Red Deer Advocate, September 21, 2012

BEYOND THE HALL

HERE ARE YOUR REBELS

Kevin McDonald coming to town for two nights of Bull Skit! D1

WHL squad opens season tonight Special Section inside, B1

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

BREAKING NEWS ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 2012

Soaring proudly Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A Bald Eagle soars over the Red Deer River at the Dickson Dam. This bird was one of a pair of eagles flying in the winds above the Dam in search of a meal along the rivers edge.

Childhood obesity in overdrive ALMOST A THIRD OF KIDS ARE OVERWEIGHT, WITH PREVALENCE HIGHER FOR BOYS: STUDY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Almost a third of Canadian children are either overweight or obese, says a report from Statistics Canada that bases its figures on the World Health Organization method of determining ideal weights for youth around the globe.

Using data from the 2009-2011 Canadian Health Measures Survey, Thursday’s report suggested 31.5 per cent of those aged five to 17 — an estimated 1.6 million young Canadians — are overweight or obese.

The proportion was slightly higher among younger youth. Almost 33 per cent of five- to 11-year-olds were overweight or obese, compared to 30 per cent of those 12 to 17.

The percentage of kids who were overweight — but not obese — was similar across age groups.

But when it came to those deemed obese, more boys than girls fit the WHO definition, with 15.1 per cent of boys being obese compared to eight per cent of girls.

The gender gap appears to be particularly noticeable in the five-to-11 age group, with three times more boys considered obese (19.5 per cent) than girls (6.3 per cent). The difference appeared less pronounced among those aged 12 to 17, with 10.7 per cent of boys and 9.6 per cent of girls considered obese.

It’s not clear why more boys than girls in the younger age group would be obese. Even the report’s authors footnoted the finding “use with caution.”

“It’s a new observation from our perspective, as well,” said Kim Elmslie, director general of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at the Public Health Agency of Canada.

“Hence the footnote around that and the need for us really to drill down on what that means, because we don’t know at this point what that means,” she said Thursday from Ottawa.

“So what we really need to do next, and what we will be doing next, is further analysis to understand why are we seeing this difference in the five-to-11year age group between boys and girls?”

Experts say the proportion of Canadian kids and teens who are overweight or obese has not changed much in the last few years. What has changed is the method for determining if a child or teen is carrying too many pounds and to what extent.

The traditional estimate of overweight and obese youth — 26 per cent — has been primarily determined from International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria, based on body mass index (BMI) measurements.

The new report uses WHO’s more recently implemented weight status charts, also BMI-based, which many medical associations now endorse.

“More people met the threshold based on those new guidelines, so it looks like there’s a jump up in the number of kids who are overweight or obese,” said Dr. Mark Tremblay, director of Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

Please see OBESITY on Page A2

Groups helping sex trade victims Colleges dispute A BETTER WORLD, RAISE THEIR VOICE FUNDRAISING FOR HOME OF NEW BEGINNINGS IN THAILAND

A Central Alberta humanitarian group wants to help women and children who are victims of human trafficking for the sex trade in Thailand.

Lacombe’s A Better World is partnering with Raise Their Voice to assist Home of New Beginnings, a safe house operating in Bangkok since 2006.

Red Deer playwright Andrew Kooman with Raise Their Voice wrote She Has a Name, inspired by the 2008 discovery of an abandoned storage container in Thailand. Inside were 121 human trafficking victims from Burma. Fifty-four of them were dead.

She Has a Name premiered in 2011 in Red Deer and Calgary and has been on a 13-city Canadian tour since May. It returns to Red Deer next month.

“When we first did the premiere, people responded so deeply to the play we felt a responsibility to

PLEASE

A report suggesting Alberta is one of Canada’s most expensive provinces for post-secondary schooling is being disputed.

Representatives of Red Deer College and Olds College say their average tuition costs are far lower than Alberta’s average.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recently released its report, Eduflation and the High Cost of Learning, that revealed growing differences in tuition fees. That’s making a difference in access, depending on where one lives in Canada.

Since 1993-94, Alberta’s tuition and other fees have been above the national average. Projected tuition and compulsory fees will be $8,827 in 2015-16 ($8,108 in 2010), the second highest in the country after only Ontario.

Please see HOME on Page A2

Please see TUITION on Page A2

WEATHER

INDEX

Sunny. High 25. Low 8.

Five sections Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A5-A7 Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3,C4 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C7,C8 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E1-E7 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . D1-D3 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1-B7

FORECAST ON A2

RECYCLE

-HWWD

$ ,000

CASH SAVINGS*

3DVVDW

$5,000

CASH SAVINGS*

*UHDW RȔ HUV DOVR DYDLODEOH RQ RXU PRGHOV

ALBERTA

ADVOCATE VIEW

GIRL REMOVED FROM LIFE SUPPORT, DIES

MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

A two-year-old Edmonton girl allegedly abused by her parents has died after the Supreme Court of Canada rejected a request to keep her on life support. A6

UP TO 0RWRU 7UHQG Car of the Yearp 2012 Passat

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

direct them to opportunities for action both locally and internationally to address human trafficking,” Kooman said.

While the play is creating awareness about human trafficking, A Better World is helping fundraise and will implement the improvements projects at Home of New Beginnings.

The home focuses on counselling, life-skills training, opportunities for education, and spiritual healing.

“It’s a place where girls and women who have left the sex trade can become healthy and financially sustainable.

“Basically it’s a place where they can recover, gain life skills, build healthy relationships with people who don’t want to pay for their bodies.”

The facility currently has 17 residents, ages 11 to 33.

$6,000

Gary Lang directs the documentary ‘The Real Sherlock Holmes,’ premiering Friday on History Television.

CASH SAVINGS

*

2012 Routan amount shown

Life is paying you back Gary Moe Volkswagen

403.342.2923

Gasoline Alley South, (west side) Red Deer

Visit garymoe.com

AMVIC LICENSED

vw.ca

*Limited time discount available on cash purchase only of the following select new and unregistered 2012 gas models remaining in dealership inventory: Jetta/Passat 2.5L/Passat 3.6L/Routan with respective discounts of $3,000/$3,500/$5,000/$6,000. Discounts on cash purchase of other remaining new and unregistered 2012 models vary by model. Golf R excluded. Offers end November 30, 2012 and are subject to change or cancellation without notice. 2012 Jetta Highline 2.5L and 2012 Passat Highline 2.5L shown. Vehicles may not be exactly as shown. Visit vw.ca or your Volkswagen dealer for details. “Volkswagen”, the Volkswagen logo, “Jetta”, “Passat” and “Routan” are registered trademarks of Volkswagen AG. “Volksfest” is a trademark of Volkswagen AG. Motor Trend® Magazine is a registered trademark of Source Interlink Magazines, LLC. © 2012 Volkswagen Canada.

40657I7,21

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

tuition report

A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

YUKON

Power outage knocks out communication across territory

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WHITEHORSE — A power failure in the Yukon appeared to set off a chain reaction across the territory Thursday, knocking out communication services, including the 911 system.

Emergency officials were forced to adapt during the blackout, but officials with the Whitehorse Fire Department, the RCMP and Whitehorse General Hospital said there were no major emergencies or crimes during the outage that started at about 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Officials in Whitehorse said emergency preparedness plans for both the city and the territory were activated.

More police officers were sent to patrol the streets and Emergency Medical Services set up satellite stations where residents could go to get emergency care, said Michael McKeage, the agency’s director.

The problem began when a tree fell over a major transmission line, cutting off power to most of the Yukon, said Guy Morgan, manager of operations at Yukon Energy.

“It was almost the ideal spot, right in the middle of our (high voltage) transmission line,” he said. “We were trying to protect our equipment and all our breakers opened.”

STORIES FROM A1

OBESITY: ‘Really just a measurement issue’ Tremblay, who was not involved in penning the federal report, said it’s unlikely the proportion of overweight and obese kids has suddenly escalated by five or six percentage points.

“No, it’s really just a measurement issue,” he said.

However, he conceded “we may have been underestimating in the past using the IOTF method how many kids that was.”

Elmslie said the WHO classification system helps public health officials understand the optimal growth trajectory for children and how that should be applied for measuring obesity rates in the population overall.

“The IOTF would result in a rate of one in four and WHO would result in a rate of one in three children (being overweight or obese),” she said.

“What’s important, however, is that whether it’s one in four or one in three, it’s too high.”

Tremblay said the rise in childhood obesity is related to a “drifting in lifestyle behaviours” that favour sedentary pastimes such as sitting in front of the computer over physical activities like play and sports.

“And those behaviours at some level represent a misuse or a disuse of our muscles, our heart, our lungs and so on. And so they atrophy or they degrade or manifest problems at an earlier age.”

He said there has been an acceleration in the age of onset of chronic diseases in young people who are inactive and saddled with extra weight.

Increasingly, doctors are seeing kids with risk factors for cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and mental health issues — “things we would not expect and in previous generations would not have observed,” he said.

“This is the concern, that to some degree, we’re mortgaging the health of this younger generation.”

Dr. Catherine Birken, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Paediatric Society, said a 2012 position paper by the organization provides guidelines to promote active, healthy living to prevent obesity among young people.

Birken, a staff pediatrician at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, said there is a strong link between obesity and sedentary behaviour like screen time, and it’s critical that children and adolescents boost physical activity and cut down on sedentary pursuits.

“Obesity is a very important and prevalent problem in Canada, and in children particularly,” she said. “So children who are obese are more likely to be obese as adults.”

THURSDAY PayDay: 21, 51, 54, 70 Extra: 6764587

LOTTERIES

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Lindsay Thurber High School graduate Will Ferguson and former LTCHS principal and school division superintendent Len Luders share a laugh Thursday. Red Deer Public Schools held a 125th Anniversary Celebration evening at the Harvest Centre featuring Ferguson who is an award winning author as the guest speaker.

Birken said childhood obesity is related to a host of complications, among them mental health issues, poor self-esteem, bullying and depression.

There are also physical consequences to obesity, including Type 2 diabetes, abnormal cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and obstructive sleep apnea.

“I treat children with obesity,” said Birken. “So absolutely we’re seeing more and more children struggling with obesity and the complications of obesity.”

HOME: ‘Direct and specific ways’ to help A Better Word projects to assist Home of New Beginnings include $9,000 for vocational training equipment, $18,000 for two motorized rickshaws, $9,000 for a training facility, $12,000 for an outstanding payment on the property, and $5,000 for the gift shop where residents sell baked goods and other products they make.

Eric Rajah, co-founder of A Better World, said the projects are “direct and specific ways” to assist the children and women.

“It might be a drop in the bucket, but still that drop would be missed,” Rajah said.

Raise Their Voice is a group of five family members with previous connections with Home Of New Beginnings.

Raise Their Voice and A Better World began discussions about a year ago.

“We are so inspired by the work A Better World does. That they have partnered with us is really exciting,” Kooman said.

She Has a Name returns to Red Deer Oct. 2 to 6 to close the tour at Scott Block Theatre. For tickets call 1-800-838-3006.

For more information, visit a-better-world.ca or shehasaname.net. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

TUITION: Enrolment rising Brad Donaldson, vice-president of academic at Red Deer College, said that RDC’s range of tuition for a year is from $3,500 to $8,000, with the average being $5,500.

At Olds College, which offers very specialized programming, the average tuition cost is $5,600 for a year.

Jordan Cleland, vice-president of advancement, said he’s not concerned that students may seek education in cheaper places across Canada.

“Our enrolment is up nine per cent this year for first-year students,” said Cleland on Thursday. “I

Pick 3: 783 Numbers are unofficial.

WEATHER LOCAL TODAY

TONIGHT

SATURDAY

HIGH 25

LOW 8

HIGH 25

HIGH 25

HIGH 23

Sunny.

Clear.

Sunny.

Sunny. Low 7.

Sunny. Low 6.

REGIONAL OUTLOOK Calgary: today, sunny. High 26. Low 9.

Olds, Sundre: today, sunny. High 26. Low 4.

Rocky, Nordegg: today, sunny. High 23.

Low 4.

Banff: today, sunny.

High 26. Low 6.

Jasper: today, sunny.

High 26. Low 4.

SUNDAY

TONIGHT’S HIGHS/LOWS

FORT MCMURRAY

Edmonton: today, sunny. High 23. Low 11.

Fort McMurray: today, sunny. High 19.

Low 6.

19/6 GRANDE PRAIRIE

28/7

EDMONTON

23/11 JASPER

26/4

RED DEER

25/8

Sunset tonight: 7:35 p.m.

Sunrise Saturday: 7:22 a.m.

UV: 4 Moderate Extreme: 11 or higher Very high: 8 to 10 High: 6 to 7 Moderate: 3 to 5 Low: Less than 2

2012 CHEVROLET ORLANDO 1LT Stk #20266, p.w., p.d., air conditioning, remote start

168

$

/bi-weekly, o.a.c.

• Functional and Versatile • Standard 7 passenger seating • Excellent Fuel Efficiency • Safety and Security • 4-Wheel Disc Brakes with ABS, StabiliTrak®, Traction Control, 6 Airbags, power rear child security door locks, Child-View Mirror

BANFF

26/6

CALGARY

26/9 36538I22

WINDCHILL/SUNLIGHT

ORLANDO WINS!

MONDAY

Lethbridge: today, sunny. High 28. Low 7.

Grande Prairie: today, sunny. High 28.

Low 7.

don’t think cost is a barrier to the majority of Olds College students. Our focus is on quality and we have a lot of scholarship money.”

A total of 96 per cent of Olds College graduates find employment within six months, he added.

Olds College also works well with its student leadership in talking with them about any possible tuition rate increases.

“It’s done with the informed consent of our students,” said Cleland.

Darryl Power, president of the Student Association, said the college is open with its student body about tuition fee discussions, and fortunately, since March when he was elected, there hasn’t been any talk of increases.

“I attended another institution and when I came to Olds, there was a decrease in tuition, which was a nice surprise,” said Power, who is enrolled in the Land Agent program. “The fact the tuitions are lower is beneficial, but the students are here more for the specialization.”

The report also indicates how tough it is for families living in poverty to afford an education in Alberta.

Alberta is the second most costly province for lowincome families, slightly behind Ontario.

At Red Deer College, Donaldson said that institutions get their money from three sources — provincial funding, selling of services like books, and tuitions.

When the income from one of those areas decreases, then the other two have to make up the loss.

A continued decline in provincial dollars has been causing problems over the last number of years, said Donaldson.

The college is in its fourth year of a six-year agreement for provincial government funding.

“We are seeing an average of one per cent per year (increase) in government funding,” said Donaldson. “The cost of living goes up more than one per cent. That places pressures on tuition.”

One good thing is that tuition fee rate increases are legislated in Alberta, he added.

This year’s tuition fees didn’t rise, but for the year ending June 30, 2013, it will rise by 1.45 per cent and

by June 30, 2014, it will rise by 2.15 per cent.

“Our costs are going up much higher than what the government is giving us,” said Donaldson. “We can only increase our tuitions according to the consumer price index. It places pressures on post-secondary institutions to maintain their programming.”

Tuition fee increases have far outpaced the rate of inflation since 1990 in most provinces, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report.

Inflation averaged only 2.1 per cent annually between 1990 and 2011. Tuition and added fees increased an average of 6.9 per cent during this same time, largely due to cuts in public funding. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

LETHBRIDGE

28/7

3110 GAETZ AVE., RED DEER LOCAL 403-347-3301 TOLL FREE 1800-661-0995

www.pikewheaton.com *All Rebates to Dealer. See dealer for details. *3.49% 84 months oac

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 A3

2012 MODEL YEAR-END

0%

on Now!!!

Best Diesel Selection in Alberta!

FINANCING FOR 72 MONTHS ON SILVERADO LD AND AVALANCHE

DIESEL

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LTZ CREW CAB SPECIAL EDITION MSRP $77,150

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LT CREW CAB

You Save

Stk #20624. cloth, bluetooth, 6” tubular assist steps

You Save

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LTZ CREW CAB

Stk #20787. heated/cooled leather, sunroof, nav., chrome steps/side bars/laser graphics

DIESEL

MSRP $65,185

DIESEL

Sale $53,413*

11,772

Sale $64,378*

Stk #20898. heated leather, sunroof, bluetooth, rear vision camera, Z71 pkg.

12,772

$

$

MSRP $41,919 Sale $59,628*

12,791

$

You Save

DIESEL

DIESEL

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LTZ CREW CAB DIESEL

MSRP $74,610

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LTZ CREW CAB

You Save

Stk #20882. heated/cooled leather, sunroof, 20” rim/tires, bluetooth rear vision camera, Z71, 6” assist steps

MSRP $74,610

You Save

2012 SILVERADO 3500 LTZ CREW CAB

Stk #20900. heated/cooled leather, sunroof, 20” rims/tires, bluetooth, rear vision camera, Z71, 6” assist steps

Stk #20917. heated/cooled leather, sunroof, rear vision camera, Z71, 6” assist steps

Sale $62,028*

12,582

$

Sale $62,028*

MSRP $75,115

You Save

12,582

Sale $62,028*

13,087

$

$

$

295

/bi weekly*

DIESEL

2012 AVALANCHE LT 4WD

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LT CREW CAB DIESEL

Sale $62,128*

12,587

$

298

/bi weekly*

248

2012 AVALANCHE LT AWD

MSRP $60,100

You Save

Stk #20755. cloth, bench seat, rear vision camera

Sale $38,025*

12,500

$

2011 CHEVROLET TAHOE 4WD

2011 CHEVROLET CRUZE

2012 COLORADO LT 4WD CREW CAB

$

Stk #20623. power convenience pkg., bluetooth, XM radio

Sale $46,400*

MSRP $39,400

13,700

$

2011 CHEVROLET CRUZE

Sale $29,900*

You Save

2011 CHEVROLET CRUZE $

9,500

$

2011 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 2500HD 4WD

140

$

/bi weekly*

155

2011 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE AWD

2011 CHEVROLET COLORADO CREW CAB 4WD

2011 CHEVROLET EQUINOX AWD

2011 CHEVROLET EQUINOX AWD

2012 SILVERADO W/T 2WD REG. CAB

2012 COLORADO LT 2WD EXT. CAB

Stk #20866. 4.8L, pw, pdl, trailer brake, bluetooth, xm radio, trailering equipment

MSRP $30,725

EVROLET CREW CAB 1500 4WD

Sale $21,325*

9,400

$

2011 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 1500 4WD

You Save

Sale $21,998*

You Save

Stk #20397. auto transmission. 2.9L

2011 CHEVROLET EXT CAB 2500HD 4WD

8,967

$

2011 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 2500HD 4WD

MSRP $42,545 Sale $29,995*

You Save

2011 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 2500HD 4WD $

321

2008 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER LT 4WD

2010 CADILLAC SCX AWD

2012 SILVERADO 2500 LT CREW CAB Stk #20636. 6L gas, cloth, Z71, bluetooth, rear view camera, remote start, upgraded rims/tires

2006 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE LTMSRP $56,840 2007 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE LTZ

Sale $47,340* 2007 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 3500 4WD

You Save

9,500

$

www.pikewheaton.com 403-347-3301

Find us on:

12,550

$

2011 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 2500 4WD

/bi weekly*

2012 SILVERADO 1500 LTZ CREW CAB 4WD 2008 GMC CREW CAB 1500 4WD

2011 CHEVROLET REG CAB LONG BOX

2012 SILVERADO 1500 LS CREW CAB 4WD

Stk #20798. 4.8L, bluetooth

MSRP $30,965

Stk2010 #20561. lift,CAB 20”1500 wheel leather, DODGE4” QUAD 4WD package, heated/cooled 2007 CHEVROLET TAHOE LTZ sunroof, rear vision camera, 6” assist steps

MSRP $63,205

You Save

198

/bi weekly*

/bi weekly*

CHEVROLET TRAVERSE AWD

210

/bi weekly*

Stk #20826. heated seats, sunroof, 20” tires/rims, nav., Bose stereo, rear vision camera

2012 AVALANCHE LT 4WD

You Save

$

/bi weekly*

2

HEVROLET AVALANCHE 4WD

13,500

$

$

$

to choose from*

MSRP $50,525

You Save

Sale $46,010*

Sale $50,705*

12,500

$

$

197

/bi weekly*

2012 SILVERADO 15002008LSGMCCREW CAB 4WD CREW CAB 1500 4WD

2008 CHEVROLET EXTENDED CAB 4WD

Stk #20504. 4.8L, pw, pdl, trailer brake, bluetooth, xm radio, trailering equipment

MSRP $42,395 Sale $29,898*

You Save

12,497

$

CURRENT TRUCK OWNERS: Get an additional $1000 OFF!

2007 GMC CREW CAB 1500 4WD

Find us on:

2007 CHEVROLET CREW CAB 1500 4WD

Find us on:

*Payments OAC. Avalanche/Silverado LD Crew Cab 0.99%/84 months, cash price not compatible with low interest financing on Avalanche/Silverado LD; Colorado 4.79%/84 months; Silverado W/T 0.99%/84 months. Prices includes $1000 discount truck loyalty Program Eligibility. All rebates to Dealer.

2008 CHEVROLET EQUINOX SPORT AWD

2007 HUMMER H3

3110 Gaetz Avenue, Red Deer

21/03/11 9:32 AM

Mon - Thu: 8:30-8:00, Fri: 8:30-6:00, Sat: 9:00-6:00

41788I21

adness

12,010

$

You Save

Stk #20919. heated/cooled leather, sunroof, rear vision camera, Z71 plus pkg

You Save

MSRP $59,510

MSRP $67,360 Sale $55,350*

2012 SILVERADO 3500 LTZ CREW CAB MSRP $74,715

Stk #20507. heated/cooled leather, sunroof, 20” tires/rims, rear vision camera

Stk #20513. cloth, bluetooth, rearview camera, Z71 pkg.

A4

COMMENT

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Being world class SPENDING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS ON AN ARENA IN EDMONTON IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO GET THE JOB DONE It’s not the easiest thing, being an Oilers fan these days. Well, perhaps not the most fanatical fan, but everyone needs a favourite team, and the Oilers have been my team since before they entered the National Hockey League. For a long time now, that’s meant tempering exGREG pectations with patience. Next NEIMAN year always seems to be a better place.

But with the lockout begun, this year doesn’t look to be like the next year that last year promised.

There being no NHL season to distract us, we spend our hockey energies watching the Oilers owner Daryl Katz in his game of nerves with the City of Edmonton, on the building of the team’s new arena. In this contest, I’m backing Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel and his council.

The city has already pledged plenty of city resources and money to the project, with no guarantee that their ratepayers will see a return on mon-

INSIGHT

ey already invested. So Mandel and city councillors are balking at another $6-million subsidy the Oilers owners group says had always been part of their agreement with the city.

The $475-million project to replace the aging and inadequate Rexall Place hinges on an unrealized promise of $100 million in backing from the province. We have had three provincial premiers who have categorically declared that’s not going to happen. But, as governors the world over have famously said: what’s $100 million?

Supporters of public investment in professional sports facilities will tell you $100 million is far less than the tax revenue the province would reap from income and business taxes from all the economic activity that surrounds a pro sports franchise, plus taxes on booze and gambling returns that flow on game days.

The same argument is applied to the host city — and Edmonton city council agreed to the tune of $125 million.

A world-class city needs a pro sports team, the theory goes. And what big shot businessman wants to invest in a city where you can’t buy luxury box seats and write them off as a company expense?

Mandel and council are confident that a majority of taxpayers support them this far, if grudgingly. Well and good. Being world class is a laudable goal.

An artist’s concept drawing of the new arena for the Edmonton Oilers. It sure looks world class, but class does not extend to building it with the tax dollars of Albertans who will never afford the ticket price of an NHL game.

But I don’t buy the economic arguments and neither should Alberta taxpayers. CBC Radio has already reported in various NHL cities about how bar and restaurant owners are laying off staff, since their revenues are expected to drop during the NHL lockout. Those are real jobs, real lives affected.

They compose a valid local business argument, but it’s not evidence of loss for either the city, the province or their general taxpayers.

Economics dictate that all money in an economy is always eventually spent.

Even money sitting idle in savings — think of the mountains of cash held by big corporations — must eventually be

spent. There’s a law somewhere that dictates that. If I perish with $10.82 to the good, my heirs will jointly spend it.

You can’t take it with you.

Therefore, even though restaurants, bars and stores that sell overpriced NHL jerseys will suffer, the money they would have gained will be spent — and taxed — elsewhere. Economic activity around NHL hockey will drop during the lockout, but activity in a hundred other areas will gain.

If this game between Katz and city council goes badly wrong, the Oilers might leave town. That would leave fans like me in a sad quandary (I can’t even think about being a Flames fan without some degree of pain). But it would not hurt taxpayers like me in the least.

On the other hand, putting my tax money into the pockets of millionaire team owners and millionaire players is a dead loss. There’s zero profit to be made, and that’s money that could be better spent making Edmonton and Alberta world class in other ways.

Either outcome in this game makes it even harder to be an Oilers fan. But on the whole, I’d rather the team supported itself through ticket sales, TV revenue and merchandising, than tax dollars.

Greg Neiman is a former Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.com or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com

New party dynamics in question period Perhaps the best that can be said about watching question period on site as MPs settle in for the fall session is that television does full justice to the House of Commons.

Despite the restrictions on camera angles, it ultimately provides those who do not enjoy a perch in the House gallery with a depressingly clear picture of the dynamics of the 41st Parliament.

For the record, it is just as disheartening to see otherwise smart men and women deliver dumbed-down distortions drafted by 20-something spin doctors in person as it is CHANTAL to do so via a television set.

HEBERT On that score, the return of Parliament this week brought neither an improvement in the tone, nor a rise in the level of debate that sucks much of the energy out of the Hill for 45 minutes every day.

But there were other revealing changes.

The most obvious is the NDP is now comfortable in the lead opposition role. Its caucus no longer looks like an amateur troupe auditioning for a spell on Broadway.

The NDP front bench boasts solid performers.

The B.C.-Ontario tandem of Peter Julian and Charlie Angus consistently stands out.

For better or for worse, Montreal’s Alexandre Boulerice is rising out of the Quebec ranks to become the French version of Manitoba attack dog Pat Martin.

The first question periods of the fall session featured leader Thomas Mulcair asking more questions than usual and focusing exclusively on the economy.

But unless Mulcair raises the party’s game on issues upon which the NDP has been chronically weak, he will not have a real shot at beating the Conservatives in 2015.

As an aside: If Justin Trudeau is to become party leader, the NDP has a better than fighting chance of beating the Liberals at the economic game.

It seems Conservative strategists have come to the same conclusion.

Since Parliament reopened on Monday, the Conservatives have thrown everything but an imaginary kitchen sink at the NDP. So far, the main casualty in the war of words with the NDP has been the truth.

When one looks back on Stephen Harper’s first years in power, no one will argue that he did not lead by example in the Commons.

He is hardly the first prime minister to inject a dose of partisanship into his question period demeanour.

Jean Chrétien used to crow about putting his

INSIGHT

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Cyclists, motorists can live together I have been cycling in Red Deer for many years and still do. I think the bike lanes are a good idea, although I have some points that need to be raised.

What do you do at the intersections where the lines disappear? Go onto the sidewalk or make the drivers mad because you’re in their way and nobody knows what to do!

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER Published at 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 1M9

by The Red Deer Advocate Ltd. Canadian Publications Agreement #336602 Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Fred Gorman Publisher John Stewart Managing editor Richard Smalley Advertising director

sharpest verbal jabs in his last answer — so that his counterpart would have no chance to reply.

But even on the Chrétien scale, Harper’s ardour as he led the charge against the NDP this week bordered on religious zeal.

Watching the prime minister go on the attack, a stranger to the ways of parliamentary democracy could have been forgiven from thinking that he and not Mulcair was the leader of the Opposition.

One measure of opposition performance is its success in exposing weak links in the government’s chain of command.

Finance’s Jim Flaherty and Treasury Board President Tony Clement are political pros and International Trade Minister Ed Fast is turning out to be an effective addition to Harper’s economic lineup.

But Parliament Hill veterans would be hardpressed to remember a less enlightening industry minister than Christian Paradis. He is apparently

lost without talking points.

That’s a feature that probably keeps Paradis in the good books of his handlers. But if the NDP had asked central casting for a minister to star in a narrative designed to showcase the Conservatives as hapless keepers of Central Canada’s manufacturing base, Paradis would have won the role.

The absence this week of Liberal interim leader Bob Rae provided an opportunity to peek into what the not-so-distant future might hold for the thirdplace party.

If the picture seemed familiar to some older parliamentary hands, it was because the Liberal wheelspinning in question period was reminiscent of the days when a rump Progressive Conservative caucus was failing to convince Canadians it had not become the fifth wheel of the federal carriage.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

What I do is give the 5,000-pound (or more) metal monster a wide berth, letting it know my intentions (through hand signals, eye contact and courteousness).

We need lessons in bike riding. Etiquette and common sense will make this form of travel much easier on everyone.

We have a voice, use it. Human’s main line of defence is hearing and sight. Because bicycles are very silent, by saying, “Coming up on your left” or ringing your bell at blind corners, makes everybody more comfortable.

Many people will respond appreciatively.

You can be seriously hurt on a bicycle or if you snarl with a car, who knows. Road rash, broken bones or worse. Time off work, hospital, money hassles, I’m too old for any of these, as many of us are.

The main point I want to make is: let the drivers and pedestrians know your intentions, then no one is confused. We have a responsibility to find other means of transport, whether for fun or function I think the bike lanes are progressive, good for the environment, etc., but they are only as good as the people who use them!

Greg Muise Red Deer

Scott Williamson Pre-press supervisor Mechelle Stewart Business manager Main switchboard 403-343-2400 Delivery/Circulation 403-314-4300 News News tips 403-314-4333 Sports line 403-343-2244 News fax 403-341-6560 E-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com John Stewart, managing editor 403-314-4328 Carolyn Martindale, City editor 403-314-4326 Greg Meachem, Sports editor 403-314-4363 Harley Richards, Business editor

403-314-4337 Website: www.reddeeradvocate.com Advertising Main number: 403-314-4343 Fax: 403-342-4051 E-mail: advertising@reddeeradvocate.com Classified ads: 403-309-3300 Classified e-mail: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Alberta Press Council member The Red Deer Advocate is a sponsoring member of the Alberta Press Council, an independent body that promotes and protects the established freedoms of the press and advocates freedom of information. The Alberta Press Council upholds

the public’s right to full, fair and accurate news reporting by considering complaints, within 60 days of publication, regarding the publication of news and the accuracy of facts used to support opinion. The council is comprised of public members and representatives of member newspapers. The Alberta Press Council’s address: PO Box 2576, Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 8G8.

Phone 403-580-4104.

Email: abpress@telus.net.

Website: www.albertapresscouncil.ca.

Publisher’s notice The Publisher reserves the right to edit or reject any advertising copy; to omit or discontinue any advertisement. The advertiser agrees that the Publisher shall not be

liable for damages arising out of error in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurs.

Circulation Circulation 403-314-4300 Single copy prices (Monday to Thursday, and Saturday): $1.05 (GST included).

Single copy (Friday): $1.31 (GST included).

Home delivery (one month auto renew): $14.50 (GST included).

Six months: $88 (GST included).

One year: $165 (GST included).

Prices outside of Red Deer may vary.

For further information, please call 403314-4300.

A5

ALBERTA

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Health officials look into five E. coli infections

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Health officials in Alberta say they are investigating five cases of E. coli infections in people, but they are not linking them to an extensive recall of ground beef from major Canadian grocery stores.

Alberta Health Services says four of the infections are in Edmonton and one is in Calgary.

Alberta investigates between 20 and 25 cases of E. coli each year.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is not aware of any E. coli cases related to the recall, but it is monitoring the situation.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency first warned on Sunday that ground beef from Edmontonbased XL Foods may contain E. coli. Since then, the list of stores the products were sold in has been expanded several times.

Former high school teacher jailed two years for sex with student

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘WE HAVE TO TRY TO IDENTIFY FOR CONSUMERS EXACTLY HOW THEY RECEIVE THE PRODUCT. THAT TAKES TIME AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH ALL OF THESE EXPANDED RECALLS.’ — GARFIELD BASLOM CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY

“This is ground beef and the ground beef is sold originally in large containers — tubs or larger type of containers — and they go out to retail outlets and various distributors,” said the agency’s Garfield Balsom. “The various distributors and retail outlets use these containers and these ground beef products and repack them in their own brands and smaller units,”

he said.

“We have to identify all these accounts. We have to try to identify for consumers exactly how they receive the product.

“That takes time and that is what we are doing with all of these expanded recalls.”

The type of products on the recall list includes packaged ground beef and hamburgers to meat loaf, pepperoni, bratwurst and Salisbury steak.

The list includes some of the largest retailers in the country including Sobeys, Co-op, Metro, Foodland, Giant Tiger and several corporate and franchised Loblaws Companies stores including Real Canadian Superstore.

On its company website, XL Foods called it a “precautionary measure.”

A full list of the stores affected can be found on the food inspection agency’s website at www.inspection.gc.ca

SENIOR LIVING in concert with your life

EDMONTON — A former Edmonton high school teacher has been sentenced to two years in prison for having an affair with a former student.

Brad Ashley Glenn, who is 37, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation and will also be on two years of probation once he finishes serving his sentence.

Glenn was charged in September 2010 and in court he admitted to having sex with the girl several times. He said they had sex for the first time when she was 17, and no longer a student of his.

Their relationship began in 2009, and continued for six months — their relationship was revealed when they were captured on video embracing and dancing as a couple in a school hallway after hours.

The Crown prosecutor had asked for a four-year prison term, while the defence asked for 12 to 15 months.

Inglewood

10 Inglewood Dr., Red Deer, AB 403.346.1134

MEET

CARL BRENDERS IN PERSON

at Editions Gallery Wednesday, Sept. 26 6-8 pm Refreshments Served Please RSVP

Aspen Ridge 41238I21

3100-22 Street, Red Deer, AB 403.341.5522

Quality retirement living at affordable prices.

Call now to book your tour!

NEW Lennox High Efficiency Furnace

41080I7

Editions Gallery

Bower Place Mall, Red Deer 403.342.2366 editionsreddeer.shaw.ca

www.symphonyseniorliving.com

Installed as low as

2365

$

®

or up to

1000

$

OFF ON SELECTED EQUIPMENT Book now for FREE in home estimates as bookings are limited!!!

403-358-3730

41235I21

“an independent Lennox dealer”

www.canairheatandair.com

Patients Come First

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR RED DEER CO-OP LIMITED MEMBERS

Red Deer Co-op Limited and Central Alberta Co-op Ltd. Members to Vote on Amalgamation The Board of Directors of both Red Deer Co-op Limited and Central Alberta Co-op Ltd. located in Innisfail are excited to announce proposed plans for the amalgamation of the two organizations to form a new cooperative to be called Central Alberta Co-op Ltd.

Special membership meetings will be held in both communities to review information, answer questions and to vote on a special resolution to amalgamate.

SPECIAL MEETING DATE -For Red Deer Co-op Limited Members

OCTOBER 11, 2012 – 7:00 PM BLACK KNIGHT INN – 2929 – 50th Avenue, Red Deer

SPECIAL RESOLUTION TO BE CONSIDERED BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

We can help……… come see us at our New Clinic on the west side of Gaetz Avenue in South Red Deer Just a block north of the Sheraton Hotel and close to the hospital!!!

Suite# 130, 3410 Gaetz Avenue, Red Deer

Appointments available but not required!

Call 403.342 9444 Monday to Friday: 8 am – 8 pm, Weekends: 10 am – 5 pm 41770I7

www.discoverymedicalclinic.com

2. The Directors and Officers of Red Deer Co-op Limited be and are hereby authorized and directed to do such acts and things and execute such documents as may be necessary or desirable to implement the said amalgamation.

Further Information Member information packages, including the amalgamation agreement and new by-laws, will be available for pick-up from all locations of Red Deer Co-op Limited in – Red Deer – Lacombe – Stettler – Elnora Please review the information and attend the special meeting on October 11.

Member input is vital in this process so please feel free to bring any questions to:

Red Deer Co-op Limited Board President – Jim Dick – 403-343-3208 General Manager – Larry Parks – 403-309-8914

41230I21-J5

Need a doctor?

1. The Amalgamation Agreement, become effective the First day of February 2013, between Red Deer Co-op Limited and Central Alberta Co-op Ltd. providing for the terms and conditions of their amalgamation to their continuance as one Co-operative under The Cooperatives Act of the Province of Alberta, be and is hereby approved, confirmed, and adopted.

A6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Girl removed from life support, dies TOP COURT REJECTED LAST-MINUTE APPLICATION TO PREVENT MOVE

EDMONTON — A two-year-old Edmonton girl allegedly abused by her parents has died after the Supreme Court of Canada rejected a request to keep her on life support.

A source confirmed to The Canadian Press that the toddler died Thursday night at the Stollery Children’s Hospital after being removed from a ventilator that was keeping her alive.

Lawyers for the child’s parents applied to the Supreme Court Thursday morning for an emergency stay of an Alberta Court of Appeal ruling that allowed doctors to remove the girl from life support.

The lawyers wanted time to file an application for the court to hear an

CANADA

BRIEFS

Ex-Stampeder Reynolds pleads not guilty in attack CALGARY — A former star player with the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from an alleged attack on his one-time girlfriend.

Joffrey Reynolds wasn’t in a Calgary courtroom where his lawyer entered the plea on his client’s behalf.

Reynolds is accused of common assault, assault causing bodily harm and breaking and entering.

A trial has been set for Feb. 4-5.

He played eight years for the Stampeders and is the team’s all-time leading rusher.

He was released from the club last year but wasn’t picked up by any other team.

Canada’s largest organics biofuel facility to be built in Surrey, B.C.

yard waste.

City spokeswoman Tara Foslien (FOS-leen) says that eventually, Surrey aims to be home to North America’s only fully integrated organics waste management system.

It involves organic waste being picked up by a fleet of trucks that transport it to the biofuel facility, where waste will be processed into fuel to power the trucks.

Construction of the facility is expected to start next year.

minutes each.

The parents, who cannot be named, are charged with aggravated assault, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and failing to provide the necessities of life.

Police have said if the girl died, the charges likely would be upgraded.

Paramedics responding to a 911 call found the girl and her twin sister, both malnourished and suffering from injuries, in an Edmonton home May 25.

The girl who was on life support was in cardiac arrest and quickly slipped into a coma.

Her sister is now in foster care, as is an older brother, who had also been living in the home but wasn’t injured.

The parents, who are Muslim, cited their religious beliefs and love for

their daughter for asking doctors to keep her alive.

They did, however, sign a do-notresuscitate order if her heart failed.

A lawyer appointed to represent the girl asked the court to side with her doctors, who all agreed that her medical treatment be stopped.

The doctors have said the girl suffered repeated bouts of pneumonia and would have needed an operation to keep using a breathing machine — the first of many invasive, risky procedures she would have had to face.

Last week, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice June Ross cast doubt on the parents’ motives for wanting to keep their daughter alive and ruled she should be taken off life support.

Memories of a lifetime –

KANANASKIS STYLE!

Saskatoon Health Region takes responsibility for rushing seniors from facility SASKATOON — The Saskatoon Health Region says it is taking full responsibility for only giving residents of a seniors home in Humboldt eight days to move out.

Health region president Maura Davies says in hindsight they should have given the seniors who lived at St. Mary’s Villa more time to prepare for the February move.

Her comments followed a report by Saskatchewan’s Ombudsman which said the 10 seniors, with an average age of 89, were treated unfairly.

Family members complained that the situation was stressful for the seniors.

*HYSPUNKHSL +\]L[ *V]LY :L[Z

‹ ,_JS\ZP]L [V 8\PS[Z ,[J ‹ 0UJS\KLZ WPSSV^ ZOHT Z ‹ :[HY[PUN H[ ZL[

>V^

<W [V

6--

7YPU[LK 8\PS[ :L[Z

VDU\ $QQLYHU

For more information: 1-888-591-6240 or visit www.deltalodgeatkananaskis.com

:(3,

7VS`LZ[LY +\]L[Z

Sure, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud of our accommodations, our guest facilities and our dining rooms. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll admit, the real appeal of the Delta Lodge at Kananaskis is something we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take credit for: the mountains, the trees, the wildlife, the fresh air and the peace and quiet you deserve. So get away to the mountains and take in a number of activities that everyone can enjoy. From hiking and golfing to horseback riding and whitewater rafting. There is so much to do and see in the Valley of Adventure. Alberta Residents benefit from 15% OFF* on our daily rates.

Visit www.deltalodgeatkananaskis.com for details on rates and packages. *Offers cannot be combined and are only available at time of booking. Offers are subject to change without notice.

7YVTV )H[OYVILZ

ZL[ LH LH (U` ZPaL

;^PU VY X\LLU

41237I21

SURREY, B.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The largest organics biofuel facility in Canada will be built in Surrey, B.C., as a way to divert waste from the landfill and turn it into natural gas.

Mayor Dianne Watts says about a quarter of the facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project costs will come from the federal government and that a private partner will be chosen to design, build and operate it by 2015.

The mayor says Surrey collects waste from about 100,000 homes and that about 65 per cent of its residential garbage includes organics from commercial kitchen and

appeal. But a panel of three Supreme Court justices rejected the stay, ending further legal wrangling.

Doctors testified that the girl, known in documents only as M, would not live long after being removed from the machine.

Court has heard the girl, who had been in a coma for three months, had an irreversible brain injury and would never regain consciousness.

On Wednesday, Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top court upheld an earlier judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling that it was in the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best interest to let her die.

The Alberta court further ordered that the parents be allowed one last visit with the girl.

They were escorted from the Edmonton Remand Centre to hospital Thursday afternoon and, under guard, met separately with her for 20

41043H17&24

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

)V^LY 7SHJL 4HSS

^^^ X\PS[ZL[J JVT

FALL

IN LOVE

with lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hidden pleasures Rediscover the splendid sounds of autumn,

with A&E HEARING

"T ZPV XBUDI UIF MFBWFT DIBOHF UIJT BVUVNO JT UIFSF B CFUUFS UJNF UIBO OPX UP JNQSPWF ZPVS IFBSJOH *G ZPV IBWF B IFBSJOH MPTT ZPV NBZ GFFM ZPV BSF NJTTJOH PVU PO UIF DSJTQ TPVOET UIBU m MM UIF GBMM BJS *U T UJNF UP CSJOH CBDL UIF TPVOET PG BVUVNO 5BML UP B )FBSJOH $BSF 1SPGFTTJPOBM BU " & )FBSJOH XIP VOEFSTUBOET ZPVS IFBSJOH MPTT 8F DBO IFMQ ZPV NBLF BO JOGPSNFE EFDJTJPO PO UIF DIPJDFT ZPV IBWF BOE SFDPOOFDU ZPV XJUI UIF MJUUMF QMFBTVSFT PG MJGF ZPV NBZ CF NJTTJOH

Call for an appointment today 403-347-2202 or Toll Free 1-877-347â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2202

41619I21,22

A&E HEAR ING WE LISTEN TO HELP YOU HEAR! t 7FOEPS GPS ""%- 8$# BOE %7" t "TTJTUBODF GPS -PX *ODPNF 4FOJPST BOE "EVMUT t #BUUFSJFT 3FQBJST BOE 4FSWJDF

t $VTUPN &BS .PMET 4XJN 1MVHT BOE 4MFFQ 1MVHT t $BMM GPS 3VSBM 4FSWJDF $FOUSF -PDBUJPOT

4, 6715 - 50 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 4C9

53176I5-29

Our Services Include:

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 A7

Quebec govâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bothered by accused shooterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radio interview

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Quebec government is examining how accused killer Richard Henry Bain was able to speak to the media from a detention centre.

The Parti Quebecoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new public security minister says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bothered that the man accused of shooting two people at a PQ victory rally on election night had access to a radio audience.

Bain called a Montreal station on Wednesday and small snippets of a 38-minute interview were aired on English- and French-language stations of the Astral Radio network.

The accused shooter reportedly told the network heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had a vision from God that Montreal should become its own province and separate from Quebec.

He did not want to talk about events on election night â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just about his political views.

On his way into Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cabinet meeting, Public Security Minister Stephane Bergeron said he will

investigate whether a prisoner should have access to a phone in order to transmit messages through the mass media. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems worrisome to me,â&#x20AC;? Bergeron said. â&#x20AC;?Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll look into it and get back to you.â&#x20AC;?

He said he would examine the issue and make a decision, if necessary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question is whether a prisoner should have access to that type of platform to express himself in the public arena.â&#x20AC;?

Radio station CJAD, which conducted the interview, said Bain called from the infirmary of his Montreal detention centre â&#x20AC;&#x201D; without the knowledge of his lawyer.

In a statement, the company that owns the radio station defended the decision to broadcast parts of the interview across its network.

Astral said it made a decision not to broadcast the whole interview for ethical reasons.

Only small parts were aired, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so as not to provide a platform for his opinions,â&#x20AC;? the company said.

Bain, a fishing-camp owner, faces 16 criminal charges including first-degree murder. His next court appearance is Oct. 11.

The decision to air excerpts of the interview prompted a bit of a backlash from some other media and on social networks.

Some critics also questioned the timing of the interview â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which aired at 4 p.m., just as the PQ was taking office. The timing was an eery reminder of election night, Sept. 4, when the gunman shot people while Marois was celebrating her win.

Astral said the timing of the broadcast was coincidental. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Astral Radio insists on the entirely apolitical nature of this news report, which had more to do with a well-thought-out and rigorous journalistic approach,â&#x20AC;? the company said.

It also condemned the shooting and sent sincere condolences to the families of the victims.

BOWER PLACE LOCATION ONLY!

STORE CLOSING! PRICES SLASHED AGAIN!

30 50OFF % ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

EVERYTHING!

*

,)-)4%$ %8#%04)/.3 !00,9

30

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR, INTIMATE APPAREL, HANDBAGS, WATCHES

30

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL BEDDING, TOWELS, FRAGRANCES, GIFTWARE, WINTER BOOTS, VITAMINS

40

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL SCHOOL & OFFICE SUPPLIES, STATIONERY, SHOE CARE, OLYMPIC APPAREL, HAIR COLORING

30

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL FRAMED ART, MIRRORS, LAMPS, PHOTO ALBUMS, FRAMES, FURNITURE, RUGS

30

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL PHYSICAL FITNESS EQUIPMENT, BBQ GRILLS & ACCESSORIES, BAKEWARE, FIREPLACES, PAINT & ACCESSORIES

50

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL BOXED BRAS, SWIMWEAR, SUNGLASSES, SANDALS, COSMETICS, BATH & BODY

30

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL TOYS, CAMPING & FISHING, HARDWARE, AUTOMOTIVE, RAINWEAR, UMBRELLAS, YARN & KNITTING, CANDLES

40

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL

OUTERWEAR, JEWELLERY BOXES, READING GLASSES, BIKE ACCESSORIES

50

% OFF ,/7%34 4)#+%4%$ 02)#%

ALL COOKWARE, GREETING CARDS & WRAP, VACUUM BAGS & ACCESSORIES, LAWN & GARDEN ACCESSORIES

EVERYTHING MUST GO! 3%% &)8452% -!.!'%2

1000 4900 MOLLY BANNISTER DR., RED DEER OPEN REGULAR HOURS EVERY DAY!

7% !##%04 (BC 6)3!

-!34%2#!2$ #!3( $%")4 #!2$3 s ./ #(%15%3 s !,, 3!,%3 &).!, ./ %8#(!.'%3 s ./ 2%452.3 s ./ !$*534-%.4 4/ 02)/2 052#(!3%3 s 3%,%#4)/. -!9 6!29

$)3#/5.43 $/ ./4 !00,9 4/ 0(!2-!#9 02%3#2)04)/.3 4/"!##/ 02/$5#43 -!'!:).%3 (!)2 3!,/.

,/44%29 2%34!52!.4 ')&4 #!2$3 0(/.% #!2$3 !$$)4)/.!, $)3#/5.4 %8#%04)/.3 -!9 !00,9 ./ /4(%2 !$6%24)3%$ $)3#/5.43 /2 :%,,%23 &,9%2 /&&%23 !00,9 !4 #,/3).' ,/#!4)/.3

41469I21

STORE FIXTURES FOR SALE THIS LOCATION ONLY !

BOWER PLACE

‡

AVAILABLE

Share our Employee Price

$

28,783 *

Employee Price Adjustment .................$4,316 Delivery Allowance .................................. $7,000

Total Eligible Price Adjustments...$

ELIGIBLE COSTCO MEMBERS RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL $1,000

11,316

Share our Employee Price

$

39,714

*

Employee Price Adjustment ............... $5,485 Delivery Allowance ................................. $4,000

Total Eligible Price Adjustments $

9,485

ELIGIBLE COSTCO MEMBERS RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL $1,000

$

APR

PER MONTH FOR 36 MONTHS WITH $1,600 DOWN PAYMENT OR EQUIVALENT TRADE

LEASE FOR ONLY OWN FOR ONLY

399% @ 4.99

199 % @ 4.99

10.5L/100km 27MPG HWY*** 14.9L/100km 19MPG CITY ***

$ ±

$

OR **

APR

FINANCED BI-WEEKLY FOR 72 MONTHS WITH $1,950 DOWN PAYMENT OR EQUIVALENT TRADE

Offers include Total Eligible Price Adjustments and $1,700 freight and air tax.

OWN FOR ONLY

279% @ 6.29

**

FINANCED BI-WEEKLY FOR 72 MONTHS WITH $3,500 DOWN PAYMENT OR EQUIVALENT TRADE

APR

Offers include Total Eligible Price Adjustments and $1,700 freight and air tax.

42310I21

*

UP TO

‡‡

ELIGIBLE COSTCO MEMBERS RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL

AND IT’S BACK ▼

ON MOST NEW 2012 & 2013 MODELS

IT’S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO

PAY WHAT WE PAY.

2012 F-150 XLT SUPER CAB 4x4 5.0L

•PAYLOAD † •TOWING † •POWER ††

F-150 XLT 4X4 STANDARD FEATURES:

Air Conditioning R Electronic Shift On The Fly R Ford MyKey® R

R Heavy Duty Shock Absorbers Remote Keyless Entry R Tire Pressure Monitoring System R Power Locks and Windows R Overhead Console with Two R

Speed Control R SiriusXM® Satellite Radio with R

Storage Bins

6 Month Prepaid Subscription††† and more

WHY CONSIDER THE COMPETITION’S 84 OR 96 MONTH FINANCING WHEN YOU COULD LEASE 3 NEW F-150’S IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME.

2012 F-250 XLT SUPER DUTY SUPER CAB 4X4 WESTERN EDITION

F-250 XLT SUPER DUTY STANDARD FEATURES:

Air Conditioning R Tire Pressure Monitoring System R Anti-Lock Braking System R AdvanceTrac®‡‡‡ with R

Traction Control R Trailer Sway Control R Trailer Tow Package R SOS Post Crash Alert SystemTM R SiriusXM® Satellite Radio with R

Electronic Stability Control

6 Month Prepaid Subscription†††

WESTERN EDITION INCLUDES:

Reverse Camera R Tailgate Step R SYNC®◆ R Foglamps R Running Boards R 18” Machined Aluminium Wheels R

and more

See all the ownership numbers and tell us how you own work at ford.ca/WeOwnWork

F-SERIES IS THE BEST-SELLING LINE OF PICK UP TRUCKS IN CANADA FOR 46 YEARS.◆◆◆

Vehicles may not be exactly as shown.

SO FAR OVER

3 7 668

CANADIANS HAVE SHARED OUR PRIDE AND OUR PRICE

SINCE 2005

HURRY, IT’S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR EMPLOYEE PRICE ONLY AT YOUR ALBERTA FORD STORE.

WISE BUYERS READ THE LEGAL COPY: Vehicle(s) may be shown with optional equipment. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offers. Offers may be cancelled at any time without notice. Dealer order or transfer may be required as inventory may vary by dealer. See your Ford Dealer for complete details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. ‡Ford Employee Pricing (“Employee Pricing”) is available from June 14, 2012 to October 1, 2012 (the “Program Period”), on the purchase or lease of most new 2012/2013 Ford vehicles (excluding all chassis cab and cutaway body models, F-150 Raptor, Medium Trucks, Mustang Boss 302, and 2013 Shelby GT500). Employee Pricing refers to A-Plan pricing ordinarily available to Ford of Canada employees (excluding any CAW-negotiated programs). The new vehicle must be delivered or factory-ordered during the Program Period from your participating Ford Dealer. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. ‡‡No purchase necessary. For full contest rules, eligible vehicle criteria, and to enter as a Ford owner, visit www.ford.ca/shareourpridecontest (follow the entry path applicable to you, complete all mandatory fields and click on ‘submit’). Subject to the following terms and conditions, contest is open only to residents of Canada who have reached the age of majority, possess a valid graduated level provincially issued driver’s license, and are owners of Ford branded vehicles (excluding fleet customers and all Lincoln and Mercury models). Eligible vehicle criteria includes requirement that it be properly registered in Canada in the contest entrant’s name (matching vehicle ownership), and properly registered/plated and insured. Notwithstanding the foregoing, non-Ford owners can enter by mailing an original 100 word essay on “what they like about Ford”, with their full name, full mailing address, email, daytime phone number (with area code) to: Vanessa Richard, Pareto Corp., 1 Concorde Gate, Suite 200, Toronto, ON, M3C 4G4. Contest closes at 11:59pm (PST) on the last day of the 2012 Ford Employee Pricing campaign which will be no earlier than August 31, 2012. Limit of 1 entry per person. Up to 8 prizes available to be won in Canada in 3 possible prize categories, each worth up to CAD$50,000. Chances of winning are dependent on the total number of entries received up to each 10,000 interval of unit sales under the Employee Pricing campaign (“Draw Trigger”). Odds of winning decrease as the contest progresses, more entries are made into the contest, and opportunities for Draw Triggers lessen. Skill testing question required. ▼Offer only valid from September 1 2012 to October 31, 2012 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with a Costco membership on or before August 31, 2012. Use this $1,000CDN Costco member offer towards the purchase or lease of a new 2012/2013 Ford/Lincoln vehicle (excluding Fiesta, Focus, Raptor, GT500, Mustang Boss 302, Transit Connect EV & Medium Truck) (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). The Eligible Vehicle must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Ford/Lincoln dealer within the Offer Period. Offer is only valid at participating dealers, is subject to vehicle availability, and may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. Only one (1) offer may be applied towards the purchase or lease of one (1) Eligible Vehicle, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford Motor Company of Canada at either the time of factory order (if ordered within the Offer Period) or delivery, but not both. Offer is not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). Applicable taxes calculated before $1,000CDN offer is deducted. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offer, see dealer for details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. *Purchase a new 2012 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 with 5.0L engine/2012 F-250 XLT Super Cab 4X4 Western Edition with power seats/2012 F-150 Platinum Super Crew 4x4 for $28,783/$39,714/$46,413 after Total Eligible Price Adjustment of $11,316/$9,485/$14,186 (Total Eligible Price Adjustment is a combination of Employee Price Adjustment of $4,316/$5,485/$7,186 and Delivery Allowance of $7,000/$4,000/$7,000) is deducted. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Total Eligible Price Adjustment has been deducted. Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Delivery Allowances can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Delivery Allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. **Receive 4.99%/6.29% annual percentage rate (APR) purchase financing on a new 2012 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 with 5.0L engine/2012 F-250 XLT Super Cab 4X4 Western Edition with power seats for a maximum of 72 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Purchase financing monthly payment is $431/$605 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $199/$279 with a down payment of $1,950/$3,500 or equivalent trade-in. Interest cost of borrowing is $4,272.38/$7,356.11 or APR of 4.99%/6.29% and total to be repaid is $31,105.38/$43,570.11. Offers include Total Eligible Price Adjustment of $11,316/$9,485 (Total Price Adjustment is a combination of Employee Price Adjustment of $4,316/$5,485 and Delivery Allowance of $7,000/$4,000. Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Total Eligible Price Adjustment has been deducted. Bi-Weekly payments are only available using a customer initiated PC (Internet Banking) or Phone Pay system through the customer’s own bank (if offered by that financial institution). The customer is required to sign a monthly payment contract with a first payment date one month from the contract date and to ensure that the total monthly payment occurs by the payment due date. Bi-weekly payments can be made by making payments equivalent to the sum of 12 monthly payments divided by 26 bi-weekly periods every two weeks commencing on the contract date. Delivery Allowances can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Delivery Allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. ±Until October 1st, 2012, lease a new 2012 F-150 XLT Super Cab 4X4 5.0L and get 4.99% annual percentage rate (APR) financing for up to 36 months on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Lease a vehicle with a value of $40,099 at 4.99% APR for up to 36 months with $1,600 down or equivalent trade in, monthly payment is $399, total lease obligation is $15,964 and optional buyout is $16,040. Offer includes Total Price Adjustment of $11,316. Taxes payable on full amount of lease financing price after Total Price Adjustment is deducted. Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Some conditions and mileage restrictions of 60,000 km over 36 months apply. A charge of 16 cents per km over mileage restrictions applies, plus applicable taxes. Delivery Allowances can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Delivery Allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. †When properly equipped. Max. towing of 11,300 lbs with 3.5L EcoBoost and 6.2L 2 valve 4X2 V8 engines. Max. payload of 3,120 lbs with 5.0L Ti-VCT V8 engines. Class is Full-Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR, non-hybrid. ††Class is Full–Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR, non-hybrid vs. comparable competitor engines. Max. horsepower of 411 on F-150 6.2L V8 engine. ***Estimated fuel consumption ratings for model shown: 2012 F-150 4X4 5.0L V8: [14.9L/100km (19MPG) City, 10.5L/100km (27MPG) Hwy]. Fuel consumption ratings based on Transport Canada approved test methods. Actual fuel consumption will vary based on road conditions, vehicle loading, vehicle equipment, and driving habits. ‡‡‡Remember that even advanced technology cannot overcome the laws of physics. It’s always possible to lose control of a vehicle due to inappropriate driver input for the conditions. ◆Some mobile phones and some digital media players may not be fully compatible – check www.syncmyride.com for a listing of mobile phones, media players, and features supported. Driving while distracted can result in loss of vehicle control, accident and injury. Ford recommends that drivers use caution when using mobile phones, even with voice commands. Only use mobile phones and other devices, even with voice commands, not essential to driving when it is safe to do so. SYNC is optional on most new Ford vehicles. ◆◆Projected best in class fuel economy based on competitive data available at the time of testing using Ford drive-cycle tests (in accordance with the guidelines of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Standard J1321) of comparably equipped 2011 Ford vs. 2010 competitive models. Class is Full-Size Pickups over 8,500 lbs. GVWR. ◆◆◆F-Series is the best-selling pickup truck in Canada for 46 years in a row based on Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association statistical sales report, December 2011. †††©2012 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2012 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

albertaford.ca

Available in most new Ford vehicles with 6-month pre-paid subscription†††

TIME

OUT

B1

SPORTS

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM COLLEGE HOCKEY ◆ B2 NFL ◆ B3

STATS◆ B4 BASEBALL ◆ B5 Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 Sports line 403-343-2244 Fax 403-341-6560 sports@reddeeradvocate.com

Rebels hope for better year PLAYOFF BERTH SHOULD BE WELL WITHIN THE CLUB’S REACH THIS SEASON VINCE YOUNG

YOUNG ‘BETRAYED Former NFL quarterback Vince Young is downplaying what he calls “unfortunate” financial problems caused by the “betrayal” of trusted advisers. “Yes, I need a job, who doesn’t. Yes, I want to be out there playing the game I love and earning a paycheque, who wouldn’t?” Young wrote on his Twitter account Wednesday.

Young has been out of a job since he was cut by the Buffalo Bills in August. Young, who received a contract that guaranteed him $26 million when the Tennessee Titans made him the third player taken in the 2006 draft, also wrote that he is working to rectify financial losses “which stemmed from betrayal by those I trusted most.”

Today ● High school football: Sylvan Lake at Lindsay Thurber, 4:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Lacombe at Ponoka, 4:30 p.m.; Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.

Saturday ● Bantam football: Rocky Mountain House at Lacombe, 10:30 a.m.; Sylvan Lake at Innisfail, 11:30 a.m.; Stettler at Olds, 3:30 p.m.; Drumheller at Lindsay Thurber, 5 p.m., Great Chief Park.

The Red Deer Rebels have to feel that will suffice. they’re due for some good fortune in the The fans should demand as much, as 2012-13 Western Hockey League season, should owner and newly self-appointed which opens tonight with the Calgary Hit- general manager Brent Sutter. men invading the Centrium for For the most part, the Reba 7:30 p.m. start. els will not match the offensive After opening the 2011-12 muscle of, say, the Edmonton Oil season like a virtual house on Kings, the Hitmen and Memorial fire, the Rebels were doused by Cup host Saskatoon Blades, but a rather large wave of injuries. blessed with top-notch goaltendThey never recovered as the ing and a young but competent ailments continued to hit them defensive corps, they should be like a tsunami, and they fina middle-of-the-pack crew in the ished out of the playoffs for the Eastern Conference. third time in five years.

So much will depend upon the Yes, the Rebels were the abilities of No. 1 netminder Pavictim of some horrible, rotten trik Bartosak and caddy Bolton luck last winter.

Pouliot, who will have to deliver GREG But in the not so distant fuon a consistent basis whenever MEACHEM ture, no one will remember he gets the call. why the Red Deer squad didn’t Both are proven regular-seaqualify for post-season play in son stoppers and both looked the spring of 2012, they’ll just good through most of the justremember that the Rebels scattered in mid completed exhibition campaign.

March.

Mathew Dumba comes into the season A playoff berth should be well within the as the Rebels top defenceman and will not club’s reach this season and nothing less only be expected to anchor the blueline, than hockey in late March and early April but contribute offensively with 20 or more

WHL

goals. From there, it’s difficult to pin down a No. 2 guy, although Kayle Doetzel will be expected to contend for that role, as will Czech import Jan Bittner.

Second-year rearguards Stephen Hak, Devan Faford and Cody Thiel, who may be used up front, and rookies Haydn Fleury and Riley Boomgaarden will battle for their team and for themselves as they attempt to move up the depth chart, and Fleury already appears to be a star in the making.

Up front, there’s plenty of experience and potential, with the likes of Tyson Ness (20 goals last season) and Colten Mayor expected to take the next step.

Joel Hamilton, Marc McCoy, Brooks Maxwell, Chad Robinson and Cory Millette are in the same category, with overagers Charles Inglis, Turner Elson and captain Adam Kambeitz already appointed as the chosen leaders of the offence.

Inglis is a proven WHL scorer but hasn’t assumed that identity in Red Deer since being acquired from Prince George last season.

Please see REBELS on Page B2

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Week away from golf was nice for Woods SHARES TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — In the one week Tiger Woods had away from golf during the FedEx Cup playoffs, Nick Faldo said he had lost his aura, Greg Norman said he was intimidated by Rory McIlroy and Johnny Miller claimed that Woods once wanted lessons from him.

“Nice week, huh?” Woods said, grinning.

Even better was to be back on the course Thursday at the Tour Championship, where Woods had the final word for at least for one day. He kept the ball in play at East Lake, chipped in for one of his six birdies and wound up with a 4-under 66 for a share of the lead with Justin Rose.

It was the first step toward what Woods hopes is a third FedEx Cup title, and another $10 million bonus.

“I probably could have gotten a couple more out of it,” Woods said about his opening round. “But I was probably right on my number.”

McIlroy, playing with Woods for the fifth time in these FedEx Cup playoffs, got up-and-down from short of the par-3 18th hole for a 69. McIlroy is trying to become the first player since Woods in 2006 to win three straight PGA Tour events in the same season, and he wasn’t overly alarmed by his start.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the fourth hole during first round of play in the Tour Championship golf tournament in Atlanta on Thursday.

“Wish I could have shot a couple shots better,” McIlroy said. “But I’m in a good position going into tomorrow.”

The week began with Norman saying that Woods was intimidated by McIlroy, a suggestion that both players found amusing.

While it’s doubtful that inspired Woods, he played as if he wasn’t ready to let McIlroy win a third straight playoff event and capture the FedEx Cup. McIlroy, who has won three of his last four tournaments, and Woods are among the top five seeds at East Lake who only have to win the Tour Championship to claim the largest payoff in golf. Woods wasn’t interested in what anyone else was doing.

“Just winning,” he said. “Winning takes care of everything.”

Jack Nicklaus even weighed in on Norman’s comments to FoxSports.com. Nicklaus was doing a radio interview with ESPN 980 in Washington when told about Norman’s remarks that McIlroy intimidated Woods. Nicklaus said playfully, “Quiet, Greg. Quiet. Down, boy.”

“I think Tiger has a lot of wins left in him,” Nicklaus said. “He does have a lot more competition. During the couple of years when Tiger wasn’t really there, all of a sudden you have Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley and I could probably name a half-dozen other guys that have all won and learned how to win in Tiger’s absence.

They’re not scared of him anymore.”

Please see PGA on Page B2

Bombers face tough task, even with Pierce GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover the sporting news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages.

We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit.

Call 403-343-2244 with information and results, or email to sports@ reddeeradvocate.com.

Tonight’s game between Winnipeg and football most of the time this year and has Hamilton should be rated ‘U’ for unwatch- been a bright spot on the team that forgot able. how to play defence.

Last week three Bomber quarterbacks This game against the Bombers will be combined for a total of 90 passing yards a confidence-builder for the ‘Cat defence against Calgary and the only and a chance for Hank to pad thing that kept Winnipeg football his passing statistics in a Hamilfans from slipping into a boreton victory. dom coma was their disappointSaturday’s game will be anment, rage and frustration. other confrontation between a However, Bomber quarterdangerous cat and helpless prey back Joey Elliott lit up the ‘Cats as the BC Lions visit the Edmonfor over 400 passing yards in an ton Eskimos. earlier game that could only be BC has begun to prove why described as a football miracle last year’s Grey Cup was no onethis year. off fluke because they are the I do not expect to see a similar class of the league once again performance from presumptive in 2012.

Winnipeg starter Buck Pierce, The Lions are strong on JIM but I would expect a full miracle both sides of the ball and will SUTHERLAND investigation from the Vatican if get even better with the future Pierce even managed to hit 300 return of linebacker Solomon passing yards against Hamilton Elimimian. in this game because things are Edmonton has serious injury exactly that bad in Bomber-land. problems with their starting front four on On the other hand, Hamilton quarter- defence and has fallen off their pace as one back Henry Burris has played lights-out of the most dominant defensive squads in

COMMENT

the early stages of the 2012 CFL season. The tough Eskimo defence compensated for a weak Eskimo offence and the team’s current losing streak is largely due to a weaker injury-riddled Edmonton defence that can no longer carry the team.

The game will not be close; the Lions will be very nasty guests in Edmonton and win this game.

The most interesting game of the weekend takes place on Sunday morning in Montreal when the Argonauts visit the Alouettes.

The Argos have begun to find their mojo and also served notice that they are a legitimate Grey Cup contender, even in their loss to BC. Montreal has once again proven to be a powerhouse in the CFL East, so the gloves are off in this heavyweight match.

I have seen enough of both teams to conclude that Toronto will win in Montreal.

The Argo defence will exert big pressure on Montreal pivot Anthony Calvillo because that aggressive style works against AC.

Please see CFL on Page B2

As a complete service package, our Ford-Trained Technicians check more

Using tools like your vehicle’s Intelligent Oil Life Monitor,^ we’ll create a maintenance schedule that’s customized for you. You’ll know exactly what you’re getting with each visit—and what it will cost.

TRUST THE EXPERTS WHO KNOW YOUR FORD BEST.

than just your oil* and filter. We rotate and inspect all four tires and use only Genuine Ford Parts. So you can drive away knowing your Ford is certified to run the way it should.

THE

WORKS

‡

There’s more to it than oil* and a filter.

COMPREHENSIVE VEHICLE REPORT CARD

UP TO

83 POINT INSPECTION EVERY HOSE, BELT AND FLUID CHECKED.

FOR ONLY

59

$

$

UP TO

99

‡

385 FUEL SAVINGS IN POTENTIAL ANNUAL

WHEN PERFORMED WITH REGULARLY SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE.◊

FOR MORE DETAILS AND OFFERS, VISIT US AT YOUR FORD STORE OR FORD.CA

All offers expire December 31, 2012. Offers may be cancelled at any time without notice. See Service Advisor for complete details. Applicable taxes and provincial levies not included. Dealer may sell for less. Only available at participating locations. ^ If equipped. ‡Applies to single rear wheel vehicles only. Diesel models not eligible. *Up to 5 litres of oil. Disposal fees may be extra. Does not apply to diesel engines. ◊Based on a Ford Fusion V6 automatic that has a fuel consumption rating of 10L/100 km in combined city/highway driving (properly tuned), a one-year driving distance of 20,000 km and $1.29 per litre for gasoline (based on Environment Canada averages). Improved fuel efficiency and emission reduction levels depend on model, year and condition of vehicle. ©2012 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

42422I11

WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU’LL NEED DOWN THE ROAD? FORD SERVICE DOES.

B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

COLLEGE HOCKEY

Cougars beat Queens but little seems settled

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

CFL: Ray finds range Argo quarterback Ricky Ray has experienced some difficulty with the offence, but he has found his range with speedy receiver Chad Owen and has begun to develop some chemistry with the other Argo receivers.

The final game of the weekend is a Sunday afternoon clash between Calgary and Saskatchewan. Football is a game of intrigue and subterfuge, so the starting Riders quarterback may or may not be Darian Durant or Drew Willy.

A hip injury has put a question mark into Durant’s ability to start and he needs to be able to run the ball in order to be an effective quarterback.

The starter may be rookie pivot Willy and he may even get a chance to throw a pass of over five yards. The high school pass offence given to him thus far as a starter is either a red flag about his skill set or an overly cautious approach by Rider offensive coordinator Bob Dyce.

The jury is still out on Willy, but an opportunity to start his second CFL game is a golden opportunity to dial up his passing game.

Normally I would envision a Stamp victory in this game because they are a well-coached team that has gotten serious mileage out of journeyman quarterback Kevin Glenn.

Glenn has responded well to the game plan devised by offensive guru Dave Dickenson and I expect more of the same from him on Sunday.

But I want to play a hunch that a noisy Rider home crowd will be a factor in disrupting the Stamp’s offensive flow and a pressure Rider defence will finish the job for a Saskatchewan upset victory.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer.

REBELS: Veterans must lead Elson is a signed player, a Calgary Flames prospect, and last winter Kambeitz emerged as a better-than-average offensive player before having his season stalled by injuries.

Clearly, all three must lead by example this season, if not be the Rebels’ top go-to guys. That much should be expected from the trio.

The Rebels scoring future belongs to the likes of Conner Bleackley, Wyatt Johnson and Scott Feser, none of whom should feel pressure to produce this season, although Bleackley already has the size to work into the tough areas and the hockey smarts and skills to excel in his first full season at the major junior level.

By no means should the Rebels feel obligated to deliver a mid-season performance tonight, but they should know that another season that fades to black in mid-March will not be acceptable. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

PGA: Focus on top two Rose, who hasn’t won since the World Golf Championship at Doral in March, swiftly moved up the leaderboard late in his round with three birdies over the last five holes, and the last one was memorable.

From the back of the green on the par-3 18th, Rose faced a 50-foot putt with some 20 feet of break from right to left.

It looked wide the whole way until

it snapped back toward the cup.

Equally impressive was chipping in from some 20 yards short of the 14th green for the birdie that started his big run.

Rose is 24th in the FedEx Cup, meaning he would have to win and everyone at the top of the standings would have to falter. The way Woods started, that looked improbable.

Rose checked the leaderboard early on, not to see his projected standing, but to get an idea of how the course was playing.

That part was easy to decipher. On a warm day, with the sun finally breaking through cloud cover in the middle of the afternoon, no one was tearing up the place.

“Obviously, I realized it was time to be patient,” Rose said.

“No one was really going low ... so I always had that in the back of my mind.”

Scott Piercy ran off three straight birdies late in his round until he stumbled in the rough behind the 18th green and finished with a double bogey for a 67, tied with Steve Stricker, Matt Kuchar and Bo Van Pelt. Stricker was the only player in the 30-man field without a bogey.

Hunter Mahan appeared to snap out of his funk from missing out on the Ryder Cup with a 68, tied with a group that included Brandt Snedeker, who is among the top five seeds.

The others are Phil Mickelson, who opened with a 69, and Nick Watney, who brought up the rear with a 75.

Despite the Tour Championship featuring the top 30 on the PGA Tour, the focus again returned to the top two players.

A boisterous gallery lined the fairways and crowded behind every green to see the latest edition of Tiger and Rory, and they didn’t disappoint.

McIlroy is playing East Lake for the first time, and he struggled with the Bermuda rough around the greens.

“If you don’t hit fairways, it’s hard,” McIlroy said. “If you hit the ball in the rough here, it’s very, very difficult to get any control on your ball.”

Woods again had McIlroy’s number when playing together, even though Boy Wonder is winning more trophies.

Woods has posted the lower score in four of the five rounds they have played together in the playoffs. The exception was Crooked Stick, when McIlroy opened with a 64 and Woods had a 65.

Woods, as usual, didn’t read too much into that.

“I enjoy playing with Rory,” he said.

“He’s a great kid. Over the years, there are certain pairings for me that I’ve enjoyed, and Rory is one of them.”

Woods has three runner-up finishes and a win the last four times he has played at East Lake, a course he likes because of the traditional look to it.

“Trouble is just right there in front of you,” Woods said.

“It’s very simple, but it’s hard. It’s rare that you see guys go low here, but it’s very simple. Really, not a lot of trouble out here, but guys just have a hard time getting it low out there.”

Woods holed a 20-foot birdie putt on the second hole and stuffed a wedge into 5 feet on the third to get on track.

He made bogey from the bunker on No. 4, and took another bogey on the 14th when his drive sailed into the rough.

The Bermuda grass isn’t high, but it’s thin enough for the ball to sink to the bottom and make it difficult to reach the green, much less keep it on the green.

McIlroy didn’t feel he was at a disadvantage playing the Tour Championship for the first time. He saw the course as Woods did — keep it in play, keep the ball below the hole.

“I felt like I hit the ball pretty good,” McIlroy said. “So just go out there tomorrow and try to play the same way, and maybe hole a few more putts and turn what I shot today into something in the mid-60s.”

drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Lowe leads Oil Kings past Ice; Edmonton still dominates Kootenay THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oil Kings began their Western Hockey League championship defence at home on Thursday night with a 5-3 win over the Kootenay Ice. Keegan Lowe led the way for Edmonton (1-0) with a goal and two assists. Michael St. Croix had a goal and an assist, while Brandon Baddock, Henrik Samuelsson and Cole Benson also scored for the Oil Kings.

Jon Martin, Tanner Muth and Brock Montgomery supplied the offence for Kootenay (0-1).

The victory continues the Oil Kings’ dominance of the Ice with 11 straight victories after taking last year’s regular season series 6-0 and sweeping Kootenay in the opening round of the playoffs.

Kootenay’s last win

against Edmonton dates back to Jan. 18, 2011.

St. Croix, who finished eighth in last year’s regular season scoring with 45 goals and 60 assists, didn’t take long to pick up where he left off. He had his first goal of the season just 1:01 into the game.

Edmonton’s Braddock doubled the margin less than two minutes later with a sharp angle shot.

Late in the first, Kootenay’s Martin put the Ice on the board, deflecting home a point shot.

Lowe quickly replied from the blue-line to make it 3-1 for Edmonton after one period.

The clubs traded goals in the second, a goalmouth scramble goal by the Oil Kings’ Samuelsson sandwiched between a wrister from the point

by Kootenay’s Muth and a late deflection by Montgomery to make it 4-3 after two.

Benson added the insurance goal for Edmonton halfway through the third.

Laurent Broissoit stopped 25 shots in goal for Edmonton, while Kootenay’s Mackenzie Skapski turned aside 28.

The Oil Kings were 1-for-4 on the power play.

Kootenay went 1-for-3 with the man advantage.

Red Deer Rebels vs

Calgary Hitmen Friday,

Truck Decks, Welding Skids, Headache Rack & Rocket Launchers and lots more.

Ovens up to 37’ Long

Sept. 21

Small to large we can handle it all

7:30 pm

Over 250 stocked colors

403-343-3222 | 4617-63 St. Red Deer www.metalstripcoating.com

Home Opener Enmax Centrium Tickets at ticketmaster

1.855.985.5000

41228I21

STORIES FROM PG B1

53171H2-31

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Argonauts quarterback Ricky Ray prepares to the throw the ball during the first half of CFL football action as B.C. Lions’ Khalif Mitchell tries to tackle him in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012.

Cougars 2 Queens 1 The Mount Royal University Cougars are preparing for their opening season in the CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) while the RDC Queens are looking for a strong season in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League.

On Thursday there was little to choose between the two long-time rivals.

The Cougars came away with a 2-1 victory in the exhibition contest at the Arena, but the Queens held a 27-23 edge in shots on goal and a slight edge in play.

“The girls played hard and this year it’s a different situation in that we have the ability to outshoot teams,” said Queens head coach Trevor Keeper.

“Our forwards have enough speed to outwork them, forecheck and cause turnovers.

“Today the difference in the game was that we haven’t spent any time on special teams.

“We were one-for-four on the power play, which was acceptable, while we were 50 per cent on the penalty kill. But as I told the girls there’s no panic as we haven’t worked on that at all.

“We’ve worked mainly on our defensive zone and our forecheck.”

The Queens still made a few mistakes, but that’s to be expected this early in the season. But when they did they were able to recover quickly, plus rookie goaltender Caitlyn Janzen was solid in net.

The Cougars opened the scoring at 6:29 of the second period on a screened blast from the right point by third-year defenceman Rayna Cruickshank that caught the top corner. Gillian Altheim evened the count at 4:20 of the third period, beating goaltender Jess Ross after a perfect feed from rookie Ashley Graf.

“Ashley has good vision and knows where her teammates are and her passes are on the tape,” said Keeper.

“That’s one of the reasons we have her with two veterans (Altheim and Jayna Kitchen).”

Altheim could have been the Queens player of the game, using her outstanding speed and size to control the puck.

“Last year she had that rookie lack of confidence, but she shoots the puck well and this year she’s showing a lot of confidence,” said Keeper.

“You can see she’s getting to the net and scoring.”

Cougars got the winner at 11:49 when fourth-year forward Shyla Stadnicki shovelled in a rebound into the open side.

“Their goals weren’t because of any real breakdowns or things we did wrong,” added Keeper.

“What we as coaches appreciated was that any time we had a down shift, or they did score, we came right back and outworked them and showed our speed and grittiness. I’m proud of them.”

Keeper couldn’t be happier with the play of his rookies.

“We recruited the girls to come here and they not only have talent, but know how to work hard.

“They keep their feet moving and so are tougher than the people they’re playing against.”

Second-year rearguard Natasha Steblin sees that as well.

“We’re a lot faster and stronger along the boards,” she said.

“A lot of the rookies bring speed to the team compared to last year.”

Steblin is once again teamed up with Nikki Connor on defence.

“Being together again means we have a lot of chemistry,” she said, adding the addition of Carlee Ness to the blueline has been a huge addition.

Ness, who played midget with the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, played at Yale before returning home.

“We call her mom,” said Steblin with a laugh.

“But really she brings a lot to the team having played at a higher level.

She sets an example and as a result we want to try harder.”

The Queens were one of the better teams in the ACAC the second half of last year, something which will only help them this year.

“Finishing strong helped us and we’re already starting strong this year,” said Steblin.

“I know I’m looking forward to the season and hopefully winning the championship.” ● Fourth-year goalie Kendall Kilgour played the first two periods for MRU, making 19 saves while Ross, who came from the University of Calgary, made seven saves . . The Queens are back at home Oct. 6 when they face SAIT at 5:15 p.m. at the Arena . . .

They open league play Oct. 18 at home against Grant MacEwan.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 B3

Oilers defy council over impasse MAYOR TAKES MESSAGE AS A GLASS HALF FULL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — With the hopes for a new arena hanging in the balance, the Edmonton Oilers defied the mayor’s expressed wish Thursday to have the team come to City Hall and publicly explain why it wants millions of dollars more from taxpayers.

In a letter to council, a spokesman for Oilers owner Daryl Katz says it makes more sense to hash out those issues in private with city bureaucrats before meeting publicly with Mayor Stephen Mandel and council.

“While we appreciate the mayor’s invitation, we do not think such a meeting can be productive until we have reduced the outstanding issues,” John Karvellas, a vice-president for the Katz Group, said in the three-sentence press release posted on the Oilers website.

“As we have said previously, we remain committed to working constructively with city administration to reach an agreement and would be pleased to go before council with administration to present a comprehensive and mutually supported proposal, or even a proposal with one or two significant issues still to be resolved.

“Then council can review the proposal and either approve or reject it as it sees fit.”

Mandel said he’ll take the message as a glass half full, given that the Oilers have agreed to keep talking.

“I think the public are really getting tired of this.

I’m getting tired of it. I’m sure the Katz Group are, too,” Mandel told reporters.

“Let’s see if they can put pressure on themselves to make a deal, and whatever the differences are, see how they can close the gap.”

Construction was to begin early next year on the proposed $475-million cost-shared arena in the city’s downtown to replace aging Rexall Place.

That went off the rails last week when councillors were told in a closed-door meeting that the NHL team wanted millions of dollars in new concessions from taxpayers.

Councillors rejected that deal, and as word leaked out about the concessions, Katz and the councillors began sniping at each other in the media, prompting Mandel to formally ask the Katz Group on Tuesday to tell council in a public session what it wants.

“I no longer have any idea what he’s asking for (or) how he’s asking for it,” Mandel told reporters on Tuesday.

“The time has come for them to come to us in public to explain to council.”

In a formal request to the Oilers, Mandel made it clear the deal hangs in the balance: “We have now hit a significant crossroad, one which must be overcome if we are to move the deal forward.”

The arena is being funded largely through taxpayer dollars.

Under the original deal hammered out last October, the Oilers are to pay operating costs for the facility along with $5.5 million a year for 35 years to fund its share of construction.

The Oilers would in return get all the profits from Oiler games, trade shows and concerts for 11 months out of the year. Katz would also get naming rights for the building, worth an estimated $1 million annually.

The team would also receive $20 million over 10 years from the city for advertising.

While the city’s contribution is $125 million on paper, councillors have already been told that once land sales and interest are calculated, the real figure will be more than $300 million. On top of that there will be millions more to pay for a transit station and pedway to the rink.

But last week, councillors were told in the closed door meeting Katz now wants $6 million a year from taxpayers to offset the cost of running the building, along with other concessions.

In a letter to councillors the Katz Group said that the proposed 18,400-seat futuristic oil-drop-shaped arena, done over in wavy lines of zinc and glass, can no longer be built for the original price.

In follow up interviews with select media this week, Katz said the $6 million was always part of the deal and is vital to keeping the team viable in what he termed a “small market.”

“To suggest I tried to change the deal at the last minute is really unfortunate,” Katz told a sports radio show.

Councillors disagreed, noting the subsidy clause is not part of the October agreement. Katz says it was agreed to in earlier discussions.

Katz also said that the clock is ticking, that construction costs are escalating, and that he considers the team itself as currency.

“In our view it is the team that acts as a subsidy for a city’s arena,” Katz told a local newspaper.

He also said he was very distressed to see the secret discussions go public.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) looks to pass under pressure from New York Giants defensive tackle Linval Joseph (97) during the first quarter of an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept.

Giants roll over Panthers BROWN RUNS FOR CAREER-HIGH 113 YARDS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS IN HIS FIRST NFL START

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Giants 36 Carolina 7 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Eli Manning didn’t need a fourth-quarter comeback Thursday night.

The two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback, running back Andre Brown and the rest of the New York Giants finished off the Carolina Panthers way before that.

Brown ran for a career-high 113 yards and two touchdowns in his first NFL start to help the Giants rout the Panthers 36-7.

Four days after rallying from 14 points down to beat Tampa Bay, the Giants dominated the first half, scoring on their first four possessions to build a 20-0 lead.

The defending champion Giants (2-1) were without three starters but it hardly mattered.

Brown — waived by five different teams — including the Panthers — since coming into the league as a fourth-round draft pick in 2009 — got his chance Thursday night when Ahmad Bradshaw sat out with a neck injury.

Brown said he thought about getting cut by the Panthers before the game — and it inspired him.

“I was walking into the stadium and I have to go by the spot where I parked my car,” Brown said.

“I felt a little fire, no doubt. I’m so happy to come out here. It really humbled me. It really shows that everything is not guaranteed.

You know, I’m just going to ride this wave. Hopefully, it’s a long wave.”

Ramses Barden is hoping to ride that same wave.

Barden caught nine passes for a career-high 138 yards in his first NFL start. He played in place of Hakeem Nicks.

Of course it helps that the guy throwing you the ball is named Manning. He completed 27 of 35 passes for 288 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions.

On the other side, second-year quarterback Cam Newton struggled all night and was pressured into three interceptions. The Panthers (1-2) had five turnovers, including two by returner Joe Adams.

Newton had no luck running the read option against the Giants.

He was held to 6 yards rushing a week after running for a careerhigh 71 yards against the Saints.

“We got some licks on him, when he kept the ball, and that’s something that was lacking last week,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said.

“You have to be disciplined.

You have to have people in the right spots, or he’ll take full advantage of it.”

Panthers coach Ron Rivera likened the loss to a lesson you learn from your big brother.

“They came in and slapped us around and dragged us to the ground a little bit,” Rivera said.

“Hopefully, we learn from it a little bit. Hopefully, we learn from it and, hopefully, we don’t like it and we come back focused.”

Mixing run and pass, the Giants dominated the opening half, outgaining the Panthers 303-125.

Manning completed 19 of 25 passes for 208 yards in the first half, including a 14-yard touchdown pass to Martellus Bennett to cap the Giants’ game-opening drive and set the tone.

It capped an eight-play, 80-yard drive and marked the third straight game the Panthers have given up a touchdown on an opponent’s first drive.

For Rivera and the Panthers

LOCAL

BRIEFS Lightning, Broncs split matches The Hunting Hills Lightning and Ponoka Broncs split a pair of Central Alberta High School Boys’ Volleyball League matches Wednesday.

The Lightning took the senior contest 25-13, 25-13, 25-19 while the Broncs won the JV match 25-22, 25-19, 25-23.

In the senior contest, Krishen Singh was the play-

the first half was a nightmare.

“When you put yourself in a hole like that it’s tough trying to claw and scratch yourself back up,” Rivera said. “And that’s really what happened. That’s the type of game they want you to be in.

That’s trouble. When you get behind they can cut those guys loose on the pass rush.”

Brown repeatedly bounced off tacklers and Barden had little trouble getting open against a Carolina defence that failed to pressure Manning.

Brown ran 13 times for 71 yards and a touchdown last week against Tampa Bay and surpassed that total by the end of the first quarter with 77 yards on seven.

Barden had 123 yards on seven carries at halftime.

Before Thursday night, the fourth-year receiver had never managed more than nine catches for 94 yards receiving in a season.

“At this level, you never know when you’re going to get an opportunity, you’ve got to be prepared for it,” Manning said.

“Andre Brown is a great example. He’s a guy we drafted, he bounced around, and we brought him back.

“He was on the bubble to make the team, and here you go. Ahmad (Bradshaw) gets hurt, and he ran great, he pass-protected.

“He did get off to a bit of a shaky start. He went left when he was supposed to run right on the first play. We had a little talk and got him settled down, and after that, he did very, very well.”

Any hopes that the Panthers would turn things around in the second half were slowed when rookie returner Adams fumbled trying to catch the opening kickoff, resulting in another field goal for Lawrence Tynes.

er of the match for the Lightning and Kenton Rodney for the Broncs. In the JV contest, Brian Hoar was the top player for Ponoka and Ky McLachlin for Hunting Hills.

Belbin takes PGA title JASPER — Mike Belbin of the Royal Mayfair Golf Club of Edmonton captured his second straight PGA Assistant’s Championship of Canada.

Belbin finished the 54-hole event at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Club with a 12-under par 201 total following rounds of 670-64-70 and won the title by two strokes over Tyler LeBouthiller of Silver Springs.

Roy Hide of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club tied for 52nd at 223 after rounds of 74-71-78.

Scott Anderson of River Bend and Ryan Moore of Ponoka both failed to make the cut.

2012 HIGHLANDER FINANCE AS LOW AS

403 343-3736

Gasoline Alley, Red Deer County

1-800-662-7166 www.reddeertoyota.com

41776I14-21

Lease, finance plans, cash incentives & offers from Toyota Financial Services. OAC for qualified retail customers on select new unregistered models sold and delivered between September 4 & October 1, 2012. †Representative purchase finance example for a 2012 Highlander: $33,733 at 0.9% APR for 60 months equals monthly payments of $575. Cost of borrowing is $777 for a total obligation $34,510. Down payment or equivalent trade, first month’s payment, lien registration fee and applicable taxes are due on delivery. Dealer may lease or sell for less. See your participating Alberta Toyota dealer for details. All offers subject to exclusions and may change without notice. 4WD V6 limited model shown.*IIHS.org

B4

SCOREBOARD

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Baseball

Football (7), Fr.Rodriguez (8), Axford (9) and Lucroy; W.Rodriguez, J.Hughes (5), Watson (6), Grilli (7), Qualls (8), Resop (8), Leroux (9) and Barajas, McKenry. W—M.Parra 2-3. L—Resop 1-4. Sv—Axford (31). HRs—Milwaukee, Ar.Ramirez (25). Pittsburgh, A.McCutchen (30), Barmes (8).

Pittsburgh at Houston, 5:05 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 6:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 7:05 p.m.

WILD CARD

Baltimore Oakland Los Angeles Tampa Bay Detroit

AMERICAN LEAGUE Early W L Pct 85 64 .570 85 64 .570 81 68 .544 80 70 .533 79 70 .530

WCGB — — 4 5 1/2 6

Atlanta St. Louis Milwaukee Los Angeles Philadelphia Pittsburgh Arizona

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct 86 64 .573 80 70 .533 77 72 .517 77 73 .513 76 74 .507 74 75 .497 74 75 .497

WCGB — — 2 1/2 3 4 5 1/2 5 1/2

z-clinched playoff berth AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 4, Minnesota 3, 10 innings Oakland 12, Detroit 4 N.Y. Yankees 10, Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 7, Boston 4 Kansas City 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Texas at L.A. Angels N Today’s Games Minnesota (Deduno 6-4) at Detroit (Porcello 9-12), 5:05 p.m.

Oakland (J.Parker 11-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 13-6), 5:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 6-4) at Boston (Lester 9-12), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Villanueva 7-5) at Tampa Bay (Shields 14-9), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 11-14) at Kansas City (Mendoza 7-9), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Peavy 11-11) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 8-12), 8:05 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 1-1) at Seattle (Iwakuma 6-5), 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 11:10 1.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday’s Results St. Louis 5, Houston 4 Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 3 San Diego 6, Arizona 5 San Francisco 9, Colorado 2 Milwaukee 9, Pittsburgh 7 Washington 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Philadelphia 16, N.Y. Mets 1 Today’s Games St. Louis (C.Carpenter 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Volstad 3-10), 12:20 p.m.

Atlanta (Hanson 12-8) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 9-11), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Marcum 5-4) at Washington (E.Jackson 9-10), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Blanton 9-13) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 12-8), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Ja.Turner 1-2) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 11-9), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 0-1) at Houston (E.Gonzalez 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Miley 15-10) at Colorado (D.Pomeranz 1-9), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (C.Kelly 2-1) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 12-9), 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Milwaukee at Washington, 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 11:05 a.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.

LINESCORES THURSDAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 000 111 Cleveland 000 201

000 000

0 — 1 —

3 6 4 10

0 2

(10 innings) Vasquez, Waldrop (6), Fien (7), Burton (9), Swarzak (10) and Doumit; Kluber, C.Allen (7), Pestano (8), C.Perez (9), E.Rogers (10) and Marson. W—E.Rogers 3-1. L—Swarzak 3-5. HRs— Minnesota, Plouffe (23).

Oakland 001 014 006 — 12 12 0 Detroit 020 011 000 — 4 11 1 Milone, Neshek (5), Blevins (6), R.Cook (6), Doolittle (8), Scribner (9) and Kottaras; A.Sanchez, Coke (6), Alburquerque (6), Dotel (9), Smyly (9), Putkonen (9) and G.Laird. W—Neshek 2-1. L—A. Sanchez 3-6. HRs—Oakland, S.Smith (14). Detroit, Dirks (7).

Toronto 011 020 030 — 7 10 1 New York 001 720 00x — 10 8 0 Laffey, Lincoln (4), Cecil (5), Frasor (6), Carreno (7) and Arencibia; P.Hughes, D.Lowe (6), Wade (8), Chamberlain (8), D.Robertson (9) and R.Martin.

W—P.Hughes 16-12. L—Laffey 3-6. Sv—D.Robertson (2). HRs—Toronto, Sierra (5), K.Johnson (15).

New York, I.Suzuki (8), Swisher (21).

Boston 000 002 011 — 4 10 1 Tampa Bay 000 000 016 — 7 10 1 Buchholz, Tazawa (8), A.Bailey (9), Padilla (9) and Lavarnway; Price, W.Davis (8), Howell (9), Badenhop (9) and J.Molina, Lobaton. W—Badenhop 2-2. L—A.Bailey 1-1. HRs—Boston, Iglesias (1). Tampa Bay, B.Upton (24).

Chicago 120 000 000 — 3 9 0 Kansas City 000 021 001 — 4 7 1 Liriano, N.Jones (6), Veal (8), Crain (9), Thornton (9) and Pierzynski; Guthrie, Bueno (7), Crow (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W—G.Holland 7-4.

L—Crain 2-3.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Houston 102 000 100 — 4 10 0 St. Louis 300 002 00x — 5 9 1 B.Norris, W.Wright (6), Ambriz (7), J.Valdez (8), X.Cedeno (8) and Corporan, J.Castro; J.Garcia, Mujica (7), Boggs (8), Rzepczynski (8), Salas (8), Motte (9) and Y.Molina. W—J.Garcia 5-7. L—B.Norris 5-13. Sv—Motte (38). HRs—St. Louis, Craig (22).

Cincinnati 000 000 500 — 5 9 0 Chicago 000 000 111 — 3 11 0 Cueto, Arredondo (7), Marshall (7), Ondrusek (8), Simon (8) and Hanigan; Berken, Corpas (7), Dolis (8), J.Chapman (9) and W.Castillo. W—Cueto 18-9. L—Corpas 0-2. Sv—Simon (1). HRs—Chicago, W.Castillo (5).

San Diego 310 002 000 — 6 11 1 Arizona 100 102 100 — 5 10 0 Richard, Brach (7), Thayer (8), Gregerson (9), Thatcher (9), Vincent (9), Layne (9), Bass (9) and Grandal; Skaggs, Bergesen (6), Shaw (7), Albers (8) and M.Montero. W—Richard 14-12. L—Skaggs 1-3. Sv—Bass (1). HRs—San Diego, Guzman (8).

Arizona, A.Hill (23), Eaton (1).

Colorado 010 100 000 — 2 13 2 San Francisco101 601 00x — 9 14 1 J.De La Rosa, E.Escalona (4), Moscoso (5), Brothers (7), R.Betancourt (8) and Pacheco; Zito, Kontos (6), Mota (7), Hensley (8), Penny (9) and H.Sanchez. W—Zito 13-8. L—J.De La Rosa 0-1.

HRs—San Francisco, Sandoval 2 (11), Posey (23).

Milwaukee 301 000 041 — 9 13 1 Pittsburgh 003 103 000 — 7 13 2 Fiers, Kintzler (4), Loe (6), Veras (6), M.Parra

Sunday Post time: 1:45 p.m.

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

1 Justabitcrazy (G. Hudon)

Philadelphia 800 000 017 — 16 21 0 New York 000 010 000 — 1 3 0 Cloyd, Rosenberg (9) and Kratz; Hefner, McHugh (1), Hampson (4), Mejia (5), R.Carson (6), Acosta (7), El.Ramirez (8), Familia (9), Edgin (9), R.Ramirez (9) and Shoppach. W—Cloyd 2-1. L— Hefner 2-7. HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (12). New York, Baxter (3).

G 148 127 146 135 144 148 135 129 132 149

AB 574 515 625 501 557 566 416 491 489 537

R 102 118 94 77 91 66 58 74 61 77

H 191 167 202 161 176 175 128 150 149 163

Montreal Toronto Hamilton Winnipeg

AB 459 546 495 470 549 537 516 444 585 580

R 84 102 74 60 97 84 89 71 78 77

H 159 185 166 151 171 166 157 134 176 174

GP 11 11 11 11

W 7 6 4 2

L 4 5 7 9

T 0 0 0 0

PF 301 278 341 203

PA Pt 327 14 274 12 347 8 365 4

Week 13 Friday, Sept. 21 Hamilton at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 22 B.C. at Edmonton, 5:30 p.m.

Pct. .333 .324 .323 .321 .316 .309 .308 .305 .305 .304

NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery Corp.)

Spread Sunday BUFFALO at Cleveland 2.5 SAN FRANCISCO at Minnesota 7.5 DETROIT at Tennessee 3.5 Cincinnati at WASHINGTON 3.5 Kansas City at NEW ORLEANS 8.5 NY JETS at Miami 2.5 Jacksonville at INDIANAPOLIS 3.5 Tampa Bay at DALLAS 7.5 St. Louis at CHICAGO 8.5 PHILADELPHIA at Arizona 4.5 Atlanta at SAN DIEGO 2.5 PITTSBURGH at Oakland 4.5 HOUSTON at Denver 1.5 New England at BALTIMORE 2.5 Monday GREEN BAY at Seattle

Pct. .346 .339 .335 .321 .311 .309 .304 .302 .301 .300

Home Runs Braun, Milwaukee, 40; Stanton, Miami, 34; Bruce, Cincinnati, 33; LaRoche, Washington, 30; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 30; ASoriano, Chicago, 30; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 29; Beltran, St. Louis, 29; Kubel, Arizona, 29.

Runs Batted In Braun, Milwaukee, 105; Headley, San Diego, 105; ASoriano, Chicago, 103; Holliday, St. Louis, 97; Bruce, Cincinnati, 96; Pence, San Francisco, 95; Posey, San Francisco, 95; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 95.

Pitching GGonzalez, Washington, 19-8; Dickey, New York, 18-6; Cueto, Cincinnati, 18-9; Lynn, St. Louis, 16-7; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 16-8; Lohse, St. Louis, 15-3; MCain, San Francisco, 15-5.

4.5

O/U 43.5 43.5 46.5 49.5 53.5 39.5 42.5 46.5 44.5 43.5 47.5 44.5 46.5 48.5 47.5

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G 113 144 137 128 141 144 133 136 146 145

Pt 16 14 10 10

Sunday, Sept. 23 Toronto at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Calgary at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Home Runs Hamilton, Texas, 42; MiCabrera, Detroit, 41; Encarnacion, Toronto, 40; ADunn, Chicago, 39; Granderson, New York, 39; Willingham, Minnesota, 35; Beltre, Texas, 34.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 130; Hamilton, Texas, 123; Willingham, Minnesota, 110; Encarnacion, Toronto, 102; Fielder, Detroit, 101; Butler, Kansas City, 99; Pujols, Los Angeles, 96.

Pitching Weaver, Los Angeles, 18-4; Price, Tampa Bay, 18-5; Sale, Chicago, 17-7; MHarrison, Texas, 179; Scherzer, Detroit, 16-6; Darvish, Texas, 16-9; PHughes, New York, 16-12.

MeCabrera SF AMcCutchen Pit Posey SF YMolina StL Braun Mil DWright NYM CGonzalez Col Fowler Col Scutaro SF Prado Atl

PA 204 257 234 256

East Division

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS MiCabrera Det Trout LAA Jeter NYY Mauer Min Beltre Tex Butler KC DavMurphy Tex TorHunter LAA Konerko CWS Fielder Det

PF 298 312 284 247

N.Y. Jets New England Miami Buffalo

1 1 1 1

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0

.500 .500 .500 .500

58 52 45 63

55 33 43 65

W 2 1 0 0

South L T Pct 0 01.000 1 0 .500 2 0 .000 2 0 .000

PF 57 44 23 30

PA 17 61 72 53

Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 1 1 1 0

North L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct .500 .500 .500 .000

PF 67 47 46 43

PA 37 71 41 51

San Diego Denver Kansas City Oakland

W 2 1 0 0

West L 0 1 2 2

T Pct 01.000 0 .500 0 .000 0 .000

PF 60 52 41 27

PA 24 46 75 57

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 2 0 01.000 41 N.Y. Giants 2 1 0 .667 94 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 31 Washington 1 1 0 .500 68

PA 39 65 44 63

Atlanta Tampa Bay Carolina New Orleans

W 2 1 1 0

South L T Pct 0 01.000 1 0 .500 2 0 .333 2 0 .000

PF 67 50 52 59

PA 45 51 79 75

Green Bay Detroit Minnesota Chicago

W 1 1 1 1

North L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct .500 .500 .500 .500

PF 45 46 46 51

PA 40 50 46 44

Arizona San Francisco St. Louis Seattle

W 2 2 1 1

West L 0 0 1 1

T Pct 01.000 01.000 0 .500 0 .500

PF 40 57 54 43

PA 34 41 55 27

Thursday’s Game N.Y. Giants 36, Carolina 7

Transactions BASEBALL KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Signed a player development contract with Lexington (SAL) through the 2016 season.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES—Reinstated LHP Jorge De La Rosa from the 60-day DL. Transferred LHP Christian Friedrich to the 60-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS—Acquired LHP Theron Geith from Tampa Bay as the player to be named later in the August 31 trade involving OF Ben Francisco.

American Association ST. PAUL SAINTS—Released 1B Ole Sheldon.

FOOTBALL GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed CB James Nixon to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Signed WR Marques Clark.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Re-signed WR Tiquan Underwood. Released WR Preston Parker.

HOCKEY CONNECTICUT WHALE—Signed D Sam Klassen.

LACROSSE BUFFALO BANDITS—Signed David Brock, T Jay Thorimbert, G Angus Goodleaf and G Kurtis Wagar. Agreed to terms with D Marty Hill and T Craig England on one-year contracts.

COLLEGE DAVIDSON—Named Joey Beeler sports information director.

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON—Named Thiago Dualiby men’s and women’s assistant tennis coach.

FAYETTEVILLE STATE—Named Kevin Wilson assistant athletics director for development & marketing.

TEXAS A&M-KINGSVILLE—Announced the resignation of director of athletics Brian DeAngelis.

Named D. Scott Gines interim director of athletics.

TEXAS TECH—Announced the resignation of Billy Gillispie men’s basketball coach.

Hockey

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

First Pace, purse $4,500 (DD, EX, SF, TR).

1 Kiss My Crouper (R. Grundy) 2 Real Pretty (J. Chappell) 3 Outlawlookslikrain (C. Kolthammer) 4 Julie Caesar (R. Hennessy) 5 Hollywood Monroe (G. Hudon) 6 Barona Lilac (K. Hoerdt) Second Pace, purse $4,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Shadow Time (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Outlawcherishafool (C. Kolthammer) 3 Smileforthepicture (J. Jungquist) 4 Crackers Hot Shot (R. Starkewski) 5 Halo Margieann (B. Grundy) 6 Artninspiration (R. Hennessy) Third Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Samnmadie (J. Jungquist) 2 Im The Reason (R. Schneider) 3 Seen N Noted (G. Hudon) 4 Rango (K. Clark) 5 Payoff (B. Grundy) 6 Nf Star Power (D. Monkman Jr) 7 Art By Dylan (K. Hoerdt) 8 Blue Star Royalty (K. Ducharme) 9 Tajerine Dream (J. Campbell) ae Notacent Tobemade (G. Schedlosky) Fourth Pace, purse $4,000 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Crown And Ginger (K. Hoerdt) 2 Sharkys Law (R. Hennessy) 3 Hf Pajama Party (H. Haining) 4 River Blues (G. Hudon) 5 Fire Dance (D. Monkman Jr) 6 Cane Sugar (J. Gray) 7 Wish I Was (K. Clark) 8 Blazing By (J. Chappell) Fifth Pace, purse $3,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Call Of Duty (J. Jungquist) 2 Hesacamcracker (R. Hennessy) 3 Westcoast Son (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 Farms Last Hope (K. Hoerdt) 5 M L Lightning Blvd (G. Schedlosky) 6 Meadowlarkbigmoney (D. Mcleod) 7 Blasty Cam (Q. Schneider) 8 Coolcanadianpromis (J. Campbell) 9 Rays Pass (H. Haining) ae Burnt On Top (T. Remillard) Sixth Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Pats Freeride (B. Grundy) 2 Hollywood Breeze (G. Hudon) 3 A Girl Named Fred (Q. Schneider) 4 Notable Intension (R. Schneider) 5 Tequila Boom Boom (R. Hennessy) 6 Westwood Chaos (T. Remillard) 7 Carro Avro (J. Jungquist) 8 Double L Cammie (K. Clark) 9 Gottaluckydeal (C. Manning) Seventh Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Caracas (D. Monkman Jr) 2 Touch Of Magic (J. Campbell) 3 Lynettes Legacy (K. Hoerdt) 4 Outlaw Like A Lady (T. Remillard) 5 Prairie Illusion (K. Clark) 6 Mood Light (R. Goulet) 7 Happyagain Mindale (B. Thomas) 8 Hf Georges Kiss (B. Clark) 9 Clintons Keepsake (J. Gray) ae Promise Me Pez (R. Grundy) Eighth Pace, purse $5,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Crafty Cracker (B. Grundy) 2 Succulent (K. Clark) 3 Minettas Gidget (J. Chappell) 4 Down Home Stylish (K. Hoerdt) 5 Bashful Beauty (T. Remillard) 6 Blue Star Classic (J. Gray) 7 Cloud Nine (G. Hudon) 8 Ashlynn Grace (J. Campbell) Ninth Pace, purse $8,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Hilldrop Shady (B. Grundy) 2 Neal Diamonique (J. Campbell) 3 Timberline Court (G. Hudon) 4 Wannabe Cowboy (R. Grundy) 5 Hollywood Warrior (K. Clark) 6 Kg Explorer (R. Goulet) 7 Smart Shark (C. Kolthammer) 8 Trust The Artist (K. Hoerdt) 9 Flak Jacket (J. Gray) Tenth Pace, purse $6,000 (EX, SF, TR, W3).

1 B R Money Matters (J. Gray) 2 Loneridge Shannon (J. Campbell) 3 National Interest (J. Chappell) 4 Red Star Chance (D. Mcleod) 5 Caress Of Steel (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Armbro Dublin (B. Piwniuk) 7 Red Star Tiger (K. Clark) Eleventh Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Meadowlarkrenegade (J. Chappell) 2 Mystic Light (K. Clark) 3 Man Alive (J. Jungquist) 4 One Tuff Cowboy (B. Grundy) 5 Avenger (G. Schedlosky) 6 Whiskey Bernie (B. Thomas) 7 My Promise To You (J. Gray) 8 Im Gunna Rock (R. Schneider) Twelfth Pace, purse $2,000 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Purrfect Bliss (B. Grundy) 2 Tilly The Toiler (K. Hoerdt) 3 True Mystic (Q. Schneider) 4 Lightning King (J. Campbell) 5 Big Kg Deal (D. Mcleod) 6 Arctic King (B. Clark) 7 Easonby Hanover (J. Chappell) 8 Outlawclassichrome (G. Hudon) 9 Cheswick (J. Jungquist)

Los Angeles 000 100 000 — 1 4 1 Washington 002 200 00x — 4 7 1 Capuano, J.Wright (6), P.Rodriguez (7), Jansen (7), Choate (8), Sh.Tolleson (8) and A.Ellis; Detwiler, C.Garcia (7), Mattheus (8), Storen (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Detwiler 10-6. L—Capuano 11-11.

Sv—Storen (3). HRs—Los Angeles, M.Ellis (7).

CFL West Division GP W L T B.C. 11 8 3 0 Calgary 11 7 4 0 Saskatchewan 11 5 6 0 Edmonton 11 5 6 0

2 Swing Away (J. Chappell) 3 Burn The Floor (R. Hennessy) 4 Elijahs Wish (J. Gray) 5 The Cracken (H. Haining) 6 Timely Promise (K. Hoerdt) 7 A Bettor Day (W. Tainsh Jr) 8 Minettas Leader (J. Jungquist) ae Meadowlark Tsunami (J. Jungquist) Second Pace, purse $4,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Caleo Bay (K. Clark) 2 Attitude Adjuster (G. Hudon) 3 Tip Top Tap (R. Hennessy) 4 Cenalta Octane (R. Grundy) 5 Burnt On Top (T. Remillard) 6 Frisco (D. Mcleod) 7 Newcrackofdawn (J. Campbell) 8 Barndougle (K. Hoerdt) Third Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Meadowlark Apache (B. Grundy) 2 Too Young Man (R. Grundy) 3 Saltwater Cowboy (R. Schneider) 4 Farm Team (J. Chappell) 5 King Carver (Q. Schneider) 6 Cenalta Magic (R. Goulet) 7 Slender Pride (B. Thomas) 8 Outlaw Highvoltage (W. Tainsh Jr) 9 Snazzie Jim (J. Campbell) ae Complete Ensemble (J. Campbell) Fourth Pace, purse $4,500 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Beren Hanover (K. Clark) 2 Play Me Right (J. Campbell) 3 Arctic Artist (R. Grundy) 4 Aerial Time (J. Chappell) 5 Tinhorn Creek (G. Hudon) 6 Cool Eyes (D. Monkman Jr) 7 Premium Attaction (K. Hoerdt) 8 Dieselystic (J. Gray) Fifth Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Cenalta Spirit (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Outlaw Imasurvivor (K. Hoerdt) 3 Howdidchado (J. Campbell) 4 Western Olympian (K. Clark) 5 Outlaw I See Red (J. Gray) 6 Brandon Bey V (G. Hudon) 7 Hollywood Lenny (Q. Schneider) 8 Western Chrome (B. Clark) 9 Coolestdudeintown (R. Hennessy) ae Blue Star Charger (J. Gray) Sixth Pace, purse $5,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 B C Fantasy (J. Gray) 2 Nakednakednaked (G. Hudon) 3 Reservations Only (B. Clark) 4 Phoenician Gal (D. Mcleod) 5 Baby You Save Me (K. Hoerdt) 6 Wrangler Raine (To Be Announced) 7 Keystone Vanyla (W. Tainsh Jr) 8 Clintons Formula (B. Grundy) 9 Thats Witty (D. Monkman Jr) ae As Seely Promised (J. Jungquist) Seventh Pace, purse $3,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Elegant Lass (J. Campbell) 2 Reaction (G. Schedlosky) 3 Eternal Grace (J. Gray) 4 Hf Nancys Babygirl (H. Haining) 5 Whitehouse Secret (K. Ducharme) 6 Shyloh Awaywego (B. Piwniuk) 7 Kg Pomerlin (J. Jungquist) 8 Westcoast Royal (W. Tainsh Jr) 9 Rs Dottie West (K. Hoerdt) ae Barona Kijiji (R. Hennessy) Eighth Pace, purse $3,900 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Canyacrackher (R. Hennessy) 2 Wrangler Diva (B. Grundy) 3 Sealedwithapromise (J. Gray) 4 Big Bang Theory (B. Clark) 5 Charm N Wits (K. Ducharme) 6 Dewinton Destroyer (K. Clark) 7 Bridgette Hanover (G. Hudon) 8 Feelin Flush (J. Chappell) Ninth Pace, purse $4,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 K B Hercules (J. Gray) 2 Raging Fingers (J. Jungquist) 3 Skirmish (B. Grundy) 4 Revoler (B. Clark) 5 Super Sunrise (R. Goulet) 6 Bomber Brown (J. Campbell) 7 Total Rhythm (K. Hoerdt) 8 Outlawdangruswatrs (K. Clark) 9 Mr Brightside (G. Hudon) Tenth Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, SF, TR, W3).

1 Arctic Pine (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Free Tunes (B. Clark) 3 Justabitfaster (G. Hudon) 4 Js Honeybet (K. Clark) 5 Personal Promise (J. Gray) 6 Minettaszoombyyall (J. Chappell) 7 Shynaway (D. Mcleod) 8 Whos In The Hat (J. Jungquist) 9 Truly Cruisin (J. Campbell) Eleventh Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Apalamine (J. Jungquist) 2 Gottobsexy (J. Gray) 3 Sharon Blew Bye (To Be Announced) 4 Dudes Bonnie (R. Goulet) 5 Comeshomeearly (K. Clark) 6 Red Star Jenny (K. Hoerdt) 7 Te Anau (D. Monkman Jr) 8 No Limit For Mjjz (B. Thomas) 9 Cantcatch P (J. Chappell) ae Market For Romance (K. Ducharme) Twelfth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Kg Super Sonic (J. Gray) 2 Modern Man (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Capablenrewarding (D. Mcleod) 4 Rays Folly (K. Clark) 5 Lakers R Electric (Q. Schneider) 6 Boiling Over (R. Goulet) 7 Katies Gun (J. Campbell) 8 Best Out West (B. Grundy) 9 Jafeica Again (K. Hoerdt) ae Knickfree (J. Chappell)

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Moose Jaw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prince Albert 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Regina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Saskatoon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Swift Current 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Central Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Edmonton 1 1 0 0 0 5 3 2 Kootenay 1 0 1 0 0 3 5 0 Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lethbridge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medicine Hat 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Red Deer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Kamloops 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kelowna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prince George 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Victoria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Tri-City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spokane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Portland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Everett 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seattle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 notes — division leaders ranked first and second per conference while remaining teams ranked by points regardless of division; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL (overtime loss) or SOL (shootout loss).

Thursday’s result Edmonton 5 Kootenay 3

Today’s games Regina at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Red Deer at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Prince George at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 5:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 26 Saskatoon at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 27 Everett at Tri City, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 28 Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Everett at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29 Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Regina at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30 Kamloops at Victoria, 1 p.m.

Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

SUMMARY FRIDAY Oil Kings 5, Ice 3 First Period 1. Edmonton, St. Croix (Moroz, Corbett) 1:01 2. Edmonton, Baddock (Lowe) 2:44 3. Kootenay, Martin (Leach) 16:23 4. Edmonton, Lowe (Sautner, Ewanyk) 18:59 Penalties — Sautner Edm (interference) 5:06, Shirley Ktn (cross checking) 13:17.

Second Period 5. Kootenay, Muth (Descheneau) 5:15 6. Edmonton, Samuelsson (St. Croix, Reinhart) 12:14 (pp) 7. Kootenay, Montgomery (Pearce, Dirk) 18:08 (pp) Penalties — Montgomery Ktn (tripping) 0:59, Kootenay bench (too many men; served by Hubic) 3:15, Dirk Ktn (holding) 11:47, Hubic Ktn, Lowe Edm (unsportsmanlike) 14:22, Mayo Edm (holding) 16:18, Hubic Ktn, Lowe Edm (fighting) 16:26.

Third Period 8. Edmonton, Benson (Wilson, Lowe) 8:33 Penalty — Lowe Edm (tripping) 9:00.

Shots on goal by Kootenay 9 11 8 — 28 Edmonton 10 17 6 — 33 Goal — Kootenay: Skapski (L,0-1-0); Edmonton: Brossoit (W,1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Kootenay: 1-3; Edmonton: 1-4.

Referees — Jon Stephenson, Derek Zalaski.

Linesmen — Chris Carlson, Darren Spurgeon.

Attendance — 10,976 at Edmonton, Alta.

Jeff Gordon believes No. 24 team will rise above wreck

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASCAR

CONCORD, N.C. — When a car crashed in his front yard, Jeff Gordon tweeted a photo of the vehicle stuck in his hedges.

He was immediately flooded with responses, many asking if the throttle had hung open on the blue sports car that was now doubling as a lawn ornament.

Gordon was able to laugh about it Thursday, four days after a stuck throttle caused him to crash in the opening race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

He’d been running in the top five most of the race, wound up 35th, and goes to Round 2 at New Hampshire ranked last in the 12-driver Chase field.

He’s confident a Hendrick Motorsports team that was soaring after Gordon raced his way into the Chase at Richmond on Sept. 8 will rebound from the hard fall at Chicago.

“I wouldn’t say we’re going over the next nine weeks going, ‘Oh man, we’re the team to beat,”’ Gordon said. “But we’re not going to stop. We’re not going to give up. We proved once this year on how we made it into the Chase. Nothing would be sweeter than to prove we can win a championship, even with this.”

Gordon said a bracket mounted to the spring return had been designed specifically for him to be used with NASCAR’s new electronic fuel injection system, and the problem with his throttle stemmed from that.

“It’s something that I’m surprised didn’t happen sooner to us, just the way our bracket was mounted, it just broke,” Gordon said. “It didn’t stick wide open. It just stuck enough to where I carried enough speed to hit the wall.

The impact wasn’t that severe.”

Gordon talked about the accident during

an appearance at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he unveiled the Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle paint scheme he’ll use in the Oct. 13 race. His 2-year-old son, Leo, was on hand to help uncover the car and meet the turtles.

Those are the kind of moments the four-time series champion is treasuring these days, and he said he’s had no greater joy then celebrating his July win at Pocono with his wife and two children. He said his kids love racing, the cars and the paint schemes, but are typically unaware of the magnitude of crashes like Sundays.

“For what happened in Chicago, (Ella) was there and she knew it didn’t go well,” Gordon said.

“She knows when it goes well because she gets to go to Victory Lane. But she knows some days it’s a good day and some days it’s a really disappointing day.”

The bad day at Chicago led Gordon to shave the vintage moustache he’d promised to grow back if he made the Chase. CMS president Marcus Smith got Gordon to promise he will breakdance — he was pretty good as a younger man — in Victory Lane if he wins at Charlotte.

“I’ve already proven I’m a man of my word,” Gordon said. “There’s always going to be motivation on things. Whether it’s something that Rick Hendrick oversells on and has to live up to, something that he’s going to give to a win, or me committing to something, that’s fine. We’ve got a car that can win, there’s no doubt in my mind.”

Showing just how strong the No. 24 team really is will be the task for Gordon over the next nine weeks.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 B5

Suzuki, Swisher lead Thompson leads Yankees past Blue Jays LPGA

at Navistar

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRATTVILLE, Ala. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lexi Thompson made a little more history Thursday in the Navistar LPGA Classic, opening her title defence with a career-best 9-under 63 to match the tournament record.

Last year, Thompson became the youngest champion in LPGA Tour history at age 16, winning by five strokes. Fifteen-year-old amateur Lydia Ko broke the record last month in the Canadian Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open.

Thompson had nine birdies in her bogey-free round on the links-style Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capitol Hill complex.

She missed only one green in regulation and had 26 putts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels really good getting a first round of 63 under my belt, but you just have to take it one shot at a time,â&#x20AC;? Thompson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get ahead of yourself in this game, so just going to hope to play like I did today for the next three rounds.â&#x20AC;?

Mika Miyazato and Lindsey Wright shot 63 in the 2010 event. Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous best score on the LPGA Tour was a 65 in the final round of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic.

She missed a birdie putt on the 18th hole by about 6 inches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thinking about the course record, I was just trying to put a good stroke on it like every other putt,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Lizette Salas and Hee Young Park were tied for second at 65 in the final full-field event of the year.

Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alena Sharp and Charlottetownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lorie Kane were in a group tied for ninth after shooting a 67. Samantha Richdale (71) of Kelowna, B.C., was tied for 52nd, while Rebecca Lee-Bentham (75) of Richmond Hill, Ont., was in a group tied for 112th.

Isabelle Beisiegel (77) of Saint-Hilaire, Que., was tied for 126th and Kirby Dreher (78) of Fort St. John, B.C., was 129th.

Following the pattern Thompson set last year en route to her lone tour victory, she had breakfast at the Waffle House down the street from the course.

The plate of egg whites, wheat toast, hash browns and bacon was prepared specially by Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite cook, Valerie Perry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well Valerie, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main cook there and she sings, so it keeps me relaxed, keeps me laughing before my round,â&#x20AC;? Thompson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good atmosphere. ... She sings Justin Bieber â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pretty good, but puts â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;baconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; instead of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;baby.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty funny.â&#x20AC;?

In the 2009 tournament as a 14-year-old amateur, she was tied for the lead after two rounds before finishing 27th. She was 16th in 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love being here in Alabama,â&#x20AC;? Thompson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really comfortable out here. ... (The course) definitely rewards good shots, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I like.â&#x20AC;?

Thompson averaged more than 266 yards on the two measured driving holes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She really hits it far,â&#x20AC;? said top-ranked Yani Tseng, Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing partner for the first two rounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the par 3s, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hitting a 9-iron and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hitting an easy 7. It was a lot of fun watching her.â&#x20AC;?

Salas, 61st on the money list in her rookie season, had nine birdies and two bogeys in her best tour round.

New York 10 Toronto 7 NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ichiro Suzuki is streaking, and so are the New York Yankees.

Suzuki homered to start a comeback, then hit a go-ahead, two-run double in a seven-run fourth inning capped by Nick Swisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand slam as the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-7 Thursday night to open a one-game AL East lead over idle Baltimore.

After struggling for much of the summer, the Yankees have won five in a row, their longest winning string since June 23-27. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having this momentum come at this point in the season, I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Yankees,â&#x20AC;? Suzuki said through a translator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what makes this team special.â&#x20AC;?

Acquired from Seattle on July 23, Suzuki is hitting .321 since joining New York, including 9 for 12 with three doubles, a homer, four RBIs and four steals in the threegame sweep of the Blue Jays. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s batting .362 against lefties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every time he comes up, the crowd gets electric,â&#x20AC;? Swisher said.

Suzuki thinks he knows why. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could say that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m surprised, but maybe when I was with the Mariners in right field, I did try and communicate with those fans in right field, maybe make some friends,â&#x20AC;? he said.

While the Yankees have won seven of their last eight, so have the second-place Orioles. New York, which led the division by 10 games in mid-July, hosts Oakland this weekend while Baltimore is at Boston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we go on these rolls a little bit, it just kind of feels like everyone just mellows out. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real quiet in here. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real chill.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as hectic,â&#x20AC;? Swisher said.

New York was down 2-0 before Suzukiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo home run in the third.

He hooked a based-loaded double to right in the fourth on an 0-2 pitch, giving the Yankees a 3-2 lead and extending Suzukiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spurt to nine hits in 10 at-bats.

That chased starter Aaron Laffey (3-6), and reliever Brad Lincoln loaded the bases with a walk to Jayson Nix. Derek Jeter followed with an RBI single for a 14-game hitting streak, and Swisher sent a 96 mph fastball into the right-field seats

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York Yankeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ichiro Suzuki hits a fourth-inning, two-RBI double against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, Thursday. for his seventh career slam and third this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting that inner confidence back that we lost there for a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Swisher said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Regardless of whatever the situation is, whatever team weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing, we feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to go out there and get the job done.â&#x20AC;?

Phil Hughes (16-12) won his third straight start, allowing four runs and four hits in five innings with nine strikeouts.

Hughes struck out Kelly Johnson with the bases loaded to end the third, then tied a major league record in the fourth by striking out four batters: J.P. Arencibia, Adeiny Hechavarria, Anthony Gose and Brett Lawrie. Hechavarria reached on Russell Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passed ball.

Backed by an 8-2 lead, Hughes also walked three and hit Moises Sierra with the bases loaded in the third. He allowed an RBI double in the second to Johnson â&#x20AC;&#x153;Changeup command came and went. Fastball was kind of all over the place,â&#x20AC;? Hughes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a nice night to get a lot of runs be-

CADILLAC SHIELD OWNER BENEFITS

4-YEARS/80,000 KM NO-CHARGE SCHEDULED MAINTENANCEâ&#x20AC;

cause I definitely needed it.â&#x20AC;?

Toronto trailed 10-4 before a three-run eighth against Cory Wade and Joba Chamberlain. David Robertson struck out the side in the ninth for his second save this season and first since May 8.

New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big fourth inning started when Martin walked and took second on a delayed steal, Curtis Granderson reached when Johnson fumbled his grounder to second for an error and Casey McGehee loaded the bases for Suzuki with a walk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a deep lineup and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re explosive, as you saw tonight,â&#x20AC;? Blue Jays manager John Farrell said.

Toronto dropped to 66-82, ensuring the Blue Jaysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; second straight losing season and third in four years. Laffey gave up five runs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; four earned â&#x20AC;&#x201D; five walks and two hits in three-plus innings, dropping to 0-4 with a 5.45 ERA in his last eight appearances. There were 13 walks, eight by Toronto pitchers, and Blue Jays batters struck out 15 times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one of those days thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty disappointing,â&#x20AC;? Laffey said.

t ZFBST LN /FX 7FIJDMF -JNUFE 8BSSBOUZ+ BOE 3PBETJEF "TTJTUBODF t ZFBS 0O4UBSÂŽ %JSFDUJPOT $POOFDUJPOT 1MBO~

2012 CTS SPORT SEDAN

2012 SRX

FL AUNT YOUR FINANCIAL PROWESS. Enjoy the most comprehensive suite of owner benefit s of fered by any luxur y au t omaker. C adillac Shield of f er s b en e f it s like Pr e miu m C ar e Main t e n a nc e t h at cover s r o u t in e oil c h a n g e s, tir e rot ations and t horough multipoint vehicle ins p e c tions for 4 year s o r 8 0,0 0 0 k ilo m e t r e s â&#x20AC; , Re m o t e Ve hicle Diag n o s t ic s , m o bil e a p p s , a n d more.

$ AT

348

0.9%

APRâ&#x20AC;Ą

MONTHLY 48 MONTHS

INCLUDES

BASED ON A PURCHASE PRICE OF $35,895*.

INCLUDES FREIGHT, PDI AND $4,949 DOWN PAYMENT.

Turn-by-Turn Navigation RemotelinkTM MobileApp

2 0 1 2 S R X L E AS E

4,500

$

CASH CREDIT X

OR

$ AT

418

1.9%

APRâ&#x20AC;Ą

MONTHLY 48 MONTHS

INCLUDES

BASED ON A PURCHASE PRICE OF $41,295*.

INCLUDES FREIGHT, PDI AND $4,549 DOWN PAYMENT.

TO FIND YOUR ALBERTA DEALER & SEE MORE OFFERS, VISIT:

ALBERTACADILLAC.COM

2,500

$

CASH CREDIT X 41466I21

2 0 1 2 C T S S P O R T S E D A N L E AS E

SCAN HERE TO FIND YOURS

Call Kipp Scott Buick GMC Cadillac at 403-343-6633, or visit us at 6841 50 Avenue, Red Deer.

41733H23

NOW AT YOUR ALBERTA CADILLAC DEALERS. AlbertaCadillac.com 1-888-446-2000. Cadillac is a brand of General Motors of Canada. */x/â&#x20AC;Ą Offer applies to new or demonstrator 2012 MY Cadillac vehicles at participating dealers in Canada. Dealer order or trade may be required. Offer available to retail customers only. Freight included ($1,595). This offer may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See your GM dealer for details. x$4,500/$2,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit available on 2012 MY Cadillac CTS Sedan/SRX (tax exclusive) for retail customers only. Other cash credits available on most models. See your GM dealer for details. See your GM dealer for details. â&#x20AC;ĄBased on a 48 month lease OAC by GM Financial. 0.9%/1.9% lease APR available for 48 months on 2012 MY Cadillac CTS Sedan/SRX. Annual km limit of 20,000km, $0.16 per excess km. Down payment and/or security deposit may be required, as well as $350 lease acquisition fee. Option to purchase at lease end. Lease APR may vary depending on down payment/trade. Other lease options available. Conditions and limitation apply. â&#x20AC; Warranty based on 4-yearsor 80,000km, whichever comes first. See dealer for conditions and details. ~OnStarÂŽ services require vehicle electrical system (including battery); wireless service and GPS satellite signals to be available and operating for features to function properly. OnStar acts as a link to existing emergency service providers. Subscription Service Agreement required. Call 1-888-4ONSTAR (1-888-466-7827) or visit onstar.ca for OnStarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and details and system limitations. Additional information can be found in the OnStar Ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide. +Whichever comes first, excludes medium-duty truck. See Dealer for limited warranty details.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will have a healthy Buck Pierce at quarterback on Friday as they to rescue their season in a rematch with the Hamilton TigerCats — one of only two teams it has managed to beat this year.

Given their record so far (2-9), Pierce wasn’t making any bold predictions Thursday about the Bombers ability to get back in the playoff hunt.

“We haven’t showed maturity in certain situations.

“Until we do that that’s tough to answer,” he said after watching from the sidelines for two months thanks to an injured foot.

“Until we show that we can move on from being undisciplined at times and all that stuff, I think that’s going to be a question mark.”

If the Bombers fall flat Friday, their losing streak will stretch to five.

Hamilton (4-7) snapped its own fivegame losing streak last week when it pounded Edmonton 51-8. The Eskimos are the other team on Winnipeg’s short win list.

“I hope it makes us feel better about ourselves, I know that, and that usually makes you have more confidence,” said Hamilton coach George Cortez.

“They say winning solves all problems . . .

We are disappointed we don’t have more wins and we are looking to get some now.”

The Bombers capitalized on turnovers to beat Hamilton 32-25 for their second win of the season Aug. 16, after edging Edmonton by a point two weeks earlier.

Hamilton quarterback Henry Burris remembers the game well, since his

Green Bay hits road for 1st time in ’12 to face Seattle turn home to host New Orleans, then play three straight on the road.

If there’s one thing the Packers have proved under McCarthy it’s their ability to win away from Lambeau Field. Green Bay has won its last six road openers and is 8-2 in September road games since McCarthy became head coach.

But none of those has come in what quarterback Aaron Rodgers considers one of the two loudest outdoor venues in the NFL. “Concern is not the right word, but you have to be aware of it,” said the 2011 league MVP. “It’s a factor. Those fans are intelligent. They know when to cheer.

They’re so stinking loud out there.”

The Packers come to Seattle trying to solve an offence that has yet to show any of the firepower from a season ago. Green Bay managed just 46 yards rushing in its opening loss to San Francisco, and Rodgers passed for just 215 yards in a 23-10 win over Chicago in which the Packers’ defence was dominant.

Rodgers started the season with consecutive passer ratings under 100.

Dating back to the end of last season, he’s failed to top 100 in four of his last five regular-season games.

But McCarthy believes it’s far too early to start worrying about a stumbling offence.

Missing so far for Green Bay are big plays.

Through two weeks the Packers have just eight plays of more than 20 yards — an average of four per game. Last season the Packers averaged nearly five plays per game of more than 20 yards.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

File photo by THE CANADAN PRESS

Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce throws the ball in Vancouver B.C. Pierce is healthy and back in the Blue Bomber lineup as Winnipeg tries to rescue a dismal season. four fumbles resulted in three of those turnovers, and says he’s taken some lessons in ball carrying to prevent a repeat.

“It’s definitely a game I haven’t forgot,” he said.

He’s not expecting the Bombers to make life easier for him this time.

“We know this team.

They’re going to come out of the locker-room playing like some crazy dogs, you know, a desperate team looking to do whatever it takes to get a victory,” he said.

“We’re only two games up on them and we’re . . . as desperate as they are.”

Since that last Winnipeg win, slump doesn’t begin to describe the Bombers’ situation — and they’re failing on both sides of the ball.

This month, they’ve scored a total of 27

points and given up 121 in three losses, digging themselves deeper into the CFL cellar.

Backup quarterback Joey Elliott was no more successful than Alex Brink as they waited for Pierce to recover from a foot injury, and the slide cost head coach Paul LaPolice his job.

They haven’t had a single offensive touchdown in their last three games.

Demond Washington produced their only touchdown on a 114-yard punt return Sept. 9 in a close game against Saskatchewan, which the Bombers lost by one frustrating point.

All-star linebacker Jovon Johnson says with all the player changes, the defence just has no chemistry this season.

Last season’s Bomber “Swaggerville” defence was one of the best in

Paul Henderson never tires of talking about The Goal

BY DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS TOTTENHAM, Ont. — Paul Henderson never gets tired of talking about The Goal.

He scored 236 times over 707 career NHL games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Atlanta Flames and added 140 more in the now-defunct World Hockey Association.

But the 69-year-old native of Kincardine, Ont., will forever be remembered for scoring the decisive goal that earned Canada its historic victory over Russia in the ’72 Summit Series.

“It sure doesn’t for me,” Henderson said with a chuckle Wednesday. “It’s the only thing I did in 18 years of hockey so how can it get old?”

There was plenty of reminiscing about the historic series as members of the Summit Series team gathered for their annual golf tournament at Woodington Lakes golf course. And while forward Phil Esposito and former goalie Ken Dryden attracted their share of media attention, it was Henderson who took centre stage after completing his round.

And with good reason. The former Team Canada star is battling cancer, having been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2010.

Henderson is currently undergoing treatment in Maryland and said while he’s down 18 pounds — and sporting a 32-inch waist for the first time since his teens — he’s currently feeling fine.

However, Henderson added a recent reaction to new medication prevented him from attending 40th anniversary festivities in Russia.

After playing 18 holes Wednesday, Henderson said he’ll have to skip playing in former teammate Ron Ellis’s golf tournament Thursday.

“I have to pick my spots,” he said.

“But I’m still in it.

“It’s one day at a time. There’s no cure for what I have but hopefully we can keep it at bay for a while because I’m having a great life and if I can just stay alive, it would be perfect.”

Henderson said repeatedly how much he enjoys reminiscing about his ’72 heroics, adding he often hears different stories from fans about where they were when he fired a rebound past Vladislav Tretiak to give Canada a thrilling 6-5 win in the eighth and final game.

But it was Henderson who also made that contest meaningful by scoring the winning goals in the sixth and seven games of the series in Russia.

“I’ve tried to handle it responsibly,” Henderson said of being the face of the ’72 Team Canada. “I’ve tried to handle

myself worthy of a Canadian, I’ve tried to be a role model for younger kids so I’m actually very pleased with it.

“It has been a really nice ride.”

But it wasn’t always so nice. When he returned to the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs he feuded with former owner Harold Ballard.

“It was brutal,” he said. “When I came back, Ballard and I weren’t getting along and I had no spiritual dimension in my life too and so I didn’t understand forgiveness and how to deal with anger and bitterness.

“When I learned to get rid of that nonsense and take every day, even with cancer, I refuse to let cancer define me. I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”

If Henderson has one regret, it’s that he never took the time to really enjoy playing in the series, which originally was supposed to be a friendly exhibition but quickly turned into a grudge match following Russia’s opening 7-3 win over the Canadians in Montreal.

“After the first game there was so much pressure on us to win,” Henderson said. “I had the time of my life, the series of my life and I forgot to enjoy it and I said, ‘I have to learn how to enjoy today.’

“It was several years later, because of Ballard mainly, before I learned how to do that but my memory is I wish I would’ve sat back and sucked it all in. But every day it was, ’We have to win and if we don’t win we’re going to be known as losers.’ Man, it just was not a good time.”

Expectations in ’72 were high that the star-studded Canadian team made up of NHL players would easily dispatch the Russians. And it looked like Canada would when it surged to an early 2-0 lead in the opening game before Russia rallied for the lopsided win.

Canada won the second game in Toronto 4-1 before the two sides skated to a 4-4 tie in Winnipeg. Russia took the fourth and final contest on Canadian soil 5-3 in Vancouver, prompting the 15,570 fans to boo Team Canada off the ice.

That led to Esposito’s infamous emotional outburst on national television where he criticized supporters for their actions.

“It was a turning point for you people, it wasn’t a turning point for us,” Esposito said of the speech.

“It was because of four or five young guys were standing by the Zamboni entrance in Vancouver yelling that communism was better and I almost threw my stick at them like a spear. Communism is not better. Period.

the CFL and Johnson was named the league’s outstanding defensive player.

“Defences in this league are what makes the teams go, so if you don’t have chemistry on defence it’s going to be a long season,” he said “Right now we’ve just got to get better, each aspect of the game.”

About the only ray of sunshine is that fans seem to keep coming out.

The Bombers have had sellouts or nearsellouts for every home game.

Interim Winnipeg head coach Tim Burke hasn’t lost his sense of humour at least.

“Certainly there shouldn’t be any overconfidence at this point,” he said Thursday.

“We’ve had very good practices this week, so it’s a matter of what team shows up tomorrow.”

SEATTLE — There shouldn’t be any surprises for coach Mike McCarthy or his Green Bay players when Seattle’s Russell Wilson steps under centre Monday night.

The Packers saw plenty of Wilson a year ago when he was just a couple of hours down the road in Madison, leading Wisconsin to the Big Ten championship game and the Rose Bowl.

Packers general manager Ted Thompson got quite familiar with the prospect.

“Ted makes his annual pilgrimage down to Madison each year — he actually just did it a couple of weeks ago — and when he came back last year he was very impressed with Russell at practice, and it was no surprise the type of year he had for the Badgers,” McCarthy said. “For him to be starting right away I think speaks volumes.”

Many of those fans Wilson made in his oneyear stint at Wisconsin won’t be pulling for him when the Seahawks host the Packers.

After facing the Packers in the prime-time showcase, the Seahawks will play just once at home over the next five weeks — and that one won’t be any easier with reigning AFC champion New England the foe.

Seattle has road trips to St. Louis, Carolina, San Francisco and Detroit before finally getting a couple of weeks at home in early November.

It’s not as though Green Bay is trudging down an easy path. The Packers get their first road game in one of the most hostile environments in the NFL, re-

Early Riser?

So are we.

Your local daily news delivered by the Red Deer Advocate and in your mailbox by 6:30 a.m.* *

8:00 a.m. delivery on Saturdays.

44482F24

Pierce healthy, will try to reverse Bombers’ slide

NFL

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 B7

Lockout could boost WHL attendance JUST LIKE THE NHL, THE WHL HAS ISSUES WITH SOME OF ITS SMALLER MARKETS

BY SCOTT EDMONDS THE CANADIAN PRESS

— WHL COMMISSIONER RON ROBISON

players to see how they develop.

So far, up-and-coming stars like Curtis Lazar, part of the under-18 team that won the Ivan Hlinka tournament again this year, are looking pretty good.

“Some of the kids who were in the third and fourth line last year have moved up,” Laxdal said.

“Guys like Curtis Lazar, guys like Mitch Moroz and our new import, Edgars Kulda.

“We’ve had a couple of 16-year-olds who really stepped up this year.

No. 96 is Brett Pollock . ..

“He’s a big centreman who will give us some depth and then, obviously, Dyson Mayo on the back end.”

Another Eastern Conference team from the East Division, the Sas-

katoon Blades, is also loading up on talent as it tries to capitalize on its position as host of this year’s Memorial Cup. The 22-team WHL has four divisions in two conferences, the East and Central in the Eastern Conference plus the B.C. and U.S. Divisions in the Western Conference.

There are five teams in the states of Washington and Oregon and, in Canada, the WHL stretches from Vancouver Island to Brandon, Man. The Blades play the Raiders in Prince Albert today in one of eight games that night as the season gets rolling in earnest.

“We made a trade earlier in the summer, bringing in three experienced players in Shane

I A D N HYU TAGE

THE

ADVAN

McColgan (and) Jesse Astles from Kelowna and Brenden Walker from Brandon,” said Blades coach and GM Lorne Molleken.

“With the addition of McColgan and Walker — their point total last year was in the 160-point range combined — we’re adding that number to our roster this year.

“We’re hoping that our younger players will take the step that’s needed and make this team very competitive and a team that has a chance to win the WHL championship, in preparation for the Memorial Cup.” Walker also has Memorial Cup experience Molleken thinks will pay dividends.

Prince Albert has some potent scorers itself including Mark McNeill, Chicago’s No. 1 draft pick this season, Anthony Bardaro and Dallas draft pick Mike Winther.

But the Raiders are looking for better goaltending from off-season

0

%

LOW PRICES

13 0 2

League.”

Nine of the 22 players who travelled to the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in the Czech Republic this year were drawn from the WHL. The tournament traditionally showcases Canada’s best under-18 players.

While it has no plans to expand, the WHL still has markets like Winnipeg and Nanaimo, B.C., on its radar if it has to relocate franchises.

Nanaimo would provide competition closer to home for Victoria, the only team on Vancouver Island.

The massive success of the NHL’s return to Winnipeg seems to have whetted the appetite of the WHL as well.

“Given our success in other NHL centres in Western Canada where we’ve co-existed very successfully, whether that be Vancouver or Calgary or Edmonton, we feel strongly that should we have relocation in the future, Winnipeg would be a top priority,” Robison said.

overage acquisition Luke Siemens.

The Blades are happy with their returning No. 1 netminder, Andrey Makarov.

“He’s had a real busy summer,” said Molleken. “(He was) disappointed that he didn’t get drafted in June but he played well in that Summit Series (for Russia) against our world junior team . . .

“He’s just recently signed an NHL deal with the Buffalo Sabres and he’s in a great frame of mind.”

The WHL is riding pretty high itself lately.

“We’re very proud of the fact that five of the first eight players selected in last year’s NHL draft were five defencemen from the Western Hockey League,” Robison said.

“When you look at Hockey Canada’s programs, the national junior team or under-18 national team or even the regional under-17 teams, a large percentage of those players are from the Western Hockey

†

FINANCING

ELANTRA SEDAN

HIGHWAY 4.9L/100 KM 58 MPGʈ

INCLUDES: 6 AIRBAGS ■ iPOD®/USB/AUXILIARY INPUT JACKS ■ POWER WINDOWS & DOOR LOCKS ■ ABS WITH TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM ■ DUAL HEATED POWER EXTERIOR MIRRORS ELANTRA L 6-SPEED MANUAL. DELIVERY & DESTINATION INCLUDED.

Limited model shown

17,444 $103 1.9 0 SELLING PRICE:

$

2012 CANADIAN & NORTH AMERICAN CAR OF THE YEAR

OWN IT

ʕ

WITH

BI-WEEKLY

13 0 2

†

DOWN

FINANCING FOR

84 MONTHS

PAYMENT

AND

% $

PAYMENT

SONATA SE

HIGHWAY 5.6L/100 KM 50 MPGʈ

INCLUDES: 18" ALLOY WHEELS ■ SPORT-TUNED SUSPENSION ■ DUAL EXHAUST WITH CHROME TIPS ■ LEATHER SEATING SURFACES ■ XM® RADIO WITH BLUETOOTH® HANDS FREE PHONE SYSTEM SONATA SE AUTO. DELIVERY & DESTINATION INCLUDED. Limited model shown

AWARDED THE HIGHEST GOVERNMENT CRASH SAFETY RATINGʆ U.S. NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

THE MOST FUEL-EFFICIENT FULL-SIZED CAR – NATURAL RESOURCE CANADA’S 2012 ECOENERGY VEHICLE AWARD^

25,714 SELLING PRICE:

$

3,250 0

$

ʕ

AND

IN PRICE ADJUSTMENTS‡

%

†

FINANCING FOR

36 MONTHS

INTRODUCING THE TOTALLY RE-DESIGNED

2013 SANTA FE

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER

0.9

%

†

FOR UP TO

FINANCING

48 MONTHS

28,259

$

STARTING FROM:

HIGHWAY 7.2L/100 KM 39 MPGʈ

ʕ

WITH AVAILABLE: 19" ALLOY WHEELS ■ PANORAMIC SUNROOF ■ REAR PARK ASSIST & REARVIEW CAMERA WITH 4.3" LCD SCREEN ■ REAR DOOR SUNSHADES ■ HEATED STEERING WHEEL ■ COOLED FRONT SEATS ■ HEATED FRONT & REAR SEATS SANTA FE 2.4L FWD AUTO. DELIVERY & DESTINATION INCLUDED. Limited model shown

5-year/100,000 km Comprehensive Limited Warranty 5-year/100,000 km Powertrain Warranty 5-year/100,000 km Emission Warranty

HyundaiCanada.com

TO INSERT DEALER |PAPER 7652 Gaetz Ave., NorthTAG RedHERE Deer | 403-350-3000 41773I14-28

TM The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2013 Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Sonata SE Auto/Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto with an annual finance rate of 1.9%/0%/0.9% for 84/36/48 months. Bi-weekly payment is $103/$330/$277.

No down payment is required. Cost of Borrowing is $1,192/$0/$523. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,495/$1,565/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2013 Sonata SE Auto for $25,714 at 0% per annum equals $330 bi-weekly for 36 months for a total obligation of $25,714. Cash price is $25,714. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,565. Registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees are excluded. †ʕPrices for models shown: 2013 Elantra Limited/Sonata Limited/Santa Fe 2.0T Limited AWD is $24,694/$28,064/$40,259. Prices include delivery and Destination charges of $1,495/$1,565/$1,760.

Registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees are excluded. ʈFuel consumption for 2013 Elantra Sedan L 6-Speed Manual (HWY 4.9L/100KM; City 6.8L/100KM)/2013 Sonata SE Auto (HWY 5.6L/100KM; City 8.7L/100KM)/2013 Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto (HWY 7.2L/100KM, City 10.4L/100KM) are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., iPod® is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc. ‡Price adjustments are calculated against the vehicle’s starting price. Price adjustments of up to $3,250 available on 2013 Sonata SE. Price adjustments applied before taxes.

Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. †ʕ‡Offers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ^Based on Natural Resource Canada’s 2012 ecoEnergy award for most fuel efficient full-size car. ʆGovernment 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

With no NHL hockey, at least for now, the Western Hockey League could be heading for a brisk year at the box office.

It’s already flexing on-ice muscle with the major impact its players are having on Canada’s junior teams and in the NHL draft.

“Obviously, we all hope the NHL is back playing as quickly as possible, it’s important for the game,” said WHL commissioner Ron Robison.

“Right now, we don’t see a real significant impact to start the season but, should this be an extended lockout, then perhaps as the season progresses we’ll see more coverage and more attendance.”

In the last full-season lockout in 2004-05, the Saskatoon Blades say they saw an increase of as much as 30 per cent in attendance.

That would be especially welcome for some smaller cash-strapped franchises.

Just like the NHL, the WHL has issues with some of its smaller markets, admits Robison, but he believes the model is working for the most part.

“We always have the challenge of the smaller markets competing with larger markets in our league and ensuring that we have a business model we can live with,” he said.

Still loaded with future NHL talent (eight draft picks), last year’s WHL champion Edmonton Oil Kings look like the team to beat again this season for the Ed Chynoweth Cup. But coach Derek Laxdal isn’t looking that far ahead.

“We’ve got five or six new players on our lineup this year and, like any team, you’re going to pick up injuries and you’ve got to go through the course of the season, so your journey’s going to be a lot different than it was last year,” he said.

He’s still pretty happy with what he sees coming out of the preseason.

“We feel that where we are right now, at this part of the season, we’re stronger than we were last year.”

Central Division rival Kootenay doesn’t appear to have the same depth this season, but Laxdal notes the Ice won the championship just a year ago.

“Kootenay seems to restock themselves every year and they’ve got Sam Reinhart, who is one heck of a player,” he said.

After finishing on top in 2011, the Ice made the playoffs in 2012 but were swept in the first round

by Edmonton.

They still have a potent weapon in the person of centre Reinhart, brother of Oil Kings’ defenceman Griffin Reinhart, fourth pick overall in this year’s NHL draft.

Sam is already rated as one of the top picks for the 2014 draft.

But big brother Griffin is still in the Oil Kings lineup, as are seven other NHL draft picks, including goaltender Laurent Brossoit.

The Ice lost six-footfive goaltender Nathan Lieuwen to the Buffalo Sabres in the off-season and Sam’s talented brother Max Reinhart to the Calgary Flames.

Left-wingers Jesse Ismond, 55 points last season, and Joe Antilla, 44 points, both turned 21 and had to leave the WHL. So Kootenay is looking to do some rebuilding.

The Oil Kings have been forced to make a few changes as well.

“We lost Tyler Maxwell (21), we lost Kristians Pelss, who was signed by the Oilers, and we lost Rhett Rachinski and Jordan Peddle (both 21),” said Laxdal.

There are always trades to be made but right now they’re watching their crop of young

‘WE ALWAYS HAVE THE CHALLENGE OF THE SMALLER MARKETS COMPETING WITH LARGER MARKETS IN OUR LEAGUE AND ENSURING THAT WE HAVE A BUSINESS MODEL WE CAN LIVE WITH.’

SCAN HERE FOR MORE

GREAT OFFERS

DAB_121127_B1A_CARA_JOUR_R1.indd 1

42343I21,28

Less Fuel. More Power. Great Value is a comparison between the 2012 and the 2011 Chrysler Canada product lineups. 40 MPG or greater claim (7.0 L/100 km) based on 2012 EnerGuide highway fuel consumption estimates. Government of Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. See dealer for additional EnerGuide details. Wise customers read the fine print: •, *, ‡, †, ▲, ', § The All Out Clearout Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after September 18, 2012. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. See participating dealers for complete details and conditions. •$20,898 Purchase Price applies to 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package (29E+CL9) only and includes $8,000 Consumer Cash Discount. $19,998 Purchase Price applies to 2012 Dodge Journey SE Canada Value Package (22F+CLE) only and includes $2,000 Consumer Cash Discount. Pricing includes freight ($1,400–$1,595) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees and other applicable fees and applicable taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. See participating dealers for complete details. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2012 vehicles and are manufacturer-to-dealer incentives, which are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. Amounts vary by vehicle. See your dealer for complete details. ‡4.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package models to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Auto Finance and Ally Credit Canada. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. See your dealer for complete details. Examples: 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2012 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package with a Purchase Price of $20,898/$19,998 (including applicable Consumer Cash Discounts) financed at 4.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $120/$115 with a cost of borrowing of $3,995/$3,823 and a total obligation of $24,893/$23,821. Pricing includes freight ($1,400–$1,595) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. †1.99% purchase financing for up to 36 months available on the new 2012 Dodge Journey SXT models to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Auto Finance and Ally Credit Canada. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. See your dealer for complete details. Example: 2012 Dodge Journey SXT with a Purchase Price of $25,395 (including applicable Consumer Cash Discount) financed at 1.99% over 36 months with $0 down payment equals 36 monthly payments of $727.27 with a cost of borrowing of $786.72 and a total obligation $26,181.72. Pricing includes freight ($1,400–$1,595) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees and other applicable fees and taxes. ▲$1,000 Bonus Cash is available on all new 2012 Dodge Journey SXT and R/T models. Bonus Cash will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. See your dealer for complete details. 'Ultimate Family Van Bonus Cash is available to retail customers on purchase/lease at participating dealers of a new 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan model (excluding Canada Value Package models) or any new 2012 Chrysler Town & Country model. The Bonus Cash amount ($1,250 for models equipped with a DVD player; $750 for all other models) will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. The included no charge Uconnect Hands Free Group represents an additional $750 in value. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. §2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Crew shown. Price including applicable Consumer Cash Discount: $27,395. 2012 Dodge Journey Crew shown. Price including applicable Consumer Cash Discount: $27,595. Pricing includes freight ($1,400–$1,595) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees and other applicable fees and applicable taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. &Based on R. L. Polk Canada Inc. January to October 2011 Canadian Total New Vehicle Registration data for Chrysler Crossover Segments. ■Based on Ward’s 2012 Small Van Segmentation. Excludes other Chrysler Group LLC designed and/or manufactured vehicles. ¤Based on 2012 EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Transport Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan – Hwy: 7.9 L/100 km (36 MPG) and City: 12.2 L/100 km (23 MPG). 2012 Dodge Journey SE 2.4 L 4-speed automatic – Hwy: 7.5 L/100 km (38 MPG) and City: 10.8 L/100 km (26 MPG). The Best Buy Seal is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications LLC, used under licence. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

AT THIS PRICE, GET ‘EM BEFORE THEY’RE GONE. 7.9 L/100 KM HWY ¤

36

$

$

120

$

STEP UP TO AN SXT

BI-WEEKLY FINANCING‡

2ND ROW OVERHEAD 9" VIDEO SCREEN

2ND ROW POWER WINDOWS

$

19,998

INCLUDES $2,000 CONSUMER CASH AND FREIGHT.

*

115

BI-WEEKLY FINANCING‡

• 3.6 L Pentastar VVT V6 with 283 HP • One-touch up/down front windows

TM

@ MPG

HWY

@

• Industry-Exclusive 2nd row Super Stow ’n Go® with one-hand operation • 2nd row overhead 9-inch video screen and DVD console • Hands-free connectivity with UconnectTM Voice Command with Bluetooth® • Media Centre 430 with 6.5-inch touch-screen display

2012 DODGE JOURNEY SE CANADA VALUE PACKAGE CANADA’S #1 SELLING CROSSOVER≠ BEST-IN-CLASS

283HP

2012 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN CANADA VALUE PACKAGE CANADA’S #1 SELLING MINIVAN FOR 28 YEARS

20,898 •

INCLUDES $8,000 CONSUMER CASH* AND FREIGHT. 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Crew shown.§

OR CHOOSE

%

STEP UP TO

4.49

2ND ROW SUPER STOW ’n GO®

7.5 L/100 KM HWY ¤

38

OR CHOOSE

4.49

• Fog lamps • 17-inch aluminum wheels • LED taillamps

%

AND GET

AND RECEIVE $3,000 IN TOTAL DISCOUNTS*

FOR 96 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN

THE ULTIMATE FAMILY EXPERIENCE PACKAGE AND RECEIVE $7,000 CONSUMER CASH

*

• ParkView® Rear Back-up Camera • Air conditioning with Tri-zone Temperature Control • 3rd row Stow ’n Go with tailgate seats • SiriusXMTM Satellite Radio (includes one year of service)

PLUS GET UP TO $2,000 IN ULTIMATE FAMILY PACKAGE DISCOUNTS∞

PARKVIEW® REAR BACK-UP CAMERA

MPG HWY

•

BEST NEW SUV/CROSSOVER (Under $35,000)

2012 Dodge Journey Crew shown. §

FOR 96 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN

%†

1.99

FINANCING FOR UP TO 36 MONTHS

▲

Dodge.ca/Offers

10 VEHICLES WITH 40 MPG HWY OR BETTER.

LESS FUEL. MORE POWER. GREAT VALUE.

9/19/12 12:54 PM

HOME FRONT

C1

LOCAL

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM BUSINESS ◆ C3,C4

SCIENCE ◆ C5 CANADA ◆ C7,C8 Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

ART CAR FREE DAY

Artist creates diverse works

Ditch the Durango and hop a bus this weekend. Red Deer celebrates World Car Free Day on Saturday, inviting people to ride their bikes or board a bus to join the fun at Barrett Park, immediately east of the Red Deer Public Market, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you absolutely need to arrive by car, sharing your wheels with a few others is a viable option, says Lauren Maris, environmental programs specialist.

Free activities include a 45-minute Zumba class, longboarding and use the city’s outdoor gym demonstrations and bike maintenance workshops. Visit www. reddeer.ca/carfree to learn more.

SYLVAN LAKE ARTIST ‘REDEDICATES’ HERSELF

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

This building is located at 5820-51 Avenue, the first commercial district in North Red Deer.

PLAYGROUND IN OLDS TO RECOGNIZE SOLDIER Volunteers in Olds will build a community playground that will recognize a fallen Canadian hero who served in Afghanistan.

The project, Let Them Be Kids-Holy TrinityOlds Barn raising will get underway at 8 a.m. on Saturday at Holy Trinity School.

Children’s activities will run from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lunch and coffee will be provided

by Catholic Women’s League. A formal dedication and ribbon cutting will be held at around 3 p.m. Cpl. Nathan Hornburg’s parents will attend.

Hornburg, a 24-yearold reservist from the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, was hit by a mortar shell in 2007 while he was fixing a track that had fallen off a Leopard tank about 47 km west of Kandahar City.

HEALTH, PLACE, ENVIRONMENT A non-credit course on Health, Place and the Environment will be offered at Red Deer College in 2013 if there’s enough community interest. The course is designed to be more of a general overview of health and health care issues.

The underlying theme is “the environment and health.” Some of the topics could include travel medicine, aboriginal health and health-care services in Canada and Alberta.

If there is sufficient interest, the course could be offered as early is spring or fall of 2013. Raj Navaratnam, geography instructor of the science department, is seeking input. You can email him at raj. navaratnam@rdc.ab.ca.

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta.

We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages.

We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit.

Call 403-314-4333.

Last surviving building in early commercial district for sale OLD BAWTINHEIMER & SONS BUTCHER SHOP

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The future of the old Bawtinheimer & Sons butcher shop, listed for sale as a “handyman special,” is up in the air.

History buffs in the city hope the building at 5820 and 5818 51st Ave. will be saved and restored.

“The original commercial district of North Red Deer was along 51st Avenue and 58th Street and this is the last surviving commercial building of that area, which at one time was the village of North Red Deer,” said Michael Dawe, the city’s curator of history.

North Red Deer was a village

‘THE BUILDING HAS NOT BEEN KEPT UP WELL...

BUT IT DOES HAVE SIGNIFICANCE.’ — MICHAEL DAWE

from 1911 to 1947.

It was Bawtinheimer’s second butcher shop.

The building was sold in 1912 and has seen various uses over the years.

In 1948, it was home to manufacturing and woodwork repair shop Red Deer Sash and Door.

Most recently, the shop was converted into a triplex for residential use.

Real estate information on the property lists it as built in 1944

because that’s when substantial renovations were done.

The Riverside Meadows property is in foreclosure and needs work.

“Over the years, the building has not been kept up well. It’s not had good maintenance.

“The original brick work was stuccoed over a long time ago, but it does have significance,” Dawe said.

Please see BUILDING on Page C2

Drivers facing major road closures 40TH AVENUE, 43RD STREET Red Deer drivers will have to watch out for a couple of main road closures in the next couple of days.

Starting Saturday, construction crews will have the southbound lane from the 40th Avenue-32nd Street intersection shut down to Spencer Street.

The intersection work is expected to be done in a week’s time or by Sept. 30.

While the southbound lane is closed, people will be able to use a proposed detour route through Sunnybrook.

City of Red Deer communications consultant Mi-

chael Cox said the city has been giving advance notice to nearby neighbours about the extensive work being done in phases along 32nd Street.

On Sunday, 43rd Street will be closed between 52nd Avenue and Taylor Drive.

The one-day closure will take place between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The road closure is required for paving on 43rd Street and detour signs will be in place for entering and exiting Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Past lives, a broken arrow and even old paint cans have inspired the diverse artworks of Mary Grace.

The Sylvan Lake artist never stopped drawing and painting since graduating with a fine arts degree from the University of Calgary in 1988.

She’s taken part in many group shows and even a travelling exhibition over the years. But life has sometimes gotten in the way of creativity.

Now that the former spa owner’s children are older, she has rededicated herself to her art with the realization “this is what I’m supposed to do.

It’s my gift that I want to share.”

Grace will be exhibiting about 60 original artworks her home studio this weekend. Among them are the mixed-media paintings Kaoekema and Aukaneechi.

The first is a painted canvas and embroidery piece that evolved over 20 years.

Grace said a male figure began to emerge when she first started layering paint and texture onto canvas.

It wasn’t until she revisited the work some 14 years later that she was able to complete the form of a Shoshone warrior, who Grace believes appeared in the Montana/Utah area in the 1800s “to share his leadership, strength and vision for a peaceful world.”

Aukaneechi evolved out of a vision the artist experienced of a Shoshone woman who was also bearing a message of peace.

Please see ART on Page C2

Changes coming for Lacombe Police Service GARY LESLIE, CHIEF SINCE 2008, ENDING NEARLY 30-YEAR CAREER WITH DEPARTMENT

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe Police Service will see some big changes at the top next year.

At the end of next May, Gary Leslie, the police force’s chief since 2008, will end a nearly 30-year career with the department.

Putting on the chief’s hat will be Sgt. Steve Murray, who has been with the force since 1998.

Leslie, 56, admits it won’t be easy leaving a force where he started as a constable in 1984.

“It’s tough,” he said, adding he’s never considered Gary Leslie the job work.

“I’ve had the opportunity to serve the people of Lacombe and it’s been absolutely fantastic.”

Leslie, who was born and raised in Regina, joined the Canadian Armed Forces out of high school and became a military policeman. He later graduated from the Saskatchewan Police College and was a police officer in Regina, and then went on to serve in Hinton before coming to Lacombe.

In 1988, Leslie was honoured with a Medal of Bravery by then-governor general Jeanne Sauvé for entering a burning apartment with his partner to try to save a woman. Leslie managed to get the flames out with a fire extinguisher, but unfortunately the woman died later.

In 2006, Leslie worked with Project KARE in Edmonton, a unit that investigates missing or murdered high-risk Albertans

Contributed photo

Gary Leslie at Mount Everest basecamp. such as sex trade workers.

But Leslie, who is married and has a grown daughter, is not one to go on about his achievements.

“I’ve had a very interesting career, I’ve got to admit,” he said. “(But) it’s not about me. It’s about the service.”

Among his non-police activities was his ascent to Mount Everest’s base camp with 10 Americans in April. Next year, he hopes to tackle the climb to the advanced base

camp of K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.

It will be a different service when he leaves Lacombe’s department, which was established in 1900 and is one of Alberta’s oldest police departments.

Starting next year, Lacombe will have its first police inspector, one of the key recommendations that came out of a recent review of the 14-member force.

Please see LESLIE on Page C2

C2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

STORIES FROM PAGE C1

ART: Figures resonate Both figures so strongly resonated with Grace that she believes the paintings were of real people who perhaps originated in her past lives.

A broken arrow inspired her triptych, Bear Medicine.

This abstract mixed-media works have to do with “divine healing energy,” the aboriginal notion that everything has a spirit, and bears symbolizing divinity, said Grace.

Not all of her art is inspired by such deep concepts.

Grace invites visitors to her show and sale to draw their own inspiration from the colourfully painted walls and ceiling of her garage.

“It’s all recycled paint,” said the artist, who made use of the bits left at the bottom of old paint cans.

“It’s a green garage. . . . It’s just blocks of colour,” but it totally adds to the ambiance, she said. “Paint is so cheap and you can really make a big change with it.”

Artworks by Grace can be viewed from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 41 Forest Dr., Sylvan Lake.

For more information, call 403-8872664. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

LESLIE: New position important Murray will take that job and serve as second-in-command to Leslie, learning the ropes until he takes over the top job later in the year. In 2014, the inspector will become a regular rank in the force.

Leslie said the new position will be an important addition.

“It will be an excellent move because the force is growing,” he said.

The new position will handle more of the operational tasks, leaving the chief to focus on the overall direction of the department.

“There’s too much work now just for a chief without having some type of as-

Contributed photo

A Healing Waters image by Mary Grace, inspired by Sylvan Lake. sistance.”

The review of the force showed they were the only police force in Alberta not to have an inspector position. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

BUILDING: Area revitalized And it’s located in a commercial area that’s seen significant revitalization over the years, he said.

“If someone was to take the building and do something with it, I think it would be very nice and probably a good attraction.”

The Bawtinheimer building is in-

cluded in the city’s North Red Deer Walking Tour booklet.

Janet Pennington, the city’s heritage community development co-ordinator, said in 2008 the city identified 460 potential heritage property sites, including the old butcher shop.

But right now it’s not listed in the city’s land-use bylaw as a site of significance.

“What that means is it has no protection as a heritage building.

So theoretically, the current owners or new owners could submit a request to demolish,” said Pennington, who works with property owners on ways to restore sites and apply for grants.

She said research could be done to see if property meets Canadian stan-

dards and guidelines to be classified as a heritage site.

If it was a designated site, the owner would be eligible to apply for a $50,000 matching grant from the province each year to help restore the building.

“We are certainly willing to work with any group in the community that’s interested in preserving historic sites. We have been incredibly successful in this town in getting these grants.”

The former Bawtinheimer machine shop, at 4925 48th St., is already a heritage building and is leased by Ten Thousand Villages.

“I know the community is very passionate about preserving its heritage sites,” Pennington said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

WORK STARTS ON PENHOLD HIGH SCHOOL

LOCAL

BRIEFS Man charged in dragging incident Red Deer City RCMP have named a Red Deer man arrested following an incident on Wednesday in which a female was dragged alongside a moving vehicle.

Mark Belisle, 31, is charged with dangerous driving, flight from police and four counts of possession of stolen property.

Police were initially called to a domestic assault in south Red Deer shortly before 7 a.m. RCMP members arrived to find a female being dragged beside a moving vehicle before she was pulled in.

Mounties pursued the pickup truck, pulling a utility trailer with a quad, south of the city. As it slowed down to about 20 km/h, the female jumped out.

Police say the pursuit continued down a deadend road and into a field. The truck stopped and the driver tried to flee on the quad, but he was nabbed

by RCMP. RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Sarah Knelsen said that one police cruiser was sideswiped by the truck.

Police say there were no injuries related to the pursuit or involving the woman.

Knelsen said the call came in initially as a possible abduction and forcible confinement situation.

“Through our investigation, it was determined this was not the case. I believe the female was released throughout this pursuit when she asked to be let out of the vehicle.

“The evidence just doesn’t prove or support a charge of forcible confinement.”

His next court apperance is Sept. 26.

Master’s program announced Beginning this fall, Central Alberta educators will have access to a University of Alberta master’s degree program offered by the Department of Educational Policy.

The degree of Educational Administration and Leadership has hit an enrolment ceiling of 30 students. Over a three-year period, participants will engage in 11 graduate-level courses.

The U of A’s Department of Educational Policy, Red Deer College, and College of Alberta School Superintendents will have a program launch on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. inside the north nook of the Library Information Common. Parking can be found on the west side of the college.

A brief welcome and information program will begin at 4:45 p.m. and will be followed by wine and cheese.

Various dignitaries will speak and students in the program will also share their perspectives.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Work has begun on the new grade 7-12 school in Penhold this week. Bettenson’s Sand and Gravel is doing the intial ground preparation work on the site with Clark Builders working as the main contractor. The Chinook’s Edge School Division school is scheduled to be complete in 2014. The school is being built just south of the Penhold Regional Multiplex building. remains in custody, made a brief appearance in Airdrie provincial court on Thursday.

He faces numerous charges including housebreaking with intent to commit a crime, sexual assault, choking with intent, assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, kidnapping and assaulting a police officer.

He is scheduled for a bail hearing on Oct. 4 in Airdrie.

Chinook’s Edge school division meets Chinook’s Edge School Division held a board meeting on Sept. 12. Here are the highlights: ● Colleen Butler was re-elected as board chair and Ron Fisher was reelected as vice-chair during the board’s organizational portion of the meeting. ● Support staff will receive a two per cent salary increase as part of a

• Contractors • Landscapers • Homeowners

Bail hearing set A bail hearing will be held next month for an Airdrie man accused of breaking into his former spouse’s home and attacking and kidnapping her.

Airdrie RCMP were called to the CrossIron Mills Mall in Balzac by a security guard after the guard was slipped a note by a woman saying she had been kidnapped.

It is also alleged that police saw a man hitting a woman and then the man turned on the officers when they were making an arrest.

The man’s name cannot be released to protect the identity of his alleged victim.

The accused, who

Got A Project?

Rent The Equipment You Need Today!

• Compact excavators • Track loaders • Skid steers • Attachments Sales-Rentals-Parts-Service

403-347-4020 Toll Free 1-888-747-4020

www.wrscottequipment.com www.mustangmfg.com

Call Darhl for your equipment needs 403-396-8659 0% Financing

B6-53 Burnt Park Drive, Red Deer

(up to 48 mos.O.A.C) 41508I22

compensation package approved by the board. ● The board approved an in-depth evaluation of superintendent Kurt Sacher. A report applauds the district’s chief for his warm, caring demeanour, as well as his ability to make hard decisions when necessary. The report can be found online at http://www. chinooksedge.ab.ca/docs/library/Board%20of%20 Education%20Comments.pdf. ● The board will send a letter supporting the efforts of the Confluence Heritage Society, which is involved with the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site. This is one site chosen to be “self-guided” in a recent Parks Canada attempt to reduce costs.

This is a highly regarded site for Chinook’s Edge student field trips.

FIRE PREVENTION

The Red Deer Advocate is honoured to be publishing a special feature dedicated to the brave men and women of our local ¿re departments.

Published on Thursday, October 4 this feature, promoting:

Fire Prevention Week (October 7 – 13, 2012) will include stories on the City of Red Deer’s ¿re department but will also include useful information.

This section will be displayed on the Advocate’s website

WEEK 2012

Contact your Advocate representative today:

Pam Beardsworth Ph: (403) 314-4350 Email:

pbeardsworth@reddeeradvocate.com

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

TAKE STOCK

▼ 12,409.25 -26.91

S&P/ TSX

1,334.89 -8.63 3,175.96 -6.66

TSX:V

▼

NASDAQ

▼

Dow Jones

▲ 13,596.93 +18.97

ENERGY

C3

BUSINESS

Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Shareholders back deal APPROVE $15.1-BILLION TAKEOVER OF NEXEN BY CNOOC

NYMEX Crude $91.87US ▼ -0.11

BY CRAIG WONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

NYMEX Ngas $2.814US ▲ +0.052

The head of Nexen Inc. pitched the benefits of a takeover by a Chinese company Thursday even as shareholders of the Calgary-based oil and gas producer overwhelmingly voted to support the politicallycharged deal.

Still faced with the task of winning approval from the federal government, interim chief executive Kevin Reinhart said the takeover wasn’t the end for Nexen — which is active in Alberta’s oilsands, the North Sea and elsewhere.

Reinhart said China National Offshore Oil Company will keep the Nexen name and expand the role of the company’s Calgary headquarters to manage not just Nexen’s assets but also some $8 billion of the Chi-

FINANCIAL Canadian dollar $1.0241US ▼ -0.21 Prime rate 3% Bank of Canada rate 1%

nese company’s other assets in North and Central America.

“This transaction will in no way close the book on Nexen (TSX:NXY) or our way of doing business,” Reinhart told shareholders after the vote to approve the deal.

“Instead it will open up a new chapter in our proud history, one I believe has the potential to be as exciting as all the past ones.”

The $15.1-billion takeover still requires approval by Ottawa under the Investment Canada Act. The deal faces the key “net benefit” test that tripped up BHP-Billiton’s hostile takeover bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (TSX:POT).

Concerns have been raised by Alberta Tory MP Ted Menzies, who has said he’s been getting a lot of negative feedback from constituents about the takeover by a state-

NEW MENCHIE’S OPENS

Gold $1,770.20US -1.50

▼

Silver $34.680 -0.002

▼

CATTLE PRODUCER NAMED TO AGRICULTURE HALL OF FAME An Innisfail cattle producer has earned a spot in the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame.

Mabel Hamilton is one of three Albertans slated for induction into the hall on Oct. 5. The others are Tom Droog of DeWinton and Ieuan Evans of Parkland County. Hamilton has raised purebred Angus cattle for 35 years. A founding member and past chair of the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency, she helped establish the national cattle identification program. Hamilton also served as chair of the Beef Information Centre and on the board of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.

Droog founded the Spitz sunflower seed company in 1978, while Evans discovered in the 1980s that much of Alberta’s cropland was deficient in copper. He also contributed much to disease control in crops.

EXXON MOBIL TO BOOST BAKKEN OUPUT WITH PURCHASE OF DENBURY ASSETS Exxon Mobil Corp. will spend $1.6 billion to boost its holdings in the massive Bakken oil field in North Dakota and Montana by 50 per cent. Exxon said Thursday it will buy all of the Bakken shale assets held by Denbury Resources Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash. Denbury will also receive Exxon’s interest in two fields in Wyoming and Texas.

Exxon will acquire 196,000 acres, boosting its holdings in the region to almost 600,000 acres.

The acreage acquired is expected to produce 15,000 barrels of oil and other hydrocarbons per day in the second half of this year. Exxon can increase production with new drilling in the future.

Oil production in the Bakken has soared in recent years, recently passing 600,000 barrels per day, or about 10 per cent of total U.S. production. That’s helped fuel the biggest jump in domestic oil production in more than 40 years. North Dakota recently passed Alaska and California to become the second biggest oil producing state in the U.S., behind Texas.

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

owned Chinese firm.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has also said that China needs to show that its staterun enterprises can be trusted to play by the same rules as Canada.

NDP Energy and Natural Resources critic Peter Julian said concerns have also been raised about CNOOC’s environmental and human rights history as well as its record in other takeovers.

“I think the public is losing confidence in the Harper government’s ability to handle in a transparent way this particular acquisition,” Julian said.

“A lot of Canadians are concerned about the process and they don’t see the federal government responding, consulting or listening in any way.”

Please see NEXEN on Page C4

Motorhome to sling meals at Chiles industrial

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Deon Beaupre opens wide as his wife, Darlene, feeds him a spoonfull of yogurt on the opening day of the new Menchie’s frozen yogurt store in Southpointe Common on Thursday. The self-serve store is the second Menchie’s franchise to open in Red Deer since May, with the other in Taylor Plaza. Both outlets are owned by Beaupre.

GM, CAW dispute details of offer GM SAYS ITS OFFER MATCHES FORD DEAL, UNION SAYS THAT’S NOT THE CASE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS General Motors says it has presented a proposal to the Canadian Auto Workers union that meets the pattern “on all elements” of the agreement reached with Ford.

But the union says the offer on the table falls short of what was agreed to earlier this week with Ford.

A spokeswoman says they would be happy if GM’s offer matched Ford’s, but adds “that hasn’t happened yet.”

The CAW had warned earlier today it was prepared to issue a strike notice at General Motors if talks don’t progress.

Ken Lewenza and other top union officials are meeting with GM in the third day of talks since the union put off an 11:59 p.m.

Monday strike deadline.

In a statement, GM says its proposal to the union follows extensive “meetings and dialogue” and “meets pattern on all elements of the Ford agreement.”

After reaching a tentative agreement with Ford earlier this week, the CAW turned to getting similar deals at both Chrysler and General Motors — a practice known as pattern bargaining.

Earlier today, the CAW said it is making some progress in its contract negotiations with Chrysler, saying the company seems to be more willing than it was to reach an agreement. Canadian Ford auto workers will vote this weekend on the tentative agreement and the CAW said results of the vote will be released on Sunday night.

The Ford deal contains no increases to base wages and pension plans will remain the same for existing employees. Each worker will get $2,000 a year in the second, third and fourth years to cover cost-of-living increases, and a $3,000 ratification bonus.

New hires will make 60 per cent of full pay, which would be reached after 10 years — rather than after six years as in the last collective agreement.

Please see CAW on Page C4

If you want a coffee or a bite to eat while in Chiles Industrial Park, you’d better have a vehicle and some time.

“The closest we found was 2 ½ km away,” said Thomas Shipley of the nearest options — a service station and a car wash.

That inspired him and his common-law wife, Sheryl Chiles, to propose a solution, in the form of a 1973 Winnebago. They’ve received approval from Red Deer city council to park the motorhome in Chiles Industrial Park and serve food and beverages there.

Slated to operate as Walter’s Coffee Now — with the name derived from the couple’s pet boxer — the orange Winnebago will boast a commercial-quality kitchen, said Shipley.

Sandwiches, hamburgers and homemade soup will be among its staples, with a feature soup and hot entree also available each day.

A breakfast sandwich will consist of an English muffin, hashbrowns, bacon or sausage, an egg and cheese.

“I’m pretty confident that there’s nobody else in town doing a breakfast sandwich like us.”

Walter’s Coffee Now will also serve Keurig coffee and other drinks, and prepare bag lunches for customers.

“We want to start with a basic keep-itsimple menu,” said Shipley. “But if people are asking for something, the answer’s always yes.”

Special features at Walter’s Coffee Now will include an exterior barbecue and a 40-inch flatscreen TV that patrons will be able to watch from an outside seating area next to the motorhome. Orders will be processed electronically using an iPad, with Shipley’s vision that customers will eventually be able to order remotely from their smartphones or tablets.

“Our web designer is working on that app right now.”

Shipley is aware of another Winnebago being used in a similar fashion in the United States, but said the conversion of his from RV to diner has required significant work.

“I would say I’ve got 300 hours into it right now and probably another 200 to go in the next two weeks.”

Please see RESTAURANT on Page C4

PQ takes on three industries on first day in office

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Within 24 hours of taking office, the new Parti Quebecois government slammed the door on two controversial industries and dropped a hint about shutting down a third.

The government moved to shore up its environmental credibility by promising to shut down an aging nuclear plant that is the only one in Quebec; reiterating plans to scrap a loan that would revive the province’s last asbestos mine; and suggesting that the shale gas industry might never be allowed to operate.

At the same time Premier Pauline Marois sought to mollify critics who feared her government might hurt the economy.

Some punditry since she took office has suggested her new cabinet is too heavy with social activists and not business-friendly enough. Marois opened her first news conference as premier with a promise of fiscal sobriety. She said she intends to erase the provincial deficit by 2013-14.

“I would like to underline that for my government, budgetary rigour is non-negotiable,” Marois said in Quebec City.

“I would like to remind you that in 2001 I was the first finance minister to pay down part of the debt, therefore I intend to pursue this same goal.”

In addition to the promises on asbes-

tos and nuclear power, and hints about shale gas, Marois also announced plans to move ahead with the PQ campaign pledge to redraw Quebec’s northern-development plan. The party has promised, among other changes, to increase royalties paid by mining companies.

Such moves could provide more fodder for pundits expressing alarm about the makeup of her cabinet.

The group of ministers includes two people who spearheaded the Quebec Green party and a natural-resources minister — the government’s point person for mining and energy development — who’s been an active environmentalist for more than a decade.

Natural Resources Minister Martine Ouellet raised eyebrows Thursday by hinting about a long-term ban on the province’s fledgling, and contentious, shale-gas industry.

Ouellet said she didn’t believe the method of extracting natural gas from shale, known as “fracking,” can ever be done safely.

“I don’t foresee a day when there will be technology that will allow safe exploitation (of shale gas),” Ouellet said before her firstever cabinet meeting.

Marois tried to downplay Ouellet’s comments after the inaugural meeting of her cabinet. She said any future decisions would be based on environmental studies

that have yet to begin.

Under political pressure, the former Liberal government halted shale-gas exploration last year to conduct more studies on the ecological risks.

That environmental-review process was expected to take a couple of years. Now Ouellet is reiterating her party’s campaign promise to hold broad environmental public hearings on the risks of the sector, on top of the ongoing review.

Until then, she wants the industry to remain idle.

“Our position is very clear: we want a complete moratorium, not only on exploitation but also on exploration of shale gas,” Ouellet said. “We haven’t changed our minds.”

Those remarks earned her a rebuke from the last leader of her own party.

Andre Boisclair, a former PQ leader and environment minister who is now a consultant for Calgary energy company Questerre (TSX:QEC), said Ouellet appears uninformed about an industry that he insists has proven elsewhere in Canada that it can operate safely.

“Does it mean that Albertans aren’t doing it in a safe way and that the technology that they use isn’t ready yet?” Boisclair told The Canadian Press on Thursday.

“When they hear Martine Ouellet’s comments, you know, they’ll jump to the ceiling.”

C4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 100.65 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 75.00 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.05 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.68 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.25 Cdn. National Railway . . 87.44 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 80.75 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 67.08 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.18 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.35 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 30.88 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 38.14 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.75 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.01 General Motors Co. . . . . 24.42 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.09 Research in Motion. . . . . . 6.75 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 38.16 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.91 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.80 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.99 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.84 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 72.29 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.75 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.44 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.12 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.07

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.80 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 51.24 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.75 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 17.25 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 41.43 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.00 First Quantum Minerals . 21.22 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.42 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.99 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 48.55 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 10.04 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 43.05 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.90 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 30.67 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.74 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.20 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.46 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.31 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 45.50 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.07 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.51 Canyon Services Group. 11.99 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.60 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.680 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.19 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.63 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 91.52 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 36.13 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.860

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.98 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.33 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.47 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.72 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.91 Penn West Energy . . . . . 15.25 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.85 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.77 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . 10.98 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.04 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.78 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.57 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.04 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.55

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended another losing session on Thursday as weaker commodities weighed heavy on the industrial and metals sectors.

The S&P/TSX composite

index dropped 26.91 points to 12,409.25 while the TSX Venture Exchange slid 8.63 points to 1,334.89.

The Canadian dollar fell 0.21 of a cent to 102.41 cents US. TSX energy stocks were

up 0.4 per cent while the price of crude inched lower for the October contract, falling 11 cents to US$91.87 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The November contract, which traded in higher volume, gained

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 58.29 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 53.50 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.68 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.37 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 28.41 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 22.45 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.00 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 58.95 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 11.86 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 75.22 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 56.75 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 23.59 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.90

12 cents to $92.42.

Copper slid 5.5 cents to US$3.76 a pound while gold bullion fell $1.50 to end the session at US$1,770.20 an ounce.

Shares of Canadian railroad companies fell after U.S. competitor Norfolk Southern Corp. warned that its earnings will be weaker than anticipated. Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) dropped 2.2 per cent, or $2.17. to $80.75, while Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) pulled back 4.2 per cent, or $4.15, to $87.44. The TSX Industrials sector fell 2.1 per cent.

Among the sobering news for investors was a survey pointing to a deepening recession in Europe, figures from Japan that showed the country’s powerhouse export sector was continuing to suffer and a private survey of manufacturers in China that showed activity fell again in September, though at a slightly slower pace than in August.

The weakness in China has caused a particular concern over whether the world’s second-largest economy may impact the demand for commodities. Prices for soybeans, platinum and palladium also dropped.

In the U.S., the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell only slightly last week, suggesting that the hiring level remains weak. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications declined by 3,000 from the previous week, to a seasonally adjusted 382,000.

The Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 18.97

points to 13,596.93, the Nasdaq composite index fell 6.66 points to 3,175.96 and the S&P 500 index backed off 0.79 of a point to 1,460.26.

“Over the last few days there’s been a hangover,” said Allan Small, senior adviser at DWM Securities.

“This week you’re seeing ... a lack of a catalyst to take the market higher. We’re at a bit of a pause here.

“There’s so much lack of news that people are already looking to the jobs numbers which come out in a couple weeks,” he added.

The latest U.S. employment numbers are due on Oct. 5.

The tug-of-war between bull and bearish sentiment is likely to continue for some time, suggested CMC Markets Canada senior market analyst Colin Cieszynski in a note.

“For the next two months until earnings season ends in mid-November, we could see a tug of war between the positive effect of increased money supply and the negative effect of a slow global economy and the risk of more earnings disappointments,” he wrote.

In corporate developments, shareholders of Nexen Inc. (TSX:NXY) have approved a proposed $15.1-billion Chinese takeover of the company by China National Offshore Oil Company. The transaction still requires approval by the Canadian government under the Investment Canada Act. Nexen shares were up five cents to $24.72.

Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) shares held steady at $1.23

as the company announced plans to hire 900 new employees for the main carrier, and another 200 for its new low-cost carrier, set to launch next year.

An Ontario judge has certified a $1-billion classaction lawsuit launched last May against SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) on behalf of investors who saw the value of their shares plummet on revelations about payments in North Africa. Shares of the company were down 64 cents to $38.16.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov.’12 $17.20 lower $617.40; Jan ’13 $17.50 lower $620.70; March ’13 $18.30 lower $620.00; May ’13 $16.30 lower $610.20; July ’13 $15.40 lower $602.40; Nov. ’13 $16.40 lower $536.40; Jan. ’14 $16.40 lower $538.90; March ’14 $16.40 lower $535.00; May ’14 $16.40 lower $535.00; July ’14 $16.40 lower $535.00; Nov. ’14 $16.40 lower $535.00.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $250.30; Dec. ’12 unchanged $255.30; March ’13 unchanged $258.30; May ’13 unchanged $259.30; July ’13 unchanged $259.80; Oct. ’13 unchanged $259.80; Dec ’13 unchanged $259.58; March ’14 unchanged $259.80; May ’14 unchanged $259.80; July ’14 unchanged $259.80; Oct. ’14 unchanged $259.80.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 402,700 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 402,700.

Greek parties still unable to clinch deal on new austerity measures

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS — A deal on making further cuts to Greece’s budget will take a few more days at least, after the leaders behind the coalition government failed to agree details of an austerity package that is crucial to the financial survival of the country.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met again Thursday with Evangelos Venizelos, the leader of the Pasok socialist party, and Fotis Kouvelis, the leader of the Democratic Left. The three, who have been holding regular meetings for the past few weeks in an attempt to agree a deal, appear to be at odds over how to make further cuts to such things as benefits,

STORIES FROM PAGE C3

NEXEN: CNOOC plans to keep the name Julian said Ottawa failed to deliver on promised changes to the Investment Canada Act review process after the PotashCorp deal was killed and now the same problems are happening again.

Liberal MP Marc Garneau asked if a Canadian company could purchase a similar company in China.

“That would be a level playing field and that’s the kind of consideration we’d like to make sure that the government is looking into so that everything is fair for Canadian investors abroad as well as for Chinese and other countries wanting to invest in Canada,” Garneau said.

Reinhart said in addition to its pledge to keep the head office in Calgary, CNOOC would seek a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and carry on Nexen’s social responsibility programs in Canada and around the world.

“And importantly, CNOOC plans to keep the Nexen name. This tells me they understand who we are and what we stand for. The Nexen brand has been a large contributor to our success around the world and has provided us with a significant competitive advantage,” he said.

The Chinese energy giant welcomed the results of the shareholder vote.

“The offer is a compelling one, and offers benefits for all Nexen’s stakeholders, including D employees and commuI nities,” CNOOC spokesL man Peter Hunt said in a B statement.

E “CNOOC Ltd. will R continue to pursue all T regulatory approvals re-

salaries and pensions.

The Greek government has to come up with a package of cuts worth at least C11.5 billion ($15 billion) if it’s going to get its hands on bailout cash from international creditors. Without the money, Greece faces the real prospect of defaulting on its debts and abandoning the euro.

The government still has time to agree the package, but not much. Greece still has enough money in the bank to cover its expenses over the coming weeks.

Finance minister Yannis Stournaras described the negotiations as “very difficult” but said he hoped a deal would be clinched in coming days. Venizelos said talks would resume next week, probably

on Sept. 26, and insisted that cuts worth C8 billion ($10.36 billion) had already been agreed upon.

Politicians have had trouble agreeing on the details of the package, expected to include more salary and pension cuts for the years 2013-14. Critics say it’s just going to make the recession worse and make it difficult for Greece to pay down its debts.

“Nothing has been finalized,” Kouvelis said. “All those who hastened to declare that the measures have been decided were mistaken.”

The new cuts are a source of indignation among many Greeks, including judges and police, especially as Greece has already enacted several austerity packages since it became reliant on bailout loans in May 2010.

quired to close the transaction.”

CNOOC has offered $27.50 per share in cash for Nexen, which has offshore oil and gas assets around the world and a stake in the Long Lake oil sands project in Alberta and shale gas operations in B.C. Nexen shares closed up a nickel at $24.72 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday, suggesting that at least some investors believe there is a chance Ottawa will reject the deal.

The offer had required approval by two-thirds of the votes cast by both Nexen’s common and preferred shareholders. The common shareholders voted 99 per cent in favour of the deal, while the preferred shareholders voted 87 per cent to approve the agreement.

Nexen and CNOOC were familiar with one another before the deal was announced earlier this year.

The two are partners in the Gulf of Mexico and at the Long Lake oilsands project near Fort McMurray, Alta., which has been beset by a litany of operational glitches and has yet to come close to meeting its production targets.

by the park each day, he noted.

Although Walter’s Coffee Now won’t move from its spot, Shipley hopes to introduce smaller mobile units next year that will travel to public events. His longer term plan is to open a restaurant in a building. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

RESTAURANT: Hopes to be operating by mid-Oct. He hopes to be operating by mid-October, with the business’s anticipated hours 5:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Shipley has calculated that some 250 people work in Chiles Industrial Park, which is owned by Sheryl Chiles’ parents, Norm and Margaret. Many more pass

CAW: Laid off employees New hires will also be signed up for a hybrid pension plan, rather than a defined benefit plan for current workers.

The Ford deal will also give 800 laid off employees a chance to get back to work, partially through the creation of 600 new jobs at its Canadian operations. Most of the those positions will be at Ford’s assembly plant its Oakville, Ont.

MONEYMAX Opens Monday Sept. 24

Payday loan for less

100 FOR 10 Each 100 borrowed will cost only 10 bucks

BORROW UP TO $1500 For $300 dollar loan for 14 days total cost of borrowing is $30 dollars. Annual percentage rate is (APR)=260.71%.

Limited time offer.

Downtown Co-op Plaza, Red Deer 403-342-6700 41521J2

SMALL BUSINESS WEEK

October 14-20, 2012

From tractors to trailers and everything else, Kärcher has the ideal pressure washer to keep it clean!

ON SALE NOW!

See Showroom For Details.

This year will mark our 15th annual salute to small business in Central Alberta. It’s no secret; small business is the leading force in driving our economy and growing our communities.

This feature, produced in partnership with Community Futures allows our local entreprenuers to tell the story of their businesses and the products and services they have to offer.

uses 25% less fuel

• Agriculture • Industrial • Automotive • Residential

7018 Johnstone Dr. Red Deer 403-347-9770 www.pumpsandpressure.com

52428I29

• Pressure Washers • Air Compressors • Samson Lube Equip.

• Pumps of all kinds

RED DEER • EDMONTON • CALGARY • LEDUC • GRANDE PRAIRIE • BRANDON • LANGLEY

To advertise call 403.314.4343 Watch for it in the Sunday, October 14th

41253I17

Distributed to over 24,000 Homes

C5

SCIENCE

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Pressing on in a world of change Modern technology is a baffling conundrum for a lot of people.

It seems every time we turn around we need to update our computer, install the latest antivirus software, learn how to run our newest phone, the one the phone company convinced us to get because our contract expired.

These new phones will take our picture, track our appointments, store our music, and keep us connected. And I haven’t even touched on how the thermostats in the house, the newest televisions, stereo, printers or cameras, engage our learning curve.

Because of all this technology we have in the contempoLORNE rary world, we have become OJA the most educated, intelligent generation of humans in history.

Our brain cells are constantly inundated with new learning opportunities.

It can be overwhelming.

I have met more than a few holdouts who refuse to use a computer, cellphone or programmable thermostat. I see merit in their unfettered life, but realistically for most of us, we must press on in a world of constant technological change.

We may be able to escape it at home but our jobs keep us in a progressive loop of development.

It is the advent of this technology that has given us

ENERGY

the opportunity, if we so choose, to live independently of corporate enslavement to the utilities.

We can purchase and operate our own electrical generation system, collect heat from the sun and for the truly technological competent, produce our own fuel.

Is it easy?

For most people the short answer is no.

For the dedicated engineering type, which good old Alberta has an abundance of, it is not really difficult at all.

If you can keep your 1.5 terabyte, 32 gigabytes of memory laptop running smoothly, an inverter and charge controllers will be child’s play.

Checking the specific gravity of your battery bank and tightening the bolts on your wind turbine are maintenance items similar to changing oil in your vehicles and rotating your tires.

Do your homework and, contrary to popular opinion, read the owners manuals first and your difficulties will be minimal.

Individually do we have to do any of this?

From a practical point, no.

In this province, and for that matter this country, we have access to electricity and natural gas on a scale that is unrivalled.

We are lucky.

On a global scale, there are many countries that do not have the resources that we do.

But what if we were to take the technology that is available and fine tune it, make the better mousetrap so to speak, we could develop other energy industries in this province, for a world willing to buy?

Wind farms, biofuels, geothermal electricity, solar

University of Guelph scientists are living on ‘Mars time’

LIKE us facebook.com/thecityofreddeer

FOLLOW us @CityofRedDeer

www.reddeer.ca

Development Officer Approvals On September 18, 2012, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Clearview 1. H. Gauthier – a 6.7 metre right relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane to a proposed detached garage to be located at 49 Chappel Drive.

Edgar Industrial 2. Scott Builders Inc. – a 141m2 addition to an existing industrial building located at 7690 Edgar Industrial Court.

Discretionary Use Clearview

THE CANADIAN PRESS GUELPH, Ont. — They are bleary-eyed from weeks of living on “Mars time,” but Nick Boyd and Glynis Perrett are game for whatever surprise the Red Planet has in store.

It’s 1:40 p.m. Earth time (or 6:31 a.m. Mars time) and Boyd and Perrett are hunkered down in the “operations centre” of the MacNaughton Building at the University of Guelph.

It’s an ordinarylooking room with an extraordinary purpose.

Sometime about the end of October, scientists here will begin receiving data from Mars.

Specifically, they’ll be getting information from the University of Guelphdesigned alpha particle X-ray spectrometer that is mounted on the arm of Curiosity, a robotic rover that is something like a lab-on-wheels, that is currently roaming around on the Red Planet. It was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida last November.

The speciallyequipped room at the university will be the Canadian command post for the spectrometer, which will measure the chemical elements in Martian rock and soil.

Curiosity’s instruments are being operated from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

About the size of a pop can, the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, called APXS, is working with nine other sophisticated devices to try to find the remains of microbial life on Mars.

The rocks and dirt that it analyzes will tell us whether there was life on Mars and what happened to it.

“This mission may be the biggest, most important science mission in a generation,” says Boyd, 29, the operations lead responsible for APXS’s day-to-day functioning.

He’s invigorated by the large-scale science and the “crazy boldness” of the mission.

The APXS is the only instrument on board Curiosity that has been to Mars before, says Iain Campbell, a physics professor emeritus and member of the Guelph research group that developed Curiosity’s APXS device.

“This is the senior instrument on the mission, the one with a long history,” Campbell says.

For him, the chance to study massive environmental change on another planet is particularly exciting.

Other missions have found strong evidence for the existence of lots of water in Mars’ distant

electricity, and waste product energy recovery (gas from garbage) are all technologies being pursued in this province.

Our biggest employer in the province is energy production, be it hydrocarbon, wind or hydroelectric. If we keep adding alternate energy sources to our resume, Alberta will become a leader in all energy fields.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

3. Memorial Society of Red Deer & District – an office for a private organization to be located at 3030-55 Street.

Inglewood 4. T. Gall – a home based fitness & nutrition consulting business to be located at 208 Ibbotson Close.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on October 5, 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.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

From left, Iain Campbell, co-investigator and emeritus professor at University of Guelph, Glynis Perett, PhD student, and Nick Boyd, APXS operations lead, hold components of a device used to gather information on Mars, part of a NASA mission to the red planet. past, he says.

“The big question is where did it go?”

“We are on a planet embarking on environmental change, so looking at environmental change on Mars is not exactly esoteric,” Campbell says. “What happened there? Why did the oceans get lost? Why did the environment get acidic?”

“Some scientists think Mars had a greenhouse atmosphere at one point.

Would it not be nice to understand more about the greenhouse effect on Mars?” he says.

“Mars has been frozen in time geologically and the time is early for Earth,” says Perrett, 26, a PhD student in geochemistry who works on the spectrometer’s calibration.

“Going to another planet, we can learn about us as well.”

As part of the APXS team, Boyd and Perrett were living on “Mars time” alongside other scientists in Pasadena.

A Mars day is about 40 minutes longer than a 24-hour day on Earth.

The difference adds up,

leaving researchers with a helter-skelter schedule in which they’re often sleeping when family members are awake and awake when everyone else is asleep.

“That is why working on Mars time is pretty confusing. It’s almost like you are travelling and adjusting to the next time zone over from your current time zone every day,” Perrett says.

“Mars time wouldn’t be so tough if the rest of the world weren’t still on Earth time,” Boyd says.

Natural body rhythms “go out the window.”

“The whole thing is further complicated by the fact that there are two shifts every Mars day, and if you are jumping back and forth between them . . . things get even more difficult.”

Boyd and Perrett switched back to Earth time while they were in Guelph last week. This week, Boyd returned to Pasadena and Mars time.

Perrett will return there soon as well.

The fact that Guelph is at the centre of Mars research is a “huge thing,” says Campbell,

the team’s co-investigator.

The Guelph instrument, funded by the Canadian Space Agency, provides instant analysis of the rock, and produces lists of concentrations of elements.

“Our results will help other teams’ decisions,” Campbell says. “Should we move on or is this rock interesting?”

If a rock looks promising, scientists at mission control in Pasadena can tell the robotic arm to drill for a sample and place it inside the belly of the rover.

The APXS acts as gatekeeper for two analytical instruments, the Chemistry and Minerology instrument (dubbed CheMin) and the Sample Analysis at Mars (dubbed SAM) which are inside the rover’s belly, Boyd says.

SAM will search for compounds of the element carbon, including methane, associated with life, says the Jet Propulsion Laboratory website.

CheMin will help scientists study the role that water played in forming minerals.

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

Change District from: A1 to DC(33)

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.

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.

C6

FASHION

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Valentino finds other creative pursuits DANCE COSTUMES, DECORATING AND COOKING

NEW YORK — When dancers of the New York City Ballet grace the stage at Lincoln Center for this year’s fall gala Thursday night, they’ll be wearing extraordinary costumes by Valentino — and not many people can say that these days.

Valentino — really Valentino Garavani, but his name stands on its own and usually in boldface — retired as one of fashion’s most celebrated designers nearly four years ago, leaving the design house he founded in 1960.

But, he says, retirement wasn’t ever going to be spent enjoying the views from his halfdozen homes around the world.

His desire to put pencil to paper and sketch artful things never diminished, he says, but churning out collection after collection did.

“I stopped because in the ’fashion world,’ I had done almost everything, and fashion was taking a direction I didn’t like,” Valentino, now 80, says. “... This is a new life for me, and it’s been a very beautiful experience.”

For the fall gala, he has created 16 original designs for a ballet set to selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and for pieces set to music by Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Max Richter and Dinah Washington.

There also will be a tribute of sorts to Valentino: The ballet will perform Rubies, from George Balanchine’s Jewels, set to Igor Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. A bold ruby hue is known as Valentino red, a colour the designer made his signature over the years.

Valentino says he’s a great fan of the ballet, and he has found working with the lovely music and eager dancers to be inspiring.

It also helped that costumers were available to make everything perfect, just like it should be for what is essentially haute couture, he adds with a smile.

“I am doing this with great pleasure.” he says.

For all his grandeur and fame, Valentino appeared quite comfortable in a sparse ballet practice room scattered with a few instruments.

He says NYCB Ballet Master-in-Chief Peter Martins, who is a friend, seems a little surprised at the minute level of detail that’s required, and at the number of changes that were happening just days before the show.

It’s the first time Martins has seen choreography done around a dress and not vice versa, Valentino says with a smile.

Valentino designed costumes for the Vienna Ballet in 2009, and he would like to do a largescale, ornate production, perhaps for the Bolshoi Ballet in Russia.

He, along with partner Giancarlo Giammetti, spent most of the last two weeks at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, which is not only the home of the NYCB but also is the hub of New York Fashion Week, where twice a year designers preview their looks for the coming season. He attended the runway show of his friend Diane von Furstenberg, but doesn’t miss “fashion.”

“I have nothing to regret in my career, and I love my colleagues and peers, but I don’t pay attention to ’fashion’ anymore,” Valentino says.

He adds: “I have no nostalgia.”

For those who do miss his typically feminine, glamorous fashion looks, there are several opportunities to see his work.

Somerset House in London plans Valentino: Master of Couture as a major exhibit, with 130 gowns from the wardrobes of Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Gwyneth Paltrow. It will open at the end of November and run through March.

Last year marked the launch of the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum, a downloadable app with real-time, 3-D views of hundreds of his dresses and even more of his sketches, ads, photos and videos.

Giammetti, the businessfocused, big-picture half of the duo, headed up this project since Valentino is the first to say he’s not an aficionado of high-tech gadgets.

He’s moved on, Valentino insists, not only to costumes, but also to his interests in decorating, architecture and restoration of buildings, as well as cooking.

His French chateau is featured in the October issue of Architectural Digest, and he’s been asked to write a cookbook, which he’s considering. “It’s not terribly far away from what I do,” he says. “I love food, so maybe there will be a book of recipes.”

FIle photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Image released by the New York City Ballet shows principle dancer Wendy Whelan wearing a Valentino Garavani costume in New York. Valentino, 80, says he is a great fan of the ballet, and he has found working with the lovely music and eager dancers has been inspiring.

10 years

Living Leadership

Leaders stay the course.

In the face of adversity, it takes courage to stick to strategies, beliefs and principles, and stay the course. Like you, we’ve done just that and continue to custom build solutions to help our clients do what they do best…lead.

Because Alberta means the world to us. atb.com/corporate

TM

Trademarks of Alberta Treasury Branches.

41468I21

BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

C7

CANADA

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Canada urged to play Asian peacemaker

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Calling the current tension between China and Japan “worrisome,” the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations wants Canada to become more of a peacemaker in Asia.

Surin Pitsuwan, secretary general of the 10-nation ASEAN bloc, told The Canadian Press in an exclusive interview Thursday that as Canada pursues deeper ties with Asia, it has to focus on more than just trade and investment, and should take a more active role in security issues.

Canada should leverage its good reputation as a “soft power” to help mediate some of the intermittent disputes that flare up in the region, perhaps emulating Norway, he said. Norway has been an active mediator in the Middle East, the Balkans and Sri Lanka.

“What Canada can do is to transform its expertise in those areas of peacekeeping, peace-building into a more mediating role. A country like Norway has been very active and engaged. Canada has been less than Norway, maybe by choice,” Surin said in Ottawa, where he was meeting several Conservative cabinet ministers.

“It has to be a package, an integrated approach.”

Surin would also like to see Canadian troops taking part in military training manoeuvres in the region, such as Cobra Gold, in which 10,000 troops from the United States and several South Asian countries took part in simulated amphibious beach assaults and disaster relief earlier this year.

“Canada knows that it has been rather absent from the region,” he said.

“Maybe Canada should be more present at these kinds of region activities, for peace, for reconciliation, for security, for mutual confidence.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made forging deeper economic links with Asia a priority for his government.

Boosting trade and investment with ASEAN — a group that does not include China, India, Japan or South Korea — represents one way of broader engagement with the region.

Surin said ASEAN’s 10 member countries are anxious to deepen trade and investment, as well looking for new opportunities in education, health and technology.

“We are able to be on the supply lines of every factory in India and China. In that sense ASEAN is in the middle of the growth centre,” he said.

But the broader region is also the scene of simmering tensions, including the current territorial

dispute between China and Japan over an island chain in the South China Sea. Surin called the situation “worrisome because they are our major partners,” adding: “We certainly would like them to be able to get along.”

Because of Asia’s rising influence, unresolved disputes could effect growth across the globe, including the recovery from the current economic crisis, he said.

That’s why steps have to be taken in various regional forums to find diplomatic solutions.

It’s up to Canada, he said, to gauge how big a player it wants to be.

“The decision will have to made here in how much Canada wants to be part of the process to contribute to confidence building, reconciliation in the region, and trying to restrain all parties and not allow the situation into open conflict,” said Surin.

“Because it’s going to affect the rest of the word.”

In the case of the China-Japan dispute, Surin said he has no illusions about Canada being able to make a difference.

“It would be a rather difficult issue between China and Japan. Territorial disputes, historic mistrust, lack of mutual confidence. It’s rather deep,” he said.

But everyone has to find ways to deal with the continuing rise of China.

Airline to hire 1,100 over the next year Welding and Manufacturing Ltd.

If you would like to join a team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking a

SAFETY COORDINATOR The selected candidate will: • Plan and lead regular Safety meetings • Execute staff training programs • Perform regular site inspections • Work extensively with ISN Networld Preference will be given to those with COR audit experience, and a minimum 3 years work experience in a manufacturing environment. EMR Certification is an asset.

This is a full-time permanent position, offering competitive Salary and Benefits packages.

403-227-7796 hr@bilton.ca

Please fax resume to or email to

41116I20-25

We are accepting resumes for several positions within our child care programs!

• Receptionist • Out of School Care Assistants • Daycare Cook/Relief Caregiver • Full time and Relief Child Caregivers If you possess education and/or experience, are committed to best practice in child care, interested in working in a dynamic and supportive team atmosphere, and welcome opportunity for advancement and ongoing training, please forward your resume to:

101, 4419 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4N 3Z5 Or Fax 403-343-9299

By September 21, 2012 Please indicate in your cover letter which position(s) you are interested in.

FULL-TIME SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Stettler Independent Advertising Department

High performance, High Value Precision Well Servicing’s NEW pressure control division has immediate job openings for :

Coil Tubing, Nitrogen, Fluid Pump and Snubbing; Coil Tubing, Nitrogen, Fluid Pump and Snubbing; Supervisors Supervisors Operators Operators Assistant Assistant Operators Operators CoilCoil Pumper Mechanic Pumper Mechanic CoilCoil Pumper Pumper Dispatcher Dispatcher We offer; 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

New, highly technologically advanced equipment Outstanding safety record Industry leading wages Immediate benefit coverage Employer matched pension plan after one year ( 5% gross salary) One of the best benefit programs in the industry Stability, advancement, growth and training opportunities Finder’s Bonus Program

Apply online at www.toughnecks.com

Join the professional team at the Stettler Independent, one of Stettler’s longest-serving and trustworthy businesses. Each week, we deliver the news and advertising content that generations of central Albertans have relied on at home and away.

As a full-time advertising sales representative, you would provide advertising solutions for clients, maintain existing accounts and generate new business. The ideal candidate has sales experience and strong customer-service skills. Computer and administrative skills are also considered assets.

The Stettler Independent 4810—50 St. P.O. Box 310 Stettler, AB TOC 2L0

publisher@stettlerindependent.com

Welding and Manufacturing Ltd.

Join a winning team.

Challenge your management skills Currently recruiting

Welding and Manufacturing Ltd.

PROGRAM MANAGER-HOME CARE

designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment and is seeking a full-time

We are looking to add a self-directed, experienced Registered Nurse with management experience to join our Home Care team The Program Manager-Home Care provides the direction and leadership to facilitate the delivery and supervision of contracted client services within a consistent, safe and quality framework through: Monitoring and analyzing all aspects of service delivery Actively participating in quality assurance and risk management initiatives Liaising with local health authorities and other customer groups Your exceptional leadership qualities and strong focus on customer satisfaction and safety will enable you to oversee day-to-day administration and coordination of home care services Enjoy a career with a standardized work week, benefits, and a supportive, progressive work culture

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to: • update project schedules • update ERP systems • liaise with Project group to gather information • supporting information flow to Production and Project team members • provide customer with required information Preference will be given to those with a high level of organization and experience in a fast paced, manufacturing environment. Knowledge of Microsoft Projects software is an asset.

Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Best People, Best practices

hr@bilton.ca

To apply please see our website www.cbi.ca/careers Or Email: hrhomehealth@cbi.ca

to 403-227-7796 or e-mail to

41119I21-25

Please forward your resume via fax

designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment.

We operate 6 shops with over 40,000 sq. feet of space on 10 acres of land, in Innisfail, Ab, and we’re continuing to grow!

If you would like to join a team of professionals, we are currently seeking a

PRODUCTION MANAGER The successful candidate will: • Lead the manufacturing group to meet key business objectives including safety, quality, productivity, delivery, etc.

• Ensure production and quality requirements are met in order to satisfy the customer base in an efficient and cost effective manner • Lead, train, develop, and mentor departmental assigned team members.

Among other key responsibilities This is a full-time, permanent position offering a premium wage and excellent benefit package Only those selected for an interview will be contacted

41306I21-29

40805I15-29

Air Canada plans to hire about 1,100 employees, including 200 at its new low-cost carrier, as the airline moves ahead with growth plans following a spate of labour conflicts with its major unions.

The airline, which currently employs some 27,000 people worldwide, said Thursday the jobs are part of its strategy to “seize new commercial opportunities, enhance customer service and renew our workforce.”

A i r C a n a d a (TSX:AC.B) says it will hire approximately 400 flight attendants and some 500 airport customer service agents and baggage handlers. Sixty customer service agents will be hired for call centres in Montreal and Toronto.

The company — which has been beset by labour problems that have hurt both its reputation and its share price — cited attrition as one of the main drivers behind the hiring of customer service agents and flight attendants.

Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said he didn’t have exact number of employees lost through attrition or departures through retirement and career changes.

But, he added that the number of hires is carefully calculated to replace those employees as well as augment the workforce, while keeping costs low.

In addition to those leaving for other reasons, the company is also offering voluntary separation packages, or buyouts, which would usher out an unspecified number of employees.

Red Deer Child Care is growing!

42370I21

We design, engineer and manufacture custom oilfield equipment within 7 shops, with over 40,000 sq. feet of space on 10 acres of land in Innisfail, Ab, and we’re continuing to grow!

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Please fax resume to 403-227-7796 email to hr@bilton.ca

41117I20-25

C8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Military clamping down on all information

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Members of the Canadian military have been told to tighten the screws and withhold information, even though it may not be sensitive or a threat to national security.

The unusual directive, known as a CANFORGEN, was written last year by the country’s deputy top commander in response to a media story on financial uncertainty facing National Defence.

The story, in the Ottawa Citizen on April 29, 2011, looked at lapsed funding — cash the department was unable to spend on capital projects — and came at the height of the last federal election campaign.

It was deemed to have contained “information that was not meant for wider or public consumption,” but the data had not been given the designation of either secret or protected.

That prompted Vice-Admiral Bruce Donaldson, the vice chief of defence staff, to instruct those handling information to give everything that passes over their desks — or posted on the internal department system — a second glance with an eye to keeping it hidden.

“Information that is not sensitive to the national interest, and therefore not classified, should also be examined to see if it is sensitive to other than the national interest, and therefore requires an appropriate designation of either Protected A, B, or C,” said the directive, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. The directive goes beyond reviewing information to protect privacy.

“Sensitivity to other than the national interest is not limited to information that is personally sensitive, but also includes, for example, information that sensitive to the organization, administration, financ-

CANADA

BRIEFS

U.S. soldier who opposed Iraq war deported from Canada, arrested

es or other internal functioning of the department, its relationship to outside organizations, or other government business operations.”

Daniel Blouin, a defence spokesman, stood by the directive in an email statement.

A directive is considered an order to members of the Forces, he said, and “DND is committed to safeguarding sensitive information, and to the safety of its people, assets and infrastructure.”

Critics were surprised by Donaldson’s directive, suggesting it was aimed at protecting the department and the Harper government from embarrassment.

“It looks very political,” said Liberal Senator Colin Kenny, former head of the Senate defence and security committee. “ My first reaction is that they want to protect the political interests of the government of the day, and that’s not their job.”

New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris has asked the information commissioner to investigate to determine whether the directive has violated the country’s Access to Information Act. “This is a department that spends 20 billion of taxpayer dollars annually and in terms of the documents available to the public, they seem to be seeking the highest degree of secrecy based on vague notions,” said Harris.

“It’s contrary to the public interest and contrary to the principles of accountability that this government claims to hold dear.”

The Defence Department has been embarrassed on several occasions by the inadvertent leak of information.

A few years ago, news of an investigation into the country’s special forces in Afghanistan slipped through the filter because of an access-to-information request.

PQ scraps tuition hike at centre of protests

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — It’s over — the tuition increase that triggered such social strife in Quebec has been cancelled.

The Parti Quebecois government repealed the fee hike, by decree, in its first cabinet meeting Thursday on its first full day in office.

Premier Pauline Marois acted on a promise that she had made during the election campaign. She announced the decision at a news conference.

Marois said tuition will go back to $2,168 — the lowest in Canada. With the planned increases, it would have been $600 higher this year and would have kept growing each year.

Marois said she will not decrease funding for universities and will make good on a promise to hold a summit on how to fund universities within her first 100 days as premier.

The government policy entering that meeting will be to suggest indexing future fee increases to the rate of inflation. That would raise tuition by a rate of around one to three per cent most years — com-

pared with the 84 per cent increase over seven years planned by the previous Charest government.

But Marois’ inflation-index policy is not set in stone.

“That’s a proposal I’m putting on the table,” Marois said. “It’s a debate we need to have.”

Marois said she will also cancel the Charest Liberals’ controversial protest legislation. Huge protests erupted across the province this spring in reaction to the fee hikes, originally planned at $325 per year over five years and later changed slightly to $254 over seven years.

The events — dubbed by some the “Maple Spring” — drew international news coverage.

The increases were part of the Liberals’ 2011-12 budget and were cast as a way to put public finances on a more sustainable footing, while guaranteeing better-funded universities.

University fees have remained frozen in Quebec for most of the last 40 years.

However, opponents of the fee hikes warned that they could reduce access to higher education, and do serious social harm, while contributing relatively little to government coffers.

OTTAWA — An American soldier who sought refuge in Canada after she became disillusioned with the Iraq war has turned herself over to the United States.

The War Resisters Support Campaign says Kimberly Rivera was immediately arrested, detained and transferred to U.S. military custody after presenting herself at the border.

The group says Rivera is now waiting to be transferred to a different military facility where she faces punishment for being absent from her unit.

It also says Rivera’s husband and her four children — two of whom were born in Canada — crossed the border separately so the kids wouldn’t have to see their mother being detained.

The parliamentary secretary to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has confirmed the deportation and says the Harper government doesn’t believe Rivera will be persecuted in the U.S. Rivera, who lived in Toronto with her family, came to Canada in 2007 to avoid further U.S. military service.

Ken Marciniec of the War Resisters Support Campaign says two other Iraq war resisters who were deported in the past faced year-long jail sentences for desertion upon their return.

Rivera told reporters last month that her biggest fear about being deported was being separated from her young children and having to sit in a prison for politically being against the Iraqi conflict.

Roughly 19,000 people signed an online petition protesting her deportation order and rallies were held in a number of Canadian cities Wednesday calling on the government to let Rivera stay.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the American veterans organization Veterans for Peace have also spoken out against the deportation.

Tories put opposition between rock, hard place on MP pension reform OTTAWA — If opposition MPs want to be seen supporting cuts to their gold-plated pension plan, they’ll have to vote for a host of other measures, no matter how unpalatable.

Treasury Board President Tony Clement has confirmed that pension reforms will be included in the second, omnibus, budget implementation bill, expected to be introduced shortly.

He says there’ll be no separate, stand-alone bill on pension reform, as opposition parties had urged.

Opposition MPs believe the tactic is aimed at putting them in an untenable position: support the budget bill, no matter what else is in it, or vote against cuts to their own fat pensions.

If they vote against the bill, Tories will doubtless accuse them of refusing to share the pain of Canadians, whose retirement savings have taken a big hit over the past few years and who are being asked to wait until 67 to collect old age security.

The opposition brought Parliament to a standstill last spring in a futile bid to stop the Harper government’s first omnibus budget bill, which ran to 400-plus pages and involved controversial changes to some 70 different pieces of legislation.

LINCOLN E M P L OY E E PRICING ‡

EXCLUSIVITY HAS NEVER BEEN MORE INCLUSIVE. PLUS ELIGIBLE COSTCO MEMBERS RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL

$

NEW 2013 LINCOLN MKX AWD

1,000

‡‡

MYLINCOLN TOUCHTM†

MyLincoln Touch™† / 3.7L 305 hp V6 Engine Reverse Sensing System with Rearview Camera* Push Button Start / Adaptive HID Headlamps

Lease for only

Your Employee Price

%††

438 1.99

$

@

**

45,772

$

APR

Per month for 48 months with only $7,789 down payment or equivalent trade.

Offers include $3,578** in Total Price Adjustments.

Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700. No Security Deposit1

NEW 2013 LINCOLN MKT AWD ECOBOOST

NEW 2013 LINCOLN MKS AWD ECOBOOST

N Now with ith MyLincoln M Li l T Touch hTM† / 3.5L 3 5L 365 hp^ h ^ V6 E EcoBoost B tTM 7 Passenger Seating / Available Power Panoramic Vista Roof TM Available Active Park Assist*

Now with MyLincoln TouchTM† 3.5L 365 hp^ V6 EcoBoostTM Engine Reverse Sensing System with available Rearview Camera*

combines an 8" LCD touch screen and SYNC® Lease for only

538 1.99

%††

with over 10,000 voice commands, letting

$

you access your phone, music, climate, and

Per month for 48 months with only $6,769 down payment or equivalent trade.

optional navigation any way you see fit.

@

APR

Your Employee Price

48,513

$

**

Lease for only

538 1.99

$

@

%††

APR

Per month for 48 months with only $8,699 down payment or equivalent trade.

Your Employee Price

49,956

$

Offers include $3,737** in Total Price Adjustments.

Offers include $3,944** in Total Price Adjustments.

Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700. No Security Deposit1

Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700.

**

IT’S NOT JUST LUXURY. IT’S SMARTER THAN THAT. 42349I21

ALBERTALINCOLN.CA

WISE BUYERS READ THE LEGAL COPY: Vehicles may be shown with optional features. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offers. Offers may be cancelled at any time without notice. Dealer order or transfer may be required as inventory may vary by dealer. See your Lincoln Dealer for complete details or call the Lincoln Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-387-9333. ‡Lincoln Employee Pricing (“Employee Pricing”) is in effect from June 14, 2012 to October 1, 2012 (the “Program Period”), on the purchase or lease of all new 2012/2013 Lincoln vehicles. Employee Pricing refers to A-Plan pricing ordinarily available to Ford of Canada employees (excluding any CAW-negotiated programs). The new vehicle must be delivered or factory-ordered from your participating Lincoln Dealer during the Program Period. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. **Until September 30, 2012, purchase a new 2013 Lincoln MKS AWD EcoBoost™ / 2012 MKX AWD / 2013 MKT AWD EcoBoost™ for $49,956 / $45,772 / $48,513 after Total Price Adjustments of $3,944 / $3,578 / $3,737 (Total Price Adjustment is a combination of Employee Price Adjustment of $2,944 / $3,078 / $2,737 and Delivery Allowance of $1,000 / $500 / $1,000) is deducted. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Total Price Adjustment has been deducted. Offers include air tax & freight of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealers), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Delivery Allowances can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Delivery Allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. ††Lease a new 2013 Lincoln MKS AWD EcoBoost™ / 2012 MKX AWD / 2013 MKT AWD EcoBoost™ and get 1.99%/1.99%/1.99% APR for up to 48 months to qualified retail customers on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest LAPR payment. Lease a vehicle with a value of $53,900 / $49,350 / $52,250 at 1.99%/1.99%/1.99% APR for up to 48 months with $8,699 / $7,789 / $6,769 down or equivalent trade in, monthly payment is $538 / $438 / $538, total lease obligation is $34,523 / $28,813 / $32,593 and optional buyout is $17,787 / $19,247 / $18,288. Offers include Total Price Adjustments of $3,944 / $3,578 / $3,737 (Total Price Adjustment is a combination of Employee Price Adjustment of $2,944 / $3,078 / $2,737 and Delivery Allowance of $1,000 / $500 / $1,000). Delivery Allowances can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford of Canada at either the time of factory order or delivery, but not both. Delivery Allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. Offers include air tax & freight of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealers), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of lease financing price after any price adjustment is deducted. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Some conditions and mileage restrictions of 64,000km / 80,000km / 80,000km over 48 months apply. A charge of 16 cents per km over mileage restrictions applies, plus applicable taxes. 1Between June 1, 2012 and September 30, 2012, Security Deposit payment is waived on a lease of a new Lincoln model (Red Carpet leases, on approved credit from Ford Credit). Security Deposit may be required by Ford Credit based on customer credit terms and conditions. ‡‡Offer only valid from September 1, 2012 to October 31, 2012 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with a Costco membership on or before August 31, 2012. Use this $1,000CDN Costco member offer towards the purchase or lease of a new 2012/2013 Lincoln vehicle (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). The Eligible Vehicle must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Lincoln dealer within the Offer Period. Offer is only valid at participating dealers, is subject to vehicle availability, and may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. Only one (1) offer may be applied towards the purchase or lease of one (1) Eligible Vehicle, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. This offer can be used in conjunction with most retail consumer offers made available by Ford Motor Company of Canada at either the time of factory order (if ordered within the Offer Period) or delivery, but not both. Offer is not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). Applicable taxes calculated before $1,000CDN offer is deducted. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offer, see dealer for details or call the Lincoln Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-387-9333. †Some mobile phones and some digital media players may not be fully compatible with SYNC® - check www.syncmyride.com for a listing of mobile phones, media players, and features supported. Driving while distracted can result in loss of vehicle control, accident and injury. Certain MyLincoln Touch™ functions require compatible mobile devices. Some functions are not available while driving. Only use mobile phones and other devices, even with voice commands, when it is safe to do so. ^Figure achieved using premium unleaded gasoline. *Driver Assist features are supplemental and do not replace the driver’s judgment. ©2012 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

»

D1

SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

ENTERTAINMENT

COMICS ◆ D4 LIFESTYLE ◆ D5 Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Beyond the Hall KEVIN MCDONALD BRINGING HIS NERVOUS ENERGY TO RED DEER FOR TWO NIGHTS OF BULL SKIT!

Photo by ADVOCATE news services

Kevin McDonald, 51, says jitteriness has always been part of his personality.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The most striking thing about Kevin McDonald, of The Kids in the Hall fame, is his nervous energy.

A flustery nervousness fuels his rapid-fire speech during a recent phone interview, much as it did his sketch comedy personas during the influential Canadian TV show that ran from 1988 to 1994.

(No, it wasn’t McDonald who played the unsettling Chicken Lady — that was Mark McKinney. But McDonald did play the Chicken Lady’s bizarre friend, the Bearded Lady, as well as a litany of other downtrodden characters, including drippy talk show host Darcy Pennell, The King of Empty Promises, and a guitarist who was the most talented yet least respected member of the extremely bad garage band Armada).

It was also a running joke that McDonald, who actually co-founded The Kids in the Hall with Dave Foley, was the least popular member of the TV show, and was on constant probation with the rest of the cast.

He would periodically face the cameras looking queasy, confiding that he would be cut if his next sketch wasn’t funny.

KEVIN MCDONALD ON STAGE Who: The Kids in the Hall co-founder, comedian Kevin McDonald, with Bull Skit! crew When: 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28, 29 Where: Scott Block, in downtown Red Deer Tickets: $23 ($18 students/seniors) from the Sunworks store on Ross Street McDonald, who performs in Red Deer with Against the Wall Theatre’s Bull Skit! troupe on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, admitted that jitteriness was always part of his personality. “My father used to tell me that being a little nervous is good, because nervousness makes you realize that you are alive and you need to be alive to perform.”

The self-effacing part is probably what separates a lot of Canadian comedians from their British and American counterparts, added McDonald.

“We can act like we’re from England or from the States, but we’re not from either. That makes us imposters. And you get a sense of irony from being imposters. . . .

“Canadians know ridiculous.”

The 51-year-old comedian has guested on a lot of TV shows (Seinfeld, Arrested Development, MADtv, That 70s Show), has written many scripts, and voiced a lot of animated characters since The Kids in the Hall folded. He’s

about to put himself out there again — this time for Red Deer audiences — and he hopes what he comes up with on the Scott Block stage will be funny enough.

“Whether or not it’s funny, it will be fun anyway,” he promised, with a nervous chuckle.

McDonald plans to bring on a few other comedians, perform some “oneman sketch comedy” and do sketches with the local Bull Skit! troupe.

McDonald was born in Montreal, but grew up in Los Angeles and Toronto. He moved to Winnipeg several years ago, after falling in love with a local dancer, who has two children.

He now describes himself as a family man, who’d be reasonably content to settle in Manitoba if not for the work situation.

“I’m a little out of the loop in Winnipeg,” admitted McDonald, who most recently wrote and stars in his own web show, Papillon.

He’s next planning a move back to

LA, since he wants to write a pilot for a TV series that would give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the zany process of writing for a TV series — kind of a Larry Sanders Show, 30 Rock kind of thing, admitted McDonald. “Hey, I’m not the first one to invent this!”

The team-writing process is what McDonald misses most about no longer doing The Kids in The Hall, which along with McKinney and Foley also included Bruce McCulloch and Scott Thompson.

“I miss the chemistry and the laughs,” he admitted. “No matter what we do, we all know that the best work that we’ll ever do is with each other.

“I mean, as funny as any of us are, we’ll never be as funny as when we were five guys that worked together.”

That’s why The Kids in the Hall cast are currently planning another project — but don’t ask McDonald what that is yet.

“We’re planning to have a meeting about when we can have a meeting to see about when we can get together.

Maybe we can work on something like a tour, or a movie, or a musical version of our movie (Brain Candy), which no one saw. Or Mark has this crazy idea about writing a play. It could be like Spamalot. . . . We’ll see.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Latest Evil a non-stop barrage of gunfire, explosions Resident Evil: Retribution One and a half stars (out of four) Rated: 18A

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

WRITER-DIRECTOR PAUL W.S. ANDERSON . . . STUFFS 100 POUNDS OF GORE INTO A FIVE-POUND SACK AND KEEPS JAMMING IN

Milla Jovovich drop-kicks her way into yummy mummy territory in Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth videogame-based zombie apocalypse flick in the franchise.

In a rare respite from her trademark skin-tight leathers and nasty bucklewear, Jovovich’s Alice does a turn in suburbia (clearly a Torontoarea suburb, for the latest in the madein-Toronto franchise) as a jeans-clad, blond mom with an adorable little girl.

It’s not too long before all hell breaks loose, sending property values plummeting as zombies rampage around the cul-de-sacs devouring brains and baying for blood.

How that happens, along with the rest of the muddled plot, doesn’t really matter. We’re not here for compelling story; it’s all about the thrill of the kill, and Resident Evil: Retribution doesn’t disappoint in that department.

Any inconsistencies in the narrative are explained by do-overs, changing alliances and character-altering serums pumped into jugular veins. It’s all the same blah-blah carnage as the first four flicks, with 3D effects hurling blood, blades and body parts into the audience amid a non-stop barrage of gunfire and explosions.

Once again, steely eyed Alice stands splay-legged and whips huge rifles from a backpack holster to do battle with monsters that look like a plate of calamari gone rogue, drooling zombies

some of whom she seems to know from earlier movies. Meanwhile, a controlling computer called the Red Queen, who looks and acts like a petulant child, and a monster who won’t take no for an answer, make life difficult for the little band of renegades.

Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson knows that this is a franchise that works, so why tinker? He stuffs 100 pounds of gore into a five-pound sack and keeps jamming it in. Not content to stick with simple impalements and jetting arcs of blood, Anderson ups the ante with X-rays that show bones breaking and hearts being ripped from arteries as the blows land.

The special effects are impressive but it’s easy to grow weary of them, making this Resident Evil look like what it is: a movie shot on a sound stage with a violent digital world created around it.

Will there be a sequel? The last movie, 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife, grossed more than $280 million at the box office internationally, making it the most successful production in Canadian film history.

When we last see Alice before the credits roll, she and what’s left of her gang are standing on the roof of the White House while D.C. explodes, burns and is under attack by winged zombies below them. Resident Evil: Romney, perhaps?

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Photo by ADVOCATE news services

Alice (Milla Jovovich), left, and her new sidekick Ada Wong (Bingbing Li) end up doing some globetrotting in the latest entry to the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: Retribution. and bad guys employed by nasty megaindustry The Umbrella Corporation.

The deadly virus Umbrella cooked up for biological warfare gain — which also turns victims into flesh-eating zombies — is still out there and being tested on international populations in worldwide sales pitches.

Alice ends up doing some globetrotting (of a fashion and in high heels, no less) along with new sidekick Ada Wong (Bingbing Li). They stride pur-

posefully down a deserted Yonge Street, the high-high slit in Ada’s red cheongsam revealing a menacing weapon strapped to her impressive thigh. You go, girl!

Fight scenes are frequent. Slowmotion digital trickery makes bullets dance and dive while Alice flies through the air, vaulting from one victim to the next, guns blazing, using their bodies like pommel horses.

Alice is aided by a few good men,

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Buddy Guy fears for the future of the blues ARTIST DOING WHAT HE CAN TO MAKE SURE THE GENRE LIVES ON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Blues great Buddy Guy is seen at his club Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago’s South Loop earlier this summer: “I love what I’m doing.”

RED DEER COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS SEASON

THEATRE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Peter Pan Dracula Summertime CONCERT SERIES Faculty Recitals Chamber Choir Symphonic Winds Percussion Ensemble Jazz Nights Student Concerts Tickets

The Black Knight Ticket Centre 403.755.6626 1.800.661.8793 bkticketcentre.ca

Website rdc.ab.ca/showtime

PRESENTING SPONSOR

real estate central alberta

41507I14,21

CHICAGO — Ask Chicago guitar legend Buddy Guy about the future of the blues and he’ll give a depressing — but direct —answer.

“It’s scary,” Guy said during an interview upstairs at his club, Buddy Guy’s Legends, in Chicago’s South Loop. “I’m still going to play my music because I love what I’m doing, but we need all the support we can to keep the blues alive.”

After five decades in the business, Guy is doing what he can to make sure the genre — and his late contemporaries like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Junior Wells — lives on. Earlier this year Guy wrote his autobiography, “When I Left Home,” and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member is mentoring Massachusetts eighth-grader and blues guitarist Quinn Sullivan.

And Guy will likely garner attention in December when he receives a 2012 Kennedy Center Honor.

“He has expressed his fear that it may be all lost after he’s gone,” said Janice Monti, a sociology professor at Dominican University who studies blues music. “I think as he’s gotten older he’s incredibly aware of this mandate he received from Muddy and the Wolf to keep this all going.”

Guy says blues music is ignored in an entertainment marketplace obsessed with young artists.

“It’s a tough time for blues because if it was being played, other than satellite radio, on the peak hours, prime time, then somebody would know about it,” Guy said.

That’s one of the reasons the 76-year-old Guy took on mentoring 13-year-old Sullivan, who he said plays “as well as Eric Clapton, me and B.B. King. How do you learn that at that age? That’s a natural.” Guy has Sullivan open for him on tour and record.

“If you don’t have role models the young people now will not learn how to play,” Guy said.

The relationship is a boon for Sullivan, who said he most enjoys trading guitar licks with Guy. “I have a smile on my face every time I’m in his presence,” Sullivan said.

“He’s a living legend. I couldn’t ask for more. It’s just a great thing that he’s helping me with my career.”

In Chicago, Guy found work driving a tow truck during the day and playing blues clubs at night.

Guy eventually earned a spot as a regular session musician at the city’s famed Chess Records and found a mentor in blues musician and producer Willie Dixon. Guy formed a band with Junior Wells and played with The Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead.

Guy developed his own recording career later, with music like the 1991 bestselling record, “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues.”

Spreading the news of the blues was another reason Guy decided to team with author David Ritz to write his autobiography.

“I just want a true story about some of the great people who didn’t write a book and left me with this history of information,” Guy said.

The book details his childhood in Louisiana, his move to Chicago 55 years ago and his music career. He said he considers his performance for President Barack Obama at the White House in February with Stones singer Mick Jagger to be the professional pinnacle of his career. Guy successfully prodded the president to sing a few lines of Sweet Home Chicago.

“To say you played the blues with the president sitting there smiling, that’s one you can’t forget,” Guy said. “Every time I’m interviewed I give credit to those people but they should have got all the awards that I got and they didn’t get them because the blues wasn’t exposed and they were some unknowns,” Guy said.

Red Deer Rebels vs

Calgary Hitmen

LISTEN TO WIN

Sept. 21

7:30 pm Enmax Centrium Tickets at ticketmaster

1.855.985.5000

41228I21

Home Opener

IN LAS VEGAS From Red Deer’s Rock Station!

41227I 41227I21,25 4122 1227I 1227 122 1 12 227I 227 2 22 27I 27 2 7II21 7 21,25 21,2 2 1,2 1 25

24 HOURS OF SIN

Friday,

RED DEER GALLERIES ● In the Blink of a Smile by Red Deer en Scene on Oct. 11. artist Andrea Simpson will be open at Harris● Red Deer Memorial Centre features Warke Gallery located in the Sunworks store Colin James with special guest Liam Tituntil Oct. 20. Works consist of some glass pieces as well as canvas pieces. A reception comb on Nov. 14. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. will be held on Oct. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. as part and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets on of First Fridays. For more information, call sale from Black Knight Inn at 403-755-6626 403- 597-9788. or 1-800-661-8793, www.blackknightinn.ca, ● Reflections by Margery McBride Elliott or Livenation.com or Rogers Wireless Box will be held at Gallery on Main in Lacombe until Oct. 12. See www.thegalleryonmain. Office. This is an all ages show with reserved seating. Tickets cost $49.50 (plus com ● Brent Stolee exhibit now on until FMF and service charges). Then on Nov. Sept. 30 at Café Pichlingue.

18 see Just For Laughs Comedy Tour Re● Bronson Wilson exhibit is featured at lationship Edition. The show starts at 7 p.m.

Velvet Olive Lounge until Sept. 30. ● 100 Years of Struggle: 100 Years of with the ticket sales from Black Knight Inn. Solidarity is now open at the Discovery Stu- Tickets cost $39.50 (taxes included plus apdio at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery un- plicable charges). til Oct. 21. The Alberta Federation of Labour was created in 1912 by workers and farmers To have your establishment’s live bands who saw the need for an organization that included in this space, fax a list to Club would protect their common interests and make their communities stronger. This four- Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341panel display features stories and photos on 6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate. a variety of themes of the AFL movement com. over the past 100 years. ● Two Directions: The GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER Way Forward by Tracie 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357 Stewart-O’Brien and Strata by SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 Rita Schoenberger, two artists TO THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 in a collaborative exhibit, will be on display through Sept. HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET SCENES, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR (VIOLENCE) FRI 4:50, 7:50, 10:15; SATCHILDREN) FRI-THURS 7:25, 9:40 at the Hub on Ross Gallery. (14A) SUN 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15; MON-THURS LAWLESS (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE, For more information call 403- 7:50, 10:15 NUDITY, BRUTAL VIOLENCE) FRI 4:25, 7:05, DREDD 3D (18A) (GORY BRUTAL 340-4869.

9:45; SAT 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45; SUN 1:45, VIOLENCE) FRI 4:55, 7:30, 9:55; SAT-SUN ● Exaggerated Adven- 2:35, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55; MON-THURS 7:30, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45; MON-THURS 7:05, 9:45 tures and Frequented Day- 9:55 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) (GORY WITH THE CURVE (PG) dreams — a new ink draw- TROUBLE VIOLENCE) FRI 5:05, 7:45, 10:05; SAT-SUN (COARSE LANGUAGE) FRI 4:40, 7:20, ing exhibition by Alysse 10:00; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; MON- 2:05, 5:05, 7:45, 10:05; MON-THURS 7:45, 10:05 Bowd — may be viewed at THURS 7:20, 10:00 WITH THE CURVE (PG) PARANORMAN 3D () FRI-SUN 5:05 the Corridor Gallery, located TROUBLE (COARSE LANGUAGE) STAR & STROLLERS THE CAMPAIGN (14A) (CRUDE SEXUAL in the basement of the Red SCREENING WED 1:00 CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE) FRI 4:50, Deer Recreation Centre, until MRS. DOUBTFIRE () SAT 11:00 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN 2:30, 4:50, 7:00, 9:30; END OF WATCH (14A) (COARSE Oct. 28.

LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE) FRI 4:55, 7:40, MON 9:30; TUE-THURS 7:00, 9:30 ● Pulse of Istanbul by 10:15; SAT-SUN 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15; MON- THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) THURS 7:40, 10:15 Calgary artists Asta Dale will (VIOLENCE) FRI-THURS 8:00 EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D be on display at the Kiwanis RESIDENT (14A) (GORY VIOLENCE) FRI 4:30, 7:15, PARANORMAN (PG) (NOT REC. FOR Gallery at Red Deer Public 9:40; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40; MON- YOUNG CHILDREN, FRIGHTENING THURS 7:15, 9:40 Library downtown until Oct. FINDING NEMO 3D (G) FRI 4:15, 6:45, SCENES) SAT-SUN 2:50; STAR & 14. For more information, call 9:20; SAT-SUN 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20; MON- STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) THURS 6:45, 9:20 403-348-2787.

To be included in this list- THE POSSESSION (14A) (FRIGHTENING FRI 4:55; SAT-SUN 2:30, 4:55 ing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate. com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.

Johansson joins revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

41634I20-22

EXHIBITS

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 D3 on a Hot Tin Roof. It will be Johansson’s first time back since winning a Tony in the Arthur Miller play A View from a Bridge opposite Liev Schreiber in 2010.

Benjamin Walker, who starred in NEW YORK — Scarlett Johansson Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will will tap into her feline side later this play her husband Brick, Ciaran Hinds year when she plays Maggie the Cat on plays Big Daddy, and Debra Monk will Broadway. be Big Mama.

Producers on Thursday unveiled The production will be directed by the Tony Award-winning Johansson in Tony and Emmy Award-winner Rob a revival of Tennessee Williams’s Cat Ashford.

LIVE DATES ● Botanica at Red Deer Lodge presents musical guest Steve Arsenault, Sept.

25 as part of The Traveling Wine Show starting at 6 p.m. There will be samples of wines and appetizers. Other foods and beverages at cost. ● Wild Bills’s hosts Wide Mouth Mason on Oct. 12 in support of their latest release No Bad Days. ● The Vat presents solo musician from Winnipeg Greg Rekus on Sept. 25. Rekus plays punk/folk/acoustic and 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 welcomes Canadian punk legend Joe Keithley of DOA on Sept. 27, 8 p.m. A cover charge of $5 will be charged.

Then, see Winnipeg’s The Noble Thiefs with guests Mise

40298I13-21

Edmonton & Calgary

HOPE SPRINGS

14A

1:00, 3:45, 7:05, 9:40

BOURNE LEGACY Violence

14A

12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35

THE AVENGERS 2D

PG

Violence, Not Rec. for young children 12:45, 9:30

THE AVENGERS 3D

PG

Violence, Not Rec. for young children 3:35, 6:40

TED

18A

Crude content, substance abuse 1:05, 3:50, 7:05, 9:50

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 3 G 1:10, 3:50, 7:15

STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D PG 10:00

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN THE 2D PG Violence, frightening scenes, not recommend for children 3:40

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN THE 3D PG Violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for children 12:45, 6:45

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPEÕS MOST WANTED 3D G 1:15, 3:55

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPEÕS MOST WANTED 2D G 7:20

MAGIC MIKE

14A

Sexual content, nudity, coarse language, substance abuse

9:45

SAVAGES

18A

Brutal violence, sexual content, substance abuse 9:35

www.carnivalcinemas.net 5402-47 St. Red Deer MOVIE LINE 346-1300

41219I21,25

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

LUANN Sept. 21 1911— Robert Laird Borden wins Canada’s 12th federal election 134 seats to 87, upsetting Wilfred Laurier with 50.9 per cent of popular vote. Key issues include reciprocity and Canadian Navy.

1902 — Rocky Mountain Development Co. strikes oil at 1,020 feet in the

Waterton Lakes. It’s the first oil find in Alberta.

1992 — Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister, publishes an essay in L’Actualité and Macleans calling Quebec nationalists “master blackmailers;” urges “courage” to resist Quebec’s demands, suggests No vote is best.

1995 — Supreme Court of Canada strikes down seven-year-old federal ban on tobacco advertising.

ARGYLE SWEATER

RUBES

TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

Solution

D5

LIFESTYLE

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

GREENHOUSE AT LACOMBE COMPOSITE SCHOOL

HOROSCOPES Friday, Sept. 21 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Nicole Richie, 31; Ricki Lake, 44; Faith Hill, 45 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Venus has been speaking kindly with Jupiter these days. Even within an eventful time, we are taking the time to have fun in the midst of it, or at the very least, we are being encouraged to. Feelings channeled wisely can lead to great art. It will be a great day, enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: When you trust your feelings, you can’t go wrong, especially when you’re tempted to walk a brand new path.

The money you need has an uncanny way of finding you. You feel deeply cared for. It will be a great NADIYA year, enjoy!

SHAH ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re craving a new experience, an adventure, an exploration. You have felt stagnated for so long and now it is getting to you. Luckily, the new chapter you craved shows up in a flash. It’s not exactly what you had in mind, but it will do quite nicely.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your thoughts are lightening fast and they’re leading you to rethink your assumptions about yourself and your partner. Your determination to see change ensures that you do the work to get there.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Understanding is one thing, but wisdom allows you to walk what you know. It brings the intellect down to earth to create a powerful reality you’ve chosen.

You have understood your motives with your mind for too long. Now, the realization hits your heart.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The truth has been described as elusive but also obvious. It can be uncomfortable, but it can also set a person free. For this reason, the truth is always a good thing. A truth of your own may be hard, but it’s beautiful at the same time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You don’t have to do anything now.

There’s nothing required of you. Yet, you feel compelled to do something, anything, to change your circumstances. However, you can help yourself immensely by taking an attitude of trust.

Good things will find you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You seem to be riding the extremes of emotion now. It’s almost like you are addicted to the adrenaline rush of uncertainty. It would be hard for anyone to convince you to stop, so I won’t bother. Since you’re in the roller coaster, you might as well enjoy it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The key to change is in your hands. It’s a powerful time for you. It’s also a fated time. You can see the game you have been playing with yourself and are ready for a path more honest than you have ever known.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): They say a new idea is like a birth. A new project is a baby. New life is correlated to creative endeavors. You’re bringing forth a beautiful new prospect. Do it with the protection you would grant any child.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s a wonderful surprise in store. This is the season of surprises for many of us and delights you beyond measure. There may be a moment of disbelief, but the happiness far surpasses the unpredictable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A person with determination can think of ways to do exactly as they please. If they plan to be negative, they will be. The reverse is also true. You have a plan in mind. You can certainly see it through. Make sure your motives are well intentioned.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Since you’re living, chances are you get into a little bit of trouble once in a while. Your real troubles have been long gone for some time. However, you’re hanging onto them. You’re finally forgiving the past and welcome a new day.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re chasing an inevitable discovery. Actually, you’re trying to find tangible evidence for what you’ve felt for some time. Yes, there is a secret to uncover. Let the light visit you in its time, which is very soon.

SUN SIGNS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Staff, students and community volunteers work to install a climate battery or underground heat storage system in the ground outside the Lacombe Composite High School this week. The ground work will enable the greenhouse that is being constructed above to stay warm enough through the winter months to continue to grow vegetables for the school. The project, facilitated by the school’s Eco Vision Project, is supported by the Wolf Creek School Division and many community members and businesses. Construction of the project should be complete by Sept. 29, with an open house celebration taking place on Oct. 5.

‘Flirting’ not a big deal Dear Annie: My wife, my granddaughter and I recently took a six-hour flight home.

I thought we’d have the middle section to ourselves, but when we boarded, I noticed there were four seats.

As I put our carry-on luggage into the overhead bin, I saw my wife plop herself next to a male passenger.

Whenever I fly with my wife, she always says she needs to sleep and doesn’t want to talk.

But on this flight, she started a conversation with this man and never once looked in my direction. When snacks were served, my wife handed one to the guy, but paid no attention to our granddaughter or me. Then, when I pulled MITCHELL out the breakfast sandwiches & SUGAR I had purchased earlier, she gave hers to the male passenger.

I was furious. She chatted with this guy for the entire flight.

The only time she spoke to me was when she needed me to move in order to use the restroom.

When we got home, I questioned her about this.

She didn’t like my attitude and said that next time she’d sit next to a stranger on the plane instead of me. She even admitted that she knew I was angry during the flight.

But she never answered my original question, which is why she was so eager to converse with this fellow when she always tells me she prefers to sleep on long flights.

I think she was enjoying flirting. What should I do? I need some peace of mind. — Mahalo in Hawaii Dear Hawaii: Even if your wife was flirting with this guy, please don’t turn it into such a big deal.

It’s not like they exchanged phone numbers. She may have been equally talkative with a female passenger.

And for all you know, the guy found her annoying and hoped she’d be quiet so he could get some rest.

It was rude for her to ignore you and focus her attention elsewhere, especially knowing that it upset you. But your reaction is only fueling the fire.

Unless she makes a habit of flirting with other men, let it go.

Dear Annie: I am a 16-year-old girl. There are some guys I’d like to disassociate from. These guys say sexual comments that make me uncomfortable.

They have even run by and grabbed me.

They don’t do this when my boyfriend is around.

He’s had a few choice words with them, but they re-

ANNIE ANNIE

fuse to back off.

I cannot avoid them, because we live in the same town and I see them at horse sales and truck pulls.

I have deleted and blocked them from Facebook, but every time I log on, I see a notification saying they have accepted my friend request when I never sent one. These guys scare me.

I have known these guys for four years, and it was never like this until recently. I have started being rude to them and ignoring them if they talk to me.

I’m normally a friendly person, and I don’t like behaving this way, but I can’t take it anymore. — Stressed in N.C. Dear Stressed: These young men are harassing and bullying you. If you are scared, it’s time to take action.

Inform your parents and the school of the harassment. Then consider taking out a restraining order.

They need to know you mean business.

Dear Annie: “Exiled” said she lives out of state, but when she visits her folks, they always have other plans.

My sister may have felt the same way.

We would plan to do things with our parents, and she would call or just show up saying she wanted to come, too. Of course, we would try to accommodate her, but she also expected us to pay.

I’d suggest that “Exiled” make the effort to arrange an occasional family outing. She should also make sure she is dressed appropriately.

Family members get tired of making excuses for someone who is dressed sloppily and, at the end of the night, doesn’t have the money to pay her share. — Harrods Creek, Ky. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Nadiya Shah is a consulting astrologer, syndicated sun sign columnist and holds a master’s degree in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination, from the University of Kent, U.K. Her column appears daily in the Advocate

Top Rod Oszust, General Sales Manager, and the entire team at Southside Dodge would like to congratulate these top three performers for the month of August.

Their continued dedication and commitment to customer satisfaction makes this accomplishment possible.

Buy One Get One 50% off*

Bud Baldry New Vehicle Sales

Ben Vickerman Pre-owned Vehicle Sales

Aug. 27 - Sept. 23/12 Dulux Kitchen & Bath and Flood Supreme Performance

HURRY!

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE ONLY

LOTTERY 2012

Calgary

st

1

The New Hampshire Custom Home GRAND PRIZE 2013 Acura MDX and $20,000 CASH PACKAGE

Worth more than $1.4 Million retail!

2

nd

Contemporary Estate Home GRAND PRIZE 2013 BMW X3 xDrive 35i and $20,000 CASH PACKAGE

Worth more than $1.3 Million retail!

6

DAYS AWAY!

41229I19,21

email: autosales@southsidereddeer.com Visit our Web Site at southsidereddeer.com

2 Early Bird Prizes Prize e #1

2013 Corvette Convertible

Prize #2

PLUS

$10,000 Cash!

Package worth th over $106,000 00

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE : September 26 Tickets: $100 each, 3 for $250, 5 for $375, 8 for $525

3,737 prizes worth more than $

5.4 Million Retail!

41516I21

524248H20-23

*Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Off the regular retail price of 3.0L-3.78L products of equal or lesser value. All sheens included. See instore for details. Sale ends Sept. 23, 2012.

RV Sales

1-800-662-7176

Mon.-Fri. 7 am - 5:30 pm; Sat. 8:30 am - 5 pm; Sun. 11am - 4 pm

Edmonton

Jeff Milley

2804 Gaetz Ave., Red Deer

Ph: 403.346.5555 2319 Taylor Drive, Red Deer www.dulux.ca

3

Please view our website for full listings of prizes and lottery rules.

www.cashandcarslottery.ca • 1-877-783-7403 Must be 18 Years or older to purchase tickets. Lottery Licence #335470

D6

HEALTH

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Drug shows promise for relapsing-remitting MS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Two major patient trials of an experimental drug for the relapsing-remitting form of multiple sclerosis have found the oral medication significantly improves patients’ symptoms.

The studies, both published in Wednesday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, show the drug BG12 reduces the rate of annual relapses and the number of brain lesions that are hallmarks of the disease.

The studies show BG-12 (dimethyl fumarate), a drug long used in Europe to treat psoriasis, cut the annualized rate of relapses among MS patients participating in the studies by 45 to 50 per cent compared to MS patients given a placebo.

“That is a very robust reduction in relapses,” said Dr. Robert Fox, director of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and principal investigator of one of the studies, known as CONFIRM. “It’s not a cure. None of our therapies is a cure for MS at this point. But it appears to be a greater reduction than what we see with injectable therapies, which (offer) roughly a 30 per cent reduction in the annualized relapse rate.”

Fox said patients in the CONFIRM and DEFINE studies who were randomly assigned to receive BG-12 also had considerable reductions in brain lesions — between 70 and 90 per cent lower than patients given the dummy pill, depending on the type of brain lesion looked at in MRI exams.

Both studies showed a slowing of the progression of MSrelated disability, although only the DEFINE study conducted by European researchers had results considered statistically significant, Fox said Wednesday from Paris, where he was attending a medical meeting.

BG-12 was well-tolerated for the most part, although some patients experienced flushing of the skin on the chest, neck and face within about 45 minutes of taking the pill, an effect that resolved within 15 to 20 minutes, he said.

More troublesome for patients was gastrointestinal upset, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, associated with the drug. Fox said those adverse symptoms seem to peak in the first month after starting the drug and decline

A number of injectable medications for relapsingremitting MS are prescribed by doctors in Canada, among them interferon-beta, Copaxone and Tysabri.

Dr. Paul O’Connor, director of the multiple sclerosis clinic and MS research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, agreed the efficacy and safety of BG-12 “look pretty good.”

O’Connor, who was not involved in either study, said that if approved, BG-12 would be “another tool in the toolbox” for doctors to prescribe to patients with relapsing-remitting MS. In Canada, the only oral drug approved for widespread use in Canada to date is Gilenya (fingolimod), which has been associated with heartrate and heart-rhythm irregularities in some patients.

in frequency and severity as time goes on.

BG-12, developed by Biogen Idec Inc., must be approved by government regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada, before it would become available to treat patients.

Multiple sclerosis is a disabling disease in which the protective coating around nerve cells, called myelin, is attacked by the immune system and progressively destroyed. With an estimated 55,000 to 75,000 Canadians affected, Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world.

There are a number of forms of the disease, including primary- and secondary-progressive, for which there are no effective treatments.

MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN

If you’re among the 1 in 5 North Americans who work a night shift, swing shift or rotating shift, you may enjoy easy traffic, quiet phones and absent bosses.

But those schedules pose potential risks to your health: Depression, weight gain, stomach trouble and irritability are common complaints, not to mention fertility problems or breast, prostate and colon cancers. And here’s the latest news: add heart attacks and strokes.

Seems that whether you’re a doctor (our profession has been getting some “burnout” press lately), nurse, factory worker, policeman or call-center employee, gearing up while the rest of the world winds down throws off your body clock.

That messes with hormone levels and disrupts the natural rhythm of many of your body’s systems. Normally, your heart rate, metabolism and brain go into slow-down mode after dark.

Fortunately, there are effective ways to reduce the toll that your work schedule can take on you.

Making sure you clock in to them will provide you with a bonus at the end of every day: You’ll be happier, healthier and younger!

Here’s what you can do to get your life (and your ticker) tickin’ along smoothly.

No. 1: Embrace your topsy-turvy schedule. Sidestep most of shift work’s negative sides by adopting a consistent get-up-and-go-to-sleep schedule, seven days a week. And try to keep your shift-work hours unchanged from week to week. Flipping back and forth can place enormous stress on your body and spirit! If you have to work a rotating shift, rotate forward (i.e.: 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. this week, 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. next week, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. after that).

No. 2: Turn night into day. Set your daily habits and activities so that they mirror what you’d do if you were working during the daylight hours: Socialize with co-workers, get active during your break (walk around and bust a few aerobic moves, like marching in place, crunches, etc.). Keep lights turned up to daytime brightness. And sip a cup of coffee or tea as you start your shift. Hey, you’d grab a cup in the morning! But don’t drink any past the halfway point of your shift.

No. 3: Downshift stress. Working overnight hours raises levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which can fuel everything from heart attacks to headaches, immune-system problems to chronic pain. Burn it off by exercising before you go to work (exercising afterward could make sleep more difficult). And make time for your family and friends.

One factor in shift-work tension is loneliness, so share meals with your family, even if your breakfast is their dinner. Meditation promotes relaxation and dispels tension. RealAge.com has simple directions to get you started.

No. 4: Eat sleepy foods before bed. Whole grains will help you snooze; make them a big part of your last meal before turning in -- they’re sleep-friendly.

(Your first two meals should have lower-carb foods, such as lean proteins, good fats and veggies, to help you feel more mentally alert.)

No. 5: Set the stage for sleep. The hardest part of shift work can be falling asleep when the sun’s up.

When you go outside on your way home, wear dark sunglasses so morning light can’t reset -- and foul up -- your internal clock.

Then follow a relaxing bedtime ritual: Take a shower, do a few stretches, try progressive relaxation exercises (go from toes to nose, tensing and relaxing your muscles as you breathe slowly and evenly in and out) and drift off.

And make sure your bedroom is nighttime dark or you wear an eye mask. Use earplugs if there’s disturbing noise. And switch off your cellphone and beeper.

No. 6: Make sure to get seven to eight continuous hours of shuteye. Your body functions best after a long, solid sleep, rather than a couple of long naps.

Get tough with yourself and your family about your sleep time. Most shift workers get two to three hours less sleep a night than their daytime counterparts.

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.

✔

BEST DRIVE.

✔

BEST SELECTION.

BEST TIME TO BUY.

% PURCHASE FINANCING

†

F R UP FOR FO U TO

84 MON ONTH THS S

✔

✔

BEST OFFERS.

UP TO

DEALER SIGNING BONUS

†† ††

ON 2012 MODELS

2012 m{zd{ 3 SKYactiv

2012 m{zd{ 2

Starting from $21,215* Delivering up to 1,000 km per tank of gas.¯

Starting from $13,365*

◆

◆

GS model shown

Finance from

$87†

0.99

%

at

APR

bi-weekly for 84 months Including $400 Signing Bonus.

On finance price from $15,365.

2012 2 m{zd{ 5

with AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION Starting from $21,820*

Finance from

$117†

at

0%

APR

bi-weekly for 84 months On finance price from $21,215.

2012 m{zd{ 6 Starting from $20,615*

ecoENERGY ENERGY

for Vehicles hicles Awards6

GT-V6 model shown

GT model shown

Finance from

$136†

at

0

Finance from

% APR

bi-weekly for 84 months Including $500 Signing Bonus.

On finance price from $24,720.

2012 CX-7

$135†

0%

at APR bi-weekly for 84 months Including $1,500 Signing Bonus.

On finance price from $24,515.

2012 CX-9 GS AWD

Starting from $25,915*

Starting from $36,610*

GT model shown

GT model shown

Finance from

$161

†

at

0.99

% APR

bi-weekly for 84 months Including $500 Signing Bonus.

On finance price from $28,315.

Finance from

$184†

at

0%

APR

bi-weekly for 84 months Including $2,000 Signing Bonus.

On finance price from $33,535 with $4,975 down.

HURRY IN! OFFERS EXTENDED TO O OCTOBER CTOB CT OBER ER 1ST OR WHIL WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. Come see the all new 2013 CX-5 with SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY starting from $25,215 scan to find your nearest Mazda dealer

◆

◆

ONLY AVAILABLE AT YOUR MAZDA DEALER. VISIT MAZDA.CA FOR DETAILS.

What do you drive?

ZOO}-ZOO}

††Dealer Signing Bonuses are available on retail purchase/finance/lease of all new, in-stock 2012 Mazda models (excluding 2012 Mazda3 GX and GS-SKY models) from Sept 1 – Oct 1, 2012. Bonus amounts vary by model. Maximum $2,000 Dealer Signing Bonus only available on 2012 CX-9 models. See dealer for complete details. †0% purchase financing for up to 84 months is available on new 2012 vehicles. Terms vary by model. Using a finance price of $15,365 for 2012 Mazda2 GX (B5XB52AA00)/$21,215 for 2012 Mazda3 GS-SKY (D4SK62AA00)/$28,315 for 2012 CX-7 (PVXY82AA00)/$24,720 for 2012 Mazda5 GS (E6SD82AA00)/$24,515 for 2012 Mazda6 GS-I4 (G4SY62AA00)/$33,535 for 2012 CX-9 GS AWD (QXSB82AA00) at a rate of 0.99%/0%/0.99%/0%/0%/0% APR, the cost of borrowing for an 84 month term is $545/$0/$1,004/$0/$0/$0, bi-weekly payment is $87/$117/$161/$136/$135/$184 total finance obligation is $15,910/$21,215/$29,319/$25,220/$24,515/$33,535. CX-9 price includes $4,975 down payment. Finance price includes block heater, freight & PDI. Taxes are extra and required at the time of purchase. Other terms available and vary by model. *The advertised price of $13,365/$21,215/$25,915/$21,820/$20,615/$36,610 for 2012 Mazda2 GX (B5XB52AA00)/Mazda3 GS-SKY (D4SK62AA00)/CX-7 FWD (PVXY82AA00)/Mazda5 GS (E6SD82AA00)/Mazda6 GS-I4 (G4SY62AA00)/CX-9 GS AWD (QVSB82AA00) includes block heater, freight & PDI, plus a cash discount of $2,000/$0/$2,500/ $3,000/$4,000/$2,000 and dealer signing bonus of $400/$0/$500/$500/$1,500/$2,000.The selling price adjustment applies to the purchase and is deducted from the negotiated pre-tax price and cannot be combined with subsidized purchase financing or leasing rates. As shown, price for 2012 Mazda2 GS (B5SB52AA00)/Mazda5 GT (E6TD62AA00)/Mazda6 GT-V6 (G4TB82AA00)/CX-7 GT (PXTJ82AA00)/CX-9 GT (QXTB82AA00) is $19,965/$26,715/$39,560/$39,010/$47,960 including block heater, air tax and freight and PDI. All prices include freight & PDI of $1,495/$1,695/$1,895 for Mazda2/Mazda3 GS-SKY, Mazda6/Mazda5, CX-7, CX-9. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. Offers valid Sept 1 – Oct 1, 2012 while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details. X5.7 L/100 km (50 MPG) Highway/7.8 L/100 km (36 MPG) City – Based on ENERGUIDE Fuel Consumption Rating for the 2013 Mazda CX-5 with 6-speed manual transmission. 4.9 L/100km (58 MPG) Highway/7.1 L/100 km (40 MPG) City – Based on ENERGUIDE Fuel Consumption Rating for the 2012 Mazda3 GS-SKY sedan with 6-speed automatic transmission. These estimates are based on Government of Canada approved criteria and testing methods. Actual fuel consumption may vary. MPG is listed in Imperial gallons. ¯Based on Highway driving only. rBased on 2012 fuel consumption ratings published by Natural Resources Canada.

417744I14,21,28

Night work: Sidestep this shifty health threat

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 D7

No easy solutions when child struggles with addictions music tells her that you are invested and interested.

Find ways to show that you care about her and you love her. That

might be placing a note on her pillow that says, “I love you,” or putting a

special little gift in her backpack every now and then.

+

BONUS

OUR GREATEST TV GIFT OFFER !

51" SAMSUNG TV!

If it’s not marked down, buy any combination of furniture totaling $1499 or more, and we’ll give you a Excludes discounted, clearance, “Hot Buy” deals, promoted offers, Buyers Best Buys, Modesto, and mattresses. Minimum furniture purchase of $1499.

FOCUS ON FAMILY Submit your questions to: ask@FocusOnTheFamily.com

4000 ONLY CHAINWIDE!

With 3D Glasses

51" SAMSUNG HD PLASMA 3D TV PN51E490

83" Oliver Textured Fabric Sofa Loveseat $389.88 Chair $349.88

Ottoman available. OLIVER-S/L/C/O

84" Vibe Microsuede Sofa Loveseat $389.88 Chair $349.88 VIBEC-S/L/C/O

Also available in hazelnut.

399

YOUR CHOICE SOFA! $

88

7-Pc. Nicole Casual Dining

4-Pc. London Queen Bedroom

Includes the table and 6 chairs.

Includes the headboard, dressor, mirror, and nightstand.

175DMPK7

380PK4

NOW ONLY

399

$

$

6-Pc. Mission Queen Bedroom

Includes the headboard, footboard, rails, dresser, mirror, and nightstand.

Chest

$349.97 1030-CH

NOW ONLY

39997

95

6-Pc. Louis Philippe Queen Bedroom

Chest

$349.97

Includes the headboard, footboard, rails, dresser, mirror, and nightstand.

5933A-CH

1030PK6, 2030PK6

6-Pc. King Bedroom $999.97

5933AQPK6, 5833AQPK6

6-Pc. King Bedroom $999.97 5933AKPK6

1030KPK6

NOW ONLY

699

$ Also available in black.

NOW ONLY

69997

97

$ Also available in black.

55% OFF

+ our ticket price

ALL SIZES! NO EXCEPTIONS!

Perfect Sleeper Innerspring

SAVE $ $715

Queen Set Now Only

584

Urban Accent Chair

Lynx Futon LYNXBL3

Also available in mushroom.

HOT BUY!

189

$

97

TYRUSQUPK

Reg. $1299.97

2-Pc. Wall Unit

29287PK2

3 Pack Tables

URBANR/C/B/R-AC

LY NOW ON

Tyrus Pillowtop Queen Mattress Set Limited Quantities

Plus Do Not Pay For 15 Months

Limited Quantities

Also available in red, cream, brown or aqua.

98

HOT BUY!

LY NOW ON

249

$

97

HOT BUY!

LY NOW ON

299

$

95

Includes cocktail table & 2 end tables.

T532-13

HOT BUY!

LY NOW ON

39995

$

PLUS DO NOT PAY FOR 15 MONTHS WITH NO INTEREST ON EVERYTHING IN THE STORE!*

Red Deer

Mon.-Fri. 9-9 Sat. 9-6 Sun.11-6

8071 Gaetz Avenue N. 403-346-1555 * O.A.C. All credit offers available upon approval of credit only on your United Furniture Card, minimum purchase of $250. Any delivery charges, GST (5%), PST or HST (if applicable), and administration fee ($99.95) are required to be paid at time of purchase. Interest may accrue for the final 25 days prior to the promotion’s payment due date at an annual rate of 29.9%, but will be waived if the payment of the balance is made in full by the due date. See in store or refer to your United Furniture Card Account Holder Agreement for full details. Balance due December 2013. ‡Product may vary by location and may not be exactly as illustrated. We reserve the right to limit quantities by store and per purchase. +This offer cannot be combined with any other discount or bonus gift purchase, sale, or other promotion, unless otherwise specified. ΔExcludes discounted, clearance, promoted offers, and advertised specials. See in store for complete details. Valid September 21-23, 2012, unless otherwise indicated.

42420I21

Question: We recently discovered that our teenage son is using drugs.

In fact, it looks like he’s in the throes of a full-blown addiction.

How can we help him?

Jim: I’m sorry to learn of your son’s addiction.

In dealing with situations of this nature, Focus on the Family’s counseling team recommends keeping the following principles in mind: First, don’t deny or ignore the problem.

If you do, it’s likely to get worse.

Second, don’t succumb to false guilt. Most parents assume a great deal of self-blame when an addiction surfaces in their home.

Third, don’t expect quick-fix solutions.

Remember that there will be no complete healing until your son learns to assume responsibility for his own actions.

This could be a long process.

We suggest that you seek professional counseling for your son, and we highly recommend that you do this together as a family.

The most successful treatment programs take a family-systems approach that involves intensive evaluation and a series of counseling sessions offered in an environment of community and accountability.

Contact Focus on the Family for referrals to programs of this nature, or a list of qualified therapists in your area who specialize in treating drug addiction.

During this process, you may need to present your son with a number of options, including entering an inpatient drugtreatment center, a halfway house, a boot-camp program or youth home, or staying with a relative who is willing to accept him for a defined period of time.

More extreme possibilities may include making your child a ward of the court or even turning him over to the police if he has been involved in criminal activity.

If you shield him from the consequences of his behavior or bail him out when his drug abuse gets him into trouble, he will not be motivated to change.

May God guide you as you endeavor to walk with your son on the road to healing!

Question: My 14-yearold daughter spends hours and hours in her room.

When she comes home from school, I ask her questions about her day, but she just gives oneword answers.

How do I connect with her without badgering her?

Juli: First of all, your experience is pretty common.

Many affectionate, chatty 10-year-olds turn into reclusive teens with no apparent explanation, other than hormones and peer pressure.

As you are realizing, you can’t connect with your daughter in the same ways that you used to.

However, that doesn’t mean that she no longer needs you.

In fact, teens are desperate to know their parents’ unconditional love and support.

Here are a few ways you can stay connected to your daughter through the changes of adolescence.

Let her know that you are always there to talk, and then back up that promise. Be available when she is ready to talk.

A time will come when your daughter will need to talk, cry and even ask for your advice.

Most likely, it will be at an inconvenient time for you (like at 2 a.m. or in the middle of the workday). Drop everything and just be there for her.

Spend time with your daughter without asking somewhat complicated questions like, “How are you doing?”

Driving her to activities, shopping together or just listening to her

JIM DALY JULI SLATTERY

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

OLAY body wash 532-700 mL

or bar soap 8 x 90 g 569308/705915

6

97

Scope Outlast or Crest Pro Health rinse 496-1025 mL or Oral B Pulsar or cross action toothbrush 383179

Gillette Daisy, Good News or Custom Plus 10-12’s 893492

AFTER LIMIT

selected varieties & sizes 520569

8.99

5

4

ea

LIMIT 4

97

19

OLAY Total Effects, Regenerist or hair removal kit

97

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

24.99

3

Head & Shoulders hair care selected varieties 400-420 mL 643171

97

Nice’n Easy or Natural Instincts hair colour

ea

LIMIT 4

selected varieties

AFTER LIMIT

802553

5.68

Tampax or Always Radiant or Infinity maxi, liners or tampons

ea

12-64’s 547264

97

Gillette Series or Satin Care shave gel

ea

LIMIT 4

198 mL

AFTER LIMIT

173518

7.49

6

77

2

47

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

3.43

Pampers mega size diapers 3-7, 28-60’s 762713

9

97

ea

LIMIT 2

Pampers mega wipes 180-216’s 628195

AFTER LIMIT

19.97

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

9.99

3

83

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

4.99

6

98

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

8.37

Exact cough lozenges

1

30’s

225132

Lever 2000 bar soap 2 x 89 g 411958

1

$ ea

27

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

2.29

Exact vitamin C or D

3

Blistex lip balm

selected varieties, 90 - 100’s

selected varieties 427438

159410

47

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

4.99

Exact liquid soap refill

3 2L

126476

Reach manual toothbrush or dental floss

Suave shampoo or conditioner

selected varieties 109716

444 mL 573374

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

4.99

41470I21

Prices are in effect until Thursday, September 27, 2012 or while stock lasts.

97

>ÃÌiÀ >À`

Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and may not be available in all stores. NO RAINCHECKS OR SUBSTITUTIONS on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited. Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour, patterns, style) may vary by store location. We reserve the right to limit quantities to reasonable family requirements. We are not obligated to sell items based on errors or misprints in typography or photography. Coupons must be presented and redeemed at time of purchase. Applicable taxes, deposits, or environmental surcharges are extra. No sales to retail outlets. Some items may have “plus deposit and environmental charge” where applicable. ®/TM The trademarks, service marks and logos displayed in this newspaper ad are trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. All rights reserved. © 2012 Loblaws Inc. Customer Relations: 1-866-999-9890.

Guaranteed Lowest Prices *Applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ print advertisements (i.e. flyer, newspaper). We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s print advertisement. Our major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us and are based on a number of factors which can change from time to time. Identical items are defined as same brand, item type (in the case of produce, meat and bakery), size and attributes and carried at this store location. We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.). We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this promise at any time.

We Match Prices! *Look for the symbol in store. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match select items in our major supermarket competitors’ flyers throughout the week. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes) and for fresh produce, meat and bakers, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us).

©MasterCard & PayPass are registered trademarks of MasterCard International Incorporated. President’s Choice Back a licensee of the marks. President’s Choice Financial MasterCard is provided by President’s Choice Bank. President’s Choice Financial banking services are provided by the direct banking division of CIBC. PC points loyalty program is provided by President’s Choice Services Inc. ©PC, President’s Choice, President’s Choice Financial and Fresh Financial Thinking are registered trademarks of Loblaws Inc. Trademarks use under licence.

TO PLACE AN AD

403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Office/Phone Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri Fax: 403-341-4772 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300 DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

E1

CLASSIFIEDS wegotads.ca

wegotjobs

wegotservices

wegotstuff

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

wegotrentals

wegothomes

wegotwheels

CLASSIFICATIONS 3000-3390

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4310

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

announcements Obituaries

Obituaries

DOBOS Fay Fay Dobos of Lacombe passed away on September 19, 2012 at the age of 76 years. She is survived by her 4 sons, Dennis (Judy) Green of Camrose, AB, Ralph (Fran) Green of Cranbrook, BC, Bruce (Elenor) Green of Lake Cowichan, BC, Daniel (Betty) Green of Lacombe, AB; one daughter Donna G r e e n o f C a l g a r y, A B ; numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; sister Joan (Ed) Robak of Red Deer, AB; five brothers; Gerald (Murial) Dennis of Pigeon Lake, AB, Roy Dennis of Vernon, BC, Gary (Val) Dennis of Nicaragua, Dale (Brenda) Dennis of Blackfalds, AB, Donald (Laura) Dennis of Lacombe; and numerous nieces and nephews. Fay is predeceased by her parents John and Hazel Dennis and grandson Dean Hames. Funeral Services will be held from Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A, Lacombe, AB on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or to the Diabetes Association.

Condolences may be made through www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

SMITH, Marion Roberta Nov. 2, 1921 - Sept. 10, 2012 Roberta passed away peacefully in Red Deer at the age of ninety after a short battle with Cancer. Roberta loved the outdoors and spent many hours gardening, camping, hiking, fishing and gold panning with her husband of 60 years, John. She had a keen interest in all things in nature and knew a lot about the local flora and fauna in Alberta. Her varied interests included painting and writing.

She published two compilations of poetry, a brief look at growing up on the prairies in the early days of Alberta, and another on David Thompson.

Roberta is predeceased by her husband John, parents Edna and Sam Merrick, and brother, Harold. The family thank the nurses and staff of Unit 32 at the Red Deer Hospital, and acknowledge the wonderful work and caring from the nurses and staff of the Red Deer Hospice for their kindness and support. As in life Roberta was a modest woman and her wish for no funeral service has been carried out.

Obituaries

GELLERT On September 18, 2012 in the arms of her husband Norm (of 62 years) and surrounded by her loving family, Vera Gladys Gellert went to be with the Lord.

Ve r a w a s b o r n i n P i n e y, Manitoba on March 21, 1928 to Thora and Percy Stringer.

Her twin sister, Verna and older sister, Blanche, survive her. She is predeceased by her brother Andy and her sister, Ferne. Vera taught her children: Lynne-Dale and Scott Biondo, Sheryl and Todd Newfield, Greg and Marie-Claude Gellert and her 25 grandchildren and great grandchildren the most valuable lessons of life… the importance of family, faith and friendship. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to CrossRoads Church, Local Ministries, 38105 RR 275 Red Deer County, AB. T4S 24N. Cheques payable to CrossRoads Church in memory of: Vera ‘Nanny’ Gellert.

Obituaries

Births

Marriages

SWANSON STRONG McMahon - Hingst Elenor M. Big sister Skylee wishes to Sara McMahon and Garett 1920 - 2012 announce the arrival Hingst announce their We were lucky to have with of her littler sister wedding on August 9, 2012. us for so long our mother Sienna Elizabeth Joy Strong Congratulations from their Elenor, and it is with deep born September 7, 2012, p a r e n t s To n y a n d F r a n sadness we announce the weighing 8 lbs 9 ozs 20.5”.

McMahon, Red Deer and sudden passing of our mother, Proud parents are Jeremy Randy and Jodi Hingst, Olds. grandmother, great-grandand Winter Strong. mother, aunt and friend on Grandparents are Harold M o n d a y, S e p t e m b e r 1 7 , and Jeannette McCannell 2012 at the Red Deer Reand Larry and Karen Strong.

Over 2,000,000 gional Hospital Centre.

Special thanks to Dr. Wiebe.

Elenor was born to Anna and hours Alfred Dahms of Wetaskiwin, Alberta and worked at St. John Ambulance M i c h e n e r C e n t r e f o r 2 5 Graduations volunteers provide years, making many friends among her co-workers; Canadians with more always having a smile and a cheerful greeting for those than 2 million hours she worked with. She was a of community service strong, independent and feisty woman with a quick wit each year. and a very caring heart.

Elenor enjoyed baking, having family suppers, spending time on the west coast and completing puzzles.

She also enjoyed life on 41st Avenue where she resided for over 40 years. The coffee pot was always on and there was a warm welcome to all family and friends. Elenor’s greatest passion was her children, grandchildren and MELISSA WILLMS now, great-grandchildren.

She was so very proud of Congratulations on each of us, taking great completing your Bachelor of pleasure in all our successes.

Science Degree at U of A. She will be dearly missed by We are so proud of you! those who loved her, but we know she will walk along with ~Love Mom, Dad and Mark us every day. Elenor will be lovingly remembered by her seven children; Shirley (Al) Cade, Jeannette Swanson, K a t h y S w a n s o n , W e n d y Card Of Thanks (Rod) Trentham, Kenn (Kris) Swanson, Chris Sisson, Patricia (Ken) Wessel and her six grandchildren; Ben Sisson, Jennifer (Ben) Batagol, Rachel (Clark) Peters, Annemarie Trentham, Sarah (Steve) Roadhouse and Erik Wessel as well as by her seven great-grandchildren; Olivia, Wakefield, Fiona, Gracyn, Soren, Sean and THANK YOU TO OUR 2012 Rhys. Elenor was predeceased SUPERWALK SPONSORS by her parents; Anna and Alfred Dahms, sisters; Platinum Sponsors Blanche, Edith, Alida, Myrtle Big 105.5 & 106.7 the Drive and brothers; Ernest, Leonard, Gold Sponsors Ve r n o n , E a r l a n d L l o y d .

Red Deer Advocate Cremation has been entrusted to Parkland Funeral Silver Sponsors Home and Crematorium. A JAS Pilot Car private memorial service will Money Mentors take place at a later date. In Artistry in Gold lieu of flowers, donations Bronze Sponsors made directly to the Lending Runners Den Cupboard, 5406 C, 43 Street, Weston Bakeries Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1C9 M & M Meats Shop or to the Piper Creek Other Sponsors Foundation, 301 4719, 48 Sobeys Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, Costco T4N 3T1 would be appreciated.

Save On Foods Condolences may be sent or Fountain Tire viewed at Atco Gas (BBQ) www.parklandfuneralhome.com Red Deer Co-op Arrangements in care of M & M Meats Shop Joelle Valliere, Holiday Inn on 67th Funeral Director at St John’s Ambulance PARKLAND FUNERAL Sports Therapy Centre HOME Old Dutch Potato Chips AND CREMATORIUM, GPW Pure Water Ltd 6287 - 67 A Street Capri Hair Salon & Spa (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

Innisfail Boarding Kennels 403.340.4040 Reynolds-Alberta Museum Central Alberta (Innisfail) Co-op Kerry Towle, MLA (Sylvan Lake-Innisfail)

Announcements

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

FERGUSON Eleanor 1932 - 2012 Eleanor gently passed away Sept. 13, 2012 in Victoria General Hospital (Victoria, B.C.), due to complications from pneumonia. She was predeceased by her husband, Clarence and brothers, Leslie, Cliff and Gordon. Eleanor is survived by her other siblings, Margaret, Bruce (Peggy), Roy (Joyce), Don and Jean; as well as her step-daughters, Maryllis and Pat (Roger), their children and grandchildren, and m a n y, m a n y n i e c e s a n d nephews. She will be sadly missed by all. During her life Eleanor enjoyed the company of friends and family, especially children. She loved gardening and the beauty of nature.

She was an avid reader and was always ready to engage in a conversation to explore ideas. Eleanor worked as both a high school counselor and a diaconal minister; she was always an active member in the United Church. A service will be held in Innisfail, Alberta at the United Church, 4 7 2 0 - 4 8 Av e o n M o n d a y September 24th, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to a charity of your choice.

VIROVE Joseph 1947 - 2012 Joseph Virove, longtime resident of the Red Deer area, passed away on location, September 9, 2012. Joe was born in Brooks, Alberta February 18, 1947 - the second child and first son of Joe and Irene. He grew up on the family farm but set out to seek his fortune operating heavy equipment in the oil and gas sector in 1961. After becoming an expert operator, Joe’s focus shifted to business, owning and operating his own water truck services company. His longtime oilfield experience made him a very successful Oilfield Engineering Consultant with his travels taking him from the cold arctic of the N.W.T. to his favourite, the rugged bush and breathtaking scenery of the Rocky Mountains - where you could also find Joe quading and hunting on a rare day off.

Joseph’s memory will be honoured in the hearts of his wife, Cynthia; his son, Kevin; daughter, Joanna; and his grandchildren, Connor and Zane. Also cherishing their memories of Joe are his sister, Patricia (Norman) Wiebe and son, Darryl; sisterin-law, Norma Wirove and their three children, Justin, Mat and Robi, along with Cindy’s sisters, Roberta, Marsha, Sonja and their families. His brother, Robert; father, Joseph and his mother, Irene predeceased Joe. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alberta Heart and Stroke Foundation. A memorial and celebration of life will be held at Poplar Ridge Community Hall, Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com

Remember to add

A Picture of Your Loved One With Your Announcement

A Keepsake for You To Treasure Red Deer Advocate

KANTEN Verona Lucia With deep sorrow we mourn the passing of our mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister and friend. Verona Lucia Kanten was tenderly ushered into eternity early Wednesday morning, September 19, 2012 at the Bethany Care Center.

She was the oldest girl of fourteen children, born in Stettler, Alberta. Ronnie is survived by her four children; Sharon Johnston (Ron Armstrong) of Rimbey, Susan Penner (Wally) of Lethbridge, Randy Kanten (Gloria) of Blackfalds and Coreen Frey (David) of Spruce Grove. Ronnie leaves nine grandchildren, six great grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her mother, father, nine brothers and sisters, her first husband, Ted McIntosh of Halkirk and husband of 43 years, Adolph (Adie) Kanten of Sylvan Lake. She will be lovingly remembered for her kindness, friendliness, community service and church involvement. A special thank you to the staff of Bethany Center for their exceptional loving care of our mother. A Funeral Service will be held at Gospel Chapel of Sylvan Lake on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 1:30 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Ronnie’s honour may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, 104 4805 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3T2 or to the Parkinson’s Society, 102, 5636 - Burbank Cres. S.E. Calgary, Alberta T2H 1Z6.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer Phone (403) 347-2222

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS

Funeral Directors & Services

1508766 Alberta Ltd.

403•340•4040 Taylor Dr. ˜ Red Deer

Classifieds 309-3300

“ONLY locally owned & operated Funeral Home in Red Deer”

Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

www.parklandfuneralhome.com 36617B3-L28

Remember to add

A Picture of Your Loved One With Your Announcement

A Keepsake for You To Treasure Red Deer Advocate

Classifieds 309-3300 Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

E2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

50-70

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Class Registrations

51

BEGINNER KAYAK LESSONS OCT. 14, 21 & 28 $120.

NOV. 4, 18 & 25 $120 Call Lisa 403-224-3756 or Julie 403-227-1135

+

52

Coming Events

EAST 40TH PUB presents

Friday Sept. 21 9 pm. - 1 am.

Come join the gang! presents DOIN-IT-WITH-DEW Mon. 7 pm -11 pm. Come for comedy and sing along with the oldies but goodies th

CALL:

EAST 40 PUB

1-877-223-3311 To Place Your Ad Now!

BLUES JAM Sunday’s 4-8 p.m.

+

GOOD MUSIC ALL NIGHT, OPEN JAM & DJ MUSIC. TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS @

EAST 40th PUB

52

Coming Events

LOST white I-phone 4S RD Regional hospital grounds mid Aug. If found please call 403-343-6252 LOST: MALE ORANGE TABBY Neutered with microchip, lost in Lancaster area.

REWARD! 403-340-2373

DEAN RAY

EAST 40TH PUB

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

LOST earring, ruby in silver setting on McKenzie Trail 403-341-4520

STILL MISSING Cloe is a tiny Chihuahua yorkie Cross, she is about 5 pounds and black & tan.

Cloe is spayed & tattooed.

She went missing from a Red Deer boarding kennel on Oct 28th 2011. We realize that it has been a long time but we would love to have her home or at least know that she is okay. Please call collect 867-872-4466 or email: barbcolin@ northwestel.net if you have any information. Thank you

56

Found

CLASSIFIEDS’ THANKSGIVING Hours & Deadlines

FOUND - Silver ring at Blackfalds All Star Park on September 8. Please call 403-885-4857 to identify.

OFFICE & PHONES CLOSED MON. Oct. 8, 2012

WHEELCHAIR/walker found at West Park Middle School. 403-347-8911 X-BOX 360 disc, north Red Deer, owner identify to claim, 403-347-0886

Red Deer Advocate Publication dates: SAT. OCT. 6 TUES. OCT. 9 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ 5 p.m.

Companions

Red Deer Life - Sunday Publication date: SUN. OCT. 7 Deadline is: Thur. Oct. 4 @ NOON

58

FIND YOUR LIFE MATE Country Introductions.

Membership specials.

403-348-7471

Central AB Life Publication date: THURS. OCT. 11 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ 5 p.m.

59

Meetings

NAVY League of Canada Red Deer Branch, AGM September 27, 2012.

6:30 p.m. at the Armory.

Red Deer, All Welcome

Ponoka Publication date: WED. OCT. 10 Deadline is: Thur. October 4 @ 5 p.m.

Rimbey Publication date; TUES. OCT. 9 Deadline is: Thurs. October 4 @ NOON

Personals

60

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 347-8650

Stettler & Weekender

Publication date: WED. OCT. 10 FRI. OCT. 12 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ NOON

64

Bingos

Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo Publication date: THUR. OCT. 11 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ 5 p.m..

RED DEER BINGO Centre 4946-53 Ave. (West of Superstore). Precall 12:00 & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

Bashaw Publication date: TUES. OCT. 9 Deadline is: Thurs. October 4 @ NOON

wegot

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com www.wegotads.ca

Clerical

UFA/BAR W Petroleum & Electric Dental Receptionist/Dispatcher required for fast paced service company.

Knowledge of office and administration procedures, attention to detail, ability to multi task & proficiency in typing are essential.

Please fax resumes to: 403-347-9310 or email: administration@ barwpetroleum.com Wages based on experience.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

BUSY BOOKKEEPING company looking for exp. bookkeeper. Must be fully proficient with quick books.

This fast-paced job req’s attention to detail, versatility & ability to manage deadlines. Email hradmin2012@shaw.ca

720

PERIOPARTNERS Dr. Patrick Pierce interviewing for RDA Level II. 2-3 days/wk.

Excellent remuneration.

POSITION FILLED!!

755

LOOKING FOR

FULL & PART TIME CHICKEN CATCHERS willing to work night/early morning shifts.

Immediate openings.

Full Benefits.

Contact Mike 403-848-1478

F/T ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

The successful applicant will have outstanding customer service skills, excellent telephone etiquette, be a mature organized team player with strong communication and people skills.

This position will include reception, accounts receivable, processing applications and other varied property management duties.

Preference will be given to applicants with experience in Microsoft Office, Excel and Spectra.

Competitive salary, benefit package and RRSP program.

Please fax resume with references to:

Red Deer Housing Authority (403) 343-2176

Deadline for applications September 28, 2012.

720

Clerical

720

740

BUSY Innisfail dental office seeks, highly motivated member to assist with A/R, PR, bus. admin & web-maintenance.

Please send resume to shipowick@platinum.ca

Farm Work

Clerical

We thank all applicants but advise only those selected for an interview will be contacted

Clerical

The position of Payroll Administrator will cover a 1 year maternity leave to assist the Payroll Supervisor with benefit administration and the processing of payrolls accurately and on time.

Key Accountabilities: • Assist supervisor with processing bi-weekly payrolls for hourly employees • Administer the entry of necessary documents for new hires and terminations • Maintain and update payroll information in the Great Plains system • Data entry, filing and processing records of employment • Preparation and distribution of payroll cheques and direct deposits • Month end procedures including accruals and account reconciliations • Assist with year-end processing and T4’s • Respond to inquiries from employees, management and external agencies • Additional duties as required

760

ADAM & EVE UNISEX REQ’S F/T HAIR CUTTING PERSONNEL. Above average earnings.

Submit resume in person at Parkland Mall.

Janitorial

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

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 LEADING facility services company is seeking hard working, safety conscious cleaners for janitorial team.

F/T work. Fax resume to 403-314-7504

720 Position: Traffic/Admin Clerk

PAYROLL ADMINSTRATOR, RED DEER MATERNITY LEAVE-1 YEAR COVERAGE IROC Energy Services Partnership is a dynamic, rapidly growing public company focused on addressing the diverse needs of the oil and gas industry. IROC combines cutting-edge technology, state-of-theart equipment and depth of experience to deliver a product and services offering that is unrivaled in the oilfield services business. We have an immediate opening for an individual who enjoys a challenging, fast-paced and team orientated environment.

Hair Stylists

Jennifer Johnston, Office Manager Newcap Radio – Red Deer 4920-59th St., Red Deer AB T4N 2N1 jjohnston@newcap.ca

700-920 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

We offer competitive pay, benefits and opportunities for advancement.

Permanent P/T Janitor

Qualified applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume quoting job reference number IROC14-12 to:

Mon – Fri 8:00am to 12:00pm $12.50/hr Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to maintaining interior and exterior cleanliness, set up and take down for internal and external events.

jobs

CLASSIFICATIONS

720

Attention: Email: Mail:

Copp’s Services Inc. is a leading provider of pile driving, helical piling and related services to the oil and gas and infrastructure industries. We require an experienced Accounts Receivable Technician in our rapidly growing business.

Fax:

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE TECH.

Human Resources careers@iroccorp.com IROC Energy Services Partnership 8113 49th Avenue Close Red Deer, Alberta T4P 2V5 (403) 346-9770

For further information on this position and other opportunities within our company, please visit our website at www.iroccorp.com We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those who will be interviewed will be contacted.

This position is based in Red Deer, Alberta and reports directly to the Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Supervisor. The successful candidate will be a very organized individual who has several years of experience and a high degree of accuracy. Experience with Microsoft Word and Excel is required. The person will be a team contributor and take pride in a job well done!

Janitorial

Legal

780

LEGAL ASSISTANT Legal Assistant required immediately preferably with litigation, real estate, wills & estates and corporate experience.

Firm is prepared to train a candidate who has experience in some but not all aspects of the position.

Please submit your resume by mail, email or fax to: GERIG HAMILTON NEELAND LLP Attn: Buddy Melnyk 501, 4901 - 48 Street Red Deer, AB. T4N 6M4 Email: bmelnyk@ ghnlawyers.ca Fax: 403-343-6522

Legal Assistant/ Conveyancer

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.

Medical

ZED99/ KG Country in Red Deer has an immediate opening for an Traffic/Admin Clerk The ideal candidate will have experience in data entry and data manipulation. If you work well under pressure and have the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy in your work and work well as a team player we want to hear from you.

Knowledge of DeltaFlex radio traffic software would be beneficial.

Your responsibilities may vary, but will include: • Processing contracts for commercial scheduling • Preparation/assembling of commercial logs • Switchboard/Receptionist relief • Filing and other admin duties • Some accounts payables and receivables Excellent organizational and communication skills are a must.

Newcap values diversity in its work force and is committed to Employment Equity, all applications submitted must be accompanied by a completed Employment equity Questionnaire form. The form may be downloaded from the following link: http://www.ncc. ca/careers.asp?mn=4 The deadline for submitting applications is September 28, 2012.

To explore this opportunity further please forward your resume to:

Qualifications: • Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) designation an asset • Previous experience in payroll administration • Strong computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel • Strong attention to detail and organizational skills • Strong interpersonal and team work skills • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Good understanding of provincial payroll legislations • Great Plains systems experience is an asset • Candidates with previous Oil & Gas experience will be given preference

Castor - Regular deadline Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

Clerical

261805I21

CLASSIFICATIONS

LOST BLUE SEADOO PADDLEBOAT on Sylvan Lake August 2012.

Reward offered.

Call 403 274 7709 if found.

720

Clerical

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:

Community Care Supervisor LPN / RN The position requires you to:

* train and supervise Health Care Associates in community and lodge settings in the city of Red Deer and surrounding areas * be a great communicator * ensure quality and manage areas of risk 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

262785I21

770

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

Previous experience required and must be able to do heavy lifting.

Fax or email resume with cover letter to: Attn: Shawna Fax: 342-5892 shawna_wilnechenko@can.salvationarmy.org Application Deadline: September 25, 2012

262430I23

WHAT’S HAPPENING

HULA Hoop Dance Lessons Beginning Sept. 27.

No exp. necessary - hoops provided. 403-341-5699 or visit www.HulaHoopers.ca

54

Lost

262416I19-27

51

Class Registrations

Responsibilities will include: - coding and processing of customer sales invoices (experience required) - maintaining customer files - assisting supervisor with month end close - other general accounting duties as required Copp’s offers a competitive salary and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

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

Please submit your resume in confidence to ....

hr@coppsinc.ca

Check us out on our webpage

www.coppsinc.ca

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders Park 262415I21-23

Phone: 403.347.6222 Fax: 403.347.6401

55 ANSETT CRES. Sept. 22 & 23 Sat. 9 - 3 - Sun. 10 - 2 Toys, books, sporting equip electronic, household misc.

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

www.antlerhillelkranch.com Peak Performance VA 227-2449

www.matchingbonus123.usana.com the best...just got better!! www.greathealth.org Cancer Diabetes DIET 350-9168

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

BUILDERS

PET ADOPTION

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPS

Deer Park 20 DAVIS CLOSE - Alley Sept. 22nd & 23rd 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

MOVING SALE RAIN OR SHINE

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

50 & 54 DOAN AVE Sept. 21 & 22, Fri. 2-7 Sat. 9-4 Everything Must Go! Something For Everyone!

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

RENTALS

Glendale

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

90 GLENDALE BLVD. One day only!!

Sat 10 - 6 Antiques, collectibles and other household items.

Something for everyone.

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

VACATIONS

www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

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.

Lancaster Green 184 LINDSAY AVE. Sat. 22nd 9-4 & Sun. 23rd 10-4 A little Bit of Everything!

Morrisroe 39 MALCOM CRES. MULTI FAMILY Sept. 22, Saturday ONLY 10-3 No Early Birds Please MULTI FAMILY 8 Muldrew Cres. Furniture, BBQ, auto’s, brand name items, household, book, and more. Fri. Sept. 21, 2-7 Sat. 9-2.

Mountview 3 FAMILY. Something for everyone.

Sept. 20 & 21, 11-7., Sat. 10-5. 3637-41 AVE. Back Alley

North Red Deer COMMUNITY Fundraiser SAT. Sept 22, 9 - 2.

7794-47 Ave. Close (near SPCA) Burgers and hot dogs for sale starting @11.

Oriole Park

www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

Highland Green 19166TFD28

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

Clearview 7 6 C O L E S T. M o v i n g .

Everything must go! Furniture, collectors plates, Boyds bear collections, Fri. & Sat. Sept. 22/23, 9-4

www.dontforgetyourvitamins.net The greatest vitamins in the world

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

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim

BALLOON RIDES

178 ASMUNDSEN AVE. Sept. 20 & 21, 3-7. Estate clean out. Oak entertainment center, oak glass display, shelves, sander, g r i n d e r, m u c h m o r e .

Cheap, everything must go!

6227-61 AVE Sept. 22 to Sept. 28 Sat. 1 - 7, Sun. 9 - 7, Mon to Fri. 10 - 4 HUGE MULTI-FAMILY

GIANT MULTI-FAMILY 101 O’BRIEN CRES Fri. 21st, 4-7 & Sat. 22nd, 9-3 Stove, sm. appls., too much to mention.

Pines 103 PEARSON CRES. (Back Alley) Multi Family Sept. 21st, 11-7, 22nd, 10-5, 23rd, 10-2 X-mas, scrapbooking.

Clean & gently used.

ESTATE GARAGE SALE 242 Poplar Ridge Fri. 21st & Sat. 22nd, 9-5 Work wear, art supplies, home & garden.

Everything must go.

Innisfail ESTATE/GARAGE/YARD Sept. 22 & Sept. 23, 9-5.

5231-37 St. Everything must go!

45 PAMELY AVE. Sat. 22nd 9-Noon Man stuff! Tools, sporting goods, antiques, rods-reels, compressor & lots more.

Waskasoo 4754 56 STREET Sept. 22, Sat. 9 - 4 Ikea queen bed frame (pine), chiming mantle clock, microwave stand, Karcher pressure washer, tools, misc. Carden equip. & furniture, antiques, collectibles & housewares.

MOVING SALE Odds & Ends Sat. Sept. 22, 9 am - 6 pm 422 WOODLEA CRES. WASKASOO ESTATES

West Lake 16 WEDDELL CRES. The “too much stuff” sale baby clothes, toys, crib, golf clubs, car seat, misc. household items.

Fri 5-9 Sat. 9-3 6237 CRONQUIST DR. Sept. 21 & 22 Fri. 10-4 & Sat. 8-4 MOVING! Compressor, Misc. household/shop

West Park Pines

Out of Town

38 WISHART STREET

#11 PHELAN Close Thurs.

Sept. 20, 5:30-8, Fri. 1-8, Sept. 21 & 23 Sat. 9-3. Huge sale, nuFri. & Sun. 11 - 7 merous items, household, Lawnmowers, tools, furniture, small appls, electronics, elec. hand tools, sport stuff, garden items, lawn care items. Every- household, some furniture, kids stuff, etc. thing must go!

Daily The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 E3

790

F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technician. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer P/T EXP’D MEDICAL office Receptionist req’d.

Reference req’d.

Fax 403-346-4207 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Oilfield

800

Alberta Directional Boring requires experienced locators & drillers. Class 1 license with clean abstract preferred.

Competitive wages including DAILY BONUSES. Work with new, state of the art equipment. Employee benefits package. Contact: cathey@alberta directionalboring.com 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.

Oilfield

800

ECHO NDE is currently hiring certified CGSB Level II Radiography Technicians for full-time local employment. All candidates shall possess a professional attitude with excellent communication skills.

Applicants shall be personable with the ability to work well as part of a team atmosphere.

Computer skills an asset.

Competitive benefits and wages apply. Submit resume in confidence to trussell@echonde.com and qualified need only apply.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Oilfield

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

NEWTECK WELL SERVICE Ltd. is a fast expanding company providing quality service to the Oil & Gas industries. We require Class 1 drivers to transport Frac Sand & Bulk Chemicals. We are also looking for driver/operators for our Fluid Heating Units.

We offer competetive wages & excellent benefits packages. Please submit resumes & 5 year driver abstracts to: dispatch@new-teck.com or Fax to 403-347-3324. or drop off in person to 6733-67 Ave. Red Deer, AB

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

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

ZUBAR Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced Assistant Operators.

Must have all valid tickets.

Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to: 403-346-9420

Oilfield

800

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires experienced Class 3 Vac Truck Operators for Central Alberta.

Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

teamsnubbing.com

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’s license.

800

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!

PRESSURE TRUCK / HOT OILERS SWAMPER

Production Testing Personnel: Day & Night Supervisors & Field Operators

We are a growing company searching for experienced hot oiler operators / pressure truck swampers in our Central Alberta location.

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 D I S PAT C H E R w a n t e d .

Class 1 driving and oilfield exp. an asset. Good phone and computer skills a must. We provide exc. pay and benefits. Reply to Box 1010, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

ENVIR. surveying position with MAGARA Enterprises Ltd. Line locating, surveying, oilfield, or farm experience an asset. Must be physically fit for lots of walking while carrying equip. Email resume to darcy@magara.ca

Oilfield

800

Typical responsibilities will include: • Entry level position: We require valid drivers license & safety tickets.

• Use proper safety procedures, including safe driving, personal protective gear & ensuring compliance with all required safety certificates & licenses.

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Class 1 Drivers / Operators: Nitrogen, Coil tubing, Cement & Acid, Fracturing Supervisors: Nitrogen, Coil tubing, Cement & Acid, Fracturing Applicant Requirements: Ñ Self -motivated Ñ Willing to work flexible hours Ñ Safety —focused

Ñ Ñ Ñ

Why Canyon? Ñ Dynamic and rapidly growing company Ñ Premium compensation package Ñ New equipment Ñ 15/6 shifts

Ñ Ñ Ñ Ñ

Oilfield

Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities Seasonal work programs available

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax : (403) 356 -1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Oilfield

800

We are a growing company searching for experienced hot oiler operators/pressure truck operators in our Central Alberta location.

•

•

Typical responsibilities will include: Knowledge of hot oiling procedures for wells, heating fluid tanks, etc.

Prepare job sheets, weekly maintenance checks, etc.

Use proper safety procedures, including safe driving, personal protective gear & ensuring compliance with all required safety certificates & licenses.

2012 Western Star 10,000 - 15,000 PSI

As the successful candidate, you will have a clean driver’s abstract with a class 3 Q license.

We can offer candidates new technology in our units, benefits and competitive wages.

Please submit resume to lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Attn. Human Resources We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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

Tankmaster Rentals LTD is currently seeking a

Northern area manager

to oversea Edson, Drayton Valley and Valley View operations. Valid candidate would have knowledge in oilfield equipment rental and transportation services. Good Computer skills i.e. Microsoft office.

Able to dispatch and co-ordinate multiple jobs.

Knowledge of OH&S rules and industry safety regulations. Excellent customer relations. Good knowledge of all northern areas where oilfield activity takes place.

Tankmaster offers competitive salary and performance bonus depending on level of experience. All inquires are to be either email to m.morton@tankmaster.ca or faxed to 403-340-8818.

Professionals

810

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 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Safe Communities Central Alberta.

Info: Degree or diploma, experience in the non profit sector.

3 days/week. $24-30 /hr.

Skills in injury prevention, community work,volunteer management,grant applications, fundraising, project/event planning.

Starts on 2012/12/01.

Send resume to sccca@telus.net

by Oct 10.403 346.8101

SUREPOINT GROUP Provides a complete range of services to the upstream oil and gas industry.

Our RED DEER Location is looking for Instrumentation Technicians and Electricians: 2nd, 3rd, 4th year and Journeymen !

As the successful Restaurant/ candidate, you will have a We offer: - Competitive wages clean driver’s abstract.

Hotel We can offer candidates - Comprehensive Group Benefits new technology in our CORONATION MOTEL - Outstanding Safety units, benefits and REQUIRE IMMEDIATELY Program ? It is our job to competitive wages.

F/T HOUSEKEEPERS. ensure we all go home $14.50/hr, 35 hrs/wk.

Please submit resume to SAFE EVERY DAY Little experience required. lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Please forward resumes to Call 403-578-3700 careers@surepoint.ca or Attn. Human Resources FAX: (780) 830-5115 We would like to thank DOMINO’S PIZZA all those candidates NOW HIRING Oil & Gas Production who apply, however F/T and P/T DRIVERS. E q u i p m e n t f a b r i c a t i o n only qualified personnel Apply within, 5018 45th St. shop located in Stettler AB will be contacted.

LUAU Investments Ltd. hiring for the following po(O/A Tim Hortons) sitions: Tired of Standing?

Food Counter Attendant Experienced: Find something to sit on F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) QC/QA manager/inspector in Classifieds Must be avail. weekends Pipefitter $10.95 per hour.

Instrumentation tuber 4217 - 50 Ave. Skid welder Celebrate your life 6721 - 50 Ave. Helper/painter with a Classified 7111 - 50 Ave. Please fax resumes to ANNOUNCEMENT timhire@telus.net 403-228-4009

820

Team oriented Clean Class 1 license Oil and Gas experience an asset

RRSP Matching Program

800

PRESSURE TRUCK OPERATORS / HOT OILER OPERATORS

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

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.

262523I21-23

•

800

Apprentice or Journeyman • Mechanics Pile Drive Operators TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and help- Pile Drive Assistants • ers. Email: janderson@ Field Supervisor

COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC

•

Oilfield

Oilfield

800

261545I15&21

Medical

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Big Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

Join our team of professionals!

ELECTRICAL and INSTRUMENTATION JOURNEYMAN and APPRENTICES We are currently recruiting for: Central and Northern Alberta.

Required Safety Certificates: WAI’S RESTAURANT H2S Alive / First Aid at 4916 Ross Street, Red Deer PST / Fall Protection. now hiring permanent F/T Successful candidates will Chinese Cook. Over 3 yrs possess excellent written experience required. and verbal $12-$14/hour, depending communication skills. on exp. Call 403-340-3366 Oilfield experience is an asset.

Qualified applicants are Sales & invited to fax or email their Distributors resumes: Fax: 403-638-3688 Email: NOMADS Clothing Store in careers@bighornelectric.com Sylvan Lake is looking for mature professional sales B R I C K L AY E R / S TO N E people, part and full time MASON REQ’D IMMED. positions avail. for busy growing company, 403-887-3119 Please fax resume to: 1-888-214-9225 or call and SOAP STORIES leave msg at 403-346-7625 is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor DNR Powerline for our Parkland Mall location, Construction requires Red Deer. $17.40/hr.

Labourers/apprentices for Email resume: various projects in Alberta. premierjobrd1@gmail.com Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages.

Teachers/ Fax resume to Tutors 403-742-5759 or email dnrwelding1@xplornet.com DO YOU HAVE A Attention : Noel. No phone PASSION FOR calls please. Drug and TEACHING? alcohol program in effect.

Local educational center seeks 3rd or 4th year education students, teachers and retired teachers Trades for our new after school tutoring program.

Please forward resumes with cover letter and references to: firststepsandbeyond @gmail.com

830

840

850

A FULL TIME PAINTER REQUIRED Painting exp. necessary.

Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, self motivated & reliable.

Phone 403-596-1829

CERTIFIED JOURNEYMAN MILLWRIGHTS and WELDERS for Red Deer SHUT DOWN SEPT. 30- OCT. 6 Must have own transportation.

Send resume to: richardcouch@shaw.ca Phone 403-510-9392 DNR Pressure Welding requires B Pressure Welders, CWB Welders and Apprenticeship welders.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Email resumes to ryan@dnrwelding.ca.

No Phone calls please.

Drug and alcohol program in effect.

DNR Pressure Welding requires Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic.

Excellent benefit packages. Email resumes to ryan@dnrwelding.ca.

No Phone calls please.

Drug and alcohol program in effect.

ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE

Must have Residential experience. Fax resume to 403-347-5745 or call 403-588-6001 FINISH CARPENTER or helper req’d for new residential work. 350-5012

Hydraulic Division

Competitive wages, benefits and scheduled days off. tickets and experience an asset.

Please forward applications by e-mail to accounting@ andystrucking.net or fax (403) 885-4931

B & B COWIE INSULATION LTD.

Accepting applications for Insulation installers, Blowers and General Labourers.

Must have valid driver’s license and own transportation. CSA approved safety boots are required.

Please fax resume to 403-347-8075.

Email: bbcowie@telus.net Boots Transport Ltd. Requires 3 - Class 1 Drivers with 2+ years driving exp. to run the 4 Western provinces (based in Calgary) 60 hrs/wk. $40K $70/year.

Bob 403-238-5755

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

MICRON INDUSTRIES requires a for our Red Deer location.

Qualifications to include lots of exp. in trailer/tanker welding & repairs with SS & Aluminum. Must be open to learn new things & possess good communication & organizational skills.

Exc. working conditions + benefits after 3 mos. Fax 403-346-2072 or email patty.micron@telus.net

HYDRAULIC TECHNICIANS JOURNEYMEN or APPRENTICE MECHANICS MILLWRIGHTS

SYLVAN AUTO CENTRE requires an 1st Year or other Apprentice Technician, Fax resume 403-887-5054 or email ccottam@hotmail.ca No phone calls please URGENT!!!! Exp. Stucco plasters needed for busy company. Please fax resume to 1-888-214-9225 or leave message at 403-346-7625

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 drivers req’d to pull flat deck, exc. wages, safety bonuses, benefits.

We run the 4 western provinces. Please contact 1-877-787-2501 for more info or fax resume and abstract to 403-784-2330

850

262667I30

Please fax resume to

403-885-5516 or email

albertabuildersinc@gmail.com

k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca Truckers/ Drivers

BULK PETROLEUM DRIVER

WANTED FOR CENTRAL ALBERTA

PROFESSIONAL CLASS 1 DRIVER 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:

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

HOME based bookkeeper with over 13 years of experience. I use both Simply and Quickbooks software. Rates: $25-35/ hr. 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

Contractors

1100

Black Cat Concrete

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

Fireplaces

1175

1290

TIM LLOYD. WETT certified.

Inspections, installs, chimney sweeps & service 403-340-0513

Handyman Services

1200

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

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. On holiday- reopen Sept. 28 348-5650 Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing.

Call 403-352-8269 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

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

EDEN

587-877-7399 10am- 2am

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Yard Care

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

FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

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

1430

TANK TRUCK DRIVERS WANTED!

EXPERIENCED

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net

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

880

782902 Alberta Ltd o/a Mac’s is hiring for F/T Store Supervisor - $17.31/hr.

Mail 1 Sylvan Drive, Sylvan Lake, AB. T4S 1J9

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in CLEARVIEW RIDGE Carrington Dr./ Charles Ave. area

ROSEDALE Robinson Cres./ Reinholt Ave. area LANCASTER Lanterman Close/ Larmar Close area ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in MORRISROE WEST LAKE Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

CANADA’S Largest and only Coast to Coast Uniform and Textiles supplier is currently seeking service minded individuals to help deliver first rate service to our customers.

WE NEED: * Individuals that can lift up to 50 lbs. on a regular basis. * Have good written and verbal communication skills. * A clean driver’s abstract. * Customer service oriented.

WE OFFER: * A 4 day work week (on most routes) * Life Insurance * Pension * Prescription Drug Card * Dental Plan * Short Term Disability * Opportunity for advancement. * Commission & bonus potential of up to $10,000 per year.

Please drop off your resume & a current driver’s abstract to: #1 7652-49 Ave. Red Deer Canadian Linen & Uniform Service

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.

DRIVER REQUIRED for local gravel company.

Must have Class 3 with air endorsement. Competitive wages. Full-time/ Part-time hours, Monday- Friday.

Home every night.

If interested please call Phil at 403-373-3350.

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com

JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jepsen Crsc. & Jordan Pkwy

CLEANING Person help req’d 4 mornings/wk. Mon. Tues. Thur. & Fri. 7 a.m. until approx. 11 am. Must be bondable & have own transportation, damp mopping floors involved must be physically capable.

403-347-7216 lvg. msg,

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Classified want ad. Phone 1-877-2233311

KENTWOOD Kirkland Dr. & Kirkwood Crsc.

Misc.

Help

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

EASY!

880

STEADY, YEAR-ROUND WORK!

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

$1000.00 SIGNING BONUS. SAFETY BONUS. REFERRAL BONUS. GREAT WAGES AND BENEFITS. 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

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Pidherney’s is busy and requires experienced local:

Misc.

Help

CLASS 1 DRIVERS

For work in the Red Deer area If you want to stay busy and be home every night then Pidherney’s might be for you!

• Top wages paid based on experience • Flexible work schedule • Possible career advancement opportunities • Based out of Red Deer Valid safety tickets an asset

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Blackfalds

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

880

AUTOMOTIVE DETAIL SUPERVISOR We require an experienced Automotive Detail Supervisor for our very busy Toyota Touch Department. State of the art facility.

Experience is required. Must have excellent working knowledge of automotive reconditioning, interior shampooing and power polishing. As the supervisor, you will be in control of maintaining productivity, work process and staff requirements.

We are offering an excellent work environment, above average wages and the ability to excel in a growing business.

Please forward your resume and references by email or deliver to Red Deer Toyota.

Attention: Kyle Heinzlmeir Email: parts@reddeer.toyota.ca A driver’s abstract and criminal record check will be required for the accepted candidate

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Pidherney’s is busy and requires the following:

SCRAPER OPERATORS Earthworks Division 262050I17-27

1010

Accounting

Misc.

Services

880

MUSTANG ACRES Galbraith St. & Gray Dr.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

782902 Alberta Ltd o/a Esso or Winks is hiring for F/T Store Supervisors - $18/hr.

Mail 117 Lakeway Blvd, Sylvan Lake, AB. T4S 0H2.

services Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

Misc.

Help

860

403-346-2132 8009 Edgar Industrial Place www.kochfuel.ca

wegot

OWNER OPERATORS

NEED experienced Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

• Great benefit package.

Misc.

Help

DEERPARK Duncan Cres./ Dennison Cres. area

MEGA CRANES is looking for a ticketed crane and boom truck operator. Must have Class 1. Good wages, benefits, 10% holiday pay, RRSP’s, and most evenings and weekends off. Fax resume to 885-4269 or email cathy@megacranes.com

FRAMING LABOURERS CONCRETE FINISHERS GENERAL LABOURERS

required by a Central Alberta Home Builder.

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

Busy Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com

• Wages based on experience.

• Own transportation to work is required.

GENERAL CARPENTER

860

Central AB based trucking company reqires

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds looking for

Please forward resume to Brent via: Fax: 403.340.3646 or Email: brent@pumpsandpressure.com

Truckers/ Drivers

STRONG Insulation Inc. Looking for exp. residential insulators w/drivers licence (Batt And Poly, Blow-in).

Call Curtis 403-307-7295

Pumps & Pressure Inc. Hydraulic Division is currently accepting applications for

261201I13-21

Winch Truck, Bed Truck Drivers & Picker Operators

Shipper / Receiver

FLOORING ESTIMATOR Very busy flooring company is currently seeking a professional & experienced estimator.

Duties include flooring inspection, measuring, reading blueprints & quoting. Requirements: Minimum of 2 yrs. experience, driver license, friendly and professional attitude. Wages based on experience, benefits avail.

Drop off at 9-7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB email: shannon@catile1.com or fax 403-309-3000

SHOP MANAGER

850

RB ERECTORS looking for exp’d preengineered metal bldg. erectors and labourers. Rich @ 403-877-7522 or Brad @ 403-506-8000

F/T HEAVY DUTY JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC wanted for growing independent shop in business for over 25 yrs.

Depending upon exper. pay scale is $37-$42 per hour.

E-mail resume to: joy@etrnow.com fax (403) 340-8796

Trades

Mechanically inclined individuals will also be considered.

Andy’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd. in Blackfalds requires:

Trades

DAVENEPORT MILLWRIGHT SERVICES now hiring

850

Trades

850

Trades

259377I1-30

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., Requires to work at 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Parkland Mall STORE FRONT F.T. SHIFT WORK, $11.00/hr.

Please fax resume to: 403-314-1303

850

Trades

262346I21,22

850

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

We require individuals with push pull eperience, grade knowledge & able to work well with others for work in Central Alberta area.

• Top wages paid based on knowledge & experience • Career advancement opportunities Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

262049I17-27

Trades

261977I17-23

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 E5

880

Misc.

Help

880

880

Misc.

Help

Interior Designer

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

ANDERS AREA Anders St. Aikman Close / Allan St. Adans Close Adair Ave. BOWER AREA Bell St./Baker Ave Broughton/Brooks Cres.

INGLEWOOD AREA Ibbottson Close Inglewood Drive Illingworth Cres.

Issard Close

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY

Please contact QUITCY

Classified Advertising

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

SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

LANCASTER AREA Lindsay Ave. Langford Cres.

Law Close/ Lewis Close SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Violet Place Visser St. Vanson Close Vincent Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

Floral Expressions (Eastview Mall)

looking for a p/t floral delivery driver Vehicle supplied. 2-4 hrs/2-3 days per week.

This position is ideal for semi- retired people. Light lifting req’d. Clean drivers record is required. Drop off resume in person. No Phone Calls Please

GREGG DISTRIBUTORS LP

We are a well established and growing industrial supply company looking for COUNTER, RECEIVING & WAREHOUSING staff to join our team. We offer a F/T, M-F, 8am-5pm career opportunity, along with a very attractive compensation, benefits & bonus program. Please forward your resume to 5141-76A Street Close, Red Deer, AB T4P 3M2 or to gdlreddeer@gdl.ca or fax 403-341-3210.

Huntwood Custom Cabinets

is currently seeking the following positions, to start immediately:

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Please contact QUITCY

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

P/T CASHIER Evenings & Weekends. Apply w/resume at Highland Green Value Drug Mart. 403-341-4166

CALL 1-877-223-3311 Employment Training

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

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

Employment Training

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available!

GED Preparation Morning, Afternoon And Evening P/T Classes

Academic Express

Adult Education & Training

340-1930

www.academicexpress.ca

900

Admin Assistant/ Client Host

Min 3-5 yrs experience with strong customer service, computer and coordinating skills. Interest in Interior Design, knowledge of 2020 an asset.

Skystone Engineering will host a training seminar focusing on the role of the inspector as the client (owner) representative, and provides an understanding of code and regulatory requirements needed for inspectors to fulfill their role from a QA perspective. It also covers site safety and project management as well as the administrative requirements to assure new installations and satisfy owner requirements and expectations. It addresses all sections of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producer’s (CAPP’s) Guidance Document: “Competency Assessment for Upstream Oil and Gas Pipeline Installation Inspectors” issued Sept. 2009.

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

Garden Supplies

1680

COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 6’-15’ digging and planting. J/V Tree Farm. 403-350-6439.

LARGE CLUMP OF BLUE IRIS (Flags) & SEVERAL CLUMPS OF DAY LILIES. Free! Call 403-358-5599 TREES for sale near Mirror, AB. Tower Poplar, Colorado Blue Spruce, Swedish Aspen, and Japanese Lilac. 403-650-1309

Health & Beauty

1700

*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 On holiday reopen Sept. 28

Household Appliances

1710

920

Planning

Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

FREE

for all Albertans

wegot

stuff

Antiques & Art

1520

DARK Oak writing desk, very old, oak office desk, kitchen hoosier, 403-347-6530

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

BUD HAYNES ANTIQUE AUCTION

Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave R.D. Sat. Sept. 29 @ 11 am Ron & late Clara Dancer, Calgary. 3 oak cased wall 11 digital phones, numerous 11 digit candlestick phones, 40 assorted antique phones, phone parts, floor & mantle radios, over 40 lamps: incl.

Can. Bulls eye-2 green, lamp parts, lrg. Oak Morris rocker, Can. parlour tables, oak pressed back chairs, carved wal. coffee table, walnut corner china cabinet, diningroom suite, Medalta: butter churns & kitchen crocks, Green Mark Belleek china, pictures, mantle clocks.

Preview: 9 am-sale time Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com

1620

LINCOLN Classic 300D Welder. Offers 403-224-3577

Min 5 yrs experienced installer contractors for the Red Deer Location. Supply your own liability insurance, tools, and reliable vehicle.

Please drop resumes Attn: Sharon to Huntwood Showroom, Bay 4, 6782 50th Ave Red Deer, T4N 4E1.

1660

Attendees must register on APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. or before Sunday, Sept.

30. For more information, warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 go to www.skystone.ca or call (403) 516-4208, Lona.

PORTABLE washing machine $100 obo Career 403-347-1757

EquipmentMisc.

Cabinet Installers

Firewood

This training seminar will be held October 2-4, 2012 12 CU.FT. fridge, white, G E , l i k e n e w, $ 2 0 0 , at the Sheraton Hotel at 3310-50 Ave., Red Deer, AB. 403-307-4223 after 6 p.m

Auctions

ADULT UPGRADING

•

(Reference Guide: CAPP Competency Assessment for Upstream Oil and Gas Pipeline Installation Inspectors)

1500-1990

TRAINING CENTRE

(across from Totem)

PIPELINE AND FACILITY INSTALLATION INSPECTORS

CLASSIFICATIONS

SAFETY

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.

900

RED DEER WORKS Household

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

PAINTERS helper wanted.

403-598-0303 Position: Head Caretaker Location: Joseph Welsh Elementary School Start Date: To be determined.

Work Days: Monday-Friday Hours:7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. A current criminal record check is required for all new employees. Be advised that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Applications should be forwarded by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 to Red Deer Public School District No. 104, 4747-53 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 2E6 Fax: 403-342-3780 Email: humanresources@rdpsd. ab.ca

900

217865

CARRIERS NEEDED

Very busy Red Deer Flooring Company is seeking Interior designer (male or female). Must have an eye for design and professional attitude.

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS, Commercial & Residential Exp’d. Drivers & Estimating: Swampers required.

Floor & Wall Tile, MAPLE LEAF MOVING Hardwood, Laminate and Call 403-347-8826 or fax Carpet. Wages are resume to: 403-314-1457. negotiable based on experience & benefits CLASSIFIEDS Sell it Best! To avail. Drop off at 9-7619-50 Ave. Red Deer, place your ad phone 1-877223-3311 email: shannon@catile1.com or Fax 403-309-3000

Employment Training

Furnishings

1720

LOOKER OFFICE EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE ANNUAL GARAGE SALE To be held Downtown at #4806 -50th Ave (between Great Strides and Hot Pot Studio) Starting Sept. 10th †Mon-Fri 9 am - 5 pm Desks, Workstations/chairs/ dividing panels/file cabinets UNHEARD OF PRICES!!!!

Please call 403-346-8827† for more information.

1830

Cats

SOFT, Quiet, adorable kittens, exceedingly healthy due to a specific diet. Suitable for outdoors or indoors, mousers.

FREE to a good to home.

403-782-2397

1840

Dogs

BEAUTIFUL yellow lab pup, $200 very friendly, great disposition 403-877-6354 F1 ($700) F1B ($900) LABRA DOODLES Ready late Oct. Price incl. delivery. 306-792-2113 or 403-919-1370 www.furfettishfarm.ca

BOOKCASE, 3 shelf $20; 2 drawer night table, $20; patio verticals (light blue w/white back), like new $70; Convection oven (portable) with microwave stand, $65. 403-343-6306

MEN’S size 10 hockey skates, used very little $40; mens hocky shin guards, like new $20, both items $50; ladies figure skates w/blade guards size 7 like new $35 403-986-2004

DESK w/leather swivel chair $50; 27” tv good working cond, $30; 2 dark cherry end tables $120/pair 403-340-0675 FUTON, steel frame, wood arms, 6” mattress, light tan cover. $100. 403-343-6306 GLASS on brass round table 26” diameter, $20.

403-347-8159 LARGE WALL UNIT w/bar and china cabinet $60; 403-887-5848 LOVESEAT beige background, pale pink/blue flowers $150; flower petal table lamp, rose, $35 403-343-6218 MICROWAVE Emerson, good shape, $40; tv stand, w/door, oak color, really good shape,. $40, 403-505-6612

Collectors' Items

3 BDRM. house avail. Oct. 1, n/s, no pets Ken 403-346-2741 4 + 1 BDRM. 3 baths, dbl. att. garage, Deer Park $1700/mo. 403-340-0082 Grain, Feed LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house, 2 full bath, big lot, $995 Hay 403-782-7156 357-7465 1ST CUT, small square MORRISROE 5 bdrm bi-levhay, no rain. 403-340-3061 el, garage, fenced, 2 baths. N/S, no pets.

343-7768 2ND. cut round hay bales PARTLY furn. 2 bdrm..

403-350-4924 home, $850/mo. incld. utils. no pets, no children, n/s avail, immed., very private 403-887-5731

2190

wegot

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3010

Acreages/ Farms

QUIET farm house, 20 min. to R.D. or Sylvan. No kids, no outdoor pets, ref’s req’d. avail. Oct. 31, 403-347-1526

Manufactured Homes

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

3030

2 BDRM. well cared for condo, North of river. Upgraded w/ hardwood floors, 4 appl., avail. Oct. 1 $875 rent & s.d. **RENTED** 4 BDRM. Lacombe 5 appls, rent $1495 avail.

Oct 1 782-7156 357-7465

TOWNHOUSE - GRANT STREET

3 brm, 1.5 bath, 5 appls. $1250 utils incl. Avail Oct 1st HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

3040

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

A MUST SEE! $

Only

20,000with Intro

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

$

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

254509H1

Renter’s Special

1870 1900

Condos/ Townhouses

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

FREE Cable

NATIONAL Royal Museum Mint classic Ford miniature cars (13) + plus garage all for $75 403-396-4440

Travel Packages

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

1860

Sporting Goods

3 WHEELER golf cart, like new, $50, 14 doz golf balls, $2/per dozen 403-314-0804

CHINA CABINET $200 good cond. obo 403-347-1757

2140

Horses

SCHNAUZER, mini, black M. father white, AKC, mother black. Very unique colors. $600.

403-746-0007, 877-3352

2 PEDESTAL diningroom table, light oak, 2 butterfly leaves, $475 403-343-7393

2 & 3 bedroom modular/mobile homes in pet friendly park

Starting at

849

$

/month

AGRICULTURAL

Lana (403) 550-8777

CLASSIFICATIONS

www.lansdowne.ca

2000-2290

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 WOODEN storage unit with 4 shelves, carpenter made w/castors and twin doors, 36”x21 1/4”Dx36”H $45; Wooden storage unit with 3 shelves, carpenter made with castors and twin doors, 36”x 27 1/4”Dx36”H $45; Tall white wooden storage unit with 6 adjustable shelves, unit measures 79 1/2”Hx12”Wx 14 1/2”D, shelves are 8 3/4 x 12”D, $30;

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

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

Rosedale. $485,900. Quick Possession!!!

Too many upgrades to mention & Paint Package incl. from Fargeys Paint to the buyer!! Tania / Brad 403-343-9178 For more info & pics: MLS #CA0002711

1630

Installer/Service person for dairy ventillation systems.

Knowledge of fans and misting equipment an asset. Competitive wages and benefits package.

E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

8 TRACK Tape Cartridges, Equipment(26), Country & Western, Heavy must take all - $26; Cassette Tapes (26), Country TRAILERS for sale or rent & Western, must take all Job site, office, well site or $26; Black nylon carrying storage. Skidded or case, holds 30 cassettes, wheeled. Call 347-7721. $10; Sturdy 8 track case, holds 18 tape cartridges, $7; fancy 8 track case, holds 12 tape cartridges, Firewood $8; plastic turn table, holds 24, 8 track cartridges, $5; L.P. record holder, AFFORDABLE wood, 2 doors, Homestead Firewood stained 25”x15”x22”, on castors, Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. $40. 403-314-2026 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207

FIREWOOD. All Types.

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

NEEDED IMMED.

Misc.

Help

1800

Office Supplies

254502H1-I30

Misc.

Help

REDUCED! Lake front -†2300 sqft home on 10 acres $395,000. 10 min from Ponoka.

Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door. welist.com #47984. MLS C3526876.

403-519-6773† brettie@platinum.ca

1660

880

Misc. for Sale

1760

CUSTOM made ice pic for ice fishing, $50.; Tailgate protector & cargo organizer for Ford Ranger club cab, $40. both; 2 afghans, approx. 30”x56”, $20.ea.; 1 patchwork quilt 72”x76”, $30; 2 blue enamel roaster, 1 large, $12., 1 med. $7; 1 large white porcelain turkey platter, $8; men’s clothing, 2 pr. casual pants 40/32, 3 men’s shirts (med.) 7 prs men’s work type socks, all for $13.

403-314-2026 FRYPAN, dutch oven, 3 pots & lids, brown & white, $25; Feather pillows (pr.) $10; Thomas Kinkade picture 14 1/2 x 17 3/4, $50; Starchoice receiver $10; Punch set, 18 pce. service, $10; electric hot plate, 2 burner, $30; Toaster oven, $10; Magnum Oil heater 1500 W, 120V, $30. 403-358-5247

is expanding its facility to double production.

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

- Concrete Batch Plant Operator - Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers - Steel Reinforcement Labourers - Overhead Crane Operators - General Labourers

PATIO TABLE with 6 chairs & umbrella $50; office chairs, $10 each, 6x6 taupe porcelain tiles, approx 60 tiles $50.

Phone 403-340-1640 or 403-391-6619.

259375I1-29

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.

OXYGEN Acetylene regulator Victor set $55; 2 new suede welding bibs $40/ea.; Craftsman industrial vacuum cleaner $55; umbrella patio set w/4 chairs $30 403-887-4981

Piano & Organs

1790

ORGAN Yamaha $200 403-347-1757

The

Rent Spot

Your Rental Key to Houses, Condos, Suites & More

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE

DOWNTOWN APT - SPRUCEVALE

TOWNHOUSE - GRANT STREET

2 bdrm, 1 bath, no pets $825/mo + elec Avail Oct 1st

3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, 5 appls. $1250/mo, util inc.

Avail Oct 1st

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

HERMARY STREET

UPGRADED FLOORS

Apt/Condo, 2 bdrm, 1 bath.

5 appls. Avail now! no pets $925/mo + elec.

80A Kelloway Cres.

3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 appls in-suite $1525. Avail immed.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

E6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Houses For Sale

4020

KYTE CRES.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Oct. 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

WESTPARK

Lots For Sale

4160

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

Beautiful Bungalow 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

RARE OPPORTUNITY

beautiful private property in sought after Woodlea, backing onto Waskasoo Creek. Build your dream home or modify the existing 3 bdrm. heritage home.

416-918-0195

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5030

Cars

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

FOR fast results: Classified Want Ads. Phone 1-877223-3311.

At

www.garymoe.com

Manufactured Homes

3040

has relocated to

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Lana 403-550-8777

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ORIOLE PARK

across from park & playground. 3 bdrm.

4plex 1-1/2 bath, 4 appls. $975/mo. inclds. sewer, water & garbage.

D.D. $650. Avail. Nov. 1 403-304-5337

3060

Suites

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

1 BDRM. apt. avail. Oct 1 $750 plus power, 403-872-3400 1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. Oct. 1 incl. most utils,., call 403-886-5288 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 2 BDRM, lower floor for over 40 quiet tenant, heat & water incl., security cameras throughout and laundry on site. $850, s.d. $825. 403-341-4627

A Great Location

Adult Bldg. 1 & 2 Bdrm.

Units Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899 BACHELOR SUITE. $725 + power. Avail.

Oct 1. 403-872-3400

DOWNTOWN APT - SPRUCEVALE

2 bdrm, 1 bath, no pets $825 +elec, avail Oct 1st HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

HERMARY STREET

Apt/Condo. 2bdrm, 1 bath.

5 appl. Avail now! no pets $925/mo + elec.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpma.ca LEGAL 1 bdrm, bsmt. suite, fully furn., linens, dishes, washer/dryer, tv, quiet mature, employed M. 403-347-6048 Please leave # w/area code

OPPORTUNITY

1 & 2 bdrm. units Washer/Dryer in suite Heat-water/park incl’d Call 403-342-2899 PENHOLD 1 bdrm. 2nd. flr. suite in modern building, washer, dryer, range, fridge, vacuum, a/c, paved parking rent $795 DD $795 avail. Oct. 1 1-403-886-4904 886-4905

SUNNYBROOK

3 bdrm. apt. avail. Oct. 1 water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location,no pets, 403-346-6686

UPGRADED FLOORS! 80A Kelloway Cres.

3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 appls\ in-suite. $1525. Avail immed HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

You Looking?

1 & 2 bdrm. suites Heat/water/parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

ZOOM Take Me

2 bdrm. Adult Building Heat/Water/Parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

Roommates Wanted

3090

ROOM in quiet home.

N/S, no drinking, working Female, avail. now. $450 + $200 d.d. 403-309-4155

Mobile Lot

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

5030

Call for more info call 403-342-4544

STEAL of a Deal!! 136 Vickers Close, in Vanier Woods. Loaded w/ upgrades + Lrg. Garage.

OPEN HOUSE Sun. Sept.

23, 1-4 pm. 403347-6137.

Acreages

2008 CHARGER 3.5L Exc. cond. 84,000 careful kms.

Service & fuel economy records avail. Asking $11,500. 403-346-8299 or 403-506-9994

2008 ALTIMA Coupe, 3.5 SE V-6, 6 spd. loaded. A must to see! 130,000 kms.

Mint Cond. $13,500 obo 403-844-0608 Sylvan Lake

4090

New Executive

5110

Holiday Trailers

5120

PROWLER, 19’ needs work, $800. 403-391-4144

5150

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

2003 VW GTI VR6.

137,000 km. US Model, Leather seats, A/C, Cruise.

Call Ty. 403-588-1087

Cottages/Resort Property

4130

Range Rider, Model Tigre Off of 2006 Tundra, 4dr.

Should fit 2000 to 2006 Tundra. Exc. cond. $649. obo.

403-318-4356 or 346-7778

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 2001 CADILLAC Deville, sunroof, heated seats, leather, DVD, 124,000 kms REDUCED! exc. cond. in/out. $7950.

LAKE FRONT PROPERTY 403-342-0587 -†2300 sqft home on 10 acres $395,000. 10 min from Ponoka.

Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door.

See welist.com #47984.† 1997 FORD Taurus 254,000 kms, loaded, lots of new parts, MLS C3526876.

Call 403-519-6773† Email: command start $1500 obo 403-896-9138 after 5 p.m. brettie@platinum.ca

Cars

5030

NEED A CAR?! ! pproved

’s A

e Everyon

Call Tracy Today

403-352-7455

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGMENT TO: NEIL JAMES SHARP also known as JASON SHARP Take Notice That the Plaintiff, Lauren Yates, has obtained Consent Judgment for claim numbered 0801-00803, in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Judicial District of Calgary, in the City of Calgary on April 13, 2012. The Plaintiff’s solicitors are Vogel LLP (Doug Perras), 1050, 10201 Southport Road SW, Calgary, Alberta. T2W 4X9.

You Are Named As The Defendant in this Consent Judgment. The Plaintiff, Lauren Yates, will proceed to assign this Judgment pursuant to Section 5 (4) of the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Act. If you have a concern with the above, please contact Gary D. Braun at (403) 543-7750 or contact the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund at (780) 4278255 and provide claim number 0801-00803.

NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGMENT TO: NEIL JAMES SHARP also known as JASON SHARP

TRUCK TOPPER

2005 HONDA Accord, tan, 131,500 kms., 6 cyl., leather sunroof, orig. owner. $10,500.

403-318-2736

3 bdrm. 2 bath HOME in Red Deer. Immediate possession 10 yr warranty.

Own it for $1275/mo. OAC CALL 403-346-3100

Fifth Wheels

1997 KAWASAKI 300 4x4 Completely reconditioned.

403-356-1934

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

1997 FORD F150, 4x4, good cond. 403-346-3427

ATV's

4050

ACREAGE near Linden, AB 1520 sq. ft. 2008 modular home, new 3000 sq. ft. shop, 200 amp service, floor heat, 24 x 14 overhead door, shelter belt w/drip lines, beautiful yard, awesome view $300,000.

403-369-4576

5050

2001 OKANAGAN 35’ Canadian built, immac. fully winterized, loaded, 2 furnaces, a/c, laminate flooring 780-462-2087

Mason Martin Homes has

8 Brand New Homes starting at $179,900

Trucks

6010

Take Notice That the Plaintiff, Erin Yates and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta, has obtained Consent Judgment for claim numbered 0801-03924, in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Judicial District of Calgary, in the City of Calgary on April 13, 2012.

The Plaintiff’s solicitors are Vogel LLP (Doug Perras), 1050, 10201 Southport Road SW. Calgary, Alberta.

T2W 4X9.

You Are Named As The Defendant in the consent Judgment. The Plaintiff, Erin Yates and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta, will proceed to assign this Judgment pursuant to Section 5 (4) of the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Act. If you have a concern with the above, please contact Gary D. Braun at (403) 543-7750 or contact the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund at (780) 4278255 and provide claim number 0801-03924.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

LANDFILL RECEIVING SERVICES (RFP 06/12) Red Deer County invites Proposals for the provision of Landfill Receiving Services.

Bid packages can be picked up at the Red Deer County Centre, starting 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 19, 2012.

Interested vendors must submit their proposals to this RFP, sealed and clearly marked: “Request for Proposals (RFP 06/12) Landfill Receiving Services” and is received at:

FORMULA 1

Premium Package Grab it While it’s HOT

“THE WHEEL DEAL”

Red Deer County 38106 Rge Rd 275 Red Deer County, AB T4S 2L9 by 3:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, September 26, 2012.

For further information with respect to this RFP, please contact Andrew Treu, Environmental Services Manager, at (403) 357-2365.

262782I21

3190

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

wegot

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Houses For Sale

216751

3080

LOW Rent. Modest res. in N.W. R.D., share full home for F/T employed, n/s. Free to Oct. 1. 403-872-4924 msg NEED roommate. Sm. acreage on Hwy. 12 between Bentley & Gull Lake. 403-748-4491

Rooms For Rent

wegot

wheels BEAUTIFUL bungalow in Rosedale backing onto a park in a quiet close for SALE. NEW PRICE at $485,900. Quick Possession!!!

Too many upgrades to mention & Paint Package incl. from Fargeys Paint to the buyer!!

Call the owners Tania or Brad at 403-343-9178 today for a viewing. For more info & pics visit: MLS #CA0002711

4020

GREAT STARTER $274,900!

2012 1076 sq ft.† 2 Bdrm., 4 pc/3 pc ensuite.

Call AVRIL EVANS Century 21 Advantage Cell:† 403-348-6303 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

5 LINE PHOTO AD (1 Line in BOLD print) 1 WEEK IN THE RED DEER ADVOCATE & 1 Insertion In These Community Papers: BASHAW, CASTOR, CENTRAL AB LIFE PONOKA, RIMBEY,STETTLER, WEEKENDER, SYLVAN, ECKVILLE

PLUS *WEDNESDAY’S FASTTRACK PHOTO AD and

1 week on wegotads.ca only

$84.21

Includes GST - additional lines extra charge (REGULAR PRICE $141.14)

CALL 309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com wegotads.ca

B.C. pot advocate to challenge Police Act

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000 avail. Oct. 15th 403-304-7576 or 347-7545

5200

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

Daily The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

VANCOUVER — One of British Columbia’s leading marijuana advocates says he’s going to raise an army of well-trained, disciplined volunteers for his effort to decriminalize possession and use of cannabis by adults.

Elections BC announced Thursday it has approved in principle an initiative petition filed by Dana Larsen, who ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of B.C.’s New Democrats.

Larsen’s draft bill, entitled the Sensible Policing Act, would amend the Police Act, and prohibit the use of provincial police resources to enforce simple possession-and-use laws for adults.

It also asks the province to call upon the federal government to repeal marijuana prohibition laws or give B.C. an exemption.

Elections BC announced it will issue the petition Nov. 19, giving Larsen 90 days to collect the signatures of more than 10 per cent of registered voters in each of B.C.’s 85 electoral districts.

However, Larsen said he won’t be gathering signatures this fall.

Instead, he’ll use the petition to generate attention and gather volunteers to find, train, excite and mobilize “an army of welltrained disciplined signature gatherers.”

He said he will submit another application in September 2013 and then begin the process of collecting signatures.

“It is a very difficult procedure, absolutely,” he said in an interview. “It’s a big challenge. That’s why we’re doing it in this unique way of spending a year in advance to build support and build up our volunteer base.

“I am very confident that far more than 10 per cent of the registered voters in every riding of the province support decriminalization of cannabis.”

Attorney General and Justice Minister Shirley Bond was unavailable for an interview, but said in a statement that she recognizes the initiative process is available to any registered voter in B.C. “However, I have confidence that our Police Act currently meets our public safety responsibility to communities right across the province.”

She also noted that her government had no authority to make decisions on decriminalization.

“What it means is that unless Canadian law is changed, the production, sale and use of marijuana is currently illegal and controlled by federal legislation and our police have a responsibility to enforce the Criminal Code.”

Peter Lepine, chief constable of the West Vancouver Police Department and president of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police, declined to comment on the politics behind the bill.

“At the end of the day from a policing perspective, we’re tasked with enforcing the laws as the laws are written,” he said.

Larsen said many British Columbians recognize police resources could be better spent on “serious criminal offences,” and many want to see cannabis laws reformed.

However, police are spending more time and resources on enforcing possession laws and charges have doubled between 2005 and 2010, Larsen said.

Neil Boyd, a criminology professor at Simon Fraser University, agreed with Larsen on the possession statistics, noting charges have jumped from 1,700 in 2005 to 3,500 in 2010 even though use hasn’t changed.

Boyd said 10 to 20 per cent of B.C.’s population has used marijuana in the last year.

“I do think it makes sense not to enforce marijuana possession laws,” he said.

Boyd said police report about 15,000 cases annually, but only 3,000 people are charged.

“So there is an enormous amount of discretion exercised,” said Boyd.

He said police in some jurisdictions ignore use, while in others marijuana is confiscated and nothing’s done; meantime, in other areas, charges are laid.

Larsen said he’ll need several hundred thousand dollars and thousands of volunteers to gather a minimum of 400,000 signatures in order to try to change the law.

If he succeeds in gaining the required signatures, the province’s chief electoral officer will have to verify the petition before sending it to a legislative committee, according to Elections BC.

Senator’s wife pleads guilty to plane ruckus

by THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A Manitoba senator and his wife walked out of a courthouse together Thursday after she pleaded guilty to causing a disturbance on an Air Canada flight.

Maygan Sensenberger, who is married to Sen. Rod Zimmer, had appeared in Saskatoon court to deal with charges stemming from a ruckus on a flight from Ottawa to Saskatoon at the end of August.

Sensenberger, 23, sat quietly next to her lawyer with her hands clasped together in her lap.

“She realizes that a lot of people on the plane were disturbed by her behaviour,” defence lawyer Leslie Sullivan told the court.

Sensenberger was given a 12-month suspended sentence with probation. She’ll also have to attend counselling as directed by her probation officer. The court said that could include anger management or alcohol treatment classes.

It’s not the first time Sensenberger has been in trouble. In January 2009 she pleaded guilty to impaired driving.

A charge of uttering threats against her husband was withdrawn.

People on the plane gave varying accounts of the seriousness of what happened on the flight, which was just days before the couple’s first anniversary.

One witness said Sensenberger became upset when Zimmer, 69, started feeling tightness in his chest. The

couple began arguing over how seriously Zimmer, a throat cancer survivor, was taking his health.

Sullivan told the court that Zimmer had to be taken to hospital a few days before the flight for hornet bites.

“His lack of taking care of his health has been a constant issue between them.

And after that incident, and before it, she’s been trying to get him to deal with certain health issues and his attitude is, ’’I don’t have to do that,”’ said Sullivan.

She said the couple were arguing about his health in the airport before they left Ottawa and continued to fight on the plane. Sensenberger believed Zimmer had a heart attack during the flight, said Sullivan.

“As a result of that she became more distraught, more stressed out, and of course the fact that people on the plane said there was no problem made her even more upset because she felt that no one was taking her seriously,” said Sullivan.

“She was significantly distraught. And I think that when you’re in that kind of situation, when you’re distraught, you have few drinks in your system, you say and do things that you might not do (in normal) circumstances.”

Police alleged the two were arguing before any health issues surfaced and the argument escalated as the flight got closer to Saskatoon. The Crown told court that one witness said Sensenberger could be overheard saying she would cut Zimmer’s throat.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 E7

Ads promoting defeat of ‘savage’ jihad going up

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A provocative ad that equates Muslim radicals with savages is set to go up in the city’s subway system as violent protests over an anti-Islamic film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sweep over much of the Muslim world.

A conservative blogger who once headed a campaign against an Islamic centre near the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack site won a court order to post the ad in 10 subway stations next Monday.

The ad reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

The ad was plastered on San Francisco city buses in recent weeks, prompting some artists to deface the ads and remove some of the words, including “Jihad,” or holy war. The blogger, Pamela Geller, said she filed suit Thursday in the U.S. capital to post the ad in Washington’s transit system after officials declined to put up the ad in light of the uproar in the Middle East over the anti-Islam film.

Abdul Yasar, a New York subway rider who considers himself an observant Muslim, said Geller’s ad was insensitive in an unsettling climate for Muslims.

“If you don’t want to see what happened in Libya and Egypt after the video — maybe not so strong here in America — you shouldn’t put this up,” Yasar said.

But “if this is a free country, they have the right to do this,” he said. “And then Muslims have the right to put up their own ad.”

Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defence Initiative and publisher of a blog called Atlas Shrugs, called an order by a federal judge in New York allowing the ads “a victory for the First Amendment” and said she wasn’t concerned that her ad could spark protests like the ones against the depiction of Muslims in the

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Anti-Islamic blogger Pamela Geller, speaks at a conference she organized entitled; “Stop Islamization of America,” in New York. An advertising campaign initiated by Geller’s group, “The American Freedom Defense Initiative,” will have its ads that equate foes of Israel with “savages” appearing in 10 New York City subway stations after a federal judge ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to put them up. video Innocence of Muslims. Violence linked to the movie has left at least 30 people in seven countries dead, including the American ambassador to Libya.

“If it’s not a film it’s a cartoon, if it’s not a cartoon it’s a teddy bear,” she said. “What are you going to do? Are you going to reward Islamic extrem-

ism? I will not sacrifice my freedom so as not to offend savages.”

New York police aren’t anticipating adding any security to subways when the ads go up and have received no threats or reports of violence relating to them, chief spokesman Paul Browne said.

The Metropolitan Transportation

Authority in New York initially refused to run Geller’s ad, saying it was “demeaning.” But U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled last month that it is protected speech under the First Amendment.

“Our hands are tied,” MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said. “Under our existing ad standards as modified by the injunction, the MTA is required to run the ad.”

Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, backed publication of the “patently offensive” ads.

“More offensive would be their censorship because that would violate the guarantee of free expression of all ideas regardless of how distasteful they are,” she said.

Geller said the subway ads cost about $6,000. Donovan said they will be up for a month.

Opponents say the ads imply that Muslims are savages.

“We recognize the freedom of speech issues and her right to be a bigot and a racist,” said Muneer Awad, the executive director of the New York chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations.

But he said he hopes elected officials and the MTA, which runs the nation’s largest mass transit system, “take on a leadership role in denouncing hate speech.”

Geller, as head of a group called Stop Islamization of America, helped spur a monthslong campaign two years ago to remove a planned Islamic community centre blocks from the World Trade Center site, which she called the “ground zero mosque.” Plans to build a larger centre are pending, although Muslims still have regular prayer services at a mosque in the building.

When the ad ran in San Francisco from Aug. 13 to Sept. 4, transit officials took the unusual step of running disclaimers on the sides of the buses, while some artists painted over “Jihad” or photoshopped pictures that said instead, “Defeat Racism.”

Officials say 33,000 U.S. troops now out of Afghanistan Nearly two years after President Barack Obama ordered 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to tamp down the escalating Taliban violence, the last of those surge troops have left the country, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The withdrawal, which leaves 68,000 American forces in the warzone, comes as the security transition to Afghan

forces is in trouble, threatened by a spike in so-called insider attacks in which Afghan Army and police troops, or insurgents dressed in their uniforms, have been attacking and killing U.S. and NATO forces.

And it’s called into question the core strategy that relies on NATO troops working shoulder to shoulder with Afghans, training them to take over the security of their own country so the U.S. and its al-

Protests surround Iranian President’s NYC visit to UN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes to New York, protesters pay attention.

They know where he’s staying.

They stand outside the building when he makes a speech, holding signs calling him a dictator and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

“We want him to see he’s not welcome here,” said Nathan Carleton, spokesman for United Against Nuclear Iran, which is gearing up for Ahmadinejad’s arrival this weekend for the United Nations General Assembly.

Ahmadinejad, who is scheduled to make a speech at the UN on Wednesday, is expected to stay for the second straight year at the posh Warwick New York Hotel.

A spokesman for the hotel did not confirm whether the leader would be staying there.

The hotel didn’t confirm his stay there last year, either.

As they did last year, members of United Against Nuclear Iran will be protesting outside and inside, reserving a room in hopes of taking their outrage as close to Ahmadinejad and his entourage as possible.

“We had people walking around the hotel wearing shirts with his face crossed out on them,” Carleton said.

The group is working to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

The anger extends to the hotel itself. United Against Nuclear Iran and several prominent Jewish groups had urged the Warwick not to provide luxury accommodations for a man who denies the Holocaust and says

the U.S. orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks, and who has also come under criticism for Iran’s repressive treatment of its people and its support of groups like Hamas.

“No more than you would host in your home a criminal, why would you make it easy here for a rogue regime?” said Daniel Mariaschin, executive vice-president of B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish human rights advocacy group.

The organization has sent letters to the Warwick asking that it not let Ahmadinejad stay there.

“U.S. businesses are under no obligation to accept the business of any delegation to the UN General Assembly,” he said.

A representative of the Warwick did not comment.

An Israeli legal group representing a New Yorker injured in a suicide bombing who later won a $12 million judgment against Iran is going further — filing legal papers asking that the Warwick turn over any money paid by Iran for the delegation’s hotel rooms.

In the motion filed last week in federal court in Manhattan, Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center had demanded that the Warwick either refuse to let Ahmadinejad stay, or hand over Ahmadinejad’s hotel fees to its client, Stuart Hersh.

Hersh, now living in Israel, survived a 1997 suicide bombing and sued Iran for damages, accusing the country of supporting Islamic Hamas, which staged the attack.

He lost part of his hearing and slurs his speech since the blast.

“We haven’t been able to collect anything. So as far as I’m concerned, it’s a matter of justice,” Hersh said.

lies can leave at the end of 2014 as planned.

The number of U.S. forces there peaked at about 101,000 last year, and they have been coming out slowly over the past several months.

The surge was aimed at beating back the Taliban to give the Afghan government and its security forces the time and space to take hold.

The key goal was to ensure that the Taliban did not regain a foothold in the country

that could allow it once again to become a safe haven for terror groups. And there was hope that Taliban members would be willing to come to the peace table.

Military commanders say the war strategy is on track and that they have made broad gains against the Taliban, wresting control of areas where the insurgents once had strong footholds.

And U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has character-

ized the insider attacks as the last gasp of a desperate insurgency.

But other top military leaders, including U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are worried about the impact of the attacks on the troops. Dempsey called them a “very serious threat” to the war campaign and has declared that “something has to change.” ®

T A E R G

GROCERY GIVEAWAY

SUBSCRIBERS WIN

DOUBLE! $ 6,200

We’re Giving Away up to

in Red Deer Co-op Grocery Gift Cards

2 Weekly Prizes of $50 Gift Card Home Delivery Subscriber Doubles to $100 1st. Prize - $1500 - Doubles to $3,000 2nd. Prize - $750 - Doubles to $1500 3rd Prize - $250 - Doubles to $500

Contest runs from September 24 - November 3/12 Entry forms will appear daily in the Red Deer Advocate, or available at the front desk of the Red Deer Advocate.

Enter as often as you like....New Game starts each Monday

For full contest details, go to www.reddeeradvocate.com and click on the contest logo.

40083I19-22

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

E8

WORLD

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

TV ads condemning film air in Pakistan

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Marked by the U.S. Embassy seal, advertisements condemning an anti-Islam video appeared on Pakistani television on Thursday in an apparent attempt to undercut anger against the United States, where the film was produced.

Hundreds of youths, however, clashed with security officials as they tried in vain to reach the embassy in Islamabad amid anger in many countries over the film’s vulgar depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

The advertisements appear to be an effort by the U.S. government to dampen chaos surrounding the film and undo some of the damage to America’s image in the Muslim world. Violence linked to the movie has left at least 30 people in seven countries dead, including the American ambassador to Libya.

Two people have died in protests in Pakistan.

In recent days, the decision by a French satirical magazine to release cartoons crudely depicting the prophet has added to the tension, as may the upcoming issue of the German satirical magazine Titanic.

The magazine’s co-editor Martin Sonneborn said it was up to readers to decide whether the cover of an Arab wielding a sword actually depicts the Prophet Muhammad.

Most outrage appears linked to the amateurish movie, which portrays the prophet as a fraud, womanizer and child molester.

The television ads in Pakistan feature clips of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during press appearances in Washington in which they condemned the video.

Their words were subtitled in Urdu.

“We absolutely reject its content and message,” said Clinton in the advertisement.

A caption on the ad reads: “Paid Content.”

The advertisements end with the seal of the American Embassy in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. It was not known how many channels were airing the ads or whether they were being run in other Muslim countries or just Pakistan.

An embassy spokeswoman declined comment.

In an email later Thursday, the embassy sent out a link to video of ordinary Americans condemning the anti-Islam film, which appeared on YouTube.

Protests have tapered off in many countries, but in Pakistan on Thursday, more than 2,000 people tried

BRIEFS

State TV airs first Suu Kyi footage

At least 30 killed on airstrike at gas station: activists

POLKA DOT 2012 CLEARANCE

ON NOW UNTIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND! NO HAGGLING. NO CONFUSION. NO STRESSS. D ot ot w D llo ck 2011 S a ving n e a i n S l i Scion a 0 v 0 Y in B 0 xB 5 s

0 gs 2 $ 2012 TUNDRA CREWMAX PLATINUM

2012 Camry

$72012MATRIX S !

Automatic

2012 Highlander Ltd. 2012 Prius v

Up to $2,500 cash purchase incentive!

$8,000 Factory Event Incentive! or or

0% lease up to 48 months!

PLUS $2,000 Polka Dot Discount!

ot D ed

2012 Tundra DoubleCab 4x4

0 in Savin 0 2 gs 1 $ 2012 CAMRY R

LE

2012 4Runner 2012 Camry 2012 Matrix AWD 2012 Prius

0.9% finance and lease rates PLUS $1,200 Polka Dot Discount!

or

2012 Tacoma DoubleCab 4x4

0% finance for up to 72 months!

!

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists said a regime airstrike hit a gas station in the north of the country Thursday, setting off an explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounding dozens more.

The explosion went off in the town of Ain Issa, about 25 miles (40 kilometres) from the Turkish border, said Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdul-Rahman said witnesses told him they saw at least 30 bodies, but that the death toll was likely to rise. He said dozens of people were wounded.

Abdul-Rahman quoted one witness as saying the blast was caused by an airstrike, but that the Observatory could not independently confirm the cause of the explosion.

Another group of anti-regime activists, the Local Coordination Committees, reported intense attacks by warplanes on the gas station.

The group did not give a death toll.

mats, all the foreigners,” said Pakistani Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira. He criticized protesters for resorting to violence and suggested that various religious and militant groups among the crowd were to blame.

Most of the protesters appeared to be students affiliated with the Islamist hardline Jamaat-e-Islami party. Flags from other Islamist groups, Jamaat-uDawa and the al-Qaida linked militant group, Sipahe-Sahaba, could be seen flying among the crowd.

RED DEER TOYOTA

!

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s state broadcaster has aired footage of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi overseas for the first time.

Thursday night’s news report showed her accepting the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal in Washington, D.C. Suu Kyi has been feted as a heroine of democracy during travels this year that followed two decades of isolation at home. She collected her Nobel Peace Prize and addressed Britain’s parliament while visiting Europe in June.

Suu Kyi was a virtual non-person in Myanmar’s state media until a reformist, elected government took office last year. Thursday’s broadcast reported that Suu Kyi praised President Thein Sein for initiating the reforms.

The congressional award was not reported in state newspapers Thursday.

to reach the U.S. Embassy inside a guarded enclave that houses embassies and government offices.

Riot police used tear gas and batons to keep the stone-throwing demonstrators away from the enclave, and hundreds of shipping containers were lined up to cordon off the area. The government later called in army troops to protect the restricted areas when it appeared that police could not handle the situation.

“It is our responsibility to protect all our diplo-

2012 Highlander 2012 Tacoma

2012 Corolla XRS

$1,250 incentive plus 0% Finance or lease!

PLUS $750 Polka Dot Discount!

2012 Yaris Hatchback

All 2012 Scion

D ot e t hi

in Saving 0 0 s!

5 $

W

$500 Polka Dot Discount

on all in-stock 2013 product!

All Polka Dot Clearance applies to in-stock vehicles only!

Hurry for the Best Selection!

All offers subject to prior sale.

GALAXY

the right choice

Download a QR Code APP and scan this ad

www.reddeertoyota.com 403-343-3736

1-800-662-7166

Lantern St.

RED DEER

GASOLINE ALLEY AUTO MALL

41783I21

WORLD

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pakistani protesters stand on a representation of a U.S. flag bearing the picture of American pastor Terry Jones, during a protest in Pakistani border town of Chaman along the Afghanistan border on Thursday.

Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion’s prophet clashed with police in the Pakistani capital Thursday, the most violent show of anger in a day that saw smaller demonstrations in Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan.