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FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2012

PETER LOUGHEED 1928-2012

Albertans mourn their champion

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Peter Lougheed, the man with a bulldog chin and crooked grin who transformed Alberta into a modern petro-powered giant and an equal player in Confederation, has died.

His family said the 84-year-old former premier died Thursday of natural causes. In thanking doctors who had cared for him, they confirmed he had been ill for months.

“On behalf of all Canadians, Laureen and I offer our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Peter Lougheed,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.

“Today Canada lost a truly great man. Peter Lougheed was quite simply one of the most remarkable Canadians of his generation.”

The Calgary-born lawyer and Alberta premier from 1971 to 1985 leaves behind a profound record of achievement and influence on public policy.

He took the reins of the fledgling Progressive Conservatives in 1965 and within six years had built a party that turfed a decades-old Social Credit dynasty and launched one of his own that continues to this day.

As oil prices shot to stratospheric levels in the 1970s, Lougheed became a provincial folk hero and a nationally recognized figure for his epic battles with Ottawa over control of Alberta’s black gold.

He kick-started petroleum div rsification by nurturing oilsands ve

development which now sprawlss throughout northern Alberta, has brought the province billions of dollars and made it the economic driver of the country.

He fostered arts, culture and tourism and took the legislature into the modern age of communication.

He created a multibillion-dollar nest egg Heritage Savings Trust Fund as oil revenue began to pour in and championed medical research.

He helped patriate the Constitution and fought for a notwithstanding clause to ensure Canada would ultimately be governed by legislators and not the courts.

He championed bilingualism and in retirement spoke out against the Kyoto accord to control greenhouse gases, but urged caution over the environmental effects from unbridled growth of the oilsands.

He has served as mentor and role model for a generation of politicians, including current Alberta Premier Alison Redford.

This spring his endorsement of Redford and her policies during the general election campaign was seen as a pivotal boost that delivered another majority to the Tories.

“Overall, I think he goes down in my books as one of the giants off Canadian history,” said former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, who came to know Lougheed well during the constitutional debates off the 1970s and ’80s.

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Peter Lougheed speaks during his induction into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame at a Gala in Montreal, Friday, April 23, 2010. Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed has died at age 84. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office confirmed that Lougheed died Thursday in the Calgary hospital bearing his name.

Mykystychyn named dean Red Deer College has broken with tradition in its choice of a new dean for the Donald School of Business.

The college announced on Thursday that Darcy Mykytyshyn will head its business program, effective Oct. 1. The 41-year-old has deep connections in the local business community, including as a former executive with Community Savings (now Servus Credit Union), partner with True-Line Homes, investment attraction officer with Central Alberta: Access Prosperity and principal of consulting firm Strategy in Action Inc. Mykytyshyn has also chaired United Way of Central Alberta fundraising campaigns, sits on the Servus Credit Union board of directors and has been involved in a number of charitable groups and initiatives — including fundraising for Red Deer College.

His post-secondary education, which consists of a bachelor of commerce

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degree from the University of Saskatchewan, lacks the depth of most college deans’ academic resumés. But Brad Donaldson, Red Deer College’s vicepresident academic, said the selection committee looked Darcy Mykytyshyn beyond classroom experience.

“We wanted somebody who had demonstrated business acumen, business development, strong sense of community connection, strong sense of leadership capacity.”

Donaldson said the college was look-

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ing for a dean who is familiar with the needs of local business and industry, and could shape the program’s learning environment to reflect these.

“Business and industry is so strong in Central Alberta that we want to make sure that we’re truly connected to what they need and what they want.

We needed somebody who has the experience to be able to talk the language and understand the perspectives of the business community.”

Mykytshyn said he embraces this role.

“I’ve got a very clear mandate to get out there and start talking to business, building stronger relationships with them.

“The idea is really to integrate the business community into curriculum development, curriculum delivery — it might even be a matter of reaching into the business community and bringing some of those folks in to help teach some classes.”

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta Health Services confirmed a Central Zone woman contracted the West Nile virus in the province.

On Thursday, AHS reported two new human cases of the virus in southern Alberta.

That brings to seven the number of confirmed cases including a woman who lives in Central Zone which includes Stettler, Rocky Mountain House and Red Deer.

The woman, under 65 years of age, contracted the neurological syndrome, the more serious form. AHS said she did not travel outside of Alberta this summer.

Specific details about the individual West Nile virus cases are not released for confidentiality reasons.

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HEALTH BOSS SORRY EVERYBODY LOVES FOR EXPENSE SCANDAL RICK MERCER The chairman of Alberta Health Services says he’s sorry for any money that may have been spent on things not related to delivering health care. A5

The ‘Rick Mercer Report’ begins its 10th season Tuesday on CBC Television.

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Fundraising begins for addictions treatment centre

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Fundraising for Central Alberta’s first long-term residential treatment facility for youth with drug or alcohol addictions is underway.

McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association is hosting Seven Challenges, its first annual addictions programming fundraiser at the Black Knight Inn on Tuesday, from noon to 1:30 p.m., to help raise money for a six-bed facility and to assist with funding for families.

Three to six months of addictions counselling and treatment would be available for youth age 12 to 18.

Depending on the need, more beds could be added.

“At this point in time, to my knowledge, there is nothing in the Red Deer area,” said Christine Stewart, McMan programs manager.

She knew of only three residential programs for youth in Alberta, one each in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge.

McMan, a non-profit agency, currently runs Protection of Children Abusing Drugs (PChAD) program in Red Deer.

It’s a 10-day, five-bed detox program for teens with

counselling by Alberta Health Services.

PChAD allows a guardian or parents of a minor who is abusing alcohol or drugs to apply to provincial court for an apprehension and confinement order for detox.

Stewart said more is needed.

“Ten days just isn’t long enough for them to really get that they need to make changes and how to make those changes.

“They leave there and have no place to go really.

“They continue outreach work the Alberta Health Services but are thrown right back into their normal lives with only adolescent skills to say no.”

The new residential program would deal with the root causes that led the youth to drugs or alcohol.

Their families would also be involved in counselling.

She said McMan’s outreach program, run through Red Deer Public Schools, has a similar focus.

“But we feel strongly that the most effective change is a residential program where you can really take away those external resources, and all opportunity to get their hands on drugs, and give them the time to make new habits and changes.”

The new residential program would not be a locked-down facility, so McMan is looking for a location outside Red Deer to discourage youth from leaving.

Stewart said AHS is not part of discussions to fund the project at this time.

Public donations and sponsors are needed to supplement grants to rent or buy a facility.

Stewart said Central Alberta Child and Family Services has clients who would benefit from residential treatment.

But at a cost of $600 a day, it won’t be cheap for regular families. Insurance usually doesn’t cover the cost, she said.

“Families aren’t going to be able to afford it. But we are hoping to subsidize the cost through community efforts.”

McMan has been developing the project for over a year and is hoping to open the facility’s doors in December.

For Seven Challenges ticket information, contact Christine Stewart at 403-506-8961 or email christine. stewart@mcman.ca.

“This event is our first, big, public event saying — we’re here, we’re ready to go.”

Stewart and McMan counsellor George MacLeod will make a presentation at the event. Mayor Morris Flewwelling will also speak. A western-theme buffet will be served. Tickets are $35 per person. A table of eight is $250. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

TRAFFIC SNARLS Phase 2 of the 32nd Street is now underway between 47th Avenue to 150 metres east of 40th Avenue with detours and lane disruption reducing traffic down to one lane in each direction in some areas. Work on the project is scheduled to go until Oct. 31.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/ Advocate staff

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DEAN: Expand programs The Donald School of Business’s Entrepreneur in Residence Program — which allows students to meet with and learn from local business people — is a good example of how this model can work, said Mykytyshyn.

“I really want to build on that. I think there’s a whole host of entrepreneurs that we could bring in here and serve as mentors for students.”

The college plans to hire an associate business dean, said Donaldson, with this person to focus on academic areas like curriculum development. Red Deer College does not have associate deans in its other programs, but the model is common elsewhere, he said.

Among Mykytyshyn’s priorities will be expanding the degree programs available through the Donald School of Business. Currently, business students at the college can earn a Mount Royal University bachelor of business administration degree in Red Deer, or transfer to another university after two years of local study.

“The more ability students from our region have

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to attend RDC, and stay in Central Alberta, the better off our region will be, the faster Central Alberta will grow and we will turn into the economic powerhouse that everybody predicts we will be, should be, or maybe are already today,” Mykytyshyn said during a ceremony at the Donald School of Business’s downtown campus in the Millennium Centre.

Joanne Packham was dean of the Donald School of Business until this spring. Torben Andersen, Red Deer College’s dean of arts, has served as the acting business dean since. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

VIRUS: Still a risk On Aug. 31 a horse that had contracted the West Nile virus died at the Alberta Veterinary Centre.

The horse was one of three horses affected in Alberta this year.

Dr. Ifeoma Achebe, medical officer of health, said the new cases indicate there is still a risk in the province and Albertans should take precautions to prevent mosquito bites. She said Albertans are encouraged to wear insect repellent with DEET, wear long-sleeved, light-coloured shirts and pants, wear a hat, and consider staying indoors at dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are most active.

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The human cases are Alberta’s first human cases of West Nile virus infection reported since 2010. The first case was reported on Aug. 21. Since then, AHS has provided weekly updates on the cases in the province.

The most recent human cases involve two women in southern Alberta, both under 65, who acquired the infection in the province. One contracted the neurological syndrome and the other contracted the non-neurological syndrome.

As of Sept. 1, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported 162 cases of West Nile infection in the country this year. In 2011, there were 102 cases reported.

The others from Calgary Zone, North Zone and South Zone have contracted non-neurological and non-neurological syndrome.

Individuals who develop non-neurological syndrome may experience fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, skin rash, swollen glands and headaches.

The small number of those who develop neurological syndrome may experience tremours, drowsiness, confusion, swallowing problems, high fever, unconsciousness, paralysis and even death.

For more information, visit www.fightthebite.info or call Health Link Alberta toll-free at 1-866-408-5465 (LINK).

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Friday, Sept. 14, 2012

Arab spring threatened by anarchy An editorial from the Toronto Star, published Sept. 12: Did Libyans wage their heroic Arab Spring revolution for this? That an enraged, heavily-armed mob might murder U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three fellow diplomats, the very people who helped Libya’s reformers usher in democracy?

As President Barack Obama said, the machine-gun and rocket grenade attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11 that killed or injured many of its staff and left the place in ruins was an “outrageous” fit of violence. The carnage underscores the need for Libya’s fledgling government to crack down hard on the extremists who threaten to turn the national tri-

OTHERVIEW umph of ousting Moammar Gadhafi into a sectarian nightmare.

Before they vented their fury on the American diplomats, ultra-conservative Salafist extremists were busy attacking Sufi shrines and other holy places. They pose a danger to the young state.

Libya’s interim president, Mohammed el-Megarif, faces no greater challenge than restoring order in a country awash with weapons.

There has been much talk of national reconciliation since Gadhafi’s ouster last Oct. 21, but little delivery.

Libyans (and Egyptians as well) need urgently to build up the credibility of state institutions, and to bring to heel their militias and radicals. Otherwise the Arab Spring will turn on itself, with dire consequences.

Those who attacked U.S. diplomatic posts in Benghazi and Cairo this week were raging against an odious anti-Islamic video — reportedly by an IsraeliAmerican and others — that vilifies the Prophet Muhammad in crude terms, depicting him as an immoral, thuggish fool. Understandably, it sparked anger and revulsion.

Moreover American officials were left scrambling to determine whether Al Qaeda-style militants exploited the surge of anger to provide cover for a

previously planned 9/11 anniversary attack.

It’s not out of the question, given the rage that surfaces in the wake of events such as the publication in 2005 of Danish cartoons mocking Muhammad, Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the 2004 Dutch film Submission and desecrations of the Qu’ran.

In each case, popular anger at a perceived slight to Islam was fanned into anti-American, anti-Western bloodshed by extremists.

Manipulated or not, the violence the world saw in Cairo and Benghazi this week will grow until it sweeps away the Arab Spring’s gains. When diplomats become targets, anarchy is not far behind.

Competitive bidding ensures too much spent on too little CALGARY — How do you go about spending too much for too little? It’s not easy. Most people have a predisposition against this kind of thing.

Fortunately, no challenge is too great for the purchasing department. When not changing their name to ‘supply chain management’ or ‘procurement’, the people buying stuff for industry and especially govROBERT ernment are GERST busily determining how best to waste time and money.

It turns out, there’s a process for that. There’s a process for everything these days, including purchasing. Two processes actually.

The first is the advance contracting awards process (ACAN). Whenever the federal government wants to buy something without going to competitive bid, it must issue an ACAN to let the market know what it plans to buy.

Essentially, this is a means of keeping the government honest in its purchasing practices.

It’s not working. According to a

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recent report from procurement ombudsman Frank Brunetta at Public Works, only 247 of the 442 advance contract award notifications (ACANs) had enough information in them to allow other suppliers to mount a competing bid. Worse, only 100 ACANs appeared to be a “legitimate attempt by the contracting department to test the market for an alternative source supplier.” In other words, when it comes to purchasing goods and services, the government is acting fairly and honestly about 25 per cent of the time. That number seems high.

Then again, it’s better than the comparable number in the competitive bidding process that runs about 0 per cent. ACANs are a terrible way to purchase things, but light years ahead of competitive bidding. You might think that competitive bidding would keep costs low, but that’s only because ordinary people don’t buy things the way purchasing mandates.

For example, suppose you want to buy a television. Most people would shop around, visit a few electronics stores, check out what’s available in their price range; screen sizes, how the colour looks, LCD versus plasma, 3-D versus 2D, that sort of thing. It’s hard to know what to buy until you know what’s all available and at what cost.

When you find something you like and can afford, you buy it.

In the competitive bidding process,

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however, you must specify your requirements in advance and in a vacuum. Do you want 42, 50 or 60 inch?

LCD or plasma? Hard to know without seeing it. Dolby sound or not? Difficult to decide without listening. The purchasing process forbids any contact between you and the seller so there’s no looking, no browsing, no fact finding, no research. You must guess at what will work and compile your guesses in a requirements document. Managers have a name for this, WAG (wild-ass guess). Economists have a different name for it — irrational. So already, we’re off to a bad start.

Well, at least you will get to watch different televisions when the competitive bids come back, right? Wrong.

Purchasing doesn’t allow you to actually watch the product. Instead, vendors respond with written documents describing how great their televisions are (You should see them!) while affirming each of your requirements.

Yes, it’s 50 inches, yes, it’s LCD, and so forth. Further, you may or may not be invited to read the proposals. Instead, a committee may be selected to review them and decide on your behalf. Yes, it’s nuts, but there’s more.

Fully specifying requirements is a well understood impossibility. There’s always something you’ll forget. Vendors know this and bid low to meet the minimum requirements and win the bid. So low, it’s impossible to deliver

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what you want for the price bid.

No matter, purchasing has a process for that too. It’s called the change order process. Once you’ve bought your television, the vendor starts asking if you want things you forgot to mention in the requirements document. Need a remote?

Yes! That’s a change order and it’ll cost you an extra $800. Seems expensive for a remote but that’s the idea.

You should see the change order costs on fighter jets, bridges and computer systems.

By the time everything you need, but forgot to list, is added as an option, a television costing $2,500 at Costco has cost you $3,500.

Competitive bidding ensures too much is spent for too little. The good news? Competitive bidding isn’t really about avoiding waste. It’s about avoiding responsibility. No manager, purchasing or otherwise, was ever fired for following the process, no matter how bad the deal.

The bottom line is that competitive bidding isn’t a solution to anything. It’s the problem.

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Health boss sorry for expense scandal CALGARY — The chairman of Alberta Health Services says he’s sorry for any money that may have been spent on things not related to delivering health care.

Stephen Lockwood made the public apology Thursday over questionable executive expenses that have come to light recently.

“I am here today to personally apologize to all of the residents of this great province for monies that may have been spent by any predecessor organization of AHS on expenses not related to health care in Alberta,” said the newly appointed Lockwood.

“I believe this is my time to stand up and be accountable.”

The agency that administers health care in the

province was formed when health authorities were merged as a cost-cutting measure. It has been dogged by controversy since two senior health executives quit this summer over expense claims totalling $346,000.

Allaudin Merali resigned as chief financial officer over his claims for expensive restaurant meals, maintenance for his Mercedes and international trips when he worked for Capital Health, the nowdefunct Edmonton regional authority, from 2005 to 2008.

Sheila Weatherill, who was Merali’s boss at the time and approved the claims, stepped down from the board of Alberta Health Services within days.

“Although we and our organization are in no way responsible for the actions of our predecessors, we are responsible today for ensuring the public trust, and I am genuinely sorry that we are at the point where we must rebuild that trust,” said Lockwood

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LOUGHEED: An exceptional Canadian “He always had foremost in his mind the development of Alberta, but also the development of Canada, because he saw the two going side by side. He really, really was an exceptional human being, a warm human being — just an exceptional Canadian.”

Harper called him a “master politician, gifted lawyer, professional-calibre athlete and philanthropist” and said he was instrumental in laying the foundation for the robust economic success that Alberta enjoys today.

“He was a driving force behind the province’s economic diversification, of it having more control of its natural resources and their development, of Alberta playing a greater role in federation and of improving the province’s health, research and recreational facilities,” the prime minister said.

“Mr. Lougheed did all of these things for his province while also working tirelessly towards a strong and united Canada.”

Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith also cited Lougheed’s battles with Ottawa over energy and his establishment of the heritage fund.

“On a personal level we will remember Mr. Lougheed as a man of great personal integrity, who treated others with great compassion and who had an unwavering commitment of service to the people of Alberta,” she said.

Edgar Peter Lougheed was born July 26, 1928, into an established family that had politics in its blood.

His grandfather, James, had served in the Senate and in the cabinets of Conservative prime ministers Robert Borden and Arthur Meighen.

His father was a lawyer and, in 1952, 23-year-old Peter was also awarded a law degree. Two years later, he earned an MBA from Harvard. As an undergrad at the University of Alberta, Lougheed played football for the Golden Bears and the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos.

He married Jeanne Rogers of Forestburg, Alta., and together they would have four children.

Politics eventually proved irresistible to Lougheed. In 1965, at 36, he took over the Progressive Conservative party and rebuilt it from the ground up.

He focused on strong candidates and constituencies, on one-on-one door-knocking and on the new medium of television, which was perfect for the telegenic Lougheed.

In 1971, the Tories won the provincial election and Lougheed set to work growing and diversifying the province.

In his pre-political days, he had spent time work-

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Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (right) and Premier Peter Lougheed at a news conference to anounce an oil pricing agreement Sept. 1, 1981. ing in Tulsa, Okla., and saw a town where the oil resources were spent and the economy was in decline. That, he vowed, wouldn’t happen to Alberta.

He raised oil royalties to underscore provincial control of resources and encouraged a foundation of Alberta-based financial institutions to reduce reliance on central Canadian banks.

He encouraged funding and research into extracting oil from the rich bitumen deposits near Fort McMurray.

To open up the business of government, Lougheed ordered that all daily proceedings in the house be recorded

RCMP investigate road rage incident RCMP are hunting for a man wanted in connection with a suspected road rage incident that may have involved a gun.

Police were called about 4:30 p.m. with a report of a road rage incident and soon found a vehicle believed to be involved. The vehicle was not pursued because of the number of pedestrians and other vehicles in the area, but it was seen going into Mustang Acres near 67th Street and Taylor Drive.

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after a board meeting in Grande Prairie, Alta.

“I apologize without hesitation, because I recognize that the public expects us to take that step and to move forward.”

Going forward, Lockwood said executive expenses are to be posted online monthly using travel and expense protocols announced by Premier Alison Redford last week.

Alberta’s health minister has already ordered an audit into all of Merali’s expenses from his time at Capital Health.

Lockwood said another internal audit has been requested by CEO Dr. Chris Eagle and other executives currently serving at Alberta Health Services and who were employed in the former Calgary Health Region during the same time period.

“The audit will answer the question: were their expenses within policy?” Lockwood said.

and distributed in Hansard. The same year he ordered daily TV coverage of debates. Both continue to this day.

He looked beyond business, too.

Under Lougheed’s watch, the sprawling wilderness recreation area of Kananaskis Country west of Calgary was created.

Money flowed into the arts and there was support for the Banff Centre, performing arts venues in Edmonton and Calgary and the Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival.

But it was his clashes with Ottawa on oil royalties that made him famous.

The oil price increases of the 1970s, spiked by turmoil in the resource-rich Middle East, sent money pouring into Alberta coffers. But the federal government wanted domestic prices kept below world levels and also wanted a share of the wealth.

Lougheed pushed back by refusing a deal with Pierre Trudeau, Liberal prime minister at the time, and later rejecting a similar one offered by Joe Clark and the Conservatives.

In 1980, Trudeau brought in the national energy program, a package of taxes and rules designed to funnel more resource revenues to Ottawa while keeping the domestic price below world levels.

Lougheed took it as a declaration of war.

In an impassioned TV speech, in which he accused the federal government of having moved right into Alberta’s living room, he threatened to cut oil production. In March 1981, Alberta cut its daily output of 1.2 million barrels by 60,000.

Trudeau eventually relented and a face-saving deal was brokered that increased the price of oil and reaffirmed Alberta as the master of its own resources.

Trudeau’s son, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau, issued his own condolences via Twitter on Thursday.

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Canada blames U.S. for Khadr delays ing to the document obtained by The Canadian Press.

However, Toews refused to accept the file, according to Campbell, the ministry’s director general of the corrections and criminal justice directorate.

“The minister does not, as a practice, consider applications from offenders in the U.S. unless the U.S. has first approved the application,” Campbell said in her affidavit dated Wednesday.

“The minister did not receive the file at that time.”

John Norris, one of Khadr’s Canadian lawyers, said Toews’s refusal to handle the file before receiving formal U.S. approval made no sense given that Washington had agreed to the transfer at Khadr’s trial in October 2010.

“How good an expla-

Royal Canadian Mint drops royalty for folk musician’s album THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Mint has backed down in a dispute with a Nova Scotia folk singer over his upcoming album’s depiction of the penny.

The mint had told Dave Gunning he faced a royalty of $1,200 if he produced in excess of 2,000 albums because they contained images of the copper-plated coin.

But Christine Aquino, a spokeswoman for the mint, said Thursday it no longer plans to charge him that fee.

Aquino also said the mint will review its intellectual property policy.

“We recognize our policy as it is today may not consider the individual needs and circumstances of those who request the use of our images,” she

said from Ottawa.

“We’re allowing (Gunning) to do this and we truly wish him well in his career.”

Gunning, who’s won multiple awards on the East Coast music scene, made national headlines this week when the mint said his soon-to-be released album infringed copyright.

The Pictou native said his album, titled No More Pennies, is meant as a tribute to the ubiquitous one-cent piece, which the mint stopped producing in May though it remains legal tender.

Gunning could not be reached for comment Thursday, but said in a statement he was pleased the mint stopped penny pinching.

“They were just trying to do their jobs and my case was an odd one that

fell between the cracks,” said Gunning, who previously said the whole fuss was embarrassing for Canada.

“They reacted very quickly and I’m very thankful for that as well.”

Michael Wrycraft, the album’s designer, said waiving the fee was only fair.

“I think they just got caught up in some kind of bureaucracy and weren’t really thinking,” he said from Toronto.

“I’m terribly happy that clearer heads have prevailed.”

In a statement, the mint said it would assess its intellectual property policy “to ensure that it is being applied fairly on a case-by-base basis while protecting the interests of Canadians.”

Federal government issues possible layoff notices to more civil servants THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Hundreds more federal government jobs appear to be on the chopping block.

Nearly 1,500 people working at Human Resources and Social Development Canada received notices Thursday warning them that their jobs could be in jeopardy, two unions representing civil servants say.

About 900 of those impacted are members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, while the remainder fall under the umbrella of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

PSAC said another 149 RCMP employees have also told they could be losing their jobs.

“This is another sad day for our members, and a troubling day for Canadians across the country,” said PSAC executive vice-president Chris Aylward.

“Hundreds more workers and their families are being handed an uncertain future, and Canadians across the country will inevitably by affected by service cuts.”

Most of those affected at Human Resources are stationed in the Ottawa region and include medical adjudicators, nurses who determine eligibility for CPP disability benefits, and information technology specialists.

Employees who support the administration of employment insurance, old age security,

the guaranteed income supplement, the Canada Pension Plan and childcare benefits are also impacted.

The potential RCMP cuts are spread across the country and affect forensic lab workers, police officer recruiters and clerical staff.

Since the 2012 budget, which warned of the federal government’s forthcoming effort to reduce the size of the civil service, more than 18,000 PSAC members have received notices that they could lose their jobs, the union said.

“We are concerned about the impact of these cuts on our members and on the key services they provide Canadians,” PIPSC vice-president Debi Daviau said in a statement.

“It may well be yet another step towards outsourcing public-service work to the private sector, where data privacy and security are an issue.”

The Conservatives, meanwhile, insisted Thursday that the general public won’t notice the cuts and that many of the affected employees will likely be reassigned.

“HRSDC is reducing duplication and unnecessary administration within the internal IT division,” Alyson Queen, the director of communications for Human Resources Minister Diane Finley, said in an email.

“The number of letters sent to IT staff ... is not an indication of positions being reduced.”

The changes announced Thursday to employees “do not affect front line services to Canadians,” she added.

But there are already clear indications that government cuts are hurting those who need services the most, says New Democrat MP Nycole Turmel, who used to lead PSAC. A couple of years ago, employment insurance payments to first-time recipients used to be delivered in about two weeks, but are now taking weeks longer to reach those who have lost their jobs, she said.

“This is the latest Conservative attack against services Canadians rely on,” said Turmel.

nation is that in a case where the Americans had committed in a plea deal to approval?” Norris said in an interview Thursday.

“Clearly, it’s the minister’s office that is mishandling the file.”

Toews rejected the accusation and suggested Khadr’s lawyers bear some responsibility for the delay.

“I thought the (video) tapes were a crucial aspect of the determination as to Mr. Khadr’s return to Canada. I have not seen those tapes yet.

They were provided to my office, I believe, Sept.

5,” Toews said in Winnipeg. “I’d be surprised that the lawyer doesn’t know better than to suggest that there’s been any dragging of the feet, given the fact that he hasn’t provided me with any of that information, knowing that that information existed.

“I didn’t know about it until the media reported it.”

The U.S. indicated its approval of Khadr’s transfer in April and provided the actual hard-copy package in May, Campbell said.

The entire file — without the psychiatric evaluations of Khadr, who turns 26 next week — was given to Toews on May 23, the documents show.

According to Campbell, Canada began to correspond with the U.S. in March about the sealed videotapes of the assessments done by psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner and military psychologist Maj. Allan Hopewell — after learning about their existence through media reports a month earlier.

Norris called the situation surrounding the tapes “extraordinary.”

“They don’t say any-

thing about why it took so long for them to find the stuff,” he said.

Normally, it takes just under 15 months for the government to decide on a prisoner’s transfer — suggesting Toews should at the very least have made a decision two months ago.

In their Federal Court application filed in July, Khadr’s Canadian lawyers call the delay “unreasonable” and “an abuse of process.”

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has denounced Khadr as a convicted criminal, and Toews denied a news report that Canada had approved the transfer but was delaying the announcement.

“I anticipate making a decision in the near future, but I certainly have not arrived at any conclusion at this point,” Toews said.

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In an affidavit filed in response to a Federal Court application

by Khadr’s lawyers, a senior public safety official cites two main reasons for the lack of a decision to an application for Khadr to serve out his sentence in Canada — something he was eligible to do starting last October.

The first reason cited was a delay in Washington’s approval of the transfer — granted only this past spring.

The second reason

was Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’s request for sealed videos of mental assessments of the inmate done for military prosecutors — apparently only discovered in February through media reports.

Khadr pleaded guilty to five crimes, including murder, in violation of the rules of war before a widely discredited military commission in October 2010. He applied to transfer to Canada in April of last year.

In an affidavit by Mary Campbell, the Correctional Service of Canada finished processing the application in October 2011 — around the time Khadr was eligible to return under terms of his widely reported plea deal.

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‘Upcycling’ not big challenge EVEN NOVICES CAN MAKE THINGS AS GOOD AS NEW

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TOP: Shannon and Dean Acheson’s Ajax, Ont., dining room. The room includes the couple’s hutch project: a handme-down hutch atop a dresser found on Kijiji that they refinished. The dining room table was made from old table legs and pallet/skid wood for the table top.

Right: Chairs created by interior designer Lisa Canning for the Fall Home Show Ultimate Upcycle Challenge are seen. The original chrome chair frames were given a coat of satin black spray paint for a modern edge, and the slim profile is jazzed up with a hand-painted chevron pattern in purple, teal and grey. In keeping with the upcycle challenge, Canning says the print is painted on a textured wallpaper remnant from a past client’s project.

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With an eye for affordable finds and a shared passion for restoration, Shannon and Dean Acheson’s home showcases several pieces they’ve refurbished with a touch of creativity — and plenty of elbow grease.

Shannon says one of their most memorable doit-yourself projects involved a dining room hutch received free from a friend of Dean’s which her husband attached to a dresser they found on Kjijji.

They sanded and painted the pieces, then gave them a distressed look by sanding the edges and finishing with a glaze. Half-cup drawer pulls were added and painted along with the knobs that were on the original hutch.

“That was the first piece I think that we really went: ‘Wow, we can do this, and really change how something is, and really make something out of what someone else might think of as nothing or impossible,”’ recalls Shannon, who partners with Dean on the design blog AKA Design.

The Achesons are among the participants in the Ultimate Upcycle Challenge taking place during the Toronto Fall Home Show, which runs from Sept. 20 to 23 at the Better Living Centre.

Bids can be placed on the restored works at www. torontohabitat.ca until Sept. 25 with proceeds benefiting Habitat for Humanity Toronto.

For their contribution, the Achesons transformed an old wooden door into a richly red entryway table, which included incorporating stair spindles, two brackets, crystal doorknobs and furniture and antiquing waxes.

Fellow challenge participant Lisa Canning coated a pair of chrome chair frames with satin black spray paint for a modern edge.

She further jazzed up the slim profile seats with a hand-painted chevron pattern in purple, teal and grey. In keeping with the upcycle theme, the Torontobased interior stylist painted the print on a textured wallpaper remnant from a past client’s project.

The mother of three and owner of Lisa Canning Interiors has also put upcycling into practice at home.

Canning’s four-month-old son is using an Ikea crib first purchased for her three-year-old son which was spraypainted a soft grey.

She says the change not only modernized the piece but also better weaves into the design colour scheme of the room the boys will share as the baby gets older.

For individuals seeking to refurbish a piece, Canning says the first thing to look at is structure and ensuring there’s integrity in the frame.

“If you’re talking about a hard furniture item, like a chair, for example, or a table, you want to make sure that it hasn’t been too horribly exposed to the elements,” says Canning, market editor for Dabble Magazine.

“I think with the naked eye many people could get a sense (of): ‘Does it look like it’s rotting at all? ...

Does it feel sturdy?”’ she adds.

“Screws can be tightened, screws can be adjusted ... but I think testing the overall sturdiness of it is a really big first step.”

Acheson says if individuals don’t have the skills to fix a piece they should ensure they select one that’s already solid — even if it’s scratched. If still uncertain, Canning says it’s worth consulting a furniture upholsterer or restorer to see if it’s actually worth sprucing up.

Not every item may be befitting restoration, but that will all depend on the individual — especially when it comes to items of sentimental value.

“For some people, the cost of restoring it is totally appropriate and they’re not going to feel that it isn’t worth the money or the time. But you do have to take a look at what it is going to cost,” says Canning.

“I think sometimes people forget: ‘Oh, it will take me four hours to upholster this,’ or ’It will take me $400 to send to an upholsterer.’ I think it is on a caseby-case basis.”

Both DIYers agree individuals should turn a blind eye to design elements that can be easily altered.

“Look past the colour ... and look past whatever hardware happens to be on it, whether it’s something that has knobs or handles. Look past that to the overall shape of it,” says Acheson, author of the e-book Welcome Home.

“You can change the colour and you can change the hardware and make it look fabulous.”

Canning says she draws a lot of inspiration from fabric and wallpaper.

“Textiles can play a really fun, engaging story in a space because with the variety of patterns and colours, you can really influence the mood.”

Photo by In reupholstering a THE CANADIAN PRESS chair with a wood frame, for example, Canning D e a n a n d S h a n n o n suggests pulling one of Acheson share their the hues from the fabric thrifty design finds, pattern and using it as the paint colour for the organizing ideas and chair frame for a cohe- affordable DIY projects sive look. on their blog AKA Acheson says spray- Design. painting candlesticks is a good starting project.

Lamps are also fairly easy as well — providing that individuals select one in good shape where electrical components aren’t a concern.

For those averse to sewing or whose stitching skills may not be up to par, Canning says hem tape can be a good alternative. The double-sided adhesive available at fabric and craft supply stores allows individuals to fuse two layers of material together using a hot iron.

“Even if it’s just the introduction of a small pil ow or the introduction of a trim on a drape ... it makes the space look very unique to the individual’s home, to the individual’s taste,” she says. “That’s a fun way to make a space feel really your own.”

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Smoked fish make a great smoked trout noodle soup

BY J.M. HIRSCH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Several thousand years ago, people discovered that exposing fish to intense amounts of salt and smoke was a great was of preserving the catch for later.

Today, our smoking techniques are considerably more refined, and we do it more for flavour than as a means of preservation.

And that makes it a shame more people don’t think to reach for smoked fish as an effortless way to add gobs of flavour to the foods they love.

But first, a primer on smoked fish.

There are two ways to smoke fish — cold and hot. Salmon, trout, haddock and mackerel are the most common choices.

In cold smoking, the fish are brined in a heavy salt solution, then exposed to cool smoke (85 F max) for up to several days, then frozen to kill parasites.

Cold smoked fish — which is essentially raw — has a soft, delicate texture, an assertive saltiness and a pleasant, but not overwhelming, smoky flavour.

Hot smoked fish is more lightly brined, then smoked for a shorter time at a higher temperature (as high as 170 F), effectively cooking the fish.

Hot smoking produces a fish with a more assertive smoky flavour and a meatier texture (though the lighter brine means it isn’t as salty).

Both varieties often are seasoned, sometimes with just a bit of sugar, but also with black pepper, dill or other herbs.

As long as you keep in mind the differences in saltiness and smokiness, hot and cold smoked fish often can be used interchangeably in recipes.

Generally, neither variety should be exposed to long cooking times, especially hot smoked fish, which already

is cooked.

The exception to this is certain baked recipes, such as fishcakes and fish pot pies, which usually contain enough moisture to prevent the fish from getting tough.

Grocers generally sell a wide variety of both types of smoked fish. Salmon, for example, can be found with different seasonings and cuts, including thinly sliced, thick slabs and whole sides. Smoked salmon is particularly good for making dips and pates.

When doing so, look for cheaper packages labeled “trimmings,� which are small pieces. Thinly sliced salmon is delicious topped with poached eggs and fresh dill.

Hot smoked fish, such as trout and mackerel, are delicious flaked into salads or tossed with warm pasta, especially with a cream sauce.

For more ideas for using smoked fish, check out the Off the Beaten Aisle column over on Food Network: http:// bit.ly/RsyCqE SMOKED TROUT NOODLE SOUP Not as strange as it sounds. Smoked trout has a meaty texture similar to chicken. And the rich, smoky flavour is the perfect match for a soup thick with noodles.

Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 6 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 clove garlic, minced 3 medium carrots, peeled and chopped 1 large yellow onion, diced 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 cup frozen peas 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme Large sprig fresh rosemary 6 cups (1 ½ quarts) chicken broth 2 cups elbow pasta 2 cups baby spinach 2 scallions, whites and greens,

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Smoked Trout Noodle Soup is shown in Concord, N.H. chopped Salt and ground black pepper 8-ounce package smoked trout In a large saucepan over mediumhigh, heat the oil. Add the garlic, carrots, onion, celery, peas, thyme and rosemary. Saute for 5 minutes.

Add the chicken broth and bring to a simmer.

Add the pasta and cook for 7 to 8 minutes, or until barely tender. Remove and discard the rosemary stem.

Add the spinach and scallions and heat for 30 seconds. Season with salt and pepper.

Using a fork, flake and break up the

trout into large bite-size chunks. Ladle the soup into serving bowls, then pile a bit of the trout in the centre of each.

Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 320 calories; 80 calories from fat (25 per cent of total calories); 9 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 35 mg cholesterol; 41 g carbohydrate; 18 g protein; 5 g fiber; 630 mg sodium.

J.M. Hirsch is the national food editor for The Associated Press.

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Making home-baked pastry has never been one of my stellar talents, so it was with some trepidation that I approached an entire book on the subject.

In “A Year Of Pies: A Seasonal Tour of Home Baked Pies� (Lark Publishing, $23.95, paperback) it wasn’t difficult to see that even a novice like me could in a pinch turn out a decent crust — because author Ashley English makes it so simple. “The most important variable in having a flaky, buttery pastry crust is to always keep it cold while you are working with the dough,� says the author of several books who resides in Candler, N.C. English says she even keeps her flour and butter in the freezer. “And I don’t pull it out until immediately before I start kneading and incorporating it as quickly as I can.�

Before she fills the pie crust, English chills it for at least an hour, then puts it in a very hot oven.

Asked her opinion on store-bought frozen pie crusts, she is diplomatic in her response but as a purist will still stick to homemade. “Store-bought have their place if you are in a hurry and I would never cast aspersions on anyone who does buy them,� says English. “But the flavour of homemade cannot be matched plus most ready-made crusts are oil-based with processed shortening or canola oil.�

The book includes six essential pie crust recipes, crust troubleshoot-

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Fresh rhubarb stars in her springtime Lattice-Top Rhubarb, Lemon and Vanilla Pie. Not content to treat her readers to dessert pies, English also offers savoury samples, such as her summertime Roasted Corn and Pepper Pie and Turkey Shepherd’s Pie — an ideal choice to use up leftovers from the Thanksgiving bird.

Follow English on her website at www.smallmeasure.blogspot.com Here is her recipe for Basic Pie Dough (all-butter version) which she says is unrivalled for its flavour.

BY JUDY CREIGHTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Victoria chef pits skills against other young chefs in contest in Berlin Manitoba to British Columbia doing “black box� competitions. After a tour of the kitchen he would be presented with a mystery box of ingredients from which he had to concoct a three-course meal in the same four-hour timeline he would face at the competition. Local judges provided criticism.

He also practised working with ingredients he was unfamiliar with, such as rabbit, black garlic and charcuteriestyle cured meats, as well as different plating styles and wording on menus — “a little bit of everything.�

He said the preparation built up his confidence despite the short time frame. Most contestants, who have qualified through national events, have about a year to get ready. “Everyone says that my work now is like night and day,� Mieczkowski said

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS When a talented young chef from Victoria learned in May he would be travelling halfway around the world to compete against his international peers using mystery ingredients, he knew he had his work cut out for him.

Jordan Mieczkowski is representing Canada on Friday at the 2012 Jeune Chef Rotisseurs International Competition in Berlin. The Chaine des Rotisseurs event is a chance for chefs up to age 27 with less than five years professional experience to showcase their talents and creativity in an international arena.

Mieczkowski, 23, who’s been with the Hotel Grand Pacific for four years, worked with experienced chefs from

in a telephone interview. “I wish I’d have known. I could have done a whole year of training, but to cram it into four months for what I’ve done I’m pretty proud of myself.�

Once they receive the mystery ingredients, competitors have 30 minutes to design a menu, then spend the remaining 3 ½ hours cooking and presenting an appetizer, main course and dessert to serve four.

The contents of the “black box� change each year, but the compulsory items at the 2011 competition included: squabs, skate wing, sea urchin, parsnip, lobster mushrooms, Bartlett pear, Jerusalem artichokes, white chocolate, pancetta and pomegranate. Non-compulsory items included various other vegetables, fruits, liquors and fresh herbs.

“It’s pressure right from the get-go,� said Mieczkowski, who worked for a couple of years in a local pub after high school before deciding to go to culinary college.

Each of the approximately 25 international competitors is judged on taste, originality, creativity, presentation, portion size, nutrition, dress, kitchen cleanliness and timing.

If he wins, Mieczkowski will join other Canadians who have won since the contest was introduced in Switzerland in 1977. Canada’s first gold medallist, Geoffrey Couper, won in 1986 in Koblenz, Germany, while Daniel Craig followed with a gold in Adelaide, Australia, in 2006.

Canadian competitors picked up silver in 2008 and bronze medals in 2007 and 2010.

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Rebels looking for improvement DARRELLE REVIS

REVIS OUT OF ‘FOG’ Darrelle Revis walked off the field thinking he just had a headache — until he started feeling a bit strange.

The New York Jets cornerback suffered what the team called a “mild concussion” — the first of his football career at any level — and it caught him by surprise. “It’s been a fog, like being in a fog,” Revis said Thursday, speaking about his injury for the first time. “I’ve never had a concussion, so this is something you’ve got to get guidance from the training staff and the doctors.” The Jets will make a decision on Revis’ availability before the team travels to Pittsburgh on Saturday for their game Sunday against the Steelers.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Rebels would prefer to crack their Western Hockey League preseason goose-egg this weekend, but simply improving their quality of play will be the priority in tonight’s 7:30 p.m. meeting with the Edmonton Oil Kings at Lacombe.

The same goes for their preseason clash with the Medicine Hat Tigers 24 hours later at Stettler.

“That’s been our focus and that was the message after the game last Saturday (a 1-0 exhibition loss to the Lethbridge Hurricanes at Innisfail),” Rebels head coach Jesse Wallin said on Thursday, following a practice session at the Penhold

Update Regional Multiplex.

“Obviously, we want to win these next two games, but it’s more about daily improvement and raising our game and getting to where we need to be.”

Wallin hasn’t been tickled with his 0-4 club’s performance

through most of the exhibition season. Clearly, he feels he has more at his disposal than a winless record would indicate, including three new defencemen set to start the regular season with the club next week.

“We have some new defencemen in the lineup and this weekend we want to continue to push them to acclimatize to the league as quickly as possible . . . to get used to the strength and the pace of the game down low in our zone,” said Wallin, in reference to Jan Bittner, Haydn Fleury and Riley Boomgaarden.

“It’s also important that we really work on puck movement with our overall group and just work on our overall game . . . raising our level. We’re down in numbers now and we had a good week of practice. Now we’re looking to continue to

NHL CBA TALKS

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● High school football: Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Lacombe Rams, Ponoka Broncs at Rocky Mountain House Rebels, 4:30 p.m.; Sylvan Lake Lakers at Notre Dame Cougars, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● WHL exhibition: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7:30 p.m., Lacombe.

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Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings (26) breaks up a pass intended for Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson (87) during the first half of an NFL football game Thursday, in Green Bay, Wis.

Packers get real, beat Bears

Saturday ● Bantam football: Olds at Rocky Mountain House, 10:30 a.m; Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 1 p.m.; Notre Dame at Stettler, 1:30 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 4 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Peewee football: Red Deer Steelers at Stettler, Lacombe at Olds, 11 a.m.; Red Deer Hornets at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m. ● College soccer: SAIT at RDC Queens and Kings; women at noon, men 2:20 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Airdrie Xtreme at Red Deer Rebels White, 3:15 p.m., Arena; Okotoks Oilers at Red Deer Rebels Black, 5:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL exhibition: Med Hat Tigers at Red Deer Rebels, 7:30 p.m., Stettler.

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BASEBALL Toronto

build and get better going into this weekend and the following weekend (including a regularseason home opener Sept. 21 versus the Calgary Hitmen) for sure.”

Patrik Bartosak will start in the Rebels net tonight and will eventually be spelled by Bolton Pouliot. Bartosak will play the entire game on Saturday. ● Rebels star defenceman Mathew Dumba was limping along in a walking boot on Thursday after suffering a mild ankle sprain in practice earlier in the week.

“He hurt it in practice and we’ve kept him off the ice ever since,” said Wallin. “There’s no break, it’s just a sprain, and he should be OK for next weekend.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Green Bay 23 Chicago 10 GREEN BAY, Wis. — On a night when defences dominated the NFL’s most storied rivalry, the Packers got creative — and it worked.

Punter Tim Masthay and backup tight end Tom Crabtree combined for a touchdown on a fake field goal in the second quarter, and the Green Bay Packers rattled and robbed Jay Cutler in a 23-10 victory over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field on Thursday.

Cutler threw four interceptions, in-

cluding a pair to Tramon Williams.

Facing a fierce Packers pass rush all night, Cutler was sacked seven times, including 3 ½ for Clay Matthews.

New Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall was held to two catches for 24 yards.

“Clay was incredible,” Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said.

“Defence causing turnovers, if they play like this we’re going to be hard to beat.”

The Bears also lost running back Matt Forte to an ankle injury.

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NEW YORK — Darkness is about to descend on the National Hockey League. Again.

Reiterating that the season won’t start until there is a new collective bargaining agreement, commissioner Gary Bettman offered an impassioned defence of the league’s stance Thursday as it headed toward its fourth work stoppage in 20 years.

“Listen, nobody wants to make a deal and play hockey more than I do, OK?” he said during a news conference. “This is what I do. This is what my life is about in terms of how I spend most of my waking hours. This is really hard.

“And so you only get involved in this situation when you understand what the issues are and you know you’re doing the right thing for the long-term stability of our game and our sport. This is very hard and I feel terrible about it.”

No one is holding out hope that an 11th-hour deal will be struck before the CBA expires Saturday at midnight. Both Bettman and Donald Fehr, the executive director of the NHL Players’ Association, spoke in a manner that made another work stoppage seem inevitable after wrapping up important meetings with their constituents.

They have no plans to return to the bargaining table before the deadline passes.

Instead, it appears as if hockey will enter yet another work stoppage — with a source indicating that pre-season games will start being cancelled as soon as next week. Training camps scheduled to open Sept. 21 will also soon be a casualty, with the first regular- season games not too far behind.

Please see NHL on Page B2

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Lightning stuns Trojans

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Lightning 58 Trojans 0 It was over before it almost started.

The Hunting Hills Lightning scored on their first play of the game and rolled to a 58-0 victory over the Camrose Trojans in Central Alberta High School Football League exhibition play before 322 fans at Great Chief Park Thursday.

“We were a bit lucky on the first play as their corner got caught on the wrong side,” said Lightning head coach Kyle Sedgwick.

“It was the play we called, but we got to the line quickly and snapped the ball.”

Quarterback Scott Pearson was able to whip a quick pass out to Evan Petriew who dashed down the left side 56 yards, making it 7-0, after the first of eight Austin Belan converts, 29 seconds into the game.

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Camrose Trojan Michael Loandis is hauled down by Hunting Hills Lightning players Riley Gasser and Branden Petersen during the opening quarter of the game at Great Chief Park on Thursday. The Lightning went into the game undefeated this season with one win under their belt and were ahead 29-0 after the first quarter of play Thursday.

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NHL: Concessions made Fehr said the players made large concessions after the entire 2004-05 season was wiped out by a lockout. Since then, overall revenues have grown dramatically.

He asked whether it was fair or equitable that the owners want more concessions and reiterated that they will be the ones choosing to shut the doors.

“The players want to find a way to make an agreement. They want to negotiate until we do,” Fehr, flanked by many of the game’s top players, told a packed news conference.

Sidney Crosby, Henrik Zetterberg, John Tavares, Zdeno Chara, Henrik Lundqvist, Daniel Alfredsson and Zach Parise were just a handful of the 283 players who turned up in New York for two days of meetings. They emerged presenting a united front and spoke with the same calmness as Fehr, whom they hired in 2010 with the express purpose of getting a good deal in these negotiations.

While the players would rather be preparing for training camp, Crosby indicated that they’re not willing to do it at any cost.

“I know in my case not playing for as long as I did the last year and a half, I obviously want to play,” he said. “But I think you also have to realize that there’s principles here and you have to understand what’s right.

“And I think we believe that what we propose is in that right direction. If you look at both (proposals), yeah they’re definitely different. But if you have a non-biased opinion, you look at the facts, I think our mindset and the direction we’re going is one that seems like it’s a little bit more fair for both sides.”

The sides returned to the negotiating table on Wednesday and each made adjustments to previous proposals.

The owners asked players to cut their share of hockey-related revenue during a six-year proposal.

Current industry revenue is pegged at US$3.3 billion annually.

Initially, owners sought to drop the percentage given to players to 43 per cent from the current 57 per cent. They have since amended that to a deal that starts at 49 per cent the first year, drops to 48 per cent the next and is set at 47 per cent for the remaining four.

The NHLPA is offering a package that starts at 54.3 per cent and ends at 52.7 per cent — something Fehr referred to as a “shared sacrifice.”

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman listens as he meets with reporters after a meeting with team owners, Thursday, in New York. The current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players expires Saturday at midnight. have to play a lot of tailback next Friday (against Notre Dame).”

Tristan Wattenbarger, on a 39-yard run, Pearson, on a 10-yard gallop, and Branden Petersen, on a fiveyard pass from Jarrett Burzuk, accounted for the other touchdowns. The Trojans also gave up a safety.

“We did all the things we wanted to on offence,” added Sedgwick. “But that’s what you expect from a veteran group.”

Still Sedgwick started taking some of his guys out early.

“That was because of what happened on that play

on Russell . . . we can’t afford another injury like that,” he said.

The Lightning defence isn’t as veteran, but limited the short staffed Trojans to 120 yards rushing and 37 passing.

“One good thing about having two non-conference games to open the season we got our young defence, which only has three returning starters, a lot of reps,” added Sedgwick. “We’ll need those for next week.”

The biggest player on the defensive line is Grade 10 Jake McFadden, who isn’t looking out of place.

Overall Sedgwick used 49 players almost twice as many as the Trojans utilized.

“We have a short bench so a lot of guys had to go both ways and were getting tired,” said Trojans head coach Adam Belanger. “We’ve had a number of injuries and at the end of the game we had more guys on the sidelines not in gear than we had guys able to play.”

The Lightning finished with 465 yards rushing and 126 passing.

Tanner Whitelaw had 47 yards rushing on five carries while Michael Ioanidis led Camrose with 60 yards on 10 tries.

Pearson connected on five of nine passes for 96 yards while Burzuk was one-of-one and Brett Barrett hit three of four for 25 yards. Corson Clarkson was good on five of 18 passes for Camrose.

Camrose’s next action is next Friday when they host Wetaskiwin.

Regular season play begins tonight with four games including a huge matchup with the Sylvan Lake Lakers at the Notre Dame Cougars at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park. As well, Lindsay Thurber is at Lacombe at 4:30 p.m., Ponoka visits West Central in Rocky Mountain House at 4:30 p.m. and Stettler is at Wetaskiwin at 7:30 p.m. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

NFL: Victory dance

LIGHTNING: A cheap shot By the end of the first quarter the Lightning led 30-0 and were up 51-0 at the half.

But while most things were going the way of the Lightning there was one major negative when running back Matt Russell was helped off the field with a head injury. He was returning a punt when a Camrose player didn’t let up and nailed him before the ball even arrived.

It was something that didn’t sit well with Sedgwick.

“It was a cheap shot to the head,” Sedgwick said.

“It certainly fired me up, and rightly so. You can’t take a 30-yard run and hit the guy helmet-to-helmet.

A head injury is very serious. He doesn’t have any other injury, but we’ll have him looked at and see where we’re at. Right now it’s day to day.”

Russell, the team’s No. 1 back, had 88 yards on four carries and two touchdowns when he was injured. He was replaced by Grade 10 back Jim Ahn, who scored on a 45-yard run the first time he touched the ball and finished with 13 carries for 266 yards and a pair of touchdowns. His biggest play was a 91-yard touchdown romp to open the third quarter and put a cap on the Hunting Hills scoring.

“Jin is only in his second year of football, but he’s very explosive and a very physical kid. He will only get better as he learns,” said Sedgwick. “Right now he needed all those reps as in all likelihood he’ll

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After Williams collected his second interception, Rodgers finally found the end zone in the fourth quarter, hitting Donald Driver for a 26-yard touchdown and a 23-3 lead.

Driver, who barely played in the Packers’ seasonopening loss to San Francisco, did a celebratory dance in the end zone, recalling his stint on the Dancing With the Stars reality television show.

But Rodgers threw an interception to Tim Jennings and the Bears finally cashed in. Facing fourthand-7 at the Green Bay 21, Cutler threw a touchdown to Kellen Davis, cutting the lead to 23-10 with 6:49 remaining. But the Bears couldn’t mount a comeback as Matthews and the Packers kept turning up the heat.

Rodgers finished the game 22 of 32 for 219 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

He got roughed up, too, getting sacked five times.

Green Bay got a scare when the NFL MVP appeared to hurt his right arm early in the game, but he stayed in.

Cutler was 11 for 27 for 126 yards.

Earlier in the week, a confident Cutler wished the Packers’ defensive backs “good luck” in trying to match up physically with a new-look wide receiver corps led by Marshall. Stalked by Williams for much of the night, Marshall didn’t see much of the ball.

And he couldn’t convert his one big opportunity, dropping a potential touchdown in the third quarter.

Forte provided much of what little offence the Bears could muster before leaving the game in the third. He appeared to twist his right ankle while being tackled by Charles Woodson.

Mason Crosby hit three field goals for Green Bay, including a 54-yarder in the fourth quarter.

The biggest play of the night, though, came from the unlikely tandem of Masthay and Crabtree.

With the Packers facing fourth-and-26 on the Chicago 27 late in the second quarter, Masthay, the punter who also functions as the holder on field goals, and Crosby appeared to line up for a field goal attempt.

But Masthay took the snap and flipped the ball to Crabtree, who ran through a huge hole and streaked all the way to the end zone.

“That’s a gutsy call,” Rodgers said. “It worked out.”

Cutler then threw an interception to Williams near midfield with just over a minute left and the play was upheld on a replay review, giving the Packers one last chance to score. Rodgers marched the Packers into scoring range, and Crosby hit a 35-yard field goal.

Cutler then threw his second interception of the night late in the third, this time to Woodson, and the Packers appeared poised to score when Charles Tillman punched the ball away from Jermichael Finley and recovered the ball for the Bears.

Marshall missed a huge opportunity earlier in the third, when Cutler found him streaking wide open in the end zone — but the wide receiver couldn’t haul it in, and the Bears had to settle for a 45-yard field goal

by Robbie Gould that cut the lead to 13-3.

The Packers were coming off a 30-22 home loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Green Bay struggled to stop the 49ers’ balanced offence and came into a short week of preparation still looking for answers in the secondary.

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Kings know bigger task at hand

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

RDC BASKETBALL

Last year’s edition of the RDC Kings was able to sneak up on the rest of the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League at the end of the season.

As a result they finished second in the ACAC playoffs to Mount Royal University and eventually finished an impressive fourth at the Canadian finals.

Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger isn’t sure they’ll be able to sneak up on anyone this season.

“Maybe they’ll forget about us again,” he said with a laugh.

“But really I doubt it. Last year we were able to operate with little pressure, but this year I expect we’ll have to perform well night-in and night-out.”

The Kings have only four players back from last year’s squad, but four of their premier players, including outstanding forward Rob Pierce.

It wasn’t known if Pierce would be back, but it worked out at the last minute he was able to return and it benefited both himself and the team.

“It certainly never hurts when one of your star players is able to return,” said Pottinger, who also has point guard Lloyd Strickland, shooting guard Jacob Cusumano and forward Joel Carroll back.

Both Strickland and Cusumano started last season while Carroll joined the team late and was a key performer off the bench.

Pierce was third in scoring in the ACAC South Division with 18.3 points per game and was first in rebounds (10.83 per game) while picking up 1.52 steals per start.

Strickland led the south with 5.0 assists per game while contributing 10.3 points and 1.74 steals.

Cusumano averaged 8.35 points.

“It nice to have four guys back who were a factor in what we did last year, but we still have some holes to fill with both Eric (Bakker) and Sarain (Soonias)

gone,” added Pottinger, who has a pair of imports on the roster in six-foot-three guard David Poole of Detroit and six-foot-six Daniel Bass of Northern California.

Poole can play both the point and shooting guard while Bass gives the Kings strength inside.

Overall Pottinger has 15 players in camp and could add two more next week.

“There are a couple of guys we’re looking at who are in the trades program and won’t be in until next week,” he explained.

Two of his top recruits from Alberta — six-footfour forward Brian Prenosio and five-foot-10 point guard Matt Johnson — have impressed in the early going.

Johnson will backup Strickland, something needed at the nationals last season.

“Lloyd was playing 36 minutes and it was tough on him, as it was with several of the other guys we needed to keep on the court,” said Pottinger, who used both Pierce and Bakker for close to 40 minutes and Cusumano for 32 minutes a game.

“We need that extra depth, so we can keep the guys fresh,” added Pottinger, who also expects fivefoot-10 guard Ashaunti Hogan to step in and also get a contribution from six-foot-seven 265-pound Sam Lolik and local grad Pete Kwasny.

“Sam has been out of the game for a while and is working on getting his conditioning up, but he’s been killing it inside during workouts,” said Pottinger, who expects the ACAC’s South Division to be a battle.

“Mount Royal is gone (to the CIS), but there’s still a lot of good teams in the south and there’s two new teams (Olds and St. Mary’s of Calgary). Olds could have a couple of players from Russia and are trying

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College men’s basketball coach Clayton Pottinger looks on as athlete Ashaunti Hogan takes a shot during practice on Thursday. ti make an immediate impact.”

The Kings play in Edmonton in a preseason ACAC/ CIS Showcase tournament Sept. 28-30 meeting Medicine Hat, the University of Alberta and Augustana.

They host their tournament Oct. 11-13 and open league play Oct. 26 at home against Grant MacEwan. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Queens’ hoop coach faces rebuilding job Mike Woollard knew coming into RDC this fall he’d have a lot of work to do to build a contender in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League.

Woollard replaced Dawn Smyth in the spring and didn’t have as much time to recruit as he would have liked, plus he didn’t have a deep group of veterans returning. As well, Erin Wiersma, who was one of the top rookies in the conference last season, decided not to return.

“Erin is in school and into first year nursing and she wasn’t sure of the work load,” explained Woollard. “She would be a great addition, and there’s still a chance she may decide she would like to come back.”

As it is Woollard has only two players — guards Sarah Williamson and Morgan Shultz — back from last year along with Paveena Nijjar, who redshirted last season.

“It’s nice to have Sarah and Morgan back as they give us leadership at the guard,” said Woollard, who has 12 players in camp.

He does have some height, but would have liked a bit more.

“We had a couple of taller players drop out, which hurts. “We do have some height, but could use a bit more depth at the post position. A couple of our taller girls fit in at other positions.”

One is six-foot Hunting Hills grad Teighan Ponto, who will work as a forward, but may be better on the wing.

“She’s very athletic

and if she was on the wing and got her shooting down she’d be tough to stop. But right now she’s playing a bit out of position (on the inside).”

Six-foot-one Desirea Paterson of Salmon Arm is a legitimate post player. She was a provincial all-star in Grade 12, but has been out of school for a couple of years.

“She is very skilled but it will take her a little while to get back into it,” said Woollard, who also has six-foot Katelyn Bracko of Calgary up front.

“She has a nice touch around the net and she’s

one of the players we need to get going quickly.”

One of the more interesting players in camp is wing Ameri Bonzig of Germany. She played Division III last year and practised with the Division I squad.

“She’s played at a very good level and will be a good leader, although she’s still young,” added Woollard, who also has Hunting Hills grad Carly Kolesnik on the roster.

“She’ll play the wing and is very athletic,” he said.

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Red Deer College Queens Carly Hoar, left, and Morgan Schultz go one-on-one during a practice in the main gym on Thursday.

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Football

Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Toronto Boston

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 81 62 .566 81 62 .566 77 66 .538 65 77 .458 64 80 .444

GB — — 4 15 1/2 17 1/2

Chicago Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 76 66 .535 75 67 .528 65 78 .455 60 84 .417 60 84 .417

GB — 1 11 1/2 17 17

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

West Division W L 85 58 82 61 78 66 69 75

Pct .594 .573 .542 .479

(1), Carrera (2), Kipnis (14).

GB — 3 7 1/2 16 1/2

Thursday’s Games Baltimore 3, Tampa Bay 2, 14 innings L.A. Angels 6, Oakland 0 Toronto 8, Seattle 3 N.Y. Yankees 2, Boston 0 Cleveland 5, Texas 4 Minnesota 4, Kansas City 3, 10 innings Detroit at Chicago, ppd., rain Today’s Games Detroit (Verlander 13-8) at Cleveland (Kluber 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 17-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 13-5), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Matsuzaka 1-5) at Toronto (Laffey 3-5), 5:07 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 6-4) at Texas (Darvish 14-9), 6:05 Chicago White Sox (Sale 16-6) at Minnesota (Vasquez 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 12-9) at Kansas City (B.Chen 10-12), 6:10 p.m.

Baltimore (J.Saunders 2-1) at Oakland (Milone 12-10), 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Boston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

LINESCORES THURSDAY Tampa Bay 000 100 010 000 00—2 12 2 Baltimore 000 000 200 000 01—3 11 0 (14 innings) Hellickson, McGee (6), W.Davis (7), Howell (7), Farnsworth (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9), Badenhop (10), Archer (11) and C.Gimenez, Lobaton, J.Molina; W.Chen, O’Day (8), Ji.Johnson (9), Ayala (10), Matusz (12), Tom.Hunter (13), Wolf (14) and Teagarden, Wieters. W—Wolf 2-0. L—Archer 0-3.

Oakland 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Los An 000 000 60x — 6 11 0 Bre.Anderson, J.Chavez (7), T.Ross (8) and Kottaras; Weaver, Jepsen (8), Maronde (9) and Iannetta. W—Weaver 17-4. L—Bre.Anderson 4-1. HRs— Los Angeles, Tor.Hunter (15).

Seattle 020 000 100 — 3 7 0 Toronto 200 510 00x — 8 13 0 F.Hernandez, C.Capps (5), Noesi (7) and Jaso; H.Alvarez, Lincoln (8), Loup (9) and Mathis. W—H. Alvarez 9-12. L—F.Hernandez 13-8. HRs—Seattle, Ackley (11). Toronto, Lind (10), Encarnacion (40).

New York 000 100 100 — 2 5 0 Boston 000 000 000 — 0 6 2 P.Hughes, Logan (8), D.Robertson (8), R.Soriano (9) and R.Martin; Doubront, Tazawa (7), Breslow (8), Melancon (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—P.Hughes 15-12. L—Doubront 10-9. Sv—R.Soriano (38).

Kansas City 200 010 000 0 — 3 8 0 Minnesota 100 000 011 1 — 4 7 0 (10 innings) Mendoza, Crow (7), K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (8), Bueno (10) and S.Perez; Hendriks, T.Robertson (6), Fien (7), Burton (8), Perkins (9) and Butera.

W—Perkins 3-1. L—Bueno 1-1. HRs—Minnesota, Willingham (34), Plouffe (21).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS Following Thursday’s Games G AB R Trout LAA 121 492 115 MiCabrera Det 141 546 91 Jeter NYY 141 604 91 Beltre Tex 139 540 87 Mauer Min 131 486 75 DavMurphy Tex 129 393 56 Butler KC 142 543 62 Konerko CWS 126 468 58 AJackson Det 119 470 90 TorHunter LAA 123 470 72

H 163 179 195 173 155 123 169 145 145 145

Avg. .331 .328 .323 .320 .319 .313 .311 .310 .309 .309

BATTING — Trout, Los Angeles, .331; MiCabrera, Detroit, .328; Jeter, New York, .323; Beltre, Texas, .320; Mauer, Minnesota, .319; DavMurphy, Texas, .313; Butler, Kansas City, .311.

RUNS — Trout, Los Angeles, 115; Hamilton, Texas, 95; Kinsler, Texas, 94; MiCabrera, Detroit, 91; Jeter, New York, 91; AJackson, Detroit, 90; AdJones, Baltimore, 89.

RBI — Hamilton, Texas, 121; MiCabrera, Detroit, 118; Willingham, Minnesota, 105; Encarnacion, Toronto, 102; Fielder, Detroit, 98; Pujols, Los Angeles, 96; Beltre, Texas, 92; Butler, Kansas City, 92.

HITS — Jeter, New York, 195; MiCabrera, Detroit, 179; Beltre, Texas, 173; Butler, Kansas City, 169; AGordon, Kansas City, 169; Andrus, Texas, 164; Cano, New York, 163; Trout, Los Angeles, 163.

DOUBLES — AGordon, Kansas City, 47; Pujols, Los Angeles, 42; Kinsler, Texas, 40; Cano, New York, 38; Choo, Cleveland, 37; AdGonzalez, Boston, 37; Brantley, Cleveland, 36; NCruz, Texas, 36.

TRIPLES — AJackson, Detroit, 10; JWeeks, Oakland, 8; Andrus, Texas, 7; Crisp, Oakland, 7; AEscobar, Kansas City, 7; Rios, Chicago, 7; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 7.

HOME RUNS — Hamilton, Texas, 41; Encarnacion, Toronto, 40; ADunn, Chicago, 38; Granderson, New York, 37; MiCabrera, Detroit, 36; Willingham, Minnesota, 34; Beltre, Texas, 32.

STOLEN BASES — Trout, Los Angeles, 45; RDavis, Toronto, 43; Revere, Minnesota, 36; Crisp, Oakland, 34; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 30; AEscobar, Kansas City, 28; Kipnis, Cleveland, 27.

PITCHING — Weaver, Los Angeles, 17-4; Price, Tampa Bay, 17-5; Sale, Chicago, 16-6; Scherzer, Detroit, 16-6; MHarrison, Texas, 16-9; PHughes, New York, 15-12; Shields, Tampa Bay, 14-8; Darvish, Texas, 14-9; Vargas, Seattle, 14-10.

STRIKEOUTS — Scherzer, Detroit, 220; Verlander, Detroit, 212; FHernandez, Seattle, 199; Darvish, Texas, 196; Shields, Tampa Bay, 189; Price, Tampa Bay, 175; Peavy, Chicago, 171.

SAVES — JiJohnson, Baltimore, 42; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 42; RSoriano, New York, 38; CPerez, Cleveland, 36; Nathan, Texas, 33; Valverde, Detroit, 30; Reed, Chicago, 26; Wilhelmsen, Seattle, 26.

Washington Atlanta Philadelphia New York Miami

NATIONAL LEAGUE Early standings East Division W L Pct 89 54 .622 81 63 .563 72 72 .500 65 78 .455 63 81 .438

GB — 8 1/2 17 1/2 24 26 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 87 57 .604 75 68 .524 72 70 .507 72 71 .503 56 87 .392 46 98 .319

GB — 11 1/2 14 14 1/2 30 1/2 41

Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago Houston

San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado

Cleveland 000 002 003 — 5 13 3 Texas 000 200 020 — 4 11 0 McAllister, E.Rogers (7), J.Smith (8), Maine (8), C.Perez (9) and Marson, C.Santana; D.Holland, Scheppers (8), M.Perez (8), Ogando (8), Nathan (9), Uehara (9) and Soto. W—Maine 1-0. L—Nathan 2-4. Sv—C.Perez (36). HRs—Cleveland, LaPorta

West Division W L 81 62 74 69 71 72 69 75 57 85

Pct .566 .517 .497 .479 .401

GB — 7 10 12 1/2 23 1/2

Thursday’s Games Houston 6, Philadelphia 4 St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers N Today’s Games Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 12-7) at Chicago Cubs (Rusin 0-2), 12:20 p.m.

CFL West Division GP W L T PF B.C. 10 7 3 0 270 Calgary 10 6 4 0 268 Saskatchewan 10 5 5 0 267 Edmonton 10 5 5 0 239 East Division GP W L T PF Toronto 10 6 4 0 255 Montreal 10 6 4 0 273 Hamilton 10 3 7 0 290 Winnipeg 10 2 8 0 200

Cincinnati (Arroyo 12-7) at Miami (Ja.Turner 0-2), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Detwiler 9-6) at Atlanta (Medlen 8-1), 5:35 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 14-6) at Houston (E.Gonzalez 2-0), 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 10-9) at Milwaukee (Fiers 9-7), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 13-5) at Arizona (Skaggs 1-1), 7:40 p.m.

Colorado (Chatwood 4-4) at San Diego (Cashner 3-3), 8:05 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Kelly 5-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 11-10), 8:10 p.m.

LINESCORES THURSDAY 000 300

000 03x

— —

4 9 6 10

0 1

Cloyd, Rosenberg (4), Lindblom (6), Bastardo (7), Aumont (8), Diekman (8) and Kratz; Harrell, X.Cedeno (6), Ambriz (7), W.Wright (8), W.Lopez (9) and J.Castro, Corporan. W—W.Wright 1-2. L— Aumont 0-1. Sv—W.Lopez (5). HRs—Houston, Dominguez (4).

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS Following Thursday’s Games G AB R H Avg. MeCabrera, SF 113 459 84 159 .346 AMcCutchen, Pgh137 521 97 177 .340 Posey, SF 130 469 69 156 .333 YMolina, StL 121 447 55 141 .315 DWright, NYM 138 513 81 161 .314 Fowler, Col 130 424 69 132 .311 Braun, Mil 135 526 93 163 .310 CGonzalez, Col 127 498 88 152 .305 Holliday, StL 139 535 87 161 .301 Prado, Atl 140 563 74 167 .297 RUNS — AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 97; Braun, Milwaukee, 93; Bourn, Atlanta, 88; CGonzalez, Colorado, 88; JUpton, Arizona, 88; Holliday, St. Louis, 87; Hart, Milwaukee, 86; Rollins, Philadelphia, 86.

RBI — Headley, San Diego, 102; Braun, Milwaukee, 100; Bruce, Cincinnati, 96; ASoriano, Chicago, 96; Holliday, St. Louis, 94; LaRoche, Washington, 92; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 91.

HITS — AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 177; Prado, Atlanta, 167; Braun, Milwaukee, 163; Scutaro, San Francisco, 163; Bourn, Atlanta, 162; Holliday, St. Louis, 161; DWright, New York, 161.

DOUBLES — ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 44; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 39; DWright, New York, 38; Prado, Atlanta, 37; Votto, Cincinnati, 37; DanMurphy, New York, 36; Hart, Milwaukee, 35; AHill, Arizona, 35; Posey, San Francisco, 35.

TRIPLES — Pagan, San Francisco, 12; SCastro, Chicago, 11; Fowler, Colorado, 11; Reyes, Miami, 11; Bourn, Atlanta, 10; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 10; Colvin, Colorado, 9.

HOME RUNS — Braun, Milwaukee, 38; Stanton, Miami, 34; Bruce, Cincinnati, 33; Beltran, St. Louis, 29; Kubel, Arizona, 29; LaRoche, Washington, 29; ASoriano, Chicago, 29.

STOLEN BASES — Bourn, Atlanta, 39; Reyes, Miami, 35; Pierre, Philadelphia, 34; Victorino, Los Angeles, 33; CGomez, Milwaukee, 32; Altuve, Houston, 30; Bonifacio, Miami, 30; EvCabrera, San Diego, 30; DGordon, Los Angeles, 30.

PITCHING — GGonzalez, Washington, 19-7; Dickey, New York, 18-5; Cueto, Cincinnati, 17-8; Strasburg, Washington, 15-6; AJBurnett, Pittsburgh, 15-7; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 15-8; Miley, Arizona, 15-9.

STRIKEOUTS — Kershaw, Los Angeles, 206; Dickey, New York, 197; Strasburg, Washington, 197; GGonzalez, Washington, 191; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 188; Hamels, Philadelphia, 184; Samardzija, Chicago, 180.

SAVES — Kimbrel, Atlanta, 35; AChapman, Cincinnati, 35; Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 34; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 34; Motte, St. Louis, 33; Clippard, Washington, 31; Putz, Arizona, 29.

Golf RICOH WOMEN’S BRITISH OPEN HOYLAKE, England — Thursday results from the first round of the $2.75-million, 6,660 yard, par 72 Ricoh Womens British Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club: a-amateur Haeji Kang 35-35 — 70 So Yeon Ryu 35-35 — 70 Katie Futcher 35-36 — 71 Lydia Hall 35-36 — 71 a-Charley Hull 34-37 — 71 Vicky Hurst 35-36 — 71 Stacey Keating 34-37 — 71 Ai Miyazato 33-38 — 71 Mika Miyazato 36-35 — 71 Jiyai Shin 35-36 — 71 Karrie Webb 36-35 — 71 Chella Choi 36-36 — 72 a-Holly Clyburn 34-38 — 72

Hee-Won Han Katherine Hull Amy Hung Yuki Ichinose Trish Johnson Cristie Kerr a-Lydia Ko Carin Koch Becky Morgan Inbee Park Morgan Pressel Beatriz Recari Hee Kyung Seo Angela Stanford Yani Tseng Nicole Castrale Na Yeon Choi Paula Creamer Natalie Gulbis

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BRIEFS Mustangs edge Grizzlys CALGARY — The Calgary Mustangs jumped out to an early 3-0 lead and then rode the goaltending of Ravi Dattani to a 6-5 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Mustangs on Thursday.

The Mustangs got unanswered goals from Chase McMurphy, Bryan Arneson and Douglas McDonald before the game was 12 minutes old.

Matt Heseltine, Damien Kulynych and David Norris also scored for the winners, who led 4-1 after one period and 6-3 after 40 minutes.

Replying for the Grizzlys before 110 fans at Father David Bauer Arena were Tanner Dunkle, Brandon Clowes, Matt Hanger, Blair Oneschuk and Bart Moran.

Dattani turned aside 35 shots for the Mustangs, who were four-for-18 on the power play in the penalty-filled contest. Olds was twofor-15 with a man advantage.

Ethan Jemieff stopped 11 of 14 shots for the Grizzlys, while Brandon Thiessen blocked just two of five.

The Grizzlys are in Brooks tonight to face the defending league champion Bandits.

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QUEENS: Players impress Also in camp are point guard Melissa Woolley, wing Dedra Janvier, forward/post player Miranda Honey and wing Carly Hoar, all from Northern Alberta.

Woollard likes what he sees from all of them and feels Woolley will develop into a strong guard, despite her five-foot-three size.

“She’s extremely quick and will definitely become a player as she develops,” he said.

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Week 12 Today’s game Winnipeg at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games Edmonton at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Toronto at B.C., 5 p.m.

Sunday’s game Saskatchewan at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 11:05 a.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 2:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Houston, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.

St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati at Miami, 11:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Houston, 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.

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Evanecz ties for fifth DEWINTON — Red Deer golfer Mitch Evanecz unfortunately saved his worst for last on Thursday.

Evanecz appeared to be in good shape with a four-stroke lead going into the final round of the Alberta Open at Carmoney, but he stumbled to a 6-over 77 and finished tied for fifth with a 54-hole total of plus-2 215 that included earlier rounds of 69-69.

Meanwhile, Wes Heffernan carved out a 6-under 65 and captured the Open title by one stroke over fellow Calgarian Scott Stiles, who fired a 69.

Heffernan finished at 3-under 210.

Todd Halpen of Calgary and Adam Novakowski shot 69 and 72, respectively, and finished in a third-place tie at 214.

Wes Martin of Calgary, who plays out of Innisfail, finished tied for 18th with a final-round 77 and 223 total. Matt Codd of Red Deer carded a final-round 76 and tied for 31st at 20-over 233.

Lightning, Colts tie The Stettler Lightning and Mountainview Colts battled to a 5-5 tie in Heritage Junior B Hockey League exhibition play Wednesday.

Wyat Haustein had a pair of goals for the Lightning with singles added by Adam Ternes, Jake Schwarzenberger and Gavin Branel.

Woollard would like to add a couple bigger players, but as of now he feels “happy to field a team.

“We have a lot of character and we have a base to grow into a good program, but It will take time and patience. We may surprise some teams as we do have a lot of character and hustle which are key parts of a team when you’re going through tough times.”

The Queens open exhibition play next Friday against Augustana on the road. They’ll compete in the ACAC/CIS Showcase tournament in Edmonton Sept. 28-30 and host St. Mary’s College and Ambrose College Oct. 11-13.

They open league play at home Oct. 26 against Grant MacEwan University. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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Thursday’s Game Green Bay 23, Chicago 10 Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Arizona at New England, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Indianapolis, 11 a.m Baltimore at Philadelphia, 11 a.m Kansas City at Buffalo, 11 a.m Cleveland at Cincinnati, 11 a.m Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m Oakland at Miami, 11 a.m Dallas at Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 2:05 p.m.

Tennessee at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 2:25 p.m.

Detroit at San Francisco, 6:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game Denver at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Alberta Downs ALBERTA DOWNS Weekend Entries Saturday Post time: 1:45 p.m.

First Pace, purse $2,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR).

1 Clintons Playmate (J. Jungquist) 2 Tilly The Toiler (K. Hoerdt) 3 Seen N Noted (J. Campbell) 4 Outlaw Like A Lady (T. Remillard) 5 Big Kg Deal (D. Mcleod) 6 Lightning King (R. Schneider) 7 Arctic King (B. Clark) Second Pace, purse $4,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Wish I Was (K. Clark) 2 Beach Baby (B. Clark) 3 Hf Pajama Party (J. Campbell) 4 Cane Sugar (J. Gray) 5 Real Pretty (J. Chappell) 6 Smileforthepicture (J. Jungquist) 7 Westwood Chaos (T. Remillard) 8 Barona Kijiji (R. Hennessy) Third Pace, purse $3,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Blasty Cam (B. Thomas) 2 Mavericks Pride (J. Chappell) 3 Coolestdudeintown (R. Hennessy) 4 M L Lightning Blvd (G. Schedlosky) 5 Call Of Duty (J. Jungquist) 6 Rays Pass (H. Haining) 7 Coolcanadianpromis (J. Campbell) 8 Meadowlarkbigmoney (D. Mcleod) Fourth Pace, purse $3,000 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Lo Tengo (D. Monkman Jr) 2 The Cracken (H. Haining) 3 Arctic Artist (R. Grundy) 4 Blue Star Cavalier (W. Tainsh Jr) 5 Minettas Leader (J. Jungquist) 6 Going Straighthome (Q. Schneider) 7 Mjjz Shannon D (B. Grundy) 8 Ok Excalibur (D. Mcleod) Fifth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Purrfect Bliss (B. Grundy) 2 Hf Georges Kiss (B. Clark) 3 Lynettes Legacy (K. Hoerdt) 4 Promise Me Pez (R. Goulet) 5 Sealedwithapromise (J. Gray) 6 Happyagain Mindale (B. Thomas) 7 Touch Of Magic (J. Campbell) 8 Tajerine Dream (K. Clark) 9 Major Ziggy (J. Jungquist) Sixth Pace, purse $5,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Outlaw Pot Of Gold (C. Kolthammer) 2 G I Joan (B. Clark) 3 Bashful Beauty (K. Hoerdt) 4 Ashlynn Grace (J. Chappell) 5 Cloud Nine (K. Clark) 6 Blue Star Classic (J. Gray) 7 No Limit For Mjjz (B. Thomas) 8 Born With A Grin (J. Jungquist) Seventh Pace, purse $17,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Blue Star Beauty (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Outlaw Star Maker (C. Kolthammer) 3 Down Home Stylish (K. Hoerdt) 4 Honor Roll (J. Campbell) 5 Succulent (K. Clark) 6 Prairie Illusion (B. Clark) Eighth Pace, purse $6,000 (EX, SF, TR).

1 B R Money Matters (J. Gray) 2 Red Star Tiger (K. Clark) 3 Loneridge Shannon (J. Campbell) 4 Ru Kidn (B. Grundy) 5 Outlawdangruswatrs (B. Clark) 6 Red Star Chance (D. Mcleod) Ninth Pace, purse $17,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Popcorn (J. Gray) 2 Outlaw Blue Danube (D. Mcleod) 3 Whos In The Hat (J. Jungquist) 4 Cool One (D. Monkman Jr) 5 Gts Jerilyn (J. Campbell) 6 Comeshomeearly (B. Clark) 7 Credit Card Junkie (K. Clark) Tenth Pace, purse $7,500 (EX, SF, TR, W3).

1 Kg Explorer (B. Grundy) 2 Greek Ruler (J. Chappell) 3 Armbro Dublin (B. Piwniuk) 4 Wannabe Cowboy (R. Grundy) 5 Flak Jacket (J. Gray) 6 Gts Jake (J. Jungquist) Eleventh Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Major Beach Girl (J. Campbell) 2 Samnmadie (J. Jungquist) 3 Im The Reason (R. Schneider) 4 My Candidate (D. Monkman Jr) 5 Blue Star Royalty (K. Ducharme) 6 Art By Dylan (K. Hoerdt) 7 Kramers Man (J. Chappell) 8 Outlaw I See Red (J. Gray) Twelfth Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Double L Cammie (K. Clark) 2 Arctic Pine (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Me Myself And I (B. Clark) 4 Notable Intension (R. Schneider) 5 Pats Freeride (B. Grundy) 6 Tequila Boom Boom (R. Hennessy) 7 A Girl Named Fred (Q. Schneider) 8 Carro Avro (J. Jungquist) 9 Ink Blink (J. Chappell) Sunday Post time: 1:45 p.m.

First Pace, purse $4,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR).

1 Tinhorn Creek (B. Clark) 2 Pedal Steel (J. Marino) 3 Western Superstar (B. Grundy) 4 Meadowlark Tsunami (J. Jungquist) 5 Elijahs Wish (J. Gray) 6 Attitude Adjuster (G. Hudon) 7 Frisco (D. Mcleod) Second Pace, purse $3,000 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Kim Chee (H. Haining) 2 Doda Gig (J. Jungquist) 3 Ida Apache (R. Grundy) 4 D And Gs Lady (J. Gray) 5 Classy Locomotion (D. Mcleod) 6 Miss Reserve (B. Clark) 7 Shady Sadie (R. Schneider) Third Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Hollywood Jubilee (J. Chappell) 2 Lady On A Mission (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Shynaway (D. Mcleod) 4 Free Tunes (B. Clark) 5 Js Honeybet (J. Jungquist) 6 Fly Bye Elly (K. Clark) 7 Truly Cruisin (J. Campbell) 8 Minettaszoombyyall (J. Gray) Fourth Pace, purse $4,200 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Super Sunrise (R. Goulet) 2 Revoler (K. Clark) 3 Skirmish (B. Grundy) 4 Raging Fingers (J. Jungquist) 5 Bomber Brown (J. Campbell) 6 Allbouttaj (J. Marino) 7 Total Rhythm (B. Clark) Fifth Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Outlaw Highvoltage (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Complete Ensemble (J. Marino) 3 Too Young Man (R. Grundy) 4 Blue Star Quest (J. Campbell) 5 Passing Breeze (J. Marino) 6 Meadowlark Apache (B. Grundy) 7 One Tuff Cowboy (J. Gray) 8 Minettas Badboy (T. Remillard) 9 Cenalta Magic (R. Goulet) ae Saltwater Cowboy (R. Schneider) Sixth Pace, purse $5,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Phoenician Gal (D. Mcleod) 2 Nakednakednaked (G. Hudon) 3 As Seely Promised (J. Jungquist) 4 Clintons Formula (B. Grundy) 5 Sign Ofthe Day (J. Campbell) 6 Wrangler Raine (J. Marino) 7 Keystone Vanyla (W. Tainsh Jr) 8 Minettas Nightstar (K. Clark) 9 Baby You Save Me (K. Hoerdt) ae Charm N Wits (K. Ducharme) Seventh Pace, purse $17,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Somethinsgoinon (K. Clark) 2 Cenalta Power (R. Grundy) 3 Shaker Boy (J. Jungquist) 4 Outlaw Beacon (J. Marino) 5 Mjjz R Us (R. Starkewski) 6 Arroway (J. Gray) Eighth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Howdidchado (J. Campbell) 2 Brandon Bey V (G. Hudon) 3 Blue Star Charger (J. Gray) 4 Caress Of Steel (J. Marino) 5 Western Chrome (K. Clark) 6 Silent Rescue (J. Chappell) 7 Kg Cody (B. Thomas) 8 Balzac Billy (J. Jungquist) 9 Outlaw Imasurvivor (K. Hoerdt) ae Hollywood Lenny (Q. Schneider) Ninth Pace, purse $17,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Outlawcoltfortyfor (B. Grundy) 2 Smooth Criminal (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Playbook (K. Clark) 4 Outlawtowerinferno (C. Kolthammer) 5 Cowboy Caper (K. Hoerdt) 6 No Fear (J. Campbell) Tenth Pace, purse $5,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Jellos Fellow (J. Jungquist) 2 Acesndeuces (B. Clark) 3 Hollywood Hotel (G. Hudon) 4 Burnt On Top (T. Remillard) 5 Promise To Lynette (J. Campbell) 6 My World (K. Hoerdt) 7 Sophio Hanover (B. Grundy) 8 Dealers Edge (K. Clark) 9 Location Baran (W. Tainsh Jr) Eleventh Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Red Star Jenny (K. Hoerdt) 2 Just Saucy (B. Thomas) 3 Gottobsexy (J. Gray) 4 Te Anau (D. Monkman Jr) 5 Sharon Blew Bye (B. Grundy) 6 Reservations Only (B. Clark) 7 Callmeaftermdnight (J. Campbell) 8 Dudes Bonnie (J. Marino) 9 Cantcatch P (J. Chappell) ae Market For Romance (K. Ducharme) Twelfth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Notacent Tobemade (G. Schedlosky) 2 Nevermissabeat (R. Grundy) 3 Hes Country (Q. Schneider) 4 Knickfree (J. Chappell) 5 Barona Ferrari (B. Clark) 6 Canaco Nolton (J. Marino) 7 Best Out West (B. Grundy) 8 Domino Theory (W. Tainsh Jr) 9 K B Hercules (J. Gray) ae Nf Star Power (D. Monkman Jr)

Transactions BASEBALL DETROIT TIGERS — Placed 2B Ryan Raburn on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sept. 11.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated OF Denard Span from the 15-day DL. National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Extended their player development contract with Huntsville (SL) through the 2014 season.

North American League SAN ANGELO COLTS — Acquired OF Braden Embry, C Zach Welch, RHP Matt Larkins and RHP Tommy Hoenshell from Abilene for future considerations.

BASKETBALL BROOKLYN NETS — Signed F Josh Childress.

FOOTBALL JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released G Josh Beekman.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed CB Coye Francis to the practice squad. Released WR Brandon Carswell, LB Nate Stupar and DT Vaughn Meatoga from the practice squad.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed WR Jeremy Ebert to the practice squad. Released C Chase Beeler from the practice squad.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Re-signed QB Kellen Cle-

mens. Released DT Darell Scott. Signed G Quinn Ojinnaka.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Traded DB Ricardo Colclough and a 2015 sixth-round draft pick to Hamilton for FB Darcy Brown.

Ultimate Indoor Football League FLORIDA TARPONS — Signed WR Cleannord Saintil.

HOCKEY COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned D Ryan Murray to Everett (WHL) and C Boone Jenner to Oshawa (OHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Assigned D Michael Caruso, F Andre Deveaux, G Dov Grumet-Morris, F Jean Francois Jacques, F Greg Rallo, F Casey Wellman, F James Wright and D Nolan Yonkman to San Antonio (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed D Jonathon Blum to a one-year, two-way contract.

ECHL IDAHO STEELHEADS — Signed F Jacob Cepis.

STOCKTON THUNDER — Agreed to terms with LW Matt Bergland, D Shawn Boutin and RW Kyle O’Kane.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 B5

Bergdahl not talking Bombers must find way to contain Stamps’ Cornish about championships

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton Eskimos’ Damaso Munoz, rear, tackles Calgary Stampeders’ Jon Cornish as Eskimo Chris Thompson, left, looks on during a CFL football game in Edmonton, on Friday, September 7.

The 31-year-old Ottawa native spent six seasons in Winnipeg before being told this off-season by former head coach Paul LaPolice the club was no longer interested in his services. Khan opted to retire

but never formally filed his retirement papers with the CFL, forcing the Bombers to release him.

Khan signed with the Stampeders last month as a free agent.

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Don’t ask RDC golf coach Scott Bergdahl to make any predictions heading into the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Northern Regional championships this weekend at Redtail Landing near Leduc.

The only thing Bergdahl will say is that his top recruit — Kyle Morrison — should challenge for the men’s individual title.

“Kyle gives us a strong base and he should be in the running for the Northern and ACAC men’s titles,” said Bergdahl, who has eight men and two women on the team.

“He also changes the dynamics of the team and their attitude.”

Morrison, who won the 2008 Central Alberta Amateur, is looking at his time with the team as a challenge, according to Bergdahl.

“I’ve talked with Kyle for the last five years and he wants to come in and help us win as a team,” said the veteran coach. “He wants to help develop the other players on the course and the team is comfortable with that. In fact just having someone of Kyle’s abilities on the team makes everyone want to be better.”

Morrison won’t be by himself as Dylan Goranson, Tim Dixon and Jeff Northcott are expected to turn in solid performances.

Dixon, who is coming off a broken finger won’t play this weekend, but will compete in the Southern Regionals, Sept.

22-23 in Lethbridge, as well as the ACAC Finals Sept. 30-Oct. 1 in Medicine Hat and the Canadians, Oct. 15-19 in Oshawa, Ont. “Tyson is around a three handicap and shooting in the 70s,” said Bergdahl, who sees the same from Northcott.

“He could be a sleeper,” he said. “He’s a very good player, but we still have to see how he competes in tournament play.”

Goranson is in his second year and is expected to be one of the top four.

Braden Oehlerking is also back, but is injured. Others on the men’s team are Connor Ablett, Tim Hannebury and Joel Carroll, who is also on the Kings basketball team.

“Joel is outstanding,” said Bergdahl. “He has raw talent and is mentally strong and very athletic. He picks the game up quickly and should be here a couple of years.”

The ladies team consists of Melissa Koster, who played two years ago, and Rochelle French.

“From what I see our ladies team won’t be overly strong, but then who knows,” said Bergdahl, who expects Grant MacEwan to be the team to beat in the north.

“If everyone plays up to their abilities we should be OK,” he said.

“The main thing is to pay attention to what we’re doing and put it together for two days.” drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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CALGARY — Jon Cornish has a tough act to follow.

His own.

Cornish leads the Calgary Stampeders into action against the struggling Winnipeg Blue Bombers today.

The six-foot, 205-pound native of New Westminster, B.C., was a one-man show in last week’s 20-18 win over Edmonton, rushing for a career-high 185 yards and a TD. That earned the 27-year-old running back his third straight CFL Canadian player of the week honour and fifth this season. Cornish also moved atop the league’s rushing standings with 827 yards, 147 more than Saskatchewan’s Kory Sheets.

A heady accomplishment, indeed, considering Cornish rushed for minus-1 yards on six carries in Calgary’s 34-8 loss to the B.C. Lions on July 28.

“Any time I can contribute to the offence in a meaningful way, I’m happy with that,” Cornish said. “I’m never satisfied with my own performance.

“We had a great team effort (versus Edmonton) but I think we can improve. We’re a young team and trying to improve every day.”

At halftime, Calgary will induct six new members on to its Wall of Fame. Players to be enshrined are Kelvin Anderson, Jeff Garcia, Rudy Linterman, and Gerry Shaw while Normie Kwong and Sig Gutsche will be honoured as builders.

Cornish is also chasing a piece of CFL history, looking to become the league’s first Canadian-born rushing leader since former Simon Fraser star Orville Lee achieved the feat in 1988.

Lee ran for 1,075 yards as a rookie with the Ottawa Rough Riders.

Lee joined a very exclusive group in ’88, becoming just the fourth Canadian-born player to lead the CFL in rushing.

The others were Kwong, Gerry James and Ron Stewart.

Cornish has run for 628 yards in his last five games after rushing for 199 yards in his opening five.

Not surprising, Cornish excels in games Calgary wins. He has averaged 118 yards rushing in the club’s six victories but just 29.3 yards in the Stampeders’ four losses.

The Stampeders also signed defensive end Stevie Baggs and receiver/kick-returner Jason Armstead this week, but neither is expected to play against Winnipeg.

Also absent for Calgary will be kick-returner Larry Taylor, who is third in CFL all-purpose yards. The Stampeders have placed him on the nine-game injured list with a knee ailment, likely ending his season.

Calgary slotback Nik Lewis enters the game needing just 77 yards to become only the second player in club history to reach the 10,000-yard plateau. Former slotback Allen Pitts, a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, is the other.

Calgary (6-4) is currently second in the tight West Division. The Stampeders are two points behind front-running B.C. (7-3) but just two points ahead of the Eskimos and Saskatchewan, who are tied for third with 5-5 records.

The Stampeders have won three straight and four of their last five.

They’ll face a Winnipeg team that has lost three straight and owns the CFL’s worst record at 2-8.

The Bombers haven’t won at McMahon Stadium since 2002, a span of nine games. They’re also a dismal 0-5 on the road this season and just 1-5 against West Division rivals.

Winnipeg is coming off a heartbreaking 2524 home loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, thanks to a controversial decision by interim head coach Tim Burke.

Quarterback Joey Elliott will get the start for Winnipeg despite the return of Buck Pierce.

Pierce has been out since suffering a foot injury against Edmonton.

The game will also be Calgary centre Obby Khan’s first against his former team.

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ENCARNACION BLASTS 40TH HOMER AS TORONTO AVOIDS SWEEP

BY GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 8 Seattle 3 TORONTO — Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion reached two milestones in Toronto’s 8-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.

He broke open the game in the fourth inning by hitting his 40th homer of the season, putting him over the 100-RBI mark for the year. Encarnacion didn’t hesitate when asked which number he’s most proud of.

“Not many people make it to 100 RBIs so that’s the bigger thing for me,” he said.

Encarnacion, who became the sixth major leaguer to reach the 100-RBI mark this year, belted a three-run blast off Mariners starter Felix Hernandez (13-8) in the five-run frame. He’s the eighth Toronto player to reach the 40-homer plateau, a feat that has been accomplished 11 times in franchise history.

“This is a very good right-handed power hitter,” said Jays manager John Farrell. “And he’s having one heck of a year for us.”

Encarnacion also moved closer to Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton, who led the major leagues with 41 homers entering play Thursday night.

“I knew I could get 30, but not 40,” Encarnacion said. “I never thought I could get to 40 home runs but that was part of my work in the off-season and I want to continue to do the same.

“I want to come back next year and try to hit 40 again.”

Adam Lind also homered for Toronto (65-77) and Henderson Alvarez (9-12) pitched seven effective innings for the victory. Hernandez lasted just four innings for Seattle (69-75) and tied a career high by giving up seven earned runs.

“That was terrible right there,” Hernandez said. “If you throw a ball in the middle of the plate, they’re going to hit it. It’s on me.

I have to do something. The last three starts have been disappointing.”

It was Alvarez’s 14th quality start of the season.

“He’s very happy knowing that

McKnight may play for Esks against Hamilton

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Toronto Blue Jays Edwin Encarnacion breaks his bat on a pitch from Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Felix Hernandez during first inning AL aciton in Toronto on Thursday. he pitched against one of the greatest pitchers and we got a chance to win the game tonight,” said a translator for Alvarez.

Relievers Brad Lincoln and Aaron Loup worked an inning apiece as the Blue Jays salvaged the finale of the three-game set in front of 13,756 fans at Rogers Centre. Jeff Mathis tied a career high with four hits as Toronto outhit the Mariners 13-7.

Lind gave Toronto the early lead with a two-run shot — his 10th homer of the year — in the first inning.

The Mariners got on the board in the next frame on a two-run double by Carlos Peguero. He hit a liner into left field that outfielder Rajai Davis misjudged.

Davis initially moved a few steps forward before turning around and stretching for the ball, which sailed past him and bounced off the wall.

Toronto’s defensive play picked up in the third inning.

Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C., tracked down a chopper near third base and made an off-balance throw across the diamond to nab Franklin Gutierrez by a step.

Second baseman Kelly Johnson

later showed nice range by diving to his right to come up with a ground ball and forcing out Kyle Seager at second base.

Davis also made a miscue on the bases in the fourth. After reaching on a single and stealing second, Davis ran for third when Mathis layed down a perfect bunt.

However, Davis bit on Seager’s fake throw to first and ran too far past third base. Seager turned and threw to shortstop Brendan Ryan, who applied the tag for the second out.

The Toronto bats came alive after the play.

Anthony Gose doubled to move Mathis to third and Lawrie drove them both in with a sharp single to right field. Colby Rasmus drew a walk before Encarnacion tagged a 1-2 pitch for his second no-doubt homer in as many nights.

Encarnacion also leads the Blue Jays with 102 RBIs on the season.

Seattle’s Dustin Ackley hit a solo shot to deep centre field in the seventh for his 11th homer of the year.

Infielder Carlos Triunfel doubled in the ninth inning for his first major-league hit.

Canada taking no risks in Davis Cup tie

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada isn’t underestimating South Africa in their Davis Cup tie.

Although Canada boasts a healthy roster comprised of its top players and the South Africans have been depleted by injury, the home favourite isn’t taking anything for granted with a spot in the World Group at stake starting today.

“We’re facing South Africa and their captain has to choose his players based on his situation,” said Canadian captain Martin Laurendeau.

“We’re playing guys who know how to play. It’s a best-of-five and we’re ready to face anyone.”

Kevin Anderson, South Africa’s highest-ranked player at 37th in the world, didn’t travel with the team to Montreal.

And on the eve of the tournament, South Africa captain John Laffnie de Jager learned he’d be without Rik de Voest, who has been sidelined with a wrist injury.

That forced de Jager to add himself to the team in order to meet the four-player requirement.

Slotted in de Voest’s place on the court is 21-yearold Nikala Scholtz.

“It’s going to be a great experience for him,” said de Jager. “Nikala is one of our top young guys so it’s a great opportunity for him. ... It is a big loss for us that Rick can’t play.

“It’s just something that happened and we’ve got to deal with it now.”

Scholtz, who plays for the University of Mississippi, will be making his Davis Cup debut when he faces off against Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., in the second of the singles matches on Friday afternoon.

EDMONTON — If it all works out, Brody McKnight will step onto a CFL field for the first time Saturday in Hamilton to give a leg up to an Edmonton Eskimo team that has lost its last two games on missed lastsecond field goals.

“I prefer kicking, but if the coach needs me to punt I can do that as well,” said McKnight after practice Thursday at Commonwealth Stadium.

“If they call on me, I’ll be ready.”

The 22-year-old Vancouver native was traded to Edmonton from Montreal Wednesday for kicker Derek Schiavone and two draft picks.

Edmonton head coach Kavis Reed said Grant Shaw will kick against Hamilton, but said McKnight may dress depending on how he performs in practice.

“From the stuff that we charted he was OK (in the first practice),” said Reed.

“We don’t expect him to be perfect right now because he just got off of a really, really, really late flight last night.”

Reed also said there’s a worry given that the 5-5 Eskimos are in a dogfight for a playoff spot and the new kid is, well, just a kid.

“Any time you put someone on who doesn’t have experience, who really hasn’t done anything in terms of kicking in this league — (given) the angles, the width of the field, (and) the 12th man — there are concerns,” said Reed.

The Eskimos have a lot of concerns heading into the matchup against the 3-7 Tiger-Cats.

The offence is sputtering and the kicking game is erratic.

The Eskimos are second last in points scored per game (23.8) and last in average yards passing per game (253.7).

Shaw has been handling field goals, punts and kickoffs since punter Burke Dales went on the ninegame injury list after hurting his plant foot against the Calgary Stampeders on Labour Day. The concern is the workload is too much for Shaw.

He shanked a couple of punts against the Stampeders in the Labour Day rematch loss last Friday and missed a 42-yard field goal attempt that would have won the game.

Edmonton lost 20-18.

Four days earlier, he missed a last-second 48-yard kick in a 31-30 loss to Calgary.

Asked about McKnight’s arrival, Shaw said it’s what’s best for the team.

“It’s just unfortunate that Burke got hurt. It has just brought about having to make some changes,” he said.

“For all of us it’s all about adapting and doing the best job we can.”

McKnight kicked for the University of Montana and was the top pick of the Alouettes in 2011. This year he was behind Sean Whyte after coming back from failed tryouts with the New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. “I feel more at home here than I did in Montreal, to be honest with you. It’s closer to home,” said McKnight.

He said he has Oct. 19 circled on his calendar, the day the Eskimos play the Lions in B.C. “My family is all there. I’ve got a lot of blood in Vancouver.”

He said he grew up watching and emulating kickers like Adam Vinatieri of the Indianapolis Colts.

Vinatieri became famous in 2002 with two clutch kicks in blizzard conditions to lead the New England Patriots to a controversial playoff win over the Oakland Raiders in what is now referred to as the infamous “Tuck Rule Game.”

Saturday’s game will be the first meeting between the Esks and the Ticats in 2012. Kerry Joseph will start for the hobbled Steven Jyles at quarterback.

It’s the third consecutive start for Joseph.

Tanguay doesn’t want to see another season erased NHL

CALGARY — Alex Tanguay doesn’t want to see another season of his career erased by an NHL lockout.

The veteran Calgary Flames forward, who turns 33 in November, was a member of the Colorado Avalanche when a lockout wiped out the entire 2004-05 season.

He’s holding out hope the National Hockey League and players can salvage this season as he nears the late stages of his career.

“I missed a year doing that,” Tanguay said Thursday.

“The lifespan of a hockey player is usually not that long and you want to make sure that you have as much time as possible to enjoy your sport.

“For me there’s a few years left. I don’t know how many. I certainly don’t want to go out and do what we did in 2004. I’m hoping that things will get resolved.”

Despite the fact that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated on Thursday that the upcoming season won’t start until a new collective bargaining agreement is in place, Tanguay has faith the two sides can still get a new deal done.

“I’m still crossing my fingers, still hoping there’s time,” Tanguay said at the annual Calgary Flames Celebrity Charity Golf Classic at the Links of GlenEagles in Cochrane, just outside Calgary.

Owners have asked players to cut their share of hockey-related revenue during a six-year proposal. Initially, owners sought to drop the percentage given to players to 43 per cent from the current 57 per cent. They have since amended that to a six-year proposal that starts at 49 per cent and drops to 47 per cent.

The NHLPA is reportedly offering a package that starts at 54.3 per cent and ends at 52.7 per cent.

“People can make their own observations,” said Tanguay, a veteran of 12 NHL seasons including four with the Flames. “We’ve all seen what the league has offered the players. Quite

honestly, we have full confidence that what we’ve been doing with (NHLPA executive director) Don (Fehr) and the way we’ve been proposing things is the right way to go.

“We’re trying to find solutions.

We’re just not trying to cut back and then in another six years we’ll have to cut back again. We’re hoping to fix the league’s problem and to help them.”

Although Tanguay admitted that he feels sorry for disgruntled hockey fans, he added that he still supports the players’ stance.

“If you look at it, I don’t think the players are being greedy in any way,” Tanguay said.

“Yes, we do make a lot of money. It’s the money we generate as well. You have to look at a little bit of everything.

“I feel very confident in the union and the job they’ve been doing. Hopefully we can reach a deal that’s fair for everyone and that’s profitable for the league and gets all the franchises success.”

Flames forward Curtis Glencross expressed his disappointment that Bettman and the owners have vowed to lockout the players if a new deal isn’t finalized before Saturday at midnight.

“We all love the game and we want to play the game,” Glencross said.

“Obviously it’s disappointing. We don’t like sitting out and being locked out. There’s a bunch more bigger issues than people know about that have to be settled.

“We’re trying to do it for the better of the sport in the future, not for the short term of it.

“We want to make sure that we can get everything figured out and have it set up so even guys five or 10 years from now have a better foundation.”

While Bettman was meeting with the media in New York on Thursday, Calgary general manager Jay Feaster was posing for pictures with golfers on the 10th tee at the Links of GlenEagles.

Afterwards, Feaster said he’s hop-

ing for the best in regards to the battle between the owners and the players.

“We remain optimistic,” Feaster said.

“That’s all we can do. We’re set for camp. As (Calgary coach) Bob Hartley said, ‘We can start at 2 o’clock this afternoon.’ We’re ready to go. We’ll just wait and see what happens with the negotiations.”

After working hard in the off-season to sign free agents like forward Jiri Hudler and defenceman Dennis Wideman, Feaster would like nothing more

than to see the issue resolved in time to open training camp on Sept. 21.

“We like the moves we made in the off-season. We like the free agents we signed,” Feaster said.

“We’re excited about a kid like Sven Baertschi coming in trying to make our hockey club and a guy like T.J. Brodie.

We’re obviously excited about all that stuff and our new coaching staff. We have a lot of reasons to be anxious to get going and we just hope that we get going on time.”

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ESPN’s SportsCenter reaches milestone NETWORK’S FLAGSHIP SHOW AIRES 50,000TH EPISODE, “IT’S CHANGED THE EXPECTATION OF EVERY SPORTS FAN”

BY PAT EATON-ROBB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISTOL, Conn. — Former ESPN anchor George Grande says that when he signed on to host the first SportsCenter in 1979, he had a feeling there might be a market for more than just the three minutes of sports people were used to seeing on the local news.

He was right. On Thursday, ESPN will air its 50,000th SportsCenter, the network’s flagship show of highlights, news and analysis that has had a major impact on the nation’s sports culture.

“It’s changed the expectation of every sports fan in the United States,” said Dennis Deninger, a former ESPN executive who now runs the sports communications graduate program at Syracuse University. “We now expect to see highlights from every game, wherever it is played. If there is something odd or strange anywhere — a triple play — we expect to be able to see it, and see it immediately. That’s what this show has done.”

It also has given the job of sportscaster national celebrity status, blurred some of the lines between entertainment and news, and in some cases had an impact on the sports themselves, said Pamela Laucella, the academic director of the National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University.

“When the show highlights a dunk, catch, touchdown or goal, athletes know they’ve made it when they’re on SportsCenter and the week’s top 10 plays,” she said.

Deninger said SportsCenter has also made foreign the idea of sitting down and watching an entire game on television to many viewers who have grown

up with ESPN, and few fans, he said, pick up a newspaper to read about a game anymore.

“Game stories are basically dinosaurs,” he said. “People have already seen that on SportsCenter. You have to do personal features and find different layers.”

Tim Brooks, a television historian and author of The Complete Director to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, said the show is the major reason ESPN was able to establish itself as the leading television destination for the sports fan.

“It became the reason to come back to ESPN between the games,” he said.

“It’s like their clubhouse, almost. It certainly changed the way sports fans consume sports. They now had a clubhouse and this is the inner sanctum of that clubhouse.”

When SportsCenter first aired, about 1.4 million homes had access to ESPN, according to the network. That figure is about 98.3 million today.

“SportsCenter represents this true north, a home base that fans can go,” said Scott Van Pelt, one of the dozens of anchors who have hosted the show over the years. “It’s just where you go when you want to know what happened and why it happened.”

But the show has also changed over the years, adding features such as the top 10 plays, and sponsored segments with various experts, often former athletes. It now often emphasizes analysis of the big game or big news story of the day over highlights packages. Van Pelt, who has been with ESPN since 2001, says he’s not sure that’s such a good thing.

“What will suffer as a result of that is the other results from the other games,” he said. “I don’t know what the

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The iconic SportCenter desk has changed many times over the years but it it has always served the same purpose which is to provide sports fans with their updates. The show produced it’s 50,000th episode on Thurday and has contributed to the sports culture around North America. balance is. I think if I were programming it, it would be far more highlights and far less of me talking.”

Mark Gross, ESPN’s senior vicepresident in charge of the show, said it will continue to evolve, especially as fans’ access to sports news keeps expanding across the Internet and from television to platforms such as phones and tablets.

He foresees a day when fans will be able to program a personalized SportsCenter, choosing the highlights and other segments they want to view.

“What we’re asking now is how do we take care of sports fans, whatever they want and wherever they want SportsCenter?” he said. “That’s the next step. That will be something to look for in the years to come.”

South Koreans So Yeon Ryu, Kang lead Women’s British Open HOYLAKE, England — So Yeon Ryu won the U.S. Women’s Open last summer in Colorado and backed it up with a victory last month in the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic.

The 22-year-old South Korean player made another big statement Thursday at Royal Liverpoool in her Women’s British Open debut, shooting a 2-under 70 for a share of the first-round lead with Haeji Kang.

“After I won (in Toledo), I was a little more relieved and that helped me a lot,” Ryu said.

“How can I say, even when I was winning the U.S. Women’s Open, a lot of people said it might be just one tournament or just a dark horse like that. But after I won the Toledo championship, I broke that.”

Coming off a victory last week in a Korean LPGA event, Ryu had five birdies and two bogeys in relatively calm conditions on the difficult links course.

“This is my first time played in England, so I never played this type of golf course,” Ryu said.

“It’s really tough, but fun. Always the first experience, really fun and a little tough, but I want to enjoy this type of golf course.

“Actually, Tuesday and Wednesday was so bad, so today feels like a really great weather.

But you know, in Korea it was a little really strong

wind, and a little different from this course.

This wind might not be a bad wind. I think today the weather was really great.”

The 2-under leading score is the highest in the first round since the tournament became a major in 2002, in relatively calm conditions.

The 21-year-old Kang, also from South Korea, had six birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey.

“I hit it pretty good out there,” said Kang, winless on the LPGA Tour. “My iron shots were just inside 20 feet all the time, so I could just putt it out.”

She hit 13 greens in regulation and needed only 27 putts in her morning round.

“Oh, it was much better this morning,” Kang said. “As soon as I made the turn, it started blow.

But I played yesterday the practice round with the rain, also, so I’m ready.”

Australia’s Karrie Webb, the tournament winner in 1995, 1997 and 2002, was a stroke back along with 16-year-old English amateur Charley Hull, Jiyai Shin, Ai Miyazato, Mika Miyazato, Stacey Keating, Lydia Hall, Vicky Hurst and Kate Kutcher.

“I think it counts for a little bit,” Webb said about her experience in the event. “But you’ve still got to go out there and hit the shot, and you’ve got to commit to the lines that you want to hit your shots on.

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... There’s a lot of links courses that there’s a side to miss on, and I don’t think this course, especially off the tee, there’s a side to miss on. You’ve just got to get up there and hit a good shot.”

Shin, the 2008 winner at Sunningdale, won the Kingsmill Championship on Monday in Virginia, beating Paula Creamer on the ninth hole of a playoff.

Two-time defending champion Yani Tseng opened with a 72. She played alongside Ai Miyazato and Creamer.

“I feel pretty good, first day of the tournament,” Tseng said. “I feel like I’m hitting so many good shots out there, making some good putts to save the par, and I’m very happy and very enjoyed playing with Ai and Paula today. It’s a four day tournament, just have to be patient on this tough golf course, and today maybe it’s kind of a good day to make some more birdies but I don’t think you want to try too hard out there, because the harder you try, the worse you get.”

Lydia Ko, the 15-yearold amateur coming off a victory three weeks ago in the Canadian Women’s Open, also shot a 72.

“This is one of the hardest golf courses I have ever played,” said Ko, the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history. “”But shooting even par is a pretty good start.“ The South Koreanborn New Zealander

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“I think some people say that I should be able to win again, but I mean, you never know,” ”You could be playing good the day before and not so good the day after, and I think that’s all about golf, you play every shot and every round. Yeah, they are probably expecting a big thing from me and yeah, but I’m not going to take that much interest. Just got to play my own game. It’s not like I’m going to play any better by thinking that they want me to play really good.“ Creamer had a 73.

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McDonald’s to post calorie count on menus COUNTS TO BE INCLUDED ON U.S. MENUS RIGHT AWAY, CANADA TO DEVELOP ITS OWN PLAN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — McDonald’s restaurants across the U.S. will soon get a new menu addition: The number of calories in the chain’s burgers and fries.

The world’s biggest hamburger chain said Wednesday that it will post calorie information on restaurant and drive-thru menus in the U.S. starting Monday.

In a statement to The Canadian Press, McDonald’s Canada spokesman Louis Payette wrote that with regard to nutrition information in restaurants, “the conversation has progressed differently in Canada than it has in the U.S.” “McDonald’s Canada is actively working with all levels of government, NGOs and industry stakeholders to develop an appropriate ‘Made-in-Canada’ solution to displaying comprehensive nutrition information that is easily accessible to customers prior to purchase,” Payette wrote.

He noted that McDonald’s Canada is a “longtime industry leader” in providing nutrition information, introducing its first Food Facts brochure more than 30 years ago. Payette says nutrition information is also available on posters, trayliners and selected packaging, as well as through an online nutrition calculator and mobile app.

McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Limited and its Canadian franchisees own and operate more than 1,400 restaurants across the country.

South of the border, the move to add in calorie counts on U.S. menus comes ahead of a regulation that could require major chains to post the information as early as next year.

“We want to voluntarily do this,” said Jan Fields, president of McDonald’s USA. “We believe it will help educate customers.”

In U.S. cities such as New York and Philadelphia where posting calorie information is already required, however, Fields notes that the information has not changed what customers choose to order.

“When it’s all said and done, the menu mix doesn’t change,” she said. “But I do think people feel better knowing this information.”

The chain also plans to announce that its restaurants in Latin America, which are owned by a franchisee, will start providing calorie information on menus in the spring. McDonald’s, based in Oak Brook, Ill., already posts calorie information in Australia, South Korea and the United Kingdom.

The decision to post calorie information in the U.S. follows the Supreme Court’s decision this summer to uphold President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, which includes a regulation that would require restaurant chains with more than 20 locations to post calorie information. The timetable for carrying out that requirement is being worked out.

Corporate Accountability International, which has urged McDonald’s to stop marketing its food to children, notes that the chain has fought efforts to institute menu labelling in local jurisdictions in the past and said its latest move was “certainly not voluntary.”

McDonald’s spokeswoman Danya Proud says the company didn’t support local efforts to require menu labelling because it wanted a national standard.

The posting of calorie information isn’t a magic bullet in fighting obesity but could have a big effect

over time, says Margo Wootan, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which advocates on nutrition and food safety issues.

“Obesity isn’t the kind of thing where one day you wake up and you’re fat. We gradually and slowly gain weight over time,” she said.

So even if only some people are swayed to make slightly better choices, Wootan thinks there’s a big benefit to providing calorie information.

Another upside is that companies tend to work harder to provide healthier options when they’re forced to display calorie information.

“It can be embarrassing, or shocking, so they end up changing the way the product is made,” Wootan said.

The move by McDonald’s could spur other restaurant chains to move ahead of the federal regulation.

Representatives for Taco Bell, which is owned by Yum Brands Inc., and The Wendy’s Co. did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A representative for Burger King Worldwide Inc. said the chain is waiting for further guidance from regulators before updating its menus.

McDonald’s is also testing healthier options for next year, such as an Egg McMuffin made with egg whites and a whole-grain muffin. The sandwich has Canadian bacon and white cheddar cheese and clocks in at 260 calories. It will be called the Egg White Delight.

The chain is also testing versions of the McWrap, which is a bigger version of its chicken Snack Wrap that is already sold in Europe. The wraps have sliced cucumbers and range from 350 calories to 580 calories.

Arts and crafts retailer battle brewing hance one another.”

DeSerres president Marc DeSerres said Michaels will only have a short-term impact on a few of its nearby stores.

“You always have to be concerned when someone with large means comes in your territory but I feel we are prepared,” he said in an interview from Paris where he was shopping for new products.

“We have a different offer, we’re based here, we’re Canadian-owned, we know the market and we adjust our stores based on the market.”

As a smaller company, DeSerres said it can bring in new products and follow trends much quicker than Michaels. While Michaels is strong in crafts, DeSerres said his stores excel at fine arts. They sell canvases made in Montreal, notebooks manufactured in Toronto and artist paints made in Canada. “(Michaels is) putting themselves close to Walmart so the selection is probably close to Walmart’s and they will probably compete more with Walmart and the dollar store than us.”

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Michaels Canada president Tom Making poses in this undated handout photo. A battle is brewing for arts and crafts customers in Quebec as North American giant Michaels is set to enter the province with the simultaneous opening of seven stores on Today. The move by the Texas-based retailer will put it in closer competition with homegrown De Serres, which has 18 locations in the province and 28 across Canada.

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MONTREAL — A battle is brewing for Quebec arts and crafts shoppers as North American giant Michaels prepares to enter the province today with the opening of seven stores.

The move by the Texas-based retailer will put it Responsibilities will include but not be limited to: in closer competition with homegrown DeSerres, • update project schedules which is opening its 18 location in the province and 28th across Canada.

• update ERP systems After three years of planning, Michaels will open • liaise with Project group to gather information stores in suburban locations in Gatineau, LaSalle, • supporting information flow to Production Lachenaie, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, St-Jerome, Vauand Project team members dreuil-Dorion, and Laval.

• provide customer with required information The move comes 17 years after it expanded into English Canada.

Preference will be given to those with a high level “We wanted to make sure we were 100 per cent of organization and experience in a fast paced, compliant to the rules and regulations of the Quebec manufacturing environment. Knowledge of Microsoft government and we wanted to make sure that we Projects software is an asset. were going to provide an unbelievable shopping exOnly applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted. perience to our customer,” Tom Making, president of Michaels Canada, said in an interview from St-JeanPlease forward your resume via fax sur-Richelieu. to 403-227-7796 or e-mail to He said Michaels translated 2.5 million words to ensure that its packaging and signage was trilingual hr@bilton.ca in English, French and Spanish to service customers in Quebec and the United States.

Michaels has invested $20 million in the Quebec stores, hired 500 workers and developed a new store prototype that includes better lighting, wall graphics and wider aisles. It has also signed up four Quebec vendors to supply books, stamping and scrapbooking materials.

Strata Energy Services, a fully integrated provider of oilfield services with a The Quebec stores special focus on Managed Pressure and Underbalanced Drilling, currently has will offer the same meremployment opportunities available in the following positions: chandising as its 92 other stores in Canada, but it will target the Quebec consumer with a larger yarn department, beading area and expanded framing section.

“The Quebec public is Special consideration will be given to candidates with experience in the a very creative customer in crafts, in fine arts and following areas: we offer that unique shop• Surface Separation and Recovery ping experience in all of • Compression our stores.”

• Nitrogen Membrane Generation Making said the ar• Rotating Flow Diverters rival of Michaels will “enhance” the market along • Engineering and Flow Modeling side the 104-year-old DeStrata Energy is committed to the training and development of its people and Serres chain.

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JOB PURPOSE: To build the sales and awareness of fine wine, beer and spirit brands through unrivalled service excellence inspired teamwork and substantive educational activity.

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• A high level of creativity, and good negotiating skills • Demonstrated strong entrepreneurial spirit • Ability to work to meet and surpass individual and team objectives • Ability to understand and quickly determine the needs of the customer • Ability to work independently in a team environment • Physically fit, and able to lift 22 kilograms repetitively • Good working knowledge of MS Outlook, Word, Excel

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Economic turmoil may have been pushing young people out of the workforce and sidelining them from their educational goals, but a report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development suggests Canada’s youth are faring better than most.

The organization’s “Education at a Glance” report found that 14 per cent of Canadians between 15 and 29 years of age were neither employed nor in education training, a measure commonly referred to as NEET. Canada’s numbers were below the international average of 16 per cent, a figure the organization said had been impacted by global economic turbulence.

The report was based on figures available from 2008 to 2010 — and the OECD said those trends are likely still rising due to more recent economic turmoil.

Canada’s NEET youth were almost equally divided along gender lines, with boys only slightly more likely to find themselves outside either the education system or the labour force.

The NEET measurement from the OECD echoes findings from Statistics Canada released last May. The country’s national data collection agency found only 13 per cent of the 6.8 Canadian youth qualified as NEET, continuing a trend that has stayed more or less static for the past two decades.

The OECD had previously stated Canada had the second-lowest NEET rating among G7 countries.

Tuesday’s report examined a variety of educational metrics for 42 countries worldwide.

Canada’s NEET rate was situated in the lower half of the report’s spectrum, but was higher than the figures for Netherlands and Luxembourg, who boasted NEET rates of seven per cent.

Turkey had the highest NEET rate at 37 per cent, a number that reflected the fact that more than half the country’s women were excluded from both education and work.

The OECD report repeatedly stressed the need for governments to step up investment in education if they hope to limit inequality and improve employment prospects for their citizens.

“Countries need an increasingly educated and skilled workforce to succeed in today’s knowledge economy,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said in a statement.

“Investing from an early age is crucial to lay the foundations of later success. High quality education and skills have to be among the number one priorities for governments, for economies and for societies. Supporting the poorest and ensuring equal access is another important pillar in an inclusive education policy.”

The OECD report flagged the average NEET rate as a particularly telling measure of a country’s future prospects.

The typical 15-yearold looking ahead 15 more years could expect seven years of education, 5.5 years of work, one year unemployed and 1.3 years out of the workforce entirely.

Although some in that last category were raising families, the OECD said, the high unemployment figures among young adults, especially in countries with low birthrates such as Spain and Italy, indicate a grave problem.

According to the report, the prospect of unemployment among the young is less dismal for those with more education.

It found that higher education reduced joblessness by eight per-

centage points among 20-24 year-olds and 6.7 percentage points among 25-29 year-olds.

The report found one major reversal: Young women, for the first time, are more likely than young men to finish high school, are outpacing men in entering university-level education, and are catching up even in vocational schools.

The gap was most pronounced in Iceland and Portugal, where women’s high school graduation rates were higher than men’s by 20 percentage points or more.

Teenage girls in OECD countries were also more ambitious than boys when it came to their future careers.

They were significantly more likely to expect jobs in high-status, professional careers. But relatively few envisioned themselves in engineering or computing, both fields that remain dominated by men.

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United way sets lofty goal $1.99-MILLION TARGET

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

LONGBOARD CRUISE TO BENEFIT HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION The 20 km Longboard Cruise is Saturday at Three Mile Bend at 76 Street & Riverside Drive. Proceeds benefit the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Registration starts at noon. The Cruise starts at 1 p.m., with prizes at 4 p.m. Entry fee is $30 in advance, $40 at the door, or free for $40 or more in donations. Raise $100 or more to qualify for prizes. To register or pick up your pledge forms visit Allrose Skate at #13, 5006-47 Ave.; West 49 at Bower Place Shopping Centre; Sport Chek at Parkland Mall; The Source at 150 37400 Hwy 2; Nomads at 4603 Lakeshore Drive, Sylvan Lake; or 360 Snow & Skate at 5016 50 Street, Olds.

For ore details at www. longforlife.ca

POSTER COMPETITION FOR CONSUMER RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS Young artists who want to test their creativity can enter a poster competition devoted to teaching them about consumer rights and responsibilities. The Alberta Consumer Champion Awards is open to youth from 15 to 18. Contestants can create an original poster and complete a research questionnaire on such topics as internet security, identity theft, buying a car, or use of credit cards. Youth can choose their topic from a list posted at www. servicealberta.ca or www.facebook.com/ youth consumerchampions The deadline for entry is Nov. 30. Entrants are eligible for awards of $250, $500 or $1,000.

For more details about the youth poster contest or consumer affairs check www. servicealberta.gov. ab.ca

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United Way of Central Alberta has set an ambitious $1.99-million goal this year and hopes to snap a three-year streak of coming up just short of targets.

Campaign co-chair Buck Buchanan expressed confidence that the latest drive — which has already raised $151,565 — will top the mark.

“I think (co-chair John Knoch) and myself think that it’s very do-able and probably, hopefully we can exceed that,” said Buchanan, following the campaign kickoff that drew 400 people to the Sheraton Red Deer on Thursday.

This year’s goal is up from last year despite the 2011 campaign falling $25,000 short of the $1.96 million goal.

Buchanan said that this campaign will approach past supporters who have dropped off in recent years and encourage them to contribute again.

United Way’s research has shown recent campaigns are raising almost the same amount of money but from half as many donors.

Buchanan said a lot of that has to do with the economic slowdown.

“But in a lot of instances, maybe we’ve taken them for granted a little bit, too. A lot of times it’s just the ‘ask,’” said the Red Deer city councillor, who donned a kilt, cowboy hat and United Way T-shirt to rally the crowd.

“If we can get out and then make the ask, possibly we can get some of the people back.”

These days, he added, many companies are inundated with fundraising requests, so United Way will be making sure the community knows about its contributions.

Last year, 107,000 people in Central Alberta were helped by programs and services supported by United Way. Knoch said 19,000 youth and 17,000 seniors were helped through last year’s fundraising campaign.

Another 16,000 people received clothing, shelter and other support.

“Despite the wealth in our region many people have unmet needs,” he told the

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United Way Central Alberta CEO Robert Mitchell addresses the audience during the launch of the 2012 United Way campaign at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer on Thursday. crowd.

Several inspirational videos were shown to the crowd, including one in which recipients of United Way support thanked donors personally.

Former David Thompson Health Region president John Vogelzang and Red Deer College past-president Ron Woodward also delivered addresses.

Woodward evoked hockey great Wayne Gretzky and his adage that you miss 100 per

cent of the shots you never take, “Take Gretzky’s advice: Inspire change in your community by your actions,” he said.

United Way of Central Alberta was established in 1965 and has invested more than $22 million in communities.

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BATTERY DRIVE Kerry Wood Nature Centre programs coordinator Todd Nivens is inviting all area schools to participate in the fourth annual school battery recycling drive which kicks off next week. The school that collects the greatest weight of batteries per capita will win planetarium programing for their school. Last year’s drive brought in about 900 kg of batteries from 16 participating schools. “Batteries contain compounds such as heavy metals that are dangerous to the environment,” said Nivens.

To participate in the battery drive competition or for more information, call the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 403-346-2010. The competition is hosted by the City of Red Deer and the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

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Olds College offers reward in horse incident

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

STALLION KILLED

Olds College is offering a $1,000 reward for information that would help police find the person responsible for the death of a valued stallion.

Sometime late Saturday or early Sunday, someone released several of the college’s stallions into a common area.

The horses began fighting, resulting in the death of one animal and injury of another.

Olds College released a statement late Wednesday afternoon announcing that it will offer a reward of $1,000 for information that leads to the identification of the person or people who turned the horses loose.

The stallions are part of the Equine Sciences program, which offers diplomas in areas such as equine reproduction.

Tanya McDonald, the college’s dean of Animal Science, said in the statement that the injured stallion is recovering.

Olds College campus, open to students and the public, has not experienced this level of vandalism in the 40 years since the Equine Science program was first established, said the college’s statement.

While considering it to be an isolated incident, the college is taking steps to

make sure nothing like this happens again.

Tara Gamble, president of the Alberta Equestrian Federation, has extended condolences on behalf of horse owners, breeders, riders and drivers.

“The AEF works closely with the college and their equine programs, and is often using the facility for our clinics,” said Gamble, whose organization has publicized the quest for information on social media.

“We would just like to show our support by passing along their announcement in hopes they can collect more information regarding the cause of this unfortunate incident.”

Working with the RCMP, the College has put up the reward hoping that it leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for what its officials have termed a “senseless act of animal cruelty.”

Anyone who has information that could assist the investigation is asked to call the Olds RCMP, 403-556-3324.

To remain anonymous, submit information online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe names municipal sustainability plan When it comes to sustainability, the City of Lacombe is taking the long view.

For example, the community is billing its process to develop a Municipal Sustainability Plan as Lacombe2040.

“Lacombe2040 will be the lens for all our decisions and how we do business in the future,” says Jeff Laurien, the city’s manager of planning and development in a news release announcing upcoming initiatives.

“Achieving the Lacombe2040 vision will only be possible with community-wide commitment, so we hope partners and citizens will get involved so they too can take ownership of the direction being charted for Lacombe.”

A pair of focus groups have been organized to discuss the community’s future along with consultants hired for the project at city hall on the morning of Sept. 21.

A public kick-off event has been scheduled for later the same day at the Lacombe Memorial Centre from 7 to 9 p.m. Residents will learn about the process and hear about success stories from other communities such as Calgary.

The following day, public workshops will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Memorial Centre and will look at sustainability and its effects: natural areas, food and agriculture, homes and neighbourhoods, the local economy, health, buildings and heritage sites, transportation, infrastructure, culture, education and leisure.

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Agency rebukes Iran

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

File photo by THE ASSOCIATTED PRESS

A helicopter hovers over the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul in the Arabian Sea. The Pentagon ordered two Navy destroyers to the Libyan coast Wednesday. Officials said the ships, the USS McFaul and USS Laboon carry Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Libya says militants carried out Benghazi attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BENGHAZI, Libya — The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador, was an organized two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and U.S. security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday.

Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister, said the attacks Tuesday night were suspected to have been timed to mark the 9-11 anniversary and that the militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film as cover for their action.

Infiltrators within the security forces may have tipped off militants to the safe house location, he said.

He said an unspecified number of militants suspected of taking part in the attack have been arrested and that others were being closely monitored by police to see whether they are linked to a group. He refused to elaborate.

Ambassador Chris Stevens and another American were killed in the consulate during the initial violence, as plainclothes Libyan security were evacuating the consulate’s staff to the safe house about a mile away, el-Sharef said.

The second assault took place several hours later and targeted the safe house — a villa inside the grounds of the city’s equestrian club — killing two Americans and wounding a number of Libyans and Americans.

El-Sharef, who was running the Interior Ministry’s operations room commanding security forces in the city, gave The Associated Press an account of the night’s chaotic events.

The crowd built at the consulate — a one-story villa surrounded by a large garden in an upscale Benghazi neighbourhood — in several stages, he said. First, a small group of gunmen arrived, then a crowd of civilians angry over the film. Later, heavily armed men with armoured vehicles, some with rocket-propelled grenades, joined, swelling the numbers to more than 200.

The gunmen fired into the air outside the consulate. Libyan security guarding the site pulled out because they were too few. “We thought there was no way for the protesters to storm the compound, which had fortified walls,” he said. El-Sharef said Libyan security advised the Americans to evacuate at that point, but he says the advice was ignored. There was shooting in the air from inside the consulate compound, he said.

At this point, he said, the crowd stormed the compound. The consulate was looted and burned, while plainclothes security men were sent to evacuate the personnel.

Stevens, he said, is likely to have died of asphyxiation following a grenade explosion that started a fire, el-Sharef said. Ziad Abu Zeid, a Libyan doctor to whom Stevens’ body was taken, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 52-year-old Stevens died of asphyxiation.

U.S. officials have said attackers broke into the main consulate building

U.S. EMBASSY ATTACK at around 10:15 p.m. and set the compound on fire.

Amid the evacuation, Stevens became separated from others, and staffers and security that tried to find him were forced to flee by flames, smoke and gunfire.

After an hour, according to U.S. officials, U.S. and Libyan officials drove the attackers from the consulate.

The next attack came hours later.

Around 30 American staffers along with Libyans had been evacuated to the safe house while a plane arrived from Tripoli with a joint U.S.-Libyan security group that was to fly them back to the capital, el-Sharef said.

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VIENNA, Austria — The 35-nation board of the U.N. nuclear agency overwhelmingly rebuked Iran on Thursday for refusing to heed demands that it take actions to diminish fears that it might be seeking atomic arms, a move hailed by the United States as demonstrating international pressure on Tehran to compromise.

Only one country — Cuba — voted against a resolution brought before the International Atomic Energy Agency board and drawn up by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

Ecuador, Tunisia and Egypt abstained, while the 31 other nations supported the resolution.

Iran denies any interest in nuclear arms. But it has refused to comply with U.N. and IAEA demands to stop activities that could be used to make such weapons and to allow a probe of suspicions it worked on an arms program.

Robert Wood, the chief U.S delegate to the IAEA, said he hoped he board’s near-solid backing for the resolution would serve as a wake-up call for the Islamic Republic to heed international demands to replace its words with actions that prove it has no interest in nuclear weapons.

“What we are hoping is that this resolution will keep ... diplomatic pressure up and convince Iran that it has really no other option than to comply with its international obligations,” he told reporters.

But the resolution has its limitations, despite the broad support it received.

As 11 others before it, the document cannot be enforced by the IAEA board, and as such, may be shrugged off by Tehran, which already is ignoring U.N. Security Council sanctions and other increasingly harsh international penalties meant to force it to compromise.

Iran appeared unimpressed Thursday. The country’s chief IAEA delegate, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said pressure on his country came from “a few Western countries, especially the United States (which) are trying to change the IAEA into a mere U.N watchdog” trying to penetrate countries’ national security.

Because it is largely symbolic, the document is also unlikely to persuade Israel that diplomacy is working. Israel views a nuclear-armed Iran as a mortal threat, citing Iran’s persistent calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, its development of missiles capable of striking Israel, and Iranian support for Arab militant groups.

Israeli government leaders have become increasingly strident in suggesting that only military action will stop Iran from getting nuclear arms. For the six powers sponsoring the resolution, the onus at the Vienna meeting was thus to prove that unified international diplomatic pressure could still be exerted on the Islamic Republic — even if it was largely symbolic.

Israeli chief delegate Ehud Azoulay questioned whether the resolution would have its intended effect, telling the board that “Iran’s race towards the nuclear bomb has not been slowed down by wellmeaning resolutions.”

Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

But it refuses foreign offers of reactor fuel if it stops making its own through uranium enrichment.

Enriching uranium is a process that worries the international community because it could be used to arm nuclear warheads too.

The IAEA also suspects that Iran has worked secretly on nuclear arms — allegations Iran dismisses as based on fabricated U.S. and Israeli intelligence.

The six powers behind the resolution included Russia and China — which often speak out against harsh punishment for Iran — as well as the United States, Britain, France and Germany, and Western diplomats described the backing of Moscow and Beijing for the resolution as an example of unity.

In exchange, however, the four Western powers had to settle for compromise language in the text of the resolution, which was weaker overall than the last one in November.

While expressing “serious concern” over continued Iranian uranium enrichment in defiance of the U.N. Security Council, the six nations say they back the “inalienable right” of countries that have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

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Loonie lifts on Fed move LONGER-TERM IMPACT LIKELY GOOD FOR CANADIAN GROWTH

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BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS

NYMEX Ngas $3.024US ▼ -0.039

OTTAWA — Within seconds of the noontime announcement by the U.S. central bank that it was taking yet more extraordinary measures to rescue the American economy, the news hit home in Canada.

Immediately stock markets and the loonie started to climb, the latter easily surpassing another milestone above US$1.03.

The rally was somewhat remarkable given that the move had been long telegraphed, but it also demonstrated how quickly and directly U.S. policy impacts its northern neighbour.

Canadian economists mostly praised the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s, but there was a variety of views of what it ultimately means to Canadians.

FINANCIAL Canadian dollar $1.0327US ▲ +0.87 Prime rate 3% Bank of Canada rate 1% Gold $1,772.10US +38.40

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SMALL BUSINESSES OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SUCCESS TORONTO — A new poll of small Canadian businesses suggests that a majority are optimistic about their prospects for success and many plan on expansion, despite a challenging economic climate.

The survey comissioned by CIBC finds that 85 per cent of small business owners are optimistic about the future success of their company. And nearly half — 43 per cent — say they plan to expand their business within the next three years. The poll by Leger Marketing finds nearly six-in-ten business owners in the start-up phase plan on expanding.

That’s nearly double the number of established business owners who say they plan on growing.

Businesses in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan were among the most likely to want to expand, while businesses in Ontario were least likely to be planning an expansion.

TELUS WARNS CRTC ABOUT BELL DEAL FOR ASTRAL MONTREAL — Bell would have too much control over content and the potential to negatively affect consumers and competitors if it’s allowed to buy Astral Media, Telus Corp. said Thursday.

Telus was the latest telecom rival to tell the CRTC that Bell’s acquisition of the speciality TV channel and radio broadcaster shouldn’t be allowed, or if it is approved it must have conditions and restrictions. “Consumers want to buy rights for all content on all platforms,” Telus executive Ann Mainville-Neeson said Thursday after making her company’s case to the broadcast regulator.

“They want to watch TV on their TV, on their mobile devices, on their tablets, on their laptops.

When Bell goes out to the studios, it buys content rights that way and we want to be able to buy them from Bell in that way and from other vertically integrated companies.”

Telus said Bell (TSX:BCE) is trying to sell its content in pieces, making negotiations more difficult and expensive.

— The Canadian Press

Friday, Sept. 14, 2012

At the outset, there is no doubt Bernanke has made it more difficult for his northern counterpart, Mark Carney, to maintain his monetary tightening bias in the face of the U.S. central bank opening up the money spigot, they say.

Not only did Bernanke extend his current quantitative easing program, but he added to it by promising to buy up US$40 billion in mortgage-backed securities each month, and projected further — to mid 2015 — his forecast on when he might be ready to start hiking interest rates. The U.S. dollar plunged on the news, while other currencies, including the loonie, gained momentum.

“This makes hawkish policy talk by the Bank of Canada totally inappropriate at this juncture,” said Derek Holt, vice-president of economics with Scotiabank.

The Bank of Canada said there would be

no public reaction to the Fed. The Canadian central bank will be constrained, said Holt, because it will fear further strengthening of the dollar could deal a death blow to exporters. Canada set a record for monthly trade deficits in July with a $2.3 billion shortfall, the dollar being partly blamed for making some goods too expensive in foreign markets.

That in conjunction with the air being let out of the housing bubbles in Vancouver and Toronto, Holt said the short-term risk is that the economy may stall in the upcoming quarter.

But the longer-term effect on Canada will likely depend on whether Bernanke’s latest move and implied pledge to do whatever he can to boost job creation in the U.S. succeeds.

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Yukon firm turns plastic into oil

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WHITEHORSE — Diverting plastic from landfills and turning it into oil is no longer just a pipe dream in the Yukon.

A machine invented in Japan has been installed in a Whitehorse recycling plant that can chew through 240 kilograms of plastic every day and produce enough oil to heat about 70 homes.

The technology is suited to northern Canada, where most homes are heated with oil-burning furnaces.

The contraption, which is the first of its kind in North America, looks like a mad scientist’s workshop and takes over an area roughly the size of a pool table at the warehouse at P&M Recycling.

Plastic that has been cut into coarse granules is fed into a trough, moves through various tubes and chambers until it turns into a gas and is cooled.

At the end, a light-coloured oil drips from a spigot into a receptacle.

The machine processes about 10 kilograms of plastic, producing about 10 litres of oil hourly, and can run continuously.

The oil that comes out is a blend of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and some heavy oils.

It can be fed directly into an oil furnace, or could be processed further into something that could go straight into a diesel engine.

The only other byproducts include a tiny bit of carbon residue, carbon dioxide and water vapour. The carbon dioxide emitted is equivalent to about four humans

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Japanese inventor Kiyoshi Nakajima stands next to his invention which turns plastic into oil, in Whitehorse on Tuesday. It was installed at Whitehorse’s P&M Recycling for a yearlong test project. It can chew through 240 kilograms of plastic every day and produce enough oil to continuously heat about 70 Yukon homes. breathing normally.

When Yukon innovator Andy Lera first heard about the machine, he thought it might be too good to be true.

“I looked at it and I thought, can this really exist, can this be true, can this process really work? Plastic, it comes from oil, but can we turn it back into oil?”

Lera experimented with his own smallscale plastic processor, which he admits was not particularly efficient or safe, but it proved that the plastic-to-oil process worked.

He found a company in Japan that promised its machines could do the same thing, efficiently and on a large scale.

With a little more research, Lera discovered how beneficial the technology would be for the Yukon.

“During the process of studying it, what I found out was that there are problems in

Volatile gasoline prices head lower after recent spike

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Pump-panicked motorists in Canada might be breathing a little easier after this week’s sudden spike in gasoline prices — but experts fear price shocks will continue in coming days as commodity traders speculate about economic stimulus south of the border.

The cost of a litre of gas was expected to drop significantly after Wednesday’s jarring increase, according to tomorrowsgaspricestoday.com, a consumer-oriented website that monitors changes in fuel prices.

Pump prices were expected to fall by anywhere from five to seven cents per litre early Friday, depending on the region, said Dan McTeague, a former Liberal MP and longtime gas-price watchdog who operates the website.

Wednesday’s increase was the result of little more than energy-producer price gouging, McTeague declared, noting that producers are likely to back off because there’s nothing to justify the jump.

“The rapid rise without much explanation had more to do with profit-making by Canada’s major oil companies, who constitute a veritable monopoly,” McTeague said. “(They) were clearly jumping the gun on what news might have been developing in the United States with an anticipated decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve.”

In fact, the Fed did move Thursday, unleashing a series of open-ended actions designed to make it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow and spend.

Gasoline markets reacted by moving slightly lower.

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Condo project in southeast going ahead

BY ADVOCATE STAFF An upscale condominium project in southeast Red Deer that faltered during the economic downturn is moving forward.

Venu Urban Residences will be the site of an open house this Saturday, with units in the project open for viewing.

Launched in 2006 as a $30-million project with amenities like a resident chef, movie theatre and wine bar, the development suffered from poor sales after the recession hit.

Carrie Smith, a spokesperson for developer Lancaster Developments, said Phase 1 is now complete. It consists of a three-storey building with approximately 100 units, including a number of two-storey suites.

Seven townhouses, or “coach homes,” were

also built as part of the first phase.

Smith said many of the units are now owner-occupied, with others being rented out. About 10 remain vacant.

All of the coach homes have been sold, she added.

Design work on Venu’s second and third phases are now underway, said Smith.

In addition to a chef and movie theatre, the development boasts a fitness facility with a personal trainer and massage therapist. It also offers concierge service.

“They’ll do anything, from your faxing to your dry-cleaning — whatever you need,” said Smith.

Residents also belong to a Vendor VIP program, which entitles them to discounts at a number of local businesses.

Saturday’s open house will take place from noon to 5 p.m. at 2660 22nd St.

our recycling stream,” Lera said.

“We all think it’s good to recycle, it’s good to recycle plastic. But in reality, when you go down and look at it, and find out that a lot of our plastic is being shipped out, it goes to China, it goes to India and the processing out there is not very clean.”

Lera’s idea came to life thanks to funding from Cold Climate Innovation at the Yukon Research Centre and the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, in partnership with P&M Recycling.

They bought the machine for about $200,000 through a distributor and modified it to function in a cold climate.

The goal of this pilot project was to give P&M Recycling the ability to process plastics onsite, rather than sorting it and trucking it south, while producing enough energy to heat the 55-square-metre recycling centre.

Rural development conference slated for Olds College next month

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Olds College will be the site of a national conference next month that will focus on rural community development.

Creating Rural Connections will run Oct. 11 to 13 at the college, with a trade show and presentations from a number of highprofile speakers.

These include Peter Kenyon, who has worked with more than 1,000 communities in Australia and beyond; Rob Greenwood, executive director of the office of engagement for Memorial University of Newfoundland; Cornelia Flora, a professor of sociology and agriculture and life sciences at Iowa State University; June Holley, who coaches organizations in creating healthier networks; and Dave Ivan, state specialist for the community and economic development program at Michigan State University.

The Alberta Rural Development Network, which is a partnership of Alberta’s 21 public colleges, universities and technical institutes — including Red Deer College and Olds College — is hosting the conference in partnership with Olds College and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation.

The network’s mandate is to support rural development in Alberta and help rural communities grow through learning.

The cost for registrations after today is $325, or $175 for one day only.

For more information, or to register, go online to the Alberta Rural Development Network website at www.ardn.ca and click on Creating Rural Connections 2012 under News & Events.

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MARKETS Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 101.47 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 75.70 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.36 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.80 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.12 Cdn. National Railway . . 90.25 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 83.16 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 3.90

Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 67.08 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.01 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.10 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.43 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 38.60 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.52 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.95 General Motors Co. . . . . 25.53 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.36

Research in Motion. . . . . . 7.19 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 36.45 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.05 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.70 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.26 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.22 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.67 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 71.57 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.45 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 34.84 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.47 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.83 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.93 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 50.90 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.14 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 17.52 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 40.32

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve delivered on expectations for more help keeping the fragile economic recovery going.

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 127.54 points to 12,360.16 after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it will spend $40 billion a month on a new round of bond purchases to boost the weak economy, and has not set an end date.

The money will be spent on mortgage backed securities to keep interest rates low, encourage lending and support the slow recovery of the housing sector.

The bank will also continue to buy long bonds under its socalled twist program, leaving them buying a total of US$85 billion per month for the balance of the year under the two programs.

The Fed also says it will keep buying more bonds until the job market shows substantial improvement.

That could take awhile as the Fed also has lowered its outlook for growth this year, saying growth will be no stronger than two per cent this year, down from a 2.4 per cent forecast in June.

However, it also expects growth to accelerate next year as much as three per cent, up from June’s forecast of as much as 2.8 per cent. For 2014, the Fed projected growth between three and 3.8 per cent.

“The question is, how much of an effect it’s eventually going to have but right now everybody is buying it,” said John Johnston, chief strategist at Davis Rea Ltd. “It’s not going to have a huge impact on the economy but it will certainly have a big impact on the markets.”

The TSX Venture Exchange climbed 20.25 points to 1,302.89.

New York markets shot higher to multi-year highs with the Dow Jones industrials up 206.51 points to 13,539.86.

The Nasdaq composite index jumped 41.52 points to 3,155.83, and the S&P 500 index was 23.43 points higher to 1,459.99.

The Canadian dollar gained 0.87 of a cent to a fresh 13-month high of 103.27 cents US in the wake of the Fed announcement.

The stimulus program involves quantitative easing, which sees the central bank print more money to fund the bond purchases, which in turn weakens the currency.

The loonie has surged in value against the U.S. dollar since last week, up 2.35 cents since last Wednesday, after European Central Bank president Mario Draghi announced the ECB would buy government bonds to hold borrowing costs down the most vulnerable eurozone members. And the greenback further weakened over the last week as speculation grew the Fed was prepared to launch a third round of stimulus, particularly after August job creation figures disappointed even modest expectations.

The Fed left interest rates near zero and said rates wouldn’t budge until mid-2015 at the earliest.

In two previous bond-buying programs, the Fed bought more than US$2 trillion of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the 2008 financial crisis.

At a later news conference, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the bank doesn’t have a particular number in mind for the unemployment rate to fall to before ending this round of stimulus.

He said the Fed is looking for a sustained improvement in the labour market, and it hasn’t seen that yet.

The gold sector led TSX

COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.28 First Quantum Minerals . 22.78 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.00 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.65 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 50.74 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.58 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.22 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.71 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 31.44 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.64 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.50 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 48.96 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.42 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 44.15 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.82 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.76 Canyon Services Group. 11.28 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.97

CWC Well Services . . . . 0.660 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.61 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.45 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 91.23 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 36.44 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.820 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.83 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 47.32 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.50 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.92 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.94 Penn West Energy . . . . . 15.51 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.88 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.77 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . 10.99 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.18 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.98 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.35 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.04

gainers, up almost four per cent as December bullion gained $38.40 to US$1,772.10 an ounce as buyers bought into the precious metal as a hedge against inflation. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) was up $1.57 to C$40.32 while Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) jumped $1.99 to $44.

The base metals sector rose 2.5 per cent with December copper ahead two cents at US$3.71 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) rose 82 cents to C$31.44 and First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) climbed 70 cents to $22.78.

The energy segment was up 1.5 per cent while the October crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed up $1.30 to US$98.31. Prices advanced after attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya sparked new worries about unrest in the Middle East. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) advanced 86 cents to $32.82 and Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) gained 88 cents to C$34.97.

The TSX financial sector also provided lift to the market as Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) gained 56 cents to $12.14 while Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF) was up 56 cents to $23.63.

The tech sector led decliners.

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking satellite technology company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) to shed some more light on its US$875-million takeover bid for California-based Space Systems/Loral Inc. The deal, which the company has called “a game changer” will boost MacDonald, Dettwiler’s role as a supplier of commercial communications satellites. MacDonald, Dettwiler shares lost $3.17 or 5.89 per cent to $50.65 on top of a seven per cent slide on Wednesday.

In other corporate news, shares in travel company Transat AT Inc. (TSX:TRZ.B) surged 91 cents or 22.8 per cent to $4.90 as it reported quarterly profit of $9.4 million or 25 cents a share, compared to a year ago loss of $2.8 million. Revenue was down three per cent from a year earlier to $909.1 million.

Empire Company Ltd. (TSX:EMP.A) says its first-quarter profit rose to $108.9 million or $1.60 per share, up from $89.2 million or $1.31 per share a year earlier. The Nova Scotia-based company is best known for its Sobeys grocery stores but it also is involved in other retail operations, movie theatres and real

Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.67 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 58.15 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 53.44 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.03 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.23 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 27.95 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 22.11 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.23 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 58.85 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 12.14 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.59 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.02 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 55.75 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 23.63 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.46

estate. Revenue for the company was up 9.7 per cent to $4.56 billion, thanks in part to the acquisition of 236 retail gas locations and convenience stores.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing: Canola: Nov.’12 $4.40 higher $646.10; Jan ’13 $4.50 higher $650.00; March ’13 $4.20 higher $650.30; May ’13 $4.20 higher $638.80; July ’13 $4.00 higher $630.10; Nov. ’13 $2.50 higher $567.50; Jan. ’14 $2.50 higher $570.00; March ’14 $2.50 higher $566.10; May ’14 $2.50 higher $566.10; July ’14 $2.50 higher $566.10; Nov. ’14 $2.50 higher $566.10.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $250.00; Dec. ’12 unchanged $255.00; March ’13 unchanged $258.00; May ’13 unchanged $259.00; July ’13 unchanged $259.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $259.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $259.50; March ’14 unchanged $259.50; May ’14 unchanged $259.50; July ’14 unchanged $259.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $259.50.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 252,300 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 252,300.

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Zack Fountain, Nintendo’s director of Network Business, discusses Nintendo TVii, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 in New York. Nintendo TVii collects all the ways users have to watch movies, TV shows and sports. This includes pay-TV accounts along with services such as Hulu and Netflix. The GamePad works as a fancy remote controller and will let viewers browse shows they can watch.

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still the world’s largest, would also have spill-over effects all aground the globe, which would be a positive on prices and demand for commodities that Canada exports.

A stronger American economy would ultimately strengthen its currency as well, which would reduce the pop in the loonie to a temporary market aberration and leave few scars on export industries.

In his news conference, Bernanke took pains to caution that his program, termed QE3 because it is his third kick at the can on quantitative easing, will help, but can’t work miracles.

In particular, he cannot offset the shock of the fiscal cliff, which is what would happen if warring But consumers should brace for more price politicians in Washington don’t get together this fall shocks in coming days, thanks to continued speculato extend programs and tax cuts helping keep the tion about the strength of the U.S. and European economy out of recession. economies.

“Monetary policy, particularly in the current cirGasoline prices shot up as much as 13 cents in cumstances, cannot cure all economic ills,” he told Montreal on Wednesday to a high of $1.53 per litre, reporters. although they dropped back a few cents by Thursday.

But Bernanke also said he believes the fiscal cliff There were smaller price increases elsewhere will be avoided, and projected stronger growth for Wednesday, including a spike of 3.4 cents a litre in the U.S. going forward — as high as three per cent in Toronto, where prices averaged 136.8 cents a litre.

2013 and 3.8 in 2014.

Aside from speculators playing with the market, At the very least, economists believe Bernanke McTeague warned, the real concern is a serious lack has forestalled the floor dropping out of the U.S. of refining capacity that could create a fuel shortage. economy. Just how much more growth he can get out of it is another question.

“My belief is that the Fed announcement is very bold, but I don’t D think this is a game I changer. It’s a positive, L but economic growth in B the United States will E still be gradual,” said R TD Bank chief economist T Craig Alexander.

But Alexander added if Bernanke is able to get a bigger bang for his injection of bucks, the Canadian economy would benefit from increased economic activity south of the border.

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TORONTO — High-end U.S. retailer Nordstrom is coming to Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver starting in the fall of 2014.

The announcement today in Toronto sees Nordstrom join a fast-growing field of foreign chains vying for coveted Canadian consumer dollars.

Officials from the Seattle-based department store chain and Cadillac Fairview say Nordstrom will be moving into space vacated by Sears and then renovated at Pacific Centre in Vancouver, Calgary’s Chinook Centre, and Rideau Centre in Ottawa.

A new store will be built at Toronto’s Sherway Gardens. The tentative timeline for the stores opening is; fall of 2014 in Calgary; spring 2015 in Ottawa and Vancouver; and fall 2016 in Toronto.

Vancouver will get the largest Nordstrom store, with three levels and some 230,000 square feet planned.

The Ottawa store will be two levels and approximately 157,000 square feet, the Calgary store two levels with approximately 140,000 square feet, and the Toronto store will have two levels with some 138,000 square feet.

“It’s exciting to finally have this opportunity to better serve our Canadian customers closer to home and we can’t wait to open our doors,” said Erik Nordstrom, president of stores for Nordstrom Inc. “While we’re fortunate to have many loyal Canadian customers who’ve shopped with us over the years, we recognize we’re new here and that we have to earn our customers’ business.”

John Sullivan, Cadillac Fairview president and CEO, called Nordstrom an “excellent fit” for all four locations.

“Not only will they transform our shopping centres, but enhance the Canadian retail landscape as a whole.”

Nordstrom says it will continue to explore opportunities to open more stores in Canada as well as Nordstrom Racks, its off-price retail division.

The retailer also named Karen McKibbin, who started at Nordstrom as a stockperson in 1985, as president of Nordstrom Canada. She’ll live in Seattle for the next year and then move to Toronto, the company said.

The upscale fashion retailer’s foray into Canada marks its first expansion into the international market.

Canadians can currently purchase items directly from Nordstrom’s website, with shipping fees that includes the cost of duties at checkout.

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Good news for better snooze Logging in enough deep, refreshing slumber boosts your mood and recharges your batteries, and it makes your RealAge at least three years younger.

And now there’s a whole roster of newly discovered benefits that may make you even younger, happier and smarter!

You’ll impress the boss: Topping off your “sleep tank� with seven to eight hours a night can put you in the running for that “employee of the month� award.

There’s evidence that the longer you fight to stay awake (if you are sleep-deprived) the slower you work.

Good sleep may help you stay employed. If it does, you’ll sidestep the eight-year biological age gain that happens if you lose a full-time job.

Your clothes will look better: We’re wowed by this number: 2 ½. That’s how many inches smaller your waist will be if you regularly get seven to eight hours of sleep.

A healthy amount of sleep fends off food cravings and controls levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which sends excess glucose to your liver, creating fat there and increasing omental fat (that’s deep belly fat).

Deep belly fat bathes nearby organs like your kidneys and liver with fat and inflammatory hormones, and boosts your risk for major agers like diabetes and heart disease.

You’ll get more bang out of your next flu shot: If you’re planning to get a flu shot this fall (and we hope you are), make sure you get enough shut-eye.

Lack of sleep reduces your immunity and boosts your chances 11-fold for getting NO protection from your vaccine.

Getting at least six and preferably seven to eight hours of sleep a night helps your immune system produce more antibodies in response to a vaccine, boosting your protection. (Sleep deprived?

For at least three days before you get the shot, make sure to take a multivitamin and get enough sleep.)

Protecting yourself from the flu also protects against complications (like pneumonia), which send 200,000 people to the hospital every year and kill 36,000.

You’ll avoid dangerous micro-naps: Not to be confused with beneficial power naps, these “now I’m aware; now I’m oblivious� episodes happen when parts of your brain switch off for a few seconds.

Yikes! This is a great reason not to drive tired.

So get enough sleep at night, when your body wants it.

Taking precautions behind the wheel, like being well-rested, makes your RealAge 3.4 years younger.

So, are you ready for bed?

Keep your room dark and cool, avoid caffeine

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On September 5, 2012 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Permitted Use Approvals Oriole Park

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Then try these additional strategies: Eat lean. Grilled fish with a side of roasted veggies could be your ticket to a good night’s sleep, if you eat them instead of fatty meats, chicken with skin or full-fat dairy.

Eating big doses of fat, especially at dinner, make your brain less sensitive to orexin, a hormone that rules your sleep cycle.

Invest in ear plugs or a white-noise machine — even if your room isn’t noisy. Just a little extra sound at night boosts your odds for bad sleep by 32 percent to 64 percent!

The hum of a neighbor’s TV, the whoosh of traffic in the street, a partner who snores a little -- sounds that are at levels no louder than a quiet conversation could interrupt your snooze.

Skip the scary stuff. Movies and TV shows that are violent keep kids up at night. And grown-up brains get rattled by disturbing sights, sounds and storylines too.

Keep it gentle at bedtime.

Get over this secret fear. Ready to fess up to a fear of the dark?

You’re not alone.

Half of all people with sleep problems share this phobia.

Your best move: Find a therapist to help you get comfy in the dark. And use a red-toned nightlight (it doesn’t affect your sleep center as much as other colors)!

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,� and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to www.RealAge.com.

You may appeal discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on September 28, 2012. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative & Governance Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On September 11, 2012, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Burnt Lake Industrial 1. Camdon Construction Ltd. – a 602m2 industrial building to be located at 59 Burnt Park Drive.

Golden West Industrial 2. Phoenix Construction Inc. – a 680.4m2 addition to an existing industrial building located at 6739-65 Avenue.

Johnstone Park 3. Carolina Homes Inc. – a 0.76 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage to be located at 38 Juniper Close.

Kentwood 4. N. Landers – a 5.47 metre left and 0.87 metre right relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage to be located at 119 Kirton Close.

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Whooping cough shots lose effectiveness quickly; another booster is considered NEW YORK — As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main reason: The safer vaccine that has been in use since the 1990s loses effectiveness much faster than previously thought.

A study published in Wednesday’s New England Journal of Medicine found that the protective effect weakens dramatically soon after a youngster gets the last of the five recommended shots around age 6.

The protection rate falls from about 95 per cent to 71 per cent within five years, said researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Research Center in Oakland, Calif.

The U.S. has had more than 26,000 whooping cough cases so far this year, including more than 10,000 in children ages 7 to 10. “The substantial majority of the cases are explained by this waning immunity,� said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.

In light of the findings and earlier, similar research, health officials are considering recommending another booster shot for children, strengthening the vaccine or devising a brand new one.

But “there’s nothing in the pipeline that’s close,� said Dr. Tom Clark of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that can strike people of any age but is most dangerous to children.

Its name comes from the sound youngsters make as they gasp for breath.

It used to be common, causing hundreds of thousands of illnesses annually and thousands of deaths.

Cases dropped after a vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, and for decades, fewer than 5,000 a year were reported in the U.S. Because of side effects that included pain and swelling at the injection site, fever and apparently, in rare cases, brain damage, the vac-

cine was replaced in the 1990s.

The newer version used only parts of the bacterium instead of the whole thing and carried fewer complications.

But cases of whooping cough began to climb, sometimes topping 25,000 a year during the past decade.

Also disturbing: The proportion of cases involving children ages 7 to 10 — most of them vaccinated — rose from less than 10 per cent before 2006 to nearly 40 per cent this year, according to the CDC. Dr. Nicola Klein and her colleagues looked at children ages 4 to 12 who received their health care through Kaiser Permanente Northern California from 2006 to 2011.

They compared 277 fully vaccinated youngsters who got whooping cough to similar, vaccinated children who didn’t.

The researchers found that the risk of getting whooping cough increases by about 42 per cent a year after a child’s last dose of vaccine.

The shortcomings in the vaccine did not be-

come apparent until recently, when researchers had the benefit of several years of data uncorrupted by youngsters who received the old version.

Health officials have long recommended that children get vaccinated in five doses, with the first shot at 2 months and the final one between 4 and 6 years, and receive a booster shot at 11 or 12.

Now there’s a growing consensus that something more needs to be done.

Ideas include somehow pumping up the effectiveness of the vaccine or developing a new one.

French scientists have been working on an experimental nasal spray vaccine.

Other ideas include administering the booster earlier than age 11 or adding another booster.

While some parents around the country have taken a stand against childhood vaccines, the outbreak is not being driven by unvaccinated children, according to the CDC. Most of the illnesses

are in vaccinated youngsters, officials said.

Dr. Maxine Hayes, health officer for the Washington State Department of Health, said it is important that people not mistake waning immunity for flat-out ineffectiveness.

The vaccine is “still the best thing we have,� she said.

And vaccinated people who get whooping cough don’t get as sick.

Omar Gonzalez of North Richland Hills, Texas, has become a believer in the vaccine, even though his fully vaccinated 11-year-old son caught whooping cough three years ago. “Imagine seeing your son gasping for air,� Gonzalez said. “This is really bad.�

Gonzalez, who runs an investment company from his home, spent weeks caring for his son and then got sick himself. “You don’t want this, man, I’m telling you. It’s scary,� he said.

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Rosedale 6. Built By Owner – a 0.2 metre relaxation to the maximum width to a proposed detached garage to be located at 104 Rutherford Drive.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on September 28, 2012. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

Clearview North Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan Bylaw Amendment 3217/E-2012 Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/Q-2012 Regarding an Affordable Housing Site City Council is considering two proposed amending bylaws: • Clearview North Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan Bylaw Amendment 3217/E-2012 proposes to replace a cul-de-sac designated for Single Family R1 development and an adjacent Multi Family R2/R3 Residential site with a new Multi Family/Residential/ Place of Worship/Assembly Direct Control District No. 33 designation. • Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/Q-2012 which proposes to rezone a four acre affordable housing site (Lot 1, Block 1, Plan 112 1863) from A1 Urban Development District to Direct Control District No. 33 to allow Multi Family Residential and/or Place of Worship/Assembly and other related uses.

Proposed Amendment to Land Use Bylaw 3357/2006

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The City of Red Deer depends on citizens to assist in shaping municipal policy. Have a positive impact in your community by volunteering as a member on one of the following committees: Community Housing Advisory Board Crime Prevention Advisory Committee Environmental Advisory Committee Greater Downtown Action Plan Steering Committee Heritage Preservation Committee Intermunicipal Subdivision & Development Appeal Board Library Board Mayor’s Recognition Awards Committee Municipal Features Naming Committee Municipal Planning Commission Public Art Jury Committee Red Deer Appeal & Review Board Red Deer Regional Airport Authority Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board Red Deer & District Family and Support Service Board (FCSS Board) River Bend Golf and Recreation Society

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Affected District: A1 - Future Urban Development District DC - Direct Control District

Proposed Amendment Map: 16 / 2012 Bylaw: 3357 / Q-2012 Date: August 7, 2012

The proposed bylaws may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

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5. F. Bradshaw – a 6.08m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage to a proposed detached garage to be located at 13 McCullough Crescent.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearings on Monday, October 1, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in the Santano Room, Red Deer Sheraton Hotel, (Formerly the Capri Hotel) 3310 – 50 Avenue, Red Deer. If you want your letter or petition included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Tuesday, September 25, 2012.

Otherwise you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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Mars rover Curiosity set to hit the road again

Study suggests friendly poke on Facebook may get more to polls

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This handout photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the surroundings of the location where NASA Mars rover Curiosity arrived on Sept. 4. It is a mosaic of images taken by Curiosity’s Navigation Camera (Navcam) following a ‘drive’ of 100 feet. building blocks of life.

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Since landing in an ancient crater near the Martian equator Aug. 5, the car-size rover has trekked more than the length of a football field, leaving wheel tracks in the soil that could be spied from space.

The most high-tech rover sent to the red planet, it spent the past month testing its instruments before embarking on a mission to examine whether the environment could have been hospitable to microbial life.

Mission manager Jennifer Trosper said the six-wheel Curiosity has “performed almost flawlessly” so far.

It still has to do a final check of its robotic arm and aim its camera to track one of Mars’ moons, Phobos, crawling across the face of the sun before hitting the road Friday night.

“The plan is to drive, drive, drive,” said Trosper of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $2.5 billion mission.

Curiosity is headed toward a spot called Glenelg where three types of terrain meet. Along the way, it will select rocks to study and scoop up soil. Within a month or so, it plans to use its robotic arm to drill into rocks.

The rover’s ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a mountain rising from the crater floor, but it was not expected to journey there until the end of the year.

From orbit, the base appeared to contain signs of past water, providing a starting point to search for the chemical

WASHINGTON — Facebook friends played a big role in getting hundreds of thousands of Americans to vote in 2010, a new scientific study claims.

Facebook researchers and scientists at the University of California, San Diego conducted a massive online experiment in the congressional election to test and measure the political power of online peer pressure.

They found that people who got Facebook messages that their friends had voted were a bit more likely to go to the polls than those who did not get the same reminder. And from there the effect multiplied in the social network, they reported in Thursday’s journal Nature.

The friend-prodding likely increased voter turnout by as much as 340,000 in the non-presidential election that voted in a new Republican congress, the scientists calculated. They said that it could potentially change the outcome of close elections.

“Our study is the first large-scale scientific test of the idea that online social networks affect real world political behaviour,” said study lead author James Fowler, a professor of medical

genetics and political science at the University of California, San Diego.

He has studied friend and social media influences on public health and politics over the past decade.

While pundits have pointed to social media-inspired revolutions in the Arab world, this is more verifiable scientifically because it is a controlled study comparing groups that had different inputs. It is the voting equivalent of testing real drugs versus sugar pills.

Outside experts say the new study makes sense and fits with other research about how effective get-out-thevote drives are, but say Fowler’s numbers may be a bit high. That’s because they factor in a large indirect effect, calculations which some didn’t find as convincing.

Nearly every American of voting age who logged into Facebook on Election Day 2010 was part of the experiment, even though they didn’t know it.

Most of them — more than 60 million — saw an announcement on top of their Facebook news feed: Today is Election Day. It showed how many Facebook users as well as their friends had clicked an “I voted” button and showed up to six pictures of those friends. It also linked to a list of polling places.

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Mohapatra favours cutouts, prints COLLECTION INSPIRED BY A MOTH

BY JOCELYN NOVECK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Bibhu Mohapatra was working on costumes for an opera in upstate New York not long ago when he saw an insect that fascinated him: a luna moth.

That graceful insect, he said backstage on Wednesday, inspired his Spring 2013 collection, in which he embellished both daywear and evening gowns alike with intricate cutouts, filigree-inspired prints, appliques and embroidery.

For daytime, a sleeveless white top had “drapes,” an almost winglike effect. It was paired with a steelcolored pencil skirt.

An onyx leather dress was enhanced by intricate laser cutouts. A sea green and sand-colored suede dress with silk inserts was one of the most wearable daytime looks.

But the prettiest short dress came in a dusty rose, with a hand-pleated chiffon skirt that seemed to float along the runway.

The look returned later in longer form, and equally romantic — a rose lace chiffon strapless gown with a hand-pleated skirt. Some of the embellished gowns seemed a bit too busy.

But a chartreuse and sand organza gown with

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A model with hair by L’Oreal Professionnel walks the runway at the Bibhu Mohapatra spring 2013 show, Wednesday, in New York. a hand-pleated skirt made a wonderfully striking impression: the effect was that of a swirling breeze enveloping the model as she glided down the runway.

In addition to the luna moth, Mohapatra said he was influenced by the tradition of silver filigree

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And as for that moth, the designer said it was the metamorphosis it goes through in its short life (it lives for only a week) that inspired him.

“It’s like the woman — she is constantly evolving,” he said.

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For many businesses, getting the right location can make the difference between success and failure. But even a wellestablished, successful business, when relocating, has to choose carefully.

This was the challenge faced by Leon Oosterhoff when his growing business needed a change in location. All Service Insurance Brokers was started by Leon Oosterhoff and his wife Connie in late 2000 with one additional staff member.

Today, the business has a team of 14 and specializes in Commercial Insurance including oilfield, trucking & transportation, contractors, commercial auto & property insurance, and much, much more. They can also handle all of your Personal Insurance needs so they are the one stop for all of your insurance requirements.

But the important distinction for Oosterhoff about his business is that “we are locally owned and operated. We

have a vested interest in making sure we have a good name. A lot of insurance brokerages in Central Alberta have been bought by large conglomerates and the local offices just have area managers.

My wife and I were both born in Red Deer and we know the community.

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Short story blossoms into novel

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Award-winning short-story writer Fran Kimmel turned out her first full-length novel by starting small.

The Lacombe-based author began penning a short story about a little girl named Rebee. “But I got so interested in her life that I couldn’t stop at the short story,” said Kimmel, who began thinking about how the same character would be seen through the eyes of others as she grows from a pre-schooler to a 16-year-old.

Those others — ‘IT STARTS SMALL Rebee’s misguided aunt, her Grade 2 AND BECOMES THIS teacher, a man she HUGE THING.’ meets at a campground and the — MATT BOWNES 13-year-old boy who MARKETING CO-ORDINATOR, NEWEST PRESS falls in love with her — ended up becoming narrators in Kimmel’s first novel, The Shore Girl, which is being published by NeWest Press in Edmonton.

The 225-page story concerns Rebee Shore and her mother, who live an itinerant lifestyle in different Alberta communities after something happens to upend their existence. Kimmel said Rebee doesn’t discover the “deep secret” in her mother’s life until near the end of the book.

“She learns why her mother is choosing to run and why they can never stay in one place for too long.”

NeWest Press’s marketing co-ordinator Matt Bowes said the “northern Gothic” tale was chosen for publication because of its interesting story line and perspectives. “It starts small and becomes this huge thing,” said Bowes, who believes Kimmel makes good use of the different narrative voices The Shore Girl, which hits store shelves this weekend, has already earned a positive review in Quill & Quire, which described the novel as a gritty family drama that’s rife with vulnerable characters and is “both raw and heartbreaking.”

Kimmel is pleased that her first foray into longer fiction is already resonating with people. The 50-something author is also “thrilled” to have it published by NeWest, which has launched other worthy efforts through the Nunatak First Fiction Series.

“They’re such a great publisher,” said Kimmel, who has previously had her short works run in literary magazines and periodicals.

As winner of The Calgary Foundation’s 2002 Brenda Strathern Writing Prize, Kimmel has been praised for defying predictability in stories that celebrate “the unexpected, the unusual . . . of the everyday.”

Her writing was described as cutting through the mundane and never succumbing to the neatness of closure.

Her short story Laundry Day was a 2010 finalist in the CBC Literary Awards, co-sponsored by Air Canada. The tale of a woman who’s considering a momentous decision while doing the laundry, was also published by a rural writer’s magazine and eventually selected to be the central story in a final exam given to graduating English college (CEGEP) students in Quebec.

Other Kimmel stories have been published in The Journey Prize Anthology in 2009 and 2011.

While the Alice Munro fan intends to keep writing short stories — perhaps turning out a published collection someday — she already has an idea for second novel.

“I found it quite luxurious to focus for a long time on the same set of characters,” Kimmel admitted.

“The process is the same (as writing short stories), but it’s nice to be able to concentrate on the same story for a longer period.”

Kimmel will read from The Shore Girl and sign

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Author Fran Kimmel of Lacombe with her first published novel. copies around Central Alberta this fall. She will be at the Lacombe Memorial Centre at 7 p.m. on Sept.

18, Innisfail’s library at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, the Olds library at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1, the Alix library at 3 p.m. on Oct. 3, and at 7 p.m. on the same day at the Stettler library.

Kimmel will also be at Sunworks in Red Deer at 7 p.m. on Oct. 5.

The Shore Girl is available from Sunworks, Chapters and Amazon for about $19.95. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Hallmark sentiments limit film’s appeal The Words Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG You would hope a movie titled The Words would take its storytelling seriously, and that’s the good news about this modern fairy tale.

The bad news is that there’s not much worth telling, beyond a few Hallmark sentiments about being the person you’re really supposed to be. Gravity can also bring you thudding to Earth.

The Words is actually three interweaving stories, which follow the lead of Dennis Quaid’s seamy narrator Clay Hammond, the film’s popular but not brilliant author of a book by the same name.

PETER As Hammond reads from HOWELL his novel at a New York City literary event, under the persistent gaze of a university student (Olivia Wilde) whom you just know will figure into it at some point, the stories within the story begin to unfold.

Bradley Cooper plays Rory, an unsuccessful, unpublished, and apparently untalented writer who is losing hope that he’ll ever made the grade. His industrious father (J.K. Simmons) and faithful wife (Zoé Saldana) are both starting to lose patience with Rory’s inability to man up and to accept his limitations.

Rory and Zoé go on a spirits-lifting visit to Paris, where Rory happens upon an old leather briefcase in an antique shop. Random purchase later leads to chance discovery, as Rory discovers the faded yellow pages of an unpublished novel tucked inside.

Not just any novel, but one of Hemingway-esque brilliance that can make strong men weep and women sigh — or something like that. Before you can scream “identity theft!” — Rory has attached his name to it, published it under the title The Window Tears, and commenced the life of instant authorial sensation.

Meanwhile, what of the mysterious old man (Jeremy Irons), who has been stalking Rory? Flashback to post-Second World War Paris, where his younger self, an ex-soldier with time on his hands, is bus-

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Bradley Cooper and Zoé Saldana in a scene from ‘The Words’. ily hammering out magnetic prose about the love he feels for the love of his life, a comely café waitress named Celia (Nora Arneszeder).

Alas, carbon paper is apparently hard to come by in newly liberated Paris, and the soldier’s brilliant literary career is short-circuited by capricious Fates, who play an awfully big role in The Words.

So does the unnamed old man, who isn’t the kind of guy to go gently into that good night, although he apparently could have given Dylan Thomas a run for his money.

“Don’t you know that words spoil everything?” a character says at one point. It’s a provocative statement, but one that’s hard to put much credence in, since we’re never given more than snatches of the MacGuffin manuscript that everybody is so caught up

in. There’s little hint of the lightning upon linen that the curiously titled The Window Tears is supposed to be.

Instead we get endless platitudes courtesy of codirectors and co-writers Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. What do we learn? That it’s bad to steal the work and identidy of other people. For this we need an oh-so-serious movie?

Klugman and Sternthal do manage a fairly good balancing act of their multiple stories — at least until everything just seems to end with a shrug.

“We all make choices in life; the hard thing is to live with them,” a character says in The Words.

Excellent life advice, but it won’t be hard at all to choose to skip this film and instead to look for a good book to read.

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Political thriller probes gender inequality in the Middle East TORONTO — Inescapable director Ruba Nadda, born in Montreal but raised for a time in Syria, is wracked with nerves each time she returns to the Middle East, worried she could be detained indefinitely or forced back to the unstable country in which she spent her teenage years.

The film’s star, Alexander Siddig, was similarly raised for a time in the Middle East, born in Sudan before political turmoil forced him to flee for the U.K. But unlike Nadda, he whisks through the region now relatively unburdened by concerns over his security.

There’s a simple reason for that.

“I’m a man — I really do have freedom in the Middle East,” the 46-yearold actor said in an interview Thursday during the Toronto International Film Festival.

“You’re going to get (hassled) by police and stuff at the airport, but you’re free. You’re free to do what you like.

You’re free to observe religion the way you please, you’re free to enjoy walking the street by yourself, with your friends, smoking out in public.

“Women can’t do any of those things.

Men rule the roost.”

And that’s just one of the undeniable truths laid bare in Nadda’s cerebral film “Inescapable,” which opens in Toronto on Friday before expanding to other Canadian cities next week.

The political thriller casts Siddig as Adib, a former officer in the Syrian military police who enjoys a considerably more comfortable family life now in Canada. Until, that is, he’s forced to return to Syria — and the pieces of a life he unceremoniously left behind — when one of his daughters goes missing there.

While the film’s central message concerns the unsettling, paranoiasteeped culture of a country in which a brutal government indiscriminately silences dissension, Inescapable also has a lot to say about gender roles in the country.

Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei portrays Fatima, the love of Adib’s Syrian life who waited patiently when he fled to safety in Canada for an invitation to join up that never came.

Nadda, who lived in Damascus on and off for four years until she turned 17, took pains to ensure that her film correctly represented the gender politics specific to Syria, where women are afforded more rights relative to some countries in the region.

“The thing about Syria that is really important, because I’m a Syrian woman, is that it’s a very secular country,” said Nadda, who shot her follow-up to 2009’s award-winning Cairo Time in Johannesburg.

“They don’t believe in women veiling — they believe in education, they believe a woman should drive . . . . My mother, who grew up in Damascus, I have pictures where she’s in a miniskirt, tank tops and she had a powerful job in her early 20s.

“There’s this reputation that Syrian women are very feisty, they’re smart, they’re strong, they’re opinionated,

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BRIEF Warrant issued for ex-Grateful Dead drummer HARRODSBURG, Ky. — Police in Kentucky have a warrant for the arrest of former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart stemming from an alleged assault after a recent show.

Harrodsburg Police Lt. Chad Powell told The Associated Press on Thursday that the warrant stems from an incident Saturday after a performance by the Mickey Hart Band at Terrapin Hill Farm in Harrodsburg.

In an email from his publicist, Hart says he is “totally baffled” by the assault claim and says it is completely false and without any basis.

they’re a little angry. For me, it was really important to have a Syrian woman portrayed this way.”

But for Tomei, it was a strain to play a character still so bound up in so many ways foreign to North American women.

“I think there’s a huge dichotomy (in Syria),” Tomei said earlier this week. “(They’re) known for their education level for women, and then once you’re educated, you can’t really do much. It’s a really, really interesting mix to my eye as an outsider. “(But) you can’t leave the country . . . . without permission from a male — sometimes you’ll have to go to a nephew, 10 years old, because he’s male, to give you permission to do something,” she added.

“So you don’t really have your own life and even my character, Fatima, she has to live with her brothers because even though she’s a grown woman, she’s widowed and you cannot live alone.

“So it’s not really free-spirited.”

Siddig, meanwhile, says he actually saw the inherent limitations placed on her character take a certain toll on Tomei.

“Marisa was really uncomfortable during the filming because of the fact that Fatima was boxed in,” said Siddig, best-known for roles in Cairo Time and the long-running Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

“I don’t think Marisa, being a Brooklyn girl of Italian heritage, is remotely comfortable with that as a person.

“Because Arab women are at the mercy of their husbands, the men around them, in many circumstances,” he added. “A few break out, maybe the ones that live in the West, but the ones that are still there are rudderless ships at sea.

“They wait and hopefully get married to the right guy, and hopefully he doesn’t beat her up too much. I’m painting a bleak picture but it’s not too exaggerated, it’s not hyperbolic.”

Tomei travelled to Beirut to research the role, though she notes now that the sojourn didn’t help her much in her transformation into the tragic Fatima.

But her director and cast — which also includes Vancouver-born Fringe star Joshua Jackson as a slippery Canadian consular official — offered effusive praise for her convincing turn, noting that she perfected not just the accent and look of an Arab woman, but the perspective.

“I think she nailed it,” Siddig said.

“My first reaction was, ’Whoa, we’re in for a whole pile of (crap) when she gets onscreen because the press are going to go (crazy) — because they have prejudices built in that they’re not allowing us to be actors.

“And I thought, well, she looks entirely Arabic. That’s a good thing. We can start from there. But then I saw the beating heart of this Arab woman.”

“It ended up she did this performance that was really turned insideout,” he added. “She was like a knotted, discarded husk of a human being where the soul had long since left . . . .I think that was really important and really authentic.”

Powell says that the investigation is ongoing and that the paperwork could not be released. Mercer County Attorney Ted Dean was in court Thursday morning and did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Details of the incident, first reported by TMZ, remain unclear. Hart played with the Grateful Dead from 1967 until 1995.

‘Time Traveler’s Wife’ coming out as e-book NEW YORK — Next stop for The Time Traveler’s Wife: e-books.

Zola Books said Thursday that nine years after its release in hardcover, Audrey Niffenegger’s million-selling novel will come out digitally Oct. 10.

The e-book will include new material written specially for the digital edition.

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Eduard Barnard’s Self-Portrait with Thoughts hangs on the gallery walls of the Artribute art school in Red Deer. Artribute, located in the Old Courthouse is an art school offering painting and drawing classes for small groups of children or adults and private lessons for individuals of any age.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Brent Stolee exhibit now on until Sept. 30 at Café Pichlingue. ● Bronson Wilson exhibit is featured at Velvet Olive Lounge until Sept. 30. ● 100 Years of Struggle: 100 Years of Solidarity is now open at the Discovery Studio at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Oct. 21.

The Alberta Federation of Labour was created in 1912 by workers and farmers who saw the need for an organization that would protect their common interests and make their communities stronger.

This four-panel display features stories and photos on a variety of themes of the AFL movement over the past 100 years. ● Two Directions: The Way Forward by Tracie Stewart-O’Brien and Strata

by Rita Schoenberger, two artists in a collaborative exhibit, will be on display through Sept. at the Hub on Ross Gallery. For more information call 403-340-4869. ● Exaggerated Adventures and Frequented Daydreams — a new ink drawing exhibition by Alysse Bowd — may be viewed at the Corridor Gallery, located in the basement of the Red Deer Recreation Centre, until Oct. 28. ● Pulse of Istanbul by Calgary artists Asta Dale will be on display at the Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library downtown until Oct. 14. Phone 403-348-2787.

To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-3416560, or phone 403-3144325.

LIVE DATES ● The Vat presents solo musician from Winnipeg Greg Rekus on Sept. 25. Rekus plays punk/folk/acoustic and

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4:00, 7:00, 9:30; SAT 12:50, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30; SUN 3:30, 7:00, 9:30; MON-THURS 6:50, 9:25 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) (GORY VIOLENCE) FRI 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; SAT-SUN 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; MON-THURS 7:10, 9:35 PARANORMAN 3D () FRI-SUN 4:30, 6:55, 9:15; MON-THURS 7:05, 9:20 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) (VIOLENCE) FRI 4:00, 7:05, 10:10; SAT 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10; SUN 1:00, 4:00, 10:10; MON-THURS 6:45, 9:45 PARANORMAN (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, FRIGHTENING SCENES) SAT-SUN 2:15 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) (CRUDE SEXUAL CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE) FRI 5:05, 7:20, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35; MON-TUE,THURS 7:50, 10:10; WED 10:10 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) (CRUDE SEXUAL CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:00 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) FRI 4:45; SAT-SUN 2:10, 4:45; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) (VIOLENCE) FRI-SUN 6:50, 10:20; MONTHURS 8:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) FRI 4:45; SAT-SUN 12:30, 2:35, 4:45

brings along a stomp box for an extra kick of energy. Later, take in Halifax-based rockers The Stanfields on Oct. 19 promoting their album Death and Taxes. See Bill Bourne on Nov. 7 singing songs of his new album, Songs From A Gypsy Caravan. ● Red Deer College presents Bill Bourne on Dec. 20. ● Three Hills Academy welcomes Jon Bryant on Sept. 23. What Takes You is his most recent album. ● Slumland Theatre features Winnipeg’s The Noble Thiefs with guests Mise en Scene on Oct. 11. ● The Hideout welcomes John Antoniuk with The Smokekiller Band this evening with Jen Lane as the opening act. ● Red Deer Memorial Centre features Colin James with special guest Liam Titcomb on Nov. 14. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets on sale from Black Knight Inn at 403-755-6626 or 1-800-661-8793, www. blackknightinn.ca, or Livenation.com or Rogers Wireless Box Office. This is an all ages show with reserved seating. Tickets cost $49.50 (plus FMF and service charges).

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The bands of the Red Deer Community Band Society invite instrumentalists who play woodwind, brass, or percussion instruments to participate in performance ensembles at a variety of levels. The emphasis is upon making great music in a relaxed, enjoyable, non-threatening atmosphere.

MONDAY NIGHT ADULT BAND - Glen Traquair, Director (Phone: 403.342.0601). The experienced adult player with 3 or more years of experience. Meets Mondays (beginning Sept. 17) at Notre Dame High School (#50 Lees Street), 7-9 PM TUESDAY NIGHT ADULT BAND - Greg Wheeler, Director (Phone: 403.346.5868). For the intermediate or developing player with approximately 2 years experience. Meets Tuesdays (beginning Sept. 18) at Hunting Hills High School (150 Lockwood Avenue) 7-9 PM INTRODUCTORY/NOVICE ADULT BAND - Lil Traquair (Phone: 403.342.0601) For the adult with little or no band experience, including those who played “years and years ago.” We will assist with instrument selection and with advice on acquiring an instrument. Meets Mondays (beginning Sept. 17) at Hunting Hills High School (150 Lockwood Avenue) 7 - 8:30 PM JAZZ EXPLOSION BIG BAND - Tim Bowman, Director (Phone: 403.342.2596). For the medium to advanced player interested in performing traditional and contemporary big band jazz. Meets Wednesdays (beginning Sept. 19) at Glendale Middle School (6375 - 77 Street) 7-9 PM. For further information call Michael Mann Director of Bands for the Red Deer Community Band Society Evening: 403.346.3911 Email: m.jmann@shaw.ca

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Jewel pens song for breast cancer survivors TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF BREAST RECONSTRUCTION OPTIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Singer-songwriter Jewel has penned numerous lyrics empowering women after heartbreak and loss, and now she hopes to do the same for breast cancer survivors.

Jewel’s latest song, Flower, was written to raise awareness about the importance of breast reconstruction options for breast cancer survivors. The singer is heading to New Orleans next month to perform Flower and other hits at a benefit concert for the cause.

“Reconstruction ‘RECONSTRUCTION is a huge part of the healing process,” IS A HUGE PART Jewel told The AsOF THE HEALING sociated Press. “It’s not just vanity. It’s a PROCESS. IT’S NOT part of what makes JUST VANITY. IT’S us women. It’s a part of our identity A PART OF WHAT as women. Patients MAKES US WOMEN. should at least be inIT’S A PART OF formed about their options.”

OUR IDENTITY AS Jewel said she WOMEN. PATIENTS originally wrote Flower years ago as SHOULD AT LEAST BE a relationship-based INFORMED ABOUT song. It was never released, but it was THEIR OPTIONS.’ about empowering women.

— JEWEL “The chorus in that song kept coming back to me, and I thought it was so fitting for this cause, so I rewrote the lyrics for these women,” she said.

The chorus compares a woman battling cancer to “a flower pushing up through concrete to thrive.”

Jewel shot to fame in 1996 with her self-written breakout hit, Who Will Save Your Soul, and has had success in pop and country genres with hits like Stronger Woman, Foolish Games, You Were Meant For Me, Hands, Stand and Intuition.

She said she was surprised to hear a lot of breast cancer survivors are not informed about their breast reconstruction options, even though reconstruction is now considered a medically necessary part of breast cancer treatment that is covered by Medicare and most major insurance providers.

“There should be a plastic surgeon involved from the very beginning,” she said. “We have to be our own advocates.”

Jewel is the national spokeswoman for the Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) campaign and has partnered with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Plastic Surgery Foundation to raise awareness and money for breast reconstructionrelated research and to the charitable care of breast

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Jewel arrives at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala honoring Barbra Streisand in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, 2011. Jewel’s latest song, “Flower,” was written to raise awareness about the importance of breast reconstruction options for breast cancer survivors. The singer is heading to New Orleans next month to perform “Flower” and other hits at a benefit concert championing the cause. reconstruction patients.

Proceeds generated by downloads of Flower on iTunes or Amazon.com will benefit the effort, as will proceeds from the Oct. 29 concert at the New Orleans Theater in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

Tickets for the concert go on sale Friday.

Jewel says she’s always considered herself an advocate for women but since becoming a mother last summer to her now one-year-old son, Kase, “I’m an even bigger fan of women.”

Kase is the first child for Jewel and her champion bull rider husband, Ty Murray. They live on a ranch in Stephenville, Texas.

“Becoming a mom, I gained so much more respect for women and what they go through,” she said.

Motherhood has also inspired new work: Jewel

wrote and recorded two soothing child-friendly albums — Lullaby and The Merry Goes ’Round. On Sept.

18, she’s releasing a children’s book called That’s What I’ll Do, which will include a CD accompaniment of a song by the same title.

“It’s a love song I wrote for my son,” she said. “It’s one I sing to him every night. It’s a creative, fanciful, whimsical way of telling him all the ways that I love him, and it’s a song I thought other parents would enjoy sharing with their children.”

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CURLING REGISTRATION

Jared Dickson barbecues hamburgers with other volunteers as Red Deer Curling Centre members exit league registration at the Red Deer Tennis Club Monday. The 1,200 curlers who play weekly in the club’s many leagues hope to have local play underway in the newly renovated 12-sheet centre before the World Curling Tour stops in Red Deer Nov 2nd-5th.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): We all must decide when and where it is appropriate to be intimate, but sometimes the line gets blurred. You wish someone would underFriday, September 14 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: stand you, but they may not be the one who Adam Lamberg, 28; Callum Keith Rennie, truly needs to know you that well. Hold back for now.

52; Sam Neill, 65 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may not THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Tomorrow’s like the responsibilities of today, but they New Moon in Virgo occurs quite close to are actually a privilege. The Virgo’s ruling planet, Mercury, right attitude can change the outjust hours before he moves on NADIYA come. Your contribution is more to other pastures in the zodiac. effective when it comes from a SHAH This does suggest the possibilplace of gratitude. ity of new food or supplement SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): label guidelines. It will be a You may have been working great day, enjoy! without the support you wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are determined to make your dreams real- you had. However, by doing it on your own ity, even when they seem impossibly out of you’ve learned to trust yourself and your reach. As long as you balance the need to own instincts. Now you get to share. Your believe with practical, small steps forward, precision will be noted and the enthusiasm you make wonderful progress. It will be a will be there.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Would great year, enjoy! you rather be feared or loved? For most of ARIES (March 21-April 19): You may feel cooped up and ready for an adventure. The us, the context can determine the answer. smallest escapade will do. You may not You now have the chance to step out of a be able to play hooky, but just a brief mo- moment of automatic response and choose ment could feed your need for something based on the consequences of your actions. new. The more novel, the smaller the dose Kindness always reaps support.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You don’t required.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You do see have to like what you have heard, but for things clearly and you understand where now you would be wise to keep your opinyou are going. However, you feel a certain ion to yourself. The time to give feedback resistance you can’t put your finger on. Get will come, but you have to let others show over the feeling of needing to make a deci- all their cards before you declare a persion immediately. You’ll get to certainty in spective.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are the right time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s good to ap- few moments that truly awaken the senses, preciate what you have to be thankful for. A and you step into one now. Your hypersenmoment of gratitude fills you. It can pass as sitivity propels you into the present moquickly as it comes or move you to tears. If ment, and leads to a deep appreciation of you indulge it, the impact of the realization how lucky you’ve been as of late. Carry the good feeling to all your heart’s desire. can have a more positive overall effect.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You can have CANCER (June 21-July 22): It may not be the time for a big leap. It is a great mo- anything you want, but it requires that you ment to plan what that leap will look like listen as much as you exert your energy. once circumstances align more favorably. You are inclined to go big and go bold, but Get your ducks in a row and the moment to you have to find a subtle way to be most effective. strike will come quickly and positively.

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Workplace not the place to overdo strong scents Dear Annie: I am a teenager in face, although I have casually high school with two close friends, mentioned it to her in conversa“Emma” and “Vienna.” Emma was tion a few times. recently diagnosed with OCD and Why don’t people understand bipolar disorder. Ever since the that the workplace is not the place diagnosis, there have been many to overdo the strong scents? They conflicts. Emma is now really sen- should save it for their husbands sitive, and if Vienna or I say any- or boyfriends at home. thing even mildly offensive, she Years ago, my doctor told me he gets super-angry. had a patient who was so sensitive This past summer, we all to scents that she had an allergic worked at a local kids’ camp. attack and died — right in the hosWhen one of the pital. My doctor now makes instructors joked his employees sign a letter around, Emma took of agreement not to wear it seriously and beany type of cologne or percame upset. She fume to work, or it could be then talked with grounds for dismissal. the instructor and Please tell these people his boss. All I know that although they may beis that it didn’t end lieve they smell great, they well, and Emma actually reek. — Suffocatquit. ing in Louisville I will often get Dear Suffocating: Some a call from Emma folks have a diminished saying she is lonely sense of smell and do not MITCHELL and needs someone realize how strong their & SUGAR to talk to. She likes perfume is. Those who to reminisce, reinsist on wearing a scent gretting things she should remember that a said and did in the drop is sufficient. And with past. I try to comfort her by keep- so many folks suffering from allering her company. gies these days, one really must be I have just started at a new high careful. If you have supervisors school and am no longer with Em- or a human resources department, ma and Vienna. Emma insists that please ask whether a notice can I will ditch them for new friends, go out suggesting that employees making them both feel like they not wear perfumes. Otherwise, aphave done something wrong. Vi- proach your co-worker and say, enna and I know we can’t begin to “I’m sure you don’t realize how understand what it’s like to have overpowering your cologne is. I both OCD and bipolar disorder, have terrible allergies and am but we can’t live like this. We are very sensitive. Could you please always worrying about Emma and not wear it at the office?” don’t know what to do. — A WorDear Annie: You printed ried Friend responses to the letter from Dear Friend: Those with bipo- “Speechless in Omaha,” whose lar disorder often have periods friend never stopped talking. of depression. If Emma also has When I read the original letOCD, she may become fixated on ter, I recognized myself. I am a certain negative thoughts during 90-year-old woman who lives these times. While you can be re- alone. My health is not the best, assuring and supportive, there is and sometimes there are weeks only so much you can do to com- when I speak to no one. It’s a lonebat Emma’s innate doubts. We ly life. trust that her parents are making One day, it suddenly dawned on sure that she is getting appropri- me that I was doing all of the talkate medical care. Please try to be ing when out with friends. Now I patient with her, but understand make sure that doesn’t happen. that not all friendships survive Perhaps the friend does not realhigh school. ize what she is doing. -- A Lonely Dear Annie: I know you’ve cov- Great-Aunt ered this topic before, but please Annie’s Mailbox is written by do it again. I work in a small of- Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, fice. One person douses herself in longtime editors of the Ann Landers perfume. It makes my eyes water column. Please email your questions and my nose run, and sometimes I to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or have sneezing fits. Everyone com- write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Crements about it behind her back, ators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Herbut no one will bring it up to her mosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Planning a day in the park?

Don’t forget your smartphone VANCOUVER — Residents planning a day in one of the many parks throughout the Vancouver region have another item to put on their checklist along with sunscreen, blankets and picnic basket: their smartphone.

The regional district that encompasses Vancouver and surrounding communities has developed an app that details the locations of the area’s regional parks, complete with information about each park and detailed, GPS-enabled maps to help parkgoers navigate trails and find picnic tables, water fountains and camping sites.

Metro Vancouver is the latest region in the country where residents can use smartphone technology to head into the great outdoors.

“We spend a fair bit of money every year printing and designing maps, and as soon as you print a map and hand it out, it’s obsolete,” says Stephen Suddes of Metro Vancouver, who oversaw the development of iParks Navigator, which runs on Apple’s iOS system.

“We’re looking at how to hand out information for our parks, and how they get that information.

We do everything on our phones.”

The first iteration of the app was released two years ago, limited to lists of parks and facilities, along with PDF files of park maps.

It was updated and renamed last fall with a more sophisticated interface that allowed users to see exactly where they are in a park and use their phone’s GPS technology to navigate along trail maps that are updated in real-time.

The latest version off the app was released earlier this summer, adding a number of municipal parks in Richmond, south of Vancouver, along with the regional parks that were already in the system.

The hope, says Suddes, is to convince other municipalities in the region to sign on, and offer a comprehensive database of every park throughout British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.

The Vancouver Parks Board has its own app that features park maps and information. It allows visitors to use their phone’s GPS to find their way to the parks, but doesn’t feature detailed, interactive maps of park facilities.

There are also similar apps across the country. The City of Calgary released an app called Pathways and Bikeways last year, which includes park information and maps of the city’s extensive path system, though it doesn’t include any GPS functions.

And there are other, unofficial apps designed by individual developers for cities in Ontario and B.C. However, Suddes cautions the apps should be used with — not instead of — proper planning, preparation and, in backcountry parks where cellphone reception can be spotty or non-existent, a paper map or standalone GPS unit.

“We really strongly discourage people from using this kind of device (a smartphone) to navigate in the backcountry, primarily because the accuracy can depend on the wireless signal and they’re not always completely accurate,” he says.

Corinna Baxter, a spokeswoman for the City of Calgary’s parks department, says such apps help users get information in the format they want, while potentially cutting down on the need to print large numbers of paper maps.

“We really wanted to provide Calgarians with

a convenient way to access information that is important for getting around our city,” says Baxter.

“But the other reason is environmental. We do publish a pathways and bikeways map that’s basically a hardcopy version of the app, and what we’re trying to do is encourage people to use electronic versions, whether it’s on our website or through the app, so we don’t need to print the paper copy.”

Calgary and Vancouver appeared to be among the only municipalities in Canada that are making their own parks apps. Similar apps exist elsewhere, but typically only due to the initiative of individual developers who aren’t connected to local government.

Bill Wilson, an app developer in Ottawa, created parks-themed apps for Vancouver; Ottawa; London, Ont.; and Delta, B.C. He also designed one for Portland, Ore.

Question: My husband and I have three kids from his previous marriage and two from mine. He favors his kids and he accuses me of favoring mine.

We fight about it a lot. Please help!

Juli: Playing favorites among children can be an issue in any family, but it’s especially difficult in blended families.

It’s unrealistic to think that you’ll have the same feelings of affection and connection with stepchildren as you do with your biological children, particularly early in the “blending” process.

To the extent that you and your husband are divided on this issue, the problem will grow worse.

You’ll begin to view his children as causing division and he’ll feel the same way about yours.

It’s critical that you begin to work as a team, learning to love and understand all the children.

Sometimes a forced role reversal can help.

For example, you might focus on praising his children and he focus on praising yours.

Your feelings do not have to determine your behavior.

You may feel more connected to your kids, but that doesn’t mean you’re destined to act out those feelings through favoritism.

Part of maturity is learning to act on principle rather than always responding to emotion. It might be helpful for you and your husband to write out principles that you want to guide your par-

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FOCUS ON FAMILY enting. For example, “Every child in our family is worthy of love,” or, “Every child in our family deserves to be heard and understood.”

Working through the complications of step-parenting takes a lot of effort and determination.

But the results will be worth it.

For more tips on how to blend your families together, visit www. smartstepfamilies.com.

Question: My wife and I sent our last child off to college this fall.

I’m worried that we won’t be able to reconnect now that the kids are out of the house. Do you have any suggestions?

Jim: You’ve invested many years together as partners in parenting. But it’s probably been a while since you and your wife have been able to relate to each another as best friends.

Author Alyson Weasley has developed a list of 10 suggestions to help make this happen.

1) Recognize that friendship takes a lot of work — and time.

Even without the kids at home, you’ll still lead busy lives. Establish a few hours each week to spend quality time together.

2) Find out what your spouse is passionate about, whether it’s the-

ater or sports or gardening. Then join her in it, even if it’s not your cup of tea.

3) Find some things that you and your spouse both enjoy, as well.

4) Use conflict to sharpen and purify your friendship. Honest disagreement is essential for healthy communication.

5) Care for one another. You’d put an arm around a childhood friend during tough times. Do the same for your spouse!

6) Be accountable and honest about your own hang-ups and struggles. Don’t hide them from your spouse.

7) Establish daily habits together. Pray or take a walk. Just a few minutes of uninterrupted time with the one you love can work wonders.

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9) Be transparent. If you’re feeling angry or sad or depressed, don’t be afraid to say so.

10) Communicate, communicate, communicate! Relationship experts agree that regular communication between spouses can build a friendship that weathers the storms of life.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Katie Holmes might have just tipped off the paparazzi on how to find her: They should look for a woman a camel-colored suede capelet with red shorts, or, if it’s later in the day, maybe a strapless jumpsuit with beaded fringe running down the side.

Holmes gave a peek at her likely wardrobe on Wednesday morning to a select — and small — group of fashion insiders at New York Fashion Week, but the number of photographers hunting around outside the Lincoln Center tents probably indicates that not only Elle and InStyle are interested in her clothes.

Holmes presented with her design partner and longtime stylist, Jeanne

Yang, a capsule collection of what their label Holmes & Yang will offer next spring.

Showing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week seems a major commitment to the brand and Holmes’ future in fashion. She also recently signed on as the face of cosmetics brand Bobbi Brown.

Both designers attended the preview wearing black leather blazers and black stretch pants. Holmes greeted

well-wishers and chatted politely but granted no interviews or photographs.

There wasn’t a runway, just 14 models on pedestals. One wore a black leather lingerie-style camisole with an olive silk button-front maxi skirt, and another had on a black lace slouchy blazer with black lace short — an outfit right on trend with what tastemakers have been seeing this round of previews.

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For many families, the end of summer means it’s time to put away the inflatable kiddie pools, camping equipment and gardening tools for the season.

If you plan to shove this gear into arbitrary piles around the edge of the garage, you’re not alone: Many Americans say the garage is the most disorganized room in their home, according to the International Association of Business Organizing.

But a messy garage is not just unsightly, it can cost you money. People with cluttered garages tend to waste time searching for misplaced items and end up re-buying things they already own, says Erica Ecker, a professional organizer in New York City.

An overstuffed garage puts your vehicles at risk, too. When the car door can’t swing open without hitting a wheelbarrow or workbench, it gets dented and dinged.

Monica Ricci, a professional organizer who makes appearances on the HGTV show “Mission: Organization,” says that in many homes, garages are so filled with clutter they stop serving their main purpose.

“When your garage is too full to park a car in, that expensive piece of machinery sits out in the elements every day and night while your clutter stays cozy and dry inside,” Ricci says.

Whether your garage is slightly disheveled or looks more like an overstuffed storage unit, the changeover to fall is an ideal time to give it a tune-up using these steps from organizational experts: ● PREPARE. Tackling a junk-filled garage is physically demanding. Ecker advises pacing yourself and setting a schedule in advance.

Consider renting an outdoor storage container so your belongings aren’t sitting in the driveway or in the house for a month while you finish reorganizing the garage. ● EMPTY AND SORT. Empty the contents of the garage out into the driveway and begin sorting it into piles, grouping like things together.

Categories will vary by household, but you may start with Sporting Equipment, Tools, Hardware, Car Care, Lawn Care, Seasonal, Toys and Household Goods. ● PURGE. The next step — paring down your stuff — is the most important. First, toss anything broken or expired. Return borrowed items to their owners. If you own multiples of something, donate the duplicates or sell them. Analyze how often things get used.

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announcements Obituaries ASTLEY Norma Lynn 1954 - 2012 Norma Lynn Astley of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday, September 10, 2012 at the age of 58 years. Norma will forever be lovingly remembered by her husband Rhyce, daughter Kimberly (Peter), son Heith and grandsons Logan, Ethan and Reid. Memories of Norma will be cherished by her brothers Jim (Peggy) and Wayne (Carol), sisters Carol (Brian) and Marie (Neil), brothers-in-law Jack (Babe), Gilbert, Miles and Murray, sister-in-law Neana, Aunt Alice, as well as by numerous nieces, nephews and other extended family.

Norma was predeceased by her parents John and Margaret Walker, brother Dennis, sister Dianne Liknes, in-laws Reg and Marguerite Astley and sister-in-law Yvonne Linnen.

As Norma had requested, cremation has taken place and there will not be a funeral.

In lieu of flowers, donations made directly to CNIB at www.cnib.ca or the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation at www.cbcf.org/prairiesnwt would be greatly appreciated.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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HOTTS Bernice 1933 - 2012 It was with dignity, grace and peace that Bernice Aileen Hotts passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Monday, September 10, 2012 at the age of 79. Our mother was predeceased by her youngest son; Noah Edwin Hotts on April 14, 2002. While in the Red Deer Regional Hospital, as her condition worsened, she said “I am going to Noah” as tears rolled down her cheek. This gives our family a sense of comfort knowing this. She is survived by her loving children; Darlene “Kim” Robert (Mike), Cindy Brkich (Nick), Bernie Hotts, her cherished grandchildren, Mandy, Jessica and Justin Brkich, Danielle and Brienne Robert, Nicholas Hotts and Brittney Rhodes. Mom was born in Togo, SK. Mom loved to laugh and there are many cherished memories with her close friends, loving brothers and sisters, many nieces, nephews and cousins. She will be sadly missed by all.

Those wishing to pay their respects to Bernice Aileen Hotts are invited to a Graveside Service at the Alto Reste Cemetery on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 11:00 am. There w i l l b e a Te a S e r v i c e t o Celebrate the Life of Bernice Hotts held at Centennial Courts, 4702 - 33 Street, Red Deer on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 12:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Bernice’s memory directly to Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6.

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CARSON Gordon Carson, 84, of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta passed away peacefully on September 11, 2012. Gordon is survived by his 11 children, Roland (Marilyn), Donald ( L i n d a ) , Te r r y, R u s s e l l , Bruce, Elaine, Marie, Cathy Bartzis (George), Richard (Marie), Lana, Lorne (Lisa); 7 stepchildren, Simone, MaryAnn, Michael, Ronald, Suzanne, Colette, Kathy; 20 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; his brother and 8 sisters, Leona Oliver (Gerry predeceased), Dorothy Martin (Vern predeceased), Pearl Chandler (Dean predeceased), Vera Trca (Eldon), Chris Webb (Hank), Meryl Campbell (Ernest), Eileen Duffin (Lawrence), Gerry (Sharon), Evie Jones (Dave); numerous nieces and nephews; and special friend Eileen Gooch. Gordon was born in Ethelton, Saskatchewan on February 8, 1928. He was the 7th child of 14, growing up in Meskanaw, Saskatchewan. His life-long pipelining/construction career began in the early 1950s, and he became highly regarded as a heavy duty mechanic, fabricator, welder, equipment operator, and boat-builder. Stops along the way in his career, among others, included Mannix, Banister, Majestic and Wiley, Waschuk, OJ, Quinn, Doran Stewart, Benedict, and Denim.

In the mid 1960s he started his own construction company, and in 1970 he built tugboats to clear floating timber off the Brazeau Dam. Gordon had many passions in his life including music, dancing, pets, horses, and sharing his wit and banter with friends.

He also loved to go for coffee at his favourite restaurant to tell stories and tease the waitresses. The family would like to thank all the friends that visited Dad while he was sick this past year. The family would also like to sincerely thank Dr. Witten and the staff a t t h e We s t v i e w L o d g e , Rocky General Hospital, and the Red Deer Regional hospital for all their support and wonderful care - the family will always be appreciative. A Funeral Service for the late Gordon will be held at the Church Of the Nazarene, Rocky Mountain House, AB on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 1:00 P.M. with interment in the Pine Grove Cemetery.

As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Gordon’s name to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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RODE Corinne Elizabeth It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Corinne Elizabeth Rode on September 12, 2012 at age 81. Corinne is survived by daughters Colleen (Kirk), Jacquie (Mike), Kathryn, Gwen, and Dianne (Kevin); thirteen grandchildren and fourteen†great-grandchildren and numerous extended families. She is also survived by her Aunt Rose and many cousins. †A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 15, 2012 in the auditorium at (the Extendicare) at 2:00 pm. If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, 200, 119 - 14 Street N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1Z6 (Telephone 403-264-5549, www.heartandstroke.ca†) or to charity of choice.

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DICKIE In Loving Memory of SOLEY Carman Debbie Ness The family of the late 1936 - 2012 March 25, 1954 - Sept. 14, 2010 Byron Soley would like to Carman Wallace Dickie of Dearest Deb, thank all of the friends and Red Deer, Alberta passed It’s now been 2 years since family for the support, away at Red Deer Regional you left, and missing you as flowers, food and donations Hospital Centre on Wednesday, much as the first year! during this difficult time.

September 12, 2012 at the But I know you are fine because ~Esther and family age of 75 years. Carman was you gave me the sign! born in Hamiota, Manitoba Thank you, WALTON on December 3, 1936 and Your friend, Val We, the family of the late later moved to Saskatchewan Mr. Bruce James Walton with his family, where he wish to thank attended school and met and Pastor Dan Cochrane and married his wife Margaret Births Pastor Stu Krogman Mitchell. He later relocated to for their unfailing support Alberta where he continued during our time of loss. to work in both the oilfield and We would also like to extend security until his retirement.

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PERIOPARTNERS Dr. Patrick Pierce interviewing for RDA Level II. 2-3 days/wk.

Excellent remuneration.

POSITION FILLED!!

Janitorial

Estheticians

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

750

Legal Assistant/ Conveyancer

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

790

Come Grow With Us!!!!

As one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, CBI Home Health provides you with more opportunities and greater support, training and career development than any other health care company.

We are currently recruiting for the following positions:

Certified Health Care Aides All applicants require: * Health Care Aid certification, be enrolled in a government recognized HCA program or have documented previous experience. * Recent clear Criminal Record Check (within the last 3 mths) * Proof of required immunizations (Hep B, Ruebella, Varicella and TB test) * Reliable vehicle

Technicoil Corp.

Red Deer,Alberta Why Apply To The Essential Group • Career advancement opportunities • Competitive wages • Industry leading benefit packages • RSP matching program • Employee referral bonus program

Apply at: E: nsjones@technicoilcorp.com w w w. e s s e n t i a l e n e r g y. c a

Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!

Production Testing Personnel: Day & Night Supervisors & Field Operators Qualified Day & Night Supervisors - (Must be able to provide own work truck.)

Field Operators - Valid First Aid, H2S, driver’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 req’s exp. day night supervisors & assistants.

Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284

Oilfield

Oilfield

800

EXPERIENCED PIPELINE LABORERS. Acme area.

Must have all safety tickets.

Competitive wages.

Fax or email: 403-749-3367 cccenca@telus.net JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers.

Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com or mikeg@jagareenergy.com

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.

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.

LOOKING for

F/T EMT

Full time position w/exc. remuneration and benefit pkg.

Send resume to jen@alertsafety.ca. or fax to 403-844-4484

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.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Central Alberta Oilfield Construction Company

800

STEAM TRUCK operator req’d. Must have experience and have clean driver’s abstract, all req’d tickets and reliable transportation. Fax resume 403-348-2918 or email gelliott@telusplanet.net

TARTAN CONTROLS Is expanding.

Looking for Shops Hands.

Please fax resume 403-309-0988 or email: dgunn@ tartancontrols.com

Professionals

DOW CHEMICAL in Prentiss, Alberta is now hiring a

Project Engineer

Please review the detailed job posting and requirements, and apply on-line at www.careersatdow.com Job Number 1208415 Deadline to apply is: October 4, 2012

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

WE ARE NOW HIRING in Red Deer experienced: • • • •

Winch truck operators Bed truck operators Picker operators Swampers Fax resume and abstracts to 403-314-2340 or email safety@ providencetrucking.ca

• Labourers • Pipefitters & Apprentices • Portable Welders & Apprentices

Professionals

810

NOSSACK GOURMET FOODS LTD.

Our office is looking for a career minded professional, a team player who enjoys a fast paced, exciting work atmosphere. Part time position. Willing to work flexible schedule including Wed. evenings and Saturdays till 2 pm. Will train right candidate. Please fax your resume to 403-342-0188

TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and helpers. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com

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.

810

“JOIN OUR TEAM” Optical Lab Tech

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER developing and creating future products. Ideal candidate must have post secondary education, be a team player and like to think “ outside the box”.

Manufacturing experience an asset.

A great Monday to Friday work week. Free training provided, friendly crews!

Email resume: ngfadmin@nossack.com or fax resume to 403-227-1131 GREAT PEOPLE WORK AT NOSSACKS. Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

RMT required for chiropractic & massage clinic. Please apply, in person, with resume to Optimum Performance Centre, located in the Collicutt Centre.

Restaurant/ Hotel

Maple Leaf Environmental & Safety Ltd. is a proactive, dynamic and progressive company. We are currently recruiting for the position of Seismic Safety Advisors, Shut down safety personnel and EMR, EMT Alberta College of Paramedics registered medical personnel for winter projects throughout Western Canada. Please fax or e-mail resume & qualifications to: Keith Anderson Fax: 403-637-2024 kanderson@ mapleleafsafety.com

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANT $11/hr.

SUPERVISORS $13/hr.

Apply at 6620 Orr Drive.

Also hiring for Blackfalds location.

Fax: 403-782-9685 Call 403-341-3561 or apply in person CORONATION MOTEL REQUIRE IMMEDIATELY F/T HOUSEKEEPERS. $14.50/hr, 35 hrs/wk.

Little experience required.

Call 403-578-3700

DAD’S PIZZA

PART/FULL TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

HEALTH & FITNESS

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

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BALLOON RIDES

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

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

www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

BUILDERS

REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY:

Valid H2S, 1st Aid, WHMIS & TDG required.

Confined Space & other Safety tickets an asset.

Please send resumes by fax to: 403-729-3236 or e-mail to bunwel@telusplanet.net

Oilfield

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

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.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

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

REAL ESTATE RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

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

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

COMPUTER REPAIR

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

Oilfield

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Positions available in the City of Red Deer and surrounding areas (Olds, Lacombe, Sylvan Lake, Blackfalds, Great employer benefit package.

To apply, please e-mail your cover letter and resume to: hrhomehealth@cbi.ca 261514I14,15

Applicant Requirements • Office Technology or related certificate • Proficiency in Microsoft Office • Exceptional phone manners and communication skills • Superior organizational skills and attention to detail • Able to work in team environment

COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC

Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP Requires the services of a Real Estate Conveyancer with 5 years+ experience. • Builders experience would be an advantage.

Please email resume to ssimmons@altalaw.ca or • fax to the attention of Office Manager on 403.343.0891.

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Receptionist / Junior Administrative Assistant

Busy trucking company looking for experienced winch truck, bed truck and tractor picker operators.

Please fax resume (403) 343-1922 or drop off at 10, 7719 Edgar Industrial Dr. Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

780

WE’RE GROWING! Community Care Laser Derm & Wellness Supervisor LPN / Centre in Red Deer - a RN med-spa is looking to hire an Aesthetician.

The position requires you to: Must have aesthetic diploma, all training will be * train and supervise Health Care Associates in provided. Please drop off community and lodge your resume to settings in the city of Red Laser Derm Deer and surrounding Bay 500 80 Donlevy Avenue Red Deer, Alberta. areas * be a great communicator * ensure quality and manage areas of risk Clerical problem, solve and make appropriate decisions * educate and mentor * ensure positive client outcomes * have a reliable vehicle * be avail. for a rotation of days/evenings/weekends

Essential Energy Services Ltd. provides oilfield services to oil and gas producers in western Canada related to the ongoing servicing of producing wells and new drilling activity. As we continue to grow and expand we are currently looking for applicants for the following positions:

BOILER OPERATOR NEEDED FOR PROJECT IN FORT NELSON BC Must have all tickets, Fax resume 403-886-2223 OR EMAIL: careers@GTChandler.com

SERVICEMASTER JMS needs a light duty cleaner for 3 Healthcare Locations in Red Deer. Evening shifts, Monday to Friday 6 hours. Rate $12.00/hr. If you like cleaning and have a eye for detail send you resume by Fax 403-444-1515 or by email: hcjobs@smalberta.com

Legal

800

Barden Oilfield Hauling is accepting resumes for Journeyman Picker Operators, Winch Truck Operators, and Texas Bed Operators. Successful applicants must have all oilfield tickets. Please email or fax resume & 5 year C.D.A. to steve.bardentrucking@ telus.net or 403 341 3968.

770

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Starting wage $13/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

Medical

RDA II- Dental Assistant required for position 2-3 days a week with early morning start. No evenings or weekends, ortho module preferred. Please email resume to drprice@ riverstonedentalclinic.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Oilfield

ADAM & EVE UNISEX REQ’S F/T HAIR CUTTING PERSONNEL. Above average earnings.

Submit resume in person at Parkland Mall.

Position based in Red Deer corporate office.

and we recognize their value.

Oilfield

Hair Stylists

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EAST 40TH PUB

Clerical

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Coming Events

F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technician. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer

800

Top Drive Technician Trinidad Drilling Ltd is currently looking for an experienced Top Drive Technician based out of our Nisku, AB office. As a Top Drive Technician you will be responsible for the field level supervision and maintenance of specialized drilling equipment, to maximize operational performance.

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The qualified candidates should have: • Experience with various TD equipment or other specialized drilling equipment; • Must hold valid class 5 driver’s license, as well as safety tickets required for field operations, i.e - H2S Alive, First Aid, Fall Protection, Etc; • Strong organizational and communication skills are essential; • Ability to maintain an on call rotation for onsite visits and emergency situations is essential;

If you are interested in applying, please forward your resume to careers@trinidaddrilling.com or apply online at www.trinidaddrilling. com. We thank you for your interest; however only candidates will be contacted for interviews.

IT’S ABOUT PERFORMANCE

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• Drilling rig experience in the Derrickhand or Driller position is preferred, however is not required.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 E3

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Trades

850

Trades

850

Trades

F/T or P/T Housekeeping A FULL TIME PAINTER Big Horn Electric and servers with experiREQUIRED and Controls Ltd. ence in serving seniors.

Painting exp. necessary.

Join our team of Must be flexible, work Must have vehicle. professionals! within a team environMust be task orientated, ELECTRICAL and ment, take initiative and self motivated & reliable.

INSTRUMENTATION work without supervision.

Phone 403-596-1829 JOURNEYMAN and Must be available to work APPRENTICES ABEL CORPORATION weekend. MUST be able to We are currently recruiting is looking for candidates pass criminal check. We for: for the following positions: offer a competitive salary.

Central and Northern Fax: 403-341-5613 Alberta. * Woodworking machine Attention: ARAMARK Required Safety operators $17.00- $21.50 e-mail: margery_becker@ Certificates: hourly - 40 hrs. per wk. aramark.ca H2S Alive / First Aid * Furniture manufacturing PST / Fall Protection. labourers $13.95 - $17.

INDIAN FLAME & PIZZA Successful candidates will hourly - 40 hrs. per wk. requires immediately, F/T COOK, 40 HRS. PER * Cabinetmakers $18.50- possess excellent written and verbal $22.50 hourly - $40.00 WK, $13.75/hr. communication skills. hrs. per wk.

Phone 403-314-4100 Oilfield experience is an after 11 a.m. asset.

Send resumes to Qualified applicants are JJAM Management Box 5324 Lacombe, invited to fax or email their (1987) Ltd., Alberta T4L 1X1; resumes: Requires to work at apply by email at Fax: 403-638-3688 Email: 5111 22 St. Abel.Corporation@ careers@bighornelectric.com 37444 HWY 2 S canadaemail.net or 37543 HWY 2N by fax to (403) 782-2729 Boots Transport Ltd. 700 3020 22 St. Requires 3 - Class 1 Parkland Mall CELEBRATIONS Drivers with 2+ years STORE FRONT HAPPEN EVERY DAY driving exp. to run the 4 F.T. SHIFT WORK, IN CLASSIFIEDS Western provinces $11.00/hr. (based in Calgary) Please fax resume to: 60 hrs/wk. $40K 403-314-1303 $70/year.

Bob 403-238-5755 ORMIT ENTERPRISES LTD o/a A&W Village, Cen-Con Concrete 58 6320 50 Ave. Red Deer, Inc. AB T4N 4C6. 403-346-6100 Andy’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd. Req’s a F/T Needs F/T Food Service in Blackfalds requires: Foreman/Supervisor with Supervisor. Shift work, extensive knowledge in must be flexible. $13.50/hr.

Winch Truck, carpentry. This position will Please apply in person or provide guidance for Bed Truck Drivers email: ormit@telus.net several employees. & Picker Operators Limited physical labor req’d. We offer competitive Sales & Competitive wages, wages and an exc. benefit benefits and scheduled Distributors package. Fax resume to days off. tickets and 403-340-1246 or email: experience an asset.

SOAP STORIES tarific@telusplanet.net Please forward is seeking applications by e-mail to DNR Powerline Retail Sales Supervisor accounting@ Construction requires for our Parkland Mall location, andystrucking.net or fax Labourers/apprentices for Red Deer. $17.40/hr.

(403) 885-4931 various projects in Alberta.

Email resume: Excellent opportunity for premierjobrd1@gmail.com BAR W/UFA apprenticeship. Excellent Looking for a place benefit packages.

Petroleum & to live?

Fax resume to Electric Take a tour through the 403-742-5759 or email CLASSIFIEDS dnrwelding1@xplornet.com Positions open for: Attention : Noel. No phone STEEL MAGNOL INC calls please. Drug and * Mechanical o/a: All in One, Pinook alcohol program in effect.

Hire Sales Clerks Technician DNR Pressure Welding 2 locations at * Electrical requires B Pressure WeldParkland Mall Technician ers, CWB Welders and Red Deer, AB The successful candidates Apprenticeship welders.

Ability to sales. English. must have strong aptitude Excellent opportunity for Perm, F/Time, Shifts, for electronic, mechanical apprenticeship.

Excellent Weekends and computer systems. benefit packages. Email Wage-$14.60 per/h Strong problem solving resumes to ryan@dnrweldE-mail: and trouble shooting ability ing.ca. fishergrp@gmail.com will directly affect success No Phone calls please. within the position.

Drug and alcohol program Please fax resumes to in effect.

Teachers/ 403-347-9301 or email: DNR Pressure Welding Tutors administration@ requires Journeyman barwpetroleum.com Heavy Duty Mechanic.

DO YOU HAVE A Excellent benefit packPASSION FOR DAVENEPORT TEACHING? MILLWRIGHT SERVICES ages. Email resumes to ryan@dnrwelding.ca.

Local educational center now hiring No Phone calls please. seeks 3rd or 4th year Drug and alcohol program education students, teachers CERTIFIED in effect. and retired teachers JOURNEYMAN for our new after school MILLWRIGHTS ELECTRICAL COMPANY tutoring program. and WELDERS Looking for Apprentices Please forward for commercial construction resumes with cover letter for Red Deer SHUT or industrial maintenance. and references to: DOWN SEPT. 30- OCT. 6 Please fax resume to firststepsandbeyond 403-346-6334 or email: @gmail.com Must have own mooremaintenance transportation. @shaw.ca Buying or Selling your home?

EXP’’D drywall tradesmen Send resume to: Check out Homes for Sale & laborers req’d, richardcouch@shaw.ca in Classifieds Phone 403-348-8640 Phone 403-510-9392

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840

Trades

EXP’D SIDER , must have truck and tools. $85/sq. we pay compensation Call 403-347-2522

850

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC 1st or 2nd Yr. Apprentice.

Full time work, benefits avail. Apply with resume to RAVEN MECHANICAL SERVICES. #1, 7620 76 St. Close, Red Deer, AB.

Welding and Manufacturing Ltd.

designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment for international clients, within our 7 shops and 10 acres of land in Innisfail, AB

Continuous learning and growth is our goal for every employee!

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking

OFFSET PRESS OPERATOR NEEDED

Day and Night shifts available Competitive starting wages

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These are full-time permanent shop positions with benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please Fax resume to 403-227-7796,

or Email to hr@bilton.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters and carpenters helpers Laborers and Skid Steer Operator

HI-PRO FEEDS is seeking a

MILLER/MACHINE OPERATOR

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AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

TANK TRUCK DRIVERS WANTED!

860

STEADY, YEAR-ROUND WORK!

$1000.00 SIGNING BONUS. SAFETY BONUS. REFERRAL BONUS. GREAT WAGES AND BENEFITS.

WANTED FOR CENTRAL ALBERTA

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Northwest Tank Lines seeks quali¿ed truck drivers with at least three years’ experience in tank truck driving, heavy oil-¿eld hauling, or a related ¿eld.

The ideal candidate will have a history of safedriving, and seek a long-term and rewarding career.

Send your resume today! Email: careers@nwtl.ca Fax: (403) 250-7801 260359I7-20

EDMONTON – RED DEER – INNISFAIL – RMH

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

is expanding its facility to double production.

GENERAL CARPENTER

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

required by a Central Alberta Home Builder.

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Must have the following abilities and experience: • Blueprint reading, stair calculating, framing, finish carpentry, etc.

• Individual must have a clean drivers abstract and their own transportation to and from work.

• This is a Full Time, year round position.

Only those persons with the before mentioned skills need apply.

Please reply and attach resume and references to

albertabuildersinc@gmail.com

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- Concrete Batch Plant Operator - Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers - Steel Reinforcement Labourers - Overhead Crane Operators - General Labourers

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Blackfalds 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

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life 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: Andrews Close Ardell Close/ Allan St. Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close Aikman Close/ Allan St. BOWER AREA Boyce St. Bell St./Byer Close INGLEWOOD AREA: Issard Close SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Springfield Ave. VANIER AREA: Viscount Dr./ Violet Place Valentines Crsc./ Vandorp St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

CIRCULATION Service Runner (Part Time)

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.

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com P/T multi skilled building maintenance personnel wanted for interior building repairs etc. Flooring & painting exp. an asset.

Fax to 403-782-0243 PAINTERS helper wanted.

403-598-0303

880 Permanent Full time Maintenance Position:

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k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE WEST LAKE Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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or email

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

Please fax resume to

403-885-5516

SNOW plow drivers(2) req’d for winter season based out of Lacombe, exc. wages. Must have Class 3 w/air. Call Toll Free 1-877-787-2501 Mon. - Fri. 9 am. - 5 pm. only or fax resume to: 403-784-2330

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403-346-2132 8009 Edgar Industrial Place www.kochfuel.ca

• Great benefit package.

• Wages based on experience.

• Own transportation to work is required.

Wanted for local Alberta position. Part Time and/or Full Time. Must have clean Class 1 and live close to Lacombe.

Cattle exp. required.

Call 403-782-4804 or fax resume to: 403-782-4814.

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BULK PETROLEUM DRIVER

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CATTLE HAULERS

Truckers/ Drivers

CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

required for fuel hauling FULL TIME POSITION AVAILABLE We offer competitive hourly rates, uniforms, full company benefits, clean modern fleet and on-thejob continuous training. Successful candidates must take a pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. Qualified individuals only.

Drop off resume and abstract in person or fax to:

FRAMING LABOURERS CONCRETE FINISHERS GENERAL LABOURERS

Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

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This position is responsible for manufacturing bulk + SPARTEK bagged feed to meet customer requirements & SYSTEMS INC ADULT Hi-Pro quality standards. I n S y l v a n L a k e , A B i s CARRIERS seeking quailified individuTasks will include NEEDED als for packaging & housekeeping in accordance with Hi-Pro *MECHANICAL ENGINEER CLEARVIEW standards & procedures; * ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Central AB based trucking company reqires For early morning keeping processing * JOURNEYMAN OWNER OPERATORS delivery of Red Deer equipment, facilities clean MACHINIST in AB. Home the odd & well maintained & SOFTWARE ENGINEER Advocate by 6:30 night. Weekends off. Late operating within strict ELEC. REPAIR TECH a.m. Mon. through model tractor pref. health, safety & fire Fri., + 8 a.m. on 403-586-4558 prevention standards For complete job & regulations.

Saturday. descriptions, please Celebrate your life Reliable vehicle needed. refer to our website at with a Classified The ideal candidate will For more info www.sparteksystems.com ANNOUNCEMENT posses Grade 12 or Applicants please forward equivalent. Two years feed resume to keri.lee@ Call Jamie mill or other manufacturing sparteksystems.com experience is preferred. or fax to 403-887-4050 403-314-4306 A combination of education Please state which position for more info & experience will be you are applying for in your considered. The candidate cover letter. may be required to lift up Req’d immediately STRONG Insulation Inc. to 25 kilograms & must Will consider Looking for exp. residential also possess computer training a ADULT & YOUTH insulators w/drivers licence competencies to operate professional, (Batt And Poly, Blow-in).

CARRIER NEEDED manufacturing equipment.

Call Curtis 403-307-7295 experienced driver.

Resumes can be Ph.1-877-463-9664 Wanted for delivery emailed to: tyson.flaman or email resume to of Flyers, Express & @hiprofeeds.com info@capilano Sunday Life in faxed to 403-783-3999 or dropped off trucktraining.com at the mill location at JOHNSTONE CLASS 1 DRIVER 6701, 44 Ave., Ponoka, AB. CROSSING Must have super B exp., Jepsen Crsc.

SYLVAN AUTO CENTRE all oilfield tickets, hauling DEADLINE TO SUBMIT requires an 1st Year or NGL, clean abstract.

RESUMES IS & Jordan Pkwy FRI., SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 other Apprentice Technician, Fax 403-347-2940 Attn: Bill Fax resume KENTWOOD PARTS INVENTORY CLASS 1 DRIVER , end 403-887-5054 or email dump experience pref., but Kirkland Dr. & ccottam@hotmail.ca CONTROL not necessary. Local work, No phone calls please We are currently seeking Kirkwood Crsc. home every night an energetic self motivated Fax resume 403-314-9990 Welders Wanted individual for parts and MUSTANG ACRES or email -2nd yr, 3rd yr inventory control. Oilfield blaineth@telus.net or Journeyman Galbraith St. & or drilling exp. an asset.

- willing to work Ozcan Northern is a rig Gray Dr. CLASS 1 drivers req’d to substantial overtime manufacturer in Blindman pull flat deck, exc. wages, Subcontractors Industrial Park. Please safety bonuses, benefits. welcome by hand email resume to Please call Joanne We run the 4 western provOzcan Northern is a rig michelle@ at 403-314-4308 inces. Please contact manufacturer located in ozcannorthern.com or fax 1-877-787-2501 for more Blindman Ind. Park. We 403-309-0179 are currently experiencing info or fax resume and abstract to 403-784-2330 QUALIFIED high demand in our fabrication facility and are ELECTRICIANS ADULT or YOUTH CLASS 3 DRIVER/ looking for energetic, self NEEDED CARRIERS motivated. Please fax EQUIPMENT OPERATOR NEEDED resumes to 403-309-0179 req’d immed. Local work, True Power Electric or email to: trevor@ need drivers abstract.

Requires ozcannorthern.com Fax resume to 403-986-8142 For delivery of Residential exp. only Flyers, Express and Competitive wages CLASS 3 WATER HAULER WOODMASTER & benefits. needed. Only those with Sunday Life in CABINETS Fax resume to: Has openings for an exp’d Drilling Rig Water Hauling 403-314-5599 experience need apply. cabinet finisher, sanding CLEARVIEW Need H2S & First Aid staining and spraying. Min. RIDGE AREA. tickets.TOP WAGES PAID 2 yrs exp. in the spray Good for an adult booth. Competitive wages, Fax clean drivers abstract comprehensive health plan. and resume between the with a small car. hours of 9 am to 6 pm to: Send resume to 403-746-3523 or call careers@woodmaster .ca ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK 403-304-7179 Fax to 403-342-4413 MEGA CRANES is looking Required immediately Call Jamie for a ticketed crane and 2 Pipeline Pipefitters. Truckers/ boom truck operator. Must We also require, 403-314-4306 Drivers have Class 1. Good for upcoming projects, for more info wages, benefits, 10% Pipeline Supervisors/ Busy Central Alberta Grain holiday pay, RRSP’s, and ADULT Trucking Company looking most evenings and weekForemen for Class 1 Drivers. We Must have 1st Aid, H2S, UPGRADING ends off. Fax resume to offer lots of home time, Ground Disturbance Alberta Government 885-4269 or email benefits and a bonus & a valid driver’s license.

Funded Programs cathy@megacranes.com program. Grain and super Successful candidates Student Funding Available!

B exp. an asset but not NEED experienced Class must be able to operate necessary. If you have a 1 drivers for short and long • GED Preparation a Hiab 077 series clean commercial drivers haul. Runs AB., SASK, picker mounted on a abstract and would like to Manitoba & BC 5500 Dodge truck.

Morning, Afternoon And start making good money.

Please call Viking Projects Ltd. Evening P/T Classes fax or email resume and PROMAX TRANSPORT offers competitive wages comm.abstract to at 227-2712 or fax resume and job bonuses.

Academic Express Please forward resume to: 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net w/abstract 403-227-2743 Adult Education & Training Fax 403-782-6856 340-1930 Email: Truckers/ www.academicexpress.ca reception@vikingprojects.ca Drivers Website: www.vikingprojects.ca 3412 53 Ave, Lacombe, AB, T4L 0B5 ADULT & YOUTH Like us on Facebook/ CARRIERS follow us on Twitter

PROFESSIONAL CLASS 1 DRIVER

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds looking for

850

Trades

Shipper / Receiver

Top wages for a Skilled Duplicator or Small Press Operator.

Call 403-341-0732 Fax: 403-227-1295 or email: caprint@telusplanet.net

JOURNEYMAN WELDERS

850

Truckers/ Drivers

• Basic working knowledge of electricity, painting, carpentry and plumbing.

• Excellent team player needed with the ability to work independently.

• Emergency First Aid & Mandatory criminal record check required.

Please apply in writing to:

261482I13-20

Restaurant/ Hotel

Bill Wall, Maintenance Manager 301 4719 - 48 Avenue or by Fax to: 403-343-2332.

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 14, 2012

880

Misc.

Help

IN SERVICE SHOP, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld.

Apply in person with resume at: Reg Cox Feed M i x e r s . S o u t h o f U FA Burnt Lake Indust. Park, Phone 403-340-2221 or THE TASTY BAKERY fax 403-341-5622

PACKAGING & COUNTER SALES

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 PART Time Dock Staff We have immediate openings for part time dock staff working afternoons. If you have warehouse experience and looking to work with a major freight forwarder, send your resume to gmctavish@tpsgroup.ca or call 905-564-1803. Total Personnel Solutions.

SPORTING GOODS store requires knowledgeable person for their gun room.

F/T or P/T iideal position for a retired person with firearm experience would be an asset. Drop by with resume to Bay 6, 7667 50th Ave, SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

P/T OPPORTUNITY No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, 2 or 3 afternoons per week.

Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

Employment Training

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

POLICE SEIZURE Estate Auction

Sunday September 16 @ 11 am sharp VIEWING 9 AM Competitive starting wages LOCATION: RIDGEWOOD plus regular increases.

COMMUNITY HALL Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Directions: From Penhold Excellent benefits Fas Gas, West on 592 for package. Opportunities 9 km to Range Road 10, to advance. Must be North to the Hall or Burnt dependable, hardworking Lake Trail to Range Road and seeking a long-term 10, then South to Hall. career. Apply in person, Watch for Ridgewood Hall or email to: signs hartleytj@eecol.com PARTIAL LIST ONLY: 4747 - 61st Street 1986 Ford Mustang; Antiques, Collectables, Furniture, Gold Jewelry, Employment Scales, Antique Recliner, Oak Showcase, Cross Cut Training Saws ,Sofa Sets, Fridge , Electric Range, Big Screen TV , Grandfather Clock, Lift Chair/Recliner ,Small OILFIELD SERVICES INC. Freezer, Dining Suites, offers a variety of Mountain Bikes , Electronics; Gun Cases; Compound & Cross Bows, to meet your needs.

Tools , Band Saw , Safe (with Combination) – Misc.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire And a WHOLE LOT MORE For a complete list visit Training are courses that we www.cherryhillauction.com offer on a regular basis. rms of Sale: Cash, As well, we offer a selection of Te Cheque, C/C, Everything online Training Courses. must be paid for & For more information check us out online at removed on sale day (NO www.firemaster.ca EXCEPTIONS), 15% or call us at 403 342 7500. buyer’s premium.

You also can find us on Facebook or Sale subject to Additions, follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs. D e l e t i o n s , E r r o r s a n d Omissions.

Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

900

SAFETY COURSES

SAFETY

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals

TRAINING CENTRE

Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

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

RED DEER WORKS

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS, Exp’d. Drivers & Swampers required.

MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

stuff

Auctions

217865

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

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Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

REMINDER BUD HAYNES ANTIQUE AUCTION Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave R.D. Sat. Sept. 15 @ 11 am The Bogart Collection.

Preview 9 am to Sale time.

Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com

Bicycles

Firewood

900

1660

1860

1900

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

CLOCK radio, Sony fm/am/3cd undercounter, new $100 403-314-2026

1760

Misc. for Sale

26 8 tracks, 26 cassettes, 27 LP’s, country western, must take all $80; custom made ice pick $50; tail gate protector and cargo organizer for Ford Ranger Club cab both $40; meat tub 18” x 22” x 10 1/2” deep, like new $20 403-314-2026 CONSTRUCTION wheelbarrow as new, $40; 2 therma-pane windows, $20 each, 28’ white deck r a i l i n g , $ 1 2 0 ; 403-728-2383 DISPLAY CASE (Lockable).

Wood with glass top.† Measures 36” wide x 24” deep x 6” tall. Bottom lined with red velvet. Great for vendors who want to display small/valuable items. $35.† Call (403) 342-7908

WHITE wicker dressing table w/chair $100; ladies golf clubs and bag $30 403-347-6190

1840

Dogs

KYTE CRES.

2000-2290

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse Combines & 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, Headers front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 860 MASSEY COMBINE Avail. Oct. 1.

Call 403-502-1091 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, Horses 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, HORSE TRAINING full bsmts. 403-347-7473, specializing in Western Sorry no pets. performance Michelle www.greatapartments.ca Hansum @403 597-4624 WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally Manufactured in Lacombe weekly.

Homes 403-651-5912

2040

2140

3040

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

2ND. cut round hay bales 403-350-4924

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

3010

2 BDRM. 2 baths, Pine Lake acreage immed. poss., $850/mo., 403-505-6240

Houses/ Duplexes

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main floor of house, w/dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, Nov. 1st, n/s, $1000/mo. + % utils. 403-782-2007

AUSTRALIAN Shepherd

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

de-wormed. 780-372-2387

$2000/mo. available after Sept 15th. 403-864-3326

FIREWOOD. All Types.

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

GOLDEN RETRIEVER pups, 1 M. Ready to go, 1st. shots.

Vet checked. Born May 13. .....SOLD!!......

INGLEWOOD 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 2 car garage, 5 appls, avail. now $1450 + utils. RENTED

CEMENT lawn ornaments $45-$100 403-314-9125

5 BDRM. house w/lrg garage

COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 6’-15’ digging and planting. J/V Tree Farm. 403-350-6439.

P. B. Pomeranian puppies, LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house, 2 M 2 F , sire and dame on 2 full bath, big lot, $995 sight, $500, 780-372-4367 403-782-7156 357-7465

Manufactured Homes

Only

1700

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

254509H1

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Home based bookkeeper with over 13 years of experience. I use both Simply and Quickbooks software. Rates:$25-35/ hour depending on services needed. Call Kim at 403-704-1174 INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 SMART shoppers read the Classifieds. 309-3300.

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

COUNTERTOPS

Kitchen renovations Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Eavestroughing

1130

10% OFF FOR SENIORS 403-391-2169

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT Busty Babe w/My Own Car! BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300 BOYS play with toys, men play with us 403-550-0558

EDEN

TIM LLOYD. WETT certified.

Inspections, installs, chimney sweeps & service 403-340-0513

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

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. 403-348-5650

Massage Therapy

1280

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) 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

587-877-7399 10am- 2am EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049

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

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

1169

HOT STONE - Releases back pain, headaches, etc.

403-352-8269

Moving & Storage

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

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Fencing

P.W. FENCING 403-598-9961

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

Manufactured Homes

MAIN FLOOR OF HOUSE

2 bdrm. In-suite Laundry.

Greenhouse in yard.

MATURE ADULTS ONLY. No Pets. $1295 - Util INCL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403 396 9554 www.hpman.ca

SUNNYBROOK

3 bdrm. apt. avail. Oct. 1 water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location,no pets, 403-346-6686 SYLVAN LAKE, lrg. bright lower level suite. $1000 incl. utils., parking, laundry, avail. Oct. 1 N/S. Call 780-462-2087

3070

Cottage/ Seasonal

2 BEDROOM CABIN AT PINE LAKE. $1200/mo. 403-346-7462 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Lana 403-550-8777

3040

in desirable Morrisroe.

Park like yard.

Clean, well kept, 4 bdrm., 2.5 baths, new dev. bsmt.

Single att. garage, quiet neighbourood & great neighbours.

31 MacFarlane Ave. $339,900. 403-342-0921

BLACKFALDS By Owner, New Starter Home. Unique bi-level, walk-out bsmt.

FOR SALE OR RENT TO OWN. 403-348-9746, 746-5541 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com Mason Martin Homes has

8 Brand New Homes starting at $179,900 Call for more info call 403-342-4544

OPEN HOUSE Sept 15 &16 , 11-4 4206-48 Ave Ponoka Completely Reno’d 1232 sq ft. 3-bdrm, 1.5 bath, bilevel w/dble detached garage. Bsmt dev. as 2 bdrm, 1 bath suite w/ private entrance. Many upgrades. $284,900 403-783- 4866 or 778-214-0166

RISER HOMES

WEEKEND SPECIAL

CLIVE

2 bdrm. 2 baths, $239,900 Incl. all legal fees and gst & appls., Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

FREE Cable

2 & 3 bedroom

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

in pet friendly park

New Executive

3 bdrm. 2 bath HOME in Red Deer. Immediate possession 10 yr warranty.

Own it for $1275/mo. OAC CALL 403-346-3100

Starting at

849

Beautiful Bungalow

3190

Mobile

Renter’s Special

$

4020

Commercial Property

/month

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

4110

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY by reserved auction, 3.1 acres, with 13, 000 sq ft building. Starting bid only $100,000.00 e-mail cordb@shaw.ca or call Cor at 780-918-6715.

$

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 1175

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

Houses For Sale

20,000with Intro

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Fireplaces

4000-4190

New Laminate throughout!

3 bdrm. 2 baths Apt/Condo.

5 appls. In-suite laundry & storage. AVAILABLE NOW! $1450 & elect.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

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homes

$

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

1100

CLASSIFICATIONS

KELLOWAY CRES.

3040

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Sweet 2 bdrm unit.

ADULTS ONLY. NO PETS. ONLY $895 & elect. Available Oct. 1.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

A MUST SEE!

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

1010

3060

Suites

RESPONSIBLE SINGLE MATURE adult wanted to housesit Oct. 1 until Spring, have ref’s., no pets, please call if interested, 403-392-5595

ALOHA APT. BLDG

Newly Reno’d Mobile Lot FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Lana 403-550-8777

3300

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

TREES for sale near Mirror, AB. Tower Poplar, Colorado Blue Spruce, Swedish Aspen, and Japanese Lilac. 403-650-1309

Accounting

1 BDRM. suite for over forty quiet tenant at 5910-55 Ave. Security cameras, auto lock doors, heat and water included. No pets.

Rent $750, $700 s.d.

Ph: 403-341-4627

Housesitting Wanted

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

RED crab apples to give away call 403-346-3142

Health & Beauty

3060

Suites

3020 modular/mobile homes

AFFORDABLE

1680

3030

1720

mini. & toy blue merles, in quiet cres in Sylvan Lake.

Homestead Firewood pups, $250-$500. 1st shots,

Garden Supplies

Condos/ Townhouses

2 BDRM. well cared for condo, North of river. Upgraded w/ hardwood floors, 4 appl., avail. Oct. 1 $875 rent & s.d. **RENTED** 2 BEDROOM 1-1/2 bath Condo for rent. Avail immed. in Normandeau.

5 New Appl., recently reno’d. $1150/month w/all utilities incl.

Contact Josh for more info @ 403-396-3263 or Email @ joshsallows @gmail.com Furnishings 3 BDRM,. townhouse, 2 RH compound bow 80 LB. baths, rent $1000, tenant complete, case, target, tree pays utils. heat, & water, BED ALL NEW, Queen Orthopedic, dble. stand, $385. 403-986-5238 5935 63 St. Unit 32 call 403-872-0880 pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325. Travel 3 BDRM. Kentwood 2 full 302-0582 Free Delivery baths, rent $1395 immed.

Packages 403-782-7156 357-7465 BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand TRAVEL ALBERTA BOWER AREA new, never used. 15 yr.

Alberta offers Large 3 bdrm townhouse. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice SOMETHING 1.5 baths. In-suite laundry. @ $545. 403-302-0582. for everyone.

Sorry-no pets. $1050 & Make your travel UTIL. AVAILABLE NOW! D R E S S E R w / m i r r o r, 3 plans now.

No Pets. drawers $70; chest of Hearthstone 403-314-0099 drawers, 4 drawers $50; or 403-896-1193 night table, 2 drawers $40; www.hpman.ca record cabinet 26” x 15” x 22”H $40 403-314-2026 Halman Heights 3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse MICROWAVE Emerson, 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, good shape, $40; tv stand, no pets, n/s, rent $1395 w/door, oak color, really AGRICULTURAL SD $1000 avail. immed. good shape,. $40, CLASSIFICATIONS 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 403-505-6612

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Sporting Goods

12 CU.FT. fridge, white, 3 WHEELER golf cart, like G E , l i k e n e w , 4 2 0 0 , new, $50, 14 doz golf balls, $2/per dozen 403-307-4223 after 6 p.m 403-314-0804 APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. GOLF CLUB SET RIGHT warr. Riverside Appliances HANDED 1 & 3 WOODS, J a z z a n d Ti c a t , Ly n x 403-342-1042 irons, 3-SW putter, bag, MAYTAG white Fridge w/ pull cart, balls, tees, $75 bottom freezer. 67” x 30”. call 403-346-0093 Spacious. Exc. cond. Asking PING PONG table, new, $450. 403-346-0065 never used, still in original box, $150. Phone 403-340-1640 or Household 403-391-6619.

2 MTN. BIKES, ladies’ and NEW material, assorted men’s $ 2 0 e a c h , lengths $1-$8; new zippers 403-728-2383 75 cents; toaster $5; steam iron $5; 2 flower pots w/macrame hanger $20; 12 pc.

Equipmentset of dishwasher safe Heavy dishes $75 403-314-9125

FREE

for all Albertans

1540

1710

Household Appliances

254502H1-I30

880

Misc.

Help

1300

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

MIKE’S Refresh Painting Interior specialist.

(403) 350-6958

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or trimming small trees. Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com

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CALL 309-3300

Beautiful Bungalow in Morrisroe. Park like yard. Clean, well kept, 4 bdrm., 2.5 baths, new dev. bsmt. Single att. garage, quiet neighbourood & great neighbours. 31 MacFarlane Ave. $339,900. 403-342-0921

OPEN HOUSE Sept 15 &16 11 A.M.-4 P.M. 4206-48 Ave Ponoka $284,900 1232 sq ft. 3-bdrm, upgrades. l 403-783-4866 or 778-214-0166

The

Rent Spot

Your Rental Key to Houses, Condos, Suites & More

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE

Aloha Apt. Bldg.

Kelloway Cres.

Sweet 2 bdrm unit.

ADULTS ONLY. NO PETS. ONLY $895 & elect.

Available Oct. 1.

New Laminate throughout!

3 bdrm. 2 baths Apt/Condo.

5 appls. In-suite laundry & storage. AVAILABLE NOW! $1450 & elect.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 Or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

Bower Area

Main Floor of House

Large 3 bdrm townhouse.

1.5 baths. In-suite laundry.

Sorry-no pets. $1050 & UTIL. AVAILABLE NOW! No Pets.

2 bdrm. In-suite Laundry.

Greenhouse in yard.

MATURE ADULTS ONLY. No Pets. $1295 - Util INCL.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 Or 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 E5

Bosnia veteran shot by police was finally getting treatment for PTSD: family fatally shot at his home in confrontation with RCMP

by THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A man fatally shot at his home in a confrontation with RCMP in Prince George, B.C., was a veteran of the Bosnian conflict who was finally getting treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder, says his family.

Greg Matters was a soldier for 15 years, his sister, Tracey, told reporters on Thursday.

He left the Canadian Forces in 2009 and after he returned to his home town in northern British Columbia it became clear to those who loved him that Matters was suffering from PTSD, she said.

“There was a delay in him getting treatment,” said his sister, who returned to Canada from Australia after learning her brother was dead.

old Matters was fatally shot by police.

His family said there are many questions they want answered about his death, including why police used lethal force on a man on his own property when the family has been told Matters was not armed.

“Why wasn’t my brother allowed to talk to his doctor, his mother or family friends during the standoff when this was requested?” she asked.

“Why was an emergency response team deployed in the first place?

“And most importantly, why is my brother no longer with us?

Tracey Matters said her brother may have been suicidal at time but his doctor never considered him a threat to anyone.

“We actually, as a family, suspected he had post-traumatic stress disorder and we sought treatment independently.”

About a year and half ago, he began treatment at the Operational Stress Injury clinic in Vancouver, one of nine across Canada funded by Veterans Affairs.

“He was just back to the good old Greg that I knew 20 years ago,” Tracey Matters said in a telephone interview with reporters.

“He was an absolute riot. I loved him to bits.

“He was a decorated veteran suffering from PTSD but was making amazing success; he was improving dramatically.”

But on Monday, an RCMP emergency response team was deployed to a rural property near Prince George, about 750 kilometres north of Vancouver, where a confrontation ensued, and 40-year-

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The capture of Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez is a major victory in the military battle against drug trafficking, but it could open a power vacuum and intensify a struggle south of the Texas border in northeast Mexico, a region that has seen some of the most horrific violence in the country’s six-year war among law-enforcement and rival gangs.

Adm. Jose Luis Vergara, a navy spokesman, said the burly, mustachioed man detained Wednesday evening in the Gulf port of Tampico was the capo known as “El Coss.”

One of Mexico’s most-wanted men, the 41-year-old is charged in the U.S. with drug-trafficking and threatening U.S. law enforcement officials.

U.S. authorities offered $5 million for information leading to his arrest.

Clad in a blue plaid shirt and bulletproof vest, the suspect was presented along with 10 bodyguards, five with bruised faces and clad in camouflage military fatigues similar to those of the marines who held them captive.

The navy also showed dozens of assault weapons, some pistols that appeared gilded and studded with jewels, and several expensive-looking watches seized in the operation.

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“It consolidates this new configuration of organized crime in Mexico,” Correa-Cabrera said.

“This disintegration of the Gulf Cartel will be impacting in a very serious way the levels of violence in Tamaulipas and probably in the whole country.”

Vergara said five of Costilla’s guards had been arrested Wednesday morning in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas.

Another five fled when marines tried to arrest them in Tampico, and the chase led authorities to Costilla’s hideout, he said.

Costilla shook his head when asked if he had anything to say about the charges against him and when asked if he had a lawyer.

The Matamoros-based Gulf Cartel was once one of Mexico’s strongest.

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A U.S. Secret Service agent stands watch as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Van Dyck Park in Fairfax, Va., Thursday. Below, President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at Lions Park, Thursday, in Golden, Colo.

Obama said the U.S. would not consider Egypt an ally, “but we don’t consider them an enemy.”

The government in Cairo receives roughly $1.5 billion in U.S. aid annually, most of it for the military.

The president said in an interview with the Spanishlanguage network Telemundo that Egypt is a “new government that is trying to find its way.”

And he warned that if the Egyptian government takes actions showing “they’re not taking responsibility,” then it would “be a real big problem.”

Administration officials later said the president was not trying to downgrade the relationship between the U.S. and Egypt.

The candidates spoke with less than eight weeks remaining in a close campaign for the White House in tough economic times.

The two states are among a handful likely to settle the race, and most polls rate Obama a shaky favourite. The U.S. president is chosen not by popular vote but in stateby-state contests.

Inevitably, the Fed’s new attempt to intervene in the economy became enmeshed in the campaign.

The nation’s central bank said it will spend $40 billion a month to buy mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary to make home buying more affordable.

It plans to keep shortterm interest rates at record lows through mid-2015 — six months longer than previously planned — and made clear it’s ready to try other measures to stimulate the economy if hiring doesn’t improve.

“The idea is to quicken the recovery,” said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at a news conference where he announced the latest attempts to jolt a slow-growth economy that has left joblessness at 8.1 per cent.

Carney, the White House press secretary, declined to comment, citing a long-standing policy when it comes to Fed actions.

Not so Romney’s campaign.

It released a statement in the name of Lanhee Chen, campaign policy director, that called the Fed’s steps “further confirmation that President Obama’s policies have not worked. After four years of stagnant growth, falling incomes, rising costs and persistently high unemployment, the American economy doesn’t need more artificial and ineffective measures. We should

Court mulls sheriff’s request to lift ban on immigration-related traffic stops

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court is considering a request by the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America” to reverse a lower-court decision barring his deputies from detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they’re illegal immigrants.

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said it would rule later after hearing from lawyers representing Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio on Thursday.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in 2007 alleging Arpaio’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office made traffic stops solely because Hispanics were driving.

A federal judge in December ordered Arpaio’s department to refrain from conducting such traffic stops while the class action lawsuit was being considered.

Arpaio appealed, arguing his deputies had probable cause to

be creating wealth, not printing dollars.”

Romney, who has said he would not reappoint Bernanke to a new term, declined to respond to a question about the Fed’s action.

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The Latino group claims Arpaio’s deputies pulled over some vehicles only to make immigration status checks during regular traffic patrols and the sheriff’s 20 special immigration patrols.

They also accuse the sheriff of ordering some of the patrols not based on reports of crime but rather on letters from Arizonans who complained about people with dark skin congregating in an area or speaking Spanish.

Arpaio has repeatedly denied the allegations, saying his deputies only stop people when they

think a crime has been committed and that he wasn’t the person who picked the location of the immigration patrols.

Snow’s verdict could render the 9th Circuit’s decision unnecessary.

Snow hasn’t indicated when he would rule.

The lawsuit marks the first case in which the sheriff’s office has been accused of systematically racially profiling Latinos, and will serve as a precursor for a similar yet broader civil rights lawsuit filed against Arpaio in May by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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The Republican candidate shifted his focus back to more comfortable ground on Thursday — the struggling American economy — after a oneday campaign detour into a foreign-policy thicket that left him bruised and Obama largely unscathed.

Romney made little mention during the day of the events in Egypt and Libya that he had cited Tuesday as evidence of national security weakness on the president’s part. Democrats have derided Romney’s remarks as inaccurate and evidence that the Republican nominee is an unsteady international leader.

Even some Republicans said Romney spoke too hastily, although others defended him.

The economy has long been Romney’s strongest area, with polls suggesting a majority of voters consider the multimillionaire businessman better qualified than Obama to put the U.S. back on the road to prosperity. With the unemployment rate hovering stubbornly above 8 per cent, the economy is also the No. 1 issue for voters.

The debate over the Middle East turmoil intruded, though, when a heckler at Romney’s rally yelled out, “Why are you politicizing Libya?”

The crowd responded with chants of “U-S-A” and supporters tried to place a Romney placard in front of the heckler’s face.

“We’re going to crack down on China,” the former Massachusetts governor vowed in an appearance in the Virginia suburbs around Washington, D.C. He spoke after his campaign unveiled a television commercial claiming that China has outpaced the United States in new manufacturing jobs since the president took office.

“Seven times Obama could have stopped China’s cheating. Seven times he refused,” it says.

The president pushed back.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that all the actions the administration has initiated at the World Trade Organization to rein in China have been successful.

The president’s campaign said Obama has brought as many cases challenging China trade policies in 3 ½ years as former President George W. Bush did in eight.

Obama campaigned as commander in chief after the violent deaths of four U.S. officials at a diplomatic post in Libya.

“No act of terror will go unpunished ... no act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America,” he said.

Obama vowed to do “whatever is necessary” to protect Americans serving abroad.

“We are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice,” he said in Golden, Colorado as two U.S. warships head for the Libyan coast.

Halfway around the world, anti-American protests spread to Yemen.

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Offer(s) available on select new 2012/2013 models through participating dealers to qualiďŹ ed customers who take delivery by October 1, 2012. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. Offers are subject to change without notice. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers exclude licensing, registration, insurance, other taxes and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise speciďŹ ed). Other dealer charges may be required at the time of purchase. Other lease and ďŹ nancing options also available. **0% purchase ďŹ nancing is available on select new 2013 Kia models on approved credit. Terms vary by model and trim, see dealer for complete details. Representative ďŹ nancing example based on 2012 Soul 1.6L AT (SO753C) with a selling price of $21,867 [includes delivery and destination fees of $1,650, $500 loan savings, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies) and A/C charge ($100, where applicable)] ďŹ nanced at 0% APR for 60 months. 130 bi-weekly payments equal $168 per payment with a down payment/equivalent trade of $0. Cost of borrowing is $0 for a total obligation of $21,867. License, insurance, applicable taxes, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699), PPSA and registration fees are extra. Retailer may sell for less. See dealer for full details. '$500 Winter Tire offer is open to retail customers who ďŹ nance or lease an eligible new 2012 or 2013 Kia vehicle from a participating Kia dealer between September 1 and October 1, 2012 inclusive. Eligible models include 2012/2013 Rio 4-Door and Rio5, 2012/2013 Forte Sedan, Forte Koup and Forte5, 2012/2013 Sorento and 2012 Soul 1.6 L AT or MT models. $500 can be redeemed, at customer's option, towards the purchase of a winter tire/tires for their new Kia vehicle, in the form of a cheque in the amount of $500 or as a reduction of $500 from the negotiated selling price (before taxes) of the new vehicle. Some conditions apply. See your Kia dealer for complete details. Offer ends October 1, 2012. &Bi-weekly ďŹ nance payment (on approved credit) for new 2013 Sorento LX AT (SR75BD)/2013 Sorento 3.5 LX V6 (SR75ED) based on a selling price of $28,667/$31,267 is $148/$167 with an APR of 0%/1.49% for 60 months, amortized over an 84-month period. Estimated remaining principal balance of $7,719/$8,543 plus applicable taxes due at end of 60-month period. Delivery and destination fees of $1,650, $1,650 “3 payments on usâ€? savings, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies) and A/C charge ($100, where applicable) are included.

License, insurance, applicable taxes, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699), PPSA and registration fees are extra. See dealer for full details. ÂĽ3 Payments On Us offer is available on approved credit to eligible retail customers who ďŹ nance or lease a select new 2012 Soul 1.6L MT/2012 Soul 1.6L AT/2012 Optima/2012 Sorento/2013 Sorento from a participating dealer between September 1 – October 1, 2012. Eligible lease and purchase ďŹ nance (including FlexChoice) customers will receive a cheque in the amount of three payments (excluding taxes) to a maximum of $350/$350/$400/$550/$550 per month. Lease and ďŹ nance (including FlexChoice) purchases are subject to approved credit. Customers will be given a choice between up to $1,050/$1,050/$1,200/$1,650/$1,650 reductions from the selling/leasing price after taxes or dealer can issue a cheque to the customer.

Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. Offer ends October 1, 2012. §Lease offer available on approved credit on new 2013 Sportage 2.4L LX MT FWD (SP551D) is based on monthly payments of $236 [includes delivery and destination fees of $1,650, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies), A/C charge ($100, where applicable), $350 lease service fee and a lease savings (lease credit) of $500] for 48 months at 0.9% with a $1,699 down payment/equivalent trade, security deposit and ďŹ rst monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $13,049 with the option to purchase at the end of the term for $11,335. Lease has 16,000 km/year allowance and $0.12/km for excess kilometres (other packages available). License, insurance, applicable taxes, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699), PPSA and registration fees are extra. Retailer may lease for less. See dealer for full details. \Cash purchase price for 2012 Optima Hybrid Base (OP74AC) is $26,472 and includes a cash savings of $4,700 (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease and ďŹ nance offers), $1,000 ECO-Credit, delivery and destination fees of $1,455, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies) and A/C charge ($100, where applicable). License, insurance, applicable taxes, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699), PPSA and registration fees are extra. Based on the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price of $32,172. Retailer may sell for less. Available at participating dealers. See dealer for full details. >ECO-Credit for 2012 Optima Hybrid is $1,000 (deducted before taxes) and is applicable to the purchase or lease of a new 2012 Kia Optima Hybrid. Available at participating dealers. Certain restrictions apply. See dealer for details. ‥$4,700 cash savings on the cash purchase of an eligible new 2012 Optima Hybrid from a participating dealer between September 1 – October 1, 2012. Cash savings is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease and ďŹ nance offers. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. UModel shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2013 Sorento 3.5L SX AWD (SR75XD)/2013 Sportage 2.0T SX with Navigation (SP759D)/2012 Optima Hybrid Premium (OP74BC) is $43,045/$39,145/$37,250 and includes delivery and destination fees of $1,650/$1,650/$1,455, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies) and A/C charge ($100, where applicable). License, insurance, applicable taxes, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699), PPSA and registration fees are extra. Retailer may sell for less. Available at participating dealers. See dealer for full details. ĂˆHighway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2013 Sorento 2.4L GDI 4-cyl (A/T)/2013 Sportage 2.4L MPI 4-cyl (A/T)/2012 Optima Hybrid 2.4L MPI 4-cyl (A/T). These estimates are based on Transport Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the Government of Canada’s EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. Some conditions apply to the $500 Grad Rebate Program. See dealer or kia.ca for details. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. KIA is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation and Kia Canada Inc. respectively.

CORRECTION NOTICE: Please note the following correction to the Kia Canada Free Standing Insert which ran in your local paper the week of September 6th, 2012. It showed that Active Front Heated Seats came as a standard feature in every Rio 4-Door and Rio 5-Door.

We regret that this feature is only applicable to the 2013 Rio 4 LX+ (RO744C) and Rio5 LX+ (RO754C). We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. KIA Canada Inc.