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Olsen granted full parole MAN WHO ORPHANED FIVE CHILDREN MUST ABIDE BY TWO SPECIAL CONDITIONS ‘MAYBE SOMETHING GOOD WILL COME OUT OF HIS IRRESPONSIBLE, SELFISH, ARROGANT BEHAVIOUR, AND IF HIS ATTITUDE HAS CHANGED, THAT’S GOOD.’

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF A drunk driver who killed the Red Deer parents of five children in February 2010 was granted full parole on Wednesday. Chad Mitchell Olsen, 25, formerly of Sedalia, was granted full parole after a 90-minute Parole Board of Canada hearing was held at the downtown Red Deer parole office. He was granted day parole last December after serving a seven-month term in federal prison for the deaths of Brad and Krista Howe, both in their mid 30s, early on Feb. 7, 2010. The two-member parole board panel ruled that Olsen, who has been living at a halfway house in Red Deer, did not pose undue risk to the public. Full parole would help him ease back into full integration with society as well. The parole board issued two special conditions — that he abstain from alcohol and that he attend psychological counselling, which he had been doing until recently.

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A parole officer will continue to monitor Olsen until his sentence formally ends on Oct. 26, 2014. Outside the parole board office, Sandra Green, the mother of Krista Howe, said she anticipated Olsen would receive full parole. “I am not mad at him, but angry at the legal system,” said Green. Near the end of the hearing, Olsen wiped tears from his eyes as he said sorry to Sandra Green “for all the suffering that I have caused her and her

family.” Green said that Olsen shed tears during his sentencing, so seeing that kind of emotion was nothing new to her. If Olsen was earnest and sincere in speaking about his commitments to give back to the community, including plans to talk to high school students about the dangers of drinking and driving, then full parole is a good thing, Green said. “Maybe something good will come

out of his irresponsible, selfish, arrogant behaviour and if his attitude has changed, that’s good,” said Green. Green added she would welcome Olsen to join her in fighting for increased drinking and driving penalties. “We can’t change what he did,” said Green. “It’s the way it’s going to be, but it might not have to be that way for all those other Canadians who are joining our ranks, those other families who are losing their kids.” Green read a victim impact statement to the parole board, saying how much her daughter and son-in-law were devoted to their five children, their engineering jobs, their church and other community activities. The children, aged seven to 17, are now being looked after by Krista Howe’s sister, Karla Green. “They didn’t have the chance to fulfil their lifelong dreams and yet Chad still has that option,” said Green. “A stranger to us made a final choice. He gets seven months and we get life with no chance for appeal.”

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Basically, like all of the players interviewed by various media outlets regarding the attempted formation of the Canadian Hockey League Players Association, Red Deer Rebels captain Adam Kambeitz hasn’t been contacted by any of the organizers. “The only thing I’ve heard is just what I’ve seen floating around on Twitter,” Kambeitz said Wednesday. “I also read one article on it.” The proposed CHL players union, which is primarily seeking increased and extended education benefits for the players in the Western, Ontario and Quebec major junior leagues, has supposedly been 14 months in the making, said spokesman Derek Clarke, who went public just this week. “Players and agents feel this is long overdue,” Clarke told the Windsor Star. “The CHL has done a great job producing players and offering some education packages. The fact is more can be done. We’re hoping to get a positive reception from the CHL because this benefits kids and because it’s a positive step for education.” While Kambeitz had no prior knowledge of the union being formed, he admitted he heard from several former Western Hockey League players that it was a process that had some legs. “I mentioned it to some of the guys at the gym this summer who played in the league before and they just said they heard it was supposed to be happening for years now and it hasn’t happened,” said the Coaldale native. “Really, to the extent that I’ve heard about it, and that’s just seeing on Twitter . . . it just seems like it’s not a legit thing. To me it seems like it’s rumours

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right now.” Not that Kambeitz would argue with a union stand that would allow WHL players to tap into the league’s education fund after the currently allotted time of 18 months following the completion of a player’s final season of major junior hockey. Players have within that time span to either turn to pro hockey or pursue an education, and if they sign an NHL contract the funds are no longer available. The proposed union stand would keep the education money available indefinitely, a stance Kambeitz would welcome. “I don’t think I have a problem with that. I do think the CHL does a really good job, the education fund they provide us with is phenomenal,” he said. “But I think that would be a pretty cool thing. (Extending the education money availability) would be a neat thing.” Clarke said a players union would also focus on Hockey Canada. “The CHL is profitable and has a great program of education and promoting players to the next level,” he told the Windsor Star. “Hockey Canada uses CHL players for the World Junior, Canada-Russia Challenge and some of that money should come back to the players.” Canadian Hockey League president David Branch released a series of statements Wednesday regarding the attempted organization of the 1,300 CHL players. “To date, the league has not received any formal notification on the formation of this association or any intent to organize our players,” said Branch.

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PAROLE: Olsen has received support from family, fiancé Olsen pleaded guilty in April 2011 to two counts of impaired driving causing death. His blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit when he sped through a red light in his pickup truck and hit the Howes’ car at about 2 a.m. Olsen was originally given a sentence of two years and three months. The Crown appealed and Olsen’s jail term was lengthened to three-and-a-half years last October. Two months later, on Dec. 16, Olsen was granted day parole and allowed to leave Bowden Institution. The sentence also included a five-year driving ban once Olsen was released from prison. Olsen’s parole officer remarked on his positive progress since leaving jail. Olsen completed a National Substance Abuse Program within jail, and he is almost finished a “maintenance program” in the community. The parole officer said that she has no suspicions at all that Olsen has had any alcohol. The parole officer said that Olsen has good family support and his fiance, a non-drinker, is there for him. Olsen will live at his fiance’s home in Red Deer, now that he’s received full parole. He has a full-time job, but hopes to go back to school, perhaps to finish his petroleum engineering program at SAIT in Calgary. Olsen told the parole board that he thinks about what he did on Feb. 7, 2010, every day and about the impact it made on the Howe family. He said that he loved adrenalin sports when he was younger and then he started speeding on the

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Don Raincock, a Red Deer Emergency Services captain, talks to a driver following a T-bone collision that left her SUV upside down on 22nd Street Wednesday. There were no injuries when a compact car and the SUV collided at the Taylor Drive and 22nd Street intersection around 1 p.m. Emergency Services closed northbound Taylor and westbound 22nd Street while the debris was cleared. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com. Penn West notified the ERCB on Tuesday about the spill. But investigators still have to determine how it happened and the age and condition of the pipeline. Moffatt said Penn West inspects pipelines on a “reasonably regular basis,” and is interested in finding out how the leak occurred to determine whether any additional processes can be put in place. The Calgary-based company turned off flow to the line after discovering a drop in pressure on Tuesday afternoon. When a helicopter survey didn’t pinpoint the leak, workers walked the line and discovered the spill on Tuesday evening, added Moffatt. There were no injuries or evacuations. And Barter said the ERCB is working with Penn West to ensure appropriate cleanup and mitigation takes place. road. In six years of driving, he had acquired 16 driving infractions. Drinking became a problem when he started college. Olsen said he would take a cab home when he was in town, but when he was back home in the rural area, he and his friends thought it was OK to drink and drive home. Sedalia is southeast of Stettler. On the night that the Howes died, Olsen said he had two beer and two double rum drinks at a friend’s house. He then went to a bar with a friend, but didn’t have anything to drink there because he left shortly after. Olsen said he felt exhausted and tired as he drove down 30th Avenue. As the Howes prepared to turn left from Ironstone Drive onto 30th Avenue, they were hit by Olsen’s southbound pickup truck. After the crash, Olsen said someone approached his vehicle to find out if he was OK. “I am fine, just go check on them,” Olsen recalled saying. Olsen said he hasn’t driven since Feb. 7, 2010, nor has he had a drink. He said that perhaps he’ll be able to drive again in four or five years’ time. Olsen said. “I have done something that’s affected the community and the family quite drastically and I should deal with that,” Olsen said. Olsen’s mother said that it was a “huge step” for him to acknowledge he is an alcoholic. Olsen said he is waiting to hear back from his insurance company and legal counsel in regards to a civil lawsuit of $3.5 million issued by the children of the Howes. When the parole board asked how he would honour the memory of the victims, Olsen paused and then said, “Just help out in any way I can, give back to the community like they (the Howes) did and help the family.” “How about staying sober for the rest of your life?” asked the parole board member. “For sure,” replied Olsen. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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UNION: North America’s best player scholarship program “We are of the opinion that no junior hockey league in the world has made more changes to support the best interest of its players both on and off the ice as the CHL. This is evidenced by our drug education and anti-doping program, our concussion management program, numerous charitable programs and our Respect in Sport Program as developed by Sheldon Kennedy in the area of player abuse,” added Branch. “In addition, the CHL provides North America’s best player scholarship program, funded through the league’s ownership.” Rebels owner Brent Sutter agreed with Branch’s take. “I don’t know any more than what’s been released. Let’s just see how it unfolds,” said Sutter. “I do know what we do for the players as far as organizations, as far as each member club,” he continued, adding that the Rebels’ cost of billeting, providing equipment and other overall expenses for each player is between $30,000 and $35,000 per year. “And that never decreases, it increases, so your expenses are certainly right up there. I know that in the Western League all the players are treated with such high standards and we have a great education package in place. We do a lot for the players. They are treated first class in Red Deer and we don’t cut corners on anything. “I don’t know any more than what anyone else is reading. This is something that’s just come out and let’s just see where it all unfolds and where it’s at.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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This is the latest in a series of pipeline spills this year. Earlier this summer, about 230,000 litres of heavy crude oil spilled from a pumping station on an Enbridge Inc. pipeline onto farmland near Elk Point, Alta., northeast of Edmonton. Before that, nearly 800,000 litres of oil spilled from a Pace Oil & Gas Ltd. well about 200 kms from the Northwest Territories border. The Plains Midstream Canada break in June involved 160,000 to 480,000 litres of oil leaking from a pipeline that ruptured beneath the Red Deer River near Sundre. Environmental groups are calling for an expansive look at pipeline safety in Alberta. But Barter called so many pipeline problems “an anomaly . . . It’s not typical.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Another environmental cleanup is underway in Central Alberta after nearly 2,000 barrels of mostly contaminated water from a leaking pipeline soaked a canola field east of Red Deer. The Energy Resources Conservation Board revealed on Wednesday that it’s investigating the latest pipeline break after about 1,900 barrels (or 300,000 litres) were released from a Penn West Exploration line on Tuesday onto private farmland about 10 km east of Red Deer, near Joffre. According to ERCB spokesman Darin Barter, about 97 per cent of this spill is contaminated water, while three percent is oil. But Penn West’s manager of government and industry relations, Greg Moffatt, believes there’s hardly any oil in the spill; “It’s 99.9 per cent water.” The water could contain some hydrocarbon contamination, however, as it was naturally present in an oil formation and was being moved along the pipeline in order to be disposed of, said Moffatt. The tainted water was slated to be reinjected into a nonproducing well. Moffatt maintains the leaked liquid was tested and found not to be too saline. But the full extent of environmental damage hasn’t yet been assessed. Unlike a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline break in June that allowed up to 3,000 barrels of oil to leak into the Red Deer River, this spill is not near water sources. Barter said a nearby slough is being protected with berms. Penn West, which had up to 20 contractors working with vacuum trucks at the site on Wednesday, intends to use whatever measures are necessary to reclaim the farmland. Moffatt said, “We’ll remove some soil if that’s what’s needed to return the canola field to production.”

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Canola blooms earlier this summer on a farm west of Bentley. Stats Canada are saying prairie farmers are anticipating record canola production this year as well as an increase in wheat and barley . ing about having a good yield this year, but he’s cautious too. “Potential I guess is there for a bumper crop, but I’m not sure it’s going to be quite as good as everyone had thought or hoped earlier on. There have been some disappointing yields come in from some of the early crops anyway,” he said. Bender also noted that weather is still a fickle factor. “Frost certainly could really impact quality right now and hail still could. Hail likelihood is less. It’s decreasing once we’re into the end of August, but that’s still a possibility. But frost would probably be the most detrimental,” he explained. “If we can make it another couple

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EDMONTON — The Alberta government is enacting a sweeping plan for its controversial oilsands region in another attempt to balance development and the environment. “Alberta’s last period of hyper-growth clearly demonstrated the need for responsible long-term use planning,” Environment Minister Diana McQueen said Wednesday as she announced the plan for the lower Athabasca region. “In a new time of strong growth, the need to plan for the area that contains our main economic driver is abundantly clear.” The strategy, which comes into force Sept.1, creates six new conservation areas that total three times the size of Banff National Park. Existing conventional oil and natural gas tenures will be honoured in the protected areas. But no oilsands development will be allowed unless access can be had from outside the boundaries through, for example, horizontal drilling. That means talks will begin for 19 energy companies on cancelling their leases and compensating them. No new tenures will be sold. The plan also increases protected habitat for threatened woodland caribou by prohibiting energy and forestry activity in the Dillon River Conservation Region, which is to be expanded from 27,000 hectares to 192,000 hectares. The plan also legally commits the government to establish contaminant limits for air, surface and ground water, and sets up firm timetables for that to be done. McQueen said the limits will be legally enforceable through the regulatory system. “There will be thresholds and triggers and targets. We will work with industry so that they will know they can’t go over those numbers.” The plan addresses infrastructure and planning concerns in Fort McMurray, and also promises tourism op-

portunities through nine new provincial recreation areas. A regional trail system is also promised. McQueen said it will cost about $30 million to set up infrastructure for the new parks. Simon Dyer of the environmental think-tank Pembina Institute called the plan a good start. He said it was “problematic” to allow existing energy and mineral tenures to continue in conservation areas, but welcomed the exclusion of oilsands mining. He did point out that the conservation areas are clustered where there is little bitumen. “I think we’re going to have to revisit this, particularly around caribou,” Dyer said. “The plan only protects around 20 per cent of caribou habitat in the region and caribou continue to decline.” Nor does it address the growing greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands, he said. “Alberta needs to take a similar level of seriousness to address growing greenhouse gas pollution.” David Pryce of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said the plan is one that the industry can live with. “The overall product is very good,” he said. “The province tried very hard to strike a balance over where the value of the resource is and I think they’ve done a pretty good job of it.” Pryce said companies that will lose oilsands leases are likely to seek compensation for both the value of the lease and the profits they won’t be able to earn. “The lost opportunity cost is an important part of the discussion for industry.” The purchase value of

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weeks here, that’ll mitigate that risk considerably.” On his farm near Grenfell, in southeast Saskatchewan, Ryan Maurer knows all too well about wet weather. Much of his farm was flooded in 2010 and 2011. Maurer said he’s still fighting a lot of moisture and doesn’t think there will be many bumper crops in the area. Still, Maurer hopes to harvest about 10 to 15 per cent above average for the area. His hard red spring wheat is a semi-dwarf variety that he said is “standing well.” “We’ll see when we get in with the combines, but I’m hoping that it’s good quality.”

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But Burnett is also cautious. “You’re always a bit reluctant to call it a bumper until you get the crop in the bin and we do the final counting on it, but generally speaking, you know prospects are good, and because of the drought in the U.S. prices are high.” Kevin Bender, president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, said he’s about two to three weeks from starting harvest on his central Alberta farm near Bentley. Bender, his father and brother grow barley, canola and wheat on about 1,800 hectares. The wheat and barley look good, he said. The canola looks good, but it can surprise you “once you get into it.” Bender knows some people are talk-

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REGINA — Statistics Canada says Prairie farmers are anticipating record canola production this year, as well as increases in wheat and barley. The agency said in its latest crop estimate released Wednesday that Prairie farmers anticipate a record 15.2 million tonnes of canola — surpassing the record of 14 million tonnes set in 2011. Total wheat production on the Prairies is expected to reach 24.8 million tonnes in 2012, up 9.7 per cent from 22.6 million tonnes in 2011. Barley production on the Prairies is anticipated to rise 23.8 per cent to nine million tonnes because of an expected record average yield of 65.1 bushels per acre. “Overall, weather conditions in the West in 2012 have been closer to normal, following two years of excess moisture conditions in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan,” says the report. There is talk among farmers and producer groups that it could be a bumper crop. Add that to a crippling drought withering fields south of the border and pushing up prices. “From a historical point of view, that size of crop we would see maybe once in a decade or so,” said Bruce Burnett, a Winnipeg-based weather and crop specialist for the Canadian Wheat Board. The board, which recently branded itself CWB after losing its monopoly on the sale of Western wheat and grain, says production of the six major grains and oilseeds could yield 51.6 million tonnes this year — better than the fiveyear average by about four million tonnes. “In the decade between 2001 and 2010 we had about 50 million tonnes only twice, so you can see ... it’s a pretty substantial production.”

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Harper’s science problem Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s setting of a Dec. 31 deadline for completion of the environmental review of the Northern Gateway project now is looking somewhat hasty. Harper is keen to get the review and approval process going, but his commitment to a hard and fast deadline seems out of step with the pace at which his own Fisheries Department can supply evidence that review will need. Canadians need to know this project gets the scrutiny it deserves. The prime minister earlier this month assured Canadians that the fate of the plan by Enbridge to lay pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast south of Kitimat rests on science. The project has many critics and faces formidable obstacles, including the buy-in of all the First Nations bands that claim traditional rights to a lot of the land affected. British Columbia Premier Christy Clark wants to know what is in it for

OTHERVIEW her province, since B.C. gets little of the profit but will shoulder most of the environmental risk. Now reports on documents filed at the National Energy Board indicate that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was unable to give the review panel a complete picture of the risk presented to the nearly 1,000 streams and tributaries the new pipeline will cross. It has not completed the work and anticipates it may take longer than the time allotted: “should the project be approved, our review will continue into the regulatory permitting phase,” department officials wrote in a June 6 letter. The final approval of the project rests with the federal cabinet. The recommendations of the NEB’s panel to cabinet are made following

the consideration of concerns expressed at public hearings and the evidence from scientific sources of how environmental threats can be mitigated or compensated for. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans also noted in its correspondence that it has differences of opinion with Enbridge over the level of threat posed to some of the streams the pipeline crosses. Excessively long environmental reviews that give a floor to long queues of intervenors duplicating concerns expressed merely ties up good economic development. But Harper’s emphasis on a deadline may prove too hopeful and do the broader process no favour. The real issue is whether, with good understanding of the potential impact on the environment, the merits of the project and the ability to mitigate the relative threats support its approval. Mitigation is difficult if good environmental monitoring is not there.

Harper’s government is in the midst of cuts to staff at Fisheries and Oceans field offices, including those at Prince George and Smithers, which would have been in the lead of that work. These are all issues the review panel must consider. The Fisheries Department not only has to assess the environmental threat, but also the federal government’s capacity to protect through monitoring and responding to any impact. Harper’s desire for an efficient, timely review is understandable, particularly in Canada’s economic climate. But Canadians need to trust that it will be done right. Artificial deadlines undermine that trust. Harper should publicly commit to extending the deadline if the NEB shows his schedule curtails a solid examination of the environmental threats. An editorial from the Winnipeg Free Press.

who won three gold medals at the London Olympics. So give us a break. So-called athletes who were supposed to win gold didn’t even get past the heats and to top it off, the same committee picked the captain of the women’s soccer team who didn’t get even get into the final to be the flag bearer at the closing ceremonies when the only athlete to win a gold medal for the country (who incidentally never got a mention on the Canadian sports channels because all we got was mainly second and third places finishers over and over again) should have been the flag bearer. But I suppose that’s how the system works in this country: you don’t have to win, just show up. Another very poor show, Canada. James Taylor Red Deer

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Music festival was great, but where were all the fans? My wife Barb and I attended our fifth consecutive Central Music Festival over the weekend, this year’s manifesting when the stars and weather gods wonderfully aligned in conjunction with — as Diamond Joe White so wisely proclaimed animatedly on Sunday afternoon — “the best natural amphitheatre for an outdoor music festival in all of Canada!” (Or, did he say, “The world”?) With the colorful and classy vendors’ village, tasty food booths, kids’ tent, beer garden, wide selection of world class entertainers “playing in the field of music” (this year’s theme) with big names like Morgan Davis, Amy Bishop, Sista Monica, plus the many extremely talented local musicians including Heartbroke Heroes, Steve Arsenault, The Jacobson Four, Lesley Schatz, Joel Kamps et al), combined with the perfect weather and the best natural bowl in the world, you would think attendance records would have been broken. Not so — an extremely frustrating and disappointing outcome for all the generous sponsors, very hard-working organizers and volunteers, and the dedicated followers of the CMF, perhaps suggesting that next year’s production either be postponed for a year or two, or relocated (despite the incredible site) to outside the 100-km radius zone, thereby making it more attractive or legitimate? So many people seem only too willing and able to attend festivals in Calgary, Edmonton, Canmore and Camrose, yet find it inconvenient to support dedicated local efforts (and talents) within a beautiful seven-km drive north of the city off the old C&E Trail. To all those responsible for this years’ and previous CMFs, I wish to extend a heartfelt thank you and congratulations for facilitating again such a great weekend of first-class music and associated entertainment for the whole family — we’ll see you again next year — maybe. Pete Weddel Red Deer

Silver, bronze medals not signs of Olympic success The Canadian Olympic Committee chairman stated prior to the beginning of the games that he expected Canada to improve to a top-12 finish, two more than at the Beijing Olympics, and was a “little disappointed that they only finish in 13th place.” I don’t know where he gets his positioning from but in actual fact Canada finished in 36th position with only one gold medal. One gold and they finished in 13th place. Is he saying that because they got a total of 18 medals in total, with five second-place and 12 third-place finishes that’s good enough for 13th? Is his head in the sand? Is he saying that an athlete who doesn’t even get in the final of an event (using one example — boxing) that person is equal to the winner of the final? In other words, a bronze medal is equal to a gold medal. That’s absolute nonsense. If the Canadian Olympic Committee is satisfied in any way with the results of these Olympics, then they should immediately all resign en block.

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One of the main problems in this country is that there is very little sport in schools and certainly no competitive sports. Competitive sports should be part of the school curriculum starting in elementary schools, like in all European and U.K. schools. In Canada, all sports are privately operated with parents having to pay the full amount from a very early age and I’m sure that every family cannot afford to pay for their children to go and if they do go, as my three very young grand-daughters do, they are being taught by willing adults who give up their valuable time but don’t even know the rules of the sport and say things to the children and their parents that it’s not about winning, it’s all about being able to participate. Nonsense. It’s all about winning! A good example is on the island of Jamaica. The young children in elementary schools start in third grade to complete against other schools in all sports, especially running, cricket and football. They run to school, they run home from school and they run against each other during these runs and all the time they are watched by the gym teachers at the schools, who pick out the ones they think have talent and as they move up to high school. This continues and once a year the big event in athletics is at the huge stadium in Kingston where all the top grammar (high school) athletes compete against each other, the supporters all wearing the colours of their school uniforms and the top winners are then chosen to be coached by professionals. And what do you get? People like Usain Bolt,

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Dewar then listed some NDP priorities — a “little message make shift bit of homework,” he called it — starting with restor- memorial wall bearing ing full health care coverage to refugee claimants. th “It’s a shame that the Conservatives have cut it,” m e s s a g e s f o r h e r husband, the late Jack Dewar said. Though it comes as little surprise that a memorial Layton in Toronto on to a political lifer such as Layton would engage in Wednesday some bald partisanship, it nonetheless seemed incongruent with the tone of the gathering. A young woman held Presenting Sponsors: a simple orange sign emCanadian Western Bank blazoned with the word Alberta Sports, Recreation Parks & Wildlife Foundation “Love,” while the Dominion carillonneur played Cart Sponsor: Kam Mechanical Dinner Sponsor: Camdon Construction John Lennon’s song First Tee Sponsor: National Motorcoach Radio Sponsor: Big 105.5 “Imagine” in the Peace Tower. 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What killed Jack Layton? And does the public have the right to know the health of its leaders?

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A year after his death Canadians are still in the dark about what actually killed Jack Layton, who mere weeks before dying had asked voters to let him lead Canada. His family has held firm in its resolve to keep the precise cause of Layton’s death a secret. And Canadians in the main don’t seem to care; many roundly chastised journalists who raised questions in the period after Layton’s rapid decline and death last summer. Widespread admiration and affection for the late NDP leader may be behind the difficulty the electorate seems to have in separating emotion over his passing from the issue at stake. But if so, Canadians may be missing a key point about why people should care about the health of their wouldbe leaders, some experts say. It’s not about attempting to sully Layton’s reputation or legacy. It’s not even about Layton. It’s about whether voters have the right to know if, to the best of their knowledge, politicians believe they’ll be able to fulfil the role they’re asking voters to give them. Dr. Lawrence Altman has explored the health of U.S. political candidates for decades as the medical reporter for the New York Times. He says it’s surprising that at this point in history a political leader could die of an undisclosed illness — and says it is unlikely American media outlets would have let the issue go easily. “I think the Times has taken the position that this is information the public is entitled to know,” Altman says of the general issue of leading politicians’ health. Altman is researching a book he hopes to write about political leaders and their health status disclosure. “My position is that there should be transparency,” adds Altman, who while still writing for the Times is also a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. “There’s no reason any illness should keep somebody from running for office. It’s up to the public to decide whether that illness interferes with the ability to carry out the functions of office or whether that person should be elected. But that’s up to the electorate. The issue to me is that the electorate should be fully informed.” Questions still linger about the degree of information Canadian voters had about the state of the NDP leader’s health when they went to the polls in May of 2011. Layton had disclosed a February 2010 diagnosis of prostate cancer, though he never revealed what form of treatment he received for it. And Layton was vague about a surgery he’d undergone to repair a hip fracture incurred while exercising in March 2011 — an unusual event in a seemingly fit man of his age. (This fracture figures prominently in a theory advanced by Dr. Lorne Brandes, a Winnipeg oncologist and CTV.ca health columnist, that Layton had metastatic prostate cancer. His article can be read here: http://healthblog.ctv.ca/post/Did-prostate-cancer-

kill-Jack-Layton.a spx.) When a shockingly gaunt Layton, his voice barely recognizable, announced in July 2011 that he was temporarily stepping aside to again fight cancer, he told Canadians the new battle was against a second, previously undetected form of the disease. He declined to name it. And to this day, his widow, MP Olivia Chow, and his children have all declined likewise. Chow’s says that to disclose what killed her husband would discourage people fighting that form of cancer. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, she said she believes withholding the information is the right way to go. “I think that (I’m) even more convinced that it was the right decision, that we don’t have to (say more),” she said. “People know, it’s a cancer, it’s cancer cells. It’s not as if we’re not saying what he died of, he died of cancer.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ‘I THINK THAT (I’M) EVEN MORE CONVINCED THAT IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION . . . WE DON’T NEED TO GO INTO WHAT KIND OF CANCER BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THAT KIND OF CANCER WILL NOT REACT WELL AND WHY INFLICT THAT ON PEOPLE?’ — MP OLIVIA CHOW, JACK LAYTON’S WIDOW

We don’t need to go into what kind of cancer because those people that have that kind of cancer will not react well and why inflict that on people?” Chow says the only people who ask her about the cause of her husband’s death are reporters. Journalists who have given voice to suspicions that Layton’s second cancer was really metastasized prostate cancer have generally been chided by news consumers. Patrick Lagace, a columnist for Montreal’s La Presse, wrote a couple of pointed pieces on the issue. “Readers were absolutely incensed that I would bring up the question. To most of those who did react, it was an entirely private issue,” he says in an email exchange. “To some of them, which is shocking to me, if Mr Layton did run knowing his odds were grim, well it was up to him and we had nothing to say. All in all, I’d say that a very large majority of my readers thought it

‘THE LESSON WE SHOULD DRAW FROM THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE IS THAT POLITICAL LEADERS IN CANADA AS IN THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE REGULAR HEALTH EXAMS AND SHOULD RELEASE THAT INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC.’ — NORMAN SPECTOR CHIEF OF STAFF TO FORMER PRIME MINISTER BRIAN MULRONEY

was not a matter for reporters to discuss or question.” Norman Spector, a former senior political aide and now a political commentator, says at this point, the cause of Layton’s death is a matter for historians. Whether they’ll delve into it, or whether Layton’s family later chooses to reveal which form of cancer killed the popular leader, there’s no pressing public interest at this point, Spector says. There was, however, a public interest before the election, he says. And there is something to be learned for the future. “The lesson we should draw from this whole experience is that political leaders in Canada as in the United States should have regular health exams and should release that information to the public. That’s my view,” says Spector, who was chief of staff to former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Voters have a right to know if they

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Top: NDP Leader Jack Layton leaves the stage at the party’s 50th anniversary convention in Vancouver on June 19, 2011. It seems the house that Jack built still looks about the same to most Canadians. Fifty-nine per cent of respondents to a Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey say the NDP of today is similar to when Jack Layton led it. Above: On the steps of Parliament Hill a photograph of Jack Layton is surrounded with flowers, a bottle of Orange Crush and other messages to commemorate the first anniversary of Layton’s death during a gathering on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.

are likely going to be led by the person seeking their support, he says. “I think it’s important just as the parties have a responsibility to put forward their platforms and their commitments and their fiscal framework that we have a sense that the people we’re voting for are going to be there.” In our system of government, a leader who steps aside due to ill health or who dies is replaced by their party, not the general public, Spector notes. So if the NDP had won the 2011 election, Canadians would have ended up with a new prime minister — picked by NDP party members — just two months after Layton had been sworn into office. “If I’m voting Conservative, I want to know if it’s Stephen Harper or Vic Toews who’s going to be the leader,” says Spector. “I mean, (it’s) pretty important, right? Especially if Stephen Harper is making a commitment that he won’t open certain issue that somebody else might open.”

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This year has been great for vegetable gardening Stu Smith, way back when he was Our best garden was several years director of Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-extinct Fish ago when we had to water constantly and Wildlife Division, would molli- because every day was bright, hot and fy bird hunters by telling dry. Production that year them that while a series of was so heavy that, about wet years would harm the mid-August, we actually upland bird populations, started praying for delivwaterfowl hunting would be erance by hail, or a killing great. frost. In another compensation Favorite varieties have category, I have noticed that been selected for short main years when whole fishturity dates and superior ing seasons are washed out flavour. Among our methods by constant muddy waters, to extend the season are use the vegetable gardening of Hot Caps and planting â&#x20AC;&#x153;seasonâ&#x20AC;? can be outstandhot weather loving varieting. That is particularly the ies like corn, tomatoes, arcase if you practice vegetichokes, cucumbers, caulitable gardening as an exflower and broccoli through BOB treme outdoors sport, as we black construction plastic, SCAMMELL always have. which warms the soil, kills This year has been our weeds and conserves moissecond best Red Deer garture. den in 42 years, with many warm to hot We have been enjoying vine-ripened days and rain evening after evening, Early Girl and Sungold tomatoes, a meaning we have not had to water. bumper crop of Salad Bush slicing cuPart of â&#x20AC;&#x153;extremeâ&#x20AC;? has been wading cumbers, cauliflower and broccoli for through the jungle, mud and mosqui- a month. San Marzano and Whopper toes just to harvest anything. tomatoes are coming on. The Seneca

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sick of the poor quality soft neck garlic the Chinese dump on world markets, driving local growers of a wide variety of quality garlic out of business. We have tried seven varieties, two soft necks and five hard necks, from five countries, but have settled on Fish Lake #3, a hard neck porcelain garlic developed in Ontario by the legendary Fish Lake Garlic Man, Ted Mackzka, as the one that best flourishes in our soil and weather. The crop of 100 bulbs will be ready for pulling and curing in a few days. Then, in mid to late September, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll plant next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crop using the biggest and best cloves from the biggest bulbs of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harvest. But there will also be a special planting this year. Among the 92 garlic varieties in the 2012 list of Boundary Garlic Farm of Midway, B.C., www.garlicfarm.ca, I was elated and excited to see one bulb to a customer offered of the legendary and allegedly sublime tasting Ail Rose de Lautrec.

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I quickly reserved my one bulb, and then ordered it and half a dozen bulbs to try of another hard neck, French Rocambole, which, along with Rose de Lautrec, the people at Boundary touted as one of the best flavoured garlic they have tried recently. I first learned of Ail Rose de Lautrec from Liz Primeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly amusing account of her attendance at the Lautrec, France, Garlic Festival which takes place the first Friday of every August, in her recent book â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Pursuit of Garlic, An Intimate Look at the Divinely Odorous Bulb.â&#x20AC;? Besides being a thoroughly entertaining read, Primeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book is also highly informative about garlic varieties, sources for â&#x20AC;&#x153;seedâ&#x20AC;? garlic and growing them in Canada, although the amazing Boundary website cited above is more detailed on growing garlic. The bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chapter, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Kitchen with Garlic,â&#x20AC;? is excellent, and features many unusual recipes, including the iconic Potage de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ail Rouge, which is always featured at the Lautrec Fete de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ail Rose. With any luck at all, by this time next year our one bulb l Rose de Lautrec will have multiplied sufficiently that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll 10 cloves to spare for a pot of the soup. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@ telusplanet.net.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 B3 note is such a cold thing, and Queenie of them made friends easily, so they had been very good to Harold in those remember each other with fondness. days long ago when they worked for the Harold loved his wife and son very same nasty man. He had to do some- much, though he had a hard time showthing more. ing it. The quest to Queenieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side is Harold decides he must go and see something else altogether. Queenie and take his good wishes to Sore feet, disintegrating shoes, blisher. She says, in her note, that she ters and rain are just the beginning. is dying, but Harold phones her and The press gets hold of the story and leaves a message. The message says, others join him. Harold meets many â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hold on, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on my way to see you, people on the way, many are intrigued Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m walking, you must not die until Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve and most help when they can. come.â&#x20AC;? Meanwhile at home, Maureen finds He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go home and acquire the that she misses Harold. Her hurts and proper rig as anyone else might do, he hates directed at him are examined begins his walk to Queenie. The prob- more fairly. Both Harold, on his footlem is that Harold is starting out from slogging journey, and Maureen at home Kingsbridge (south and west of Plym- are doing a lot of thinking. outh) in the extreme south of England; There are surprises at the end of the Berwick upon Tweed, is south and story. The difficulty of facing Queenie, west of Edinburgh. They are a whole and the acceptance of past sins and the country apart, but Harold begins his possibility of new beginnings. pilgrimage. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an original and charming story. Queenie and Harold were not Peggy Freeman is a local freelance sweethearts, but good friends. Neither writer.

work. Not for him or her predictable luxury of specializing. In the morning she might pull a calf, treat a goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mastitis or mend a wound in a...pick one; sheep, goat, horse, cow, bison, elk, llama, ostrich, pig or alpaca. Around here people raise all those animals and more. In the afternoon he could do pregnancy testing, x-ray a possible fracture or do some dental work on a horse with a curious tongue. The emergency situations, of course, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall neatly into her morning or afternoon

schedule, but will likely jar him out of bed and send him scrambling for his boots at three in the morning. The only constant is she will do all these things on huge animals that would prefer she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Animals that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be told say â&#x20AC;&#x153;Awâ&#x20AC;? or asked to explain where it hurts. I remember considering a career as a veterinarian assistant when I was still in high school; the idea sandwiched somewhere between a florist and a flight attendant. It has often

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Runners warm up for a previous Open Minds Run and Walk at McKenzie Trail Recreation Area. The annual event sponsored by the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta raises funds and awareness of the debilitating mental illness. This year’s edition begins at 8 a.m. on Saturday, with a 2.5-km walk, and five- and 10-km runs. Breakfast, barbecue, Kid Zone and entertainment are part of the event.

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Friday ● Alberta’s Own Indie Music Festival will take place Aug. 24, 25 and 26 in Lacombe. Tickets are available at The Soundhouse, 403-342-42367, Hemp N’ Stuff, 403342-4367, Hotline Promotions, 403-782-7666, Bladez, 403-782-4640, or online at www. abown.com. Show your student ID and receive a discount. $10 parking per vehicle, with proceeds going to Clive Minor Hockey Association. Enjoy George Canyon, Big Wreck, and many more bands. Bowden Thrift Shop is currently open on Wednesdays and Fridays, 1 to 4 p.m.; through June, July and August they will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bowden Pioneer Museum. The museum will open for the season on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Admission is $2 or free for children aged six years and under. Tours can be arranged by calling 403-224-2122 or 403-224-3104. Please leave a message if necessary. See www.bowdenpioneermuseum.com or email bhs@shawbiz.ca. ● Book Signing by Henry Ripplinger, author of the Angelic Letters Series, will be held at Costco on Aug. 24 and 25. For more information about the author visit www.henryripplinger.com

Saturday ● Bentley United Church Thrift Shop is open Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. from May long weekend to Sept. long weekend. In July and Aug. the thrift shop is also open on Thursdays from noon to 4 p.m. Contact Gail at 403-748-2935.w ● Mopars at the Mall — August Heat, show and shine, hosted by the Central Alberta Mopar Association, goes on Aug. 25 at the west parking lot of Bower Place Mall. Registration begins at 9 a.m., show runs until 5 p.m. Show is open to more than just muscle; any Chrysler family vehicle is welcome. For more information call Ron at 403-3186888 or Jim at 403-347-5030.

Sunday ● Cronquist 100 — A Centennial Celebration: 1912-2012 takes place Aug. 26 at Bower Ponds at Great Chief Park from 1 to 4 p.m. Free admission, free tours, free birthday cake and refreshments, storytelling and entertainment including a theatrical presentation and historical accounts of 1900 to 1920 era celebrating the accomplishments of this Swedish family that immigrated in 1894, along with pioneer children’s activities and old time music and more. Picnics welcome. Chairs or blankets encouraged, sun hats, umbrellas, mosquito repellent recommended. Donations welcome. Email to rdchs.events@ telus.net, or phone 403-346-005. The Tea House is now open Tuesday to Friday until Aug. 31 with lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., afternoon tea and desserts from 2 to 4 p.m. featuring homemade sun tea and Cronquist Apple Pie and more. ● Bentley United Church holds services on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Coffee and fellowship are offered following the service. Call Rev. Adam Kilner at 403-877-9240, or Gail at 403-748-2935. ● Stephansson House Harvest Fair Penny Carnival will be held on Aug. 26 from noon to 5 p.m. Family activities include oldfashioned carnival games, baking samples, local vendors, craft demonstrations and a tour of the historical Stephansson House. Admission is $3 for adults or $8 for a family, $2 for seniors and youth

and free for children under six. Stephansson House is located seven km north of Markerville, off secondary highways 781 and 592. For more information visit www.stephanssonhouse.org or call 403-728-3929.

cost is $10 per person. Drop-ins welcome, larger groups may wish to reserve a table by calling 403-340-511. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Elnora Drop-in Centre. Call 403-749-2047 or 403-773-3600. ● Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with Peace Hills Country Ramblers is on Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $6, or $11.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

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Women’s National Keelboat Championship will be hosted by Sylvan Lake Sailing Club Aug. 30 to Sept. 2. Come see 14 teams of four sailors from British Columbia to Ontario compete. See more details at www. sylvansailing.ca, or phone Rick at 403-3526077, or Margaret at 403-318-3766. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on Aug. 30 at the north side of the Red Deer Curling Club parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for a 10 km hike to Bower Ponds. Hike will be cancelled if raining or about to rain, or if the temperature is too high for healthy hiking. Phone Art at 403-347-5778, or Mavis at 403-343-0091 or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

Monday ● Ponoka T.O.P.S. meets on Mondays at Ponoka United Church. Weigh in is held from 6:30 to 7 p.m., with the meeting to follow from 7 to 7:45 p.m. Please use the south entrance. Contact Cheryl at 403-348-9893, or Betty at 403-783-2248. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre card games are played on the following days: Canasta — Mondays at 1 p.m., Singles Bridge — Wednesdays year round at 1 p.m., $2; Partner Bridge — second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., $3. For more information on cards please call Diane at 403-343-6074. ● Innisfail and District Garden Club meets the fourth Monday of each month, except for Dec., in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall. Please use the back door. Meetings feature speakers, tours, films, contests, plant exchanges and more. Call Davina at 403598-9481.

Tuesday ● Red Deer Native Friendship Society Barbecue and Open House and Spirit Seekers Youth Garage Sale will be held on Aug. 28 from noon to 6 p.m. Join the staff and tour the new Friendship Centre at 4808 51 St. just north of Original Joe’s restaurant in the former Women’s Outreach location. Learn about the society’s services and register for fall programs. The youth are fundraising to continue youth activities during the time when funding has been frozen. Donations welcome. Phone 403-340-0020. ● Red Deer Chamber Singers will be starting the fall season on Aug. 28, 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. Those who like to sing and enjoy the camaraderie of singing in a group are invited. Learn proper posture, breath support, and sound production while enjoying a wide variety of music. The group continues to meet Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church, and will perform on Nov. 29 and 30. Come out on Aug. 28 or call Sadie at 403-347-5166 for more information. ● Lacombe Kozy Korner Senior Centre offers weekly dinners on Tuesdays at noon. Dinners include a hot meal, dessert and coffee or tea for $7, payable at the door. For more information call 403-782-6216. ● The Red Deer Wildrose Harmonizers Barbershop Chorus are beginning practice for the upcoming season and invite men of all ages to join them. No experience is required, just a love and enjoyment for singing. Meetings are held every Tuesday, 7 p.m. at the Davenport Church of Christ. For more information call David at 403-342-1318 or Marvin at 403-343-0223 or visit www.harmonizers.ca

Wednesday ● The Ladies of the Sunnybrook Farm Museum are presenting their annual Lunch at the Farm events between noon and 3 p.m. on Aug. 29 and Sept. 12. Guests can relax in the 1889 Hanna Log House and enjoy lunch including home-made pie with ice cream and musical entertainment. The afternoon features a guided wagon ride showcasing the history of Sunnybrook Farm Museum. The

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Mirror Old Tyme Dances are held on the fourth Saturday of every second month at the Community Hall. Next dance Sept. 22. Live bands, cash bar and doors open at 7 p.m. with dancing from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Potluck lunch served. Admission is $10. Everyone welcome. Event sponsored by the Mirror Recreation Society. For more information call Cheryl at 403-788-3778 or Margaret at 403788-3979. ● Central Alberta Historical Society Fundraising Dinner, will be held on Sept. 19 at Pioneer Lodge. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6. Cost is $20 or $25 for nonmembers for a buffalo stew, bannock and Saskatoon pie dinner. Tickets available from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Centennial Office, 4816 50 Ave. Guest speaker will be Gerhard Ens, Professor of History, U of A, speaking about the background of the Blackfoot Geography of 1871. AGM and program do not require a ticket. For more information, call 403-340-2013. ● Red Deer Catalina Swim Club Rookie Camp for youth will be held Sept. 4 to Sept. 7 at Michener Pool. Ages nine years and under will attend from 4 to 5:00 p.m. and ages 10 and over from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. each day. Cost is $50. Call 403-347-7946 to register. View more information at www.reddeercatalina Canadian Mental Health Association Facilitator Training course will be held on Sept. 17, 24 and Oct. 1 at the CMHA office. Sessions run from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m. Staff will be available for individual consultation until 4:30 p.m.; lunch is on your own. This course is designed to meet the training needs of people facilitating time limited and on-going groups. Call 403-342-2266 or email to education@reddeer.cmha.ab.ca. ● “So What?” Series, will be offered by Volunteer Red Deer on Sept. 18 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hampton Inn and Suites. This session will present research to boost the practice and outcomes of nonprofit organizations. Register for this free information session by calling 403-346-4636. ● She Has a Name, a story of human trafficking, written by Andrew Kooman of Red Deer, will be shown at the Scott Block Theatre on Oct. 2-6, 7:30 and a 2 p.m. showing on Oct. 6. There will be a talk back panel on Oct. 6 following the matinee show. Tickets available at www.shehasaname.net or call 1-800-836-3006. ● Smart Sizing is for the dogs — an opportunity to donate used towels and bedding to provide comfort for dogs and cats in need — is organized by Redwoods Retirement Residence, in partnership with Paws and Claws Animal Rescue. Bring your donations this summer to The Redwoods, 6 Daykin Street or call 403-309-6333. ● Greater Tuna — a real redneck comedy — is the season opening fundraiser play for Central Alberta Theatre, on Sept. 6 to 9, and 13 to 16. Thursday shows, 7 p.m. are $25. On Fridays and Saturdays pre-show hors d’oeuvres start at 7 p.m. with show for $42. On Sundays, pre-show starts at 6 p.m.

Tickets available through the Black Knight Inn, 403-755-6626. Call Judith at 403-3093590 or email moodtrek@telus.net. ● Knox Presbyterian Church presents Help — a Beatles Tribute Band — for their fall fundraiser on Sept. 7. A silent auction and wine and cheese reception start at 6:30 p.m. followed by the concert at 7:30. Tickets are $30. Call 403-346-4560. ● Walk for Wellness and Suicide Prevention will be held on Sept. 21, 4 p.m. at the ME Global Athletic Park in Lacombe. Please wear white shirts, bring pictures for the memorial wall and join in the walk, a barbecue by donation and listen to informative speakers. For more information contact Heather at 403-782-4024 or Barb at Neighbourhood Place, 403-782-0886. Alzheimer Society National Coffee Break Campaign is in full swing. The society invites everyone in Central Alberta to host or take part in a Coffee Break event to raise awareness and funds for education and support programs. The campaign runs through September and October and includes World Alzheimer Day on Sept. 21. For more information or to order a Coffee Break Kit, contact Janice at 403-346-4636 or email jfogarty@ alzheimer.ab.ca, or go online to www.alzheimercoffeebreak.ca ● Personal And Social Transformation Action (PASTA) Players meet on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Hub. Persons aged 12 years and up invited to explore theatre. Free to join. No experience required. Phone 403-340-4869. Next meeting Sept. 5. ● The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band is recruiting both experienced and inexperienced people from the Central Alberta are who are interested in joining the band. Anyone interested in piping or drumming is welcome. Practices are held at the Red Deer Legion on Tuesdays and 7 p.m. New members will start Sept. 25. Contact 403-782-7183 for more information. ● Central Alberta Photographic Society (CAPS) will hold an open house on Sept. 12 at the Golden Circle. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the meeting at 7 p.m. The club is suitable for photographers of all levels and additional beginner classes are available for a small fee. There is no charge for the open house; yearly memberships are $50. The club meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. from Sept. to May. Contact Gillian at 403-340-2609 or visit www.centralalbertaphotographicsociety.com. ● Yoga Alliance of Red Deer (YARD) registration is open now for the fall session, Sept. 17 to Dec. 16. Cost is $130 for 13 weeks. Drop ins welcom. Ask about new punch card. Visit www.reddeeryoga.ca, phone 403-350-5830 or email info@reddeeryoga.ca ● Klaglahachie Fine Arts Society present Jake and The Kid. Tickets go on sale Aug. 1 at the Ponoka United Church at 10 a.m. Production will run Sept. 7, 8, 14 and 15. Beef on a bun and fixin’s dinner and theatre tickets are $30. Theatre only tickets are $15. Call 403-783-4087 or 403-783-2202.

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Who’s to blame when sex goes bad? Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 14 years. The fine and your lack of interest was sudden, you may first few, everything was good, and then I stopped want to get a referral to see a doctor who specializes enjoying sex. in sexual disorders. A normal balance of hormones I’ve seen several different doctors and had my for most women may be insufficient for you. hormones checked, and the verdict is that And of course, there are other posI am in great health for a 39-year-old. sibilities — psychological issues, weight I think the main problem is, while I issues, nutrition deficiencies, medicalove my husband, I don’t find him attractions — all of which can affect desire and tive. I’m not sure I ever did. libido. I was 23 when we met and had never You owe it to yourself and your hushad a boyfriend. Men had never been inband to figure this out. Good luck. terested in me until he came along. Dear Annie: I am appalled by my own He is smart, funny and experimental offspring. in the bedroom, so it isn’t like we haven’t My son is 30, and my daughter-in-law is tried new things. He would do anything 27. My grandchild is 16 months old. for me. We had been travelling and stopped But, Annie, having sex with him is a at a restaurant. While we waited for our massive chore. I suspect he knows this, food, my son and his wife fed my grandMITCHELL and I hate making him feel bad. I can’t child her dinner. & SUGAR fake passion I don’t feel. The end result was at least 10 pasta To tell the truth, I doubt another man noodles dropped on the carpeted floor would do it for me, either, and I’m not atunder the table. tracted to women. I cleaned them up, but it should have I feel like a part of me is missing, and I been the job of my so-called adult childon’t know how to find it. What now? — Berlin, Ger- dren to leave our table floor area clean. many They felt it was no big deal to leave the mess. Dear Berlin: It is possible that you are asexual -We most likely will never return to that restaumeaning you are not attracted, sexually, to anyone. rant, and they won’t remember us anyway. If this sounds like what you are experiencing, please But if it had been my place of business, I would look into AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education have told us not to return until we had manners. Network) at asexuality.org. What do you say? — Angry and Embarrassed. However, if your libido previously was working Dear Angry: We say calm down.

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Restaurants serve food. People — both children and adults — spill and drop food all the time. While one should not deliberately toss food around, and it behooves parents to keep the mess to a minimum and pick up what they can, it isn’t necessary to leave the floor spotless. Cleaning up is part of the overhead costs, and the management does not expect patrons to do all the work. Dear Annie: I believe you were wrong in your advice to “Frustrated and Alone in Indianapolis,” whose mother is difficult. You suggested he try to find better ways to deal with her. I, too, have had to deal with a mother like his. I finally had to make the same decision and cut all ties. It was not easy, but I am healthier for it. I don’t miss my mother, only the idea of a mother. Some people are so toxic that you simply cannot have them in your life. — B.T. Dear B.T.: “Frustrated’s” mother sounded like someone who has learned to push her son’s buttons. We felt it might be worth figuring out how to respond differently to her and see whether that helps before cutting her off. We still do. 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.

your responsibilities into something that feels more enjoyable. You bring a spirit of lightness and joy to any task. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Consider signing up or reconnecting with a group of people committed to their own individual goals, yet guided by a similar desire. A structured program provides support and helps you know you are on the right track. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The request is simple enough, but you sense there are underlying strings. Decide if the price is worth paying and if you have the toll. If you want what’s on offer, consider all likely consequences before you accept. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Though mystics have stayed up late into the night in hopes of courting inspiration, work you do after a full nights rest is of a different quality than that done when in a state of deprivation. You have the drive. Now find the balance. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Concentration may not be your strength today. You may find it hard to focus. However, your mental ineptitude is indicating a deeper drive. Emotions are coming forward. Time in purposeful isolation will bring clarity and

return your drive. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is love available to you everywhere you look. The problem is, you aren’t looking far enough. Your vision is focused on a task and there is little room for sentiment. It would bring a sense of purpose to your actions. Let love in. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Comedians find the greatest laughs come from pain and tragedy. A knack for seeing the humor in life’s difficulties is a great gift to all who witness the struggle. You’re moving beyond a rough patch. As you see the funny side, you’ll truly tap into the wisdom. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s common to find areas of improvement, whether with our body or with our lives. It takes a very strong spirit to truly be alright exactly with whom you are. You have a moment of deep selfacceptance now. Nurture it as the gift it is. Nadiya Shah is a consulting astrologer, syndicated sun sign columnist and holds a master’s degree in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination, from the University of Kent, U.K. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Extra emphasis on rookies BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

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SANTANA SHUT DOWN NEW YORK — New York Mets ace Johan Santana is headed to the disabled list and not expected to pitch again this season. General manager Sandy Alderson said Wednesday that the left-hander was going on the 15-day DL with inflammation in his lower back. Doctors are not recommending surgery. Santana has had an up-and-down season in his return from shoulder surgery that kept him out more than a year. He threw the team’s first no-hitter June 1 but is 3-7 with an 8.27 ERA since throwing a careerhigh 134 pitches in that game. He is 6-9 with a 4.85 ERA in 21 starts overall. The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner is in the fifth season of a $137.5 million, six-year contract. - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Red Deer Rebels coaching staff will place extra emphasis on the rookies during this year’s training camp, with most of the first two days reserved for the club’s youngest prospects. “We just felt we’d done it the same way for quite a few years and we wanted to change it up a bit and give a little more focus to the young guys,” Rebels GM/head coach Jesse Wallin said Wednesday. “When the camp is run with the rookies and veterans at the same time, it makes for long, busy days. This way we can focus a little more on the rookies and be able to spend more time with them.” The rookies will register Saturday afternoon at the Centrium and will be on the ice from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The rookie camp continues Sunday with 90-minute sessions starting at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and a goaltenders session set for 1-2 p.m. The contingent of 15- and 16-year-olds will return to the ice at the same times Monday — with the goaltenders on from 1-2 p.m. — and main camp will open at 5 p.m. and will continue with 90-minute sessions at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday. The teams picked for Wednesday’s 7 p.m. Black and White intrasquad game will engage in 45-minute pre-game skates at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 18-year-old forwards Marc Mackenzie and Mason Burr have informed Wallin that they will not be returning to the Rebels. Mackenzie, who joined the club from Okanagan College in Kelowna midway through last season, is returning to school, while Burr is also planning on hitting the books this fall.

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“Mackenzie had the shoulder injury last season and it’s come out on him a couple of times since. He’s concerned about it and he doesn’t have the passion to continue playing, so he’s enrolling in college,” said Wallin. As for Burr . . . “He said his heart just wasn’t in it. He doesn’t see how he has a future in the game and he’s quitting altogether,” said Wallin. “He plans on going to school. It sounds like he’s not even going to put on skates this winter.” In addition, Wallin doesn’t expect to see American players Nick Seeler, Taylor Cammarata and Blake Weyrick in main camp. Seeler, a defenceman and Minnesota Wild draft pick, will attend the University of Omaha-Nebraska in the fall and Cammara-

ta, a centre, is committed to the University of Minnesota, apparently starting in 201314. Both Seeler and Cammarata are listed players, while Weyrick, a goaltender taken late in the 2011 WHL bantam draft, also appears to be college-bound after spending last season with the midget AAA team at Shattuck St. Mary’s. Cammarata scored 27 goals and collected 69 points in 60 games with Waterloo of the USHL last winter. “He plans to play there for another year and then make a decision on his future depending on what happens with him in the (2013) NHL draft,” said Wallin. “He’s a guy we just wanted to take a chance on, a very gifted kid who had a great season as a 16-year-old in the USHL. “All of these guys will stay on our college list and if things change in the future we will continue to recruit them.” The Rebels will open their six-game exhibition season Sept. 1 at St. Albert, taking on the Prince George Cougars in the Edmonton Oil Kings preseason tournament. Red Deer will face the Oil Kings the following day. From there, the Rebels will meet the Calgary Hitmen Sept. 7 at Calgary Winsport and will tangle with the Lethbridge Hurricanes 24 hours later at Innisfail. The following weekend, Red Deer will meet the Oil Kings Sept. 14 at Lacombe and will face the Medicine Hat Tigers the next day at Stettler. Red Deer’s regular-season opener is Sept. 21 versus the visiting Hitmen. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Detroit Tigers’ Austin Jackson, left, scores on a single by Prince Fielder as Toronto Blue Jays catcher Jeff Mathis loses the ball in the sixth inning on Wednesday, in Detroit. The Blue Jays lost the game 3-2. out slugger Jose Bautista, who has been out since mid-July with a left wrist injury. He’s expected to rejoin the team Friday. Sanchez and Omar Infante both came to Detroit from Miami in the same trade last month, and each played an important role Wednesday. Infante’s triple in the fourth was Detroit’s first hit of the game, and he came home on a wild pitch to make it 1-0. Sanchez settled in nicely in what may have been his best outing with the Tigers. The right-hander allowed 12 runs in his previous two starts but stayed mostly out of trouble against Toronto. “His stuff was really electric, probably as crisp as it’s been

since we got him,” Avila said. “He looked great, using all his pitches. He had real good life on his fastball.” Jeff Baker’s RBI single in the fifth made it 2-0, but the Blue Jays came back with an unearned run in the sixth. Rajai Davis walked, stole second and went to third on Sanchez’s error on a pickoff throw. He eventually scored on Edwin Encarnacion’s single. But the Tigers didn’t have a monopoly on poor defence. Toronto shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria’s error allowed Austin Jackson to reach in the bottom of the inning. He was sacrificed to second and came in to score on Prince Fielder’s single. Davis’ throw home from left field

nearly had Jackson, but the ball scooted away from catcher Jeff Mathis as Jackson slid home. “I thought Aaron threw the ball really well,” Farrell said. “We had an error in one inning and missed a bang-bang play at the plate, and that puts you on the short end of a 3-2 scoreline.” Hechavarria’s sacrifice fly in the seventh made it 3-2, and Sanchez left the game after that. Brayan Villarreal got Davis to ground out to end that threat. In the eighth, Detroit’s Joaquin Benoit allowed a walk and a single, and an error put runners on second and third with two out. Yorvit Torrealba hit a flyball to centre for the third out.

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Tigers 3 Blue Jays 2 DETROIT — This is what the Toronto Blue Jays have apparently been reduced to: 45-yearold Omar Vizquel trying to steal second in the ninth inning of a one-run game. Vizquel was caught by Alex Avila’s strong throw for the final out Wednesday night, and the Blue Jays lost 3-2 to the Detroit Tigers. Toronto has scored three or fewer runs in six straight games. In fairness, Vizquel had been successful on his other three steal attempts this year — and Detroit closer Jose Valverde doesn’t hold runners well. But right now, it seems as though nothing is going right offensively for the Blue Jays. “We’re struggling to score runs, so we’re trying to manufacture something with two outs,” manager John Farrell said. “Valverde has a slow release, so we were going to go after him even with mediumspeed runners. We’re trying to force Avila into making a perfect throw, and he did. You just tip your cap on that one.” Detroit’s Anibal Sanchez (23) allowed one earned run and five hits in 6 2-3 innings. He struck out six and walked two, leaving with the tying run on third base. The bullpen closed it out with Valverde pitching the ninth for his 25th save in 29 chances and 100th save as a Tiger. Aaron Laffey (3-5) allowed two earned runs and five hits in six-plus innings. He walked three and struck out two. “I’ve been working really hard on keeping my arm high and getting on top of my sinker, and it absolutely paid off today,” Laffey said. “I felt really good out there.” The Blue Jays are still with-

EDMONTON — Taylor Hall is in for the long haul in Edmonton. The Oilers signed the young forward to a US$42-million, seven-year contract extension Wednesday and the Calgary native said he had no hesitation about the length of the deal. “When they said seven years I didn’t blink,” the 20-year-old Hall said. “I’m comfortable being here for that long. I think by that time ... I hope we’re a perennial threat. That’s my main goal and my mindset when I signed the deal.” Hall was the Oilers’ first overall pick in 2010 and has since become a key fixture on the team’s youthful top line alongside fellow first overall

pick Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle. “You have to have complete belief in the player and our organization obviously does,” said Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini. “He just brings such a complete level to our organization. He grabs the rope and pulls everybody along.” The deal makes Hall the highest paid player on the Oilers in average salary at $6 million per year. Veteran centre Shawn Horcoff, who signed a hefty six-year, $33-million deal in 2009-10, will make $6 million next season but averages a lower cap hit at $5.5 million. Eberle is also in negotiations for a contract extension and likely looking for similar money to Hall. Eberle made his rookie

debut the same year as Hall and is coming off a breakout season with a team-high 34 goals and 76 points. “We’ve had some good dialogues throughout this whole thing and I think his should be pretty soon,” Hall said of his linemate. “He’s along the same path, he wants to be here and so do I.” Tambellini wouldn’t reveal where the Oilers are in making deal with Eberle. “We’ve had some discussions but I don’t have anything to report at this time,” he said. The Oilers have been in rebuilding mode for several years now. Last season they finished 29th in the NHL with a 32-40-10 record. Hall finished second behind Eberle in scoring with 27 goals and 26 assists in 61 games.

His season was cut short due to a shoulder injury, but says he’s four and half months into a six-month recovery and feeling close to being game-ready. “It’s good, I’m really positive about it,” said Hall. “I’m not going to say I’m perfect on Day 1 but it feels really good now and I’m excited about the process of being healthy.” Hall’s numbers last season were slightly up from his rookie campaign when he had 22 goals and 20 assists in 65 games in another injury-shortened season. Hall and Nugent-Hopkins were the first and second, respectively, of Edmonton’s three straight first overall picks in the last three NHL drafts. In June, the Oilers chose Russian forward Nail Yakupov, who signed an entry-level, three-year deal last month.

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Alberta Downs GB — 3 5 13 15 1/2

Chicago Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 68 55 .553 66 57 .537 55 68 .447 54 70 .435 51 72 .415

GB — 2 13 14 1/2 17

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

West Division W L 72 51 67 56 64 60 61 64

Pct .585 .545 .516 .488

Detroit 000 111 00x — 3 5 3 Laffey, Delabar (7), Janssen (8) and Torrealba, Mathis; A.Sanchez, Villarreal (7), Benoit (8), Valverde (9) and Avila. W—A.Sanchez 2-3. L—Laffey 3-5. Sv—Valverde (25).

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores Los Angeles002 203 000 — 7 15 1 Boston 000 200 010 — 3 10 0 Weaver, Hawkins (8), Jepsen (8), Frieri (9) and Iannetta; Buchholz, Tazawa (6), Melancon (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Weaver 16-3. L—Buchholz 114. HRs—Los Angeles, H.Kendrick (7). Baltimore 001 020 000 — 3 6 0 Texas 010 910 10x — 12 14 0 Tom.Hunter, Gregg (4), J.Romero (5), Lindstrom (6), S.Johnson (7), Ayala (8) and Wieters, Teagarden; D.Holland, M.Lowe (8), Ogando (9) and Soto. W—D.Holland 8-6. L—Tom.Hunter 4-8. HRs—Texas, Beltre 3 (22), Moreland (13).

GB — 5 8 1/2 12

New York 000 001 000 — 1 4 0 Chicago 001 001 00x — 2 6 0 P.Hughes, D.Robertson (8) and R.Martin; Sale, Myers (8), A.Reed (9) and Pierzynski. W—Sale 15-4. L—P.Hughes 12-11. Sv—A.Reed (23). HRs—New York, Jeter (13). Chicago, Rios (20).

Today’s Games Toronto (Happ 2-1) at Detroit (Verlander 12-7), 11:05 a.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 9-9) at Boston (F.Morales 3-4), 5:10 p.m. Oakland (T.Ross 2-8) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 7-8), 5:10 p.m. Minnesota (Diamond 10-5) at Texas (Oswalt 4-2), 6:05 p.m. Friday’s Games L.A. Angels at Detroit, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m. Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Kansas City at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Oakland at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Minnesota at Texas, 6:05 p.m. Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Major League Linescores Kansas City010 000 020 — 3 6 2 Tampa Bay 002 001 11x — 5 9 0 Mendoza, L.Coleman (5), Collins (6), K.Herrera (7), Crow (8) and S.Perez; Shields, McGee (8), Farnsworth (8), Rodney (9) and Lobaton. W—Shields 12-7. L—Mendoza 7-9. Sv—Rodney (39). HRs— Tampa Bay, Lobaton (2). Minnesota 010 000 000 — 1 3 1 Oakland 102 100 10x — 5 8 4 Hendriks, Al.Burnett (6), T.Robertson (7), Fien (7), Perkins (8) and Butera; Milone, R.Cook (9) and Kottaras. W—Milone 10-9. L—Hendriks 0-6. HRs— Oakland, Crisp (8). Cleveland 000 001 000 — 1 8 1 Seattle 100 000 02x — 3 5 0 McAllister, J.Smith (7), Pestano (8) and Marson; Iwakuma, O.Perez (6), C.Capps (7), Furbush (8), Pryor (8), Wilhelmsen (9) and J.Montero. W—Pryor 3-0. L—Pestano 3-1. Sv—Wilhelmsen (19). HRs— Seattle, M.Saunders (14). Toronto

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Pct .553 .540 .512 .444 .402

Chicago 100 000 100 — 2 5 0 Milwaukee 200 001 00x — 3 7 1 T.Wood, Russell (8), Camp (8) and Clevenger; Gallardo, Henderson (8), Axford (9) and M.Maldonado. W—Gallardo 13-8. L—T.Wood 4-10. Sv—Axford (20). HRs—Chicago, DeJesus (6), LaHair (15). Milwaukee, Braun (34). First Game Miami 020 000 000 — 2 5 0 Arizona 201 000 00x — 3 5 0 Ja.Turner, Zambrano (7) and J.Buck; Skaggs, Ziegler (7), D.Hernandez (8), Putz (9) and M.Montero. W—Skaggs 1-0. L—Ja.Turner 0-1. Sv—Putz (26). HRs—Miami, Ruggiano (12). Arizona, A.Hill (18). Pittsburgh 000 100 100 — 2 4 1 San Diego 300 010 00x — 4 5 0 Ja.McDonald, J.Hughes (6), Resop (7) and McKenry; Werner, Brach (7), Gregerson (8), Layne (9) and Jo.Baker. W—Werner 1-0. L—Ja.McDonald 11-6. Sv—Layne (1). HRs—Pittsburgh, G.Sanchez (4). Cincinnati 000 020 010 — 3 11 1 Philadelphia000 010 001 — 2 4 1 Arroyo, Chapman (9) and Hanigan; Worley, Lindblom (7), Valdes (9) and Schneider. W—Arroyo 10-7. L—Worley 6-9. Sv—Chapman (31). HRs— Cincinnati, Bruce (26). Philadelphia, D.Brown (1).

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Thursday’s Games Colorado (Chatwood 3-3) at N.Y. Mets (McHugh 0-0), 11:10 a.m. Houston (Keuchel 1-5) at St. Louis (Westbrook 129), 11:45 a.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 16-6) at Philadelphia (Hamels 14-6), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (Hanson 12-5) at San Francisco (Zito 9-8), 8:15 p.m. Friday’s Games Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Houston at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Atlanta 000 020 003 — 5 9 2 Wash.000 000 010 — 1 9 3 Medlen, O’Flaherty (8), Kimbrel (9) and D.Ross; Detwiler, Stammen (6), Gorzelanny (8) and K.Suzuki. W—Medlen 5-1. L—Detwiler 7-6. Colorado 000 100 202 — 5 8 0 New York 100 000 010 — 2 8 1 Francis, C.Torres (6), Mat.Reynolds (8), W.Harris (8), R.Betancourt (9) and W.Rosario; Harvey, R.Ramirez (7), R.Carson (7), Edgin (8), F.Francisco (9) and Shoppach. W—C.Torres 2-1. L—R.Ramirez 2-3. Sv—R.Betancourt (25). HRs—Colorado, W.Rosario (20). Houston 101 000 000 — 2 3 0 St. Louis 010 020 01x — 4 9 1 B.Norris, W.Wright (7), Fe.Rodriguez (8) and C.Snyder, J.Castro; Lohse, Boggs (8), Motte (9) and Y.Molina. W—Lohse 13-2. L—B.Norris 5-11. Sv— Motte (29). HRs—Houston, Wallace (6), C.Snyder (7). Second Game Miami 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Arizona 100 200 00x — 3 7 0 LeBlanc, M.Dunn (8), Webb (8) and Brantly; Miley, Putz (9) and Nieves. W—Miley 14-8. L—LeBlanc 2-3. Sv—Putz (26).

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE—Suspended Oakland RHP Bartolo Colon 50 games for a violation of the Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Placed OF Peter Bourjos on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Garrett Richards from Salt Lake City (PCL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Agreed to terms with C Jason Jaramillo on a minor league contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed SS Yunel Escobar on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Chad Beck from Las Vegas (PCL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Optioned RHP Sam Demel to Reno (PCL). Selected the contract of LHP Tyler Skaggs from Reno. Recalled OF A.J. Pollock from Reno. COLORADO ROCKIES—Reinstated OF Carlos Gonzalez from the bereavement list. Optioned RHP Guillermo Moscoso to Colorado Springs (PCL). Assigned LHP Dan Merklinger to Colorado Springs. HOUSTON ASTROS—Selected the contract of RHP Hector Ambriz from Oklahoma City (PCL). Designated RHP Armando Galarraga for assignment. MIAMI MARLINS—Assigned SS Gil Velazquez outright to New Orleans (PCL). Recalled RHP Jacob Turner from New Orleans. MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Released LHP Randy Wolf. Recalled INF Jeff Bianchi from Nashville (PCL). NEW YORK METS—Placed LHP Johan Santana on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 18. SAN DIEGO PADRES—Selected the contract of LHP Andrew Werner from Tucson (PCL). Optioned RHP Brad Boxberger to Tucson. Designated OF Jeremy Heredia for assignment. American Association EL PASO DIABLOS—Released RHP Drew A. Graham. WICHITA WINGNUTS—Released C Patrick Murphy. WINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Signed 1B Barbaro Canizares. Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES—Signed RHP Dustin Crenshaw. Frontier League JOLIET SLAMMERS—Signed RHP Alex Thieroff and RHP Eric Zagone. NORMAL CORNBELTERS—Sold the contract of RHP Mitch Mormann to the San Francisco Giants. Signed INF Derrick Fox. ROAD WARRIORS—Released OF Tyler Hall.

FOOTBALL BUFFALO BILLS—Placed CB Cris Hill and S Josh Nesbitt on the waived-injured list. CAROLINA PANTHERS—Waived C Scott Mruczkowski. DETROIT LIONS—Waived DT Michael Cosgrove from the reserve/injured list. MIAMI DOLPHINS—Announced the retirement of G Eric Steinbach. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Designated offensive line coach Aaron Kromer as interim head coach for the first six regular-season games, while assistant head coach Joe Vitt serves his suspension in connection with the NFL’s bounty investigation. ST. LOUIS RAMS—Signed DE Vernon Gholston. TENNESSEE TITANS—Waived DT Shaun Smith.

HOCKEY EDMONTON OILERS—Agreed to terms with F Taylor Hall on a seven-year contract extension. American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed F David Pacan. ECHL STOCKTON THUNDER—Agreed to terms with C Gabriel Levesque. MOTORSPORTS NASCAR—Fined Paul Menard’s crew chief, Slugger Labbe, $100,000 and suspended him, car chief Craig Smokstad and crew member Grant Hutchens until Oct. 3 for illegal modifications found on the Chevrolet last weekend at Michigan. Docked Menard and car owner Richard Childress 25 points. COLLEGE BENTLEY—Named Michele Naughton women’s assistant volleyball coach and Yunqiao Liu student assistant for women’s volleyball. BRIDGEWATER (VA.)—Named John Rogers women’s golf coach. CLEMSON—Named Tim Hall associate head track and field coach. Named Brad Herbster associate head cross country coach. Named Shawn Cobey operations manager for track and field and cross country programs. DREW—Named Charlotte Labate softball coach. DUKE—Named Will Rowe assistant wrestling coach. GARDNER-WEBB—Named Kyle Blevins graduate assistant wrestling coach. LEES-MCRAE—Named Marcus Wilmoth men’s assistant basketball coach and Danny Ives men’s assistant lacrosse coach. LIPSCOMB—Named Paul Phillips assistant baseball coach. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE—Named Ashley Robinson athletic director. NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL—Named Donald Thomas men’s assistant basketball coach. PRESBYTERIAN—Named Corey Mullins women’s assistant basketball coach.

“I had a triple on one of the holes and my putter wasn’t as hot, but I hit a lot of fairways.” The field was cut to the low 70 and ties following Wednesday’s round. Cheryl Van Dornick of Camrose shot an 84 to make the cut with a two-day total of 24-over 172. The individual winner will receive an exemption into the 2012 USGA women’s senior amateur championship, which will take place in Hershey, Pa., from Sept. 8-13. The inter-provincial team championship concluded Wednesday with Team Ontario successfully defending its title.

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BASKETBALL BOSTON CELTICS—Re-signed F Jeff Green. DALLAS MAVERICKS—Announced the retirement of F Eduardo Najera, who was named coach of Texas (NBADL).

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Pressure builds with only a few events left Just as summer is heading into the a second place finish at Cranbrook. home stretch, like it or not, the Cana- Thorsby’s Erik Dublanko took the Jasdian pro rodeo season is also down to per tie-down roping honors in 7.9 seca handful of events to wind up the 2012 onds, while also winning at Cranbrook. regular season. As each and every roMeantime in Pincher Creeek, Big deo is important for those Valley’s Kirsty White, who contestants fighting for a was second at Jasper, was the qualifying spot for the Cafastest barrel racer. Tanner nadian Finals Rodeo in Girletz, who makes his home Edmonton, the pressure in Bowden, finished first for builds at these last few the bull riding, while Zeke chances. Thurston of Big Valley was Some central Alberta second in the saddle bronc competitors were able to riding. pick up valuable dollars at Rodeo fans anxious for the trio of weekend ‘mouna little more action before tain’ rodeo stops. At Jasseason’s end can take in a per, Denver Daines built new event, and help local DIANNE on his Ponoka Stampede charity, on Friday at Innisfail. FINSTAD success earlier this sumCalgary Flames star Curtis mer, by winning the saddle Glencross is holding his inaubronc riding title with an gural Roughstock Event at the 84 score on Northcott’s Apache Junc- Daines Ranch. Glencross enlisted the tion. Comfortably inside the top ten in help of friends and fellow bronc riders the Canadian standings thanks to his Kyle Daines and Jim Berry to organize Ponoka victory, the Innisfail singer/ the rodeo portion of the program. songwriter has earned enough money “There will be twelve riders each in to make it to Edmonton. That is, if he the bareback, bull riding, and saddle can make his minimum 15 Canadian bronc,” explained Berry, who makes rodeo appearances. Jasper was num- his home in Rocky Mountain House. ber 12 and he’ll be at his 13th rodeo in “The four best will come back for the Lethbridge this weekend. So he has a Finals, and we’ve got as great a pen of pair to go before he’s can qualify for stock as you can find.” the CFR. For the horses, there are stars like Also at Jasper, Ponoka’s Jake Vold Ross River, Calling Card, Jay Bar Nine claimed first in the bareback riding and American Trip; and the famous with an 84 on Northcott’s Dirty Diana, VJV Slash will be in the finals for the while his neighbor Chance Butterfield bulls, along with Wrangler Rock of Agedged closer to a CFR spot by finishing es. second in the steer wrestling, which is The lineup of riders was by invitaone of the tightest battles of all events. tion, and it’s impressive too. Lacombe’s Cranna Roberts won the “We wanted to invite some of the barrel racing with a 13.236 second run, better end cowboys, and local guys who to keep her among the top three in could possibly come back year after the standings. She added to that with year, and who have families who are

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interested in charity work here.” That ranges from the PBR’s Aaron Roy to up and comers from the region, like Reed Sparks, Cole Jamieson and Ky Marshall. There will be some stars of the NHL world around as well, with a number of Glencross’s fellow players taking part in a sponsors poker tournament the night before at Jackpot Casino. Many have ties to central Alberta as well, like Kris Russell, Cam Ward, and Brandon Sutter. “I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while,” said Glencross, while manipulating a forklift and hanging sponsor banners at the Daines Ranch in preparation for Friday’s event. “I love the western lifestyle, and I have lots of friends who do it.” Glencross’s father, Mel, is the longtime manager of the Burnt Lake Livestock Market, and Curtis is no stranger to mud on his boots. He has cattle of his own, and is often behind the chutes at rodeos, or helping his friend, chuckwagon driver Rae Croteau Jr., with his outfit. “All the proceeds go to charity, with seventy per cent of the money going to the Ronald McDonald house in Red Deer, and 30 per cent to Hockey Alberta to support underprivileged kids who can’t afford to play hockey. We want to help build the sport as much as we can.” And as a family man himself, Glencross is pumped about being able to assist the central Alberta Ronald McDonald house. “We’re fortunate to have two healthy children, but my wife volunteers at the Children’s Hospital and the McDonald House in Calgary, so she sees what it takes to keep it going.”

Along with the riding events Friday, there will be wild pony races and Nikki Flundra will do her liberty horse act. Berry will be climbing into the saddle himself for the competition. He’s coming off several successful weekends of his own on the pro trail, splitting second at Dawson Creek, and placing at Pincher Creek. “It’s probably my best year rodeoing,” Berry commented, of his ninth season as a pro. He’s already won over $27,000, and is third for Canada. That’s only $1,500 away from his total season earnings last year, with several more rodeos and the Canadian Finals to go. “This year me and Rylan Geiger have been travelling together, and it’s unbelievable the amount of money we’ve taken away from rodeos.” Geiger is the number one man in Canada, with more than $33,000. He’s also not out of sight of an NFR berth, with only his Canadian winnings. “Rylan has a really positive attitude. He wants to rodeo and to win. I can’t ask for a better travelling partner.” Berry and host Glencross are both excited about the new charity rodeo event at the Daines event. “We’ve had great support from sponsors like the Flames and PennWest Exploration,” stated Glencross. “The Calgary Stampede is donating a bucking horse to be auctioned off too.” “We hope to be able to donate over $100,000 to the Ronald McDonald house from this weekend,” added Berry. The gates open at 5 p.m. Friday at the Daines Ranch, with the rodeo action to begin around 6 p.m. Admission is $20. Dianne Finstad is a Red Deer rodeo writer.

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TORONTO — The NHL’s latest round of collective bargaining talks ended before they began. A scheduled bargaining session was cancelled Wednesday afternoon after top executives from the league and players’ union held a secret morning meeting to discuss the best way to move forward in the discussions. They mutually decided to reconvene with their negotiating teams on Thursday morning, when key economic issues are slated to be back on the table. “I think system-related proposals and economical proposals are the most critical issues and probably the issues where we have the widest divergence of views currently,” deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Canadian Press in an interview. “I’m all in favour of spending as much time as possible trying to bridge those gaps.” The clock is ticking. The current collective agreement is set to expire Sept. 15 and the NHL says it will lock out the players if a new deal hasn’t been

reached. The atmosphere around the talks is a mix of uncertainty and growing frustration — with NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr acknowledging he didn’t “know what’s going to happen for sure” when the sides met again Thursday. “You get up in the morning and you try and work that day to see if you can make progress,” he added. “If you don’t find an agreement that way you do it again the next day and you keep doing it until you find a way.” On Thursday, the NHLPA will expand on its proposal as it pertains to rules governing player contracts, according to two sources. Those details weren’t previously included when the players presented their offer last week. The sides have put two very different offers on the table and are still grappling with a wide financial gap.

They attempted to start moving toward a more formal negotiation with only the four main players in the room — Daly joined NHL commissioner Gary Bettman for Wednesday morning’s two-hour sitdown with Fehr and his brother Steve Fehr, the union’s No. 2 man. “I think more than anything else it was to review where we are in the process, where we’ve come from, where we are with the various proposals and to determine how to move the process forward in the best way possible — hoping and understanding that both sides are committed to using the time left to making a deal as quickly as possible,” said Daly. Very little progress seemed to be made. However, Donald Fehr cautioned against viewing the subsequent cancellation of an afternoon bargaining session as a bad sign. “This is one of the normal things that happen,” he said. “Sometimes you schedule things and they don’t come off, sometimes you don’t schedule things and you end up with much longer or more involved meetings, sometimes you change the format. This is an ordinary part of the process.”

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BEATLES TRIBUTE BAND Beatles tribute band Help is the featured act at the Knox Presbyterian Church’s fall fundraiser on Sept. 7. Proceeds from the fall fundraiser will go to the Knox Presbyterian Church and Camp Kannawin. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the concert gets underway at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30. For tickets, call the church office (4718 Ross St.) at 403-3464560. Some tickets may be available at the door.

COFFEE BREAK FOR ALZHEIMERS Host a coffee break party and raise money for Alzheimer’s disease during September and October. This do-ityourself fundraiser can be as simple as hosting a coffee party at home, in the office, at a public venue, or as elaborate as organizing a coffee-thon using social media. World Alzheimer’s Day is Sept. 21 so this might make a great day to raise money regarding this brain disease. For more information or to order your Coffee Break kit, call Janice at 403-346-4636, jfogarty@alzheimer. ab.ca or www. alzheimercoffeebreak. ca.

UNITED WAY KICKOFF The United Way of Central Alberta is gearing up for its annual luncheon. Organizers promise that this year’s event, on Sept. 13, will be fun, entertaining and engaging. The 2012 kick off luncheon will go from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Sheraton Hotel’s Exhibition Hall. Tickets are $50 per person or $400 for a table of eight. For more information, visit www. caunitedway.ca.

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Assault on Mountie results in jail term BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Sylvan Lake teen was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to assaulting three men, including an RCMP officer. Danton Rick Tuck, 19 pleaded guilty to assault, assault causing bodily harm, escaping lawful custody, and obstructing a peace officer in Red Deer provincial court. Tuck, his father Richard Ivan Tuck, 39, and his uncle Stan Gilmour, 28, of Calgary were all charged after police responded to a 3 a.m. scrap in Sylvan Lake on Sept. 11, 2011.

The three men had been drinking in a local bar when they ran into a couple of other men outside near Lakeshore Drive and 51st Street and a fight occurred. Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker said an RCMP officer was on patrol when he saw a commotion. As he arrived, he saw Danton Tuck kick the head of a man lying on the ground. Turning on his emergency lights, the officer went to arrest the teen. When he had him up against the car, Danton’s father and uncle turned on the officer. Flailing his arms, Danton Tuck managed to free himself and he took off into the night.

The officer suffered bruises and lacerations to his face and ear and had a tooth chipped in the fracas, Silliker said. The civilian victim who was kicked in the head suffered a concussion and missed 40 days of work. He still has lingering health problems, including dizziness and anxiety attacks. Danton was charged after he turned himself into police about 90 minutes after the incident. Defence lawyer Will Willms said his client has no prior criminal record and foolishly took on a challenge to fight that night and “got absolutely carried away.” In a joint submission, the

SYLVAN LAKE TEEN GETS 45 DAYS FOR ASSAULTING THREE MEN OUTSIDE A LAKESHORE BAR LAST YEAR Crown and defence suggested a 45-day sentence, including 30 days for the assault causing bodily harm on the man who was kicked, and 15 days on each of the other charges. Tuck will get five days credit for time previous served in the remand centre. Judge Darrel Riemer also put Tuck on probation for a year, which includes a ban on drinking alcohol, and a 10-year weapons prohibition. He must surrender a sample of his DNA to a national database. Gilmour previously pleaded guilty to obstructing or resisting a police officer and was fined $1,000. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Teen not guilty in violent assualt LACOMBE TEEN WHO STABBED STEPMOTHER WILL HAVE FATE IN HANDS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES BOARD AFTER BEING DECLARED NOT GUILTY BY MENTAL DISORDER BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A Lacombe teen who stabbed his stepmother was declared not guilty due to a mental disorder when he appeared in Red Deer provincial court Wednesday. The “extraordinary” violent attack came out of the blue as his stepmother waited to drive him to school. The subdued 17-year-old boy continued to stare directly ahead as Red Deer provincial court Judge David Plosz concurred with the recommendations of both the Crown and defense council by putting the adolescent’s fate in the hands of a provincial mental health board. Plosz accepted the advice of lawyer Luke Kurata by seeking a 90-day assessment by the board instead of the standard 45 days. Kurata sought the longer period, saying his young client’s circumstances were exceptional. Psychiatrists concluded the teen, who was charged with aggravated assault, had a temporary “acute psychotic episode” when he stabbed his stepmother in the neck after breakfast on April 12. This is the first such episode he is known to have experienced. Kurata and Crown prosecutor Denis Huot agreed that there had been no tension between the teen and his step mom. The teen cannot be named under provisions of the youth justice act. There were also no warning signs of the attack that came after an ordinary family breakfast. His client later explained to au-

thorities that “voices” commanded him to attack his stepmother. According to an agreed statement of facts, the normally passive youth came up behind the 39-year-old as she waited in the front doorway to take him to school. He put her into a headlock and stabbed her neck with a folding knife. When the victim struggled to remove the blade, cutting her hand in the process, the teenager tore at her neck wound with his fingers to enlarge it. He dragged his stepmother back by the hair when she attempted to flee. She later escaped to get help after the youth became distracted by the family dog. Plosz agreed the circumstances were “extraordinary” because the youth was not previously known to suffer from schizophrenia or any mental disorder. Kurata believes a full physiological assessment, including brain scans, will be needed along with a psychological assessment. The lawyer characterized the attack as completely out of his client’s character, and said it’s left the depressed teen feeling “terrible” remorse. “He is absolutely committed to doing everything in his power to cooperate . . . so his life becomes wholly manageable and so nothing like this happens again.” The Crown dropped attempted murder and several other charges aainst him. Plosz recommended the youth be transported immediately to Alberta Hospital Edmonton for the assessment. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS School summit here on Monday Representatives from seven Central Alberta school divisions, Red Deer College and Alberta Enterprise and Higher Education will put their heads together at an Educational Summit on Monday. Hosted by RDC, the one-day summit will explore strategies to deal with common issues, including participation and graduation rates and transition to post-secondary institutions. Enterprise and Advanced Education Minister Stephen Khan is expected to attend. Superintendents and board chairs from Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, RDC,

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Coach Marc Shymko watches Mark Hendrickson, 14, come in for landing at the Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club’s ski ramps at Three Mile Bend Recreation Area Wednesday. The provincial team is in Red Deer working in its skills in a week-long camp.

Chinook’s Edge School Division, Red Deer Public Schools, Clearview School Division, Wolf Creek School Division, and Wild Rose School Division and Prairie Land School Division will participate in the discussions.

Creek Public Schools, and representatives from the City of Lacombe are expected to attend.

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Parents in the Iron Wolf subdivision in Lacombe will host a public meeting to discuss school busing at the Lacombe Memorial Centre on Monday. Parents are concerned with their children’s safety because the youngsters have to cross Hwy 12, Hwy 2A and a busy railway crossing to attend either James S. McCormick or Lacombe Upper Middle School. Students who live closer than 2.4 km from their designated schools must either walk or pay a fee to ride the bus. The parents feel the busing should be covered because of the safety risks. The meeting gets underway at 7 p.m. in the Servus Credit Union Room. Larry Jacobs, superintendent of Wolf

The Children’s Department at the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown location will close for renovations from Sept. 4 to Oct. 8. Staff is asking members to sign out as many children’s library materials as they want because materials will not be available during the closure. The loan period has been extended for the entire length of the closure so users should not be concerned about late fines. All downtown children’s story times and other programs will be cancelled at the location. The programs will run at the Dawe branch. For more information, call 403-3464688.

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Harper christened new NWT national park PM SAYS NEW PARK A BALANCE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NORMAN WELLS, N.W.T. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vast tract of mountainous Northwest Territories terrain was christened Wednesday as a new national park that Stephen Harper billed as striking a balance between protecting the environment and growing Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. The original NDaDatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ihchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oh reserve proposal was to protect 7,600 square kilometres from commercial activity, but the final decision instead sets aside just over 4,300 square kilometres of lakes and rainbow-hued mountains about 90 minutes south of Norman Wells. The remaining territory has potential for mineral development, which is why it was left out of the final plan, officials said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of our objectives is to make sure we protect our environment and also allow for economic opportunity here,â&#x20AC;? said Harper, who unveiled plans for the park as part of his annual late-summer sojourn through Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North. The mountain from which the park takes its name is of spiritual significance to the Sahtu Dene, who were part of the negotiations for the new reserve. Frank Andrew, grand chief of the Sahtu, acknowledged his band would have liked to see a bigger park. And though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worried about natural resources development, there could be a trade off, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are going to be different jobs and that for the people, we figure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll might be able to balance that,â&#x20AC;? Andrew said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Land protection is so important for

our people.â&#x20AC;? Harper and his wife Laureen took a 90-minute float plane ride to the new park area Tuesday to see it for themselves. Once they got there, they strolled through willows to reach a tiny outcropping overlooking Moose Ponds. When everyone fell still, not a single sound could be heard over the pond, which is a popular starting point for canoe trips and hunting expeditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a spectacular place for a new national park,â&#x20AC;? Harper said. Harper suggested to a Parks Canada employee that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aware locals are sometimes leery of parks because of their potential impact on economic opportunities. Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod said the park shows there can be a balance between the two. But whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more important, he said, is how all levels of government worked together with aboriginal groups to unlock Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential. Those relationships, he said, need to be broader. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our northern resources will benefit the entire country once unlocked,â&#x20AC;? McLeod said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to work as a confederation on energy matters. We cannot strand the Northwest Territories for another 40 years.â&#x20AC;? The future fortunes of Norman Wells, historically an oil and gas hub, have been called into doubt by the precarious state of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a 1,196-kilometre natural gas line from the Beaufort Sea to North American markets. Norman Wells, about 680 kilometres north of Yellowknife, is home to some of the infrastructure. Residents had hoped the govern-

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen are greeted as they arrive in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut Wednesday. ment would help pay for an all-season road out of the community to help build more of infrastructure required for the oil and gas industry. While the federal government has given some money to industry in order to compensate for underdevelopment, Harper suggested no more was coming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fundamentally, the proponents themselves have to make a decision on whether these projects are commercially viable,â&#x20AC;? he said.

While the Conservatives consider themselves champions of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national parks, the agency in charge of running them was hit hard in the recent federal budget. Parks Canada has since announced the closure of services at many parks, including in the North, and locals are concerned about the implications for tourism. But the new park isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to suffer, said Alan Latourelle, Parks Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief executive officer.

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VANCOUVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix says if he is elected premier next May, his government will withdraw from the current environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway project and set up a â&#x20AC;&#x153;made in B.C.â&#x20AC;? review instead. That independent review will allow British Columbia to â&#x20AC;&#x153;reassert its authorityâ&#x20AC;? over the assessment of the controversial Enbridge (TSX: ENB) pipeline, power that Dix says the provincial Liberal government has turned over to the federal cabinet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we do nothing, then the decision of the B.C. government will be made by 1/8Prime Minister 3/8 Stephen Harper,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acceptable to British Columbians. I think the people of B.C. want to have a voice in that process and we intend to provide that.â&#x20AC;? The panel reviewing the project jointly represents the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Authority. More than 4,000 people and groups have asked to make oral submissions at the panel review. The panel has been holding hearings across Alberta and B.C., and has heard oral evidence from 16 B.C. communities since January. The panel will be hearing from more people in Victoria, Vancouver and Kelowna early next year, and the hearings are expected to wrap up next April with a report due by the end of 2013. One month after the hearings end, British Columbians will go to the polls in a provincial election. Dixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opposition to the Northern Gateway project

was outlined in a letter submitted to the Joint Review Panel in April. He reiterated his position on Wednesday, prompting B.C. Aboriginal Relations Minister Mary Polak to question the credibility of the kind of review Dix proposes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One would think maybe (Dix) should have announced (the review) prior to (the NDP) taking a position on the pipeline because, of course, for a review to be seen as fair and to be seen as unbiased, you need...not to have already taken a position saying you will absolutely oppose the project,â&#x20AC;? she said in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if you could put in place processes that protect the environmental review from the political opinion...the perception of bias in the international community around investment would be present simply because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already come out and said there is absolutely no way heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to support this.â&#x20AC;? The NDP could not say how much a separate review process would cost. Dix acknowledged there would be cost to taxpayers, but he said there is a lot more at stake financially and environmentally for the province. Dix acknowledged the federal government ultimately has primary jurisdiction over the fate of the 1,170-kilometre pipeline that would transport oil sands diluted bitumen from Alberta to Kitimat for shipping by tanker to Asian markets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to have an environmental review and

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TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canadian Auto Workers delegates have voted unanimously to merge with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, combining two of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest private-sector unions. All of the voting delegates voted for the merger at the CAWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constitutional and collective bargaining convention in Toronto. CEP delegates will vote on the proposal when they meet in October. The new union would represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 economic sectors. Most of the membership would be concentrated in manufacturing, communications and transportation. CAW leader Ken Lewenza and other key players have said the two groups must join forces in order to ensure protection for existing members and inject some life back into the national labour movement. It will be hard for the CAW to part with its name, Lewenza said Wednesday before the results of the vote were announced. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a name,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding that a new approach to organized labour is needed in light of what he calls the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attack on unions in recent years. CEP president Dave Coles said the merger

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have our own certification process in British Columbia,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the federal government does at that point, given that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve accepted we have some of the jurisdiction, remains to be seen, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to assert our jurisdiction.â&#x20AC;? In June 2010, the provincial and federal governments signed an agreement that allows either party to withdraw from any National Energy Board environmental assessment of a project upon giving 30 daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; notice. Dix, who was joined by NDP environmental critic Rob Fleming and constitutional lawyer Murray Rankin on Wednesday, said he would serve Ottawa the notice within a week in office. But when asked whether the outcome of a provincial environmental review can have the authority to block the project, both Dix and Rankin said it is a matter that a legal team is going to examine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The primary jurisdiction for an inter-provincial pipeline is federal,â&#x20AC;? Rankin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That does not mean, however, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a number of provincial powers that can come to play in a circumstance like this. A team of constitutional lawyers right now is trying to analyze just what that would mean.â&#x20AC;? A spokesman for federal Environment Minister Peter Kent said Kent will not comment on hypotheticals. Environmental advocates say they support Dixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, particularly when the federal government recently implemented budget cuts to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The federal budget bill earlier this year gutted the whole federal environmental process, basically paving the road for pipelines and tankers,â&#x20AC;? said Karen Wristen of Living Oceans Society.

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Kroeger, Lavigne gush over love NICKELBACK FRONTMAN, FELLOW ROCKER ENGAGED BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Nickelback may be known for their over-the-top pyrotechnics, but frontman Chad Kroeger reportedly took a low-key approach when he proposed to fellow rocker Avril Lavigne. This week’s issue of Hello! Canada magazine, due out Thursday, has an exclusive interview with the newly announced Canadian music power duo in which Kroeger says: “I feel like the luckiest person alive.” He also reveals he used a scrapbook to pop the question to Lavigne as the pair worked together on her upcoming fifth studio album in Los Angeles. “It happened in their recording studio. She was scrapbooking and he added a page to the scrapbook, and the page said: ‘Will you marry me?”’ Alison Eastwood, editor-in-chief of Hello! Canada, said Wednesday in a telephone interview. Lavigne, 27, and Kroeger, 37, shocked music fans and media outlets Tuesday when they announced their engagement after a six-month courtship that flew under the radar of most pop-culture enthusiasts. Hello! Canada was among those who didn’t previously know of their romance and was “quite surprised” when the couple approached them within the last week to share their story and engagement photographs, said Eastwood. “I think we can safely call them Canada’s new super couple. Between them they have sold, I think, something like 18 million albums, so they’re quite a powerhouse.” The cover of the Hello! Canada magazine issue shows Kroeger hugging Lavigne from behind while she displays the 14-carat pear-shaped diamond engagement ring he picked out for her. They’re both clad in black and beaming. In the five-page photo spread, they reveal they started off as friends on location in Paris and their feelings for each other quickly developed from there. “I knew I was falling for her. It was incredibly powerful and something I’ll never forget,” Kroeger, who hails from

Hanna, Alta., tells the magazine. Says Lavigne, who grew up in Napanee, Ont.: “He makes me laugh every day. He takes care of me in every way and is extremely attentive.” Eastwood said Kroeger in particular opened up “to a surprising extent, and of the two of them he sounded more romantic.” “He’s totally besotted with Avril, and who can blame him? But if you see the photographs in the magazine . . . he’s just beaming from ear to ear. We have never seen Chad Kroeger look so happy.” Lavigne also gushed to the magazine about Kroeger’s sense of humour. “She said some people might not even know that about him, that he’s incredibly funny,” said Eastwood. “As we say, they’re making beautiful music together,” she added. “We’re very happy for them, and when you read the story and see the photographs, it’s very touching, perhaps unexpectedly so.” The two haven’t announced a wedding date yet, but Lavigne told Hello! “she has the whole thing planned out and that it will be a huge celebration,” said Eastwood. Nickelback — which also includes Kroeger’s brother, Mike, on bass, guitarist Ryan Peake and drummer Daniel Adair — was named group of the decade by Billboard magazine. Their 2001 breakthrough hit How You Remind Me was the decade’s top rock song, and their bestselling album is 2005’s All the Right Reasons. But despite their monster popularity, the group has more than its fair share of detractors. Last year, after Nickelback was invited to play at a Detroit Lions football game, an online petition protesting the performance drew more than 55,000 signatures. Some of that sentiment was echoed on Twitter, where the two were trending Wednesday with the hashtag Chavril. “Let’s hope that Avril Lavigne is to Nickleback what Yoko Ono was to the Beatles chavril,” wrote a Twitter user with the handle JonCranny. “Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback are getting married? I didn’t know Canada allowed SAME SUCKS MARRIAGE,” wrote Adam—

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Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger tells Hello! Canada magazine he fell for fellow rocker Avril Lavigne in Paris during work on her upcoming fifth studio album. In this week’s issue of Hello! Canada magazine, the two share their story and engagement photos, in which Lavigne is wearing a pear-shaped diamond ring. Newman. This will be the first marriage for Kroeger and the second for Lavigne, who filed for divorce from fellow Canuck rocker Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 in 2009 after three years of marriage.

Lavigne’s other high-profile boyfriends have included reality TV star Brody Jenner. Lavigne got her breakthrough as a teen in 2002 with her debut album Let Go and the hit single, Complicated.

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BY ALEXANDRA POSADZKI THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Don’t look to the loonie as the biggest problem facing Canadian exports, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney said Wednesday in his first-ever public address to organized labour. The central banker’s speech to a gathering of the Canadian Auto Workers’ union was not only Carney’s maiden public address to a labour group, but also the first time any Bank of Canada governor has made such an overture. Carney addressed a persistent complaint of those who put the blame for weak exports squarely on the shoulders of the strong Canadian dollar. The manufacturing sector and auto

industry have been particularly hard hit in recent years. He noted Canada’s export performance was the secondworst in the G20 over the last decade, with only nine per cent of exports going to fast-growing emerging markets such as China and India. And he sought to dispel the notion that the high loonie bears the bulk of the blame. “Some blame this on the persistent strength of the Canadian dollar,” Carney said in his speech. “While there is some truth to that, it is not the most important reason.” The loonie has been trading near parity with the U.S. dollar since late July, and was trading at 100.59 cents US at midday Wednesday. The last time the dollar was bellow 99 cents US was on July 26.

Carney told union members that over the past decade, Canada’s poor export performance is two-thirds explained by market structure and one-third by competitiveness. Of the latter, he said, about two-thirds is the currency while the rest is labour costs and productivity. “So, net, our strong currency explains only about 20 per cent of our poor export performance,” he said. The structure of the Canadian economy, “unfortunately, is too north-south, not enough east-west in a global sense,” Carney said during a media conference after his speech. “That’s going to take a while to change and there’s no sense that’s not that case.” While CAW president Ken Lewenza conceded that the dollar isn’t the only factor af-

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NDP VOWS TO QUITE NORTHERN GATEWAY ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT VANCOUVER — B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix says if he is elected premier next year, his government will withdraw from the current environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway project. Instead, the NDP will set up a “made-inB.C.” environmental assessment within a week of taking office. Dix opposes the pipeline proposed by Calgarybased Enbridge (TSX:ENB), and says a provincial assessment will ensure British Columbians have their voices heard. The opposition leader acknowledges the venture would be costly, but he says there is a lot more at stake financially and environmentally for the province than the cost of the review. The federal government has jurisdiction over the pipeline that would cross provincial boundaries, but the New Democrats have a panel of legal experts looking into whether B.C. can avoid Ottawa’s power to overrule such a provincial panel. The environmental review process to examine Northern Gateway has been underway since January and has been given until the end of next year to complete its report.

PREMIER WALL MUSES ABOUT ROYALTY CHANGE REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is musing about adjusting the way the province collects money from companies that extract natural resources. Wall says companies should have royalty stability especially after they’ve spent billions investing in the economy. But the premier also says it’s important that taxpayers are properly compensated if in 20 years potash production has doubled. The current complex system is based on price rather than volume and Wall says it needs to change. However, the premier says it could be years before the discussion gets into any specific detail and there might just be some tweaking rather than any major adjustments. — The Canadian Press

fecting auto manufacturing, he maintained that the loonie is more significant than Carney suggested. “I’m in bargaining with most automotive manufacturers today, and what they’re saying is... the Canadian dollar hurts the competitive advantage in Canada, and they’re even threatening to leave because of the Canadian dollar,” said Lewenza, who added Carney speaks with a bigger picture view of the economy. “What I talk about is touching workers on the ground and seeing workers lose their jobs as a result of the high Canadian dollar. I touch the emotions of a high Canadian dollar. He doesn’t.”

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Work on the new Mountain View Credit Union building in Olds is continuing. Scheduled to open in the summer of 2013 the building will be the future home of the new Olds Branch, the Business Banking Centre and administration offices.

Independent Rona owners rebuff Lowe’s takeover plan BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Dozens of independent merchants who operate 164 Rona stores across Canada have written to the head of Lowe’s Companies, saying they are opposed to the U.S. retail giant’s $1.76-billion takeover bid for the Quebec-based home improvement retailer. The letter, made public Wednesday, says the independents prefer Rona’s approach of combining a network of independents with more than 200 corporate stores. “We want to reinforce your view that it may not be a good idea for you to buy Rona after you appeared to state your doubts about the deal on Monday,” the letter reads. “We respectfully say ’No, thank you’ as we feel that Lowe’s business model is incompatible with the one with which we have individually chosen to engage.” Lowe’s approached Canada’s largest home improvement company (TSX:RON) with an informal offer of $14.50 per share, but it faces opposition from both Montreal-area Rona and the Quebec provincial government, currently campaigning towards a Sept. 4 vote.

The chief executive of Lowe’s, Robert Niblock, told analysts Monday that a deal wasn’t “imminent” and Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) was still evaluating its options. On Monday, Lowe’s posted a 10 per cent drop in secondquarter net income, missing Wall Street’s expectations, as the home improvement retailer was hurt by the timing of revenues and a charge tied to job cuts. Lowe’s also lowered its fiscal 2012 earnings and revenue outlooks. The Quebec government, which is examining ways to thwart the Lowe’s bid, has said the offer is not in the best interests of either the province or Canada. It says Rona has played a strategic role in creating tens of thousands of jobs through store employees, suppliers and manufacturers in the province and in the rest of Canada, including 50,000 in Quebec. The independent retailers echoed those concerns in their letter Wednesday. “We have chosen to belong to a structure that enables us to place our trust in hundreds of local Canadian suppliers we know by their names, that invests heavily in professional de-

velopment and that has ethics and the local community at its core,” they said. “We know what our customers want and believe that the Rona product offering reflects that as well as local values across the country.” Quebec’s pension fund manager — the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec — increased its stake in Rona by two percentage points to 14.2 per cent after Lowe’s made its hostile takeover offer in July. Last Friday, the Caisse said Rona needed to improve its performance, but wouldn’t weigh in on the takeover bid. Rona announced the closure of a dozen warehouse stores in Canada earlier this year following disappointing results. However, it said recently that a shift to smaller neighbourhood stores is paying off. Headquartered in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s has a small presence in Canada with only about 31 stores. Overall, Lowe’s has 1,745 stores in North America, mostly in the United States. The first Canadian Lowe’s store was opened in 2007, several years after fellow American retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) had already established a significant presence in Canada.

Retail sales in Canada fell in June, widely missing expectations of a small gain as increasingly cautious shoppers pulled back on a number of fronts and overnight trips to the U.S. hit a record high as higher duty-free exemptions kicked in. Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that seasonally adjusted retail sales declined 0.4 per cent to $38.7 billion in June from the month earlier, more than offsetting a gain in May and frustrating economists who had expected a 0.1 per cent increase. The biggest declines were felt by retailers who sell general merchandise, gasoline, building materials and garden equipment. “The surprise drop in June sales was broad-based, suggesting households are becoming a little more cautious, though cross-border shopping may have played a role as well,” BMO (TSX:BMO) Capital Markets senior economist Benjamin Reitzes said in a commentary. “Indeed, overnight visitors to the U.S. travelling by car hit a two-decade high in the month,” Reitzes noted. Canadians made a record 1.9 million overnight trips to the U.S. in June, and most overnight travel was by car, with Canadians taking more than 1.2 million trips — a 10 per cent increase month over month. As of June 1, cross-border shoppers on an overnight trip are allowed to declare $200 worth of purchased goods. Before they were only allowed $50. For people on a jaunt of between two and seven days, the limit has doubled to $800 from $400. Meanwhile, Reitzes said the “constant haranguing” by policy-makers urging households to borrow more cautiously, along with slowing job growth, also likely prompted some restraint. “Given that employment contracted in July and likely won’t improve significantly over the coming months, and with the added drain of cross-border shopping, retail sales will have difficulty gathering much momentum through the second half of the year,” Reitzes predicted. The Retail Council of Canada has said increasing duty exemptions on goods bought in the U.S. would negatively impact Canadian retailers, especially those in border communities, by luring more shoppers stateside.

Give piles of cash back to shareholders: Carney BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has some blunt advice for Canadian companies sitting on piles of cash — give it back to shareholders. While companies might be holding on to cash because of global economic instability, those funds amount to “dead money” for the economy, the country’s top central banker said Wednesday. “Their job is to put money to work,” Carney said following a speech to the Canadian Auto

Workers’ union. “If they can’t think of what to do with it they should give it back to their shareholders.” The bank governor was responding to a question about a previously released Canadian Labour Congress study that suggests Canadian businesses are sitting on some $500 billion in cash assets. And Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said, on a global scale, there is “money sitting on the sidelines” that can revive the world economy. In July, the Bank of Canada kept its benchmark interest

rate at one per cent until at least the next policy meeting in September. The bank says business investment and consumer spending, supported by superlow interest rates, remain the chief support systems for the recovery. But business investment is expected to be less robust than previously thought due to concerns about the global economy. “The point we make to Canadian business is, having the best financial system in the world is only really a value if it’s also there in the tough times — we expect it to be there if there are

tough times,” said Carney. “So the level of caution could be viewed as excessive.” The head of the Canadian Auto Workers’ union said the money “can be reinvested in technology, reinvested in the workplace, reinvested in productivity, reinvested in workers in terms of training them for the kind of work that we need in the future.” “So absolutely, you can’t sit on this pile of cash and expect the economy to move,” said Ken Lewenza. “You’ve got to spend that cash to move the economy.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 100.05 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 76.88 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.43 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.61 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.12 Cdn. National Railway . . 90.80 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 84.16 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 69.86 Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.25 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.26 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 30.20 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 39.55 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.07 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.59 General Motors Co. . . . . 21.73 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 16.73 Research in Motion. . . . . . 7.01 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 36.88 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.50 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.07 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 15.76 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.28 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.95 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 70.06 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 34.78 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 10.79 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.45

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.47 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 50.60 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.77 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 17.05 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 37.28 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.74 First Quantum Minerals . 19.68 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 39.96 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.74 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 47.13 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.72 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 42.23 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.68 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 29.75 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.43 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.11 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.70 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.32 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 44.02 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.46 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.07 Canyon Services Group. 11.51 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.17 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.720 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.10 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.40 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.73 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.67 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.700

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.33 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.18 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.54 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.69 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.16 Penn West Energy . . . . . 14.78 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.93 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.60 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . 10.94 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.73 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.54 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.65 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.65 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.51 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 57.64 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 52.78 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.95 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 26.75 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 26.61 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 22.15 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.00 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 61.14 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 11.16 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.25 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 53.48 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 23.08 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.81

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Wednesday after minutes from the most recent Federal Reserve rate announcement encouraged hopes for further economic stimulus. The TSX and New York indexes had been negative for most of the session as weak cor-

porate performances and retail sales data reminded traders of the fragile state of the economic recovery. The S&P/TSX composite index added 2.06 points to 12,118.99 and the TSX Venture Exchange climbed 6.34 points to 1,245.66. The Canadian dollar fell 0.17

of a cent to 100.87 cents US amid a big miss on retail sales for June. Statistics Canada reported that retail sales fell 0.4 per cent, against expectations of a 0.1 per cent rise. New York markets also closed well off session lows after the Fed minutes showed many

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BHP delays final approval for potash project after lower profit REGINA — Australian mining giant BHP Billiton is delaying final approval for a potash megaproject in Saskatchewan, but the company says work will move ahead. BHP (NYSE:BHP) said Wednesday that it’s committed to 20 major projects with a combined budget of US$22.8 billion for the 2013 financial year, which runs until the end of next June. It said no other major project approvals are expected in the meantime. That includes the Jansen mine, about 140 kilometres east of Saskatoon. “A sanctioning event for the full Jansen project is not in the $22 billion that I have outlined,” CEO Marius Kloppers said in a conference call. “It is really beyond that, but they have precommitment capital that is going to keep them very busy and productively busy for the year that we talk about.”

U.S. home sales rise, adding to slow but steadyhousing recovery WASHINGTON — The recovery of the U.S. housing market is looking steadier and more sustainable, a trend that will likely add to economic growth in

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing: Canola: Nov.’12 $3.70 higher $633.20; Jan ’13 $3.00 higher $637.00; March ’13 $2.20 higher $638.00; May ’13 $3.10 higher $625.80; July ’13 $3.10 higher $618.10; Nov. ’13 $3.10 higher $561.00; Jan. ’14 $3.10 higher $559.40; March ’14 $3.10 higher $559.00; May ’14 $3.10 higher $559.00; July ’14 $3.10 higher $559.00; Nov. ’14 $3.10 higher $559.00. Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $264.50; Dec. ’12 unchanged $269.50; March ’13 unchanged $272.50; May ’13 unchanged $273.50; July ’13 unchanged $274.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $274.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $274.00; March ’14 unchanged $274.00; May ’14 unchanged $274.00; July ’14 unchanged $274.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $274.00. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 276,600 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 220,140.

in Quebec court. He referred specifically to MTU’s plans to hire more than 130 workers, including former Aveos employees, in Montreal and Vancouver. Solursh said Lufthansa’s decision to triple its bid — to about double what MTU offered — made the decision clear for him. The value of the winning bid hasn’t been disclosed but MTU valued its offer at $5.2 million, which included $4 million plus specialized tools. The Vancouver-based subsidiary of Germany’s MTU valued the tools at $1.2 million, but the chief restructuring officer testified the amount was less than the liquidation price. Solursh sparred with MTU’s lawyer, who is trying to convince a judge not to accept the recommendation to approve the unit’s sale to Lufthansa. Francois Gagnon said Lufthansa’s latest bid shouldn’t have been allowed because it was submitted after a deadline. He argued his client’s bid should have won because it was higher by the Aug. 7 deadline.

Job creation proposal couldn’t overcome higher Aveos bid: officer

MONTREAL — The man overseeing the liquidation of Aveos Fleet Performance says he favoured MTU Aero Engines’ job-creating plan to buy the insolvent firm’s engine repair business but had to accept a higher offer from Lufthansa Technik. “Personally I liked the MTU story,” chief restructuring officer Jonathan Solursh testified Wednesday

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Carney’s remarks also touched on a familiar CAW theme: namely, that companies must keep investing in their workforces if they want to succeed. Carney urged companies and their workers to upgrade their skills so they can compete in the global marketplace. “We all need to recognize that the durable, high-paying manufacturing jobs of the future will be located in companies that invest to equip and train their workers and that are fully engaged in the global economy,” he said. The demand for unskilled workers in advanced economies such as Canada is waning, he said, adding the need for skilled workers is growing. The bank governor, after his speech, said the auto sector needs to put more focus on research and development in the production chain. Last month, GM said it would invest $850 million in research and development in Oshawa, Ont. Carney noted the number of manufacturing jobs has steadily dropped over the last 30 years. He said the use of robotics on assembly lines played a part in that decline, but he added many manufacturing jobs are migrating to low-paying, emerging markets.

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a year ago to US$15.4 billion as a slowdown in global economic growth led to weaker prices for its key commodities. BHP’s revenue for the year was up 0.7 per cent to $72.2 billion. In addition, Chinese car maker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. said first-half profit was flat and trading conditions in the world’s biggest auto market in the second half of 2012 “are expected to be more challenging.” Adding to signs of a global slowdown in growth, Japan posted a $6.5-billion trade deficit in July, compared with a surplus the year before, as exports fell eight per cent. Exports of autos and electronics by Asia’s secondbiggest economy have been hurt by the strengthening yen as well as weak demand from Europe. The metals and mining sector was negative even as copper kept Tuesday’s eight-cent runup intact with the September contract unchanged at US$3.45 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) shed 17 cents to $29.75 while Sherritt International (TSX:S) gave back seven cents to $4.68. The energy sector was off 0.53 per cent as the October crude price on the New York Mercantile Exchange found lift from the Fed minutes and data showing a sharper-than-expected decline in U.S. inventories last week, rising 15 cents to US$96.99 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) pulled back 46 cents to $31.73 and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) declined 31 cents to $31.46. Financials were also weak as Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) eased 57 cents to $52.78. The gold sector was the leading advancer as December bullion faded 70 cents to US$1,642.20 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) rose 80 cents to $37.28 while Iamgold Inc. (TSX:IMG) rose 49 cents to $12.82. In other corporate news, dozens of independent merchants

2012 for the first time in seven years. Purchases, construction and prices are gradually but consistently increasing, though they remain far below levels seen in a healthy economy. Sales of previously occupied homes rose 2.3 per cent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.47 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. Over the past 12 months, sales have jumped more than 10 per cent. New-home sales have been strengthening, too. Toll Brothers, a builder of high-end homes, said Wednesday that it’s enjoying its most sustained demand in more than five years. The “evidence that the housing market is recovering ... is fairly clear across a wide range of reports,” said John Ryding, an economist at RDQ Economics, a forecasting firm. Housing “is now becoming a small positive for the economic outlook.” That’s a big change for an industry that has been a major drag on the economy since the housing bubble burst more than five years ago. Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, forecasts that home construction will add 0.2 percentage points to growth this year. That would make 2012 the first full calendar year in which housing has added to growth since 2005.

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members felt further support for the economy would be needed “fairly soon” unless the economy improved significantly. The minutes didn’t say what steps might be taken. The boldest move would be to launch a new program of bond buying to try to lower long-term interest rates to encourage more borrowing and spending. The Fed makes its next interest rate announcement Sept. 13. The central bank could also announce new stimulus measures at that time. But analysts said the minutes should be read with caution since there has been a string of positive economic data since the last Fed meeting Aug. 1, including stronger than expected job creation in July, improving retail sales and consumer confidence, and rising applications for building permits. The Dow Jones was down 30.82 points to 13,172.76. The Nasdaq gained 6.41 points to 3,073.67 and the S&P 500 index edged up 0.32 of a point to 1,413.49. Traders also took in a report from the U.S. real estate industry that showed sales of previously- owned homes increased last month, but less than anticipated. The U.S. National Association of Realtors said home resale volume rose to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4.47 million in July, a 2.3 per cent increase from the previous month’s rate. That was slightly less than the 4.52 million that economists expected in July “The housing market in the U.S., which is core to banking and core to the consumer in terms of the wealth side, continues to trickle ahead,” said Chris King, portfolio manager at Morgan, Meighen and Associates. “Not big leaps and big turnarounds (but) it is ticking along in the right direction.” Mining stocks were under pressure as sector giant BHP Billiton reported that its annual profit plunged 34.8 per cent from

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KRUGER ~ Rosemary 1928-2012 It is with saddened hearts that the family of Rosemary Kruger, announce the passing of their beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother on August 16, 2012. Rosemary was born in Olds Alberta to Arthur and Florence King. She was raised in Lobley, on the homestead and later attended high school in Olds. There Rosemary met Alfred Kruger, and

BOYCHUK, Brent Elton 1963-2012 On Saturday, August 18, 2012 our beloved husband, father, and son Brent Elton Boychuk of Sylvan Lake was unexpectedly taken from us at the early age of 49 years. An avid outdoorsmen, Brent enjoyed hunting, quading, camping, and fishing with the many friends and family whose lives he has had a tremendous and positive influence on. Brent will be lovingly remembered by his w i f e A n n i e ; h i s m o t h e r, Karen; and mother and father-in-law, Carlos and Isolina Martins. Brent was a magnificent father who continues to provide guidance for his sons; Brandon, Brady, and Brenan; his daughter, Brianne; and granddaughter, Mika. Brent is also survived by brothers, Bradley (Crystal) and Brian (Laurie); nephews, D y l a n Hunter, Dustin, and Christopher; niece, Kelsey; and countless family and friends who will remember him always and miss him dearly. Brent was predeceased by his father Eric and niece Tamara and has reunited with them in Heaven where he continues to watch over us until we are with him again.

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1946. Rosemary was one of the first AGT telephone operators in Olds. Rosemary lovingly cared for Alfred for ten years, before his passing in 1973. Her loving character was extended past her six children and their families, when she became a caregiver to others in need. Rosemary was also predeceased by her mother, Florence in 1973 and her father, Arthur in 1975. Rosemary leaves to mourn six children: Deanna (Eric predeceased in 2006) Overwater of Calgary, Dennis Kruger (Bev Peacock) of Mission, BC, David Kruger of Didsbury, Dorothea (Bruce) S h e p p a r d o f R e d D e e r, Darcy Kruger (Zareena) of Calgary and Douglas (Judy) Kruger of Dallas, TX. She also leaves twenty-one grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. The family wishes to extend a huge t h a n k y o u t o D r. S h e i l a Eleason, who cared extensively for Rosemary in recent years. Also, thank you to the friends and caregivers from Pines Lodge, Unit 33 and Rehab Unit 35 at Red Deer Regional Health Centre. Thank you also to the caregivers who most recently cared for Rosemary at Michener Extendicare, Ward 3300. A funeral service will take place on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church, 4821-50 Street, Olds Alberta. Interment will follow at Olds Cemetery. Condolences may be sent or viewed at

“I love you Baby Guide us my love So we will be with you When it is our day” Funeral Service to be held at Family of Faith Church, 5833 - 53 Avenue, Red Deer on Saturday, August, 25, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. with luncheon to follow. In lieu of flowers the family will accept donations for the establishment of an emergency trauma facility in Sylvan Lake. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Kimberlee Gordon, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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Obituaries CURREY ~ James Murray 1925 - 2012 James, beloved husband of Gwen, passed away peacefully, on August 20th, 2012, at the age of 87 years. James was born on August 17, 1925, in Grandview, MB, to Margaret Jean and James Reigh Currey. He was the first of six children. He moved to Roblin for most of his young life. James retired from the Armed Forces in 1973 to Lacombe where his family resided until a recent move to Red Deer. Jim is survived by his wife of 64 y e a r s , G w e n C u r r e y, h i s children; Zoe (Wayne) Carey of Red Deer, Dale (Gwen) Currey of Sangudo, Lee Walker of Red Deer and Janet (Darryl) Stanyer of Mirror. He will be lovingly remembered by thirteen grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren as well as sisters; Arlene Agar and Vivian Woodley. Jim was predeceased by his brother, Art Currey and sisters; Marg Mackey and Alice Gray. A Funeral Service for the late James Currey will be held on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at Eventide Funeral Chapel (4820-45 Street, Red Deer) at 11 a.m. A public Interment will take place at the Alto-Reste Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in James’ honor may be made directly to the Alberta Lung Association, PO box 4700 STN South, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 9Z9. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

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HANSEN Feb. 18, 1932- Aug. 20, 2012 Marcia Mae Grit was born February 18, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan. She was the first daughter born to William and Maxine Grit. She married (Carl) Erik Hansen in April 1956. Together they worked and saved to buy a farm near Dickson, Alberta. Daughter Yvonne was born in 1958. Six weeks later Marcia travelled in a convoy with Erik, newborn baby Yvonne, and brother and sister-in-law John and Grethe Hansen, from Michigan to arrive in Dickson, Alberta. The trip took 4 days and they drove through several winter storms before arriving at their first farm, now under the depths of Glennifer Lake. Son Neil arrived in 1961. Mom was a big city girl but learned how to help with the farm work and kept the farm records meticulously for nearly 30 years. She was a thrifty woman and ‘made do’ with less many times over. Marcia was very curious about anything and everything. Marcia enjoyed sewing, reading, knitting, playing BINGO at Spruce View, card games and word games. When macular degeneration robbed her vision she really missed her hobbies and being able to drive over and drop in for coffee and a visit with her many friends. Mom moved to Autumn Glen Lodge in July 2011. She loved being there and made many new friends in her new home. At Autumn Glen there was finally no cooking and no cleaning for her to do. Mom was predeceased by her parents, brothers Jim, George and David, Ronald and Donald; brother in law John Hansen; sisters in law Lucy and Sherri. She is survived by her husband Erik Hansen of Innisfail, Alberta; daughter Yvonne (Tony) de Waal, of Ponoka, Alberta; son Neil Hansen (Alanna Lockwood) from Sundre, Alberta. She will be missed by her four beloved grandchildren: Naomi (Dylan) Bressey of Grand Prairie, Alberta; Travis Hansen of Spruce View, Alberta; Stacie Hansen of Prince George, British Columbia, Andrew de Waal of Ponoka, Alberta. Her extended family includes sister Jean Shoen from Jackson Michigan, brother in law Oluf Hansen of Grand Rapids, Michigan; sisters in law: Agnes (Jens) Simonson of Holt, Michigan, Pat Grit of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Grethe Hansen of Innisfail, Alberta. She has a number of nieces and nephews in Canada and the USA who remember will remember her. There are several relatives in Denmark that she kept in touch with over the years. She has a large number of friends throughout central Alberta and kept in touch with many old friends in Michigan over the years. Marcia was blessed to have had the chance to meet and spend an hour visiting her first and only great grandson, Theou Bressey. Her beloved dog Girlie held a special place in her heart. A memorial service will be held at Metcalf Funeral Chapel on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 3:00pm. Messages of condolence may be forwarded to the family through www.metcalffuneralchapel.com. Arrangements entrusted to METCALF FUNERAL CHAPEL, 4200 49th Ave., Innisfail. Phone: 403-227-3123.

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LIVE-IN childcare for 5 & 9 yr old in private home. F/T in Red Deer. $9.91/hr, 44 hrs/wk - $336/mo. room & board. Guaranteed 2 yr. COCAINE ANONYMOUS employment. Exp. in childREWARD FOR RETURN 403-304-1207 (Pager) care & post secondary education OF STOLEN BICYCLE!! an asset. Email resume to Cranberry red ladies S/W/F late 40’s N/S interested h_mae_chua@hotmail.com TOWNIE bicycle, white in meeting gentleman 55-65 seat, black wire basket on for friendship. Only single P/T Caregiver req’d for front and black rack over & unattached, employed & mid. age lady in South Red rear tire, bike cable lock financially secure need apply. Deer. Entails 2 visits daily, wrapped around frame. Reply to Box 1006, c/o R. 9-9:30 a.m. & 8:30-9:30 Also missing is a black Bell D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner p.m. to monitor well-being helmet with white polka dot Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 & health. Schedule involves decals all over it. These 10-14 days/mo. Job pays Start your career! items went missing above average wages. between Aug 11 and Aug See Help Wanted Send resume to Box 1001, 13/2012 from Victoria Park c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 in Anders. Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB Please call 403-341-5074 Bingos T4R 1M9 if you have information. REWARD for safe return of Buying or Selling bike. Please check your RED DEER BINGO Centre your home? yards & alleys - it was a 4946-53 Ave. (West of special gift and I would Superstore). Precall 12:00 Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds really love to get it back. & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

SAMSUNG GALAXY II smart phione, lost in Sunnybrook area, 403-318-3721

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must have own vehicle. Call res. 403-348-5456 or 505-7846

Clerical

CARDY - KAFARA Peter and Nancy Cardy along with Brian and Marlene Kafara wish to announce the engagement of their children; ALISSA LYNNE to CHADWICK MICHAEL

720

Clerical

720

CLERICAL assistant wanted for receptionist/ general office duties. Send resume to Box 1003, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it. Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Making a Difference The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society is the local charity that offers support to individuals who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and provides prevention and education throughout Central Alberta. CAANS is looking for front line workers interested in Harm Reduction and HIV Prevention .The application deadline is Aug. 26, 2012 for more information, www.caans.org Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit. Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012

FULL TIME IT FIELD OFFICE ADMIN. Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Immed. A small in- SERVICE TECHNICIAN dustry assoc. in Red Deer NEEDED in Red Deer, AB We offer competitive seeks an Office Adminisand comprehensive trator. The office administrator is responsible for compensation with benefit package, vehicle efficient organizing, coordiallowance, and salary nating & operation of the based on experience. assoc.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. Job Duties: Provides support & an- Please submit resume to: swerable to the Executive info@longhurstconsulting Director - Responsible for Start your career! computerized bookkeeping See Help Wanted incld: accounts P/A, invoicing, bank deposits & credit card processing; Updates website & social media Farm Work sites; Project admin. duties; Responds to members inquiries & requests for info; FULL/PART TIME experiM a i n t a i n s m e m b e r s h i p enced harvest help reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Red Deer area. records & internal files; Li403-357-4408 aises w/other agencies, organizations & groups; MODERN DAIRY Reception of visitors, anSEEKS SKILLED swering calls, manages all DAIRY PERSON. mail, couriers, etc.; CoordiWage based on exper. nates bookings & arrangeFax resume to ments of meeting rooms & 403-783-5217 catering needs. Manages company service agree- Looking for a new pet? ments w/suppliers &/or service providers; Manages Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet. & orders office supplies; Serves as the go-to contact for office inquiries & trouble shooting; Ensures efficient office organ- Janitorial ization, orderliness & cleanliness. Job Qualifications: ARAMARK at (Dow P r e v i o u s o ff i c e e x p e r. Prentiss Plant) about reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Basic bookkeeping 20-25 minutes out of Red (exper. in computerized Deer needs hardworking, bookkeeping an asset); reliable, honest person Exper. with websites & w/drivers license, to work social media sites helpful, 40/hrs. per week w/some but must be willing to weekends, daytime hrs. learn. Sound computer & Starting wage $13/hr. Fax MS Office skills; Superior resume w/refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to customer service skills 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black coupled w/good business etiquette. Good organizational skills & detail oriented. Effective communication skills. Reliable, responsible w/sound work ethic Min. High School Diploma (Post-secondary Hiring Experienced business education preCLEANING ferred). Qualified applicants SUPERVISOR may email their cover letter Must have an open & resume to scott@carma group.ca at Central AB. availability and be flexible Rural Manufacturers As- with schedule as are open 24 hours. You will have soc. (CARMA) by Aug. 31st. experience leading a team of cleaners. Send resume Celebrate your life to vickib@cashcasino.ca with a Classified or fax 1-403-243-4812. ANNOUNCEMENT Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St Red Deer. Looking for a place LEADING facility services to live? company is seeking hard Take a tour through the working, safety conscious CLASSIFIEDS cleaners for janitorial team. F/T work. Fax resume to Classifieds...costs so little 403-314-7504 Saves you so much!

Medical

Oilfield

LOTS OF SMALL AND LARGE power tools, RV and camping items, 1850 portable generator, pressure washer, lawnmower, plus many other household items, movies etc. and toys, good cond., no junk, 5 ANDREWS CLOSE Thurs. Aug. 23, 2-8 Fri. Aug. 24 , 10-8 Sat. Aug. 25, 8-5

HUGE FURNITURE AND GARAGE SALE WEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE RENOVATED, FURNITURE FOR SALE, Oak table, w/6 chairs, and matching china cabinet, oak china cabinet, oak 3 door bookcase, hall tree, pool table, household items and much more. all in exc. cond., We will accept. credit cards or debit for furrniture. Fri. Aug. 24, 4-8, Sat. Aug. 25, 8-5, Sun. Aug. 26, 10-4 18 RUTLEDGE CRSC.

Bower 86 BARRETT DRIVE Aug. 24 & 25 Fri. 10 - 8 & Sat. 8 - 4 Antiques, records, pet tenthouse, dust collector, misc. MOVING SALE Large items, baby, furniture, clothes, household, & other decor and lots more. Thur-Fri. Aug. 23-24, 10 a.m.-8. Sat. 9 - 5 91 Baines Crescent SOME collectibles, antique furniture, 48 BETTENSON ST back alley Thurs. Aug. 23, Fri. Aug. 24, 2-6 Sat.. Aug. 25, 11-5

Deer Park 98 DUNNING CRES. Moving sale. Household furnishings, and misc. items. Thurs. Aug. 23, & Fri. Aug. 24, 2-7

Johnstone Crossing

15 JOA AVE. MOVING SALE Everything must go Fri. Aug. 24, 9 .am.-8 p.m.

Morrisroe 26 MACKENZIE CRES Aug. 23, 24 & 25 Thurs. & Fri. 12-8, Sat. 9-5 HOUSEHOLD MISC. RENOVATION garage sale. 60 Marion Cres. Thurs. Aug. 23, 4-8, Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-noon. Computer desks, CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, LPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, stereo system, dishes, glassware, sporting supplies, etc.

Vanier Woods FIRST AND LAST SALE. 16 VIG Place Thurs Aug. 23, 5-8, Fri. Aug. 24, 1-8 Sat. 9-2 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

West Park 17 WOODSWORTH CL. Aug. 22, Wed. , Thurs. & Fri. 11-7 Huge sale! 2 patio sets, Christmas, tools, fishing, 12 tables full of good junk! Rain or shine 5757 WESTPARK CRES Aug. 24 & 25 Fri. 12 - 8 & Sat. 9 - 6 TOOLS - TOOLS: Good selection, table, saw, chop saw, blades, Semonis Pressure Washer 1700 psi, power tools, to many to list. Some household misc. THURS. AUG. 23 FRI. AUG. 24, 2-8 9 WRIGHT AVE, HUGE GARAGE SALE. bikes, granite counter top

West Park Estates HUGE SALE. Aug. 23, 24 & 25, 10-6. 137 Wiltshire Blvd Moving. Lots of everything.

Out of Town Back to School Sale

Mountview

Professional Beauty Products offered below salon cost, below distributor pricing! Sales samples, discontinued items, damaged packaging, overstocks etc. Curling irons, flat irons, mini irons and crimpers, hair care Parkvale products, skincare products, nail products! 4631-48 ST Back Alley Sale is two days only. FriRain or Shine - Aug. 24/25 day 24th and Saturday Fri. 9-7, Sat. 9-4 25th, from 9:00 am to 5:00 Lawn mowers, doors, pm both days. Come early office chair & supplies, for best selection! sports equip., books, art & L o c a t i o n : # 1 7 2 8 4 2 1 supplies, household items. Diamond Estates HWY 11-A Red Deer. Directions: miles west of HWY 2 on Riverside Meadows 411-A towards Sylvan Lake. SOMETHING for everyone! Turn south into our yard at the top of the hill. There Electronics, clothes, books, tools, crafts, Thur. Aug. 23 will be signs with baloons on HWY 11-A to mark the noon-7, Fri. Aug. 24 spot! 403-341-0344. Sat. Aug. 25, 11-8 5808 56 AVE. CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY Rosedale IN CLASSIFIEDS 3201 SPRUCE DRIVE (back alley) 3 FAMILY SALE Thurs. & Fri. Aug. 23 & 24, 10-4. Furniture, household misc.

1 ROWELL CL. 10-7 Thurs. & Fri. Aug. 23 & 24. Sylvan Lake Multi family. Collectible & vintage items, lots of misc. 2 DAY GARAGE SALE Fri. indoors/outdoor items. Aug. 24 & 25, 9-4 524-500 Sunnyside Place, NW end of Gull Lake close to golf course.

623, 600 RAMAGE CL. Aug. 23, Thurs. noon-8, Fri. 10 - 6 Household, toys, books, girls clothes, uniforms M-L, snowblower, skates, helmets, more.

ESTATE SALE, Acreage 1/2 miles S of McDonalds, 4120 Hwy 20, lots of collectibles, household and misc. items, tools, FrI. Aug. 24, Sat. Aug. 25 9-6 and Sun Aug. 26 9 - 1 P.M.

Oilfield

800

Big Bore Directional Drilling is a directional boring and hydrovac company based in Lloydminster with branches in Edmonton and Red Deer. We are currently expanding our boring operation in these locations and require the following personnel:

800

â&#x20AC;˘ Drillers â&#x20AC;˘ Locaters â&#x20AC;˘ We offer above-average compensation, great beneďŹ ts, management support, new machinery, room for advancement, training and a company that is still small enough to treat you as a person and not a number. We require hard working individuals capable of handling a fast-paced work environment. Experience on Ditchwitch Machines preferred. Drillers and Locators must have Class 1A license and all safety tickets. Thank you for applying, but only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. 257180

1 RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC.

a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

Qualified Supervisors, Night Operators & Field Assistants

Reply in conďŹ dence to: seversen@bigboreinv.ca or fax resume to (306)825-6305

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract and current safety certificates (1st Aid & H2S are the min. qualifications) to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca

Central Alberta Oilfield Construction Company REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY:

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC

Please specify position when replying to this ad. We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

3rd, 4th year apprentice or Journeyman

ACCURACY ONLINE P r o d u c t i o n Te s t i n g i s currently hiring for day and night assistant personnel. Must have current safety tickets- H2S, First Aid, PST. Must have all own safety PPE. Emailaccuracyonlineoffice@ gmail.com

AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC

Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s!!

Production Testing Personnel: Day & Night Supervisors & Field Operators

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RED DEER â&#x20AC;˘ EDMONTON â&#x20AC;˘ GRANDE PRAIRIE

Required Immediately

Qualified Day & Night Supervisors - (Must be able to provide own work truck.) Field Operators - Valid First Aid, H2S, driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license required! Please see your website @ www.colterenergy.ca or contact us at 1-877-926-5837 Your application will be kept strictly confidential DEX Production Testing reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exp. day night supervisors & assistants. Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284

Oilfield

Established and very busy Oilfield Trucking Company is now hiring for the following:

years experience)

Oilfield Swampers Class 1 Drivers (Rig Moves) Picker Operator Receptionist Call HR Dept: 780-467-9897 Fax: 780-463-3346 jobs@vdmtrucking.com

800

JOIN THE TEAM EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Enseco is currently hiring for the following full-time Production Testing positions:

CLASS 1 DRIVER

Duties/Responsibilities: t Maintain satisfactory driving record t Ability to learn the disciplines of driving and rigging up equipment on location. t Ability to verbally communicate and understand details and directions. t Perform various other duties Qualifications: t )JHI 4DIPPM %JQMPNB t 7BMJE $MBTT -JDFOTF XJUI DMFBO BCTUSBDU t 8JODI 0QFSBUJPOBM FYQFSJFODF t ) 4 BOE 'JSTU "JE $13 t "CJMJUZ UP XPSL ĂŹFYJCMF XPSL TDIFEVMF PO DBMM Y

DAY/NIGHT SUPERVISORS

Duties/Responsibilities: t Select appropriate equipment, organize crews and arrange accomodations (if required) t Confirm equipment readiness t Supervise the loading out of the job package t Oversee all rig-in responsibilities t Ensure maintenance work is complete t Observe overall equipment operations t Maintain daily operation logs

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

CSM TUBULAR TECHNOLOGIES LTD. Is presently accepting applications for

TUBING INSPECTOR

in Red Deer, AB MANAGEMENT Salary will commensurate Trainee Required experience. Applicants will TR3 ENERGY be requested to provide a is at the forefront of Westcan Fabricating Ltd is copy of their driving reclamation and a fast growing oil and gas abstract as well as a remediation in the criminal record check from fabricating company based oil & gas industry. out of Ponoka AB. their local police service or We are currently RCMP Detachment. recruiting for: The successful candidate Applicants must possess *Equipment will have: nothing less than a Operators *2 years Post-Secondary Grade 12 education. Education in either REQUIREMENTS: Consideration will be given Business/Oil & Gas *Valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license to those who have oilfield Technology * H2S Alive experience, as well as *Good Computer Skills * Standard First Aid current H2S, WHMIS, and with MS Office; *WHMIS and/or CSTS First Aid Certification. *Detailed Orientated or PST Applicants are requested to individual who can deal * Pre-Access A& D Testing forward resumes to: with multi-tasking and CJ-CSM Inspection changing priorities and Please email or fax your 172E, 37428 staff on a daily basis. resume to: Range Road 273 *Experience working in hr@tr3energy.com Red Deer County, AB fabricating oil and gas Fax: 403-294-9323 T4E 0A1 production equipment an www.tr3energy.com They may also be faxed to asset. 1-403-347-1774 Central Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Largest Competitive wages with or emailed to Car Lot in Classifieds benefit packages available. sjahn@cj-csminspection.ca Interested candidates * No Phone Inquiries please send resume to Please TREELINE admin@westcanfab.ca Of fax to 403-775-4014 WELL SERVICES Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, PROFLO Production Class 5 with Q EndorseSeparators is currently ment, First Aid FLINT TUBULAR looking for production We offer competitive MANAGEMENT testing assistants. Suitable wages & excellent beneSERVICES candidates must have fits. Please include 2 work requires H2S, First Aid, PST/CST reference names and Shop & Yard Laborers. and a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license. numbers $16/hr. to start Please forward resume to Please fax resume to : Apply w/resume to: info@proflo.net or fax to 403-264-6725 4115 39139 HWY 2A 403-341-4588. Or email to: (Blindman Industrial Park) tannis@treelinewell.com Q-TEST No phone calls please.

WANTED Now has immediate EXPERIENCED opening for CGSB LEVEL II RT and CEDOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for a CLASS 3 large Pipeline Project in VAC/steamer Truck driver IS looking to fill the the Fox Creek area. Lacombe area, Fax following positions in the: This project is ongoing and resume to 403-782-0507 HINTON AND work can be performed on FOX CREEK LOCATION a rotation or a continuous * Oilfield Construction basis. Other areas may Supervisors require personnel also. * Oilfield Construction Top wages and a compreLead Hands hensive benefit package * Stainless and Carbon are available after 3 Welders months employment. * B-Pressure Welders Email resumes to: * Pipefitters qtestltd@telus.net or * Experienced Pipeline WE are looking for phone 403-887-5630 Equipment Operators Rig Managers, Drillers, RED DEER BASED * Experienced oilfield Derrick and Floorhands for Oilfield trucking company labourers the Red Deer area. requires * Industrial Painters Please contact Steve Tiffin Oilfield salesperson * 7-30 tonne Picker Truck at /truck push . Operator with Class 1 stiffin@galleonrigs.com Please send resume and H2S Alive ( Enform), or (403) 358-3350 oilfield related tickets to St. John (Red Cross) Box 1002, c/o R. D. Advostandard first aid) & cate, 2950 Bremner Ave., in-house drug and alcohol Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Restaurant/ tests are required. Please submit resume to SAFETY COORDINATOR Hotel hr@alstaroc.com or Watts Projects Inc. is a Fax to 780-865-5829 progressive Oilfield BOULEVARD Quote job #62419 Construction Company Restaurant & on resume based in Red Deer and Lounge Edson serving Alberta and Gasoline Alley Saskatchewan. We are hiring a Safety Coordinator Red Deer County to manage the Health & Food & Beverage Safety Program, the Landcore Technologies Server position will coordinate Inc. located in Ponoka is $12.25/hr. with the HSE Manager. currently seeking To provide Food & BeverThe Candidate would be energetic, motivated team age service, handle responsible for a players for the following cashiering, arrange and combination field safety & positions: setup the outlet. maintain safety administration cleanliness and hygiene. Drillers and Driller activities. Safety Tickets Cook required and Alberta Assistants with a $14.00/HR. Construction Safety Class 1 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s To prepare and cook all Association training license. food up to standard, clean courses would be an kitchen and maintain hyasset. Watts offers excellent Apprentice or giene follow recipes, assist wages, benefits and a in receiving and storing safety conscious working Journeyman environment. Email Kitchen Helper Mechanics cody.howitt@telus.net or $11/hr Pile Drive Operators Fax 1-403-358-7763 To clean kitchen following Pile Drive Assistants safety and hygiene Field Supervisor standards. Clean utensils, All candidates must be cutlery, crockery and able to pass a glassware items. pre-employment drug test. Clean floors. Safety tickets are an asset Assist in prep. but we are willing to train All positions are the right candidate. Shift Work & Weekends. We offer exceptional pay, Fax resume 780-702-5051 excellent benefit package TANKMASTER RENTALS DOMINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA and a positive work requires experienced NOW HIRING F/T and P/T environment. Class 3 Vac Truck OperaDRIVERS & In stores. Please email resumes to tors for Central Alberta. Apply within, 5018 45th St. info@landcore.ca or fax Competitive wages and 403-783-2011. F/T or P/T Housekeeping benefits. The right candidates will and servers with experim.morton@tankmaster.ca be contacted for an ence in serving seniors. or fax 403-340-8818 interview. Must be flexible, work Please no phone calls. within a team environment, take initiative and work without supervision. Must be available to work weekend. We offer a competitive salary. NOW ACCEPTING Fax: 403-341-5613 RESUMES FOR Attention: ARAMARK Exp. winch tractor e-mail: margery_becker@ TANKMASTER RENTALS operators aramark.ca requires experienced FT FOOD SERVICE Class 1 bed truck/winch Bed truck operators truck operators. CompetiSupervisor $13/hr. avail. nights & weekends.Call tive wages and benefits. Little Caesars Red Deer at Journeyman picker m.morton@tankmaster.ca 403-346-1600 or fax reor fax 403-340-8818 operators sume to 403-356-9465 TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and helpX-STATIC For Red Deer area. ers. Email: janderson@ IS NOW ACCEPTING Fax resume & teamsnubbing.com APPLICATIONS abstract to 403-885-0473 FOR expâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d P/T WATER & VAC DRIVER No phone calls please. needed. All oilfield tickets Door Personnel Something for Everyone reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Call 885-4373 or fax Apply in person resume 403-885-4374 after 3 pm. Everyday in Classifieds

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

OPERATIONAL ASSISTANT

Duties/Responsibilities: t Assist in installation of unit or system to be tested, including rig-in responsibilities t Operate/Monitor controls and instruments t Understand and comply with all safety policies t Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by supervisor Qualifications: t )JHI 4DIPPM %JQMPNB t "CJMJUZ UP XPSL ĂŹFYJCMF XPSL TDIFEVMF PO DBMM Y t ) 4 BOE 'JSTU "JE $13 BWBJMBCMF UISPVHI &OTFDP JG OFFEFE

t 3FTQPOTJCMF GPS HPPE IPVTFLFFQJOH BOE DMFBOMJOFTT PO MPDBUJPO BOE JO UIF TIPQ t "CJMJUZ UP QBTT QSF FNQMPZNFOU CBDLHSPVOE BOE ESVH TDSFFOJOH Applications: Enseco encourages all interested individuals to apply online at: www.enseco.com or fax resumes to (403) 309-8877. Team members enjoy industry leading compensation packages including competitive wages and a fully comprehensive health benefits plan. Energy Services

800

820

â&#x20AC;˘ Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics â&#x20AC;˘ Apprentice Heavy Duty Mechanics (must have a minimum of two â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘

Oilfield

INSPECTION LTD

3rd & 4th year apprentice or Journeyman Fax your resume to: 403-729-3236 Attn: Andy or Darry or email to bunwel@telusplanet.net

COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC

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Rosedale

800

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

770

Anders Park

Oilfield

RMT &/or Acupuncturist. Choose your hrs. Great commission. For full details (403) 352-0021 Balance Chiropractic & Massage

755

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CALL 309-3300

790

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

BALLOON RIDES www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

BUILDERS www.fantahomes.com 403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788 www.masonmartinhomes.com Mason Martin Homes 403-342-4544 www.truelinehomes.com True Line Homes 403-341-5933 www.jaradcharles.com BUILDER M.L.S www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIR

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JOB OPPORTUNITIES www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

PET ADOPTION www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

REAL ESTATE www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333 www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

19166TFD28

730

258180H22-28

Computer Personnel

257364H17-30

720

258175H23&25

Clerical

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 D3

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc. Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety stardands $14.00/hr. All positions are Shift work & weekends Fax Resume to: 780-702-5051

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests * Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $ 14.00/hr HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms public areas pool etc. * Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards $ 14.00/hr All positions are Shift Work & weekends Fax resume 780 - 702-5051 PATTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT IS SEEKING P/T & F/T kitchen help & Cook Please apply in person after 4 p.m. to: Hwy. 2 S. Gasoline Alley.

SAROS

Req’s Exp. P/T waitress for days & evenings. Please apply in person: w/resume to 4914-52 St.

X-STATIC

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR EXPERIENCED

COCKTAIL SERVER Apply in person after 3 pm.

Sales & Distributors

830

PREMIER SPA BOUTIQUE is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor for our Parkland Mall location, Red Deer. $17.40/hr. Email resume: premierjobrd1@gmail.com RED DEER BASED Oilfield trucking company requires Oilfield salesperson /truck push . Please send resume and oilfield related tickets to Box 1002, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

840

Teachers/ Tutors

Tutor/Caregiver needed for student in an online school program. 4 to 5 hours per day in my Red Deer home. Contact 587-877-4173.

850

Trades

2ND and 3rd. year. ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE

Must have Residential experience. Fax resume to 403-347-5745 3RD OR 4TH YEAR APPRENTICE PLUMBER. Experience with hydronics and gas an asset. Must be hard working, self motivated and own hand tools. Competitive wages with benefit package. Please fax drivers abstract and references with resume to 403-342-5748

Auto Technicians

JOURNEYMAN AUTO TECHS with Dodge, Chrysler experience required immediately , excellent paid training plan, competitive wage and benifit pkge . Reply in confidence with resume to bbailey@ heritagechrysler.com or cal 1-800-661-5277 Heritage Chrysler Lacombe Ab ARROW ARC WELDING is looking for WELDING APPRENTICE LOCATED BY GULL lAKE. Phone Brian 318-6760

Sales & Distributors

830

ABEL CORPORATION is looking for candidates for the following positions:

850

CALIBER PAINT & BODY

Trades

850

Trades

850

HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE TECHNICIAN. United Rentals is looking for a

Is looking for a DETAILER/CLEAN UP Woodworking machine SERVICE TECHNICIAN PERSON operators $17.00- $21.50 to maintain and repair If you are interested in Required Exp’d Fabricator hourly - 40 hrs. per wk. construction tools and working in a fast paced For a Ponoka * Furniture manufacturing equipment. Applicants environment, we are Manufacturing Shop. labourers $13.95 - $17. looking for you. We offer a must have 3-5 years exp, hourly - 40 hrs. per wk. High School Diploma and great starting wage and Knowledge of ASME code * Cabinetmakers $18.50- benefits.Some heavy lifting valid drivers license. bolt up, basic instrumenta$22.50 hourly - $40.00 Competitive wages and req’d. Must have a valid tion and a commitment to hrs. per wk. benefits. Email Rob at drivers license and must excellence are prerequisites. rmcwade@ur.com be able to start immed. Send resumes to or fax to 403-343-1087 Interested candidates Competitive wages with Box 5324 Lacombe, should apply in person at JOURNEYMAN Electrician benefit packages available. Alberta T4L 1X1; 6424 Golden West Ave. Required Local work apply by email at or email resume to: Interested candidates (Central Alberta) Abel.Corporation@ caliberpaint@telus.net please send resume to Oilfield exp as asset. canadaemail.net or We thank all applicants in admin@westcanfab.ca Send resume to by fax to (403) 782-2729 advance, however only Of fax to 403-775-4014 hr@truemark.ca qualified candidates will be SHEET METAL LABORER needed in Red contacted. Deer ASAP. Must know INSTALLERS Red Deer & surrounding area & have valid driver’s Required Immediately license. Please fax for busy shop. resumes to Fireplace Con- Experience with rough in Andy’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd. nections at 403-343-1899 in Blackfalds requires: to final stages required. Merit benefit package CANEM SYSTEMS LOOKING for apprentice offered with above Winch Truck, LTD or journeyman mechanic. average pay rates. REQUIRES Bed Truck Drivers Pipe bending skills would Must have own tools. be a great asset. Wages & Picker Operators * JM & Apprentice depend on exp. Going Contact Commercial Electricians concern shop. Fax Competitive wages, * JM & Apprentice resume to:403-346-9909 brad@comfortecheating.com benefits and scheduled or fax 403-309-8302 Service Electricians or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. days off. tickets and FOR LOCAL WORK Phone 403-346-7911 experience an asset. STAIR MANUFACTURER Please forward Req’s F/T workers to build MILLARD Trucking Resumes to: applications by e-mail to stairs in Red Deer shop. is looking for Licensed Fax: 403-347-1866 accounting@ MUST HAVE basic carJourneyman Heavy Duty Or Email: andystrucking.net or fax pentry skills. Salary based dchristensen@canem.com Mechanic. Applicant must (403) 885-4931 on skill level. Benefits be able to work well in a No Phone Calls avail. Apply in person at high paced environment. B & B COWIE 100, 7491 Edgar EXP’’D drywall tradesmen We offer competitive INSULATION LTD. Industrial Bend. email: & laborers req’d, wages & performance Looking for Experienced Phone 403-348-8640 based bonuses. Interested earl707@telus.net. and/or Insulation installers and fax 403-347-7913 persons apply to: EXPERIENCED residential crews. Must have own Fax 403-638-4987 or HVAC installer required transportation. jmillard@enerchem.com immediately. Must have CSA approved safety TRANSX valid drivers license and boots are required. own hand tools. Call Stan Please fax resume to NEEDED IMMED. @ 403-550-3870 for interview. 403-347-8075. APPRENTICE TO Email: bbcowie@telus.net Full time Certified Quality JOURNEYMAN Journeyman Auto Body MON. TO FRI. Painter, Certified JourneyPart Time Painter or Competitive wage and men Auto Body Technician Full Time Painter/Junior benefits. Please fax and Certified Quality EstiAssembler For a Ponoka resume to: Attn: Ted mator, required for busy Manufacturing Shop. 403-341-3691 shop in Rocky Mountain Painting Knowledge and House. Top wages and skills required. Experience Boundary benefits. E-Mail Resume to in oilfield production equip- Truckers/ Technical Group skylnltd@telus.net. Fax: ment fabrication, assembly Drivers Inc. 403-845-7724 or stop by: and finishing an asset. Is now hiring for: Skyline Collision Competitive wages with Busy Central Alberta Grain 4811 43rd Street benefit packages available. Trucking Company looking ~TECHNOLOGIST Rocky Mountain House, AB Interested candidates for Class 1 Drivers. We please send résumé to (PARTY CHIEF) offer lots of home time, GOODMEN admin@westcanfab.ca benefits and a bonus ROOFING LTD. Of fax to 403-775-4014 program. Grain and super ~TECHNICIAN Requires B exp. an asset but not (RODMAN) necessary. If you have a SLOPED ROOFERS In the Red Deer and clean commercial drivers LABOURERS surrounding area abstract and would like to & FLAT ROOFERS start making good money. Boundary offers a fax or email resume and Valid Driver’s Licence competitive salary and comm.abstract to preferred. Fax or email benefits package 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net info@goodmenroofing.ca as well as an RRSP PARTS PERSON or (403)341-6722 program. We are a Construction/Land survey NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Hertz Equipment Rental, company based in Airdrie. Red Deer branch is looking for a career minded Please send resume to: person. This person must FAX: (403) 948-4924 or have excellent telephone email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca manner, be paper flow orientated, have BWS organizational skills, and HEAVY Duty FABRICATION INC. be able to multi task. Mechanic: Is looking to fill the You must be very Required : position of customer service Central AB based trucking orientated and be able to Apprentices B Pressure Welder company reqires work with little supervision. vessel experience an asset will be considered OWNER OPERATORS Parts experience would Experience in all make and in AB. Home the odd be an asset but not The successful candidate models of diesel engine is night. Weekends off. Late necessary. Only those shall possess the following required for this full time model tractor pref. considered will be skills and abilities: position. Knowledge of air 403-586-4558 contacted. Please fax or • Experience in the compressors, generator e-mail resume to: Oilfield and related units and pumps would be Attention: Terry Rue, equipment an asset. The successful Branch Manager • Works well with others applicant must have excelFax: 403-343-2199 • Must be dependable, lent communication skills, E-Mail: true@hertz.com reliable, and loyal both oral & written. The • Exercise good Req’d immediately position requires a person QUALIFIED organizational skills who has a strong work Will consider ELECTRICIANS on the shop floor ethic and be able to work training a NEEDED with minimal supervision in professional, Those individuals with the a fast paced work environappropriate qualifications experienced driver. ment. We wish to thank all True Power Electric may respond in strictest applicants for their interest. Ph.1-877-463-9664 Requires confidence to Only those considered will Residential exp. only or email resume to careers@bwsfabrication.com be contacted. Forward Competitive wages info@capilano or Fax 403-343-6006 resume:Fax 403-343-2199 & benefits. trucktraining.com Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 Class 3 Commercial Driver. Heavy Duty Tire United Rentals RED DEER MITSUBISHI Technician is looking for a Class 3 is looking for a JourneySAFETY TICKETS man Technician to join our Commercial Driver AN ASSET closeknit team of to deliver and pick up conPlease forward resume by: professionals. Enjoy a struction equipment in Central C & C COATINGS Email: hr@pidherneys.com diverse workload and AB. Qualified candidates is seeking an or fax: 403-845-5370 or above industry average must have a clean & valid INDUSTRIAL PAINTER. visit: www.pidherneys.com compensation. E-mail Class 3 License w/air brake Exp. with Endura an asset. resume to eduiker@ JOIN OUR TEAM! endorsement. Competitive Competitive wages reddeermitsu.ca fax to Independent Paint & Body wages and Benefits. & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-348-8026 or call Ed @ is currently accepting Send resumes to Rob at 403-227-1165. 403-348-8000. Licensed resumes for experienced rmcwade@ur.com CENTRAL ALBERTA Technicians only please. autobody technicians and or fax to 403-343-1087 DEALERSHIP prepper. Apply with resume CELEBRATIONS is now accepting to 7453 - 50 ave Red Deer, applications for a full time HAPPEN EVERY DAY AB or email resume to Parts Person. IN CLASSIFIEDS indy2000@telus.net. Must have good communication and computer skills and have the ability to work independently. Trades Excellent company benefits. EXPERIENCED Please email resume along Vacuum & Water with wage expectations to: Truck operators philparts@gmail.com or req’d. to start immed. fax to 403-347-3813 CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q EXP’D SIDER , must have All oilfield safety tickets truck and tools. $85/sq. req’d. Clean drivers we pay compensation abstract. Must comply with Call 403-347-2522 drug and alcohol policy. References Req’d. Exc. salary & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net *

860

CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

850

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds looking for

SKILLED LABOURERS

• Wages based on experience. • Own transportation to work is required. Please fax resume to

403-885-5516 or email

k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca 256924H26

Must be enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible and positive. You must have a passion for Fabrics, Sewing, Crafts and Home Decor. Basic sewing skills are a must. Apply in person to: #2, 2119 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer or Fax resume to: 403.346.4320

840

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PROVIDENCE TRUCKING

Is looking for an exper. TEXAS BED TRUCK OPERATOR in Red Deer, AB. Applicants must have previous oilfield exper. in driving off-road conditions. A Class 1 license with a clean drivers abstract is required. We offer a drug free work environment with excellent employee benefits and Group RRSP. Please fax a resume and current abstract to: 403-314-2340

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in MICHENER

ROUTE AVAIL.

* 50A Street & 51 Street between 40 Ave & 43 Ave. * 51 A Street & 52 Street between 40th Ave. & 43 Ave.

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires fluid haulers. Oilfield tickets an asset. Competitive wages. Fax resume to: 403-340-8818 WANTED. Exp’d driver with clean Class 1 license for Super B work in Central Alberta. F/T, benefits. Fax resume and current driver’s abstract to 403-728-3902. or 746-5794 or email mrmike71@hotmail.com

Misc. Help

880

1349300 Ab Ltd o/a Trochu Gas & Snacks. Wanted food counter attendant, food service supervisor, retail store supervisor, positions. Wage: from $11.50/hrfood counter attendant, $13.00/hr-food service supervisor, $16.00/hrretail store supervisor. Apply in:sungmina@ hotmail.com or fax:403-442-3138 or mail: pobox488 114 1ave N. Trochu AB T0M2C0 1442968 AB LTD o/a Rimbey Gas & Snacks. Wanted food counter attendant, food service supervisor, retail store supervisor, baker positions. Wage: from $11.50/hr-food counter attendant, $13.00/hr-food service supervisor, $16.00/ hr-retail store supervisor, $14.50/hr-baker. Apply in:sungmina@hotmail.com or fax:403-843-3871 or mail: PO Box 2069 5134 50 Ave Rimbey AB T0C 2J0

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in ORIOLE PARK Oriole Park West Ogilvie Close & Oldring Crsc. HIGHLAND GREEN Adult Carrier Needed for early morning 6 days /wk. Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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

DEER PARK * Dempsey St. & Dumas Crsc. area Also * Duffy Close & Dietz Close area ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

with a clean Drivers abstract. Picker truck experience would be an asset. Need to have all safety tickets TDG, H2S, First Aid, GODI, Hrs. of Service. References upon request Please email resume to info@dynamicprojects.ca or fax to 403-340-3471 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Truckers/ Drivers

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available! * GED Preparation * Trades Entrance Exam Preparation * Women in the Trades

Academic Express

Adult Education & Training

340-1930

Please see: 458127H22-23

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

Safety tickets an asset. Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes

ANDERS AREA: Andrews Close Ardell Close/ Allan St. Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close Aikman Close/ Allan St. BOWER AREA Boyce St. Bell St./Byer Close

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

INGLEWOOD AREA: Issard Close SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Springfield Ave.

WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

VANIER AREA: Viscount Dr./ Violet Place Valentines Crsc./ Vandorp St.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in EASTVIEW 82 Advocate $430/month $5165/year

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 CASUAL POSITIONS

WEST LAKE 77 Advocate $404/month $4851/year

Dietary Aid/ Housekeeping

positions needed. Must be able to work in a team environment. Mandatory criminal record check required. Salary according to union scale. Please apply in writing to Lisa Manning-Eaton, Lodge Manager, 4277 46A Ave. or by fax to: 403-343-1728

MOUNTVIEW 71 Advocate $372/month $4473/year GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year

CENTRAL AB LUBE SHOP

REQUIRES MANAGER/ LEAD HAND. Exp. req’d. Submit resumes by fax: 403-507-8514 or email: wchurch77@gmail.com

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

CIRCULATION Service Runner (Part Time)

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details

880

Invites applicants for:

COSMETOLOGY INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT August 29 - April 30, 2013 Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities - Classified Staff for complete posting.

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week) As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle is provided. Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.. Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. or longer Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your drivers abstract immediately to: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 or fax to: 403-341-4772 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

860 F/T furnace cleaning technician to start immed. Training paid. Mechanical exp. an asset. Please call 403-340-2335 fax 403-885-0383 or email tp_fc@yahoo.ca F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo. Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

• Water Truck Drivers HEAVY DUTY • Truck and Wagon Drivers TIRE TECHNICIAN • Lowbed Drivers – to haul our heavy equipment

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANT

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life twice weekly in

www.academicexpress.ca

Pidherney’s is growing and requires experienced Class 1 & 3 drivers to join our busy team:

Pidherney’s is growing and requires the following:

NO EXP. NECESSARY!! F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $11/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

880

VANIER AREA

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info ADULT UPGRADING

314-4307

Misc. Help

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

requires

Requires the following:

Employment Opportunities - Classified Staff for complete posting.

Class 1 Truck Driver

• Great benefit package.

PART-TIME SALES STAFF

860

Oilfield Construction Company Requires a

for framing and rebar related jobs.

NOW HIRING

Teachers/ Tutors

Trades

258131H22-23

Is seeking FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $14.00/hr.

850

Truckers/ Drivers

Top wages paid based on experience Benefit package Assigned units Scheduled days off Valid safety tickets an asset Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

256992H27

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER

Trades

255798H3-21

820

257751H18-24

Restaurant/ Hotel

INSULATOR cover manufacturer requires sewing machine operator . $13.00/hr., to start, pay review and benefits after 30 day period. Normal hours are 8 to 4:30 Monday to Friday with possible overtime during busy season. Indoor work. Call Dave at 403-343-3492.

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012

880

Misc. Help

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collectins! Packages come ready for delivery!

GREENHOUSE WORKERS Central Alberta Greenhouses We have some full time positions available immedia t e l y. D u t i e s i n c l u d e planting seedlings, watering plants, moving plants from o n e a r e a t o a n o t h e r, Please contact loading plants onto carts QUITCY and loading trucks. Must have own transportation. at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ We w i l l t r a i n . Wa g e i s reddeeradvocate.com $10.25/hr for approx. 40 hrs/wk. Fax resume to 403-885-4146 or email to P/T help needed for janitorial ar-cag@telus.net. days and or eve/wknds. Please note that only $13.00 start please send those to be interviewed will resume to acncleaning@ be contacted. hotmail.com grt Hiring residential house supplemental income! cleaners. 12-20 hrs/wk. P/T POSITION IDEAL For Phone 403-986-4883 for SEMI RETIRED or details. RETIRED PERSON IMMED. OPENINGS 1 - 3 days /wk. must have Firewood Baggers. current criminal record Heavy work. 403-304-6472 check. Must be able to do IN SERVICE SHOP, exp’d considerable walking and with farm equipment and some lifting. Qualifications: cash handling/sales exp., the ability to weld. A p p l y i n p e r s o n w i t h organized and exc. math and computer skills, resume at: Reg Cox Feed immediate start. M i x e r s . S o u t h o f U FA To arrange interview Burnt Lake Indust. Park, call 1-800-387-8223 Phone 403-340-2221 or ext. 644 fax 403-341-5622 Fax: 1-888-434-5122

JOIN THE BLUE GRASS TEAM!

Q & Q Fencing is seeking labourer’s. Starting wage BLUE GRASS SOD of $16.00/hr. Please subFARMS LTD req’s mit resume by fax to mechanic helper, apprenticship opportunities 403-343-9449 or email to avail. Farm equipment exp. qqfencing@telus.net an asset. Open to current REAL Enterprises Ltd apprentices. NOW HIRING bluesod@xplornet.com or Exp Landscape Foremen/ fax to 403-342-7488 Labourers LABORER needed in Red Benefits - Bonuses Deer ASAP. Must know Must have valid drivers Red Deer & surrounding license area & have valid driver’s Fax or email resumes: license. Please fax Fax 403-314-2214 resumes to Fireplace ConEmail realltd@telus.net nections at 403-343-1899 www.reddeerlandscaping.net ROD’S WELDING is looking for F/T Labourer / Welders Helper Fax resume to 403-746-5909 or call 403-746-5455 SNO-VALLEY CUSTOMS is currently looking for operators, for our fall farm runs and our winter ice road season. Call 403- 348-1521, 391-1695

NOW HIRING F/T POSITIONS Baker Cake Decorator Produce Assistant Manager Dairy/Frozen stock clerk Meat Cutter Closing/Grocery Supervisor P/T positions in all departments. All positions require weekend availability. Apply in person to Sobey’s Hwy. 2A Lacombe or fax resume to: 403-782-5820 LOCAL cover manufacturer requires material layout and cutting trainee $13.00/hr., to start, pay review and benefits after 30 day period. Normal hours are 8 to 4:30 Monday to Friday with possible overtime during busy season. Indoor work. Call Dave at 403-343-3492.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

900

Employment Training

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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. (across from Totem)

920

Career Planning

Build A Resume That Works! APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

1500-1990

EquipmentHeavy

1630

1/2 TON picker w/gas engine, $800 obo 403-391-4144 REDUCED 2007 Dual Tandem Tag AlonG, paver equip. trailer, pindle hook, 30’ flatdeck, 5’ beavertail, 9’ bi-fold ramps, just had $3300 brake job, $7800. 780-982-9390 Red Deer TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1650

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

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

1700

*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 open 10am - 6pm Monday - Friday!

Misc. for Sale

1760

4 DRAWER filing cabinet $35; 22 qt. pressure cooker canner like new $85; exercise bike $20; 10 doz. canning jars wide and narrow mouth $5/doz.; dozen pint jars, $3/doz. 403-358-5247 COMPOSTING barrel, $20, roll of chain link fence, $15; large piece of carpet, beige, like new, $50; 403-746-5123 HOUSE CARPET SHAMPOOER very good cond., almost new $80 403-307-7542 from 5 pm. - 9 pm. LAST Weeks all items on sale, Toaster $2; new teapot and cover $4; 2-1/2 quart corningware $5; 4 cup elec. coffee pot $4, stainless steel fry pan $3; old candy dish $2; serving bowl $2.50 ;old fruit bowl $5; queensize sheets $3.00; wig brown in color $7; like new runners size 8 gel padded $10; 2 pots ,each $6; meat platter $4.50, old pickle dish 3 divides $4; couch throw $2; blanket 48x60 $2; secret treasure ornament girl & boy $4; all items are clean & in good cond. 403-346-2231 LIFETIME elec. frypan 11-1/2” in diameter, 2” deep, great cond., $25; 403-314-9603 PETIT POINT pictures, Dutch boy & girl, professionally framed, $50 for 2, 403-314-9603 POWER Washer 3300 psi $50. 403-346-9899 SHAW direct DSR HD receiver, $50; 403-348-0060

Contractors

1100

ANYTHING CONCRETE 403-872-2765 or 506-2150

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 DALE’S Home Reno’s. Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 GENERAL reno’s, restore & repair. 403-550-3888

LANCE’S

CONCRETE

Sidewalks, driveways, shops, patios, garage pads commercial. Specialized in stamp concrete. 302-9126

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!

1200

TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Massage Therapy

1280

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445

EDEN

HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

587-877-7399 10am- 2am

Fencing

1169

P.W. FENCING 403-598-9961

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. CONCRETE sidewalk, driveway, patios, decks, fences. 403-550-3888 F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed? Hard work day? 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

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial. Serving central Alberta. 403-318-4346

Misc. Services

1290

KLEEN SITE SERVICES Residential & Commercial Pickups, Junk Removal, Bin Rentals, Dump & Cargo Trailers, BobCat Services 403-373-3242 Scrap Vehicle Disposal Service (403)302-1848

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

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

1430

Tree Pruning,Topping and Removal by a Certified Arborist,Hedges too! call Randy at 403-350-0216

3010

Acreages/ Farms

2 BDRM. farm house, nice yard, deck, 20 min. from RD. Pref. N/S & no pets, $1250 incl. utils. & 6 appls. Avail. Sept. 15, 403-227-2133 or 506-8400

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

SYLVAN, five fully furn. 2 bdrm. + hide-a-bed, incl., cable, dishes, bedding, all utils. $950 - $1400/mo. 403-880-0210

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 Bdrm. Townhouse on Jennings Cres. Johnstone Park Area. $1250. Book now for app’t to view. Avail Sept 1. HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

HILLTOP ESTATES

LARGE 3 bdrm townhouse. 1.5 baths Fridge, stove, washer, dryer. Fenced yard. Unfinished bsmt. Avail †NOW! HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca 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 SYLVAN 2 bdrm.,. condo. private entrance, $1100 + gas & electricity. Phone 403-341-9974

Manufactured Homes

3040

Roommates Wanted

3080

ORIOLE Park.$550/mo, $400 dd. incl. utils. share bathroom. Charmane 403-358-8020. must like cats ROOM for rent, shared bath and kitchen. All in $550 a month, male pref. 403 782-2853, 396 3708

Rooms For Rent

3090

FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Lana 403-550-8777

3050

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Notice to Creditors and Claimants Estate of Julie Marie Cuendet who died on August 21, 2004 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by September 23, 2012 with David and Roger Thevenaz. c/o Davis LLP 1201 Scotia Tower 2, 10060 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB, T5J 4E5 attn: Greg D. Heinrichs, Q.C. and provide details of your claim.

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WORTH, Texas — A judge has the right to order an Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage to be forcibly shaved of his beard before his murder trial, military attorneys told an appeals court Wednesday. The attorneys, in a document filed on behalf of Col. Gregory Gross, contend that forcibly shaving Maj. Nidal Hasan would not violate the American-born Muslim’s religious freedoms and said it is similar to “and no more invasive than” a judge’s right to restrain a defendant who is disruptive during a court-martial. “Forced shaving is not a novel concept in the military,” military attorneys said in the judge’s response filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. “Army regulations expressly authorize nonconsensual haircutting and faceshaving for recalcitrant incarcerated soldiers. ... If the judge has authority to bind and gag a disruptive accused (soldier), then certainly he has authority to forcibly shave (Hasan).” Last week that appeals court delayed Hasan’s court-martial, which had been set to start earlier this week with jury selection, while it considers his appeal to being forcibly shaved. Now that the judge has responded, the court can make a decision or choose to hear oral arguments in the case first. Hasan has grown a beard to express his Muslim faith. His defence attorneys have said he won’t shave since he’s had a premonition that his death is imminent, and he doesn’t want to die without a beard because he believes not having one is a sin. Hasan faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted in the November 2009 attack on the Texas Army post that killed

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13 people and wounded more than two dozen others. Gross has banned Hasan from courtroom hearings since he first showed up in court in June with a beard, letting him watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television in a nearby room. But Gross said Hasan will be forcibly shaved before the trial if he doesn’t shave himself. The judge has said he wants Hasan in attendance during the court-martial to prevent a possible appeal on the issue if he is convicted. The government does not believe that Hasan’s beard is based on a sincerely held religious belief, prosecutors have said. Even so, Gross’ response also told the appeals court that his order does not violate Hasan’s religious freedoms. Army rules prohibit beards, and those who join the military have agreed to give up certain personal interests over the needs of the service, according to the document. Military courts have granted exceptions to certain rules because of religious grounds, such as allowing a Jewish soldier to wear a yarmulke, but Hasan shouldn’t be allowed to keep his beard because his religious beliefs are associated with the crime, said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University Law School. He is not involved in the Hasan case. In urging the court to deny Hasan’s appeal and to allow the trial to proceed, Gross’ response said that his order to forcibly shave Hasan ensures “that a military trial proceeds without a distracting and disruptive sideshow featuring an officer-accused flagrantly disrespecting the Army, his superiors, and the military judge.” The trial is expected to last more than two months at Fort Hood, about 125 miles (200 kilometres) southwest of Fort Worth.

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MEXICO CITY — Adherents of a religious sect in western Mexico are physically blocking school teachers from entering their walled community, setting up one of the most highprofile confrontations between religious and civil authorities in Mexico since the 1930s. Local officials in the western state of Michoacan said Wednesday it may be time to call in a large-scale police operation to enforce the right to schooling in a community that has largely ruled itself according to what it considers biblical guidelines for almost 40 years. The New Jerusalem community prohibits formal schooling, television, radio, modern music, dress and fashion. “I think the next step is to go in and enforce the rule of law,” said Efrain Barrera, spokesman for the township of Turicato, where the sect’s walledoff compound is. Under Mexican law, grade school education is compulsory, and Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission and the Roman Catholic Church said Tuesday that the refusal to allow classes in New Jerusalem is a violation of children’s human rights. They called on the government to break the town’s blockade, which has been limited to fistfights but could escalate. Members of the sect recently attacked and destroyed school buildings. “It is surprising that they want to impose beliefs, not a religion, on grade-school children in their formative stage, by taking away the right every child has to attend classes in government-provided education,” the Mexican Bishops Council said in a statement. “The local authorities should intervene and resolve the conflict, which, if it isn’t taken care of, could escalate,” the council said. “This is an issue that cannot wait, this is the moment to act and defend the rule of law.” The church does not rec-

ognize the sect, which was founded in 1973 by a renegade Catholic priest who objected to the abandonment of Latin masses and other modernization moves. The group has demanded the right to appoint its own teachers, set its own curriculum and mandate robes and headscarves for female pupils, claiming that otherwise the schools would be introducing bad habits into the community. Girls at government schools in Mexico generally wear uniforms, including knee-length plaid skirts. The group shuns telephones and its leaders were not available for comment Wednesday. In July, gangs of sect followers used sledgehammers to destroy three government school buildings in the community, then doused them with gasoline and set fire to the school furniture and computer equipment. On Monday, when the new school year was scheduled to start, gangs of church supporters, including women dressed in the bright-colored robes and headscarves the sect requires women to wear, engaged in fistfights with residents who wanted their children to go to school at improvised classrooms set up after the school buildings were destroyed. About a dozen governmentpaid teachers showed up, but were also driven off. “They are damaging about 250 children,” said Barrera. “It is not fair that older people want to reproduce and impose their own ignorance on a new generation.” There have been periodic reports of deaths, threats and beatings inside the compound, where about 5,000 adherents live in brick houses inside medieval-castle-style walls. But no outside authorities have ever been allowed to conduct official functions like policing or registering births and deaths, a situation long tolerated for a community that voted overwhelmingly for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has governed Michoacan for

nearly all of the last eight decades. “What we are demanding is to be able to enter and investigate what has been happening, because there have been systematic crimes and violations of the law since 1973, when the community was founded,” Barrera said. The Human Rights Commission said Tuesday it had already sent inspectors to New Jerusalem and demanded the government send police to guard the schoolchildren and classrooms. The religion was founded by Nabor Cardenas, “Papa Nabor,” a defrocked parish priest who said it was based on messages from the Virgin Mary relayed by an illiterate old woman. Together with supposed clairvoyant Agapito Gomez, who channeled voices, orders and predictions from the spirit world, they ordered the building of the compound, along with towers, walls and multiple church buildings. Members believe it will be the only place on earth spared from an impending Apocalypse, which they had predicted would occur in cataclysmic volcanic eruptions around the 2000 millennium. Residents of the New Jerusalem compound cannot use many modern conveniences, while women are not allowed to wear makeup, and must dress in robes and are referred to as “nuns” or “courtesans.” Residents recite Mass in Latin and use old exorcism and baptism rituals long abandoned by the mainstream church. Religious conflicts, often between evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics, still occur in some parts of rural Mexico, and have sometimes led to thousands of residents being expelled from their towns. But the last large-scale religious violence occurred in the 1926-29 Cristero war, when harsh anti-clerical laws sparked an armed uprising by Roman Catholic rebels against Mexico’s secular government. Tens of thousands of people died.

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by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — A passenger on a U.S. domestic flight dozed off wearing headphones and awoke to find the hands of the stranger seated next to her inside her blouse and shorts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. In a criminal complaint, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey charged Bawer Aksal with sexual abuse. Prosecutors said Askal, a Turkish national with U.S. citizenship, was sitting in the middle seat on United Airlines Flight 306 from Phoenix to Newark, New Jersey, on Monday night when he abused the woman, who was sitting in the window seat. The woman, whose name is being withheld by prosecutors because of the nature of the charges, told authorities she woke up to find the man had one of his hands inside her shirt touching her breasts and the other in her shorts molesting her, according to the complaint. Aksal, 48, was breathing heavily and repeatedly asked the woman to kiss him, it says. The woman demanded the man get off her, according to the complaint, slammed down the

armrest between them and reported the incident to flight personnel. A passenger in the aisle seat, noticing the commotion, offered to help the woman, prosecutors said, and accompanied her to the back of the plane to alert the flight crew. The aisle passenger later told authorities that he had seen the woman, who appeared to be asleep and not moving, and saw the man’s arm under a jacket the woman had draped across her legs. Aksal was detained on board and was taken into custody by federal authorities at Newark Liberty International Airport, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office said. He admitted to law enforcement officers in Newark that he had touched the woman but insisted she had forced his hand into her shorts, prosecutors said. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Falk, who presided over the case Wednesday in Newark federal court, said he wanted to hold a more detailed hearing before setting bail for Aksal. Aksal, who had close-cropped grey hair and wore a T-shirt and jeans while cuffed at the wrists and ankles, did not speak during his first court appearance. He was assigned a courtappointed attorney.

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Assad influence in Lebanon weakening SYRIAN CIVIL WAR SHAKES BEIRUTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TIES WITH DAMASCUS INCLUDING GOVERNMENT PARALYSIS rael and Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanese politics. Seventeen times bigger than Lebanon and four times more populous, Syria has long had powerful allies here, including the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group that now dominates the government. For much of the past 30 years, Lebanese have lived under Syrian military and political domination. That grip began to slip in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Beirut. Widely accused of involvementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; something it has always denied â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Syria was forced to withdraw its troops. But the killings of anti-Syrian figures continued and opponents of Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime say he has maintained his influence through allies who now control the government. All this made the Aug. 9 arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha all the more shocking. Samaha, one of Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most loyal allies in Lebanon who has long acted as an unofficial media adviser to Assad, was plucked from his bed at dawn by special police forces who burst into his summer mountain home. Within hours, various leaks began emerging that Samaha had confessed to having personally transported explosives in his car from Syria to Lebanon with the purpose of killing Lebanese personalities at the behest of Syria. Two days later, a military court indicted Samaha, along with Syrian Brig. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks inside Lebanon. Mamlouk, who was appointed last month by Assad to head Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Security Bureau, was indicted in absentia on charges he furnished the explosives to Samaha. According to a senior Lebanese police official, Samaha confessed after he was confronted with audio and video footage taken by a double agent

BEIRUT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Lebanon, bringing with it sectarian street clashes, mob violence and general government paralysis in Beirut. But it was the dramatic arrest earlier this month of a former Lebanese government minister and prominent supporter of Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embattled president that has suggested the conflict may be causing Lebanon to slip further away from Damascusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long domination. The bloodshed in Syria has drawn Lebanon deeper into the unrest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a troubling sign for a country that has gone through its own 15-year civil war and has an explosive sectarian mix as well as deep divisions between pro- and anti-Syrian factions, many of which are armed. The chaos could give Sunni Muslim fighters in northern Lebanon more leeway to establish supply lines to the rebels inside Syria in their battle to oust President Bashar Assad. Tensions and intermittent fighting in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli continued Wednesday following two days of clashes between pro- and antiAssad groups that killed at least six people and wounded more than 70. In New York, United Nations political chief Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council Wednesday that as the crisis in Syria continues to deteriorate, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the situation in Lebanon has become more precarious and the need for continued international support to the government and the Lebanese Armed Forces increasingly important.â&#x20AC;? Feltman said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about two-way arms smuggling across the Syrian-Lebanese border, which poses risks to both countries and violates a council resolution that ended the month-long war in 2006 between Is-

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Man shot in patrol car called girlfriend LITTLE ROCK, Ark. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Authorities in Arkansas say the girlfriend of a man who was fatally shot in the back of a patrol car told an investigator that he called her from the car and said he had a gun with him. Jonesboro police said Wednesday that 21-year-old Chavis Carterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girlfriend also told the investigator that Carter said he loved her and that he was scared. An autopsy released this week ruled Carterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death a suicide. Police said evidence and witness statements support that conclusion.

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Lebanese commandos ride in an armored personnel carrier in preparation to enter the area of clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday. The civil war in Syria is affecting its fragile, tiny neighbor Lebanon in countless ways and has already spilled over into sectarian street clashes, kidnappings and general government paralysis. using a camera-equipped pen. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations. The case stunned many in Lebanon, where political assassinations have occurred with impunity for decades. While Syria has been blamed for many of the killings, no one has been held accountable. Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allies in Lebanon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Hezbollah â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were mostly silent following Samahaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrest, apparently believing that the evidence against him was solid.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the policy (in Lebanon) has been shifting away from alliance with Syria,â&#x20AC;? said Ayham Kamel, a Middle East analyst at the Eurasia Group in London. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Syrian regime has been under intense pressure, so its allies in Lebanon have recalibrated.â&#x20AC;? Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponents in Lebanon cited the Samaha case as proof that Damascus was trying to incite sectarian strife in its neighbour to deflect attention from its own problems, and they called for the Syrian ambassador to be expelled.

Police have been facing criticism after they said officers searched Carter twice but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a gun before he was fatally shot in a patrol car July 28.

nell. An officer believed Bicknell had tried to bribe him to get out of a ticket. Vaz denies any wrongdoing and will continue to serve as a Parliament member.

Jamaica lawmaker steps down after corruption charges

Man indicted in shooting of guard at U.S. lobbying group headquarters

KINGSTON, Jamaica â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Jamaican opposition lawmaker charged with perverting the course of justice is stepping aside from a party post. Jamaica Labor Party legislator Daryl Vaz announced Wednesday that he is taking a leave of absence as the oppositionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief spokesman on information and communications technology issues. He says he wants to minimize any impact on the party. Vaz is accused of breaching an anti-corruption law while intervening in a traffic violation involving a businessman friend. He says he had no â&#x20AC;&#x153;ill intentâ&#x20AC;? when he went to a police station and spoke to commanders about dropping a case against Bruce Bick-

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A jury has indicted a man accused of shooting and wounding a security guard in the arm at the Washington headquarters of a conservative U.S. lobbying group. Floyd Corkins was indicted Wednesday on a federal charge of interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition and two Washington offences: assault with intent to kill while armed and possession of a handgun during a violent crime. Charging documents say the 28-year-old man was carrying a handgun, a box of ammunition and 15 sandwiches from the Chick-fil-A fast-food chain when he fired on the security guard at the Family Research Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters. Visit kia.ca to learn more.

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S/W/F late 40’s N/S interested in meeting gentleman 55-65 for friendship. Only single & unattached, employed & financially secure need apply. Reply to Box 1006, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

Bingos Tiger/Calico looking Tabby with jade green eyes and big fluffy tail; white boots on her back paws. IF FOUND PLEASE CALL TRISH AT 403-872-4411 OR 403-782-0005. HER NAME IS JADE, AND WE R E A L LY M I S S H E R ! ! ! Small heart tattoo in right ear and microchip. Lost from West central Lacombe.

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MISSING from Morrisroe area, since Tues. morning, 7 yr old neutered male cat, grey w/some black stripes, white toes, wearing light blue collar, indoor cat, ** FOUND **

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REWARD FOR RETURN OF STOLEN BICYCLE!! Cranberry red ladies TOWNIE bicycle, white seat, black wire basket on front and black rack over rear tire, bike cable lock wrapped around frame. Also missing is a black Bell helmet with white polka dot decals all over it. These items went missing between Aug 11 and Aug 13/2012 from Victoria Park in Anders. Please call 403-341-5074 if you have information. REWARD for safe return of bike. Please check your yards & alleys - it was a special gift and I would really love to get it back.

F/T Live in Caregiver for 5 kids. Mature & responsible w/min. secondary education or 6 mo. caregiver exp. Able to speak Igbo language an incentive. $1850 gross salary, $330 room & board. Call Mary or Al 403-346-1298 F/T LIVE-IN CAREGIVER req’d for senior in Rocky. 403-845-3217 or email dsbauer@telus.net P/T Caregiver req’d for mid. age lady in South Red Deer. Entails 2 visits daily, 9-9:30 a.m. & 8:30-9:30 p.m. to monitor well-being & health. Schedule involves 10-14 days/mo. Send resume to Box 1001, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

STOLEN: NATIONAL Geographic Bag containing Pentax K20D Camera/ Lens stolen from Clearview on the evening of Aug 11. Multiple SD memory cards contained within holding precious memories of our family. All we care about is the return of our precious pictures (SD cards). No questions asked upon the return. Anyone with any information about any of these items please call (403) 392-6830 or the police.

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Req’d. Immed. A small industry assoc. in Red Deer seeks an Office Administrator. The office administrator is responsible for efficient organizing, coordinating & operation of the assoc.’s office. Job Duties: Provides support & answerable to the Executive Director - Responsible for computerized bookkeeping incld: accounts P/A, invoicing, bank deposits & credit card processing; Updates website & social media sites; Project admin. duties; Responds to members inquiries & requests for info; Maintains membership records & internal files; Liaises w/other agencies, organizations & groups; Reception of visitors, answering calls, manages all mail, couriers, etc.; Coordinates bookings & arrangements of meeting rooms & catering needs. Manages company service agreements w/suppliers &/or service providers; Manages & orders office supplies; Serves as the go-to contact for office inquiries & trouble shooting; Ensures efficient office organization, orderliness & cleanliness. Job Qualifications: P r e v i o u s o ff i c e e x p e r. req’d. Basic bookkeeping (exper. in computerized bookkeeping an asset); Exper. with websites & social media sites helpful, but must be willing to learn. Sound computer & MS Office skills; Superior customer service skills coupled w/good business etiquette. Good organizational skills & detail oriented. Effective communication skills. Reliable, responsible w/sound work ethic Min. High School Diploma (Post-secondary business education preferred). Qualified applicants may email their cover letter & resume to scott@carma group.ca at Central AB. Rural Manufacturers Assoc. (CARMA) by Aug. 31st.

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FULL TIME IT FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN NEEDED We offer competitive and comprehensive compensation with benefit package, vehicle allowance, and salary based on experience. Please submit resume to: info@longhurstconsulting

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Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’s license. COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!

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Apprentice or Journeyman Mechanics Pile Drive Operators Pile Drive Assistants Field Supervisor All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test. Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate. We offer exceptional pay, excellent benefit package and a positive work environment. Please email resumes to info@landcore.ca or fax 403-783-2011. The right candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please no phone calls.

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MANAGEMENT Trainee Required Westcan Fabricating Ltd is a fast growing oil and gas fabricating company based out of Ponoka AB.

Field Operations

Qualified individual will be self-motivated and experienced in tank farm rig ups. Responsibilities will include organization and rig up of tank farm/manifold systems, delivery of office trailers and light towers. We are willing to train the right candidates with related oilfield experience. Only individuals with clean drivers abstract and 100% commitment to customer service and safe work practices need apply. Please forward resumes and abstracts via the following: Fax: 403-309-5962 Email: careers@evergreenenergy.ca

PROFLO Production Separators is currently looking for production testing assistants. Suitable candidates must have H2S, First Aid, PST/CST and a valid driver’s license. Please forward resume to info@proflo.net or fax to 403-341-4588.

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 RED DEER BASED Oilfield trucking company requires Oilfield salesperson /truck push . Please send resume and oilfield related tickets to Box 1002, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and helpers. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com

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SAFETY COORDINATOR Watts Projects Inc. is a progressive Oilfield Construction Company based in Red Deer and Edson serving Alberta and Saskatchewan. We are hiring a Safety Coordinator to manage the Health & Safety Program, the position will coordinate with the HSE Manager. The Candidate would be responsible for a combination field safety & safety administration activities. Safety Tickets required and Alberta Construction Safety Association training courses would be an asset. Watts offers excellent wages, benefits and a safety conscious working environment. Email cody.howitt@telus.net or Fax 1-403-358-7763

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Oilfield

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TREELINE WELL SERVICES

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires experienced Class 3 Vac Truck Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

ZUBAR Production Services

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires experienced Class 1 bed truck/winch truck operators. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

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Professionals

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NOW HIRING - LAB ANALYST 2 Joffre, AB. Duties: Analyze water & organic samples using ICP, GC, HPLC, & NMR; maintain proper calibration & quality control records; prepare samples for analysis using extraction methods; troubleshoot & understand analytical equipment. Required: post secondary education in chemistry or related field; organized, detail-oriented; good communication skills (verbal & written); must be able to work shifts. Apply to: Petroleum.Careers@ maxxam.ca Reference #A2-JOFFRE www.maxxam.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

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HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

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SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

850

Trades

850

3RD OR 4TH YEAR ABEL CORPORATION APPRENTICE PLUMBER. is looking for candidates Experience with for the following positions: hydronics and gas an asset. Must be hard * Woodworking machine working, self motivated operators $17.00- $21.50 and own hand tools. hourly - 40 hrs. per wk. Competitive wages with * Furniture manufacturing benefit package. Please labourers $13.95 - $17. fax drivers abstract and hourly - 40 hrs. per wk. references with resume to * Cabinetmakers $18.50403-342-5748 $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 C & C COATINGS is seeking an INDUSTRIAL PAINTER. Exp. with Endura an asset. Competitive wages & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165.

PILING COMPANY seeks: * Crane Operators Fax resume to 403-340-8686

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classiﬁeds 403-309-3300 classiﬁeds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

DOMINO’S PIZZA

NOW HIRING F/T and P/T DRIVERS & In stores. Apply within, 5018 45th St.

830

Sales & Distributors

Kitchen Helper

19166TFD28

ASSOCIATIONS

PIZZA 73 DOWNTOWN LOCATION Hiring F/T Delivery Drivers. Apply in person. Up to $200/night.

Trades

wegotservices

Cook

$14.00/HR. To prepare and cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen and maintain hygiene follow recipes, assist in receiving and storing

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

Contractors

1100

ANYTHING CONCRETE 403-872-2765 or 506-2150

Black Cat Concrete

Contractors

1100

LANCE’S

CONCRETE

Sidewalks, driveways, shops, patios, garage pads commercial. Specialized in stamp concrete. 302-9126 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

1165

Sidewalks, driveways, garages, patios, bsmts. RV pads. Dean 403-505-2542

Escorts

BLACK PEARL CONCRETE Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285

587-877-7399 10am- 2am

EDEN

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049

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. F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Massage Therapy

1280

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, CONCRETE! lots of parking 403-341-4445 CONCRETE! HOT STONE, Body CONCRETE! Balancing. 403-352-8269 ROXY 26 Hot Blonde Stamp finish, exposed fin403-848-2300 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL ish, basements, garages, WALK-INS WELCOME patio pads, driveways & SUPER HOT BLONDES sidewalks. etc. Sweet & Spicy Brunettes 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Anything concrete, call 403-550-0470 VII MASSAGE Mark 403-597-0095 Feeling overwhelmed? Hard work day? Come in Handyman DALE’S Home Reno’s. and let us pamper you. Free estimates for all your Services Pampering at its best. reno needs. 755-9622 #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. cell 506-4301 www.viimassage.biz CONCRETE sidewalk, In/Out Calls to Hotels GENERAL reno’s, restore driveway, patios, decks, 403-986-6686 & repair. 403-550-3888 fences. 403-550-3888

1200

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 KLEEN SITE SERVICES Residential & Commercial Pickups, Junk Removal, Bin Rentals, Dump & Cargo Trailers, BobCat Services 403-373-3242 Scrap Vehicle Disposal Service (403)302-1848 Yard Work / Reno / Tree / Junk Removal 403-396-4777

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations. 403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship, helping you/helping your family. Call 403-346-7777 Low Price Guarantee. www. helpinghandshomesupport.com

4 MARKETPLACE Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012

Trades

850

Trades

850

CALIBER PAINT & BODY

ACTION RESTORATION LTD. A disaster restoration firm serving southern AB is seeking F/T EMERGENCY RESTORATION TECHS for the Red Deer location. Valid drivers licence is req’d. Pref. given to candidates with IICRC Certification. Fax resume to: 403-253-7367 or email: humanresources @actionrestoration.ca

ACTION RESTORATION LTD.

Is looking for a DETAILER/CLEAN UP PERSON If you are interested in working in a fast paced environment, we are looking for you. We offer a great starting wage and benefits.Some heavy lifting req’d. Must have a valid drivers license and must be able to start immed. Interested candidates should apply in person at 6424 Golden West Ave. or email resume to: caliberpaint@telus.net We thank all applicants in advance, however only qualified candidates will be contacted.

CANEM SYSTEMS LTD REQUIRES

A disaster restoration firm * JM & Apprentice serving southern AB Commercial Electricians is seeking * JM & Apprentice F/T CONSTRUCTION Service Electricians PERSONNEL FOR LOCAL WORK & CARPENTERS for the Red Deer location. Resumes to: Must have exp. in all areas Fax: 403-347-1866 of residential construction. Or Email: Valid drivers license is dchristensen@canem.com req’d. Pref. given to No Phone Calls candidates with previous restoration industry exp. CLARK’S PLUMBING Fax resume to: 403-253-7367 or email: & HEATING CORP. humanresources Clark’s Plumbing & Heating @actionrestoration.ca is now hiring to start immediately for the following position:

Journeyman Plumber

Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for:

~TECHNOLOGIST (PARTY CHIEF) ~TECHNICIAN (RODMAN)

In the Red Deer and surrounding area Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie. Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca EXPERIENCED residential HVAC installer required immediately. Must have valid drivers license and own hand tools. Call Stan @ 403-550-3870 for interview. EXP’’D drywall tradesmen & laborers req’d, Phone 403-348-8640

with a wage of $36/hr, 10% Vacation/Holiday Pay and health benefits. Service Skills and up to date Furnace experience is a must. This is an in town position (Mon-Fri) and Clark’s does have furnished accommodations for out of town employee’s. Please fax resumes to 780-623-7451or email to sales@cpandh.ca

Full time Certified Quality Journeyman Auto Body Painter, Certified Journeymen Auto Body Technician and Certified Quality Estimator, required for busy shop in Rocky Mountain House. Top wages and benefits. E-Mail Resume to skylnltd@telus.net. Fax: 403-845-7724 or stop by: Skyline Collision 4811 43rd Street Rocky Mountain House, AB

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

Trades

850

GROWING after market diesel and suspension shop, for 3/4 ton / 1 ton trucks, looking for 1st. or 2nd yr mechanics. Phone 403-346-9188 or emal donavan@armorinc.ca

Trades

850

RED DEER PILING INC. is looking to hire construction labourers immediately. Must be willing to travel. CSTS, first aid, and driving licence an asset. Resumes can be faxed or emailed. Fax 403-340-8686, Email joey@reddeerpiling.com

Heavy Duty Tire Technician

Required Exp’d Fabricator For a Ponoka Manufacturing Shop. Knowledge of ASME code

up, basic instrumentaSERVICE TECHNICIAN bolt tion and a commitment to to maintain and repair construction tools and equipment. Applicants must have 3-5 years exp, High School Diploma and valid drivers license. Competitive wages and benefits. Email Rob at rmcwade@ur.com or fax to 403-343-1087

excellence are prerequisites.

Competitive wages with benefit packages available. Interested candidates please send resume to admin@westcanfab.ca Of fax to 403-775-4014

JOIN OUR TEAM!

Independent Paint & Body is currently accepting resumes for experienced autobody technicians and prepper. Apply with resume to 7453 - 50 ave Red Deer, AB or email resume to indy2000@telus.net. LOOKING for apprentice or journeyman 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

MCMULLEN’S REFRIGERATION & HEATING

Requires a Refrigeration and HVAC technician 3rd, 4th year or Journeyman. Full time position. Please fax or email resume to 403-347-5530 or mcmullens@mcmullens.ca MILLARD Trucking is looking for Licensed Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. Applicant must be able to work well in a high paced environment. We offer competitive wages & performance based bonuses. Interested persons apply to: Fax 403-638-4987 or jmillard@enerchem.com RED DEER MITSUBISHI is looking for a Journeyman Technician to join our closeknit team of professionals. Enjoy a diverse workload and above industry average compensation. E-mail resume to eduiker@ reddeermitsu.ca fax to 403-348-8026 or call Ed @ 403-348-8000. Licensed Technicians only please.

850

SHEET METAL INSTALLERS Required Immediately for busy shop. Experience with rough in to final stages required. Merit benefit package offered with above average pay rates. Must have own tools. Contact brad@comfortecheating.com or fax 403-309-8302

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop. MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

Truckers/ Drivers

860

WORK FOR YOURSELF! Not By Yourself

If you are looking for work, without having to work at it, and still be an independent contractor, then Handyman Connection has what you are looking for! We are currently seeking

Remodeling Carpenters

SAFETY TICKETS AN ASSET Please forward resume by: Email: hr@pidherneys.com or fax: 403-845-5370 or visit: www.pidherneys.com HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE TECHNICIAN. United Rentals is looking for a

Trades

(M/F)to provide Red Deer home owners with outstanding quality and service. Work where you want, when you want and let us take care of the administration for you! Immediate Pay after every job! Minimum 10 yrs exp., tools, and vehicle required. Interested? Call 403-314-2120 red-deer. handymanconnection.com

Truckers/ Drivers

860

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 immediately Will consider training a professional, experienced driver. Ph.1-877-463-9664 or email resume to info@capilano trucktraining.com Class 3 Commercial Driver. United Rentals is looking for a Class 3

MANUFACTURING . side of SUNRISE RV need skilled F/T help. If you can read a tape measure, are familiar with hand tools and can take directions we would like to hear from you. Deliver resume in person 4110 Hwy 12 Lacombe or call Brad 403-786-9117

to deliver and pick up construction equipment in Central AB. Qualified candidates must have a clean & valid Class 3 License w/air brake endorsement. Competitive wages and Benefits. Send resumes to Rob at rmcwade@ur.com or fax to 403-343-1087 Oilfield Construction Company Requires a

Class 1 Truck Driver

Western Masonry Structures

F/T LABOURERS F/T work at major central AB projects. Must have own transportation. Top wages and benefits. Please fax resume to 403-340-0762

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS 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

Misc. Help

880

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in GLENDALE Grimson St. & Goodall Ave. RIVERSIDE MEADOWS Kerrywood Mews 53, 54, 55 & 56 Ave. & 60 St. & 58 A St. 2 ROUTES Oriole Park West Ogilvie Close & Oldring Crsc. & Oaklands Crsc. & Oakwood Close Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Commercial Driver

WE ARE GROWING

Misc. Help

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

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in MICHENER

ROUTE AVAIL.

* 50A Street & 51 Street between 40 Ave & 43 Ave. * 51 A Street & 52 Street between 40th Ave. & 43 Ave. DEER PARK * Dempsey St. & Dumas Crsc. area Also * Duffy Close & Dietz Close area ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Misc. Help

880

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in EASTVIEW 82 Advocate $430/month $5165/year WEST LAKE 77 Advocate $404/month $4851/year MOUNTVIEW 71 Advocate $372/month $4473/year GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info ADULT UPGRADING

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available! * GED Preparation * Trades Entrance Exam Preparation * Women in the Trades

Academic Express

Adult Education & Training

340-1930

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details

314-4307

www.academicexpress.ca

Career Opportunity

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in WEST LAKE

$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. 10-6 403-356-0330

WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317 ANIMAL CARE ATTENDANT

Mature, part time, reliable. Apply in person 8:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m. Piper Creek Pet Resort Red Deer County (37406 Rg Rd 271)

CASUAL POSITIONS

Dietary Aid/ Housekeeping

Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 MARKETPLACE 5

Misc. Help

880

Misc. Help

880

Misc. Help

880

CIRCULATION CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life twice weekly in Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes VANIER AREA FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA: Abbott Close/ Allan St. Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close Alwright Close SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Springfield Ave. INGLEWOOD AREA: Issard Close VANIER AREA: Vanier Dr. Volk Pl./Vanier Dr. Vickers Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

CENTRAL AB LUBE SHOP

REQUIRES MANAGER/ LEAD HAND. Exp. req’d. Submit resumes by fax: 403-507-8514 or email: wchurch77@gmail.com

Service Runner (Part Time)

F.T. WAREHOUSE

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 F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo. Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca GREEN OASIS Field Applicator SUMMER EMPLOYMENT!! F/T seasonal to apply fertilizer to various landscapes in and around the city. Require Class 5 operator’s license Contact Kevin at reddeer@greenoasis.ca

Hiring Part Time

COUNTROOM

(counting money). 15-25 hrs per week. Must be available to work early mornings and be available any days of the week. Must be physically fit as this is a physically demanding position. Send resume to vickib@cashcasino.ca, or fax 1-403-243-4812.

GREENHOUSE WORKERS Central Alberta Greenhouses We have some full time positions available immedia t e l y. D u t i e s i n c l u d e planting seedlings, watering plants, moving plants from o n e a r e a t o a n o t h e r, loading plants onto carts and loading trucks. Must have own transportation. We w i l l t r a i n . Wa g e i s $10.25/hr for approx. 40 hrs/wk. Fax resume to 403-885-4146 or email to ar-cag@telus.net. Please note that only those to be interviewed will be contacted. IMMED. OPENINGS Firewood Baggers. Heavy work. 403-304-6472

JOIN THE BLUE GRASS TEAM!

BLUE GRASS SOD FARMS LTD req’s mechanic helper, apprenticship opportunities avail. Farm equipment exp. an asset. Open to current apprentices. bluesod@xplornet.com or fax to 403-342-7488

Employment Training

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail. Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collectins! Packages come ready for delivery! Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

900

880

Misc. Help

P/T help needed for janitorial days and or eve/wknds. $13.00 start please send resume to acncleaning@ hotmail.com grt supplemental income! PILING COMPANY seeks: * laborers with valid drivers license. Fax resume to 403-340-8686

POSTAL OUTLET

F/T position available at West Park IDA Drugs. Please fax resumes to: 403-343-2556 REAL Enterprises Ltd NOW HIRING Exp Landscape Foremen/ Labourers Benefits - Bonuses Must have valid drivers license Fax or email resumes: Fax 403-314-2214 Email realltd@telus.net www.reddeerlandscaping.net ROD’S WELDING is looking for F/T Labourer / Welders Helper Fax resume to 403-746-5909 or call 403-746-5455 SNO-VALLEY CUSTOMS is currently looking for operators, for our fall farm runs and our winter ice road season. Call 403- 348-1521, 391-1695

920

Career Planning

JOIN THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM Today!

Build A Resume That Works! APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

This project is funded by the Government of Canada’s Skills Link Program.

for all Albertans

FREE

stuff

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Are you between the Ages of 16-30 years Unemployed Not attending school Facing employment barriers that interfere with achieving your potential & personal independence Ready, willing and committed to making positive life changes Looking to improve your Life/employability skills A Canadian citizen Have NOT received Employment Insurance Benefits in the last 3 years. If any of the above apply please contact us for more info at: The Red Deer Youth & Volunteer Centre Email: alisone@yvc.ca or info@yvc.ca (403) 342-6500 or (403) 342-7521

This is a 6 month project providing youth / young adults with an opportunity to enhance personal growth, learn life skills and employability skills through classroom activity and work experience. Eligible participants will receive minimum wage while attending this project and some childcare costs and transportation may also be available. The Program Start Date is first week of September 2012

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

ANTIQUE ESTATE SALE Sunday August 26,

11 am Sharp. Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Directions: From Penhold Fas Gas, West on 592 for 9 km to Range Road 10, North to the Hall or Burnt Lake Trail to Range Road 10, then South to Hall. Watch for Ridgewood Hall signs. PARTIAL LIST ONLY 1978 VW Van - 1984 Yamaha Virago 750 Bike - 2006 Saturn Ion - Autographed Print of the Titanic - Antiques - Furniture - Collector Coins, Stamps & Bills - Collectable’s - Small Drop Leaf Table - Leather Sofa Sets - Bedroom Furniture -Dining Suite - Corner China Cabinet - Misc. AND LOTS MORE For a complete list visit www.cherryhillauction.com Next Sale Sept. 16th Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15% buyer’s premium. Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions. CHERRY HILL AUCTION & APPRAISALS Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

RED DEER WORKS Children's

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Auctions

Items

1580

PINK backpack w/matching lunchbag, $10; 403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

1630

REDUCED 2007 Dual Tandem Tag AlonG, paver equip. trailer, pindle hook, 30’ flatdeck, 5’ beavertail, 9’ bi-fold ramps, just had $3300 brake job, $7800. 780-982-9390 Red Deer TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

BIG STRAPPER AUCTIONS 4625-46 Street, Lacombe, south of Tim Horton’s. We buy for cash SALES WED. @6 pm.

Homestead Firewood

ANTIQUE SALE 1st SUN. OF THE MONTH AT 1 P.M. 403-782-5693

FIREWOOD. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 birchfirewoodsales.com

www.bigstrapperauctions.net

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms. Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

AFFORDABLE Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Garden Supplies

1680

LANDSCAPING mulch, $10.00 yard. Phone 403-346-3800 weekdays or 403-343-6182 eves. & wknds.

Household Appliances

1710

Household Furnishings

1720

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 FREEZER, smaller apt. sized. One yr. old. $150. 403-343-6218 FRIDGIDAIRE stand up freezer $150; Free Spirit treadmill $50 403-343-3160 403-304-4424 FRIGIDAIRE stove, almond, works good $50; microwave w/stand $25; 403-746-5123 HAMILTON Beach Convection oven $50, Charles Kraft juicer, $10, deep fryer Revel w/filter, used once, $20; Nova humidifier w/filter. $50. tv stand, just like new $100, l 403-314-5528 KENMORE white fridge and stove, fridge 30”W x65” H, $100 each or pair r for $150, very good cond. 403-347-5846

GLIDER rocker, like new $40; 403-746-5123 HIDE a bed, beige, clean, n/s, thick 6” Serta mattress $50 403-309-0060 INGLIS full capacity plus dryer $85; retro coffee and end tables $40 403-347-6005 LIVINGROOM drapes w/matching liners 52 x 90”, gold, French Damask material, $175 obo 403-885-0026 LOVESEAT, Beige w/pale pink & blue flowers. Like new cond. $150. 403-343-6218 OAK coffee table, good cond. $175 403-885-5532 QUEENSIZE box spring and mattress $200 403-346-1825 R O L L - A - WAY c o t , o n wheels, w/mattress, feather bed, mattress cover bed skirt, exc. cond,. $100; 403-343-3013 SOFA & loveseat, leatherlook, brown. N/S home, 2 Household yrs. old. $800. obo. Furnishings 403-302-1861 TABLE TOP 1500 watt BED ALL NEW, electric BBQ. New $129. Queen Orthopedic, dble. Asking $50. 403-347-4052 pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr. or 403-318-2962 Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. TO GIVE AWAY T.V. 302-0582 Free Delivery Entertainment Centre. BED-IN-A-BAG dble. size, 45”x61”. Pick up only. $50 queen size comforter, 403-342-2537 $50; cooler, $15; corning ware dishes, 4 piece set, WANTED $40, roaster $10 Antiques, furniture and 403-348-0060 estates. 342-2514 BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. Jewellery warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582. WEDDING RING, $200, CHESTERFIELD & CHAIR 403-986-0986 $99. 403-347-6994 CORNER COMPUTER Misc. for DESK WITH HUTCH Sale & FILING CABINET TO MATCH. $200 for both. ( x 2 ) F u e l Ta n k s w i t h Light oak colour. stands. 2-compartment 403-341-3698 500 gallon tank. $30 D E S K A N D L E AT H E R EACH OBO 1-compartS W I V E L c h a i r, $ 7 5 , 7 ’ ment 300 gallon tank. $30 windmill for outdoors, $125 O B O Call Ernie @ obo 403-340-0675 (403) 347-0660. D E S K A N D L E AT H E R 2 GEORGE FOREMAN S W I V E L c h a i r, $ 7 5 , 7 ’ GRILLS, set of Christmas windmill for outdoors, $125 Charm dished, microwave obo 403-340-0675 & stand, deck umbrella, 2 electric heaters, chest of DRESSER AND drawers, bread maker, CHESTER DRAWERS: 13” flat screen TV. 6 drawer dresser with All of this for $200. centre pull out doors no ....SOLD!!!......... mirror. Chester drawer has top pull out doors with 2 COMPOSTING barrel, bottom pull out drawers. $20, roll of chain link $199 for the set. fence, $15; large piece of Pictures can be viewed on carpet, beige, like new, Kijiji. Furniture posted Aug $50; 403-746-5123 14. Pick up only. DRIFTWOOD stained Call 403 358-3073 or natural $45; wood burning rjmarq@telus.net art work (moose in meadDRESSER w/mirror and 3 ow)$60; two 4x4 cedar drawers $90; chest 4 draw- 9’6”L, white 2/$12; meat ers $65; night table, 2 tub, heavy white nylon drawers $45 403-314-2026 $20; sleeping adult bag $10; Wrangler jacket (M) DUNCAN Fife table w/4 chairs w/blue cloth seats, $40 403-314-2026 LIFETIME elec. frypan table has 3 leaves W 37 1/2 “, L 20”-69 1/2”, 11-1/2” in diameter, 2” exc. cond, deep, great cond., $25; ....SOLD!!..... 403-314-9603

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1750 1760

6 MARKETPLACE Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012

Misc. for Sale

1760

HOUSE CARPET SHAMPOOER very good cond., almost new $80 403-307-7542 from 5 pm. - 9 pm.

Cats

1830

FREE to good home Russian blue X kittens, 3 1/2 mo. old, good mousers. 403-885-9822

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rentals

Suites

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1 BDRM. SUITE

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Parkvale adult duplex

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Condos/ Townhouses

Exceptional senior residents, for people 40+, that have no children going to school. For sale by owner. 1 bdrm. On main floor. $235,000. Call 403-346-1063

Farms/ Land

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Homes

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CLEARVIEW bi-level. 2 bdrm., 1 bath, 5 appls, balcony. Close to park & bus. $850+utils. 403-210-1360

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Suites

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1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. Clean, quiet bldg. Call 318-0901.

Suites

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1 BDRM. large kitchen, 1 bath w/tub, hardwood flrs. 403-356-0339

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SYLVAN LAKE big lot, nice location, well priced. 403-896-3553

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Riverfront land for sale in Leedale. Approx. 1.5 Acres. Camp now build later. Priced to sell at 69k. The property has been legally subdivided into 2 riverfront lots. Great family investment!! There is a storage building with an overhead door. A 4000 watt gas generator is also incl. CLASSIFIED Want Ads do Call Dave 403-896-8017 more things for more people than any other form of advertising. Phone 1-877- Manufactured 223-3311

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2006 MASERATI Quattroporte Sport GT $50,888 dealer serviced 348-8788 Sport & Import

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MUST SELL By Owner $7,000. Lana 403-550-8777

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2003 MERCEDES C320 premium cond., senior driver. 112,000 kms. Clean $11,750. 403-986-4123 2002 CHEV Malibu auto, Lots For $3000 587-877-6993 Sale 1997 FORD Taurus 254,000 kms, full load, lots FULLY SERVICED of new parts, command res & duplex lots in Lacombe. start $1800 obo 896-9138 Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or 1993 OLDSMOBILE 88, subtrades who wish to become p.w., p.l., a.c., with winter tires, $1400, obo home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820 403-227-4980

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Trucks

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2010 FORD F150 SUPER CREW LARIAT, beautiful shape, almost all hwy miles, loaded with everything except. navigation, heated/cooled seats, power everything incl. mirrors , nice big sunroof, for more info contact Diane at 403-729-2060 or cell 403-429-0027 1995 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 blue, propane, L/B, $1200 obo 403-304-8915

Vans Buses

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2003 FORD WINDSTAR, 98000 kms, 1 owner, garage life, new tires, com start $6500.00 o.b.o. 403-304-5776

Fifth Wheels

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Auto Wreckers

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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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

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