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Penhold affairs facing review

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Seek peace, not revenge

NOTHING TO HIDE, SAYS MAYOR

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

MOTHER OF AMANDA LINDHOUT PREACHES FORGIVENESS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Lorinda Stewart’s story is one that few parents will ever experience but most fear.

Her daughter was kidnapped in a war-torn country and released 460 days later after a large ransom was paid by friends, family and others.

Stewart is the mother of Amanda Lindhout, a former freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Somalia in 2008 and released in Nairobi 15 months later after a ransom was paid by friends, family and others.

“I barely recognized her— the skeletal girl that emerged from the car,” said Stewart.

“She was so weak she needed a wheelchair. She had bald spots where her hair had fallen out from malnutrition... she had bruises on her ankles from where she was forced to wear chains for 15 months.

But the hardest thing to bare was the haunted look in her eyes.”

Please see FORGIVE on Page A2

Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

Tabitha Duckworth and daughter Crimzynn Annable, 5, strike a yoga pose as part of the Earthdance Red Deer celebrations in Veteran’s Park on Saturday.

The province will examine the spending habits of the Town of Penhold following requests to conduct a municipal review.

After the town raised taxes by 4.75 per cent this year, a number of citizens voiced their outrage to town council.

Mayor Dennis Cooper said in light of the concerns, town council requested a review from the province.

At the same time, town resident Ken McCarthy hosted a rally and gathered a petition with 585 signatures requesting the same action.

Wendy McGarth, a Municipal Affairs public affairs officer, confirmed that the province accepted the petition and will conduct a review in the coming months.

The inspector will look at the town’s policies, financial statements and the practices of the town and interview town council, staff and administration.

Cooper said the town has nothing to hide and welcomes the review.

See PENHOLD on Page A2

Great Grocery Giveaway starts Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Bill Ranford Sr. in his sports card and memorabilia store located at 4781-49 Street in Red Deer. Ranford’s son Bill played nine seasons for the Edmonton Oilers and is now the goaltending coach for the Los Angeles Kings.

Hockey fans ready to throw in towel

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

NHL LOCKOUT

Get used to no hockey night in Canada.

It could be the 2004-2005 or the 1994-1995 season all over again.

National Hockey League players were locked out of the hockey arenas in 30 North American cities on Sept. 16 when the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association could not agree on a new collec-

tive bargaining agreement. The big issue on the table is how to split $3.3 billion in revenues.

To the devoted hockey fan, it’s something that is both frustrating and disappointing to watch millionaires fight over dollars and cents in a boardroom when the players should be fighting for the puck in the corners.

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To Bill Ranford Sr., hockey dad to former Edmonton Oiler and current Los Angles Kings goalie coach Bill Ranford, it is equally upsetting because he said the issue could easily be settled in a 50-50 split.

“The fans go see the players,” said Ranford, who owns Bill Sr.’s Sportscards in downtown Red Deer.

Please see HOCKEY on Page A2

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FORGIVE: ‘Peace synonymous with forgiveness’ Stewart was instantly filled with a rage and hatred that contradicted everything she believed. The Canmore mother of five plotted revenge on her daughter’s captors.

“I didn’t recognize the person I had become,” said Stewart.

“In that moment I realized how easy it would be to become just like them. I had the capacity to be them. It shocked me and finally woke me up. This is exactly how wars and endless violence are perpetuated. You hurt me. Now I must hurt you.”

Stewart said she realized pursuing revenge would only continue to hurt herself and her family.

Stewart said her daughter returned home carrying the message of forgiveness.

Stewart said as any parent knows it is easier to forgive someone who hurt you than it is to forgive someone who has hurt your child.

But Stewart preached forgiveness in her address to the Earthdance Red Deer 2012 crowd at Veteran’s Park on Saturday.

The global Earthdance music and dance festival celebrates peace, love, justice and environmental consciousness in hundreds of communities around the world each year.

“It is no longer enough to cry peace and throw up the peace sign,” said Stewart.

“It is not enough if the only time you preach peace is when everything is going smoothly in your life. Peace is synonymous with forgiveness.

“You cannot have one without the other. Peace is a choice that we make every single time someone offends us.

Sometimes that choice will be presented to us 100 times a day. If world peace is what we truly wish for, we must live peace and must teach our children peace.”

Earthdance Red Deer has been observed in the city for seven years.

The focus of the event is a non-denominational Prayer For Peace when people around the world wish for peace at the same time.

“We feel if enough people do it around the world, we can make a difference,” said Jan Underwood, a Earthdance Red Deer committee member.

“We should think globally. Every little bit helps with thoughts and deeds and trying to avoid conflict and think of the bigger picture.”

The charities of choice this year were The Global Enrichment Founda-

tion, Lindhout’s charity that supports Somali women, and MAGsparks, a Red Deer and District Museum and Art Gallery program that provides visual art-making opportunities for persons with disabilities and others in the community. crhyno@redddeeradvocate.com

PENHOLD: ‘It’s a good thing’ “We think it’s a good thing,” said Cooper.

“We feel we have been doing a good job within the standards of the Municipal Government Act. I am in an industry where we have inspections all the time. Having another set of eyes coming in and taking a look at our town is going to be good. We look forward for them to come in and do their due diligence.”

McCarthy questioned the town’s spending because he was faced with a $5,200 tax bill for 2012, compared to a $4,700 bill in 2009. McCarthy hopes the review will give residents a clear picture of what’s happening with their tax dollars.

A date has not been set for the review but it is expected to be conducted in the next six months or so.

An inspection can be triggered by requests by municipal council, an elector’s petition or by order of the minister.

After the inspection, the reviewer will compile a report including directives, submit it to the minister and town, and finally present it at a public meeting. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

HOCKEY: Fans, workers will suffer

Lorinda Stewart, left, spoke about the importance of forgiveness in achieving world peace at the Earthdance Red Deer celebrations in Veteran’s Park on Saturday. Stewart is the mother of Amanda Lindhout, right, founder and director of The Global Enrichment Foundation.

“They don’t go see the owners.”

Ranford said the fans and the people who work in the arenas and behind the scenes will be the ones who suffer if the season is completely cancelled as witnessed in 2004-2005 or shortened as it was in the 1994-1995 season.

His grandson, Brendan Ranford, a leading scorer for the Kamloops Blazers was invited for a try-out at the Montreal Canadiens training camp. Camps were supposed to get underway last week.

“He doesn’t get the chance to try out which kinda sucks,” said Ranford.

“I am disappointed for him but I am more disappointed for the hockey fans... And those other people they are the ones who get the dirty end of the stick.”

His LA Kings son will continue to work with the minor league affiliates and draft picks during the lockout.

Ranford’s sports card store took a financial hit during the last lockout.

But he is positive the fans will return to his shop and to the NHL when the two sides inevitably work it out.

“In general Canadians will come back,” said Ranford. “But I think they are really upset. You know what? They should be... Just get back and play hockey.”

Hockey dad Kelly Jacobson of Red Deer remembered the last lockout and didn’t like it one bit.

“It’s going to be the fans who are going to be suffering,” said Jacobson.

“We pay their salaries through our ticket sales and buying jerseys. It is tough pill to swallow when billionaire owners are locking out millionaire players.”

Jacobson said his hockey loving children Ayla, 6, and Connor, 10, will just have to go without NHL hockey for

a bit, put their money elsewhere and support the Red Deer Rebels.

“I will be left with a bad taste in my mouth and I think it will take some time to get back enjoying hockey again,” said Jacobson.

Likewise Chris Siwak and his family will turn their hockey attention to the Red Deer Rebels and the Western Hockey League.

“It’s frustrating because they’ve had a long time to sit down and sort this out,” said Siwak.

“I will look for other things to do.

There’s still hockey around. We have a junior team here. It will be a boost to them.”

The two sides have not met formally since Sept. 12. In the meantime, the NHLPA is trying to convince the Alberta Labour Relations Board that the current lockout is illegal. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Carmageddon II: Los Angeles girds for sequel as key freeway shut down LOS ANGELES — “Carmageddon II” — the sequel — is coming to one of the most crowded U.S. freeways, and authorities are hoping its subtitle won’t be The Traffic Strikes Back.

Transportation officials say what they would like to see during the last weekend of September is a rerun of last year’s two-day closure, when hundreds of thousands of motorists dodged doomsday predictions by staying away until the busy, 10-mile (16-kilometre) stretch of Interstate 405 reopened. It was one of the

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being encouraged to check in before the freeway closes at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 29.

“Everybody, including myself, will be here to man the entire event, just to make sure everything goes safely for our patients and staff,” says Shannon O’Kelley, the hospital’s chief operations officer.

A group of art enthusiasts, meanwhile, formed “Artmageddon,” featuring activities at dozens of museums and art-house theatres and listing them on the website artmageddonla.com.

People are encouraged to walk or bike.

The UCLA campus, with about 41,000 students, has

lightest freeway traffic weekends anyone in Los Angeles could remember.

Hopes are high that next weekend will have the same happy result, as businesses and residents prepare to avoid the roadway that must close again so work can be completed on a bridge.

At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, just outside the Carmageddon Zone, officials plan to house as many as 300 doctors, nurses and other staff members in dorms at nearby hotels so nobody will have trouble getting to work.

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Envoys not expecting upheaval after election CANADIAN AND U.S. AMBASSADORS TALK POLITICS AND RELATIONSHIPS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Little Andie Diebert, 3, takes a cruise by Betty Jackson, 84, in Barrett Park on Saturday. The Red Deer residents were unknowingly taking part in the Car Free Day. Celebrated worldwide, the event encourages citizens to use alternate forms of transportation.

Residents get around... without their vehicles Red Deer residents parked their cars to join others around the world as they cycled, walked or skated instead of getting behind the steering wheel on Saturday.

World Car Free Day, held every year on Sept. 22, encourages motorists to leave their cars at home and use alternate modes of transportation.

This was the second consecutive year the city urged residents to park it.

City staff and local vendors manned information booths and handed out information on car free alternatives in the area at Barrett Park.

“We’re really working as part of the city’s environmental plan to change how people are getting around,” said Lauren Maris, environmental program specialist for Red Deer.

“I think people are interested in getting around the city in not

just their cars. They are doing it both for health reasons and the environment.”

Maris said the city wants to highlight those options around Red Deer which include using the path systems, the transit system and carpooling services.

“If you were to leave your car home on regular commute day, a day you go to work, you’d save 2.6 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Maris.

“So if everyone did that even one day a week, it would make a huge difference. Not to mention it’s good for our health.”

Like last year, the city offered free city transit rides throughout the day.

Gerry Gummo, city transit planner, said the ridership on that one day increased by 15 per cent compared to the same day, the previous week. Gummo said there are many advantages of taking the bus.

“In Red Deer about 90 per cent of the trips are made by single occupant vehicles,” said Gummo.

“It is easy to see why transit is very efficient and makes a huge effect on the environment. The bus routes are scheduled. They are running. Whether you choose to leave your car at home and take the bus or not.”

He said ridership is gradually increasing and expects it to increase as more people are paying attention to the environmental and health benefits.

“We have an excellent transit system in Red Deer,” he said.

“We have excellent coverage.

We cover the entire city with our network. I would just suggest people give it a try. See how relaxing it is as a passenger instead of driver fighting traffic.”

During Carpool Week 2012 (Oct. 15 to 19), the city and its partners will officially launch a new ride share option through carpooling. ca. The commuting service matches ride seekers and drivers in Red Deer and surrounding area. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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The recall due to possible E. coli contamination was first announced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency a week ago and since then has been expanded six times.

It affects ground beef sold by Sobeys, Foodland, IGA, and Douglas Meats stores in the Prairie provinces, Ontario, the Maritimes and some Big Way and Super A stores.

And now it also includes unlabelled ground beef products sold between Aug. 24 through Sept. 16, at stores which may include small retailers, local meat markets and butcher shops.

The CFIA is advising consumers who are unsure if they have the affected product to check with the stores where they purchased the beef, or simply throw it out.

The agency says there have been no reported illnesses linked to the beef.

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

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BANFF — Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. isn’t expecting any major upheaval in international relations once the American presidential election results are known in November.

Gary Doer and his U.S. counterpart David Jacobsen discussed the state of Canada-U.S. relations Thursday evening at the Global Business Forum in Banff.

The two men said they don’t expect any chill in the longtime relationship between the two countries whether President Barack Obama is reelected or if he is unseated by Republican Mitt Romney.

“It’s going to be good no matter who the next guy is,” said Jacobsen.

“To me the relationship is strong because when we have differences we talk about them. We don’t get into fights, we don’t fuss.”

Jacobsen joked that when you look at other relationships the United States has around the world, any differences with Canada pale in comparison.

“To the credit of Canada and Canadians you guys don’t present us with the kinds of problems generally that North Korea does.”

Doer said even though he doesn’t expect any problems, it doesn’t mean that there won’t be a major transition, especially if Romney were to gain power.

He said unlike Canada when there is a change of governments in the United States it is akin to an “exchange of prisoners on the border in terms of the thousands of people to leave Washington”.

“We know the voting record of who’s going to be the ranking member if the House changes, the ranking member if the Senate changes. We know some of the people the president is looking at,” said Doer, the longtime premier of Manitoba.

“We know some of the people a change would look at. We have to do our homework.”

Doer was on the ground at both the Democratic and Republican conventions flying the Canadian flag to a barrage of the biggest power brokers in the United States.

He said even with another Obama victory, there will be a new secretary of state and it’s the U.S. State Department that will ultimately decide the fate of TransCanada’s $7.6 billion Keystone XL pipeline, among other vital bilateral business.

“I bet six beer we would get the Keystone project done after the election campaign. I think it will. Getting it through Nebraska is slow but the biggest part of that is majority of the American public want it to go ahead,” he said.

Doer said there is also more support from Congress and the U.S. Senate it it’s in the public interest to work toward getting the pipeline completed.

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Monday, Sept. 24, 2012

It’s our game and our cup It’s our game, not the National Hockey League’s.

And it’s our cup, not some lump of silver to be locked away at the discretion of the millionaire owners who run the NHL. But, somehow, that doesn’t seem to matter.

With the league and its players locked in yet another caustic labour dispute, there’s a very real chance of replaying the 2004-05 hockey season — the season that never was. That’s when feuding players and team owners did what even the Great Depression and the Second World War couldn’t do: they erased an entire winter of play and left the Stanley Cup without a claimant.

For the record, the only other year the cup wasn’t awarded was during the 1919 Spanish flu pandemic, which

OTHERVIEW killed more than 20 million people around the world. So congratulations, players and owners: you have something in common with a toxic virus.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Even if stubborn players and grasping owners fail to reach an agreement in time to save the next NHL season, the Stanley Cup can — and should — be awarded.

The trophy isn’t owned by the league. The NHL didn’t exist in 1892 when the cup was donated by then Gov. Gen. Lord Stanley of Preston as a prize for Canada’s top hockey team.

Early on, it was won by a variety of amateur organizations, including the Kenora Thistles, Winnipeg Victorias

and the Montreal Shamrocks.

We can’t say for sure, but we’d venture a guess there weren’t many millionaires on the ice in those days.

Today the cup is controlled by two trustees, Brian O’Neill and Scotty Morrison, both former NHL executives.

And even the league has conceded that they have the authority to grant this prize to some worthy team outside the NHL — to the country’s top amateur team, for example, or to the winner of a special Stanley Cup tournament.

It’s up to them.

Continuing to award the cup would serve Canadians well, highlighting our national game while showing NHL players and owners that the hockey world doesn’t revolve around just them.

But the Canadian Press reports the

two trustees have no intention of doing any such thing. O’Neill is quoted saying it would “demean the trophy” to award it outside the NHL. In fact, the opposite is true.

What’s demeaning is the way a greedy league and its truculent players have callously tossed aside the concerns of fans, children who admire hockey heroes, and the many non-millionaires who also make a living from the game, whether by selling souvenirs or waiting on tables at a sports bar.

If the NHL and its players succeed in destroying yet another season, they will prove themselves unworthy of the cup.

Rather than “demeaning” the trophy, taking the Stanley Cup beyond the league would be the best way to stay true to its best traditions.

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What’s the fracking problem with natural gas?

At least 38 earthquakes in northeastern B.C. over the past few years were caused by hydraulic fracturing (commonly called fracking), according to a report by the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission. Studies have found quakes are common in many places where that natural gas extraction process is employed.

It’s not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up.

But earthquakes aren’t the worst problem with fracking.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic DAVID wastewater, as well as acciSUZUKI dental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. And pumping wastewater into the ground can further increase earthquake risk. Gas leakage also leads to problems, even causing tap water to become flammable! In some cases, flaming tap water is the result of methane leaks from fracking. And methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide!

Those are all serious cause for concern — but even they don’t pose the greatest threat from fracking. The biggest issue is that it’s just one more way to continue our destructive addiction to fossil fuels. As

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easily accessible oil, gas, and coal reserves become depleted, corporations have increasingly looked to “unconventional” sources, such as those in the oilsands or under deep water, or embedded in underground shale deposits.

And so we end up with catastrophes such as the spill — and deaths of 11 workers — from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

We turn a blind eye to the massive environmental devastation of the oilsands, including contamination of water, land and air; destruction of the boreal forest; endangerment of animals such as caribou; and impacts on human health. We blast the tops off of mountains to get coal. We figure depleted water supplies, a few earthquakes, and poisoned water are the price we have to pay to maintain our fossil-fuelled way of life.

As Bill McKibben points out, it didn’t have to be this way. “We could, as a civilization, have taken that dwindling supply and rising price as a signal to convert to sun, wind and other noncarbon forms of energy,” he wrote in the New York Times Review of Books, adding that “it would have made eminent sense, most of all because it would have aided in the fight against global warming, the most difficult challenge the planet faces.”

Some people, mostly from the fossil fuel industry, have argued that natural gas could be a “bridging” fuel while we work on expanding renewable energy development and capacity, by providing a source of energy with fewer greenhouse gas emissions when burned than coal and oil.

But numerous studies, including one by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute,

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have found this theory to be extremely problematic.

To begin, leaks of natural gas — itself a powerful greenhouse gas — and the methane that is often buried with it, contribute to global warming. Burning natural gas and the industrial activity required to extract and transport it also contribute to increased greenhouse gas emissions. As McKibben notes, the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research concluded that switching to natural gas “would do little to help solve the climate problem.”

More than anything, continued and increasing investment in natural gas extraction and infrastructure will slow investment in, and transition to, renewable energy. Would companies that build gasfired power plants be willing to shut them down, or pay the high cost of capturing and storing carbon, as the world gets serious about the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

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Kent adds heft to Conservatives’ climate-change talk “It’s a great concept and it’s a minor cost of doing business for large companies, but it’s not proven and it’s got all sorts of negatives,” he said.

When the United States backed away from a cap-and-trade system, he said it became clear Canada could not adopt it in isolation and make it work.

“Compliance with regulations is a much more tangible concept than a theoretical trading system,” he added.

Still, experts point to jurisdictions where cap-and-trade schemes appear to be working out the kinks — most notably in Europe. Several Canadian provinces are heading in that direction.

Carbon taxes have been implemented successfully in several Scandinavian countries, as well as British Columbia and, most recently, Australia.

But Canada’s system of restricting emissions on a sector-by-sector basis — through negotiations with industry players and provincial officials — has not won many accolades outside the Conservative party.

The federal environmental auditor, Scott Vaughan, as well as the now-defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy have both said Ottawa is moving far too slowly to meet its international commitments to reduce emissions.

“Regulation is failing when it comes to reducing emissions, especially with this government,” said the NDP environment critic, Megan Leslie.

A recent federal report added up the results of federal and provincial measures so far, and found that Canada was half way toward meeting its 2020 emissions target.

But most of the credit was given to provincial measures. Federal regulations will be most effective well after the 2020 date.

Still, Kent argues that the approach is delivering concrete results.

Kent acknowledges that the government’s system of imposing regulations on polluting sectors of the economy comes with costs too, Kent says none of the money will be collected by the government.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Father feels Canada abandoned his son; seeks British citizenship Paul Compton is at his wits’ end.

The Ontario native has spent nearly three years trying to obtain Canadian citizenship for his younger son with little success and now feels abandoned by his country.

After multiple appeals to politicians and much wrangling with public servants, the 42-yearold is now applying for British citizenship in an attempt to establish a sense of security for his child. But he feels like he’s giving up a part of his Canadian identity in the process.

“I don’t know what else to do at this point, I’ve hit a wall,” he told The Canadian Press.

Compton is among an unknown number of Canadians caught in a web of regulatory changes made to the Citizenship Act in 2009.

His problems stem from the fact that he was born in Scotland — while his Canadian parents were in university — and his second son was also born abroad, four months after the government imposed a first-generation limit on citizenship by descent for those born outside the country.

That meant Compton’s first son, who was born abroad before the regulations changed, is a Canadian, but his younger child, three-year-old Mateo, is not.

“What my government has done is basically said ‘your son’s not Canadian, he’s not important to us,” Compton said from Lima, Peru, where he teaches at an international school.

The new rules were part of legislation which solved the problems of thousands whose citizenship had been taken away by outdated legal provisions.

At the same time, while imposing the first-generation citizenship limit for those born abroad, the government said they were protecting the value of Canadian statehood by ensuring citizenship couldn’t be passed on from generation to generation of those living outside Canada.

Compton, who lived in Canada from infancy until his early 30s and plans to return in the future, feels he’s far from fitting into that category.

“It’s like Canadians born abroad and Canadians working abroad have done something wrong,” he said. “It doesn’t mean that I’m any less Canadian...I grew up in Canada, I paid tax in

Canada, I’m still paying my student loan in Canada.”

The family only found out about the rule change when they tried to obtain a Canadian passport for Mateo and were turned down.

While he has since been able to obtain a Peruvian passport due to his mother’s citizenship, the difference in statehood between Compton’s two children has created a host of headaches for the family.

His older son Stephano can travel to Canada with ease but Mateo needs to apply for a visitor visa to get into the country.

Even more perplexing, says Compton, is the feeling of insecurity that comes with knowing one of his sons isn’t Canadian.

While he enjoys working and living in Peru, he worries about what might happen in case of an emergency.

“Your life is never completely secure,” he said. “I don’t understand why (the government) doesn’t see this as an issue.”

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has acknowledged the problems the new rules have created for some and has offered a remedy, albeit one that requires time and circumstances which may not work for everyone.

“CIC recognizes that in some limited cases, the changes to the law may have a significant

impact on Canadian families with strong ties to Canada who are residing temporarily overseas,” said spokeswoman Nancy Caron.

The solution, she said, is for a family to sponsor their child for permanent residency when returning to live in Canada. Once that application is approved, the family can seek citizenship for the child immediately, without having to fulfil typical residency requirements.

In cases where the rules result in a child being stateless or seriously limit the family’s ability to travel, a family may request humanitarian and compassionate consideration when applying to sponsor their children, Caron said.

In exceptional cases, discretionary grants of citizenship are possible, but those are reserved for instances of “unusual hardship” or to reward services “of an exceptional value to Canada,” Caron said.

But those remedies do little to alleviate the present-day worries of a Canadian family whose child cannot be considered a Canuck, said Leslie Moran, whose granddaughter is in the same situation as Compton’s son.

The toddler — who was born in Belgium and currently lives with her parents in Venice, Calif. — has been able to obtain a U.S. passport thanks to her American father.

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OTTAWA — Environment Minister Peter Kent is attempting to put some heft behind the Conservatives’ climatechange talking points that have driven Parliament Hill to distraction over the past week.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Kent said the NDP’s cap-andtrade proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions amounts to a carbon tax by definition, simply because it would see the government generating revenue.

The opposition party’s election platform from 2011 shows the scheme would see Ottawa collecting $21-billion over four years.

“Their $21 billion is an up-front tax.

It’s a revenue generator. Ours is not,” Kent said, explaining how he justifies equating a cap-and-trade system with a carbon tax and dismissing both approaches as inferior.

Most experts and governments consider cap-and-trade and carbon taxes to be two separate and different approaches to reducing emissions.

A cap-and-trade system targets industry, forcing companies to buy and trade permits that allow for a limited amount of emissions. A carbon tax hits the consumer more directly, adding a levy on to anything that caused emissions.

There are similarities too. Both systems aim to put a price on carbon so that society can’t pollute for free. Both systems would likely see consumers eventually shoulder somewhat higher prices for goods and services that involve high emissions. And both systems usually involve governments promising to put the extra revenue to good use.

Kent says the cap-and-trade idea proposed by the NDP is based on a good theory that indeed was once the preferred approach of Conservatives.

But he says the party changed its mind because the theory breaks down in practice, and the Conservatives wanted a system that would guarantee emissions reductions.

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Coronavirus Clement may be Twitter king, outbreak has but not mayor of town hall WHO on alert HAD A GHOSTWRITER DOING MOST OF THE WORK FOR HIM DURING ONLINE CHAT

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SAME FAMILY AS SARS

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS The World Health Organization is keeping a close eye on a disease outbreak in Saudi Arabia caused by a virus in the same family as the one that caused SARS. There have been two confirmed infections with the new coronavirus and tests results are pending on a third suspected case, according to media reports from the Middle East. Two of those three people have died.

While word of a coronavirus outbreak immediately brings SARS to mind, there is too little information at this point to say whether this is anything more than a blip on the viral radar.

Still, with pilgrims beginning to gather in Saudi Arabia for next month’s Hajj, the public health community is on alert.

“As with any new virus, this is of concern to us and we’re watching it very closely,” WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl said Sunday.

There are a large number of coronaviruses. Some infect animals, others infect birds and still others infect people. In humans, coronaviruses typically cause colds.

But a coronavirus was also the cause of the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS, which killed 44 people in Toronto and about 775 people worldwide.

The new coronavirus reportedly causes severe pneumonia and kidney failure.

One of the confirmed cases is in intensive care in a hospital in London, Britain’s Health Protection Agency said Sunday.

A statement from the WHO said the person is a 49-year-old man from Qatar who had travelled to Saudi Arabia before he became sick. He was admitted to intensive care in Doha on Sept. 7, but was transferred to Britain by air ambulance on Sept. 11.

“Given that this is a novel coronavirus, WHO is currently in the process of obtaining further information to determine the public health implications of these two confirmed cases,” the WHO statement said. It did not refer to the third suspect case.

Professor John Watson, head of the respiratory diseases department at the Health Protection Agency, said to date there is no sign of spread to healthcare workers.

That is important because health-care workers often serve as inadvertent sentinels of the spread of infectious diseases. During SARS, for instance, health-care workers were disproportionately affected, catching the new virus from patients they were struggling to save.

“Preliminary enquiries have revealed no evidence of illness in contacts of these two cases, including health-care workers,” the British agency’s release stated.

“Based on what we know about other coronaviruses, many of these contacts will already have passed the period when they could have caught the virus from the infected person.”

That said, the British agency’s release said there have been other cases of serious respiratory illness in the Middle East over the past three months, including in another person who was treated in Britain. That person has since died, the HPA said.

“This person’s illness is also being investigated although there is no evidence at present to suggest that it is caused by the same virus or linked to the other two cases. No other confirmed cases have been identified to date in the UK.” A report on the discovery of the new coronavirus appeared last week on ProMED-mail, an Internetbased system for monitoring infectious diseases around the world.

Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki, a microbiologist from a hospital in Jeddah, revealed that a new coronavirus had been recovered from a 60-year-old man suffering from pneumonia and renal failure. Zaki said the new virus was part of a group of coronaviruses that are closely related to bat coronaviruses.

Tests to confirm that the virus is indeed a newly identified one were conducted at the lab of Dutch microbiologist Ron Fouchier, a leading influenza researcher at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.

In an email Sunday, Fouchier said his team compared the genetic sequence of the virus they received from Zaki to that isolated from the patient in London.

“The two pieces were 99.5 per cent identical. Although it thus seems that the two cases were caused by the same virus, this is still a premature conclusion,” he wrote, cautioning his team had only a small sample of sequence data from the London case to compare to their virus.

OTTAWA — Tony Clement may be king of social media in political circles on Parliament Hill, but he didn’t get to be mayor of his own Twitter town hall.

During an online chat on the subject of open government, the Treasury Board president, who is a prolific tweeter, had a ghostwriter doing most of the work for him.

Last December’s town hall made federal political history as the first live online chat to be hosted by a cabinet minister using the popular microblogging service.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper once took questions via YouTube, but that experiment was never repeated.

The subject of Clement’s town hall was the Conservatives’ recently launched open government strategy, a three-prong effort which seeks to increase transparency around the official workings of Ottawa.

Clement has been a vocal champion of the strategy, as well as for the increased use of social media by politicians to communicate with Canadians.

He’s regularly ranked among Parliament Hill’s top tweeters and lauded by social media watchers as having a natural touch with the technology.

But when it came to formally engaging with Canadians, bureaucracy ground his freewheeling ways to a stop.

An analysis on the town hall obtained by The Canadian Press

under Access to Information legislation highlights the struggle facing MPs seeking to use social media tools in a world of tightly controlled communications.

“Twitter and its applications are in constant evolution, as are the conversations that take place within it,” the report said.

“The trick to successfully using the platform is to allow room for this evolution, all while keeping in mind communications objectives.”

The two 45-minute chats — one in English, one in French — took more than a month to organize.

Three dry runs were held ahead of the main event, with staff even creating bogus Twitter accounts in order to practise using the service.

More than 40 stock responses were drafted so they could be quickly copied and pasted to reply to questions, while a ghostwriter was engaged to get Clement’s responses out faster.

A spokesman for Clement called that a natural practice.

“Use of a moderator (what the department called a “ghost writer”) was a practical decision based on the fact that the minister could respond quicker verbally as the moderator simply typed out the response keeping it within the 140-character limit for Twitter,“ Sean Osmar said in an email.

“I should point out too that the minister did take to the keyboard himself for a few responses — he does like to get hands-on sometimes,” he added.

Clement was flanked at the

Twitter table by two subject matter experts and two other communications staff, in addition to the one moderating the chat and the one acting as his ghostwriter.

A photographer was hired and according to the report, overstayed his welcome.

“There were too many people in the room,” said one comment in the report’s section on lessons learned.

“Efforts should be made to keep the number of participants to essential staff only.”

The chat didn’t happen over the government’s standard Internet connections.

Staff used mobile Internet technology in order to bypass any possible network filters, according to the report.

One of the sticking points among public servants is the lack of access many have to social media tools, with government servers in several departments routinely blocking blogs, Facebook and file sharing sites.

During the Summer Olympics, one department shut down video sites for fear that public servants would spend too much time watching events.

Other tools are blocked for security risks; Treasury Board and the Finance Department fell prey to hackers last year.

Osmar said the use of the mobile Internet connection was in part to test its capabilities.

“We were also testing the feasibility of using these mobile Internet devices for future tweet chats that may occur from different locations, remote events, and international travel,” he said.

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Rebels fade after strong start

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DUSTY BAKER

BAKER ALMOST READY TO RETURN CINCINNATI, Ohio — Reds manager Dusty Baker headed back to Cincinnati on Sunday after spending four days in a Chicago hospital getting treated for an irregular heartbeat.

Baker missed the Reds’ 6-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday that clinched the NL Central title.

Doctors wanted to keep him one more night to make sure he had fully recovered.

The 63-year-old manager was allowed to go home on Sunday, but wasn’t expected to attend a night game against the Dodgers at Great American Ball Park. The Reds are off on Monday, giving Baker a day to rest before the start of a home series against Milwaukee.

“I’m managing tonight and hopefully with the day off tomorrow and him getting a good, relaxing night at home, (we’ll) come back on Tuesday and see how he feels,” bench coach Chris Speier said. “So yeah, it’s great news.”

Baker was hospitalized on Wednesday when the Reds were in Chicago playing the Cubs. He’s had an irregular heartbeat for some time. The Reds had hoped he’d be back in time to see the team clinch its second division title in the past three years with Baker as manager.

General manager Walt Jocketty texted him when the game ended on Saturday night, and the players toasted Baker in the clubhouse before spraying each other with beer and champagne.

UNION ASKS OWNERS TO END LOCKOUT The NFL players’ union sent an open letter to team owners calling for an end to the lockout of on-field officials and hinting that it’s a violation of the contract between the players and the league.

The players were locked out for 4 1/2 months last year, and they emphasized in the letter that a lack of a safe working environment exists with replacement officials working the games. Domonique Foxworth, president of the NFL Players Association, Drew Brees and Scott Fujita are among the union members who signed it. “Your decision to lock out officials with more than 1,500 years of collective NFL experience has led to a deterioration of order, safety and integrity,” the NFL wrote.

Oil Kings 6 Rebels 2 EDMONTON — The Red Deer Rebels looked good very early, but slumped as the game progressed and were soundly defeated by the Edmonton Oil Kings in a Western Hockey League contest played before 3,956 fans on Sunday at Rexall Place.

“The first shift of the game we came out hard, we had a strong start. Then we gave up the first goal, which wasn’t a great goal, and we just didn’t respond the right way,” said Rebels head coach Jesse Wallin, following a 6-2 loss in which his club was outshot 53-20, including 20-3 in the third period.

“They (defending WHL champion Oil Kings) are a good hockey team, no question, but we didn’t have nearly enough push back. As a group we just didn’t compete at the level we needed to be at.”

Oilers veteran and star forward Michael St. Croix connected a mere 89 seconds into the contest, a goal that Wallin described as “awful.”

Cory Millette responded for the Rebels at 13:49, but Red Deer netminder Patrik Bartosak gave up another so-so goal just over two minutes later, with Curtis Lazar scoring short-handed.

“Their second one wasn’t great either, short-handed and from the outside,” said Wallin, who otherwise felt Bartosak was fine while turning aside 47 shots.

Besides, the Rebels didn’t provide enough offence to get the job done, a fact that came back to woeful defensive play, said Wallin.

“We have to be better defensively. We want to score more goals, but at the end of the day you have to be good defensively to

get the puck back,” said Wallin. “We gave them too much time and space today and weren’t assertive enough as far as finishing checks and shutting them down.”

Lazar connected on a breakaway in the first minute of the middle stanza and St. Croix upped the count to 4-1 with a powerplay tally at 8:10. Rebels forward Chad Robinson reduced the deficit to two at 13:10, but Lazar completed his hat trick 52 seconds later and Klarc Wilson notched the lone goal of the third period.

Faced with a difficult early schedule, the Rebels preceded Sunday’s loss with a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the visiting Calgary Hitmen in their regular-season opener Friday.

As a result, Red Deer will take a 0-2 record into next Friday and Saturday games versus visiting Medicine Hat and at Calgary.

“It’s early and we don’t want to panic, but at the same time there has to be a sense of urgency to get the competitive level up to where it needs to be,” said Wallin.

“Today we had certain guys at certain times who played well and battled hard, but overall as a group I thought we just gave them (Oil Kings) too much respect.

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Roughriders keep Cornish contained

BY BRAD BROWN THE CANADIAN PRESS Roughriders 30 Stampeders 25 REGINA — Joe Lobendahn may have saved somebody’s job.

The Roughriders’ middle linebacker made five defensive tackles and a game-changing interception for Saskatchewan in a 30-25 win Sunday over the Calgary Stampeders.

He was also a key cog in a defensive scheme that held Calgary tailback Jon Cornish, the CFL’s leading rusher, to 67 yards rushing as Saskatchewan (6-6) ended a four-game winning streak for the second-place Stampeders (7-5).

Roughriders head coach Corey Chamblin pledged earlier in the week to make personnel changes if Cornish ran for over 100 yards against Saskatchewan.

“Joe is one of the guys that if you were in a dark alley and you saw Joe you’d better run,” said Chamblin. “He’s tough. Joe is a tough-minded individual.

You could see it in his eyes every day that all he wants to do is win.

“He was pissed because there was one where Cornish ran through the gap and he missed him and I could see it in his eyes that he was pissed.”

But Lobendahn never lost focus.

With the game tied 13-13 in the third quarter, the five-year CFL veteran picked off Calgary quarterback Kevin Glenn on a short pass over the middle and returned the ball 16 yards deep into Stamps territory.

The play seemed to energize his teammates and helped set up a touchdown pass two plays later from Darian Durant to Weston Dressler. Saskatchewan never trailed from that point on.

“I want to be there making the play,” said Lobendahn, who was released by Calgary out of

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Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant throws a pass in the first quarter against the Calgary Stampeders in Regina on Sunday. training camp in June. “Sometimes I try to do too much ... but the thing is I’ve got to be patient. The play will come, and when it does, I’ve got to make the play.”

The Stampeders (7-5) responded with a pair of two-andouts. The second one led to another Roughriders score.

Tristan Jackson returned Rob Maver’s punt 33 yards before Durant connected with Taj Smith on a 30-yard TD pass to put Saskatchewan up 27-13.

Calgary made it 27-25 in the fourth, scoring a field goal, touchdown, two-point conversion and a kickoff single, but turned the ball over on downs with barely a minute to play.

Riders kicker Sandro DeAngelis capped a perfect day with his third field goal of the game from 37 yards.

Durant completed 22-of-

35 passes for 264 yards in the game.

“We just have to take advantage of the opportunities that they give us in the pass game,” said Durant, who returned after missing most of the last two games with a hip injury.

“They blitz a lot so when they blitz we have to make them pay and we did on a couple of occasions.”

The Roughriders didn’t make life easy on themselves in the early going.

Chris Getzlaf fumbled on the first play of the game, and Calgary capitalized with a 33-yard field goal from Rene Paredes.

Saskatchewan’s next possession ended in a Drew Willy touchdown run, but not before tailback Jock Sanders had to recover his own fumble in Calgary territory.

The Riders ended the first

quarter with a turnover on downs after a botched fake punt, and paid for the mistake six plays later when Marquay McDaniel made a leaping catch in the end zone to put Calgary up 10-7.

DeAngelis kicked a 38-yard field goal to send the game to halftime tied 10-10, and added another in the third quarter from 22 yards out.

Paredes finished 3 for 4 on field-goal attempts, also connecting from 37 and 44 yards while missing from 45.

“We played a football team that played very well,” said Calgary head coach John Hufnagel. “We knew they would come out and give us their best shot, which they did.

“We didn’t play very well collectively and I’m not taking anything away from Saskatchewan, because they did.”

Brandt Snedeker wins Tour Championship and FedEx Cup

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Brandt Snedeker played the biggest round of his career for the biggest payoff in golf.

Needing to win the Tour Championship on Sunday to beat out Rory McIlroy for the FedEx Cup, Snedeker came up with three big birdies on the back nine at East Lake to take all the drama out the final day that had been loaded with possibilities.

Snedeker hit his final tee shot into the grandstand left the 18th green and made bogey. By then, it didn’t matter.

So dominant was his performance that he was the only player from the last five groups who managed to break par, closing with a 2-under 68.

Along the way, he answered any questions about why Davis Love III made him a captain’s pick for the Ryder Cup next week at Medinah.

Snedeker won by three shots over Justin Rose (71) in the Tour Championship, his second title of the year, and collected $1.44 million.

And he won the $10 million bonus for capturing the FedEx Cup, which comes with a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour.

McIlroy and Tiger Woods, both of whom could have won the FedEx Cup with a victory Sunday, faded early and were never a factor.

Snedeker joins Woods (twice), Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk and Bill Haas as winners of the FedEx Cup in its six-year history.

McIlroy had won the last two playoff events and three of his last four tournaments dating to his eight-shot win in the PGA Championship. He still is virtually a lock to be voted PGA Tour player of the year, but he had to settle for second place in the FedEx Cup. “I knew what I needed to do,” McIlroy said. “I needed to win. Brandt knew what he needed to do. And he played fantastic.

He really deserved it.”

It was an emotional week in so many ways for Snedeker, already a highstrung personality. His father, Larry, flew in to watch final round at East Lake, only the second tournament he has attended since having a liver transplant last year.

Snedeker stopped by a hospital in Atlanta to visit Tucker Anderson, the son of his swing coach who was critically injured in a recent car accident and remains unable to communicate with words.

“I asked him if he thought I was going to beat Rory McIlroy, and he gave me a wink,” Snedeker said.

He beat everybody at East Lake in a convincing fashion.

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Brandt Snedeker reacts after winning the Tour Championship golf tournament and the FedEx Cup in Atlanta on Sunday.

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Jenkins pitches well in Jays loss

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rays 3 Blue Rays 0 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Chad Jenkins was the tough-luck loser in his first big league start.

Jenkins allowed one run and two hits over five innings in the Toronto Blue Jays’ 3-0 loss to the surging Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.

“He did a very good job for us,” Toronto manager John Farrell said.

“From the second inning on he did a much better job of controlling the strike zone in the bottom half. Still, the one run allowed, an outstanding job on his part.”

Farrell said Jenkins (0-2), who made 10 appearances out of the bullpen since being called up from the minors, will remain in the Toronto rotation.

The right-hander struck out four and walked one.

“I’m excited to be starting again and kind of get back into the routine,” Jenkins said. “I’m honoured that he feels I’ve earned another one. Hopefully I can go out and repeat it again.”

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B.C. Lion Kierrie Johnson, left, fumbles the ball into the arms of Edmonton Eskimo Weldon Brown during the second half in Edmonton on Saturday.

The Eskimos meanwhile are in a complete tailspin, losing four in a row, including an embarrassing 51-8 defeat in Hamilton last week.

“When you lose another game by one point, it’s extraordinarily frustrating,” said Eskimos head coach Kavis Reed, whose team lost a pair of close games to Calgary on last-second field goal misses earlier in the month.

“There were a lot of things we did well tonight, but there were a lot of things we didn’t do well. We need to make sure this team doesn’t concede anything.

“There are no moral victories in football. All losses hurt the same.”

Edmonton dropped to 5-7 and could fall into sole possession of last in the West with a Saskatchewan win over Calgary on Sunday.

Edmonton started the scoring on a

punt single, the only point of the opening quarter.

The Eskimos went up 8-0 early in the second quarter as a 43-yard Joe Burnett punt return set up a long 27-yard touchdown pass that split the uprights from starting quarterback Steven Jyles to Koch.

The Lions responded with a 37-yard McCallum field goal.

After a successful challenge reversed a fumble call, the Eskimos took advantage midway through the second quarter as Hugh Charles swept four yards into the end zone to make it 15-3 for Edmonton.

B.C. countered with a pair of field goals to make it 15-9 at the half.

The Lions had a good start to the second half as Adam Bighill reeled in a tipped Jyles pass, giving them the ball on the Edmonton 50. However,

B.J. Upton hit his eighth home run in 14 games and Jeremy Hellickson won for the first time in more than a month as the Rays won their the fifth straight game. Tampa Bay is 3 ½ games behind the Oakland Athletics in the race for the AL’s second wild-card spot.

“We’re just going out and winning, and seeing what happens,” Upton said.

“We just have to go out and win as many ball games as we can.”

Toronto has lost six in a row and 10 of 12.

“We’re all well aware of where we are,” Farrell said. “We have to continue to go out and execute. There’s no secret formula for this. It’s not that we’re looking for something that has been hidden in our clubhouse for the last month and a half. It’s all here right in front of us.”

Hellickson (9-10) pitched 5 2-3 innings, giving up five hits and two walks while striking out six. The righthander has given up only 16 runs in his last eight starts, but has won only two of them. Sunday marked his first win since Aug. 20. Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth for his 44th save. Upton’s 26th home run came in the first inning off Jenkins.

“That first inning I was a little excited,” Jenkins said. “After that I settled down. I stopped trying to overthrow as much. Kept the ball down.“

Alouettes hammer on Argonauts

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REBELS: Too much respect They are a good team and they played well, but I just thought we gave them too much time and space, that we weren’t hard enough on them. We didn’t make it difficult for them to earn opportunities.” ● Laurent Brossoit made 18 saves for the Oil Kings . . . The Rebels were without defenceman Mathew Dumba, who served the first-game of an indefinite suspension after being assessed a checking-to-thehead major in Friday’s game. The length of Dumba’s sentence will likely be revealed today . . . Rebels overage forward Turner Elson left the game early in the second period with a lower body injury. He’s currently listed as day-to-day. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Alouettes 31 Argonauts 10 MONTREAL — A big game by Brandon Whitaker’s replacement Victor Anderson and a surprise touchdown on special teams gave the Montreal Alouettes the victory in a showdown with the Toronto Argonauts, who were left pondering life without quarterback Ricky Ray. Anderson and Trent Guy each scored two touchdowns as the Alouettes took the battle for first place in the CFL East Division in an unexpectedly easy 31-10 win on Sunday afternoon.

Montreal (8-4) leads the Argonauts (6-6) by four points with six regular season games left for both clubs.

And Toronto, which lost consecutive games for the first time this season, heads into a its next contest in Winnipeg on Friday not knowing if Ray

ments. Other golf tournaments, it’s more routine. But this week, it’s not routine. We talk about it all year long, and suddenly you have to walk the walk. And he did a great job of that today.”

Snedeker, McIlroy and Woods were separated by four shots going into the final round. All any of them had to do was win to capture the FedEx Cup. Woods, who was four shots behind, was the first to leave the picture. He missed the first fairway with a 3-wood and made bogey, hit into the water on the par-3 sixth hole and was never a factor the rest of the

or backup Jarious Jyles will be under centre.

Coach Scott Milanovich said tests will be needed to determine the extent of the knee injury Ray suffered near the end of the first quarter that caused him to leave the game. Ray had just completed a pass when a teammate rolled into him on what Milanovich called an “innocent” play.

“His knee’s a little banged up and right now, we’re looking at him as day to day,” Milanovich said. “It’s a short week.”

Jackson made some fine passes in relief, but was unable to get to the end zone. The veteran completed 15 passes for 198 yards and was picked off once.

Toronto went into Montreal looking to tie the Alouettes for the division lead and clinch the season series between the teams, but it was all Alouettes from an opening drive that saw Anderson score on a 40-yard pass and run.

way. He birdied the last hole for a 72 and finished eight shots behind in a tie for eighth.

“I just didn’t have it this weekend,” Woods said.

McIlroy also came undone early. He had 11 consecutive rounds in the 60s during the FedEx Cup playoff, but with a strong breeze and a fierce golf course, that was bound to end. He sped the process along by getting caught up in the rough on No. 4 for bogey, hitting into the water on the sixth for double bogey, and driving into a bunker on the next hole for yet another bogey.

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GOLF: ‘Complete confidence’ After taking a double bogey on the par-3 sixth when he hit his tee shot into the water, Snedeker responded with a 40-foot birdie putt on the eighth, an 18-foot birdie putt on No. 13, and chipping in from short of the 17th green to end all doubt.

“I had complete confidence in what I was doing,” Snedeker said.

He finished on 10-under 270 and will move into the top 10 in the world ranking for the first time in his career.

Ryan Moore made the strongest run at Snedeker on the back nine, and with an up-and-down behind the par-5 15th green for back-to-back birdies, he was tied for the lead. Moore never was in the mix for the $10 million bonus, though he could have affected the outcome of the FedEx Cup. Snedeker made sure that didn’t happen with steady play. Moore made it easier.

His approach on the 16th drifted right and into the bunker. He hit his sand shot heavy and barely onto the green and missed the 18-foot par putt. On the 17th, he bailed out to the right near the hospitality tents — a popular spot with water running down the left side — played his next shot too aggressively and took another bogey. Moore finished with a third straight bogey for a 70 and wound up tied for third with Luke Donald, who shot 67.

Rose was within one shot on the back nine, but he never caught up after Snedeker’s big birdie on the 13th. Rose will look back on the final round and regret a series of missed putts, mostly for birdies and one for par, all of them costly. He missed four putts inside 10 feet.

“He’s mentally tough, Brandt,” Rose said. “It’s kind of a different pressure, playing for $10 million.

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Lions 19 Eskimos 18 EDMONTON — The B.C. Lions aren’t going to get too wrapped up on how they won, only that they did.

Paul McCallum booted a 46-yard field goal with one minute remaining as the league-leading Lions won their third game in a row, getting past the Edmonton Eskimos 19-18 on Saturday.

Edmonton had taken an 18-16 lead with three minutes left when kicker Grant Shaw nailed a 40-yard field goal after a clutch 47-yard catch by Cary Koch.

But the Lions marched right back into the lead when McCallum was able to make up for a couple of earlier field goal misses in the second half and boot in the game-winning field goal to make it 19-18.

The Eskimos then turned over the ball on downs at their own 42, allowing the Lions to run out the clock.

“I wouldn’t have had to make that last one if I had made the other two,” said McCallum, who was four for six kicking three-pointers on the night.

“I struggled a bit to find my rhythm.

Maybe I was over-thinking things. I just need to go out there and kick the ball and not worry about it. I’m just glad my earlier misses didn’t end up costing the team.

“We made it a bit harder on ourselves tonight, but this is a good character team and fortunately we came out with the win.”

With the victory, the Lions padded their lead atop the CFL’s West Division, sitting at 9-3.

Quarterback Travis Lulay said getting the victory was more important than how they did it.

“They are not all easy,” he said.

“We were playing on the road and they jumped on us early. Hats off to our guys for continuing to fight and finding a way to get better. Obviously offensively you want to turn some of those three-point scores into sevens, but win by one point or by 20, we are walking out of here with a win and we feel good about that.”

the Esks came up with a strong stand on defence, and McCallum missed the 43-yard field-goal attempt.

B.C. wasted another good drive with four minutes remaining in the third quarter as the usually reliable McCallum missed a 27-yard attempt, settling for the single point.

Yet again the Lions missed out on an opportunity deep in Edmonton territory to start the fourth quarter when Kierrie Johnson was stripped of the ball by Weldon Brown at the Eskimos’ 11 and returned 27 yards.

The Lions finally made good on one of their many second-half chances when a 49-yard run by Andrew Harris turned into a six-yard TD pass from Lulay to Geroy Simon, his first TD catch of the season. The two-point convert failed, leaving B.C. in front 16-15 with eight minutes to play to set up the back-and-forth finish.

Both teams are on the road next week. The Eskimos visit Calgary on Friday to play the Stampeders and the Lions are in Saskatchewan next Saturday.

Notes: It was the second game of the season between the two teams. Edmonton won the first match-up 27-14 in Week 4 in Vancouver. . . . Lions Khalif Mitchell and Eskimo Simeon Rottier played against each other for the first time since an arm-twisting incident in their last meeting. Rottier missed weeks of action with the injured arm, while Mitchell was suspended for two games for the infraction. . . . Last week’s CFL offensive player of the week, Lulay has now completed TD passes in 23 consecutive games. . . .

Simon’s first TD of the season was the 100th of his career. . . . Edmonton linebacker J.C. Sherritt, who entered the game leading the CFL in tackles with 93, hurt his foot in the Hamilton loss last week and missed two days of practice but was ready for the game against the Lions. . . . The injury-riddled Eskimos had a couple of players back in the lineup as defensive lineman Marcus Howard and defensive back Weldon Brown returned. Fullback Darcy Brown also made his Eskimos debut.

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WILD CARD AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct 87 65 .572 86 66 .566 84 69 .549 83 70 .542

Baltimore Oakland Los Angeles Tampa Bay

WCGB — — 2 1/2 3 1/2

Today’s Games Toronto (H.Alvarez 9-13) at Baltimore (S.Johnson 3-0), 2:05 p.m., 1st game Kansas City (Hochevar 8-14) at Detroit (Verlander 15-8), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (R.Romero 8-14) at Baltimore (W.Chen 12-9), 5:35 p.m., 2nd game Oakland (Straily 2-1) at Texas (D.Holland 11-6), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (McAllister 5-8) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 17-7), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 4-3) at Minnesota (Hendriks 1-7), 6:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

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

Oakland at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct 88 65 .575 82 71 .536 79 73 .520 79 74 .516 77 75 .507 77 76 .503

Atlanta St. Louis Milwaukee Los Angeles Arizona Philadelphia

WCGB — — 2 1/2 3 4 1/2 5

Today’s Games Milwaukee (Estrada 4-6) at Washington (Zimmermann 11-8), 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh (McPherson 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Mejia 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 16-7) at Houston (Abad 0-5), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Cahill 12-11) at Colorado (Chatwood 4-5), 6:40 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Washington at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 8:05 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

LINESCORES SUNDAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 120 011 000 — 5 8 2 New York 000 400 000 — 4 10 3 Griffin, Blevins (5), R.Cook (6), Doolittle (8), Balfour (9) and Kottaras; Kuroda, Rapada (6), D.Phelps (7), Logan (8), Eppley (9) and R.Martin, C.Stewart.

W—Blevins 5-1. L—Kuroda 14-11. Sv—Balfour (20). HRs—Oakland, Pennington (6). New York, Swisher (22).

First Game Minnesota 000 005 140 — 10 13 1 Detroit 000 200 002 — 4 6 1 Diamond, Fien (8), Al.Burnett (9) and Doumit; Scherzer, Coke (6), B.Villarreal (6), D.Downs (7), Putkonen (8) and G.Laird. W—Diamond 12-8. L— Scherzer 16-7.

Second Game Minnesota 000 010 000 1 — 2 7 1 Detroit 100 000 000 0 — 1 6 3

Colorado 000 031 003 — 7 16 0 I.Kennedy, Albers (7), Lindstrom (8), Saito (9), Putz (9) and Nieves; Francis, Ottavino (5), Scahill (6), Brothers (7), Belisle (8), W.Harris (9), Mat.Reynolds (9) and W.Rosario. W—Albers 1-1. L—Belisle 3-8. Sv—Putz (32). HRs—Arizona, A.Hill (24).

(10 innings) Walters, Duensing (7), Burton (9), Perkins (10) and Mauer; Smyly, Alburquerque (5), Benoit (8), Valverde (10) and Avila. W—Burton 2-1. L— Valverde 3-4. Sv—Perkins (14).

Baltimore 000 010 000 — 1 6 1 Boston 000 100 01x — 2 9 0 Tillman, Patton (7), Ayala (7), Matusz (8), Bundy (8) and Wieters; Doubront, Tazawa (8), A.Bailey (9) and Saltalamacchia, Lavarnway. W—Tazawa 1-1.

L—Ayala 5-5. Sv—A.Bailey (6).

Toronto 000 000 000 — 0 7 0 Tampa Bay 100 000 02x — 3 7 0 Jenkins, Delabar (6), Oliver (7), Lyon (8), Loup (8) and Arencibia; Hellickson, McGee (6), Farnsworth (7), Howell (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9) and Vogt, J.Molina. W—Hellickson 9-10. L—Jenkins 0-2.

Sv—Rodney (44). HRs—Tampa Bay, B.Upton (26).

Cleveland 000 003 507 — 15 16 0 Kansas City 001 000 120 — 4 7 3 D.Huff, E.Rogers (6), Sipp (8), J.Smith (8), Pestano (9) and Marson; Odorizzi, Bueno (6), Teaford (7), Mazzaro (7), Hottovy (7), Jeffress (8), L.Coleman (9) and A.Moore. W—D.Huff 2-0. L— Odorizzi 0-1. HRs—Cleveland, C.Santana 2 (18).

Kansas City, A.Moore (1).

Miami 000 020 000 — 2 5 0 New York 200 000 001 — 3 7 2 Nolasco, M.Dunn (8), H.Bell (8), Webb (9) and Brantly; C.Young, R.Ramirez (7), Acosta (8), Parnell (9) and Shoppach. W—Parnell 5-4. L—Webb 4-3.

HRs—New York, D.Wright (19).

Atlanta 011 000 000 — 2 9 1 Philadelphia 000 001 000 — 1 2 2 T.Hudson, O’Flaherty (8), Kimbrel (9) and D.Ross; Cl.Lee, Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W—T.Hudson 16-6. L—Cl.Lee 6-8. Sv—Kimbrel (39). HRs— Atlanta, D.Ross (8).

Milwaukee 000 200 310 — 6 15 0 Washington 000 020 000 — 2 7 2 Gallardo, Kintzler (6), Fr.Rodriguez (7), Henderson (8), Veras (9), Axford (9) and Lucroy; Wang, Stammen (5), Duke (6), Mattheus (7), Mic.Gonzalez (8), S.Burnett (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Kintzler 3-0.

L—Mattheus 5-3. Sv—Axford (33).

Pittsburgh 000 041 030 — 8 18 0 Houston 000 001 000 — 1 4 1 A.J.Burnett, Qualls (9) and Barajas; Lyles, W.Wright (5), Storey (5), Fick (6), Del Rosario (8), R.Cruz (8) and C.Snyder. W—A.J.Burnett 16-8. L— Lyles 4-12. HRs—Houston, S.Moore (9).

St. Louis 003 001 020 — 6 12 2 Chicago 000 201 000 — 3 7 0 Lohse, Mujica (7), Boggs (8), Motte (9) and T.Cruz; Germano, Russell (6), Al.Cabrera (7), Bowden (8), Socolovich (9) and W.Castillo. W— Lohse 16-3. L—Germano 2-9. Sv—Motte (40).

HRs—St. Louis, Kozma (1). Chicago, A.Soriano (31).

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G MiCabrera Det 150 Mauer Min 137 Trout LAA 130 Jeter NYY 149 DavMurphy Tex 138 Beltre Tex 146 Butler KC 151 Fielder Det 151 TorHunter LAA 132 Konerko CWS 135

AB 582 509 523 640 427 565 577 543 503 500

R 105 78 122 94 60 91 67 78 75 62

H 193 166 169 206 134 177 180 166 153 151

Pct. .332 .326 .323 .322 .314 .313 .312 .306 .304 .302

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

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 132; Hamilton, Texas, 123; Willingham, Minnesota, 110; Encarnacion, Toronto, 103; Fielder, Detroit, 102; Butler, Kansas City, 101; Pujols, Los Angeles, 101.

Pitching Weaver, Los Angeles, 19-4; Price, Tampa Bay, 18-5; Sale, Chicago, 17-7; MHarrison, Texas, 1710; Scherzer, Detroit, 16-7; Darvish, Texas, 16-9; PHughes, New York, 16-12.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS MeCabrera SF AMcCutchen Pit Posey SF YMolina StL Braun Mil Craig StL Prado Atl DWright NYM Scutaro SF CGonzalez Col

G 113 147 140 130 144 111 148 147 148 135

AB 459 559 503 477 559 433 591 549 593 518

R 84 103 74 60 100 74 78 85 81 89

H 159 188 167 152 177 135 180 167 180 157

Pct. .346 .336 .332 .319 .317 .312 .305 .304 .304 .303

Home Runs Braun, Milwaukee, 40; Bruce, Cincinnati, 34; Stanton, Miami, 34; LaRoche, Washington, 32; ASoriano, Chicago, 31; Beltran, St. Louis, 30; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 30.

Runs Batted In Braun, Milwaukee, 108; Headley, San Diego, 108; ASoriano, Chicago, 105; Holliday, St. Louis, 98; LaRoche, Washington, 98; Posey, San Francisco, 98; Bruce, Cincinnati, 97; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 97.

Pitching GGonzalez, Washington, 20-8; Dickey, New York, 19-6; Cueto, Cincinnati, 18-9; Lohse, St. Louis, 16-3; THudson, Atlanta, 16-6; Lynn, St. Louis, 16-7; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 16-8.

Golf PGA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Scores At East lake Golf Club Atlanta Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,319; Par: 70 Final Round Brandt Snedeker (2,500), $1,440,00068-70-64-68— 270 Justin Rose (1,500), $864,000 66-68-68-71— 273 Luke Donald (875), $468,000 71-69-67-67— 274 Ryan Moore (875), $468,000 69-70-65-70— 274 Webb Simpson (525), $304,000 71-68-70-66— 275 Bubba Watson (525), $304,000 69-66-70-70— 275 Jim Furyk (450), $272,000 69-64-72-72— 277 Hunter Mahan (413), $248,000 68-73-71-66— 278 Tiger Woods (413), $248,000 66-73-67-72— 278 R. Garrigus (327), $205,760 68-69-69-73— 279 D. Johnson (327), $205,760 69-67-73-70— 279 Matt Kuchar (327), $205,760 67-69-70-73— 279 Rory McIlroy (327), $205,760 69-68-68-74— 279 Bo Van Pelt (327), $205,760 67-68-71-73— 279 Sergio Garcia (273), $167,200 69-73-71-68— 281 Zach Johnson (273), $167,200 68-69-70-74— 281 Phil Mickelson (273), $167,200 69-71-72-69— 281 Scott Piercy (273), $167,200 67-73-71-70— 281 Adam Scott (260), $156,800 68-73-70-72— 283 Jason Dufner (253), $152,000 70-70-71-73— 284 Carl Pettersson (253), $152,000 71-67-75-71— 284 Steve Stricker (245), $147,200 67-73-73-73— 286 K. Bradley (235), $140,800 70-73-70-74— 287 Rickie Fowler (235), $140,800 71-68-72-76— 287 L. Oosthuizen (235), $140,800 70-71-69-77— 287 John Senden (225), $134,400 72-68-73-75— 288 Ernie Els (220), $132,800 72-75-71-71— 289 Nick Watney (215), $131,200 75-74-70-74— 293 John Huh (210), $129,600 74-70-73-77— 294 Lee Westwood (205), $128,000 72-73-76-74— 295 LPGA Navistar Classic Sunday Prattville, Ala. Final Stacy Lewis, $195,000 66-70-65-69— 270 Lexi Thompson, $120,962 63-69-74-66— 272 Mi Jung Hur, $70,089 68-65-72-68— 273 Haeji Kang, $70,089 70-68-67-68— 273 Angela Stanford, $70,089 67-68-68-70— 273 Beatriz Recari, $41,060 70-71-66-67— 274 Sarah Jane Smith, $41,060 69-69-68-68— 274

Meena Lee, $29,692 So Yeon Ryu, $29,692 Hee Young Park, $29,692 Azahara Munoz, $23,245 Pernilla Lindberg, $23,245 Jennifer Johnson, $23,245 Dori Carter, $19,801 Nicole Castrale, $19,801 Dewi Claire Schreefel, $16,557 Sandra Gal, $16,557 Mina Harigae, $16,557 Sydnee Michaels, $16,557 Lizette Salas, $16,557 Suzann Pettersen, $13,170 Belen Mozo, $13,170 Wendy Ward, $13,170 Brittany Lincicome, $13,170 Gerina Piller, $13,170 Karin Sjodin, $13,170 Amy Yang, $13,170 Amy Hung, $9,632 Karine Icher, $9,632 Hee-Won Han, $9,632 Kris Tamulis, $9,632 Sun Young Yoo, $9,632 Mindy Kim, $9,632 Natalie Gulbis, $9,632 Pornanong Phatlum, $9,632 Vicky Hurst, $9,632 Alison Walshe, $7,649 Alena Sharp, $7,649 Brittany Lang, $6,623 Laura Diaz, $6,623 Irene Cho, $6,623 Candie Kung, $6,623 Anna Nordqvist, $6,623 Karen Stupples, $5,729 Moira Dunn, $5,729 Katherine Hull, $4,785 Jennie Lee, $4,785 Jenny Shin, $4,785 Heather Bowie Young, $4,785 Karlin Beck, $4,785 Paige Mackenzie, $4,785 Yani Tseng, $4,785 Jennifer Rosales, $4,785 Ilhee Lee, $4,106 Sandra Changkija, $3,841 Lorie Kane, $3,841 Jennifer Song, $3,841 Lisa Ferrero, $3,444

PA Pt 337 16 305 12 381 8 377 6

Week 14 Friday, Sept. 28 Montreal at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29 Toronto at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

B.C. at Saskatchewan, 8 p.m.

Sunday

NATIONAL LEAGUE

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Los Angeles 010 000 400 — 5 8 1 Cincinnati 001 000 020 — 3 6 1 Kershaw, Sh.Tolleson (6), Jansen (7), Belisario (8), League (9) and A.Ellis; H.Bailey, Arredondo (7), Hoover (9) and Hanigan, D.Navarro. W—Sh. Tolleson 3-1. L—H.Bailey 12-10. Sv—League (5).

HRs—Los Angeles, Ad.Gonzalez 2 (3). Cincinnati, Phipps (1).

Pt 18 14 12 10

SUMMARIES

Texas 000 300 000 — 3 10 0 Seattle 000 000 200 — 2 9 1 Dempster, R.Ross (7), Mi.Adams (8), Nathan (9) and Soto; Vargas, C.Capps (7), Kelley (9), Luetge (9) and Jaso. W—Dempster 7-2. L—Vargas 14-11.

Sv—Nathan (35). HRs—Texas, Napoli (20), Soto (5). Seattle, Thames (9), Ryan (3).

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Montreal Toronto Hamilton Winnipeg

PA 222 287 259 275

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Chicago 000 000 100 — 1 6 0 Los Angeles 000 004 00x — 4 7 0 Floyd, Crain (7), A.Reed (8) and Pierzynski; Weaver, Jepsen (7), Richards (9), S.Downs (9), Frieri (9) and Iannetta. W—Weaver 19-4. L—Floyd 10-11. HRs—Los Angeles, K.Morales (22).

Arizona

San Diego 010 010 220 — 6 11 1 San Francisco 000 200 101 — 4 9 2 Stults, Thayer (7), Gregerson (8), Street (9) and Grandal; Petit, Mijares (5), Hensley (7), Runzler (7), Penny (8), Machi (9) and Whiteside, H.Sanchez.

W—Stults 7-3. L—Hensley 4-4. Sv—Street (22).

HRs—San Diego, Kotsay (2).

CFL West Division GP W L T PF B.C. 12 9 3 0 317 Calgary 12 7 5 0 337 Saskatchewan 12 6 6 0 314 Edmonton 12 5 7 0 265

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Samantha Richdale, $3,444 Mariajo Uribe, $3,444 Taylor Coutu, $3,179 Maria Hjorth, $3,179 Christina Kim, $3,179 Katy Harris, $3,013 Stephanie Louden, $3,013 Mi Hyang Lee, $2,881 Angela Oh, $2,881 Katie Futcher, $2,781 Amanda Blumenherst, $2,715 Tiffany Joh, $2,649

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PGA TOUR FEDEXCUP Standings Final Rank Player 1. Brandt Snedeker 2. Rory McIlroy 3. Tiger Woods 4. Nick Watney 5. Phil Mickelson 6. Justin Rose 7. Louis Oosthuizen 8. Dustin Johnson 9. Luke Donald 10. Lee Westwood 11. Ryan Moore 12. Zach Johnson 13. Bubba Watson 14. Jason Dufner 15. Jim Furyk 16. Webb Simpson 17. Sergio Garcia 18. Matt Kuchar 19. Hunter Mahan 20. Steve Stricker 21. Keegan Bradley 22. Bo Van Pelt 23. Robert Garrigus 24. Carl Pettersson 25. Adam Scott 26. Ernie Els 27. Scott Piercy 28. Rickie Fowler 29. John Huh 30. John Senden

Points YTD Money 4,100 $10,000,000 2,827 $3,000,000 2,663 $2,000,000 2,215 $1,500,000 2,073 $1,000,000 1,770 $800,000 1,635 $700,000 1,527 $600,000 1,275 $550,000 1,205 $500,000 1,105 $300,000 1,073 $290,000 1,005 $280,000 853 $270,000 790 $250,000 785 $245,000 733 $240,000 707 $235,000 693 $230,000 685 $225,000 655 $220,000 647 $215,000 637 $210,000 613 $205,000 560 $200,000 510 $195,000 483 $190,000 475 $185,000 460 $180,000 445 $175,000

Roughriders 30, Stampeders 25 First Quarter Cal — FG Paredes 33 3:19 Sask — TD Willy 1 run (DeAngelis convert) 9:36 Second Quarter Cal — TD McDaniel 10 pass from Glenn (Paredes convert) 2:42 Sask — FG DeAngelis 38 12:15 Third Quarter Cal — FG Paredes 37 2:05 Sask — FG DeAngelis 22 5:49 Sask — TD Dressler 11 pass from Durant (DeAngelis convert) 7:08 Sask — TD Smith 30 pass from Durant (DeAngelis convert) 13:06 Fourth Quarter Cal — FG Paredes 44 7:06 Cal — TD McDaniel 7 pass from Glenn (twopoint convert: Bryant 5 pass from Glenn) 12:16 Cal — Single Paredes 90 12:17 Sask — FG DeAngelis 37 14:24 Calgary 3 7 3 12 — 25 Saskatchewan 7 3 17 3 — 30 Attendance — 33,427 at Regina.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Team losses Net offence Passes made-tried Total return yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-yards Time of possession

Cal 20 81 270 351 31 320 24-40 105 0-0 0-0 0 5-41.2 5-25 28:39

Sask 21 107 264 371 0 371 22-35 169 2-16 1-1 4 6-36.8 7-55 31:21

Net offence is yards passing plus yards rushing minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Cal: Cornish 12-67, Glenn 1-9, Mitchell 2-5; Sask: Sheets 9-58, Sanders 8-46, Willy 2-3, Ferri 1-0.

Receiving — Cal: Forzani 4-70, Lewis 5-61, McDaniel 5-45, West 3-35, Bryant 4-34, Cote 2-20, Coker 1-5; Sask: Dressler 8-98, T.Smith 3-55, Getzlaf 5-47, Sanders 2-31, McHenry 2-16, Carr 1-9, Hughes 1-8, Passing — Cal: Glenn 24-38, 270 yards, 2TDs, 1 nts, Mitchell 0-2-0-0-0; Sask: Durant 22-35-2642-0.

Alouettes 31, Argonauts 10 First Quarter Mtl — TD Anderson 40 pass from Calvillo (Whyte convert) 3:56 Mtl — FG Whyte 10 10:38 Tor — FG Waters 34 14:20 Second Quarter Mtl — TD Guy 9 pass from Calvillo (Whyte convert) 10:26 Tor — FG Waters 36 12:39 Third Quarter Mtl — TD Guy 129 missed FG return (Whyte convert) 4:13 Tor — Single Waters 35 8:38 Mtl — TD Anderson 5 run (Whyte convert) 13:14 Fourth Quarter Tor — Safety Whyte concedes 10:00 Tor — Single Waters 60 11:28 Toronto 3 3 1 3 — 10 Montreal 10 7 14 0 — 31 Attendance — 23,209 at Montreal.

B.C. — Single McCallum 39 11:13 Fourth Quarter B.C. — TD Simon 6 pass from Lulay (two-point convert failed) 6:11 Edm — FG Shaw 40 12:00 B.C. — FG McCallum 46 13:59 B.C. 0 9 1 9 — 19 Edmonton 1 14 0 3 — 18 Attendance — 35,578 at Edmonton.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Team losses Net offence Passes made-tried Total return yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-yards Time of possession

B.C. 24 157 260 417 6 411 26-39 160 1-13 2-1 4 5-46.4 7-55 33:15

Edm 16 85 222 307 34 273 17-27 152 0-0 0-0 0 8-50.9 8-63 26:45

Net offence is yards passing plus yards rushing minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — B.C.: Harris 11-103, T.Brown 1-24, Lulay 5-22, Gore 2-7, Reilly 3-5, Lumbala 1-5, Johnson 1-(minus 9); Edm: Charles 6-33, Boyd 6-23, Kyles 3-22, Stamps 1-7.

Receiving — B.C.: Harris 10-78, Johnson 5-78, Simon 5-51, Bruce 2-31, Gore 2-18, Iannuzzi 1-3, Lumbala 1-1; Edm: Koch 4-97, Coehoorn 4-47, Charles 2-29, Henry 2-15, Chambers 2-14, Stamps 1-11, Carter 2-9.

Passing — B.C.: Lulay 26-39, 260 yards, 1 TD, 0 ints; Edm: Jyles 17-27-222-1-1.

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PA 79 75 64 66 PA 42 70 113 83 PA 67 102 75 75 PA 51 77 99 88 PA 66 54 65 101 PA 48 67 79 102 PA 59 50 40 94 PA 40 65 27 78

WEEK THREE Sunday’s results Arizona 27 Philadelphia 6 Atlanta 27 San Diego 3 Baltimore 31 New England 30 Buffalo 24 Cleveland 14 Chicago 23 St. Louis 6 Cincinnati 38 Washington 31 Dallas 16 Tampa Bay 10 Houston 31 Denver 25 Jacksonville 22 Indianapolis 17 Kansas City 27 New Orleans 24 (OT) Minnesota 24 San Francisco 13 N.Y. Jets 23 Miami 20 (OT) Oakland 34 Pittsburgh 31 Tennessee 44 Detroit 41 (OT) Thursday’s result N.Y. Giants 36 Carolina 7 Todday’s Game Green Bay at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.

——— WEEK FOUR Byes: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh Thursday, Sept. 27 Cleveland at Baltimore, 6:20 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30 Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Seattle at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

New England at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Miami at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Jacksonville, 2:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 2:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 6:20 p.m.

TEAM STATISTICS Tor Mtl First downs 15 21 Yards rushing 94 124 Yards passing 228 315 Total offence 322 439 Team losses 20 6 Net offence 302 433 Passes made-tried 18-35 15-29 Return-yards 141 168 Intercepts-yards by 2-0 1-0 Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-0 Sacks by 0 2 Punts-average 8-50.0 5-43.3 Penalties-yards 12-89 9-63 Time of possession 29:58 30:02 Individual Rushing: Tor — Kackert 13-84, Owens 1-8, J.Jackson 1-2; Mtl — Anderson 17-76, Jennings 5-23, McPherson 3-13, Calvillo 1-12.

Receiving: Tor — Owens 6-87, Inman 3-65, Bradwell 3-31, Johnson 2-20, Rambo 2-12, Watt 1-10, Kackert 1-3; Mtl — London 5-118, Richardson 4-79, S.Green 2-58, Anderson 3-51, Guy 1-9.

Passing: Tor — Rays 3-4, 30 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints, J.Jackson 15-31-198-0-1; Mtl — Calvillo 1529-315-2-2.

SATURDAY Lions 19, Eskimos 18 Edm — Single Shaw 74 6:08 Second Quarter Edm — TD Koch 27 pass from Jyles (Shaw convert) 2:20 B.C. — FG McCallum 37 4:51 Edm — TD Charles 4 run (Shaw convert) 7:12 B.C. — FG McCallum 35 12:11 B.C. — FG McCallum 28 14:54 Third Quarter

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Saturday First Pace. $4,500, time 1:58 Barona Lilac (Hoerdt) 9.20 3.50 2.20 Hollywood Monroe (Hudon)3.40 2.80 Outlawlookslikrain (Kolthammer) 2.70 Exactor: (6-5) paid $36.60 Superfecta: (6-5-3-2) paid $39.35 Triactor: (6-5-3) paid $41.80 Second Pace. $4,500, time 1:59 Crackers Hot Shot (Starkewski) 3.50 2.70 2.10 Smileforthepicture (Jungquist)4.00 2.40 Shadow Time (Tainsh) 2.40 Daily Double: (6-4) paid $8.30 Exactor: (4-3) paid $20.20 Superfecta: (7-3-1-2) paid $38.85 Triactor: (4-3-1) paid $27.00 Third Pace.$2,300, time 1:57.1 Art By Dylan (Hoerdt) 14.00 7.00 3.90 Tajerine Dream (Jb Campbell) 18.00 7.20 Samnmadie (Jungquist) 4.30 Exactor: (7-9) paid $161.90 Pentafactor: (7-9-1-2-4) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (7-9) paid $113.45 Triactor: (7-9-1) paid $245.85 Fourth Pace. $4,000, time 1:59

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Exactor: (6-8) paid $19.10 Pentafactor: (6-8-7-3-1) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (6-8-7-3) paid $46.45 Triactor: (6-8-7) paid $137.00 Ninth Pace. $8,500, time 1:53 Flak Jacket (Gray) 7.60 Timberline Court (Hudon) 4.00 Wannabe Cowboy (Grundy)4.40 Exactor: (9-3) paid $121.60 Pentafactor: (9-3-4-1-7) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (9-3-4-1) paid $243.85 Triactor: (9-3-4) paid $190.35 Tenth Pace. $6,000, time 1:53 Armbro Dublin (Piwniuk) 6.20 Caress Of Steel (Tainsh) 5.00 Loneridge Shannon (Jb Campbell) Exactor: (6-5) paid $24.30 Superfecta: (6-5-2) paid $36.75 Triactor: (6-5-2) paid $229.20 Eleventh Pace. $3,400, time 1:57 My Promise To You (Gray)6.10 One Tuff Cowboy (Chappell)3.10 Meadowlarkrenegade (Tainsh)2.70 Exactor: (7-4) paid $14.90 Pentafactor: (7-4-1-2-6) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (7-4-1-2) paid $111.70 Triactor: (7-4-1) paid $168.50 Twelfth Pace. $2,000, time 1:57.2 True Mystic (Schneider) 3.70 Outlawclassichrome (Tainsh)5.20 Purrfect Bliss (Grundy) 2.20 Exactor: (3-8) paid $101.30 Pentafactor: (3-8-1-4-6) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (3-8-1-4) paid $51.90 Triactor: (3-8-1) paid $221.35

Win Three: (6-7-3) paid $58.40 Mutuels: $16,902

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Sunday First Pace. $4,000, time 1:59.3 Elijahs Wish (Gray) 5.40 3.70 A Bettor Day (Tainsh) 3.70 2.70 Justabitcrazy (Hudon) 3.30 Exactor: (4-7) paid $21.20 Superfecta: (4-7-1-6) paid $79.50 Triactor: (4-7-1) paid $132.90 Second Pace. $4,500, time 1:56 Tip Top Tap (Hennessy) 7.60 3.60 Frisco (Mcleod) 6.10 5.50 Burnt On Top (Remillard) 5.50 Daily Double: (4-3) paid $18.60 Exactor: (3-6) paid $71.70 Superfecta: (3-6-5-4) paid $114.50 Triactor: (3-6-5) paid $386.70 Third Pace. $3,600, time 1:56.4 Outlaw Highvoltage (Tainsh)4.60 3.70 Snazzie Jim (Jb Campbell)10.70 6.50 Cenalta Magic (Goulet) 4.20 Exactor: (8-9) paid $143.60 Pentafactor: (8-9-6-4-2) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (8-9) paid $66.15 Triactor: (8-9) paid $797.90 Fourth Pace. $4,500, time 1:56.3 Premium Attaction (Hoerdt)5.80 4.60 Dieselystic (Gray) 6.30 3.30 Play Me Right (Jb Campbell)3.50 Exactor: (7-8) paid $16.00 Superfecta: (7-8-2-1) paid $65.80 Triactor: (7-8-2) paid $172.30 Fifth Pace. $3,600, time 1:56.2 Western Olympian (Clark)19.70 8.30 Outlaw I See Red (Gray) 4.50 3.30 Western Chrome (Clark) 7.00 Exactor: (4-5) paid $49.00 Pentafactor: (4-5-8-3-9) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (4-5-8-3) paid $171.90 Triactor: (4-5) paid $110.90 Sixth Pace. $5,500, time 1:55.2 Clintons Formula (Grundy)11.20 5.80 Keystone Vanyla (Tainsh)10.40 4.70 Reservations Only (Clark) 4.70 Exactor: (8-7) paid $179.20 Pentafactor: (8-7-3-9-1) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (8-7-3) paid $160.65 Triactor: (8-7-3) paid $383.80 Seventh Pace. $3,200, time 1:57.2 Elegant Lass (Jb Campbell)13.80 5.00 Shyloh Awaywego (Piwniuk)7.90 4.60 Whitehouse Secret (Ducharme) 4.90 Exactor: (1-6) paid $224.00 Pentafactor: (1-6-5-3-7) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (1-6-5) paid $113.35 Triactor: (1-6-5) paid $444.30 Win Four: (7-4-8-1) paid $151.90 Eighth Pace. $3,900, time 1:56 Sealedwithapromise (Gray)3.60 2.90 Canyacrackher (Hennessy)9.70 3.90 Bridgette Hanover (Hudon)2.40 Exactor: (3-1) paid $44.60 Pentafactor: (3-1-7-2-4) paid $547.50 Superfecta: (3-1-7-2) paid $106.45 Triactor: (3-1-7) paid $86.20

Ninth Pace. $4,200, time 1:53.2 Raging Fingers (Jungquist)7.20 3.90 Bomber Brown (Jb Campbell)7.40 4.00 Revoler (Clark) 4.50 Exactor: (2-6) paid $37.30 Pentafactor: (2-6-4-8-3) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (2-6-4-8) paid $117.35 Triactor: (2-6-4) paid $166.40 Tenth Pace. $3,600, time 1:55.4 Personal Promise (Gray) 9.70 6.10 Js Honeybet (Clark) 10.30 5.80 Arctic Pine (Tainsh) 3.30 Exactor: (5-4) paid $39.90 Superfecta: (5-4-1) paid $49.15 Triactor: (5-4-1) paid $92.30 Eleventh Pace. $3,800, time 1:56.4 Red Star Jenny (Hoerdt) 4.10 2.80 Cantcatch P (Chappell) 4.80 5.80 No Limit For Mjjz (Thomas)3.30 Exactor: (6-9) paid $25.40 Pentafactor: (6-9-8-4-2) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (6-9-8-4) paid $141.35 Triactor: (6-9-8) paid $254.90 Twelfth Pace. $2,800, time 1:56.4 Boiling Over (Goulet) 12.70 10.30 Lakers R Electric (Schneider)2.70 2.60 Katies Gun (Jb Campbell) 6.00 Exactor: (6-5) paid $73.60 Pentafactor: (6-5-7-3-8) paid $0.00 Superfecta: (6-5-7) paid $50.10 Triactor: (6-5-7) paid $411.30 Win Three: (5-6-6) paid $14.00 Mutuels: $23,303

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Optimist Rebels coach not drawing comparisons

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

KAYLA KEENAN

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Kayla Keenan was a tower of power for the Red Deer College soccer Queens during weekend ACAC action.

Keenan, the Queens’ ace midfielder, was solid defensively in a scoreless tie at Medicine Hat and played a key role in a 6-0 win at Lethbridge.

Keenan is a Queens co-captain.

Rebels 6 Northstars 2 It would be easy to compare this year’s edition of the Red Deer Optimist Rebels to last year’s Telus Cup championship squad.

But that’s not something head coach Doug Quinn even thinks about.

“One thing I’ve learned a long time ago is to be careful about comparing a team at the start of a season to the team we had the previous year,” he said. “All year we work on systems and structure and we were really solid last year.”

Quinn has only three players back from last year’s squad that defeated the Quebec champion 6-5 in double overtime in the national midget final in Leduc.

One of the veterans is goaltender Matt Zentner, who was a late addition to camp.

“That’s a bonus as I really didn’t expect him back,” said Quinn. “He had a great year last year. We had a great tandem of goalies and he was part of that.”

Quinn Brown returns to the defence with Rory Davidson back up front.

Davidson scored a pair of goals Sunday

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Tuesday

Queens 2 Eagles 1 The RDC Queens didn’t have an easy time taking care of the The Kings University College Eagles in the final of the Wild Rose Classic.

But that’s just fine with head coach Talbot Walton, who got an opportunity to see all of his players under game conditions, as the Queens recorded a 25-27, 25-16, 15-9 victory Sunday afternoon.

“It was a chance to use all our athletes and see them in different spots,” he said.

He got an opportunity to see two first-year players — setter Bronwyn Hawkes of Notre Dame and Alexis West, who played at Olds last year — play the entire second set and then step in in the middle of the third set and help change the momentum in RDC’s favour.

“It wasn’t until I made the double switch in the third set that changed the flow,” said Walton. “That was nice to see and a great surprise to see those two change the course of that set.”

Hawkes, who will backup starter Kirsten Sorensen, impressed Walton.

“She carries herself extremely well. When I talk to her she seems a bit nervous or excited, but she doesn’t let it affect her on the court, and she makes a lot of good decisions.

The tempo we want her to set at is close. When the ball comes out of the setters hands you can tell if we have a chance to win the point and when it comes out of her hands it looks like we can score.”

Third-year power hitter Brooke Sutter, who was the only veteran on the floor in the second set, is equally impressed with the rookies.

“I’m excited, all the rookies are really good and the way we’ve started the year off we’re in a good spot,” she said. “We definitely had a good team last year, but Talbot recruited some

Wednesday ● High school boys volleyball: Stettler at Hunting Hills, Notre Dame at Wetaskiwin, Ponoka at Camrose, JVs at 6 p.m., seniors to follow; Innisfail at Lindsay Thurber, JVs only, 6 p.m.; Central Alberta Christian at Lacombe, seniors only, 6 p.m.

Thursday ● High school football: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 4:30 p.m.; Wetaskiwin at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● High school girls volleyball: Interlocking at Notre Dame — Camrose vs. Notre Dame, JVs at 6 p.m.; Camrose vs.

Innisfail, seniors at 6 p.m.; Camrose vs. Notre Dame, seniors at 7:30 p.m.

Friday ● High school football: Stettler at Ponoka, Camrose at Rocky Mountain House, 4:30 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Peewee AA hockey: Innisfail at Lacombe, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer Elks, 7:45 p.m., Arena.

Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior exhibition hockey: Camrose Augustana at Sylvan Lake, 8:30 p.m.

Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday ● Bantam football: Hunting Hills at Rocky Mountain House, 10:30 a.m.; Stettler at Innisfail, 11 a.m.; Drumheller at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m.; Olds at Lindsay Thurber, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Strathmore at Notre Dame, 6 p.m., Great Chief Park; Springbank at Lacombe, 6:30 p.m.

offensive talent and we expect Bast and Bobyk to step up and be leaders. The other kids have size, strength and give us a physical presence.”

Jayden Sittler, who played in the 15-yearold program, is the backup netminder and is coming off a shutout Friday.

“He’s played well for us,” said Quinn.

“He had a good first half last year before being injured the second half. But he came back and hasn’t missed a beat.”

The other forwards out of the 15-year-old league are Jordie Lawson, Chris Gerrie, Chase Thudium and Trey Degraaf.

“We have a lot of talent, but have a long way to go,” said Quinn. “We’re a little shaky in the defensive zone with our systems and positioning. It’s more team defence than anything.

“We still have a lot of growing to do and adjusting to the speed of the league. Once we get there we’ll be good.”

Davidson and Gorgi had two goals Sunday with Leer and Thudium potting singles.

Zentner finished with 22 saves. On Friday, Thudium had two goals with singles added

by Goranson, Gorgi, Sick and Gerrie. Sittler made 18 saves. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Queens volleyball coach Talbot Walton still tinkering

THIS WEEK ● High school girls volleyball: Linday Thurber at Hunting Hills, Rocky Mountain House at Notre Dame, Camrose at Ponoka, Stettler at Wetaskiwin, JVs at 6 p.m., seniors to follow; Central Alberta Christian at Lacombe, seniors only, 6 p.m.; Sylvan Lake at Innisfail, seniors only, 6 p.m. ● College men’s exhibition volleyball: RDC Alumni at RDC, 7 p.m.

as the Rebels downed the Calgary Northstars 6-2 in exhibition play at the Arena.

They also downed the ‘Stars 6-0 in Calgary Friday.

“Last year we had Rory pencilled in in a defensive role, but this year he has a chance to step up and be one of our offensive leaders,” said Quinn.

Outside of the three returnees Quinn has three other players with major midget experience, in Jody Sick of Red Deer, who played with Leduc, Jacob Schofield, who was with the Edmonton Maple Leafs, and Dustin Gorgi with Medicine Hat. Overall the Rebels have 10 17-year-olds.

Outside of the six with league experience Ian McLellan, Garrett Engert and Jack Goranson are up from the Red Deer midget AA program and Ryker Leer from Sylvan Lake.

Outside of Quinn all the defence are 16.

Gabe Bast and Colton Bobyk were two of the star players with the provincial champion Red Deer IROC Chiefs last season.

Logan Hermus of Big Valley, Jordan Steenbergen of Sylvan Lake and Kaleb Denham of Innisfail round out the defence.

“We got a lot of strong players out of the 15-year-old group,” said Quinn. “They have

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The RDC Queens didn’t have an easy time taking care of the The Kings University College Eagles in the final of the Wild Rose Classic — but that’s just fine with head coach Talbot Walton. good girls and they’re all from Central Alberta, which is cool.”

Walton was able to spread the playing time around during the weekend.

“It says a lot about how we did,” said Sutter. “It was also

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BRIEFS Grizzlys down Bobcats LLOYDMINSTER — The Olds Grizzlys posted their second straight win and third of the AJHL season, downing the Lloydminster Bobcats 4-3 Saturday.

Brandon Clowes potted the winner at 18:16 of the third period. Tanner Dunkle, Mitch Owsley and Dylan Hubbs also tallied for the Grizzlys, who trailed 2-1 after period and 3-2 after 40 minutes.

Matthew Marcinew, with two goals, and Austin McDonald replied for the hosts.

Ethan Jemieff and Cody Nicolay combined to stop 24 shots for Olds. Kyle Baumgardner made 17 saves for Lloydminster.

The Grizzlys entertain the Camrose Kodiaks tonight. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

Wranglers outscore Vipers Jared Guilbault and Jared Kambeitz each fired three goals as the visiting Blackfalds Wranglers defeated the Red Deer Vipers 9-6 in Heritage Junior B Hockey League preseason action Saturday at the Arena.

Jared Williams scored twice and Jason Bell also tallied for the winners, who got a 33-save outing from the combination of Layne Swier and Nathaniel Nickel.

Replying for the Vipers were Colten Brule with three goals, Cole DeGraaf, Jeff Kohut and Lucas Deibert. Cody Nydokus and Brenden Mandrusiak combined to stop 38 shots.

Red Deer, which opens regular-season play Saturday at home versus the Airdrie Thunder (8 p.m. start), was assessed five of eight minor penalties. The Wranglers’

good to get everyone in, which means it should help us get off to a strong start to the season.”

Sutter felt playing a solid Eagle team didn’t hurt either.

“They’re scrappy and we always have good games against

regular-season opener is Oct. 2 against the visiting Stettler Lightning.

Elsewhere Saturday, Scott Ternes notched a third-period goal to lift the visiting Lightning to a 6-5 regular-season win over the Mountainview Colts.

Also scoring for Stettler were Landon Potter, Wyat Haustein, Dylan Muhlbach, Kyler O’Connor and Adam Ternes. Each team had 48 shots on goal.

RDC runner takes second SUNDRE — Red Deer College athlete Devin Woodland placed second in the men’s division of the Alberta Colleges cross-country running Grand Prix No. 3 hosted by Olds College Saturday.

Woodland recorded a time of 30 minutes, 27 seconds in the nine-kilometre event, placing behind only Kenyan runner Solomon Ngetich of Lethbridge College, who finished in 28.51.

Shafe Abdulahi of the RDC men’s team placed 15th in 36.16.

In the women’s division, the top RDC runner was Catherine Alcorn, who finished 13th in the 5.6-km race in 28.24. Anna Duda (29.56), Laura Friesen (32.10) and Nicole Wagner (37.03) finished 24th, 32nd and 46th.

The RDC women placed sixth in the team competition.

Rams run over Junior Rebels Zachary Key scored a pair of touchdowns — on runs of 58 and 77 yards — to lead the Lacombe Rams to a 40-0 win over the visiting Rocky Mountain House Junior Rebels in bantam football action Saturday.

Joel Kornelson ran two yards for a touchdown and Carter Makofka accounted for the other Lacombe major on an 18-yard reverse. Jessey Grey added a safety with a tackle in the Rebels end zone, while Jarrett Henderson booted field goals of 15 and 24 yards and added four converts.

them,” said Sutter. “It was nice to see them in the final and beat them.”

She did say that a 25-15, 25-15 win over the Olds College Broncos in the semifinal Saturday was as rewarding.

“They have some Central Alberta girls, our former coach (Chris Wandler) and one of our players from last year (Telaina Snider) so that was a good win.

That could have been our best game of the tournament.”

Walton is happy with the level of play his team showed early in the season, although there are still things to work on.

“Our serving wasn’t as strong as it could be, plus Kings has a big, physical block and we weren’t hitting angles and were reverting back to a few things we need to get out of our systems.

But we got a chance to see everyone and see what they’re capable of and set that bar at a high level. Now we continue to push and get better.”

Walton also admitted he’ll have some trouble setting a starting lineup.

“With that much depth it will allow us a lot of flexibility and we shouldn’t get tired. At times we overloaded certain athletes, but with the ability to use a variety of lineups we’ll keep everyone fresh.”

The RDC Alumni, which lost 2-1 to the Eagles in the semifinals, downed Olds 18-25, 28-26, 15-10 in the third-place game.

The Queens downed the College of the Rockies from Cranbrook 25-23, 25-19 in the quarter-finals while Olds stopped Ambrose College of Calgary 2517, 25-210 in the round of 16, and NAIT 25-19, 25-20 in the quarterfinals.

The Eagles defeated Keyano College of Fort McMurray 25-15, 25-11 in the quarter-finals while the Alumni stopped Augustana Vikings of Camrose 25-23, 25-12 in the quarter-finals.

The RDC Kings will see their first action of the season Tuesday when they host their Alumni. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

MINOR HOCKEY Minor Midget AAA The Red Deer IROC Chiefs were 2-2 during a busy preseason weekend, opening with a 5-4 win over the Raiders as Riley Mathies and Bradly Makofka each sniped two goals.

Reid Sterling also tallied for the Chiefs, while Carson Franks made 24 saves.

IROC followed up with a 3-2 win over Grande Prairie as Sterling, Ty Wagar and Kirt Fortney connected and Dalyn Haire was the winning goalie.

From there, Riley Smith notched a thirdperiod power-play marker in a 2-1 loss to the Red Deer Northstars, who goal goals from Lane Bensmiller and Brenden Baker.

Franks made 21 saves in a losing cause, with Brandon Bilodeau blocking 21 shots for the Northstars.

IROC closed out the weekend with a 4-1 loss to Lloydminster. Sterling potted the lone Chiefs goal and Haire turned aside 14 shots.

Major Bantam Both Red Deer teams struck out during the weekend, with the Rebels White falling 7-3 to the visiting Calgary Royals and 9-2 to the host Calgary Bisons, and the host Rebels Black losing 5-2 to the Calgary Northstars.

Tyler Steenbergen fired all three goals against the Royals, while Dawson Weatherill made 37 saves. Steenbergen and Tyler Wall connected and Lane Congdon turned aside 31 shots in the loss to the Bisons.

The Rebels Black got goals from T.J. Brown and Luke Coleman and a 28-save effort from Graydon Larson in their weekend loss.

Bantam AA Kyle James potted the lone goal and Josh King turned aside all 30 shots he faced as the Red Deer Ramada Inn Chiefs downed host Taber 1-0 Saturday.

Ramada fell 4-1 at Medicine Hat Sunday, their lone goal coming from Mike Kellough.

Justin Travis made 38 saves for the visitors.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 B5

Ravens sneak past Patriots THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ravens 31 Patriots 30 BALTIMORE — Justin Tucker kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Baltimore Ravens a 31-30 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday night in a rematch of the AFC championship game.

When the teams met in January, the Patriots squeezed out a three-point win at home to advance to the Super Bowl.

The stakes weren’t nearly as high in this one, yet the game was eerily similar.

In the previous meeting, Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal in the closing seconds. In the encore, Tucker — who took the job away from Cundiff in training camp — drove his kick inside the right upright.

The game-winning kick followed a pass interference call against Devin McCourty on Jacoby Jones.

Torrey Smith, who was playing less than 24 hours after the death of his 19-year-old brother, had six catches for 127 yards and two touchdowns for the Ravens.

Titatns 44 Lions 41 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rob Bironas kicked a 26-yard field goal in overtime, and the Titans stopped backup quarterback Shaun Hill on fourthand-1 at the Tennessee 7 to pull out a win over Detroit.

The Titans (1-2) blew a 20-9 halftime lead in a crazy game featuring big plays, scoring swings and some suspect officiating. Detroit scored 18 straight points, then Tennessee answered with 21 points before the Lions scored the final 14 of regulation. Detroit recovered an onside kick and got an assist from officials who did not review a possible turnover.

In overtime, Bironas’ third field goal put Tennessee ahead to stay.

Chiefs 27 Saints 24 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ryan Succop kicked six field goals, one to force overtime in the final seconds and another from 31 yards to lift Kansas City to its first win and keep New Orleans winless.

Succop’s 43-yard field goal with 3 seconds left completed a methodical comeback by Kansas City (1-2) after the Saints (0-3) had cashed in on a pair of Chiefs turnovers to go ahead 24-6 in the third quarter.

Kansas City needed only one touchdown to win, a 91-yard run by Jamaal Charles, who finished with 233 yards rushing and 55 yards receiving.

The Chiefs also got a safety in the fourth quarter on Justin Houston’s third sack of the game.

Vikings 24 49ers 13 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Christian Ponder threw two touchdown passes to tight end Kyle Rudolph and ran for another score to help the Vikings hand the 49ers their first defeat.

After a dominant start to their NFC North tour by decisively beating playoff teams Green Bay and Detroit, the 49ers (2-1) were beaten in every way by a team least likely to do so.

The Vikings (2-1) began the game boldly with a fourth-and-goal touchdown pass by Ponder to Rudolph. They finished strong by forcing three turnovers and two punts by the 49ers in the fourth quarter.

Playing against his former team in the regular season for the first time, Randy Moss had three catches for 27 yards. Alex Smith’s franchise-record interception-free streak ended at 249 straight passes.

Falcons 27 Chargers 3 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Matt Ryan threw touchdown passes to three different receivers and safety Thomas DeCoud had two interceptions and a fumble recovery for unbeaten Atlanta.

Ryan completed 30 of 40 passes for 275 yards, with his first interception of the season, and a passer rating of 107.8 for the Falcons (3-0), who improved to 6-0 all-time in San Diego. DeCoud’s three takeaways, plus William Moore’s fourth-quarter fumble recovery, extended the Falcons’ NFL-high turnover differential to plus-10.

Texans 31 Broncos 25 DENVER (AP) — Matt Schaub outplayed Peyton Manning, throwing four touchdown passes against a confused Denver defence.

Schaub finished 17 for 30 for 290 yards to help Houston move to 3-0 for the first time in franchise history.

Six days after throwing three interceptions in the first quarter of a loss to Atlanta, Manning didn’t throw any against the Texans. But just as happened last week, the Broncos fell behind by 20 and lost by six. Manning did get the ball with 20 seconds left this time but didn’t get the Broncos close to the end zone.

Raiders 34 Steelers 31 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 43-yard field goal on the last play as Oakland scored the final 13 points after wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey was knocked out and hospitalized by a scary hit.

The game turned sombre early in the fourth quarter when Heyward-Bey was knocked unconscious by a helmetto-helmet hit in the end zone by Steelers safety Ryan Mundy. The hit was not called a penalty by the replacement officials. Heyward-Bey was taken to the hospital with a neck injury.

Carson Palmer then threw his third touchdown pass for Oakland (1-2) and Janikowski kicked two field goals to beat the Steelers (1-2) and give coach Dennis Allen his first win.

Cardinals 27 Eagles 6 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kevin Kolb threw for 222 yards and two touchdowns and James Sanders returned one of Michael Vick’s two fumbles 93 yards for a touchdown, and Arizona is off to its best start in 38 years.

Arizona (3-0) sacked Vick five times in winning its seventh straight home game, the second-longest streak in franchise history.

Philadelphia (2-1) became the first NFL team to open a season with two one-point wins.

Jets 23 Dolphins 20 MIAMI (AP) — Nick Folk received a reprieve when his blocked field-goal attempt was negated by a timeout, and his second try was a successful 33-yarder with 6:04 left in overtime.

Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 38-yard gain to set up the kick.

Two plays later, Folk’s try was blocked, but officials whistled the play dead as the ball was snapped because the Dolphins had called timeout.

Folk then made the winner.

On the previous possession, the Dolphins’ Dan Carpenter was wide left on a 48-yard field-goal attempt that would have given them the victory.

New York improved to 2-1, and Miami dropped to 1-2.

Jaguars 22 Colts 17 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Blaine Gabbert connected with Cecil Shorts III on an 80-yard touchdown pass with 45 seconds left to lift Jacksonville to its first win of the season.

Maurice Jones-Drew ran for 177 yard, but Jacksonville (2-1) needed Gabbert’s big play. The Colts (1-2) had taken the lead 17-16 after Andrew Luck drove them 48 yards in five plays to set up Adam Vinatieri’s 37-yard field goal with 56 seconds left.

But on the next snap, Shorts got behind Colts safety Sergio Brown and Gabbert hit him in stride. Shorts sprinted free, diving into the end zone for the score.

Cowboys 16 Buccaneers 10 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — DeMarco Murray had an 11-yard touchdown run, Dan Bailey kicked three field goals and Dallas won its home opener.

A week after the Buccaneers’ big push against the Giants in their victory formation, Tampa Bay used a pair of timeouts in the final 40 seconds after a failed onside kick attempt.

The Cowboys (2-1) scored twice in the first half when starting in Tampa Bay territory after turnovers. They overcame three turnovers by Romo — two on plays reversed by replay — with a defence that held Tampa Bay to 166 total yards.

Romo’s interception on the game’s fourth play set up Tampa Bay (1-2) for Josh Freeman’s 1-yard TD to Luke Stocker.

Bengals 38 Redskins 31 LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Andy Dalton completed 19 of 27 passes for 328 yards and three touchdowns for Cincinnati.

The Bengals blew a 24-7 first-half lead, but two touchdown passes by Dalton in the fourth quarter made the difference.

A 6-yard throw to tight end Jermaine Gresham broke a 24-24 tie, then Dalton hit Andrew Hawkins for a 59-yard score to give the Bengals a two-touchdown cushion with 7:08 left to play.

Robert Griffin III’s 2-yard run cut the lead to seven points with 3:35 remaining, but he threw incomplete on a third-and-50 on the game’s last play.

Bears 23 Rams 0 CHICAGO (AP) — Major Wright returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown and Chicago’s defence had six sacks on Sam Bradford and held St. Louis to 160 total yards.

That was enough on a day when Jay Cutler struggled, and the Bears (2-1) came away with the win after an ugly loss to Green Bay the previous week.

The Rams fell to 1-2.

The Bears had just kicked a field goal to extend their lead to 13-6 in the fourth quarter when Wright came up with his big return. He caught the ball at the 45 and ran untouched to the end zone, making it a 14-point game and finally giving the Bears some breathing room.

Bills 24 Browns 14 CLEVELAND (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three touchdown passes and Buffalo overcame the loss of running back C.J. Spiller in snapping an eight-game road losing streak.

Fitzpatrick finished 22 of 35 for 208 yards as the Bills (2-1) turned to their passing game after Spiller, the NFL’s leading rusher, was lost in the first quarter with a shoulder injury.

The Bills hadn’t won outside Buffalo since the 2011 season opener at Kansas City.

Before he got hurt, Spiller scored on a 32-yard screen pass from Fitzpatrick, who also threw a 9-yard TD to T.J. Graham in the first quarter and hooked up with Stevie Johnson from 9 yards in the fourth for a 24-14 lead.

The Browns are 0-3.

Both RDC soccer teams settle for draws

BY ADVOCATE STAFF For the most part the RDC soccer teams did what they had to as they took to the road for an Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference weekend doubleheader.

Both teams tied Saturday in Medicine Hat — the Queens 0-0 and the Kings 3-3 — then swept both matches Sunday in Lethbridge as the Queens recorded a 6-0 victory and the Kings drubbed the Kodiaks 9-1.

The Queens ran their record to 3-0-2 while the Kings sit at 2-1-2.

For the Kings Sunday’s performance was just what head coach Steve Fullarton was looking for.

“It was a brilliant performance. I felt someone was going to suffer when we started converting our chances. Today we found that touch. It was just a matter of time. ” The Kings were able to spread the scoring around with Cale Jacobs connecting twice with single goals added by Evan Foerster, Logan Grenier, Nolan Hamilton, Andrew Jevne, Greg Reddekopp, Geng Thian and Hayden Slaymaker.

The Kings actually trailed 1-0 before storming to a 6-1 halftime lead.

“Every game we seem to take a while to wake-up,” said Fullarton.

“But we got that goal back quickly and added another right away.”

On Saturday the Kings led twice on goals by Chase Grenier before the MHC Rattlers evened the count with six minutes remaining.

“We felt we deserved a better fate, as we worked hard and there were a couple of calls that could have went our way, but it’s better than a loss,” added Fullarton.

Meanwhile, the Queens turned in one of their better performances of the season Saturday against the Rattlers.

“It was a much better performance than last weekend,” said head coach David Colley. “We created some good chances and we stuffed their opportunities. We played as a unit which was a huge step up from the way we played against SAIT (a 2-2 draw).”

The Queens had a glorious opportunity to score late in the second half, but a close-in chip shot just went over the bar.

The Queens were especially solid in the midfield, led by player of the game Kayla Keenan, and on defence backed by keeper Jesse Stewart and defenders Amber Regnier and Adi Moyer.

Moyer made one of the best plays of the match late when she was able to get back and take the ball off a Medicine Hat forward who appeared to have a breakaway.

“A great effort,” said Colley.

On Sunday, Paula Dadensky scored three times in the second half with Sarah Fulmer adding a single marker.

Claire Wallace opened the scoring and Kristi Lem added a second goal in the first half. Stewart recorded the shutout.

RDC returns to action Saturday when they host Lakeland. The women get underway at 2 p.m. with the men to follow.

• The Olds College Broncos entertained SAIT Saturday with the Trojans beating the Broncos 3-0 in women’s play and 4-3 in men’s action.

Sutter Fund Chiefs carry on despite loss of key players It won’t be an easy start to the Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League season for the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs.

The Chiefs lost the majority of their top players from last season plus three players who could have returned.

The Red Deer squad has five players returning — all up front — while the defence and goaltending took a hit when provincial team defenceman Taryn Baumgardt decided to join Warner Hockey Academy and both goaltenders — Megan Kirkland and Jennifer West — didn’t return. Kirkland is attending University in the Maritimes and West has joined the Pacific Steelers in Vancouver.

But new head coach Curtis Scutchings, who led the midget A Chiefs to the provincial title last year, can’t worry about that.

He likes the girls he has.

“We have 14 new players to the league, but they’ve played a lot of hockey and have a lot of character and work hard in practice.

“They need to get used to the speed of the league, but they’ll get there,” he said. “I really call this an opportunity for the new players. An opportunity for them to make the adjustment and be

midget AAA players.”

The veteran players — Taylor Hall, Presley Hollman, Krista Wilson, Shelby Schlosser and Reanna Arnold — are expected to be team leaders.

“We could be pretty strong up front,” said Scutchings, whose team lost 4-1 Saturday at the Collicutt Centre and 5-2 Sunday in Calgary to the Calgary Flyers.

“We also have a lot of youth and maybe the younger players will drive the veterans to be better all-around players.”

Both goaltenders — Ali Andersen and Nisa Bartlett — played with Scutchings last year.

“They’re both young and two of our hardest workers. They’re getting a lot of shots, and hopefully they get used to that and it will be that much better as we cut them down as we go along,” said Scutchings, who has only one 17-yearold on defence in Katie Griffiths, who hasn’t played for three years.

Fourteen-year-old Abagael Thiessen could still be playing bantam AAA, but has shown already she belongs at the higher level.

She’s joined on the blueline by 15-year-old Quinci Jones, who is also up from the Red Deer bantam AAA squad and 16-year-olds Katlynn Kyle, Becky Crowley and Britni Crawford.

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Up front Autumn Woelk, Rylee Kramer and Wendy Bell are the other imports. Woelk played bantam B in Stettler, Kramer played midget in Innisfail and Bell in Olds.

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Scutchings is new to the AAA level, but has coached girls’ hockey for six years in Red Deer and in Edmonton prior to that.

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Mixed reaction to bike-lane decision SOME PLEASED, SOME NOT ON COUNCIL’S REVERSAL

CROWN DERBY EVENING Have fun betting on the horses in previously run races and help make three charities happy. Red Deer’s Rotary Sunrise service club is hosting Triple Crown Derby Evening on Saturday. It starts at 5:30 p.m. and runs until 11 at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel at 3310 50th Ave. Enjoy a derby hat parade, plus live jazz entertainment, horse racing, a fivecourse meal, drinks and prizes. The event aims to raise at least $40,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs, Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre and Magdalene House Society.

Attendees will watch six races. Wear your favourite derby hat.

Cost is $125 a ticket (wine, five-course meal and fun money for betting) or $1,000 for a table of eight. Call Adele at 403-391-8819 for tickets, the Aspire Shop, Valerie Lazicki at 403-340-2606 or Rob Kelham at 403-5054856.

HARVEST MOON WALK Moonwatchers can celebrate the fall with a guided evening Harvest Moon Walk at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Weather permitting, the event is scheduled for Saturday. The walk begins at 8 p.m. All ages are welcome and children must be accompanied by an adult. Admission is by a suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. For more details, call 403346-2010. The nature centre is located at 6300 43rd Ave. in Red Deer.

LIVE MUSIC AT LIBRARY Come see live music inside the downtown branch of Red Deer Public Library at 4818 49th St. The library presents First Thursdays in the Snell auditorium in the lower level.

Soprano Joyce Emms and pianist Cheryl Cooney will perform from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on Oct. 4. There is no charge but donations are welcome. Cafe Noir will provide coffee and tea.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF There’s mixed reaction in the community following city council’s decision to make changes to the bike lane pilot project before it cycled its course.

In light of overwhelming community response, city council decided on Sept. 17 to remove the designated bike lanes on 55th Street and 40th Avenue north of 52nd Street; and 59th Avenue north of 70th Street; and revert the roads to their original configurations.

“I think they realized there’s a lot of people out there who are concerned with the amount of money we’re spending especially when we’re $200 million in debt,” said Ryan Handley.

“That makes me think Ryan that maybe it was a bit soon. Maybe we should Handley work on getting out of debt. And when we have some extra funds we should do some upgrades.”

The two-year $800,000 pilot was scheduled for a review in the fall of 2013 after receiving the green light in 2011. City administration delivered a progress report highlighting some of the specific concerns and provided several recommendations in council chambers on Sept. 17.

The cost to remove the lanes has not been determined.

City administration, however, said the price tag would exceed the funds allotted for the pilot.

The city will drawn on its surplus funds in its operating budgets to foot the bill.

The removal of the bike lanes should be completed by October.

Handley started the 3,000-signature survey calling on city council “to stop the pilot program and not spend any further money on bike lanes on existing streets. This petition also asks council to “remove bike lanes on streets that have demonstrated severe traffic issues due to loss of entire lanes and loss of off-street parking in front of residences.”

Coun. Chris Stephan mentioned the petition along with another petition in support of the lanes in council chambers.

Handley was disappointed council did not agree to remove the lanes on 40th Avenue and 39th Street, as put forth in an amendment by Stephan.

“I think we’re headed in the right direction,” said Handley.

“I think council on the whole has seen there was some concern for sure for a lot of people. I think they are making some right decisions, going in the right direction . . . It was a little closer than I thought it would be. I am just happy they are starting to listen to the majority of the citizens.”

Lynne Paradis said more communication with key people before the lanes were painted would have saved the city the hassles and headaches.

“I think the concept of encouraging people to utilize bikes in lieu of cars is very positive but I think there was a missed opportunity to roll out an information awareness campaign to fully inform parents, students, the general public,” said Paradis, who is the Learning Services associate superintendent for the Red Deer Catholic Schools.

“I think the timing of (the completion of the lane installation) around the beginning of school created some unnecessary anxiousness because of the flood of people who would be travelling in cars in those

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highly congested school zones.”

Paradis said there’s the safety aspect but there’s also the fiscal responsibility of city council.

She said people would understand better what it costs to put them in if they understood the project.

She said there’s lots of positive things about the pilot but most people do not know what the plan was nor were they given guidance on how to implement the plan.

“We could have gotten 10,000 letters out and 15 minutes of instruction with every kid,” said Paradis.

“I think there would have been a much more positive reaction to it because people wouldn’t have been fearful. I think people were lacking the knowledge.”

Al Coker, a long-time city resident, said removing the lanes was the only decision because they should not have been painted in the first place without more public consultation.

“I think they should also move them off 39th Street and anywhere they took four lanes and put them down to two,” said Coker.

“I know they want to have people riding bikes but people don’t ride bikes for the most part. They drive cars. Even with the gas prices with the way they are, the highway is full of cars. They always will be and the city is only going to get bigger.

They didn’t put much thought into it. I don’t think.” Rene Michalak, a member of ReThink Red Deer and the Red Deer Associa-

tion of Bicycle Commuting, was disappointed with the outcome.

“I understand the criticisms,” said Michalak.

“What I don’t understand was how quickly they were heated. They rescinded on the commitment to see this pilot project through to next year and then make the changes. Basically council bowed down to the dissenters. They didn’t stand firm with the decision that was originally made.”

Michalak said he is not concerned so much with the council’s decision but with the behaviour and feedback he has received as a cyclist in the community. He said there is a right to be engaged in civic matters but there also comes a responsibility of being properly informed, civil, mature and communicating in a respectful way.

“They do not have historical context nor have they done the work to understand history of the whole project,” said Michalak.

“This project has been in the works for at least 10 years.”

Stephen Merredew, a member of the Red Deer Association of Bicycle Commuting, said he hopes the change is one step of many towards many of making bicycle commuting safer.

“Hopefully this leads to some better options for bicycle commuting if they have determined that one is not a viable option,” said Merredew. “It is certainly a step backwards but at the same time sometimes it is two steps forward and one step back.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Farmers appeal orders for Group reaches out remedial watercourse work ALZHEIMER SOCIETY

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Sona and Brent Macnaughton ride their bikes to Red Deer’s Public Market from Westlake on Saturday. The couple rode their bikes along the city’s new bike lanes where possible.

Sona said the new lanes make her feel safer on the road as a cyclist.

The Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories will be reaching out to the medical community in Central Alberta to assist patients who are newly diagnosed with dementia.

“Often what we’re finding is when families get a diagnosis of some type of dementia — that’s often all the get.

Families are kind of left on their own,” said Arlene Huhn, manager of client services for the society in Edmonton.

The new program First Link will bridge the information gap by reminding health professionals to refer their patients to the society.

“We’re just trying to do that early intervention. If we can connect

to (patients) earlier, then when things start to go astray we can provide them with those helpful tips, hints, services and links to other people in the community.”

In March, the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories received a $2.76 million provincial grant for First Link.

The grant runs for two years.

Funding will also allow the society to develop web-based education programs and web-based support groups to assist clients in rural and remote communities.

The society will start meeting with people in the medical community in Central Alberta this fall. Web programs will be available next year. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe County farmers who were issued Water Act enforcement orders by the province earlier this summer for unauthorized alterations to a watercourse on farm lands east of Blackfalds have appealed the orders.

On May 31, Criagievar Farms Ltd. and Glenn Sharp, sole shareholder and director of the company, were ordered to restore the natural functioning of an unnamed tributary of Haynes River.

Unauthorized ditches resulted in drainage onto neighbouring lands.

An order was also issued for property owned by Donna Duffy and farmed by her brother Ron Duffy for similar

LACOMBE COUNTY tributary realignment.

Remedial work was ordered to be done on both properties by Sept. 15.

The Duffys appealed the order against them, and both the Duffys and Criagievar Farms appealed the order against Criagievar Farms as the Duffys purchased the Criagievar land.

The Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development board denied both stay requests in July.

A mediation meeting was held on Aug. 30 and mediation continues. A status report is due to the board by Sept. 28.

Man charged after collision A 24-year-old Lacombe man is facing charges of impaired driving causing bodily harm and refusing to provide a breath sample following a two-vehicle collision on Hwy 20 near Sylvan Lake on Friday.

Sylvan Lake RCMP responded to a two-vehicle collision on Hwy 20 and Aspelund Road near Sylvan Lake around 9 p.m. on Friday.

Sylvan Lake RCMP said they arrived to find a man trapped inside a Ford Ranger truck. Another man was found in a Dodge Ram pickup truck.

Witnesses told police the Dodge pickup was travelling south on Hwy 20 when it crossed the centre line and smacked into the northbound Ford truck.

Emergency Services used the jaws of life to extricate the driver of the Ford Ranger truck.

He was transported with serious injuries by STARS air ambulance to the University of Alberta Hospital.

He is reported to be in serious condition at this time.

Names have not been released.

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LUANN Sept. 24 1988 — Canada’s Ben Johnson breaks his own world record to win the 100-metre gold medal in 9.79 seconds at the Olympics in Seoul. Johnson is forced to return the medal and is disqualified from the Games after a positive steroid drug test two days later.

1972 — Canadian NHL all-stars defeat Soviet team 3-2 in second game in the U.S.S.R.; USSR still leads series 3-2, with one tie.

1952 — Thieves make off with six boxes of gold bullion worth $300,000 from an unguarded building at Malton Airport in Toronto.

The gold, awaiting shipment to Montreal, is never found; likely flown to New York in a private plane and smuggled to Hong Kong.

1950 — Canadian military mission arrives in Tokyo. It is the first Canadian unit dispatched to Korean conflict.

1935 — Social Credit Premier William Aberhart announces an issue of 10-year $25 Prosperity Bonds to be sold to Albertans, to help the province clear its $150-million debt.

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Canadian workers at Ford accept contract TORONTO — Ford’s unionized Canadian workers have accepted a new contract that was hammered out last week. The Canadian Auto Workers says 82 per cent of its members who voted this weekend accepted the new contract.

The CAW news release did not indicate how many of its 4500 members at Ford cast ballots. CAW members at General Motors are due to vote on a tentative contract on Wednesday and Thursday. Talks continue with Chrysler, the last of the Big Three North American automakers who has not reached a deal with the CAW. The union says it hopes to reach a deal this week, talks are due to resume today.

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China polishing image CHINA’S MAN IN CANADA ON CHARM OFFENSIVE FOR CHINESE INVESTORS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — China’s ambassador in Canada is on a charm offensive, appealing to the public to look favourably on Chinese investment in the oil patch.

Ambassador Zhang Junsai has given two recent media interviews coming just after Nexen shareholders overwhelmingly approved a generous takeover from Chinese state-owned CNOOC — a deal that still needs Ottawa’s blessing to go ahead.

In interviews with the Globe and Mail and CTV, Zhang said Chinese businesses are interested in Canada because the investment climate is stable and regulations are “mature.”

“I think that the Chinese investments come because they feel this country’s environment is good, politically stable and there are very mature regulations and rules,” he told CTV’s Question Period in an interview aired Sunday.

“They feel that they can cooperate and learn (about) their counterpart very well.

That’s why they come.”

‘I THINK THAT THE CHINESE INVESTMENTS COME BECAUSE THEY FEEL THIS COUNTRY’S ENVIRONMENT IS GOOD, POLITICALLY STABLE AND THERE ARE VERY MATURE REGULATIONS AND RULES.’ — AMBASSADOR ZHANG JUNSAI

He said Chinese state-owned companies make investment decisions based on profit and business potential, evaluating each company on a case-by-case basis.

He deflected questions about warnings from Canada’s spy agency that state-owned enterprises could be using their investment ties for intelligence purposes.

Last Thursday, in its latest annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said the majority of foreign investment in Canada is carried out in an open and transparent manner.

However, certain state-owned enterprises and private firms “with close ties to their home governments have pursued opaque agendas or received clandestine intelligence support for their pursuits here.”

But Zhang warned Canadians not to jump to conclusions, and noted that the CSIS report did not name any specific countries.

The federal government is in the midst of considering whether to approve the takeover of Nexen Inc. by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company.

Harper and senior cabinet ministers have suggested they want to see “reciprocity” in how Canadian investments are handled in China.

But Zhang counters that since China has been receptive to investment from 12,000 Canadian business, especially financial institutions, Canada should also be open to Chinese money.

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Fiat says it is committed to staying in Italy MILAN, Italy — Italian carmaker Fiat has restated its commitment to remain in Italy and says it will refocus its Italian plants on exports.

Fiat, which controls U.S. carmaker Chrysler, made the assurances Saturday after CEO Sergio Marchionne met with Premier Mario Monti amid growing concerns that the crisis would force plant closures. Fiat sales in Italy dropped by 20 per cent in the first half of the year, and plants have been greatly underutilized.

Fiat said in a joint government statement that it will invest in Italy to prepare new products for launch when the market recovers, and that it has invested C5 billion ($6.5 billion) in the last three years. Fiat investments have come under scrutiny since it retreated on plans to invest C20 billion over five years due to uncertainty.

Iran inaugurates new currency trading centre TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state radio is reporting that the country has inaugurated a new hard currency trading centre to undercut the black market. Under the supervision of Iran’s central bank, the centre will offer U.S. dollars at 2 per cent less than the street rate to importers of the country’s needs, from the veterinary industry to printing machines, according to the Sunday report.

The U.S. dollar is traded at 24,600 rials in the street market.

But the current official rate is 12,260 rials to the dollar, used only for special purposes such as importing food and medicines.

Iranian currency has been heavily hit by Western sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program.

The West suspects Iran is aiming to build nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.

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The new Port Mann Bridge is seen spanning the Fraser River connecting Coquitlam to Surrey in British Columbia near Vancouver, Friday. The new bridge is said to be the second-longest bridge in North America and the widest in the world.

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Traders unlikely to move while Europe in question

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DEARBORN, Mich. — Most car-themed video games challenge players to race as fast as they possibly can, and push dangerous driving to the limit without crashing.

So test subjects who step inside Ford’s high-tech VIRTTEX research facility can be forgiven for wanting to stomp the gas pedal in the video game-like driving simulator.

But most don’t and try their best to stay alive.

In an effort to prevent car crashes in the real world, Ford has designed an incredibly lifelike way to test drivers’ skills and simulate dangerous situations that could end in death on the roads.

Within a research and development building in Dearborn, Mich., the former hometown of Henry Ford and where the automaker is headquartered, lies the VIRTTEX — short for Virtual Test Track Experiment.

Inside a seven-metre-diameter domed laboratory is what appears to be a standard Ford vehicle.

But a close inspection would reveal its engine and transmission have been removed and it has been equipped to tie into an elaborate virtual reality simulator.

Video screens envelope the inside of the domed structure, giving test subjects a simulated 360-degree view of a driving environment.

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BY DTHE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Traders have been in a holding pattern for the past week, and are likely to maintain that position in the coming sessions, as the direction of the European and Chinese economies remain in question.

It has been an optimistic month for stock markets so far, characterized by an enthusiastic climb that defined much of the first-half of September.

Stock markets have been trading at levels not seen since late 2007, helped in particular by moves from central banks to provide stimulus.

“You’d think (with) a big spike up, you’d have a fairly sizable smack back down — you haven’t,” said Colin Cieszynski, market analyst at CMC Markets Canada, who adds that is an encouraging sign in some respects.

“They’ve gone up to a higher level and just kind of holding there.”

The TSX was down less than one per cent last week, closing at 12,383.60 on Friday. The Dow and Nasdaq were both down 0.1 per cent from a week earlier.

“There’s very strong support for the markets ... it’s quite indicative

that we’re into a new uptrend here,” Cieszynski said.

But with little major economic data on the calendar for next week, investors will likely return focus to Europe and whether Spain will tap a new European aid program. Also in focus will be the direction of the Chinese economy after data last week suggested further weakness.

Those uncertainties could play into the direction of commodities prices, particularly crude oil, which has seen its value pressured by concern about further economic weakness overseas.

The price of crude fell six per cent last week alone, bringing it back to levels it hasn’t settled at in more than a month.

Canadian commodities will also likely be part of the focus of Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney’s speech in Ottawa on Monday, which will also deal with opportunities for trade.

Later in the week, earnings from Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) could put pressure on the information technology sector.

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Tax planning should take place during all seasons

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In February it’s probably your RRSP; in May it may be deciding what to do with your tax refund; in July it could be summer camp; in September it’s going back to school; and in December it could be reviewing your investment portfolio.

No matter what time of the year it is, there’s not a month that goes by when Canadians can’t plan for or take advantage of some tax strategies that can end up saving them money on their

income tax return.

January and February, for example, are good months to open a new folder, envelope or box to start collecting next year’s tax receipts.

“The first 60 days of the year is a time when many Canadians make their final contributions to their RRSP and it’s also a good time to review your TD1 form to ensure the appropriate amount of tax is withheld from your paycheque,” said Cleo Hamel, a senior tax ana-

lyst with H&R Block.

Many tax refunds are the result of too much employment income being withheld at source. The only reason you get a refund is that you have overpaid your taxes the previous year.

In essence, you gave the government an interest-free loan and the refund only returns the principal amount of that overpayment.

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FORD: Simulates motions, senations of driving Peeking at all the mirrors reveal accurate views of what you’d expect to see while driving.

Once the simulation has begun, the VIRTTEX structure can move up to three metres side to side or front to back, and two metres vertically, to simulate the motion and feel of actually driving.

The steering wheel realistically rumbles just right and sound is pumped into the vehicle to replicate engine and road noise.

The wheel and pedals are just as responsive as in any car.

“Everything is mathematically simulated based off what the driver is providing as an input, so if they’re turning the steering wheel, pushing on the accelerator pedal, pushing on the brake pedal, shifting into drive, whatever, that all goes into a main simulation computer,” explains Ford’s Mike Blommer.

For the first few seconds, drivers may feel like they’re just playing a video game.

But before long, they get lost in the virtual world and feel like they’re really driving down a long, open road. And then researchers can start observing all their bad habits. The speeders get identified pretty quickly.

The other cars on the road “are programmed to go five to 10 miles per hour faster than you, so we quickly find out what kind of driver people are,” Blommer says.

“If they want to keep up with traffic ... those drivers keep speeding up and the next thing you know you’re going 80 to 85 miles per hour (almost 140 km/h).”

VIRTTEX staff will sometimes ask drivers to glance down at a screen near the stick shift and read out a series of six numbers that are displayed every half second.

“When we bring young inexperienced drivers in here most bury their head down and read all six numbers because ... they haven’t had that close call,” he says.

“It seems like a short amount of time but the reason why this is three seconds is it’s based on naturalistic driving analysis. That’s the dangerous time that things can suddenly change in front of you.”

Similar tests have assessed how changing the radio’s settings, inserting a CD, making a phone call or checking voicemail affected driver attention and performance.

“We get some really realistic reactions out of people,” Blommer says.

“For example, with a forward collision, you get people really pushing — slamming — on the brakes, pushing back on the steering wheel, really trying to do everything they can to avoid colliding with the vehicle in front of them.”

VIRTTEX is also used to test how drivers perform when drowsy.

A study with Volvo tasked dozens of test drivers with going a night without sleep and then sitting in the VIRTTEX for an hours-long drive on a simulated dark road.

Researchers were able to watch their behaviour as many struggled to stay awake — some sang along with the radio, drank water, or slapped themselves in the face in an effort to focus — and inevitably fell asleep while driving.

CHINA: ‘Time to explore free-trade agreement’ If Canadians want better market access and surefire rules to protect investments, Ottawa should move quickly to negotiate a wide-ranging trade and investment deal with China, he told the Globe and Mail.

“It’s high time to do the exploratory work on the possibility of a free-trade agreement,” he said. “Under a free-trade agreement there will be more and more trade and investment.”

The opposition NDP is urging the federal govern-

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A test driver goes behind the wheel of Ford’s VIRTTEX, a safety simulator that analyzes drivers’ skills and reactions to dangerous situations on the road. ment to hold public reviews of the Nexen proposal and to be more explicit in what standards a foreign takeover must meet in order to be approved here.

TAXES: Benefit to avoiding large refund “A large tax refund could be the result of poor tax planning and could cost you more money than you think,” said Aurele Courcelles, director of tax planning at Investors Group. “There is a benefit to avoiding a large tax refund and investing the money. The longer you leave the money invested the more the benefits will add up.”

March and April are popular months for buying a home and a good time to act if you happened to overcontribute to your RRSP. First-time homebuyers are able to claim a nonrefundable tax credit of $5,000, which is a tax savings of $750.

RRSP over-contributions of more than $2,000 can result in a penalty of one per cent a month. However, you can remove the excess money tax-free if the withdrawal meets certain conditions, one of which is that you did not make the contribution with the intention of subsequently withdrawing it and deducting an offsetting amount.

“You should get to this before the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) sends you a letter,” said Hamel.

“The sooner you complete this the less your penalty will be.”

May and June are good months to review your RRSP contributions and notice of assessment, which should be filed away in your tax folder, envelope or box.

“It’s a good idea to review your RRSP contributions earlier in the year rather than later to see if you need to make adjustments, because this usually means increasing your contributions,” Hamel said.

“Your notice of assessment contains information like your contribution room and carry-forward amounts for future years and should be filed away with your receipts and other tax documents.”

July and August are months when a lot of people take vacations and move.

Moving expenses can be claimed if they are incurred to move to a new job, summer camps may qualify as child care expenses, and you may be able to include medical travel insurance as a medical ex-

Premier under fire over mill deal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is under fire after inking a new agreement it hopes will lead to the reopening of the shuttered NewPage Port Hawkesbury paper mill.

Some critics say taxpayers are shouldering all the risk.

Premier Darrell Dexter announced the revised deal late Saturday with Pacific West Commercial Corp., which has offered $33 million for the 50-yearold facility, less than 24 hours after the bid collapsed.

The deal includes revisions to a $124.5 million provincial funding package announced in August.

Nova Scotia’s profit-sharing cap of $9 million will also be increased to $24 million under the new agreement.

Kevin Lacey of the Canadian Tax-

payers Federation says profit-sharing assumes that the mill will make money. He says that likely will not happen in the short-term given the mill’s and the paper industry’s track record in the province.

The agreement still depends the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board approving a new power rate.

“My government has worked for a year to restart the mill,” Dexter said.

“We didn’t do it because it was popular. We did it because it was the right thing to do.”

The province’s NDP government has placed a premium on reopening the Point Tupper, N.S., mill, which employed about 1,000 people.

With a $25-billion federal shipbuilding contract secured for the largely urban Halifax region, Dexter has been eager to ensure some degree of economic success in rural Nova Scotia.

pense. But you must be sure to keep your receipts for these expenses.

In the fall, students should be aware that they can claim tuition, education and textbook tax credits with a tuition receipt T2202A. Student loans are not taxable income and the interest on them is a tax credit when they are paid back.

It’s important to note that a student line of credit from a financial institution is not the same as a Canada student loan.

The interest on a CSL is eligible as a tax credit but interest from a line of credit is not.

November and December are months for charitable giving and reviewing your portfolio. Capital losses can be carried back three years or carried forward indefinitely to use against capital gains.

“A real mistake is made when tax planning is treated like a one-time event that happens only once a year,” said Courcelles.

“Just like a good financial plan, your tax strategy needs to be reviewed and assessed and adjusted to new legislation, your income, and life stage and investment goals.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

RIM: Diminishing hold The BlackBerry-maker is expected to show that its one-time stronghold on the smartphone market diminished even further in the third quarter, and losses deepened.

On the data front, Canadian retail sales are expected to show broad gains across several categories when they’re released on Tuesday.

“July may have actually held some good news for retailers, if the latest gains in household incomes translated into more spending,” said CIBC World Markets economist Emanuella Enenajor in a note.

“Above-normal temperatures in Central Canada likely supported retailing activity, particularly in the building materials sector that has been unusually weak lately.”

On Friday, Canadian real GDP numbers are expected to show that growth in the third quarter remains weak.

In the U.S., durable goods orders are slated for Thursday, while personal income is due Friday.

Carpet Colour Centre earns provincial safety award Carpet Colour Centre of Red Deer earned a provincial safety award at the 2012 conference of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta.

The local business received a Safety Leadership Award on Saturday for

“creating a culture of safety” for its workers. It was competing in the small employer, general member category.

Falcon Homes of Sylvan Lake was a finalists in the small employer, builder member category.

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Quiet weekend at the movies sees three-way race for cash

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is in photo-finish mode with three new movies bunched up tightly for the No. 1 spot during a sleepy weekend at the box office.

Studio estimates Sunday put two movies in a tie for first-place with $13 million each: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena’s police story End of Watch and Jennifer Lawrence’s horror flick House at the End of the Street.

And right in the same ballpark was Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams’ baseball tale Trouble with the Curve, which opened with $12.7 million.

No matter which movie comes out on top, it was another slow weekend for Hollywood, whose business has been sluggish throughout late summer. Revenues were down for the fourth-straight weekend, File photo by THE CANADIAN RPESS with all three of the top new movies opening to modA scene from the film “Amour” is shown.

The film is being shown at this year’s Vancouver International Film est crowds.

Festival.

“This was a clash of the non-titans,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

“When three films are duking it out for the top spot with only around $13 million, that doesn’t represent a very strong period at the box office.”

Overall domestic revenues totalled $88 million, down 25 per cent from the same weekend last year, when a 3-D re-release of The Lion King led with $21.9 million, according to Hollywood.com.

The weekend’s other new wide release, Lionsgate’s sci-fi action tale Dredd, opened well down in the rankings at No. 6 with $6.3 million. The movie FESTIVAL THAT RUNS FROM SEPT. 27 TO OCT. 12 IN VANCOUVER features Star Trek co-star Karl Urban as a law enIS A REFLECTION OF THE HOST CITY forcer and executioner in a crime-laden city of the future.

Open Road Films’ End of Watch stars Gyllenhaal THE CANADIAN PRESS and Pena as partners patrolling the mean streets of LA. Relativity Media’s House at the End of the Street VANCOUVER — If casts The Hunger Games star Lawrence as a youth they were shoes, it could Franey says. Indeed, this Hollywood films in any festival this Thursday. who moves with her mom next door to a house where The line-up includes be considered a pair of year’s line-up takes mov- way, but the way they tell bloody misdeeds took place years earlier. iegoers from the battlestories is very interesting many films that have Trouble with the Curve, released by Warner Bros., sturdy hiking boots to fields of Congo to the and the visual composi- won prizes at major fesToronto’s Manolos. stars Eastwood as an aging baseball scout whose tions are more interest- tivals this year, among But the Vancouver In- bedrooms of Indonesia. daughter (Adams) accompanies him on his latest The Dragons & Tigers ing, the use of colour and them Amour, the Michael ternational Film Festival road trip. series is the largest an- all that are very differ- Haneke film awarded the embraces its laid-back, Studios determine weekend estimates by countnual exhibition of East ent,” he says.

Palme d’Or at Cannes. ing Friday and Saturday ticket sales then projecting West Coast vibe, and will Asian films outside of “In Vancouver if you Moviegoers will also get underway this week Sunday revenues based on how similar movies have Asia, featuring estab- want to see films from have the chance to see far from the bright lights played out in the past. lished and emerging Asia you usually see Rust & Bone, the French On rare occasions when the top movies are this and big stars with an im- filmmaking talents from them on a small screen, film based on the colpressive line-up of 380 close, the rankings sometimes change when MonSouth Korea, Japan, Tai- a computer or a TV. lection of short stories films from 75 countries. day’s final numbers are released. wan, China, Hong Kong, “But it’s nice to see by Canadian author The two festivals are That has led to grousing among competitors that Indonesia, the Philip- those films on a big Craig Davidson, starring some studios might be inflating their Sunday esti- very similar “in many of pines and Thailand. screen.”

French actress Marion mates to gain No. 1 bragging rights, even if only for a the essential ways,” says The annual $5,000 VIFF also prides it- Cotillard.

Alan Franey, VIFF festiday.

Dragons & Tigers Award self on giving Canadians “We always see our“I took the high road myself and put down the val director. for Young Cinema will a chance to see home- selves as a complemen“ B u t T I F F h a s a $12.7 million we reported,” said Dan Fellman, head be awarded to a new di- grown cinema in its tary opposite to what’s of distribution at Warner Bros., where Eastwood has unique function in the rector from East Asia.

100-strong Canadian Im- on screen throughout the been based for decades. “I’ve got a major actor with market economy in that Leo Fo, a senior pro- ages series. year,” Franey says. it is sort of of a proxy a solid group of people in this movie, and I don’t ducer at Saturday Sneak One of the best-attend“This is a time of the Hollywood festival that want to eat crow on Monday.”

Preview for the Chinese- ed of the festival, the year where a lot of Cahappens on Canadian Other studios were tracking End of Watch and language Fairchild Tele- Best Canadian Feature nadians see our own House at the End of the Street at a bit less than $13 soil,” he says.

That “tends to eclipse vision in Vancouver and Film receives a $10,000 cinema, not just here in million for the weekend, and some had “Trouble what is still at the heart a self-professed movie juried prize that will be Vancouver but at TIFF with the Curve” at No. 1 by a fraction. fan, said the festival of- announced at the closing and in Montreal... where “It’s unbelievably close. I honestly don’t remem- and soul of the Toronto fers a good taste of Asian gala Oct. 12. people can really see the festival, as it is any festiber ever seeing it this close, but we’re happy that film.

Among the 12 films world and hear our own val worth its salt around we’re in the race,” said Kyle Davies, head of distri“People are curi- in the running is Re- stories, because we are, bution for Relativity. “We think our estimate is on the world, we’re all es- ous to see cinema from belle, Montreal-born Kim after all a very mulit-culsentially trying to do the target.” other countries, to see Nguyen’s film about tural society so we get to “We’ll see tomorrow. I think today everybody pro- same thing: the old sprir- what they have, and the child soldiers in Africa learn about the fabric of it of an international fesjected honourably and honestly,” said Tom Ortenfestival is a good oppor- and Canada’s entry for our own cities.” tival of quality cinema.” berg, chief executive officer for Open Road Films.

The Vancouver festiThe festival that runs tunity to see those films best foreign-language “I think it’s fair to say that nobody’s sure who’s gobecause outside of the Oscar this year. val also includes an infrom Sept.

27 to Oct. 12 in ing to be No. 1.” festival a lot of these Deepa Mehta’s highly dustry forum that brings While audiences were not too excited about the Vancouver is a reflection films are not very easy to anticipated new film, script writers, directors of the host city, he says: new wide releases, Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainfind,” he says.

Midnight’s Children, based and industry insiders to ment banner had big crowds in limited release for outward looking, multiI n c o m p a r i s o n t o on the Pulitzer-Prize the city for professional cultural, well-educated, its teen drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

European and North winning book by Salman development and pitch and possessing social The film took in $244,000 in four locations for a American movies, Asian Rushdie, will open the sessions. strong average of $61,000 a theatre. That compares conscience. films tend to be very vis“Interested in travelto meagre averages ranging from $3,960 to $4,762 a ceral visual experiencling, too, and for a lot of theatre for Trouble with the Curve, House at the End of es served best by a big the Street and End of Watch, which all played in about people the festival rep- screen, Fo says.

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Dear Annie: I have been with my boyfriend, “Tom,” for more than a year.

We love each other very much.

However, early in our relationship, I was coming out of a rough breakup with my ex. I made a huge mistake thinking I could keep the ex as a friend. We met for dinner and ended up kissing. I confessed to Tom, who MITCHELL briefly broke & SUGAR things off. He eventually took me back, and I haven’t spoken to my ex since.

The problem is, Tom’s sister and mother have not been so forgiving.

His sister ignores or insults me when I come to their house. Tom’s mother does the same, although only when his sister is around. At first I accepted it because I deserved it. But it’s been nearly a year, and things have only gotten worse. I have apologized repeatedly, to no avail. Tom’s best friend recently moved in with him, and now the guy’s girlfriend is at Tom’s house a lot.

We used to be on good terms, but they have poisoned her against me.

Tom doesn’t want to be involved and gets defensive when I tell him how disrespectful his sister is toward me. He says she’s just socially inept, which could be true, but still. I don’t know how much longer I can take such treatment, and frankly, I’m not sure I deserve it. — Enough Is Enough Dear Enough: Your problem isn’t Tom’s family. It’s Tom. If he had truly forgiven you and was committed to your relationship, he would not permit his family to treat you so poorly. He is still punishing you — by proxy. His unwillingness to “be involved” means your relationship is not going to improve anytime soon. Tom may not be capable of genuine forgiveness, and it’s better to know it sooner than later.

Dear Annie: Why don’t some people know when to go home after dinner?

ANNIE ANNIE

We enjoy cocktails and appetizers for two hours beforehand and continue to socialize during a leisurely dinner and dessert. However, these guests stay long after the coffee is behind us. We have even started removing the dishes, but they just don’t get the hint.

Without being rude and handing them their car keys, what is the best way to let these guests know that we are tired and want to call it a day? — Tired in Toutle Dear Toutle: Try talking about your plans for the next morning, asking your guests if they need a ride home, turning on the porch light or offering to get their coats. If these things don’t work, you can always say, “This has been so much fun, but it’s late, and I have an early morning. Let’s get together again soon.”

Dear Annie: I would like to respond to “Cape Coral, Fla.,” whose university student son is finding college math professors unfeeling, unhelpful and uncaring.

As a college math instructor, I admit that we have our share of sub-par teachers. I think this is due to two factors: First, the material can be challenging to explain, and second, it is often the case that a person who is gifted mathematically is lacking in social skills.

That being said, I agree with your advice to find a tutor on campus. As I have told many a student: Don’t let your instructor stand in the way of your education. Students must learn to be resourceful and seek out assistance as soon as they encounter difficulty. More importantly, most of the students who struggle in my classes have poor study habits. In the end, their education is their responsibility. — Math Teacher in Montreal Dear Readers: Today is Family Day (casafamilyday.org). Studies show that children who eat dinner with their parents have a reduced risk of substance abuse. Please try to make meals a family event.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Monday, Sept. 24 intensity, busy action around ment. It is a source of hope.

CELEBRITIES BORN you now, when all you would Continue to support it with ON THIS DATE: rather do is curl action and go for it.

Justin Bruenup with a good CAPRICORN (Dec. 22ing, 33; Megan book. Try not Jan. 19): The minutia may Ward, 43; Nia to fight the tide. have been your strong suit Vardalos, 50 The time for rest but it is beginning to bore THOUGHT will come. Tak- you. Take some time today OF THE DAY: ing action now to remember why you care We are slowly will bring long about doing your best. It will building towards lasting satisfac- return a sense of enthusia big shift next tion. asm, as you see a new path week. Saturn will L I B R A to a financial goal. enter the sign (Sept. 23-Oct. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. of Scorpio for a 22): Fantasy 18): Strong feelings may be nice long stay eases the trudg- rising now, along with an unNADIYA for the better es of life, but familiar sentimentality. There part of the next when we see are feelings you have been SHAH three years. I’ll people for their denying but no longer can. talk more about imperfections, Use what you feel to inform the encouraging we honour their you. Once you connect with omens ahead humanity. Get- them you can decide which this week. It will be a great ting carried away now could ones best suit your direction. day, enjoy! lead to a rude awakening.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y : Stay balanced in your per- 20): Visualization has been A sense of emotional free- ceptions. proven to help athletes sedom brings a spirit of play, SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. cure victory. It has also been lending to new options you 21): Your relationship with proven to help us succeed haven’t considered before. A your main maternal figure is in other areas of life as well. well-played hunch can cer- highlighted. An honest con- Your power to tap this potainly leave you richer, but versation will help you under- tential is particularly strong shouldn’t ask for an invest- stand the support that has now. The trick is to feel what ment. It will be a great year, been there. A light moment you see. enjoy! of laughter heals confusion.

Nadiya Shah is a consultARIES (March 21-April SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22- ing astrologer, syndicated 19): We can all achieve Dec. 21): Your recent finan- sun sign columnist and holds whatever it is that we truly cial situation has been more a master’s degree in the want. It isn’t enough to state stressful than you have let Cultural Study of Cosmolwhat that thing is. We need a on. You have been resource- ogy and Divination, from the visceral feeling that becomes ful, and will soon thrive. University of Kent, U.K. Her tangible. You are ambitious You’re asked to flow with an column appears daily in the these days. So much so, it important recent develop- Advocate. surprises you. Add love to the mix and you will succeed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We usually denote passion as related to love, but there is now a burning desire you have that has nothing to do with anyone else. You are bringing what you love closer to you. If it brings contentment, it can only be a good thing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sometimes random thoughts mean nothing. They are just tedious ramblings of the brain. However, your most erratic views now hold great potential. Spend the next few days with time set aside and write down what seems most implausible. You will leap towards it.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today, someone expresses a taste for things that are unfathomable. Recognize that they are simply unfamiliar to you. Instead of recoiling, consider amusement. It will make the moment softer and open your heart in needed ways.

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Obesity, sugary drinks clearly linked: study

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic.

A huge, decades-long study involving more than 33,000 Americans has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages interacts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person’s risk of obesity beyond what it would be from heredity alone.

This means that such drinks are especially harmful to people with genes that predispose them to weight gain.

And most of us have at least some of these genes.

In addition, two other major experiments have found that giving children and teens calorie-free alternatives to the sugary drinks they usually consume leads to less weight gain.

Collectively, the results strongly suggest that sugary drinks cause people to pack on the pounds, independent of other unhealthy behaviour such as overeating and getting too little exercise, scientists say.

That adds weight to the push for taxes, portion limits like the one just adopted in New York City, and other policies to curb consumption of soda, juice drinks and sports beverages sweetened with sugar.

Soda lovers do get some good news: Sugar-free drinks did not raise the risk of obesity in these studies.

“You may be able to fool the taste” and satisfy a sweet tooth without paying a price in weight, said an obesity researcher with no role in the studies, Rudy Leibel of Columbia University.

The studies were being presented Friday at an obesity conference in San Antonio and were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

The gene research in particular fills a major gap in what we know about obesity. It was a huge undertaking, involving three long-running studies that separately and collectively reached the same conclusions. It shows how behaviour combines with heredity to affect how fat we become.

Having many of these genes does not guarantee people will become obese, but if they drink a lot of sugary beverages, “they fulfil that fate,” said an expert with no role in the research, Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University in New York. “The sweet drinking and the fatness are going together, and it’s more evident in the genetic predisposition people.”

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Sugary drinks are the single biggest source of calories in the American diet, and they are increasingly blamed for the fact that a third of U.S. children and teens and more than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight.

Consumption of sugary drinks and obesity rates have risen in tandem — both have more than doubled since the 1970s in the U.S. But that doesn’t prove that these drinks cause obesity. Genes, inactivity and eating fatty foods or just too much food also play a role. Also, diet research on children is especially tough because kids are growing and naturally gaining weight.

Until now, high-quality experiments have not conclusively shown that reducing sugary beverages would lower weight or body fat, said David Allison, a biostatistician who has done beverage research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, some of it with industry support.

He said the new studies on children changed his mind and convinced him that limiting sweet drinks can make a difference.

In one study, researchers randomly assigned 224 overweight or obese high schoolers in the Boston area to receive shipments every two weeks of either the sugary drinks they usually consumed or sugar-free alternatives, including bottled water. No efforts were made to change the youngsters’ exercise habits or give nutrition advice, and the kids knew what type of beverages they were getting.

After one year, the sugar-free group weighed more than 4 pounds less on average than those who kept drinking sugary beverages.

“I know of no other single food product whose elimination can produce this degree of weight change,” said the study’s leader, Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The weight difference between the two groups narrowed to 2 pounds in the second year of the study, when drinks were no longer being provided. That showed at least some lasting beneficial effect on kids’ habits. The study was funded mostly by government grants.

A second study involved 641 normal-weight children ages 4 to 12 in the Netherlands who regularly drank sugar-sweetened beverages. They were randomly assigned to get either a sugary drink or a sugar-free one during morning break at their schools, and were not told what kind they were given.

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announcements Obituaries 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.

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Vanities! Doors!

Sheet Goods too!

Sale Starts Friday, September 28 at 4 pm!

Saturday at 7 am sharp!

ENTRANCE TO SALE DIRECTLY BEHIND GALAXY CINEMA’S ON GASOLINE ALLEY.

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Farm Work

755 Oilfield

LOOKING FOR

FULL & PART TIME CHICKEN CATCHERS willing to work night/early morning shifts.

Immediate openings.

Full Benefits.

Contact Mike 403-848-1478

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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.

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The position requires you to:

* train and supervise Health Care Associates in 700-920 community and lodge settings in the city of Red Deer and surrounding Caregivers/ areas Aides * be a great communicator Lost * ensure quality and LIVE-IN Caregiver for elderly manage areas of risk client w/special needs. problem, solve and make LOST BLUE SEADOO 44 hrs/wk. $9.91/hr. appropriate decisions PADDLEBOAT Day/night shifts. CPR, 1st * educate and mentor on Sylvan Lake Aide. English speaking. * ensure positive client August 2012.

Email: jcpp@shaw.ca outcomes Reward offered.

Call 403 274 7709 if found. Something for Everyone * have a reliable vehicle Everyday in Classifieds * be avail. for a rotation of days/evenings/weekends LOST earring, ruby in silver setting on McKenzie Trail 403-341-4520 Certified Health Tired of Standing?

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CLASSIFIEDS’ THANKSGIVING Hours & Deadlines OFFICE & PHONES CLOSED MON. Oct. 8, 2012 Red Deer Advocate Publication dates: SAT. OCT. 6 TUES. OCT. 9 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ 5 p.m.

Red Deer Life - Sunday Publication date: SUN. OCT. 7 Deadline is: Thur. Oct. 4 @ NOON Central AB Life Publication date: THURS. OCT. 11 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ 5 p.m.

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 Stettler & Weekender

Publication date: WED. OCT. 10 FRI. OCT. 12 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ NOON Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo Publication date: THUR. OCT. 11 Deadline is: Fri. October 5 @ 5 p.m..

Bashaw Publication date: TUES. OCT. 9 Deadline is: Thurs. October 4 @ NOON Castor - Regular deadline Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com www.wegotads.ca

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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.

We thank all applicants but advise only those selected for an interview will be contacted

UFA/BAR W Petroleum & Electric

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.

Dental

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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

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.

COLTER PRODUCTION TESTING SERVICES INC Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!

LEADING facility services company is seeking hard working, safety conscious cleaners for janitorial team.

F/T work. Fax resume to 403-314-7504

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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 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 F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technician. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer HORIZON Family Medicine seeking team oriented p/t & f/t Medical Office Assistants. MOA Diploma req’d + 2-3 years minimum experience working in busy computerized medical clinical environment. Duties includes reception, data entry, and assisting/preparing patients for physician appointment. To apply send resume and covering letter to martin@ horizonmedicine.ca by October 5. For more info visit www.horizonmedicine. ca.

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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

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AXIOM WELL SOLUTIONS is seeking SLICKLINE OPERATORS/ HELPERS. Class 3Q and tickets an asset. jneal@axiomwell.com

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

As one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, Bingos CBI Home Health provides you with more opportuRED DEER BINGO Centre nities and greater support, 4946-53 Ave. (West of training and career develSuperstore). Precall 12:00 opment than any other & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!! health care company.

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LOST Our iPad2 was lost in either Sylvan Lake or Red Deer on September 20. Possible it was left on car when we drove away from Hewlett Park or fell out of vehicle at one of our numerous stops. It is a white iPad with black CANVAS case. The iPad is engraved on back. If found please contact us at 403-858-1058.

Thanks so much!

SET OF KEYS lost.

Has a Hyundai ignition key & remote. Possibly in the Save-on Foods/Eastview area. Please call 403-346-6886 if found

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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

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Qualified Day & Night Tankmaster Rentals LTD Supervisors is currently seeking a - (Must be able to provide own work truck.)

Northern area manager • Field Operators to oversea Edson, Drayton - Valid First Aid, H2S, Valley and Valley View driver’s license required! operations. Valid candidate would have knowledge in Please see your website oilfield equipment rental @ www.colterenergy.ca and transportation or contact us at services. Good Computer 1-877-926-5837 skills i.e. Microsoft office.

Able to dispatch and Your application will be co-ordinate multiple jobs. kept strictly confidential Knowledge of OH&S rules D I S PAT C H E R w a n t e d . and industry safety regulaClass 1 driving and oilfield tions. Excellent customer exp. an asset. Good phone relations. Good knowledge a n d c o m p u t e r s k i l l s a of all northern areas where must. We provide exc. pay oilfield activity takes place.

Tankmaster offers and benefits. Reply to Box competitive salary and 1010, c/o R. D. Advocate, performance bonus 2950 Bremner Ave., Red depending on level of Deer, AB T4R 1M9 experience. All inquires are ECHO NDE to be either email to is currently hiring certified m.morton@tankmaster.ca CGSB Level II or faxed to 403-340-8818.

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.

TANKMASTER RENTALS Computer skills an asset. requires experienced Competitive benefits and Class 3 Vac Truck Operawages apply. Submit tors for Central Alberta. resume in confidence to Competitive wages and trussell@echonde.com benefits. and qualified need only m.morton@tankmaster.ca apply. or fax 403-340-8818 ENVIR. surveying position with MAGARA Enterprises TEAM Snubbing now Ltd. Line locating, hiring operators and helpsurveying, oilfield, or farm ers. Email: janderson@ experience an asset. Must teamsnubbing.com be physically fit for lots of walking while carrying ZUBAR Production equip. Email resume to Services darcy@magara.ca is currently taking resumes for experienced Assistant Operators.

Must have all valid tickets.

Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or Landcore Technologies fax to: 403-346-9420 Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following Professionals positions:

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’s license.

Apprentice or Journeyman Mechanics Pile Drive Operators Pile Drive Assistants Field Supervisor All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

We offer exceptional pay, excellent benefit package and a positive work environment.

Please email resumes to info@landcore.ca or fax 403-783-2011.

The right candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Please no phone calls.

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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DOMINO’S PIZZA

NOW HIRING F/T and P/T DRIVERS. Apply within, 5018 45th St. 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 JJAM Management (1987 LTD) o/a Tim Hortons 37444-Hwy 2 South Red Deer Administrative Assistant Full time/Shift work.

Bank deposits, food orders daily entries, apply in person or fax resume to 403-314-1303 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Production Testing Personnel: Day & Night Supervisors & Field Operators

Teachers/ Tutors

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DO YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR TEACHING? Local educational center seeks 3rd or 4th year education students, teachers and retired teachers for our new after school tutoring program.

Please forward resumes with cover letter and references to: firststepsandbeyond @gmail.com

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CONCRETE SERVICES INC.

is looking for a

LICENSED HEAVY-DUTY OR AUTOMOTIVE JOURNEYPERSON MECHANIC

LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour.

4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net

We are offering $30.00 or $34.00/hr. to start plus excellent benefits.

If you are interested in working for a progressive company with room to advance then apply right away.

In person to Proform Concrete at #201, 5301-43 Street, Red Deer, email resume to jobs@proform.ab.ca or Fax resume to 403-347-4980.

WAI’S RESTAURANT at 4916 Ross Street, Red Deer now hiring permanent F/T Chinese Cook. Over 3 yrs experience required. $12-$14/hour, depending on exp. Call 403-340-3366

A FULL TIME PAINTER REQUIRED Painting exp. necessary.

Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, self motivated & reliable.

Phone 403-596-1829

Sales & Distributors

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NOMADS Clothing Store in Sylvan Lake is looking for mature professional sales people, part and full time positions avail.

403-887-3119

Andy’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd. in Blackfalds requires:

Winch Truck, Bed Truck Drivers R E D D e e r B o l t L t d . i s & Picker Operators

currently seeking a Sales Representative to broaden Competitive wages, the business portfolio and benefits and scheduled retain established clientele. days off. tickets and Previous sales experience experience an asset. preferred but we are willing Please forward to train the right candidate. applications by e-mail to If you are a self-starter with accounting@ initiative and have good andystrucking.net or fax communication skills we (403) 885-4931 want to hear from you.

B & B COWIE Compensation package includes commissions, INSULATION LTD. mileage allowance and Accepting applications for benefits. Drop off your Insulation installers, Blowers resume at #100-4731-61st and General Labourers.

Street or fax 403-314-3343 Must have valid driver’s license and own transporCELEBRATIONS tation. CSA approved HAPPEN EVERY DAY safety boots are required.

IN CLASSIFIEDS Please fax resume to 403-347-8075.

SOAP STORIES Email: bbcowie@telus.net is seeking Retail Sales Supervisor BRAATT CONST. for our Parkland Mall location, Is looking for general Red Deer. $17.40/hr. carpenters for the Red Email resume: Deer area. Call Brad premierjobrd1@gmail.com 403-588-8588

Restaurant/ Hotel

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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

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General Manager or Operating Partner Position Available for completely redeveloped Smitty’s Restaurant, Lounge, Convenience Store, New Husky Gas Bar and Car Wash on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, A.B. Minimum 3 years Full Service Restaurant experience as a General Manager is required.

Further experience in Lounge, Convenience Store & Gas Bar is an asset.

For more information, contact

Steven Fee PRODUCTION CONTROL SERVICES

SMITTY’S CANADA LIMITED

Local Plunger Lift/Automation company requires an

OPTIMIZATION/FIELD SALES TECHNICIAN Ideal Candidate will have: • 2+ years oil and gas experience • Solid understanding of the sales process • Excellent interpersonal skills • Professional, customer-focused attitude • Ability to work independently • Strong computer skill (I.e.: MS Office - Outlook & Excel) • Valid Class 5 drivers’ license • Safety Tickets (H2S, First Aid & CPR, WHMIS) • Flexibility to support other branch offices as needed

#600 – 501, 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 (403) 229-3838 Fax (403) 229-3899 Email: sfee@smittys.ca www.smittys.ca

Canada’s Largest Full Service Family Restaurant Chain – Since 1960

PCS offers competitive wages & performance based incentives, and provides all tools/ equipment needed to do the job. Advance your career in a challenging and rewarding work environment in a growing company! See www.pcslift.com for exciting updates about PCS. Please send your resume to CAREERS@PCSLIFT.COM with subject reference: PCS-CAN TECH. We thank all applicants in advance: however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

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Fax: 403-341-4772

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Highland Green 6227-61 AVE Sept. 22 to Sept. 28 Sat. 1 - 7, Sun. 9 - 7, Mon to Fri. 10 - 4 HUGE MULTI-FAMILY

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

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Sept. 24, 2012

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

CARPENTRY APPRENTICE

req’d - 2nd to 4th yr.

Interested candidates would have strong communication skills, organization & time management skills, as well able to maintain a high level of professionalism.

Apply with Resume, Ref’s, Driver’s Abstract & relevant Trade & Safety Certifications to: 140, 4731-61St Fax 403.340.0100 or email trueline@ truelinehomes.com DAVENEPORT MILLWRIGHT SERVICES now hiring 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 Powerline Construction requires Labourers/apprentices for various projects in Alberta.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages.

Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email dnrwelding1@xplornet.com Attention : Noel. No phone calls please. Drug and alcohol program in effect.

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CIRCULATION

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

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 MICRON INDUSTRIES requires a

SHOP MANAGER

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

Shipper / Receiver

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233 STUCCO, Plasterers, Stone Masons & Labourers.

Needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. Call 403-588-5306

DNR Pressure Welding requires B Pressure Welders, CWB Welders and Apprenticeship welders.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Email SYLVAN AUTO CENTRE requires an 1st Year or resumes to ryan@dnrweldother Apprentice Technician, ing.ca.

Fax resume No Phone calls please.

403-887-5054 or email Drug and alcohol program ccottam@hotmail.ca in effect.

No phone calls please DNR Pressure Welding requires Journeyman Truckers/ Heavy Duty Mechanic.

Excellent benefit pack- Drivers ages. Email resumes to ryan@dnrwelding.ca.

Busy Central Alberta Grain No Phone calls please. Trucking Company looking Drug and alcohol program for Class 1 Drivers. We in effect. offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE program. Grain and super Must have Residential B exp. an asset but not experience. Fax resume necessary. If you have a to 403-347-5745 or call clean commercial drivers 403-588-6001 abstract and would like to start making good money.

RB ERECTORS looking fax or email resume and for exp’d preengineered comm.abstract to metal bldg. erectors and 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net labourers. Rich @ 403-877-7522 or Brad @ F/T. Class 1 drivers to 403-506-8000 haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., FINISH CARPENTER or EMAIL: helper req’d for new residreaddriving@gmail.com dential work. 350-5012

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Central AB based trucking company reqires

OWNER OPERATORS in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

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

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in CLEARVIEW RIDGE Carrington Dr./ Charles Ave. area

GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year

DEERPARK Duncan Cres./ Dennison Cres. area

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ROSEDALE Robinson Cres./ Reinholt Ave. area

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

LANCASTER Lanterman Close/ Larmar Close area

EXPERIENCED

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

ADULT CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q UPGRADING All oilfield safety tickets Alberta Government req’d. Clean drivers Funded Programs abstract. Must comply with Student Funding Available! drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

NOVEMBER START Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: • GED Preparation 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net Morning, Afternoon And Evening P/T Classes MEGA CRANES is looking for a ticketed crane and boom truck operator. Must Academic Express have Class 1. Good Adult Education & Training wages, benefits, 10% 340-1930 holiday pay, RRSP’s, and www.academicexpress.ca most evenings and weekends off. Fax resume to 885-4269 or email cathy@megacranes.com NEED experienced Class ADULT & YOUTH 1 drivers for short and long CARRIERS haul. Runs AB., SASK, NEEDED Manitoba & BC Please call for delivery of PROMAX TRANSPORT Flyers at 227-2712 or fax resume Red Deer Express w/abstract 403-227-2743 & Red Deer SNOW plow drivers(2) Life Sunday in req’d for winter season based out of Lacombe, exc. wages. Must have MORRISROE Class 3 w/air. Call Toll WEST LAKE Free 1-877-787-2501 Mon. - Fri. 9 am. - 5 pm. only or fax resume to: 403-784-2330 Call Karen

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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.

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

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INGLEWOOD AREA Ibbottson Close Inglewood Drive Illingworth Cres.

Issard Close LANCASTER AREA

Call Rick at 403-314-4303 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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,

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Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

Pumps & Pressure Inc. Hydraulic Division is currently accepting applications for

HYDRAULIC TECHNICIANS JOURNEYMEN or APPRENTICE MECHANICS MILLWRIGHTS

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Lindsay Ave. Langford Cres.

Law Close/ Lewis Close

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Sherwood Cres.

Interior Designer

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

Huntwood Custom Cabinets

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MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL REQUIRED

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

PT MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT 2 Positions • Flexible hours, benefits • Mechanically inclined Body painting and minor drywall repair an asset.

Send resume to

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

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

Attention: Del Booth bscar@symphonyseniorliving.com

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

or drop off in person at: 3100 - 22nd Street SENIOR LIVING In concert with your life

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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

Red Deer Mini Job Fair

COUNTERTOPS

Kitchen renovations Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

Wednesday, Sept 26 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301

More Information: Call 403-340-5353

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• Individual must have a clean drivers abstract and their own transportation to and from work.

• This is a Full Time, year round position.

Only those persons with the before mentioned skills need apply.

Please reply and attach resume and references to

albertabuildersinc@gmail.com

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4911 – 51 Street

required by a Central Alberta Home Builder.

P/T CASHIER Evenings & Weekends. Apply w/resume at Highland Green Value Drug Mart. 403-341-4166

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.

for a job?

GENERAL CARPENTER

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR wanted at the Lending Cupboard Mon, Wed & Fri 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Must be able to work with volunteers, coordinate schedules, work with clients, have good computer skills, & management skills.

Please send resume to paul.lendingcupboard @shaw.ca Closing date: Sept. 26, 2012

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Employment Training

NEEDED IMMED.

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

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Black Cat Concrete

Mechanically inclined individuals will also be considered.

Very busy Red Deer Flooring Company is seeking Interior designer (male or female). Must have an eye for design and professional attitude.

Commercial & Residential Estimating: Floor & Wall Tile, Hardwood, Laminate and Carpet. Wages are negotiable based on experience & benefits avail. Drop off at 9-7619-50 Ave. Red Deer, email: shannon@catile1.com or Fax 403-309-3000

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

Min 3-5 yrs experience with strong customer service, computer and coordinating skills. Interest in Interior Design, knowledge of 2020 an asset.

KENTWOOD Kirkland Dr. & Kirkwood Crsc.

Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

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

Admin Assistant/ Client Host

JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jepsen Crsc. & Jordan Pkwy

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Blackfalds

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

IS looking to fill the following positions in the: HINTON AND FOX CREEK LOCATION * Oilfield Construction Supervisors * Oilfield Construction Lead Hands * Stainless and Carbon Welders * B-Pressure Welders * Pipefitters * Experienced Pipeline Equipment Operators * Experienced oilfield labourers * Industrial Painters * 7-30 tonne Picker Truck Operator with Class 1 H2S Alive ( Enform), St. John (Red Cross) standard first aid) & in-house drug and alcohol tests are required.

Please submit resume to hr@alstaroc.com or Fax to 780-865-5829 Quote job #62703 on resume

is currently seeking the following positions, to start immediately:

Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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)

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

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BOWER AREA Bell St./Baker Ave Broughton/Brooks Cres.

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

for more info 403-314-4317

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

Anders St. Aikman Close / Allan St. Adans Close Adair Ave.

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Service Runner (Part Time)

CARRIERS NEEDED

ANDERS AREA

263391I24-J1

850

Come for refreshments, bring your updated resume and speak with employers

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r Real Canadian Superstore r Rifco National Auto Finance r Sterling Crane r Tim Hortons r Westeel r Westridge Cabinets r World Financial Group

Fireplaces

1175

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. We do fencing, decks, reno’s landscape and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured.

F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. 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.

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Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

VII MASSAGE

1130

10% OFF FOR SENIORS 403-391-2169

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT

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Services

1290

TIM LLOYD. WETT certified.

Inspections, installs, chimney sweeps & service 403-340-0513

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Eavestroughing

263301I24-25

Trades

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

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

587-877-7399 10am- 2am

EDEN

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

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

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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

Yard Care

1430

RAKE Leaves - Shovel Snow 403-505-0832 Tree Pruning,Topping and Removal by a Certified Arborist,Hedges too! call Randy at 403-350-0216

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880

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

Please contact QUITCY

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

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Please contact QUITCY

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

Career Planning

920

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

1520

DARK Oak writing desk, very old, oak office desk, kitchen hoosier, 403-347-6530

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

Household Furnishings

1720

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

8 TRACK Tape Cartridges, (26), Country & Western, must take all - $26; Cassette Tapes (26), Country & Western, must take all $26; Black nylon carrying case, holds 30 cassettes, $10; Sturdy 8 track case, holds 18 tape cartridges, $7; fancy 8 track case, holds 12 tape cartridges, $8; plastic turn table, holds 24, 8 track cartridges, $5; L.P. record holder, stained wood, 2 doors, 25”x15”x22”, on castors, $40. 403-314-2026

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

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. All Types.

P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 birchfirewoodsales.com CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

1900

DOWNTOWN APT - SPRUCEVALE

2 bdrm, 1 bath, no pets $825 +elec, avail Oct 1st HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

AGRICULTURAL 2000-2290

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2190

UPGRADED FLOORS!

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 On holiday reopen Sept. 28

Household Appliances

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

Household Furnishings

1720

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 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 LOVESEAT beige background, pale pink/blue flowers $150; flower petal table lamp, rose, $35 403-343-6218

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

80A Kelloway Cres.

3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 appls\ in-suite. $1525. Avail immed HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpman.ca

You Looking?

3010

1 & 2 bdrm. suites Heat/water/parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

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

2 bdrm. Adult Building Heat/Water/Parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

3020

ZOOM Take Me

Roommates Wanted

3080

MORRISROE 5 bdrm bi-level, garage, fenced, 2 baths. N/S, no pets.

343-7768

Mobile Lot

At

www.garymoe.com

216751

Trucks

RARE OPPORTUNITY

Investment Opportunities

Auto Wreckers

4180

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

4 Units + 1 bachelor.

We travel. May pay cash Could be Condo. for vehicle. 403-396-7519 Lacombe 10 yrs. old.

Close to schools & recreation. Close to Downtown.

Rents could be increased. Vehicles 5 Units for $789,000. Call Wanted To Buy John at Coldwell Banker 403-348-3339 A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

5200

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wheels

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

CLASSIFICATIONS

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

5000-5300

5030

4020

1840

F1 ($700) F1B ($900) LABRA DOODLES Ready late Oct. Price incl. delivery. 306-792-2113 or 403-919-1370 www.furfettishfarm.ca SCHNAUZER, mini, black M. father white, AKC, mother black. Very unique colors. $600.

403-746-0007, 877-3352

Sporting Goods

1860

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. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. Oct. 1 incl. most utils,., call 403-886-5288

1870

3040

Homes

5190

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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

5050

2008 FORD Ranger Crew beautiful private property in cab w/topper, white, auto., sought after Woodlea, 77,000 kms., mainly hwy. backing onto Waskasoo Exc. Cond. $10,000 FIRM Creek. Build your dream 403-347-6428 home or modify the existing 3 bdrm. heritage home. 1997 FORD F150, 4x4, good cond. 403-346-3427 416-918-0195

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BEAUTIFUL yellow lab pup, $200 very friendly, great disposition 403-877-6354

In this Dec. 19, 2011 file photo, Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, eats breakfast.

4160

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File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

has relocated to

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

4 + 1 BDRM. 3 baths, dbl. att. garage, Deer Park NEED roommate. Sm. acreage $1700/mo. 403-340-0082 on Hwy. 12 between Bentley LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house, & Gull Lake. 403-748-4491 2 full bath, big lot, $995 403-782-7156 357-7465

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 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com Mason Martin Homes has

8 Brand New Homes starting at $179,900

2006 DODGE CHARGER Exc. shape. Runs great. 4 brand new tires. 89,000 km. $10,000 obo 403-848-0937

2005 HONDA Accord, tan, 131,500 kms., 6 cyl., leather sunroof, orig. owner. $10,500.

403-318-2736

4090

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE

TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS ESTATE OF GLENN ALLEN FOORD who died on or about the 20th day of February, 2012.

If you have a claim against this Estate you must file your claim by November 1, 2012 and provide details of your claim with: DAVID K. HANDEREK Jackie, Handerek & Forester 4710 - 50 Street Leduc, Alberta T9E 6W2 If you do not file by the date above, the Estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY 100,000 Potential Buyers???

Call for more info call 403-342-4544

Manufactured Homes

PUBLIC NOTICES

14x68’ TO BE MOVED, appraised at $8000.

Will sell for $3000.

403-314-9363

2001 CADILLAC Deville, sunroof, heated seats, leather, DVD, 124,000 kms exc. cond. in/out. $7950.

403-342-0587

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

1997 FORD Taurus 254,000 kms, loaded, lots of new parts, command start $1500 obo 403-896-9138 after 5 p.m.

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PET ADOPTION www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

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modular/mobile homes

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LAKE FRONT PROPERTY -†2300 sqft home on 10 acres $395,000. 10 min from Ponoka.

Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door.

See welist.com #47984.† MLS C3526876.

Call 403-519-6773† Email: brettie@platinum.ca

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LEGAL bsmt. suite, fully furn., linens, dishes, washer/dryer, tv, quiet mature, employed, n/s, M. 403-347-6048 Please leave # w/area code

1 & 2 bdrm. units Washer/Dryer in suite Heat-water/park incl’d Call 403-342-2899

MEN’S size 10 hockey FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, skates, used very little $40; mens hocky shin guards, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 like new $20, both items 1 BDRM. suite for over forty $50; ladies figure skates quiet tenant at 5910-55 w/blade guards size 7 like Ave. Security cameras, new $35 403-986-2004 auto lock doors, heat and Garden water included. No pets.

Supplies Rent $750, $700 s.d.

Collectors' Ph: 403-341-4627 COLORADO BLUE Items SPRUCE 6’-15’ digging 2 BDRM, lower floor for and planting. J/V Tree over 40 quiet tenant, heat NATIONAL Royal Museum Farm. 403-350-6439. & water incl., security Mint classic Ford miniature cameras throughout and LARGE CLUMP cars (13) + plus garage all laundry on site. $850, OF BLUE IRIS (Flags) for $75 403-396-4440 s.d. $825. 403-341-4627 & SEVERAL CLUMPS OF DAY LILIES. Free! Call 403-358-5599 Manufactured TREES for sale near Mirror, AB. Tower Poplar, Colorado Blue Spruce, Swedish Aspen, and Japanese Lilac. 403-650-1309

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5 appl. Avail now! no pets $925/mo + elec.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 www.hpma.ca

2ND. cut round hay bales 403-350-4924

Acreages/ Farms

4130

Adult Bldg. 1 & 2 Bdrm.

Units Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899

CLASSIFICATIONS

Grain, Feed Hay

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Horses

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LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile OXYGEN Acetylene reguCars or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. lator Victor set $55; 2 new Condos/ Excellent 1st time home suede welding bibs buyers. 403-588-8820 $40/ea.; Craftsman indus- Townhouses trial vacuum cleaner $55; umbrella patio set w/4 4 B D R M . L a c o m b e 5 MOBILE HOME PAD, in appls, rent $1495 avail. Red Deer Close to Gaetz, chairs $30 403-887-4981 Oct 1 782-7156 357-7465 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

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Giant panda cub at National Zoo dies

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The giant panda cub born a week ago at the National Zoo in Washington died Sunday morning, saddening zoo officials and visitors who had heralded its unexpected arrival.

The 4-ounce (113-gram) cub, about the size of a stick of butter, showed no obvious signs of distress and made its final recorded noise shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday, zoo officials said at a news conference.

The cub’s mother, Mei Xiang, then made an unusual honking sound at 9:17 a.m. that her keepers interpreted as a distress call, and she moved away from where she had been nesting with the cub. About an hour later, one keeper distracted her with honey water while another used an instrument similar to a lacrosse stick to pick up the cub.

The cub, whose gender could not be determined externally, was not breathing and its heart had stopped.

A veterinarian attempted CPR before it was pronounced dead at 10:28 a.m.

“This is devastating for all of us here,” National Zoo director Dennis Kelly said at a news conference. “It’s hard to describe how much passion and energy and thought and care has gone into this.”

Four American zoos have pandas, but Washington’s pandas are treated like royalty. The zoo was given its first set of pandas in 1972 as a gift from China to commemorate President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the country.

Mei Xiang’s first cub, Tai Shan, born in 2005, enjoyed enormous popularity before he was returned to China in 2010.

The new cub, born Sept. 16, had been a surprise at the zoo. Fourteenyear-old Mei Xiang had five failed pregnancies before giving birth.

Panda cubs are especially delicate and vulnerable to infection and other illness. The first weeks of life are critical for the cubs as mothers have to make sure they stay warm and get enough to eat.

Panda mothers are about 1,000 times heavier than their cubs, and sometimes they accidentally crush them. On any given day in the first two weeks of life, cubs have a mortality rate of 17 to 18 per cent, zoo officials said.

A necropsy was being conducted to determine the cause of death, and preliminary findings were expected Monday, said Suzan Murray, the zoo’s chief veterinarian. The cub showed no external signs of trauma, Murray said.

“The cub was just beautiful. Beautiful little body, beautiful face, with markings just beginning to show around the eye,” Murray said.

As they did after Tai Shan was born, keepers had been leaving Mei Xiang alone with her offspring, monitoring her on video feeds that were also streamed on the zoo’s website.

Mei Xiang was resting comfortably after the cub’s death, officials said.

The zoo’s first panda couple, Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing, had five cubs during the 1980s, but none lived more than a few days. One of the cubs was stillborn; two others died of pneumonia within a day; another died from lack of oxygen after birth; and the final cub died of an infection after four days.

Atlanta has had three cubs, and the San Diego zoo has had six, including a cub born this year. A panda couple in Memphis has yet to have a cub, despite several tries.

The cub had not yet been named in accordance with Chinese tradition — it was to receive a name after 100 days on Dec. 24. Had the cub survived until then, it would have been roughly the size of a loaf of bread and weighed around 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms). It will not be named posthumously, Kelly said.

Kelly said it was too soon to know if the zoo would attempt to breed Mei Xiang again. She was artificially inseminated with sperm from the zoo’s male panda, Tian Tian.

“These bears are so critically endangered that every panda cub is important,” Kelly said.

The panda exhibit was closed indefinitely. Early Sunday afternoon, there was still a sign outside the panda house announcing the cub’s birth, and many visitors were unaware of the death.

At the zoo’s panda-themed gift shop, Diana Salguero, 24, of Manassas, Virginia, was trying on a headband with panda ears when she learned from a reporter about the cub’s death.

“I want to cry right now,” she said.

“I’m heartbroken. I’ve been excited all week. That’s why I came out today.”

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Libyan leader orders militias to fall in line

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Soldiers from the Libyan National Army get ready to enter Rafallah al-sahati Islamic Militia Brigades compound, one of the compound buildings can be seen behind the wall, in Benghazi, Libya, Saturday. even July’s election.

Some of the militias have taken steps over the past several weeks to consolidate and work as contracted government security forces that are paid monthly salaries.

In the western city of Misrata, for example, resident Walid Khashif said dozens of militias held a meeting recently and decided to work under the government’s authority. He said the militias also handed over three main prisons in the city to the Ministry of Justice to run.

Since Gadhafi’s capture and killing, the government has brought some militias nominally under the authority of the military or Interior Ministry, but even those retain separate commanders and often are only superficially subordinate to the state. ElMegaref told reporters late Saturday that militias operating outside state authority will be dissolved, and that the military and police will take control over their barracks.

But it remains unclear if the government has the will — and the firepower — to force the most powerful militias to recognize its authority.

Backers of the ousted regime continue to hold sway in some parts of the country, particularly the western city of Bani Walid and parts of the deep south. Gadhafi loyalists near the southern town of Barek al-Shati clashed with a pro-government mili-

World leaders meet at UN at time of turmoil

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democratic uprisings across the Arab world and the Palestinians’ bid for U.N. membership sparked excitement and hope at last year’s meeting of world leaders. But with war raging in Syria, the Palestinian application sidelined, and deadly protests generated by an anti-Islamic video, the mood as this year’s U.N. gathering begins is one of disappointment and frustration.

More than 120 presidents, prime ministers and monarchs meeting this week under heavy security at the U.N. General Assembly and in sideline events will also be preoccupied by rising tension over Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli strike against Tehran’s nuclear facilities, al-Qaida’s inroads in the Sahel region of west Africa, especially in Mali, and the first decline in years in international

aid to help developing countries combat poverty.

Secretary-General Ban Kimoon predicted that the ministerial session, which begins Tuesday, will be among the busiest ever, reflecting “the tumultuous time in which we live — a time of turmoil and transition.” It is also taking place “against a backdrop of widespread violence linked to intolerance,” he said.

Ahead of the opening ministerial session, which President Barack Obama will address, the U.N. chief has invited leaders to the first high-level meeting on the rule of law on Monday, hoping they “will send a strong signal to the world’s people that they are serious about establishing wellfunctioning institutions and delivering justice.”

Diplomats aren’t expecting any breakthroughs on the deadlock over Syria, which Ban said “will be foremost in our minds,” despite a number of sideline meetings

starting Monday when the new U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi briefs the U.N. Security Council behind closed doors on his recent talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad and other leaders in the region.

The Syrian conflict has bitterly divided the most powerful members of the Security Council, paralyzing the only U.N. body that can impose global sanctions and authorize military action.

Russia, Syria’s key protector, and China, have vetoed three Westernbacked resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to stop the violence and start political talks with opponents of his family’s 40-year dictatorship who began demonstrating against his regime 18 months ago.

Germany’s U.N. Ambassador Peter Wittig, the current Security Council president, said “change in the Arab world” will be uppermost in the minds of the leaders — as was the case at last year’s session.

Prophet film protesters clash with Greek police

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Qaida leader who was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in May 2011.

The amateurish film, which portrays the prophet as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester, has sparked violent protests throughout the Muslim world for nearly two weeks. The violence linked to protests over the film has resulted in the deaths of at least 49 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

About 300 Iranian students protested against the caricatures that appeared in the French weekly.

They rallied in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, burning French, U.S. and Israeli flags and chanting “death to France” and “down with the U.S.” They called for the expulsion of French ambassador to Iran.

In an interview to be aired Monday on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was asked about the protests in the Muslim world.

“Offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly,” Ahmadinejad said.

ATHENS — Greek riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse Muslim protesters who clashed with officers Sunday during a rally against a film produced in the U.S. that denigrates Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. No injuries were reported.

A general strike in Bangladesh shut down schools, transportation and businesses, while a few hundred people peacefully marched in Pakistan. Iranian students burned flags in Tehran to protest the recent publication of lewd caricatures of Muhammad by a French satirical weekly.

In Athens, six people were detained during the demonstration at a central square, police said. About 600 people attended the rally, which featured heated speeches, but was mostly peaceful.

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BENGHAZI, Libya — The Libyan army on Sunday said it raided several militia outposts operating outside government control in the capital, Tripoli, while in the east, the militia suspected in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate said it had disbanded on orders of the country’s president.

President Mohammed el-Megaref said late Saturday all of the country’s militias must come under government authority or disband, a move that appeared aimed at harnessing popular anger against the powerful armed groups following the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador.

The assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, which left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead, has sparked an angry backlash among many Libyans against the myriad of armed factions that continue to run rampant across the nation nearly a year after the end of the country’s civil war.

On Friday, residents of Benghazi — the cradle of the Libyan revolution last year that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi — staged a mass demonstration against the militias before storming the compounds of several armed groups in the city in an unprecedented protest to demand the militias dissolve.

The government has taken advantage of the popular sentiment to move quickly. In a statement published by the official LANA news agency, the military asked all armed groups using the army’s camps, outposts and barracks in Tripoli, and other cities to hand them over. It warned that it will resort to force if the groups refuse.

On Sunday, security forces raided a number of sites in the capital, including a military outpost on the main airport road, which were being used as bases by disparate militias since Gadhafi was driven from the capital around a year ago, according to military spokesman Ali al-Shakhli.

Tripoli resident Abdel-Salam Sikayer said he believes the government is able to make this push now because, thanks to the country’s first free election in decades that took place in July, the public generally trusts it.

“There was no trust before the election of the National Congress that is backed by the legitimacy of the people and which chose the country’s leader.

There is a feeling that the national army will really be built,” he said.

The government faces a number of obstacles, though. It needs the most powerful militias on its side to help disband the rest. It also relies on militias for protection of vital institutions and has used them to secure the borders, airports, hospitals and

tia for several days, killing nearly 20, and abducted 30 militiamen working with the authorities from a bus this week, according to Essam al-Katous, a senior security official.

Over the past 11 months, a series of interim leaders has struggled to bring order to a country that was eviscerated during the eccentric dictator’s 42-year rule, with security forces and the military intentionally kept weak and government institutions hollowed of authority.

Powerful militias like Ansar al-Shariah in eastern Libya say there is no clear system in place for how the head of the joints chief of staff decides which militias are legitimate and which are not. The extremist group, which is suspected in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate, was not deemed legitimate by the state.

Rather than join the military, the Ansar militia, viewed as the most disciplined and feared one in the east, said it disbanded on Sunday.

“Now, we have only light personal weapons,” said Youssef Jihani, a senior figure in the group.

He said the group turned over heavier weapons to Libya Shield, a major militia in Benghazi relied on by authorities. Senior figures from Libya Shield in Benghazi could not be immediately reached for verification.

The move to disband comes after some 30,000 people took to the streets of Benghazi for a mass protest against the militias on Friday. The protesters drove out Ansar gunmen and set fire to cars in their compound — once a major base for Gadhafi’s feared security forces. Others stormed into the Jalaa Hospital, driving out Ansar fighters there.

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Canadian reported among missing in Nepal avalanche

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KATMANDU, Nepal — Officials say at least nine people are dead and several others missing, including a Canadian, after an avalanche hit climbers on a high Himalayan peak in Nepal today.

Many of the climbers were French or German but the U.K.-based The Telegraph website reported that one of the missing people is Canadian.

Dipendra Paude of Nepal’s tourism ministry, which controls all international climbing expeditions, told The Telegraph the dead climbers were from Spain, Germany and Nepal.

The Telegraph said the missing included five French nationals, a Canadian and an Italian climber.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa could not immediately confirm that a Canadian was among those missing.

But Chrystiane Roy says Foreign Affairs officials have been in contact with authorities in Nepal.

“We are following the developments closely and stand ready to provide consular assistance should there be a need,” Roy said Sunday. “Our thoughts are with the victims (and their families) of this avalanche.”

Police official Basanta Bahadur Kuwar said the bodies of a Nepalese guide and a German man were recovered and that rescue pilots had spotted seven other bodies on the slopes of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, the eighth-highest mountain in the world.

In Madrid, Spain’s Foreign Ministry said one of those killed was Spanish, but did not release the person’s identity.The identities of the other victims were still being confirmed.

Ten other climbers survived the avalanche but many were injured and were flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters, Kuwar said.

Rescue pilot Pasang, who uses only one name, said three injured French citizens and two Germans had been transported to hospitals in Kathmandu.

He said rescuers were also attempting to bring the bodies of the dead back to the base camp.

Weather conditions were deteriorating and it was not possible to continue air searches of the mountain Sunday afternoon, Kuwar said.

The avalanche hit the climbers at a camp at 7,000 metres (22,960 feet) early in the morning as they were preparing to head toward the summit, which is 8,156 metres (26,760 feet) high.

There were Italian, German and French teams on the mountain, with a total of 231 climbers and guides, but not all were at the higher camps, officials said.

It is currently the beginning of Nepal’s autumn mountaineering season. The autumn season comes right after the end of the monsoon rains, which make weather conditions unpredictable, and is not as popular among mountaineers as the spring season, when hundreds of climbers crowd the high Himalayan peaks.

Nepal has eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world. Climbers have complained in recent years that climbing conditions have deteriorated and risks of accidents have increased.

Veteran mountain guide Apa, who has climbed Mount Everest a record 21 times, travelled for months across Nepal earlier this year campaigning about the effects of global warming on the mountain peaks.

He told The Associated Press the mountains now have considerably less ice and snow, making it harder for climbers to use ice axes and crampons on their boots to get a grip on the slopes.

Ten other climbers survived the avalanche but many were injured and were flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters.

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In an analysis based on government data, The Advancement Project , a civil rights group, identified legal barriers that could deter voter registration and participation among eligible Hispanics. In some of those states, the group’s researchers said, the number of voter-eligible Latino citizens potentially blocked by those barriers exceeds the margin of victory in the 2008 election.

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