bottle. $15 for both.

SMALL STORAGE CABINET $15. 403-347-1501 20; LADDER $50; desk w/swivel chair $75; rocking glider and stool $75 403-340-0675 8 fOOT wooden ladder.

Mint condition. $40.

(403) 342-7908 CANNING jars for sale, quarts $6.50 dozen; pints $6/dozen, misc jars free; 4 padded lawn chairs, $15/ea. 403-347-7658 DOUBLE HAMMOCK, not free standing, weather resistant quilted fabric, asking $60, 403-352-7795 FOR SALE: MOTO-SAT H.D. T.V. DISH (Shaw) for a Motorhome complete w/a G.P.S. & a Nomad programmer, used one year it is just like new.

Asking price is $2,000.

Call (403)347-6817, or e-mail lmwalkerb35543@yahoo.ca METAL WHEELBARROW $25, call 403-357-9664 QUEEN Ann chair $10; 2 house plants $10/ea. metal desk $50; office chair $20; Wearever ricer/juicer $40; barometer $15; thermometer $15; Pyrex coffee pot $10; Pyrex tea pot $10 403-346-7991 SENIOR DOWNSIZING Queen sheet set $6; small quilt, $15; Miracle foodchopper $6; elec. hand blender w/stand and container, $15; old platters, $12 & 15; old silver trim fruit bowl. $12; tupperware vegetable container, $5; green tupperware lettuce keeper $3; Kenmore toaster $4; old sauerkraut cutter, $6; steak knives 6 for $4; stainless steel heavy pot $12; heavy stainless steel frying pan $4; blankets, kid’s Christmas pattern $4; new compression socks, $8; old candy dish $4.50; blanket blue, $4; set of 54” dble sheet set $4; heavy cooking pot w/deepfrying basket $10; old vegetable serving bowl, $3.75; glass vegetable & dip dishes, silver tip, $9; super health cooking pot $12; gravy bowl w/tray $4; 403-346-2231

1900

ALIX, AB, just 30 min. East of Red Deer. 3 bdrm. condo by the lake, avail. now, 403-341-9974

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $1150 or $1175 along the river.

SD $1000. avail. Aug. 15 & Sept. 1 .

403-304-7576 347-7545

SPRINGBROOK

2 bdrm 1.5 baths w/6 appls. in 2 storey townhome. $1250. Tenant pays electricity ONLY. Sorry, no pets.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

WESTPARK

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1150 SD $1000 avail. AUG. 15. & SEPT. 1 403-304-7576 or 347-7545

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

Manufactured Homes

2140

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Lana 403-550-8777

WE BUY HORSES, broke, unbroke or unwanted. 403-783-0303

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

WILL do Custom Baling.

JD round net or string wrap.

342-0891 or 340-9111 after 6

rentals

Suites

CLASSIFICATIONS

3050

2 BR Bi-Level 4-plex avail Aug 1. Very clean.

Laminate/tile floors.4 appliances, balcony. $1200/mth includes utilities.403-638-8534

wegot

3060

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

1 BDRM. furn. bsmt. suite, single, working person, N/S. $850/mo. utils. incl.

403-341-6224

3020

CAMPBELL AVE. 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, 5 appls, Den. †HEARTHSTONE† 403-314-0099†

2 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, lrg. suite, Avail Sept. 1 $850/mo., S.D. $650.

Call 403-304-5337

GLENDALE 3 bdrm., good 2 BDRM., 2 bath rural cond. 4 appls., fenced property, 10 mi. S. of R.D. yard, no pets, n/s, $1200./mo. PLUS 1 bdrm, 403-318-0136 $750. mo. Both have utils. incld’d. Avail. Aug. 1.

WEST PARK home, Horses privileges avail. $1100./mo., 3 bdrms., fin.

403-396-9808 up & down. Avail. Aug. 1 **RENTED**

A Great Location

WEST PARK, 3 bdrms., 1 1/2 baths, $1000./mo. $500. s.d. Avail. immed. .....

RENTED!.......

Condos/ Townhouses

1790 1830

3/4 RAGDOLL Siamese kittens, 1M, 1F left, vaccinated, de-wormed, $300/ea. 403-340-1328

3060

Suites

Adult Bldg. 1 & 2 Bdrm.

Units Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899 BACHELOR SUITE, 5910 55 Ave. Riverside Meadows. No pets, no noise, no partying & over 40 yrs old. Rent $630, s.d. $650. 403-341-4627

3030

103 ADDINGTON DR. 2 bdrm. 1.5 bath. Avail.

Aug. 1 403-506-3233

BACHELOR SUITE. $725 + power.

Avail immed. 403-872-3400

112 METCALF AVE.

3 bdrm townhouse 2 baths & 5 appls. $1295 + utils.

Sorry no pets. Avail. Aug 2.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

LARGE 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

AVAIL. Aug. 1, 30 yr. old+ renters only. Clearview townhome, very clean, N/S no cats, small dogs considered. $1350. + utils.

403-391-7807

1 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852 ONE bdrm. apt. for rent, $725; 2 bdrm. $825, avail. end of July, 403-877-3323.

4020

* NEWLY BUILT 1/4 SECTION with mounLacombe, Fully developed tain view west of Sundre, $439,900. clear title. Contact * Great family home, fully 1-902-843-5141 or finished 5 bdrms., 3 baths, 902-986-8882 for more info dble. garage, Lacombe You Looking? $339,900.

Manufactured 1 & 2 bdrm. suites * Red Deer, walkout, pie Heat/water/parking incl’d. lot, Call Ann Craft Coldwell Homes Call 403-342-2899 Banker 403-343-3344 MUST SELL FAMILY HOME. One sized

By Owner $7,000.

Rooms garage, fully developed.

Lana 403-550-8777 Red Deer $314,900 For Rent Call Ann Craft @ Coldwell Banker 403-343-3344 1 BDRM. bsmt, own kitchen, Cottages/Resort preferred employed.

Mason Martin Homes has Property 403-342-7789 8 Brand New Homes 1 ROOM, $410, All utils starting at $179,900 STUNNING LAKEFRONT incl. Furnished, cable, Call for more info call HOME IN ALBERTA. internet. n/s, working, clean 403-342-4544 Visit: www. adult only. 587-331-9488 centralalbertalakefront.com MOUNTVIEW: avail now YUMA, AZ. furnished fully furn bdrms for rent.

2 bdrm. park model, Working M only. fenced lot, a/c, deck, shed Call 403-396-2468. $69,900. 403-343-1737 ROOMS FOR RENT, close to uptown. Employed Lots For person. Rent $400/mo, s.d. $250, 403-350-4712 Parkvale adult duplex Sale ROOMS Highland Green Prime location, quiet close, next to walking trails/marFULLY SERVICED fully furn., 6 appls, basic ket, 1208 sq. ft. bungalow, res & duplex lots in Lacombe. cable and utils. incld., open design, 2 bdrm, 2 Builders terms or owner bdrms. keyed, $500/mo., + bath, single garage, lg. pie will J.V. with investors or SD, working only. Avail. lot, immed. poss.$268,000, subtrades who wish to become immed. 403-342-4604 403-342-8937 after 6 Open home builders. Great House Sat. & Sun. July 28 returns. Call 403-588-8820 & 29 1-5, 4610-42 St. Cres

4090

3090

4130

3110

Offices

32ND Street 1050 sq. ft. retail space - end cap Great location for fast food.

Phone Gordon 403-350-7619 GAETZ Ave. North 2200 sq. ft. retail space Extremely busy location Phone Gordon 403-350-7619

3140

Warehouse Space

60 x 60 HEATED or nonheated shop + yard space 403-340-9111 or 403-342-0891 after 6pm.

BRAND new 9900 sq. ft. ready for lease fall 2012 on Golden West Ave 358-3500 RIVERSIDE DRIVE 4860 sq. ft. dock level warehouse Zoned Light Industrial Phone Gordon 403-350-7619

3150

Garage Space

60’ x 32’ heated, 2 doors 12’ x 12’ $1700/mo. Sylvan Lake area 780-434-0045

3190

Mobile Lot

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Lana 403-550-8777

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

FOR sale or rent, 4 bdrm R.D. 2.5 bath, 5 appls., garage. $1695/mo, or $350,000 obo Open House Aug. 3, 10-5. 5813-58A St. 403-782-7156 357-7465

HEALTH & FITNESS www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim

Lacombe Townhome, Iron Wolf Blvd.

Fully finished walk-out w/front att. garage.

A must see!, $240,000.

Fencing, all legal fees & GST included. Green built to gold specifications.

403-391-9294

4050

Acreages

2 CHOICE ACREAGES located in paved executive subdivision, Each one approx. 1 1/2 acres. Minutes N. or Lacombe on pavement. Close access to 5 golf courses. $110,000. ea. + G.S.T. 403-783-0303 ACREAGE, close to Rocky Mtn. House great value, $494,900 Ann Craft Coldwell Banker 403-343-3344 BARELAND 1/2 section west of Leduc, 1/4 mile off pavement.

Call Ann Craft Coldwell Banker 403-343-3344 BARELAND 10/5 acres, near Lacombe/Ponoka.

Call Ann Craft Coldwell Banker 403-343-3344

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

4020

Houses For Sale

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

3 LAKE FRONT PROPERTIES: 30 acres (2300 sqft home), $495,000. 37 acres $195,000. & 10 acres $175,000.

10 min from Ponoka.

Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door.

See welist.com #47984, #47993, #47994.

Call 403-519-6773 brettie@platinum.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

PET ADOPTION

A MUST SEE! Only

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIR

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

246653F6-G31

Renter’s Special 2 & 3 bedroom

wheels 5000-5300

5030

2007 CHEV 2500 HD 4x4 Crew, loaded, 198,000 km. $10,600.† 403-348-9746 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

1997 FORD F150 reg. cab, green, good cond 318-3040

5070

Vans Buses

2009 Corvette Auto Nav H/ Up display glass roof sport suspension $45,888 AS & I 7620 Gaetz Ave 348-8788

2006 HONDA Odyssey Touring FWD, ,DVD,nav. tri-zone air, lthr., $19,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2004 CHRYSLER 300 Special. 140,000 km.

Loaded w/options + more.

Must see. $9995.

403-783-3683 or 704-3252

Motorcycles

1997 NEON, 5 spd., 2 dr. clean, red, 403-352-6995

5080

28’, fully loaded, sleeps 9, rarely used, moved only twice, some extras incl.

Can be viewed 1/2 km east of Red Deer on Hwy 11 near Balmoral Golf Course. $13,000 obo Phone 403-391-2586 2004 HOLIDAIRE 25’ good cond., 403-358-5800

5160

14’ ALUMINUM BOAT with 9.9 Mercery Motor, 4 stroke. C.W trailer & canvas boat cover.

Best offer. 403-845-3299

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

CALL:

4290

5190

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

THURS. 5 P.M.

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

PUBLIC NOTICES

4080

Public Notices

1 WEEK IN THE RED DEER ADVOCATE & 1 Insertion In These Community Papers: BASHAW, CASTOR, CENTRAL AB LIFE PONOKA, RIMBEY,STETTLER, WEEKENDER, SYLVAN, ECKVILLE

*WEDNESDAY’S FASTTRACK PHOTO AD and

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

1 week on wegotads.ca

SHOPPING

only

Phone: 1-877-842-3288 or 403-348-1671 www.officestogo.ca

WEB DESIGN

2007 TIMBERLODGE

Auto Wreckers

PLUS

VACATIONS

5120

1995 PONTIAC Grand Prix 3.1 eng. in good cond. Body/ MINI trailer, custom made, tires good. Trans. needs good behind motorcycle repair $400. 403-346-3423 $4000 firm 403-845-3299 TOW brackets for 2003 Chev Malibu $200 obo 403-755-0785

/month

RENTALS

www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

Holiday Trailers

Boats & Marine

SW Red Deer

5100

“THE WHEEL DEAL”

OFFICE TRAILERS FOR SALE

www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

Motorhomes

2005 SUNVOYAGER 40’, 4 slide-outs, 1 owner, N/S, no pets, $84,800.

780-372-2079

CLASSIFICATIONS

Premium Package Grab it While it’s HOT

Starting at

2005 HARLEY Springer $13,888 348-8788 A S & I

5050

Trucks

wegot

FORMULA 1

www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

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E6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, July 28, 2012

Nations fail to strike deal on arm trade treaty Member states failed to reach agreement Friday on a new UN treaty to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade, and some diplomats and supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the monthlong negotiating conference.

Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some major loopholes by Friday’s deadline for action. But the U.S. announced Friday morning that it needed more time to consider the proposed treaty — and Russia and China then also asked for more time.

“This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the finish line,” said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA. “It’s a staggering abdication of leadership by the world’s largest exporter of conventional weapons to pull the plug on the talks just as they were

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Pakistan ambassador calls for end to drones strikes ASPEN, Colo. — Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States is calling for an end to CIA drone strikes ahead of an intelligence summit in Washington between the two countries expected next week.

In a frank debate Friday with White House war adviser Douglas Lute, Ambassador Sherry Rehman said the drone attacks succeeded in damaging al-Qaida but are now only serving to recruit new militants. The two were speaking to an audience at the Aspen Security Forum.

“I am not saying drones have not assisted in the war against terror, but they have diminishing rate of returns,” Rehman said, speaking by video teleconference from Washington.

“We will seek an end to drone strikes and there will be no compromise on that,” she added.

Pakistan’s spy chief, Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam, is expected to reiterate the demand in his first meeting with CIA Director David Petraeus, at CIA headquarters in Virginia, next week.

Lute would not comment on the drone program, but U.S. officials have said privately that the program will continue because Pakistan has proved incapable or unwilling to target militants the U.S. considers dangerous.

Three former Penn. State players criticize “flawed” Freeh report Franco Harris and two other former Penn State football players say the report about Penn State’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal “is highly flawed, and factually insufficient.”

Harris, Rudy Glocker and Christian Marrone sent to other Penn State alumni an email and letter criticizing the Freeh report that they plan publish in The Wall Street Journal and other large publications.

The email and letter were obtained

by The Associated Press on Friday.

The players claim there was a rush to judgment by the media, the board of trustees, university officials and the NCAA after the blistering report was released two weeks ago.

The report compiled by a team led by former FBI director Louis Freeh accuses school officials, including late coach Joe Paterno, of covering up the abuse to avoid bad publicity.

“A grave injustice has occurred over these past two weeks that began with the issuance of the Freeh report,” the email states. “After much review, it’s clear the report is highly flawed, and factually insufficient. Yet, the media, the Board of Trustees, University officials and the NCAA, seem to have read only the conclusions and not the content of the report and have failed to question the report’s evidentiary basis or lack thereof — they have rushed to judgment. As a result, OUR program has been brutally harmed and our Coach has been completely tarnished.”

The email asks those who support its claims to sign the letter and return it by Saturday.

nearing an historic breakthrough.”

A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, also blamed the U.S., saying “they derailed the process,” adding that nothing will happen to revive negotiations until after the U.S. presidential election in November.

The chief U.S. negotiator refused to talk to several dozen reporters when the meeting broke up.

The draft treaty would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms and to regulate arms brokers. It would prohibit states that ratify the treaty from transferring conventional weapons if they would violate arms embargoes or if they would promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.

In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, the draft says a country must evaluate whether the weapon would be used to violate international human rights or humanitarian laws or be used by terrorists, organized crime or for corrupt practices.

Many countries, including the U.S., control arms exports but there has never been an international treaty regulating the estimated $60 billion global arms trade. For more than a decade, activists and some governments have been pushing for international rules to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime.

The UN General Assembly voted in December 2006 to work toward a treaty regulating the growing arms trade, with the U.S. casting a “no” vote. In October 2009, the Obama administration reversed the Bush administration’s position and supported an assembly resolution to hold four preparatory meetings and a four-week U.N. conference in 2012 to draft an arms trade treaty.

The United States insisted that a treaty had to be approved by the consensus of all 193 U.N. member states.

Ambassador Roberto Garcia Moritan, the conference chairman, said treaty supporters knew “this was going to be difficult to achieve.”

He said negotiations failed because some delegations didn’t like the draft

ing found several thousand rounds of ammunition and about two dozen semi-automatic rifles and pistols. The weapons so far appear to have been purchased legally but are still being examined, said Mike Campbell, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Prescott was taken into custody at his apartment Friday and was receiving a psychiatric evaluation at a hospital. He was not expected to be charged Friday, the Prince George’s County police department said on Twitter.

Colorado shooting suspect sent package to psychiatrist

Dutch, British suspend some aid to Rwanda JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rwanda is coming under increasing pressure to halt alleged support for east Congo’s latest rebellion, with the Netherlands suspending some aid and Britain delaying a payment for budgetary support.

Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo expressed regret Friday at “hasty decisions based on flimsy evidence” by unspecified donors suspending or deferring aid.

The United States last week cut $200,000 in planned military aid. On Friday, the Netherlands said it was suspending 5 million euros ($6.1 million) promised to improve Rwanda’s judicial sector. And Britain, Rwanda’s biggest donor, said it was delaying a budget support payment scheduled this month.

London’s Financial Times newspaper quoted a Swedish aid official Thursday saying Scandinavian countries on the board of the African Development Bank also forced the delay of a decision on the disbursal of $38.9 million in budget aid to Rwanda from last week until September.

The pressure comes as a group of UN experts who made the allegations in a damning report was visiting Rwanda. Their report published last month accused Rwanda of helping create, arm and support the M23 rebel movement in east Congo in violation of UN sanctions.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The former graduate student accused in a deadly Colorado movie theatre shooting was being treated by a psychiatrist at the university where he studied, a revelation that adds to suspicions that his life was in turmoil in the year before the rampage.

Attorneys for James Holmes, 24, made the disclosure in a court motion Friday as they sought to discover the source of leaks to some media outlets that he sent the psychiatrist a package containing a notebook with descriptions of an attack.

The package was seized by authorities on Monday after it was discovered in the mailroom at the University of Colorado, Denver. It’s unclear if it was sent before the attack at the July 20 midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises that killed 12 people and injured dozens in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

The motion said the leak jeopardized Holmes’ right to a fair trial and violated a judge’s gag order.

The lawyers added that the package contained communications between Holmes and his psychiatrist that should be shielded from public view.

The document describes Holmes as a “psychiatric patient” of Dr. Lynne Fenton.

The motion did not reveal when Holmes began seeing Fenton or whether he was being treated for a mental

though “the overwhelming majority in the room did.” He added that some countries from the beginning of negotiations had “different views” on a treaty, including Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Amnesty’s Nossel accused the U.S. of raising eleventh-hour issues “and wanting more time to consult with itself,” which stopped the momentum toward agreement.

Despite the failure to reach agreement, Moritan predicted that “we certainly are going to have a treaty in 2012.”

He said there are several options for moving forward in the General Assembly which will be considered over the summer, before the world body’s new session begins in September.

Ambassador Jean-Hugues SimonMichel, who led the French delegation, called Friday’s result “the worst-case scenario.”

“I’m disappointed but not discouraged,” he said. “The ball is now in the court of the General Assembly but the risk is that countries may want to start negotiations from scratch.”

illness. Legal analysts expect Holmes’ attorneys to use an insanity defence at trial. Holmes is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

Calls to Holmes’ lawyer and the state public defender’s office were not immediately returned, as was a message left with Fenton’s office. The University of Colorado’s website identifies her as the medical director of the school’s Student Mental Health Services.

A spokeswoman for the Arapahoe County prosecutor’s office declined comment.

In the week since the attack, few details have emerged about Holmes’ life since June 2011, when he enrolled in a prestigious doctoral program in neuroscience at the University of ColoradoDenver Anschutz medical campus. He left without explanation in June.

University officials have refused to disclose much more about Holmes, citing an order from the judge barring it from releasing information that would “impede an ongoing investigation.”

Staff, professors and classmates have been mum about his life at the school.

Holmes’ appearance at his first court hearing on Monday stunned the victims’ families and fueled speculation about the state of his mental health. His hair dyed a shocking comic-book shade of orange-red, he looked sleepy and, at times, inattentive.

Prosecutors said they didn’t know if he was being medicated.

Two U.S. mountaineers missing on Peru high peak LIMA, Peru — A search team has reached the base camp and spotted the apparent tracks of two 29-year-old U.S. mountaineers who have not been heard from since July 11 when they set off to climb a 20,000-foot glaciercapped peak (6,100-meter) in the Cordillera Blanca range of northern Peru.

Gil Weiss and Ben Horne, both experienced climbers from Boulder, Colorado, were attempting the west summit of Palcajaru from the south, said Ted Alexander, a guide based in the nearby town of Huaraz co-ordinating an initial search team sent out Tuesday.

The three-person team found the climbers’ bright yellow tent at 16,700 feet (5,100 metres) on Thursday and tracks coming off the summit as well as evidence of an avalanche, said Alexander.

He said it would attempt an ascent on Saturday, though he was not optimistic about Horne and Weiss’ chances for survival given the length time they have been missing.

The two mountaineers had planned an excursion of between 7-10 days and their families contacted Alexander after 13 days passed with no word from the two, he said.

U.S. man called himself ’a joker’ and threatened to shoot up workplace

Explorers find downed German U-Boat off Massachusetts coast

PALMER PARK, Md. — Calling himself “a joker,” a Maryland man with an arsenal of guns threatened to shoot up a business he was being fired from, and was wearing a T-shirt that said “Guns don’t kill people. I do” when police confronted him, authorities said Friday.

The 28-year-old man, identified in a search warrant as Neil E. Prescott, told a supervisor at software and mailroom supplier Pitney Bowes that he wanted to see his boss’ “brain splatter all over the sidewalk,” according to a search warrant.

“I’m a joker and I’m gonna load my guns and blow everybody up,” Prescott said, according to the warrant.

The threats were made repeatedly in two separate phone calls this week, and investigators who searched Prescott’s apartment Friday morn-

BOSTON — Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts.

The U-550 was found Monday by a privately-funded group organized by New Jersey lawyer Joe Mazraani. It was the second trip in two years to the site by the team, some of whom had been searching for the lost U-boat for two decades.

Using side-scan sonar, the sevenman team located the wreck listing to its side in deep water about 70 miles (113 kilometres) south of Nantucket.

Sonar operator Garry Kozak said he spotted the 252-foot (76.8-meter) submarine during the second of an exhausting two days of searching. Kozak said the team asked him if they’d found it, then erupted in joy without a word from him.

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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — A fire has gutted a bak-

ery that pleased New Orleans’ tastes for generations with its locally iconic line of fried snack pies.

New Orleans Fire Department spokesman Capt. Edwin Holmes says the Simon Hubig Pie Co. in the Marigny neigh-

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He says houses next to the structure suffered some exterior damage, but no one was injured.

Hubig’s had operated there since 1922.

Its sugar-coated, handsize fried pies, most with

fruit filling, were familiar sights in grocery stores around the New Orleans area.

Holmes says the fire began in the fry room at the building’s centre, although the cause had not been determined.

Co-owner Andrew

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Construction Supervisor Clearwater County is accepting applications for the permanent full-time position of Construction Supervisor.

This working level supervisor plans and supervises construction projects (staff and contractors) for the County’s roads, base pave and asphalt overlay projects and monitors budgets, conducts inspections, administers contracts leased by the County and responds to public inquiries.

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MULTI-CULTURAL OUTREACH COORDINATOR The Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre provides programs and services to assist seniors by providing daily living supports.

• You have a passion and understanding of the senior population.

• Experienced in assessments and referrals • Good knowledge of current community services and opportunities for older adults.

• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with other agencies and the community through networking, presentations and cooperative projects.

• The ability to work in a team environment. Effective interpersonal and organizational skills • Ability to facilitate support groups • A background in Human Services with a minimum two (2) year diploma in either Social Work, Nursing, Gerontology or Psychology and supplemented by related community experience.

• You must have a reliable car and a valid driver’s license • 30 hours week, 11:30 am to 6:00 pm • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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Please submit resume, 3 references, salary expectations by August 7 to: Executive Director Fax (403) 343-7977 Email: mmorrison@goldencircle.ca >>No Telephone Inquiries Please<<

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* You have a passion and understanding of the senior population. * Experienced in assessment and referrals * Speak second language prevalent in our multi-cultural community * Good knowledge of current community services and opportunities for older adults. * Develop and maintain a good working relationship with other agencies and the community through networking, presentations and cooperative projects. * The ability to facilitate support groups * A background in Human Services with a minimum two (2) year diploma in either Social Work, Nursing, Gerontology or Psychology and supplemented by related community experience. * You must have a reliable car and a valid driver’s license * 30 hours a week from 1:30 pm - 8:00 pm * EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Thank you for your interest, however only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Contract

Annual Salary Range: $35,307.28 to $44,134.10

The Human Resources Department has a contract opportunity available for a full-time Receptionist / Secretary to provide confidential administrative and clerical support to the overall operations of the department. The anticipated term of employment will be from September 2012 to August 2013.

CONFERENCE SERVICES ASSISTANT COORDINATOR Clerk III

The Safety Coordinator is responsible for the Camdon Safety Program as it pertains to the field and office staff. The position is a resource for the company and must therefore possess the specialized knowledge and the skill to administer and maintain an entire program, communicate it effectively, and investigate incidents. Another responsibility of this position is risk management. It is up to the Safety Coordinator to develop and manage the company risk management program in the best interests of the company, the staff, and the clients.

A Construction Safety Officer (CSO) Designation is required to carry-out the duties of the job. Additional training or designations include a Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety, Certified Registered Safety Professional, Certified Peer Auditor Certification with ACSA, Gold Seal. Experience in the construction industry is preferred. A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office is also important to satisfy the administrative demands of the position.

Do you have a lot to offer?

RECEPTIONIST / SECRETARY Human Resources

$27.07 per hour + 15% in lieu of general holidays, vacation and benefits

Please forward your resume, quoting competition number 121001, to: Camdon Construction Ltd. Attention: Human Resources 6780 – 76th Street Red Deer, AB T4P 4G6 Fax: (403) 343-2648

BMO Nesbitt Burns in Red Deer, Alberta is seeking an extremely motivated individual experienced in the Financial Services Industry, in a Wealth Advisory role to join the us as a Resident Investment Advisor to be located in a bank branch. This individual would have the qualifications and requirements of an Investment Advisor.

Annual Salary Range: $40,069.07 to $46,337.07

The Community Learning Campus & the Olds College Conference Services Department has a challenging opportunity available for a Conference Services Assistant Coordinator.

Temporary

STUDENT SERVICES OFFICER (EXTERNAL) STRATEGIC ENROLMENT MANAGEMENT

Learn more about BMO Nesbitt Burns at www.bmo.com/nesbittburns

DuPont Pioneer is currently recruiting for a sales representative for Red Deer and surrounding area.

Send your resume´ in confidence to sandra.lefley@nbpcd.com Sandra.Lefley@nbpcd.com Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Hourly Rate: $27.73 - $33.47

Olds College has a challenging opportunity for an individual to fill the position of Student Services Officer on a temporary basis. The Student Services Officer will be required to work evenings and/or weekends which will include extensive travel time. The anticipated term of employment will be from September 2012 to June 1, 2013.

For information on these or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at www.oldscollege.ca/employment

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FLUID POWER LTD.

Due too a recent expansion of our Facilities at 7597 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, Alberta. We have immediate opening for Personnel in the following depts. These are Full Time opportunities. Some on the Job Training Provided

GENERAL LABOUR

ORDER DESK INSIDE SALES

BENCH/FIELD MECHANICS

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• Background in Order Desk/Phone Sales • Inventory/Marketing knowledge • Industry knowledge an asset

• Back ground in Mechanical Duties • Heavy duty automotive and millwright experience • Clean Drivers license

Duties will include: • Fabrication • Tear Down • Plumbing • Pick Up Driving

Responsibilities: • Call directly on customers and prospects to promote, sell and provide superior service for line-up of top quality Pioneer® brand products.

• Warehouse, invoice and deliver products.

• Conduct on-farm yield trials.

Qualifications: • Excellent knowledge of local area with an agricultural background.

• Motivated and personable with desire to build relationships with customers.

• An attitude of continual self-improvement.

• Computer skills are an asset.

• Candidate must live in area or be willing to relocate.

Remuneration: • This is a fully commissioned sales position.

Excellent supplemental income opportunity for a local farm operator.

Submit your resume online at: www.pioneer.com/careers. Click on “Search for a Job”, then “Independent Sales Rep” and submit your resume. Refer to the Independent Sales Representative – Red Deer area posting.

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RDC is looking for someone to provide sign language interpretation (e.g. American Sign Language, Signed English, Signed Exact English) services for a student during the in-class component of an apprenticeship program.

E8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, July 28, 2012

First her virginity, now she fears losing best friend Dear Harlan: I have a very snob- love you. by friend who thinks anything sexual And that’s all you should ever want makes a girl a stupid slut. from a best friend, even if the I recently lost my virgintruth hurts. ity. I feel like a sucky friend Dear Harlan: I have had for not telling her but tellfeelings for my ex-boyfriend ing all of my non-school since we broke up when I friends what happened. was 17.

I think she’s going to be At 21, I still come back extremely judgmental, even to him after he did me dirty though she has no idea what (verbally abused me, was in my ex and I went through a serious relationship with and why I decided to lose it someone else for two years, with him. etc.). I am a big girl, but I It’s surprising because am beautiful, have a wonshe’s pretty liberal when it derful life, so much to live comes to sexual orientation for, and have an excellent and religion — just not with group of family and friends.

HARLAN sex.

I have faith that I deserve I don’t want to ruin our someone good, even though COHEN friendship because she it’s been so long since I’ve might think I’m some dirty partook in anything subslut because I did it one stantially romantic. I yearn time with one boy who I was comfort- for romance and sex, and know I deable with. serve someone good because I am a And we used protection. good girlfriend.

Should I tell her? — Confused About Why do I keep running back to my Friendship ex-boyfriend?

Dear Confused: If you’re really this It does not make sense. How do I comfortable with your decision, your stop living life sexless and single, defriend’s reaction shouldn’t matter. spite whatever that jerk or anyone is Which makes me think you’re not that doing? comfortable.

Please help me, Harlan! — Can’t If you want her to say nice things to Stop Running Back you, you might not want to tell. If you Dear Can’t Stop Running: Stop datwant her to be honest and respond ing him. Yes, you’re still dating your freely, then share. ex. That’s why it’s hard to move forThe biggest mistake would be ex- ward. You’re emotionally involved. pecting her to change how she feels You can’t date other people when and support your decision. you’re still emotionally involved with Give her permission to judge, dis- your ex. Break up with him again. This agree with your choices and tell you time, make it for real. No sex. No Fahow she feels. cebook. No texts. No conversations.

Expect her to be brutally honest. If Really break up. If it’s too hard cut brutal honesty makes you uncomfort- loose, find someone to help you (like able, that’s not her problem. a psychologist or therapist). As for not Her job is to tell you the truth and finding other people to date, I can’t

imagine you’ve done enough to meet someone else. You probably haven’t been emotionally tied up. When you finally break up with him, try online dating, fix-ups, singles’ activities, volunteering and things that will help you connect with other singles.

Once you get your ex out of your life and get yourself into rooms with more single people, you’ll be able to see other opportunities.

You have options. Once you break

up emotionally and cut loose, you’ll know what it’s truly like to be single.

Harlan is author of Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober (St. Martin’s Press). Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author.

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It will feel tinged by fate. New people, be a great year, enjoy! most likely women, come into ARIES (March 21-April 19): NADIYA your life and help you believe The prompt starts slow, maybe SHAH in yourself and nurture a pasas a gut feeling, and from there sion. A zest for life opens doors it builds. When you continuousand brings fulfillment. It will be a ly don’t listen, that’s when life great year, enjoy! needs to be more dramatic to ARIES (March 21-April 19): There are get your attention. Your messages now are different kinds of love. Some will be char- arriving with innuendo and insinuation. Acacterized as lustful and indulgent. However, knowledge what you feel. most of us reach a point when the stable, acTAURUS (April 20-May 20): We all excepting types look best. You’re making this press our desire to be loved differently. Some transition now, as you put past drama to rest are gentle in their asking, while others are and welcome a more stable bond. more dynamic. You don’t have to go to either TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Each con- extreme now to get the appreciation you are versation, communication, and interaction after. It will come to you. we have with another lives within, and can be GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s alcalled forward as life arouses. You recall the ways a new mountain to climb or a new milelong ago support of another, giving you the stone to hit. However, there are times when courage to take a wonderful chance today. we lose contact with the larger vision. ConGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Though a nect to the big picture now. You are being part of you is resisting an uncertainty, you’re led to clarify the view as a path forward. determined to break out of your own limCANCER (June 21-July 22): Suspenseful its. However, your feelings have a deeper movies always have a moment that feels like wisdom that might be hard for even you to something bad is going to happen. As we understand. watch, nervousness builds. It lets us know CANCER (June 21-July 22): Michael we are involved and is part of the viewing Jackson is known for his far reaching songs experience. You’ve been in a movie of your and even more renowned fame, but he was own. Resolution is close at hand. also filled with human frailty. You’re a fan of LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The most astute someone who shows you an imperfection. commentator will find a way to blend humour Let it add to your adoration, instead of take with insight. You have the chance to offer away from it. your perspective. It’s especially unique and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Mercury in your distinct. You add the special punch when sign has been reaching out to many cos- you incorporate charm and fun. mic players, keeping your week eventful and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re in the busy. Whatever you can do to reach out to mood to multi task today, with more than one others, have talks, or be inspired by a per- topic providing equal intrigue. A common spective, take action towards it now. It will strategy is to get the things you don’t want to go much better than you expect. do out of the way first. You have the patience VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Perhaps it’s and foresight to give this method a try. because there is so much fantasy, or maybe LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The most sucit’s the element of hope, but new love can be cessful public figures have a way of making intoxicating. You might find yourself enchant- a heart connection with the masses. A sured. Enjoy it, but tread carefully. The mist al- prising charisma rises in you, allowing you to ways lifts. Then the magic really begins. make a great impression from a distance. As LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A flow of pros- much as you would like a personal experiperity is trying to find you now. This isn’t just ence, keep it as distant as possible. monetary, but emotional as well. Welcome SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There are this shift by enjoying what you’re doing now. times that can feel as if you’re sitting in the Find humour, even if you must force the per- same movie you already saw. We classify spective. these rare moments as Deja vu. You step SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now that into a moment you swear you’ve experienced slights and stepped-on toes that arose in a before. However, this time it’s you that is difmoment of fervour are passed, the feelings ferent. Make a new choice. are your own. You can continue to dwell on SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Our them, or find a way to direct your focus. The relationships with others are based on many work you’re doing now matters and deserves motivations. Sometimes it is shared interyour love and attention. ests, or it might be a desire for the new that SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You lends to a connection. Whatever it is, you’re have more than enough to give, but the en- drawn like a powerful magnet. The attraction ergy has to come from a deeper source. teaches you about yourself.

Whether you let your subconscious take over CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The air or are open to a higher source, let it domi- on the mountains is fresh and pure, but it nate. Get out of your own way and you’ll see takes time and skill to surmount their peaks. the power of your intuition.

There is benefit available that doesn’t involve CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Simple timely and arduous labour. Work with where economics states a business needs to make you are to have more and better. a profit. However, there are countless orgaAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are nizations that also consider the impact they those who love needlepoint. Even when they make. To win over a key player, you need to don’t rely on it for their living, they still grab drop questions about money and genuinely their supplies any moment they can. While care about deeper aims. you might not understand another’s passion AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Even in for their hobby, you can still be amused by it. times when it’s tough holding it all together, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Playing life often allows us to release only that which politics gets frustrating to observers. Comwe no longer need. That doesn’t mean the mitment to change and seeing it through process is an easy one. Any residual ties are inspires. A game you might feel you are in, melting in the healing light of a bright future involves a balancing act of varying relationnow. ships. Keep your larger aims in mind. Detach PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Despite and stay busy. some tough questions that are hard to find Nadiya Shah is a consulting astrologer, answers to, you’re connected to what mat- syndicated sun sign columnist and holds ters most. This isn’t confusion, so don’t label a master’s degree in the Cultural Study of it as such. Your considerations are valid and Cosmology and Divination, from the Univerwill need to be addressed. sity of Kent, U.K. Her column appears daily in ★ ★ ★ the Advocate.

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