Red Deer Express, November 14, 2012

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Inspirational City woman unhindered by vision loss Kim Skibsted enjoys a fulfilling career and an active community life

BY MARK WEBER Red Deer Express

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ed Deerian Kim Skibsted’s parents knew there was something wrong with their daughter when Type 1 diabetic symptoms started surfacing when she was just three.

Excessive hunger, thirst and tiredness plagued the youngster. “Sure enough, that’s what it was.”

However for Skibsted, now 55, life seemed pretty normal through her youth and into adulthood in terms of family life, community involvement and her studies.

While working at the University Hospital in Edmonton, she noticed one day a profound change in her vision. This came about after several years of living on her own and she acknowledges she perhaps wasn’t as diligent in monitoring and correcting sugar levels as she could have been.

She was diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy – the most common cause of vision loss amongst Canadians under 50 years of age. Diabetic retinopathy is caused when elevated blood glucose levels cause vessels in the retina to swell and leak.

“Of course, back then the (insulin) was very different – you certainly got swings – highs and lows. It’s that change of blood sugars going too high and too low that causes the problems with the blood vessels.”

Currently, 43,000 Albertans are living with some form of this condition. This figure is expected to increase by 61% in the next 20 years. For Skibsted, it meant seven surgeries over the course of six months and a year of sick leave.

People with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are at high risk of developing diabetic retinopathy. However, health officials say most vision loss from the condition can be avoided by managing glucose levels, exercise, early detection and treatment.

And with World Diabetes Day being today, Skibsted emphasizes the importance of regular eye check-ups. “My advice is that people with diabetes should see an ophthalmologist every year – and if there is any sign of retinopathy, every six months. It comes on quickly and you don’t really notice it as it’s occurring until it’s almost too late.”

She often speaks to families and at local schools, and is the facilitator for Visionaries, a support group for working-age people who are blind or partially sighted. That role has now extended to raising awareness about the risk factors and prevention methods of diabetic retinopathy.

But for Skibsted, who is a remarkably outgoing, positive and vivacious woman,

sinking into despair over losing her sight wasn’t an option. After being released from hospital, she attended an adjustment to vision loss program at CNIB in Calgary.

CNIB provides support, knowledge and a voice to ensure Canadians who are blind or partially-sighted have the confidence, skills and opportunities to participate in life.

She learned to manage at home, how to read and write Braille, type on a typewriter, and travel alone. With a CNIB guide she was even able to ski, skate and dance again.

That’s not to say there weren’t moments of fear.

But she credits support of friends and family with helping her each step of the way. A strong faith, which surfaced some years later, also provides help from day to day. “I became a Catholic when I moved to Red Deer. Faith does play a big part in my life – it gives me strength. I didn’t become a Catholic until I was educated and here in Red Deer and I realized that something was missing. Faith does play an important part in my life.”

Meanwhile, she wasn’t – and isn’t afraid to try to do things she once did as a sighted person. “I’m not a good ‘sitter’ as you can probably tell,” she laughs. “I like to be busy.

“I remember after surgeries, I had patches on both eyes and I’d be baking butter tarts. I would be thinking how would I get a recipe? I’ll get a tape recorder. It would also bother my family a bit when they’d come in the house and say ‘Where are you Kim?’ I’d say I’m in the bedroom folding laundry.

“I would have never believed then I could be doing what I’ve done. But I started skiing when I was going to the adjustment to blindness program in Calgary. My mobility instructor took me skiing, and that was fun. I basically did what I enjoyed doing.”

She even returned to the University of Alberta and became a speech language pathologist. Working out a routine of study took plenty of effort, but a faithful group of volunteers and friends helped her along.

Speech language pathology suits her perfectly, because she has a strong, innate desire to help others. And as facilitator of Visionaries, she has plenty of opportunities to be a listening ear to those who are losing their sight. She can empathize, but she’s eager to see members press on and welcome new challenges.

The group meets once a month and features a variety of speakers on an array of topics. “I try to motivate them. My goal with the group is to be solution-focused.”

Ultimately, Skibsted isn’t one to sit

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“I’m also good at my resources, and I try to teach the group that. How do I manage and how do I do well? It’s in my nature,” she explained. “And my family has taught me that. They are incredibly supportive.” editor@reddeerexpress.com

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Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen was happy to be back in Red Deer to bring some good news to one of the City’s oldest institutions.

Dreeshen, on behalf of Lynne Yelich, minister of state for Western Economic Diversifications, announced infrastructure support towards the Red Deer Public Library.

The announcement was made that through the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF), $225,300 will be provided to the Red Deer Library Board for upgrades.

CIIF supports, on a cost-shared basis, repairs and improvements to existing community infrastructure accessible to the public such as Red Deer’s downtown library.

“The Government of Alberta is very proud to join with the Red Deer Library Board and the Government of Canada in upgrades to the Red Deer Public Library with the Community Facility Enhancement Program grant of $100,000,” said Mary Anne Jablonski, MLA for Red Deer North.

These funds will support electrical upgrades and the installation of new air conditioning equipment along with several other interior renovations including replacing the ceiling and the lighting on the third and fourth levels of the library.

According to Duncan Anderson, chair of the Red Deer Library Board, with economics being what they were and demands being what they were, the reality was that the library was not going to be able to do all of the upgrades that needed to be done.

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These upgrades will reduce operating costs, create a more energy efficient facility and provide a more comfortable, modernized learning space for public enjoyment.

“Further, this investment will prepare the library for its upcoming 2014 centennial celebrations and ensure the legacy of this modernized learning space remains in the community for years to come,” said Dreeshen.

“I am delighted to see that our government’s investment in community, facilities and spaces are being met with great enthusiasm and here in Central Alberta investments through our government’s CIIF are upgrading existing community infrastructures while generating economic benefits in the process,” said Dreeshen.

This fund is a key part of the government’s plan to create jobs, growth and long-term prosperity.

Libraries are integral facilities that provide communities with accessible resources for academics, educational and recreational use, said Dreeshen. He added that while the world is changing with new technologies, libraries continue to be a valuable resource for young and adult learners alike.

“Across Alberta community-based organizations are stepping up and identifying needs and mobilizing to make sure those needs are addressed,” said Jablonski. “It is through their efforts that young people, families and the most vulnerable in our communities have access to programs, services and facilities that improve quality of life for our citizens.

“This makes our community stronger and makes our community more welcoming.” treid@reddeerexpress.com

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Son charged with father’s death

BY ERIN FAWCETT Red Deer Express The funeral of a former City councillor who was allegedly murdered by his son last week will be held in Red Deer today.

“THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF A BREAKIN AT THE RESIDENCE. WE ARE CONTINUING TO SEARCH THE PROPERTY. RCMP CPL. A.J. MAND Timothy Guilbault, 58, a former Red Deer City councillor and Calgary businessman was found dead at his cottage in Red Lodge Estates near Innisfail on Nov. 5.

His daughter Caroline reportedly found him in the home as she was going to tell him about his mother’s

TIMOTHY GUILBAULT failing health. Timothy’s mother died later that day.

Timothy’s son, Aaron Guilbault, 31, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death.

On Nov. 5th shortly after 12 p.m., a family member found the body of Timothy.

Innisfail RCMP Detachment was immediately contacted and a homicide investigation was launched with the support of the Red Deer Major Crime Unit, Forensic Identification

Section and other support units.

Aaron was arrested in his father’s vehicle near Stettler a few hours after Timothy’s body was discovered, RCMP have said.

“The investigation is ongoing. There were no signs of a break-in at the residence. We are continuing to search the property,” said Cpl. A.J. Mand, with the Innisfail RCMP detachment.

He added police will not comment on a possible motive of the crime.

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formed by the Medial Examiner’s office in Calgary on Nov. 6th however, the cause of death will not be released at this time.

Timothy served as a Red Deer City councillor from 1986 to 1995.

In the last number of years he worked in Calgary in the oil service industry and was the vice president of human resources for Brookfield Residential.

Meanwhile, Aaron returns to Red Deer provincial court Nov. 21. efawcett@reddeerexpress.com

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Local agencies gearing up for Christmas season

BY ERIN FAWCETT Red Deer Express A number of local agencies are gearing up for a busy Christmas season as fundraising efforts get underway.

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At the Red Deer Christmas Bureau, ofďŹ cials are anticipating a busy December as a number of fundraisers are set to take place.

Some of the fundraising events the Bureau will receive goods from next month include the RCMP Charity Check Stop, Toys for Tickets, the Westerner Christmas Bazaar Craft Show, Stuff-A-Bus in conjunction with the Red Deer Food Bank, the toque toss at the Rebels game as well as the cash cans local businesses have put out.

The organization is also accepting applications from families in need of support over the holiday season.

WE TRY TO HELP MAKE SURE ALL FAMILIES OUT THERE HAVE A CHRISTMAS. MANY OF THE CHILDREN IN THESE FAMILIES DON’T GET BIRTHDAY GIFTS OR OTHER GIFTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, SO WE WANT TO MAKE CHRISTMAS AN EXTRA SPECIAL TIME FOR THEM.’ GERRI TILLER “We accept families who need some extra assistance.

They can come in and shop for their kids. We have the place set up like a store,� said Gerri Tiller, toy depot director and volunteer coordinator at the Red Deer Christmas Bureau. “We try to help make sure all families out there have a Christmas. Many of the children in these families don’t get birthday gifts or other gifts throughout the year, so we want to make Christmas an extra special time for them.�

Last year, the Bureau helped 1,055 families from Red Deer and Springbrook. This year, they will also help families in Penhold and Tiller said she expects that number to be higher. “We are still in need of donations, especially donations for the older kids,� said Tiller.

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She added some examples of donations for children aged 14 to 16 include tools, hockey sticks and ďŹ shing rods for the boys and blow dryers, curling irons and make-up for the girls. Other suggestions include pajamas and watches.

In addition, the Salvation Army also has a number of events in the upcoming weeks.

The Kettle Campaign will kick off Nov. 22 and run until Dec. 22. This is the largest fundraiser for the organization. “We’ve set a goal of $190,000 this year. Last year our goal was $185,000 but we surpassed the $190,000 mark,� said Major Larry Bridger. “The money raised from the campaign goes towards all of our operations for the year.�

Volunteers are needed for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign. Those interested in helping out are asked to call 403-346-2251.

The Salvation Army is also taking registrations for its Adopt-A-Family program. Last year, the organization helped 187 families and they anticipate the number will be the same this year, if not more. “We provide a family with enough groceries to have a Christmas dinner, plus extras as well. We also provide children with toys to open on Christmas morning,� said Bridger.

Registrations for Adopt-A-Family will be accepted until Dec. 14.

Bridger added they are also looking for anyone interested in sponsoring a family through the program as well. “It costs $400 to provide a family of four with a complete Christmas. Even if someone can’t afford to give $400, we also take donations for the program as well.�

Meanwhile, a new fundraiser for the local Salvation Army that began last year will take place next month. The Santa Shufe and Elf Walk, a fundraiser put on by the Running Room, is a 5 km run or a 1 km walk.

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Red Deer Point in Time Homeless Count results announced A total of 279 people were found to be homeless on Oct. 16, according to the initial results of the 2012 Red Deer Point in Time (PIT) Homeless Count.

Of the 279 people, 95 (35%) were sheltered and 184 (66%) were unsheltered, meaning they were encountered in parks, on the streets or sidewalks, at drop-in centres or at meal programs.

This year’s PIT Homeless Count found that 37.1% were youth under the age of 25; 31.4% were female and 44.4% were selfreported as Aboriginal.

The City of Red Deer, in partnership with the Red Deer & District Community Foundation, conducted Red Deer’s first PIT Homeless Count to determine the overall scope of homelessness and provide a baseline to inform strategies for ending homelessness in Red Deer.

An official report will be released in mid-December.

Future counts will be conducted every two years.

“We look forward to the more detailed report in mid-December as it will give a better understand-

“THIS EXPERIENCE HAS MADE ME REALIZE THAT WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY TO END HOMELESSNESS; WE ALL HAVE A PART TO PLAY.” KATHY CAVE ing of those affected by homelessness, how they are currently using services and programs, and what other services or strategies would be helpful in finding per-

manent stable housing,” said Rebekah McDermott, coordinator with the EveryOne’s Home Leadership Model.

Ninety-eight volunteers walked through the community on Oct. 16 surveying individuals within Red Deer City limits.

“I was inspired and amazed by people’s willingness to take the surveys. Their responses were raw and honest,” said Kathy Cave, volunteer on the night of the PIT Homeless Count. “This experience has made me realize that we need to come together as

a community to end homelessness; we all have a part to play.”

Between April 2009 and March 2012, Red Deer has used provincial funding to house 344 chronically or episodically homeless individuals.

Between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012 through federal funding 36 youth accessed the winter mat program, 118 youth received support through the Community Support worker, and four youth were supported into appropriate housing.

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OPINION World Diabetes Day Over the past several years, the words ‘diabetic’ and ‘epidemic’ are often appearing together – it’s a disturbing reality that health officials point to, as the disease can cause an array of serious health complications.

World Diabetes Day takes place each year on Nov. 14, and it’s an official United Nations World Day. The date was chosen because it marks the birthday of Frederick Banting, who, along with Charles Best, is credited with the discovery of insulin. While many events take place on or around the day itself, a themed campaign runs throughout the year.

World Diabetes Day brings together millions of people in more than 160 countries to raise awareness of diabetes.

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are chronic, life-long conditions that require careful monitoring and control. Without proper management they can lead to high blood sugar levels which can result in long-term damage to organs and tissues. For example, cardiovascular disease which, according to the International Diabetes Federation, is the major cause of death in people with diabetes, accounting in most populations for 50% or more of all diabetes fatalities, and much disability.

Kidney disease (diabetic nephropathy) can result in total kidney failure and the need for dialysis or kidney transplant. Diabetes is an increasingly important cause of renal failure, and has become the single most common cause of end stage renal disease.

Also, nerve disease (diabetic neuropathy) can lead to ulceration and amputation of the toes, feet and lower limbs. Loss of feeling is a particular risk because it can allow foot injuries to escape notice and treatment, leading to infections and amputation.

Finally, there is the risk of developing eye disease (diabetic retinopathy), which is characterized by damage to the retina of the eye which can lead to vision loss.

These are just some of the reasons why it’s so important for people to keep a careful watch on their health, and practice preventative measures for Type 2 diabetes which is often, but not always, associated with obesity.

Being significantly overweight can cause insulin resistance and lead to elevated blood glucose levels. Besides Nov. 14 being singled out as World Diabetes Day, November is Diabetes Awareness Month. There are a number of reasons why dedicating an entire month to the cause is appropriate.

There are currently 366 million people living with diabetes. And according to the International Diabetes Federation, the figure is set to rise to more than 550 million by 2030. Diabetes is also responsible for 4.6 million deaths a year - one every seven seconds.

Other starting statistics - diabetes is among the top 10 causes of disability, resulting in life-threatening complications such as heart disease, stroke, lower limb amputations and blindness.

Awareness is critical – statistics show that 50% of people with diabetes are undiagnosed.

Getting prepared for the next big storm When Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey, and the storm surge hit New York City and environs, we all watched the news in voyeuristic horror and amazement.

Bruce

STEWART Now, more than two weeks later, the headlines have moved on. But meanwhile, in the region, storm damage continues to affect lives.

Preparing for extended power outages, heat out-

ages and disrupted travel that makes store shelves go empty and stay empty is just common sense, saving you from pain and misery.

First, every residence should have food on hand.

Food that doesn’t require your freezer to work, and that can be eaten if the stove is off, too.

The average town or city is constantly resupplied, which means stores keep enough on hand for a few days at most. Enough for two to four weeks is all that’s required.

But think about this -- not only do prices rise sharply in a disaster. If it’s the last tin of beans and the truck’s unable to come to restock the shelves, you can be sure they’re not on sale at 79 cents.

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Buying for your larder on sale, then eating it down slowly, means you save a few nickels. Over the course of a year, this will slow your own inflation rate by as much as 10 to 15%.

Some maintenance each year can keep your residence much warmer if the heat’s off, too. Touch up the weather stripping, have some blankets to throw down at the bottom of the door, maybe keep some plastic ready to add a layer to windows.

It can happen in Canada too. The windstorm that flattened Stanley Park in Vancouver a few years back also took down a number of power lines.

Neighbourhoods on Vancouver’s west side had pow-

er out for two to four days while crews worked fixing things. November in Vancouver isn’t like early February in Regina but, with the heat impaired and the stove dead, little things like this made the difference between a warm enough house, and a too cold one without food.

A Coleman stove can handle a meal for hot food.

Don’t forget that, depending on the incident, roads may be impassible.

I have a friend in Upstate New York who two or three times each winter finds himself cut off from ‘civilization’ for days due to ice on the roads. He keeps supplies, keeps the gas tank in his car over half full all the time, and has kerosene lamps mounted on the The Red Deer Express is a proud newspaper of

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walls in his rooms.

He lives, by the way, on less than $10,000 a year in terms of income, yet his pantry is always full, just in case. The savings by buying during sales and laying in a case of tins helps him stretch his budget and keep him fed.

This matters to all of us because what has happened in New York and New Jersey will take years to recover from. Getting the power turned back on was just the beginning.

The infrastructure is getting old in all our towns and cities. That means it’s more likely to fail on us than it was in the past, even if nothing else happens.

We don’t need massive ‘once-in-a-century’ storms (which Sandy wasn’t) to

suddenly throw us back on our own resources. Nor do we need ‘the big one’ (earthquake). We just need bridges, water pipes, and transformer stations to wear out from age.

One more thing that’s important is to have cash.

In a world where we all go around using our credit and debit cards constantly, we forget that ATMs, gas pumps and stores can’t accept those in an outage. So having some cash on hand is a smart thing to do, too.

There’ll be more ‘newsworthy events’. You can be ready ahead of them. It’ll be good for your wallet, too.

Troy Media Columnist Bruce Stewart is a management consultant located in Toronto. His column is distributed through www.troymedia.com.

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Letters to the editor

CitySpeak PAUL This week, Express reporter Erin Fawcett has asked Councillor Paul Harris questions regarding the City’s debt.

HARRIS

There is a lot of talk about our City’s debt. With so many priorities in the capital budget what are your philosophies about debt?

“I come to budget decisions with a strong background in business and property development. When my partner and I first started Sunworks in our downtown our focus was on providing an outstanding cultural experience for our community, but that can’t be done without a clear understanding of financing, debt management, and growth,” said Harris. “A business with big dreams will go nowhere without strong fiscal policy and sound business practices. The same is true of our City’s future. Understanding debt, and how and when to use borrowing, is important to achieving a future vision.”

He added the province mandates that every city in Alberta stay below a specific threshold of debt depending on the amount of taxes that that municipality collects annually.

“Staying below this threshold is one indicator of fiscal health. Some cities in Alberta have recently asked for their debt limits to be increased so that they can borrow more. Our philosophy in Red Deer has been to stay well below that limit and unofficially to never go above 90 per cent of the limit,” said Harris.

He added with the capital budget approved it brings the City’s debt level to 59.84% of the debt limit or in actual dollars to $260 million.

“That is the fourth lowest among the biggest cities in Alberta. We are in a very healthy position but some citizens say that $260 million is just too much debt. This year’s capital budget of $105 million is paid for through a variety of sources - grants, reserves, developer contributions, and debt. Of the total budget five per cent may be funded through borrowing of about $5 million,” said Harris.

He added major infrastructure projects cannot be funded through taxes without double digit increases, so debt is used to spread the costs out over the useful life of the project. This means that citizens that benefit from the project also pay for it over its lifespan rather than having the current population pay for the whole project upfront.

“Over half of our City’s debt relates to utilities - including the waste water and water treatment plants that have required significant upgrades starting in 2007.

Those upgrades were to meet federal regulations for health and safety. Phase five begins this year. A large proportion of the remaining debt relates to road infrastructure and land acquisition for the City’s growth,” said Harris. “Besides using debt to fund utilities expansion, replacements, or upgrades, in the past Red Deer’s debt has been used to fund many things in our community that have added to our quality of life. One fairly recent example is the Centrium. These projects have an influence on the economic development and viability of the community particularly when they serve everyone. Building the Centrium required debt.”

Does it cost us a lot to borrow?

“Interest rates for municipalities are the lowest they have been in decades, with fixed rates ranging from 1.37 per cent (three years) to 3.11 per cent (30 years). There is a myth in the community that if interest rates were to rise that our debt would seriously hamper the City’s budget, and a fear that we would have to use too much of the tax revenue to deal with the rising interest payments. This is false. Any debt we take on is borrowed at fixed rates which currently are historically low and they are budgeted for in advance,” said Harris. “The City always runs a balanced budget; municipalities are not allowed to run deficit budgets, a principle with which I strongly agree.”

He added compare the City’s current position to 1983 when the City had nearly reached the same debt level; the borrowing rates were some of the highest they had ever been.

“From a strictly business perspective, if borrowing is to be considered for needed infrastructure or amenities, now would be the time to borrow. Historically low interest rates and strong economic projections are important factors. We should not be afraid of debt. When used properly, it can be a very important tool that can bring our community economic growth, prosperity, and improvements to our quality of life,” said Harris.

Reader says air quality index doesn’t identify health hazards Canada’s Air Quality Health Index has a flaw in that it is a poor indicator of the health implications of breathing polluted air. Remarkably, only a few chemicals are monitored while the most dangerous chemicals in the air - complex toxins along with chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects are omitted.

Common sense indicates that no monitoring program can be effective unless, at the very least, carcinogens are monitored.

Independent, more sophisticated monitoring of the air in a typical Alberta city identified growing levels of carcinogens such as smoke, formaldehyde, benzene and polycyclic compounds, 30 years ago.

However, even today the revised Air Quality Health Index omits carcinogens as well as the chemicals of most concern.

The reluctance of politicians and most environmental groups to support monitoring is because the source of dangerous chemicals is wood burning in fireplaces, stoves, backyard fire pits, chimineas and in city parks and campgrounds.

Many people are involved in polluting the air, making this an unpopular issue.

No monitoring is really needed as the dangerous nature of wood combustion products has been known for centuries.

Dangerous chemicals are emitted in such high volumes that only a sense of smell is needed to identify a health concern. In historical times, if a fuel was dirty enough to coat a chimney and require the services of a chimney sweep then it was realized that neighbours’ lungs would also be coated with smoke, tar and creosote -- with serious health implications.

Once cigarette smoke was identified as a health hazard, with no safe number of cigarettes that can be smoked and no safe exposure to second-hand smoke it was immediately realized that as both wood and tobacco are cellulose-based plant materials then wood smoke will be chemically very similar to cigarette smoke and will cause the same diseases.

For whatever reason, only a handful of people in Alberta made the connection.

We would be better off ignoring the Air Quality Health Index and relying on common sense as people did in the past.

Even very sophisticated monitoring fails to identify the true extent of the health impact of wood smoke as free radicals are not normal chemicals and escape detection.

In addition, no monitoring will identify the smoke and fumes inside a home that has a wood burning appliance.

Both current and historical data identifies health problems linked to using a wood or coal burning fireplace or stove in a home. A troubling statistic is that today 20% of women who develop lung cancer have never smoked.

This may be because women spend time at home, when the children are young, and are exposed to smoke from their own wood burning appliance or from neighbours.

Even the most sophisticated monitoring needs to be supplemented by medical studies relating air pollution to human health.

Remarkably, when wood burning surfaced in Canada in the 1970s no environmental impact studies were undertaken even though the British were spending millions of pounds to rid urban centres of coal and wood smoke.

Apart from the human costs, the British realized that the cost of treating smokerelated diseases would cripple their health care system.

New Zealanders thought they would escape the problems of the past by mandating EPA approved wood stoves in 1973 but this turned into a “complete fiasco” as “approved” stoves only reduce emissions by a token amount while fireplaces still pose a threat to neighbours.

Their mild climate has saved them from a meltdown of their health care system as they do not need to burn much wood, limiting the cost of treating smoke-related diseases to only $2,700 for each wood burning appliance per year.

Allowing for Alberta’s long, cold winters we can estimate the cost of each wood burning appliance at $15,000 per annum.

In the U.S., in the San Francisco Bay Area, only 10% of the residents burn wood to some degree but this has been enough to increase health care costs by a billion dollars annually.

Burning bans were tried this year and each wood smoke-free day was estimated to have saved the health care system $250,000.

Smoke-free initiatives, by this city, are long overdue even if it means paying up to $8,000, following the lead of municipalities in the Puget Sound area, for residents to convert from wood to natural gas.

Without some action on the part of the city, like so many North American municipalities, Red Deer will become a very unhealthy place in which to live.

Relying on ineffective air quality monitoring has meant that the city has not supported a single effective clean air initiative, believing that the city has escaped the problems that other municipalities face with regard to wood smoke, automobile and diesel truck pollution.

A new approach is needed and with no safe exposure to wood smoke and possibly diesel smoke, an important first step would be to examine ways to reduce smoke to the lowest practical level.

Alan Smith Alberta director Canadian Clean Air Alliance Red Deer

WE WANT READER INPUT Letters to the editor are welcomed by the Red Deer Express. We attempt to publish a cross section of opinion and letters criticizing or praising our writers or content. However we reserve the right to edit every letter if necessary for length, taste, clarity and to eliminate inaccurate or libelous statements.

We prefer short concise letters, but will run letters unedited (for length) to a maximum of 250 words. Anything over this is subject to cutting. To be

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We publish the letter writer’s name and home town at the end of the letter.

Please send your letters by fax to 347-6620, email to editor@ reddeerexpress.com or mail to Editor, #121, 5301-43 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1C8.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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CITY BRIEFS The Red Deer Games Foundation is accepting applications for financial assistance for Red Deer and area athletes.

The Foundation provides financial assistance to individuals demonstrating a high level of ability and strong devotion to their sport.

Information brochures and application forms outlining the guidelines and criteria of the program are available at Recreation Centre, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and the Alberta Sport Development Centre. Applications are also available online at www.asdccentral.ca The deadline for applications is Nov. 21.

For information on grants contact Mike Klass at 403342-3231 or michael.klass@ rdc.ab.ca.

For more information on the Red Deer Games Foundation or the Alberta Sport De-

velopment Centre check the Alberta Sport Development Centre’s web site at www.asdccentral.ca.

INDUSTRIAL VALUES SOAR IN OCTOBER October saw a significant increase in industrial permit values, totaling over $56 million.

Contributing to the increase is the issuance of a building permit, value of $53 million, to North America Construction for the expansion of the Red Deer Waste Water Treatment Plant.

New industrial building construction in Queens Business Park is also contributing to the increase in permit values.

Residential and commercial permit values continue to hold strong with single family home starts being the driving force behind the residential increase. Residential year to date values saw an increase of over $38 million with commercial values increasing over $4 million.

Monthly statistics are posted at www.reddeer.ca/ inspections.

PAY YOUR PARKING TICKET WITH A TOY Motorists who receive parking tickets through to Dec. 7 can once again donate a toy in lieu of payment as part of the City’s Toys for Tickets program.

“It’s all about giving back to the community,” said Fred Dieno, parking coordinator. “The program has been a huge success with over 3,000 toys collected since the program started.”

Toys for Tickets ran for the fifth time last year with 385 citizens donating almost 500 toys.

All toys collected will again go to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau to help in meeting its goal that no child wakes up without a toy on Christmas morning.

Toy donations in lieu of parking tickets will be accepted Dec. 6-7 from 8:30

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the first floor of City Hall.

All toys must be new and unwrapped.

The early payment rate will remain in effect when the ticket is paid for with a toy; however, the value of the toy must equal or exceed the amount owed on the parking ticket.

A receipt must be presented at the time of payment, and if the toy is valued lower than the price of the ticket, the difference must be paid.

For more about the Toys for Tickets program, contact Parking Administration at 403-342-8185.

FREY TO RETIRE Red Deer Public Library’s board of trustees has announced the retirement of director Dean Frey, effective June 30, 2013.

Frey managed Red Deer Public Library for the last quarter of its first century.

During that time he garnered international acclaim as a vi-

sionary leader in the field of library and information studies.

During his tenure as director Frey witnessed numerous revolutionary changes in library services and provided the leadership to guide the library through them, from the card catalogue and stamped cards to an integrated online system and self-checkout; from books to e-readers; from film to digital video and from LPs and audio cassettes to digital sound formats.

His ability to facilitate community groups, agencies and staff to work together resulted in the initiation of cutting-edge, award-winning

library programs and services. Perhaps his greatest legacy will be the three major building projects that took place during his tenure: the downtown and Dawe branch renovations, and planning for the Timberlands branch which opens in 2014.

“I wish to commend Dean for his 24 years of dedicated service to the citizens of Red Deer, and for leaving Red Deer Public Library in a great position to continue to be one of the best libraries in Canada,” said Duncan Anderson, chair of the Library Board. “On behalf of the board of trustees I also wish Dean and his family all the best in his retirement.”

19th Annual Festival of Trees Nov. 17, 21-25, 2012 Westerner Park, Red Deer www.RedDeerFestivalOfTrees.ca Important Public Service Announcement from Santa New Ticket Agent

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POLICE BRIEFS

INCREASE IN VEHICLE THEFTS

Anyone with information of these crimes can contact the RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Red Deer City RCMP have continued to note an increase in overnight thefts from vehicles. Culprits are targeting locked and unlocked vehicles with valuables visible inside.

As a preventative measure, RCMP encourage citizens to ensure the ignition key is removed, ensure vehicles are locked and windows are closed, remove any extra keys out of your vehicle, remove valuables or hide them out of sight, remove garage door openers from view, consider locking overhead garage doors at night and lock all doors leading to the home or exterior from the garage and avoid parking in unlit areas at night.

The RCMP and Neighbourhood Watch also advocate residents to get to know your neighbours, watch your neighbourhood for suspicious activity and report all suspicious activity to police.

RCMP INVESTIGATE DRUG TRAFFICKING The Red Deer City RCMP, in assistance with SCAN (Safer Communities & Neighbourhoods Unit) a section from Calgary ALERT, have charged two people for various drug trafficking offences, proceeds of crime and weapons offences.

On Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m, SCAN alerted the RCMP about a truck trafficking drugs in the south end of Red Deer. SCAN noticed the vehicle while conducting surveillance of a residence in Inglewood. A traffic stop was conducted by RCMP where Brian Buxton of Red Deer was arrested for outstanding warrants and trafficking in an illegal substance. Summer

Notice is hereby given that at its meeting to be held on Tuesday, November 20, 2012, the Council of Red Deer County will consider the following bylaws.

from Agricultural District “Ag” to Country Residential District “R-1” as indicated below.

NW 17-38-26-W4M

ADOPT A MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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Rge Rd 265

Balmoral Heights

Bylaw No. 2012/26, a bylaw to adopt a Municipal Development Plan for Red Deer County.

Hwy 11

The purpose of this Plan is to guide the future growth and development of Red Deer County in an orderly, economical and sustainable way while maintaining and improving the quality of life of the community now and into the future. The Plan:

# Redesignate from Agricultural District "AG" to Country Residentail District "R-1"

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• Clearly defines the goals, objectives and policies of the County with respect to Planning matters

Stone Ridge Estates

• Balances the needs of present and future generations • Minimizes land use conflicts #

• Promotes sustainable development practices

Westview Estates

• Provides support and direction for the administration of the Land Use Bylaw

AMENDMENT TO THE LAND USE BYLAW NO. 2006/6 Bylaw No. 2012/2.04 to redesignate Lot 1, Blk 2, Plan 092 8519, NW 17-38-26-4 (1.68 hectares / 4.15 acres)

Kreiser of Sylvan Lake was also arrested for trafficking in an illegal substance.

RCMP conducted a search of the truck and seized a quantity of cash, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana.

Bear spray and a bat were also located in the vehicle.

Buxton has been charged with four counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of prop-

erty obtained by crime and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Kreiser has been charged with four counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, three counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of property obtained by crime, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and failing to comply with an undertaking.

WINTER HAVOC - RCMP responded to a two-vehicle collision at Ross St. and 30 Ave. recently. According to police on the scene the collision was caused after the Tanis Reid/Red Deer Express truck made an unsafe left turn.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

by Erin Fawcett

The permitted and discretionary uses and other matters presently applicable to “Ag” and “R-1” districts are contained in the Red Deer County Land Use Bylaw No. 2006/6.

A PUBLIC HEARING prior to further consideration of the proposed bylaws WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012, at 1:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, County Office, 38106 Rge Rd 275, Red Deer County, Alberta (west of Hwy 2 on 32 Street / C&E Trail Overpass).

The hearing will be conducted under the chairmanship of the County Mayor for the purpose of hearing comments on the proposed bylaws.

The hearing will be informal with persons wishing to speak being recognized through the Chair. Presenters will be requested to state their name and address for the record.

If you prefer to submit comments on these bylaws in writing, the information you provide may be made public, subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The public may inspect: - a copy of the proposed bylaws - a copy of the proposed Municipal Development Plan

Bylaw No. 2012/ 2.04 Schedule 'A'

The subject land is located east of the City of Red Deer, south of Hwy 11 and east of Stone Ridge Estates, within the plan area of the Divide Hills Area Structure Plan.

- Land Use Bylaw No. 2006/6 by visiting our website at www.rdcounty.ca or at the County office located at 38106 Rge Rd 275, Red Deer County, Alberta, during regular office hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MONDAY through FRIDAY.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Ancient reptile found at Olds College

BY ERIN FAWCETT Red Deer Express An Olds College employee recently discovered an exceptionally well-preserved Champsosaur fossil.

Champsosaurs were semi-aquatic fresh water reptiles that resembled a small crocodile, measuring about two metres in length.

Researchers say they lived 120 – 55 million years ago – this specimen is from the Paleocene, about 60 million years ago.

The fossil was encased in rock that was moved during a landscaping project. Leona Megli, grounds technician at Olds College found the specimen in a remote rock bed under some debris. “We were looking at the rocks to see which one we would like best for a bed that we were building. I looked down at my feet and saw the fossil,” she said. “At first, I thought it surely can’t be a fossil. At first glance we thought it was a dried banana peel. At closer glance we realized it was something much more valuable, but the last thing you think you’d find in your job is a 60-millionyear-old fossil.”

Upon discovery, the Col-

lege emailed a photo to the Royal Tyrrell Museum and a senior technician went to investigate.

The fossil is currently in the preparation lab at the Royal Tyrrell Museum as a priority specimen. So far, technicians have uncovered the snout of the fossil.

“This is an exciting find,” said Dr. Donald Brinkman, director of preservation and research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. “Two kinds of champsosaurs lived during the Palaeocene Epoch in North America—Champsosaurus and Simoedosaurus. Only two specimens of Simoedosaurus have been reported previously in North America

- one from Saskatchewan and one from North Dakota. This specimen discovered in Olds is the rare Simoedosaurus.”

Outside North America, Simoedosaurus fossils have been found in Europe, so finding its remains in North America adds to evidence for an interchange at some point between the two continents.

“They also hope to find the rest of the fossil on campus. The sandstone rock that it was in was huge – about seven by five feet, but the fossil was broken just under the collarbone,” said Megli. “But it’s still really an exciting find.”

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fyi EVENTS The Canadian Ski Patrol system – Red Deer Zone annual ski and snowboard swap runs Nov. 16-18 at Westerner Park. The event runs in conjunction with the Red Deer Snow Fest Ski and Snowboard. Check out new and used skis, snowboards, boots, helmets and cross country gear. Cash only. Consignment is Nov. 16 from 4 to 9 p.m. Sale runs Nov. 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pick up/cash out is Nov. 18 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For information call 403-350-9411.

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on the units November 2011 through September Sep 2012. Tea and refreshments will follow the service. Also, there will be an opportunity to place an ornament clearly marked with the name of the loved one and date of their passing on the Tree of Remembrance. For more information call 403-309-2864.

Central Alberta Singles dances run Nov. 24 with music by Hotspur. Doors open at 8 p.m. with the music starting at 8:30 p.m. Members and invited guests only; new members are welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-304-7440.

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Carnival Cinemas presents Back to the Future trilogy on Nov. 17. Showtimes are 1:05 p.m., 3:15 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. It’s a fundraiser for the Parkinson Alberta Society. One dollar from each ticket will be donated. 403-341-6565.

Ride for the Children to take place Nov. 17th leaving from Precision Cycle Works on Gasoline Alley at 1 p.m. and riding to the Red Dee and District Food Bank. Nonperishable food items and cash are greatly accepted. For more call John at 403-341-4022.

The 23rd annual Tree of Remembrance Service and Tea will take place Dec. 2nd at 2 p.m. in the Red Deer Hospital Dana Soltes Auditorium, lower level south complex. The staff and volunteers of Units 32 and 32 P (Palliative) offer this special time of remembrance for those whose friends or relatives have deceased

Shopping Extravaganza & Silent Auction – Nov. 17, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at New Life Fellowship Church (20 Kelloway Cres.) in support of Shalom Counselling Centre.

We will also be recognizing our Neighbourhood Heroes: program starts at 2 p.m. with music and refreshments.

Annual cookie walk, bazaar and white elephant sale runs

Swimming Pool main foyer 4501 47A Ave on Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All functional and non fuctional pottery including naked raku and raku pieces will be available. Paintings, acrylic, oil and watercolor as well as painted cards will be for sale.

If you’re interested in learning more about club activities drop in for refreshments and view or purchase members work.

The Golden Circle is having their annual Christmas Craft and Bake Sale on Nov. 17th. The sale is held at the Golden Circle 462047 A Ave. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

We have over 25 vendors and the Nearly New Boutique will also be open. Lunch is available.

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Santa is visiting the Red Deer & District SPCA next weekend and is ready to add your pet to his list. It’s the annual Pet Pictures With Santa Nov. 17 and Nov. 18 from 12 - 4 p.m. at the SPCA, 4505 77 St. Bring the whole family including your dog, cat, ferret or iguana and join Santa in a Christmas picture for a fee of $20. All proceeds go toward animal care.

Due to the generosity of Central Albertans, the Red Deer Clothing Bank is unable to accept any more donations until Jan. 8, 2013.

Visions Country Gospel Christmas Concert will be held at Blackfalds United Church Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $15 and 16 and under are free. There will also be a silent auction and refreshments.

Visit Blackfaldsunitedchurch. com or call 403-885-4780 for more information.

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Visit us at www.laebon.com Women’s Association (CAIWA), in conjunction with Status of Women Canada, requests the honour of your presence at the launch of our regional Women’s Economic Security Project on Nov. 16. For Central Alberta, this is a three-year initiative of interest not only to immigrant women but also to agencies, local government, employers and those interested in community economic development. The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services & Minister for Status of Women or Mr. Earl Dreeshen, Red Deer MP will offer brief comments on this important initiative. For more information, call Tabitha at 403-341-3553 or email tabitha. caiwa@telus.net. The event takes place in the Margaret Parson’s Theatre at Red Deer College from 10:45 a.m. to noon. Please RSVP to tabitha. caiwa@telus.net to reserve your seat and a free parking pass.

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Nov. 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. Cookie boxes are $7 each. Everyone is welcome.

Art at the Lake third Annual Christmas Art Show and Sale Nov. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Lion’s Club Hall. (5119 – 50 A Ave., Sylvan Lake). This one-day Christmas Show and Sale will feature original handcrafted artwork ranging from forged metal work, functional and Raku ceramics, hand-blown glass work, jewelry, watercolour, oil and acrylic painting, pastel drawings, handmade soaps and unique clothing and scarves. Come by and help us share in the Christmas spirit over coffee and cookies.

Admission is free. For more information call 403-748-2557.

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Bazaar and Coffee Party Nov. 17 from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Sunnybrook United Church (12 Stanton St.). Crafts, bake table, white elephant sale. Everyone welcome. For further information contact Linda 403-347-6073.

Red Deer Public Library is holding a campfire sing-along on Nov. 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. Winter is coming!

Join us for hot chocolate, cookies and a family-style sing-along with musician Rick Moore. Children and adults all welcome. Call 403-3425582 for more information.

The Red Deer Christmas Antique furniture and collectibles show and sale runs Nov. 17-18 in the prairie and parkland pavilions at Westerner Park. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 on the Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Sunday. More than 450 tables

will be set up to check out.

On Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in the Red Deer Legion’s Alberta Room, there will be a wine and cheese for installation of officers and membership pin presentation.

All members welcome. On Dec. 3 - annual pot luck dinner at the Red Deer Legion.

Serving at 6 p.m. All members welcome. On Dec. 8 at 12:30 there will be a bake sale at the Red Deer Legion as well.

Please bring baking donations before 12:30 on Dec. 8.

Join the Canadian Red Cross Disaster Management Team in Central Alberta! Are you interested in providing those who experience a personal disaster with basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothing.

Then come to our information session on Nov. 22 from 7-9 p.m. We are located at #105, 5301 43 St. There is no prior knowledge needed and the Red Cross provides all training.

For more information call 403346-1241 or email matt. sawatsky@redcross.ca.

Acclaimed Canadian World War II artist Len Krenzler will be at Editions Gallery in Bower Place Mall on Nov. 24th from 1-5 p.m.

Joining Len will be Red Deer’s own WWII Ace Fighter Pilots Donald Laubman, and Doug Lindsay, retired, whose missions are portrayed in Krenzler’s newest releases. Len’s art sets itself apart in that every image he creates is an action packed portrayal of actual World War II missions as they occurred. He collaborates with retired Veteran Pilots to ensure accuracy, and to preserve their rich tales of heroism. The finished canvases are signed by both the artist as well as the pilot(s) whose mission was portrayed. Famed Canadian Wildlife artist Robert Bateman is also currently on a tour and will stop at Editions Gallery on Nov. 21st from 7-9 p.m. Ever active, this 82-year-old artist is still producing extraordinary works of art, and contributing in a big way to the conservation of wildlife both here at home, and around the world.

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Week of November 14 - November 21, 2012 Guys’ to raise awareness on domestic abuse. This exciting community building event will be held Nov. 28 at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club from 7 to 9 a.m. Our goal is to engage men and women to be aware and take charge in protecting women and children in our community. To kick off this year’s Breakfast with the Guys we have a world renowned guest speaker, Jackson Katz, known as an educator, author, social critic, and nationally acclaimed lecturer. We will also be hosting a panel board with leaders from the community discussing domestic abuse and allowing the audience to participate. For more information, call 403-318-2321.

The Senior Citizens Downtown House has cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Cost is $3. Whist runs every Friday at 1:30 p.m. and Fun Contact Bridge runs every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Cost is $3 as well for both of these activities. Tuesday night dances start at 7:30 p.m.

The cost is $6 and everyone is welcome. For more information, call 403-346-4043.

Old-time dances run at the Red Deer Legion every Wednesday evening. Smorg at 5 p.m. with dance at 7:30 p.m. Cover charge $6. Country music runs Friday and Saturday evenings 7 to 11 p.m. 403-342-0035.

Golden Circle dances continue Thursday nights from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $7. Country Express on Nov. 15. Everyone welcome. 403347-6165 or 403-986-7170.

SEMINARS ‘Slip Sliding No Way’ takes Seniors’ Falls Prevention to a New Level. ‘Finding Balance Red Deer’ will launch the ‘Slip, Sliding, No Way’ campaign this November. The campaign is part of the annual provincial Finding Balance falls prevention campaign first launched in 2008 to increase awareness of falls in seniors. Research shows that falls are a serious and growing problem for Albertans.

According to the Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research, about 62,500 seniors fall every year in Alberta. Four

presentations will be held in the community, reaching out to independent seniors with falls prevention information and tips, exercise presentations and other resources to keep active, independent and healthy.

A session runs Nov. 20 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Golden Circle, and another Nov. 30 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Redwoods Retirement Residence. For more information contact Terri Brigden at 403-506-2666.

Taoist Tai Chi Society has beginner classes running Monday/Friday from 11 a.m. to noon, Monday/ Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday/Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. The first week is free; costs are $45 or $25 per

take place on Thursday mornings through Nov. 22 at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library. The focus of every session will be on developing knowledge, strategies, and skills that promote wellness, recovery, and resilience. The course addresses a broad variety of topics including effective communication, understanding diagnosis, navigating the system, relapse prevention, mental illness and the family, recovery principles, stigma, and crisis plans. The course is free of charge. To register, call the Canadian Mental Health Association at 403342-2266 and ask to speak to education program staff.

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MEETINGS The Riverside Meadows is holding a community meeting on Nov. 21 at Grace Fellowship Church from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Topics will include crime prevention and community improvements. The Association needs more people to put their names forward to serve on the board. For more information, email riversidemeadowsca@ gmail.com. There will also be a Centennial Bench plaque unveiling ceremony that day at 2 p.m. at the pedestrian train bridge. Everyone is welcome.

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Classes are also available in Lacombe, Rocky Mountain House and Innisfail. For information call 403-346-6772 or email ttcsredd@telusplanet.net.

Red Deer Public Schools Community Programs is hosting several classes on everything from teen make-up and belly dancing to an employment workshop and self-help Jin Shin. Register online at communityprograms.rdpsd. ab.ca or call 403-342-1059.

Registration is now open for ‘Living Well With a Mental Illness” an eight-week course for people interested in learning more about mental illness and how people experiencing emotional distress or psychiatric illness are increasingly living satisfying and productive lives. The course will

Cosmos Rehabilitation Society, which supports individuals living with a developmental disability, mental illness, brain injury, physical disability, and or sensory impairment, has lots of free workshops coming up including Personal Safety, Stress Management, Grief, Handling Change, Communication and Self-Esteem. 403-343-0715.

The Central Alberta Refugee Effort (C.A.R.E.) offers opportunity for immigrants to practice speaking English in a fun way.

Weekly conversation groups are organized at different times in the coming months and are free for immigrants. Conversation topics will help to promote orientation to Canadian culture and life in our community. For ESL Level 1 and 2 the sessions are held on Tuesdays from 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; for ESL Level 3 and 4 on Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location is the Immigrant Centre #202, 5000

Are you having problems with someone else’s drinking?

We are an anonymous group of men and women who can offer encouragement and support. Call Al-Anon Family groups at 403-346-0320 for a list of meetings in Red Deer and the surrounding area.

Blackfalds United Church Youth Group takes place from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Fridays. Youth from Grade 4 up are welcome to attend. Please check our web site at blackfaldsunitedchurch. com or phone 403-8854780 for more information.

Red Deer Celiac Support Group our meetings are held the third Tuesday of the month at Sobeys South, 5111-22 St. in the Coffee Lounge at 7 p.m. Information on Celiac disease, symptoms, diagnosing, gluten free diet, gluten free products, recipes, coffee and samples. Meeting schedule for 2012 – Nov. 20. For

more information, call Fay at 430-347-3248, Clarice 403-3414351 or email Red DeerCeliacs@ yahoo.ca for information.

Air Force Association of Canada.

The aims and objectives of the Association are to preserve and perpetuate the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and to advocate a proficient and wellequipped Air Force in Canada.

703 Wing in Red Deer provides a forum for serving and former participants in military and civil aviation to meet and enjoy the company of like-minded people. 703 Wing members meet at noon every second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant, 2085 50th Ave. in Red Deer for a luncheon and business meeting.

Contact President Al Low at 403-341-3253 or amlow@ shaw.ca for more information.

Writers’ Ink, The Red Deer & District Writers Club has weekly meetings (every Tuesday) in the old farmhouse at Sunnybrook Farm (4701 30 St.) from 7 to 9 p.m. We meet, share our writing, and offer constructive criticism to one another. We also do our utmost to improve our craft by Skyping professionals in the field of writing, by inviting guest speakers to our Spring Workshop and to the occasional meeting.

Our professional library is increasing as is our knowledge gained from members who are constantly seeking new challenges and sharing successes and failures with the group. Guests are welcome!

Gamblers Anonymous meetings are Wednesdays’ at 7 p.m. in the Red Deer Regional Hospital (3942-50 Ave.) south complex, lower level rooms 503 and 504.

Gamblers Anonymous phone number is 403-986-0017.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is a 12-step support group offering a solution for all forms of food addiction.

No dues, fees or weigh-in.

Central Alberta groups meet in Red Deer, Lacombe and Rimbey. For more information including locations and dates, call Joanne at 403-314-1972.

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Remembering those who are often overlooked On Sunday, people took time to remember those who served and those who lost their lives while serving in a time of war and during peacekeeping missions. However, we often overlook those who were living in Canada at the start of a war, but who chose to leave to serve in another country’s military.

This was true at the start of the First World War.

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as war was declared, several were anxious to get back to their former homelands to help defend their family.

There were individuals and families in the City and the Village of North Red Deer who were from the Flanders region of Belgium and Northern France. For example, Lerouges, Hermarys, Wiarts and Jaspars of North Red Deer were all from the City of Lille,

which was located close to the Western Front.

According to records, 42 men from Red Deer and district enlisted in the French army and navy. Another five enlisted with the Belgium army. Because many enlisted in August 1914 they served for as long as four and a half years. Many were killed, wounded and/ or taken prisoner of war. A good insight into the expe-

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riences of those who went to fight for their former homelands can be found in the story of Joseph Mons.

He had the same name as the city in Belgium where the fighting on the Western Front began in August 1914 and ended on Nov. 11, 1918.

Mons was born in Belgium in 1887 and immigrated with his wife Matilda to North Red Deer in 1906.

Although their daughter

Louisa was less than oneyear-old when the First World War broke out, Joseph paid his way back to Belgium. He then enlisted with the Belgium Army on Aug. 29, 1914.

He was stationed at Fort van Walen, near Malines.

The Fort was besieged during the German advance on Antwerp. Of Belgians defending the Fort, only 175 were left alive when they surrendered. Joseph was wounded, but walked 50 km to Brussels. He was shipped to a prisoner of war camp in Hanover, Germany.

While he was interned, Joseph dropped from 183 lbs to 100 lbs. He was released in 1918 near the end of the war and sent back to Alberta. His health was so poor that he had to spend several months in hospital.

Another insight comes from the story of the Jaspars. After both of their parents passed away in France, seven of the Jaspar children moved to North Red Deer, where their older brother Stephane (Steve) had settled in 1908.

When the First World War broke out brothers Gaston, Joseph and Paul, returned to France and enlisted in the French army.

Gaston was killed on Nov. 2, 1914. Joseph was taken prisoner of war at the Battle of the Aisne in January 1915. Both Joseph and Paul survived, although neither came back to Red Deer.

In addition to Gaston Jaspar, more than a dozen of the Central Albertans, who served in the French and Belgium military, were killed in action or died from wounds. Like Joseph and Paul Jaspar, many of the others were too ill from their wounds to return to Central Alberta, or else reestablished new lives back in their old home countries.

Not all the French and Belgian immigrants enlisted in military in their homelands. Just after he turned 17-years-old, Pierre Lerouge decided to enlist in the Canadian 233 Battalion to serve as a sapper.

However, once overseas, he was transferred to the six Canadian Railway Troops.

He was wounded when he was gassed while on the front lines.

Pierre remained active with militia after he returned to Red Deer. Despite the damage to his lungs, he was the bugler at the first Remembrance Day service at the Red Deer Cenotaph on Nov. 11, 1922.

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Rotary Clubs prep for ‘wheels in motion’ Mexico mission Members team up with Wheelchair Foundation in developing countries

BY MARK WEBER Red Deer Express Overwhelming generosity and support have paved the way for an upcoming Rotary Club mission to Mexico to exceed expectations.

This February, members of local Rotary Clubs will be marking the 10th anniversary ‘Wheels in Motion’ Wheelchair Distribution partnership to Huatulco, Mexico.

It marks a partnership with several Rotary Clubs including those of Sylvan Lake, Rocky Mountain House, Okotoks, High River, Red Deer East, Red Deer Centennial, Lacombe Daybreak, Northbrook - Illinois and the Rotary Club of Huatolco.

Rotary Clubs have long been involved with the Wheelchair Foundation of Canada in working to provide wheelchairs to those in dire need.

Neil Swensrude, a member of the Rotary Club of Red Deer East and project co-chair, is thrilled for the

opportunity to head back to Huatulco as he was part of the first trip back in 2003.

That first initiative was born largely out of a partnership between the Sylvan Lake and Red Deer East clubs, and they’ve spearheaded the 2013 trip as well, he said.

“The big thing is that we set out initially to raise $21,000,” he said. “Very quickly, we exceeded that.

So we said let’s plan for a container worth $42,000. We had that money contributed.

“Ultimately, we then said let’s do a full container for $42,000 and half a container for $16,000. We ended up at $60,000 that was contributed to us by many, many individuals.” That provides for a total of 390 wheelchairs.

With the added wheelchairs, their mission to Mexico has also expanded geographically.

“We’re also going into Oaxaca with 110 wheelchairs,” he said. “We are taking 30 people – a large contingent of Rotarians and family members. Half

of them are going to spend the first week in Huatulco and the other half of us will spend one week in Huatulco and one week in Oaxaca.”

The difference that the gift of a wheelchair makes for a person with mobility issues – particularly in a developing country - is hard to put into words. It’s been estimated that at least 100 million children, teens and adults worldwide need a wheelchair but cannot afford one.

Garnet Ward, also a member of Rotary East, said the it’s hard to put into words the experience of seeing someone in such need finally receive a wheelchair. “To lift someone who has been crawling on the ground or who has been pulled around in a wheelbarrow, when you lift them into a wheelchair, you realize they are now mobile.”

It may not be wheelchairaccessibility like we are used to here, but it makes an extraordinary differ-

ence, he said.

Ward, who was also part of the 2003 mission, said garnering support for the project has been relatively easy, as people are amazed at how their contributions can go so far. “The Wheelchair Foundation matches it, and that’s how it happens.”

A contribution of $150 will ship a wheelchair virtually

anywhere on planet earth.

“You can give the gift of mobility for that amount of money.”

Ward pointed out that when one person gets a wheelchair, up to 10 others are positively impacted.

“If that person can now get around, others don’t have to worry about lifting them, carrying them – whatever the case may be.”

Bringing along folks who have never visited a developing country before is also fulfilling. “What’s also really exciting is that we will have people who have never been on a humanitarian mission before,” said Swensrude. “It’s the people that are able to participate that also make it such a worthwhile endeavour.” editor@reddeerexpress.com

LENDING SUPPORT – Rotary Club members (from left) Neil Swensrude and Garnet Ward, along with other club members, are preparing for a return trip to Mexico in February with a delivery Tanis Reid/Red Deer Express of wheelchairs.

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Medical expenses that can be claimed include payments to a medical doctor, dentist, nurse, chiropractor, optometrist and psychologist just to name a few. Payments for prescription medicines and drugs qualify as medical expenses if prescribed by a doctor, recorded by a licensed pharmacist and have a drug identification number. Other eligible expenses include ambulance charges, radiological or other diagnostic procedures, travel if you must travel in excess of 40km for medical services not available near home and meal and accommodation costs if you must travel 80km or more. Expenses should be substantiated by receipts and if applicable necessitated by the distance travelled.

Most hearing aids are better able to cope with a number of different listening situations. By using digital technology, hearing aids monitor each changing environment and actually adjust the volume automatically by making millions of calculations/changes every second. If you are only deficient in a narrow range, hearing aids may amplify those frequencies allowing other areas to remain at normal levels. As well, in some hearing aids, you can preprogram different levels for different situations.

With the push of a button you can change the listening profile.

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Medical expenses also include the cost of an animal specially trained to assist a person who is blind, deaf or severely impaired in the use of arms or legs. The animals care and maintenance, which includes food, vet bills and travel expenses to a training facility to learn how to handle the animal are all eligible expenses.

Please note, expenses incurred after March 4, 2010 that are purely cosmetic (such as teeth whitening) will no longer be eligible medical expenses. Over the counter medicines are also not eligible medical expenses even if they are recorded by a pharmacist.

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Well, it is officially winter and with winter comes lots and lots of snow for Alberta. It is important to know what type of tire you can rely on to get around this winter. All Season tires are designed to operate best in Spring, Summer and Fall months, but not necessarily Winter. The tread pattern on an All Season is made to give the driver the needed grip and handling for both dry and wet conditions, as well as a quiet and comfortable ride. Winter tires have a tread pattern and design that is completely different. Winter tires have many more sipes that give the tire an improved ability to grip and “bite” into the road surface for improved control and grip. Winter tires also come with blocks that provide a biting edge for snow, slush and ice. These tires use rubber compounds that are specifically made to remain soft in cold weather. However, All Season tires are made with material that is harder so they can last longer while providing needed handling and traction on dry and wet surfaces.

Traditional rubber compounds can become stiff as the weather changes in the fall with the temperature going from 10 or 15 degrees Celsius to near freezing at night. The harder the rubber compound, the less traction and grip it will have on the road surface. As the temperature drops below 7 degrees Celsius the rubber in All Season tires stiffen and lose their ability to provide needed traction and grip on roads that are now covered with snow and ice.

It is the temperature that is important, once it reaches below 7 degrees Celsius mark you need to make the switch to winter tires. We can get most sizes of tires in for your vehicle and are able to balance and align during the same appointment. We look forward to helping you stay safe this winter.

A foot orthotic is a brace that can be discreetly inserted into the shoe to support, align, prevent and/or correct foot deformities and improve foot function. Used in conjunction with appropriate footwear, a foot orthotic can be effective in helping to treat a number of foot problems, including heel, arch and forefoot pain, as well as pain and complications related to health conditions such as diabetes and arthritis. There are two basic types of foot orthotics: over-the-counter and custom-made.

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ENTERTAINMENT City stop for rapper promoting CD Madchild conquers addiction which led to bold creative journey

BY MARK WEBER Red Deer Express Creating music has been, in many ways, a source of healing for Shane Bunting – also known as Madchild of the Vancouverbased Swollen Members.

Bunting is embarking on a tour in support of his first solo disc Dope Sick. He plays The Club on Nov. 15th.

It’s been a perilous journey for Bunting over the past while, what with a harrowing addiction to oxycontin which has been conquered. He’s chosen to be an open book about his experiences and is grateful to a tight circle of family and friends – and the powerful impact of music – for his recovery.

The turning point came one day when his left arm was numb and his lips turned blue as his body finally gave up from three years of opiate abuse. He was rushed to emergency. After he stabilized, the painful truth surfaced about the grip that addiction had on him at the time, and what it had cost him.

Bunting had, via the success of Swollen Members, come to enjoy the finer things.

But the addition had drained away millions in the space of a few years.

But he was thankful for what he did have – support from family and friends.

He opted to remove himself from temptation by hunkering down in his home studio secluded from the outside world. For the next 10 months, he wrote and recorded Dope Sick.

Looking back, his love for music surfaced early on. “I grew up in North Vancouver, and my step dad got me into Willie Nelson and James Taylor,” he explains of his roots during a recent interview. “Those are some of my favourite artists.

“I love music. A lot of guys really like sports. I could just never understand it. It would be such a great way to socialize with new people I’ve met, but for some reason I just can’t get into it. Something in my brain doesn’t click to make it exciting for me to watch.”

Enter the charms of music. It proved a source of strength during his younger years as well. “I didn’t want anyone to bully me because I was smaller than the other kids, so I had a really big attitude – sort of larger than life. A ‘don’t mess with me’

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kind of attitude.” Bold, in-your-face kind of music suited him. “I listened to hard core punk/rock. Then I was introduced to hip hop by a friend of mine from Detroit.

“I just fell in love with it instantly. It became my life and my passion.

“As much as I love Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and these other incredible artists that will be legends forever, hip hop has always been my main music I listen to. It’s in my blood.”

Pursuing music as a career didn’t really occur to him until early adulthood.

“Someone I’ve always looked up to told me ‘You should do this in life’. That was after high school, and I started taking it more seriously.”

Along came the formation of Swollen Members, which was founded in the mid1990s by Bunting, Prevail (Kiley Hendriks) and Moka Only (Daniel Denton).

A critically-acclaimed debut CD, Balance, was released in 1999.

Next up, the group released Bad Dreams in 2001 and Monsters in the Closet in 2002.

Their next project, Heavy, was released in 2003. Their latest project, Dagger Mouth, hit shelves last year.

But along the way, Bunting’s addiction began to latch on. He took some time off, which didn’t help matters either. “Unfortunately for a guy like me, who is a workaholic, I got focused on the wrong things.”

One day, someone gave him a painkiller that offered a high that surprised him.

“In 2006, there wasn’t really an awareness of how dangerous painkillers were. I thought it was innocent. A painkiller? No problem.

“But it sneaks up on you. It goes from a weekend thing to a Wednesday/Thursday thing to a seven-day-a-week thing. It moves fast.” He later learned he was in fact ingesting synthetic heroin.

“I tried to get off it right away, but it was too late. I got extremely sick.”

Then came the turning point. “Without my family, I probably wouldn’t be here – it’s as simple as that. My family was there with me the whole time, and my group was there. I owe God everything and I owe them everything.

“I have an addictive personality – that hasn’t gone away. But I’ve been sober for two years. Now I’m addicted to my work – I

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TURNAROUND - Madchild, a member of Vancouver’s Swollen Members, is currently touring in photo submitted support of his first solo project Dope Sick. have to force myself to become addicted to something positive. My work ethic is, I believe, unmatchable right now. I love what I do – I live for it.” Swollen Members is still moving forward as well.

“We’re still a group, everything is awesome and we have a new record coming out in the new year,” he said.

Ultimately, his new sobriety has meant a significant lifestyle change. But Bunting is at peace with that.

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“A lot of the things people to do to kill time or to stay excited, I can’t allow into my life. But (music) was my therapy, and I found that as I started telling my story and being honest in my music and interviews, a lot of people have shared that my story is helping them. Not only is it therapy for me, but it’s helpful to know that I’m helping other people without being preachy about it.” editor@reddeerexpress.com

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19th ANNUAL CAT presents My Three Angels CRAFT SHOW For one thing, they learn that Felix, the husband and father, is a nice guy, but an awful businessman.

According to a play’s synopsis, thickening the plot further is that “On the way from France is an evilminded cousin who is on his way to oust the father of the family from his business, and his cold-blooded nephew who is jilting the father’s daughter, Marie Louise, for an heiress.”

The prisoners decide to help solve these problems.

“They set matters right and redeem themselves as real-life angels to the grateful family.”

They know how to get what they want because they’re common criminals loaded with ‘common’ sense.

“It starts on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, then the second act takes place in the middle of the night and the last act is Christmas morning,” explains Shatford, who has been at the helm of several CAT productions over the years as both director and stage manager. “(The convicts) like the family, and

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Central Alberta Theatre is venturing into fun and compelling territory for the troupe’s Christmas show. After all, it’s not every holiday-themed show that includes a couple of murderers and a swindler as key members of the cast.

Directed by Heather Shatford, My Three Angels runs at the Memorial Centre Nov. 22-24, Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 6-7 with curtain at 7:30 p.m. Matinee performances run Nov. 25 and Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. as well.

In Samuel and Bella Spewack’s comedy, which is set in 1910, Joseph, Jules and Alfred aren’t having much of a Christmas.

They are three Devil’s Island convicts on a work-release program, spending the holiday fixing the roof at the Ducotels’ home near French Guiana.

But that hole in the roof is a gateway to some fascinating information on the family housed up inside.

want to help them out.”

Shatford has been guiding a cast of 10 – some experienced CAT veterans including Michael Sutherland and Jeff Challoner, and a few newcomers which makes for a nice mix and the troupe has blended very well, she said.

My Three Angels was eventually made into a movie called We’re No Angels starring Humphrey Bogart.

“It’s got a smart sense of humour.

And it’s a little more subtle,” she said of the script which was published in 1952.

For Shatford, being back in the director’s chair has been a hoot.

“You see how it’s coming together, you’ve got the laughs and the camaraderie with everybody.

“And there’s that sense of satisfaction in that what you have pictured in your head you are actually seeing up on stage.”

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the best. It opens with an impressive, slam-bang action chase sequence with Bond using cars, motorcycles, heavy construction machinery and a train while trying to capture a bad guy and get back a topsecret list of undercover agents. He gets shot off the train too, but nobody believes for a moment that he is really dead.

Except for a so-so, dragged-out finale at Bond’s ancestral home in Scotland and a not very focused plot, it’s a very good Bond film and a fitting anniversary marker for the series.

Judi Dench as M is more involved than ever in the story. A blond Javier Bardem is a too-smiley but credible villain. For added pleasure there’s a new Miss Moneypenny and Q and some short but appreciated performances from Ralph Fiennes and Albert Finney. For old times sake

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the Aston Martin from Goldfinger makes an unlikely reappearance. Daniel Craig is more at home than ever in his third Bond outing. He plays Bond as a mean, tough, no-nonsense, albeit wise-cracking super patriot; but remember the character has a licence to kill and does not hesitate to use it.

Another feature of Skyfall is that we learn more than ever before about Bond’s back story. The producers seem to want to make him more human, while setting us up for the next unbelievable Bond outing.

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LIFESTYLE Toss the razor and support prostate cancer research Count the seven most important men on your life. Okay, you got the list ready? Well, one of them will get prostate cancer.

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WHEELER Have your attention yet?

In recent years you may have noticed a trend happening among men in the month of November. More men are growing their mustache out, but why? The answer is the ‘Movember’ movement.

Movember was created to help raise awareness to male health, particularly prostate cancer and mental health. Some men grow their ‘Mo’s’ to help raise funds, some grow them out to raise awareness and some just do it for fun. Started in 2003, the Movember movement has increased to 850,000 ‘Mo’s’ around the world, raising a total of $125.7 million in 2011 alone. While much has been done towards changing the attitudes about men’s health, it still has a long way to go to catch up with the women’s health movement.

The funds raised by the Movember campaign will go towards programs ran from the Movember organization which will put the money towards survivorship initiatives for support of the families affected by prostate cancer, awareness and educational programs, research and increase awareness of men’s mental health as well. Funds raised will also go to other programs ran by their partner, Prostate Cancer Canada.

In Canada 60% of the money raised goes towards Prostate Cancer initiatives while 40% goes to men’s mental health initiatives.

So here’s an anatomy lesson for those of you who don’t know where or what a prostate is. The prostate is a small glad that sits under the bladder and in front of the rectum. The urethra, which carries seamen and urine out of the penis runs directly through the prostate.

Prostate cancer occurs when cells in the prostate begin to grow uncontrollably.

This creates a small tumor in the prostate.

At this stage there are few signs that make the cancerous tumor only detectable by blood tests. If detected the disease is often curable. If gone undetected the cancer can

cause advance symptoms to appear. These symptoms include pain by pressing on the spine or pelvis, burning or pain when urinating, frequent urination, blood to appear in the urine or semen or pain or stiffness in the lower back, hips, or upper thighs.

Prostate cancer affects one in seven men, which makes it the most common non-skin cancer in Canada. Only one in 10,000 under age 40 will be diagnosed. The rate shoots up to one in 38 for ages 40 to 59, and one in

15 for ages 60 to 69. In fact, about 97% of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men 50 and older. Prostate cancer is very treatable but 20-30% of men who get treatment will likely have a relapse within five years.

So what do I do to participate in Movember? On Nov. 1st start with a clean shaved face, throughout the month let those mustaches grow in, feel free to trim or style it however you’d like. Remember though, it has to be a mustache, no connecting to a

beard. Also read about men’s health, the more you educate yourself the more you can educate others in the matter. Movember can be a fun, easy way to raise funds and awareness for men’s health. So ladies support your men, and fellas support your friends in the Mo-movement.

Jack Wheeler is a personal trainer and owner of 360 Fitness in Red Deer. He can be reached at 403-347-1707 or check out www.360fitness.ca for more information.

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Albertans suffering a cardiac arrest will Morrison, executive director of the Golden have improved access to a potentially life- Circle. “We hope we never have to use it saving device with the distribution of 150 but we are pleased to be selected to receive automated external deďŹ brillators (AEDs) a device.â€? to facilities across the province, including More than 200 applications were submit39 in the Central Zone. ted this past summer to receive an AED. The Golden Circle Senior Resource CenThey were evaluated based on criteria tre is among the organizations, recreation- that included hours of operation, size of al facilities and local ďŹ re departments to gatherings, age demographic, emergency receive a device. response proximity, availability of medical The AEDs, being distributed by AHS co-responders, such as ďŹ re departments Emergency Medical and the number of Services (EMS) and existing AEDs in the ‘THE USE OF AEDS COMBINED the Heart & Stroke WITH EARLY CPR INCREASES THE community.

Foundation, can tell if “With November beCHANCE OF SURVIVAL DURING A ing CPR month, I can the heart has stopped beating and, if so, dethink of no better way CARDIAC INCIDENT.’ liver an electric shock to begin the month MIKE HOFFMAN to restart the heart. than to present AEDs “Having these deto these community vices in communities and places where organizations. The use of AEDs combined people gather means that more people suf- with early CPR increases the chance of surfering a cardiac arrest will have quicker vival during a cardiac incident,â€? said Mike access to an AED. Hoffman, resuscitation program manager Anyone trained in CPR (cardiopulmo- for the Heart & Stroke Foundation. nary resuscitation) and AEDs can begin to All of the new devices will be registered use the devices until Emergency Medical into the Heart Safe Community Public AcServices or medical ďŹ rst responders arrive cess to DeďŹ brillation provincial registry, on scene,â€? said John Hein, coordinator of which allows AHS-EMS dispatch to guide the AHS EMS public access to deďŹ brilla- callers to nearby AEDs during cardiac tion initiative. emergencies. “As a hub for seniors in the City of Red The registry also will be used to ensure Deer, we saw this as an opportunity to the devices are properly maintained so receive a vital, life-saving device for our they’ll work when needed.

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A tough marine engineer was screaming from pain Do you remember the headlines in September 2000, when the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys in the 100 degree Texas heat? Rick Burkholder, the Eagles head trainer, said his players remained cramp-free because of his secret weapon, pickle juice! Â

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JONES The beneďŹ t of pickles goes back to antiquity. For instance, cucumbers are mentioned twice in the Bible and history records their use in Asia, Egypt and Greece. Cucumbers were brought to the New World

by Christopher Columbus and were grown on the island of Haiti. And U.S presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were pickle enthusiasts.

What triggered my interest in pickle juice was a report published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Researchers at Brigham Young University asked volunteer college students to exercise.

They were then given a mild electrical current to induce a muscle cramp. At that point they were told to drink either water or pickle juice.

The result? Pickle juice relieved cramps 40% faster. Researchers concluded that pure vinegar would, in all probability, work just as well as pickle juice.

Pickle companies were ecstatic about these results. In fact, one of the companies, sensing a business opportunity, created a sports drink to alleviate leg cramps due to strenuous exercise. But what is so special about pickles?

This research reminded me of an episode that happened to me while working as a ship’s surgeon many years ago. After a couple of days at sea I received an urgent call to go the engine room. I found a large, muscular man lying on the oor screaming in pain. He had been warned to take salt tablets routinely while working in the hot humid engine room but had neglected to do so. He never had to be reminded again.

The theory that the lack of salt causes leg cramps has been questioned by some researchers. It may be that other factors are also involved in triggering leg cramps. But anyone who has witnessed a tough

marine engineer writhing in pain, who is then quickly restored to normal by simply taking salt, would ďŹ nd it hard not to be impressed.

Exercising in hot weather can cause excessive sweating with loss of salt, resulting in dehydration and muscle cramps. When you sweat you lose salt and electrolytes. Cells in the body use electrolytes to maintain voltages across cell membranes. This allows electrical impulses to be carried from cell to cell. Pickle juice contains a large amount of salt and other electrolytes.

But it’s not just marine engineers and football stars that suffer from leg cramps. Some people complain of Restless Leg Syndrome. If blood studies show that anemia is present, oral iron can be helpful. In other cases this symptom can be eased by magnesium. Known as nature’s muscle relaxant, is deďŹ cient in most North Americans.         Several years ago, an 80-year-old tennis player had to stop playing the game he loved due to leg pain. His condition, known

as ‘intermittent claudication’ was caused by a lack of oxygen to the legs.  Several months later he happened to read a column I had written about the use of Vitamin E to treat this problem. He started taking 1,200 units of natural Vitamin E daily and two months later was back playing tennis.

Vitamin E has received bad press from researchers who have downgraded its use in heart disease prevention. But I prefer facts rather than large statistical studies that fail to tell the whole story.

It’s a fact that if rats are given Vitamin E they can run longer on a treadmill than rats that do not receive it. It’s because Vitamin E increases oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.  The longer I practice medicine the more I realize that whether it’s pickle juice, or other natural remedies, most are safer and often more effective than prescription medication.

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CHASE THE PUCK – Red Deer Iroc Chief Drew Joslin tries to keep the puck away from CBHA Blackhawk Connor Poissant in a minor midget AAA game recently.

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Amateurs ready to box for a good cause

BY JIM CLAGGETT Red Deer Express Wise people will tell you it’s a good idea to pick your fights in this world. In the case of the combatants in the Fourth Annual White Collar boxing event in Red Deer, the fight is picked for you - sort of.

Colin Acheson, a coach at the Red Deer and District Boxing Club said the organizers are very careful about how they match up these novice fighters, making sure nobody has a huge advantage at the end of training.

“The rules of Boxing Canada state boxers must be within a certain number of years of age of each other. They must be within a certain amount of weight and they must have the same amount of experience.”

The first card was held in 2009 at the Capri Hotel (now the Sheraton Red Deer)

in the event centre under the guidance of Steve Boisson but it has certainly grown in stature over the years evidenced by the sold out status of this years’ brawl Nov. 16th at the Harvest Centre.

“It’s because of the effort he put in over the past three years that we are able to sell it to corporate Red Deer,” he said.

There will be four white collar bouts with the main event featuring a pair of local, everyday guys in PJ Swales, the athletics and marketing coordinator at Red Deer College exchanging punches with local firefighter Ken Boniface.

The night involves boxers with little or no experience in the sweet science and has sparked an interest in the sport, generally from a somewhat specific demographic.

“Usually older fellows that always wondered how they would do if they had a chance to get into the ring,” he said.

After a tough 12 week training regimen the fighters are ready to rumble, said Acheson. “It’s amazing how far they’ve come.”

Even so, this event isn’t geared towards discovering the next big name in the boxing world, he said.

Although there are a couple of national and international champions which have climbed the basement stairs of the Club such as Arash Usmanee and Cam O’Connell, someone who would likely follow in their shoes won’t come from this group.

“This is to come in and train for 12 weeks and strut your stuff in front of your family, friends and co-workers,” said Acheson.

Money raised at the event goes to Young Adult Cancer Canada for research and the Boxing Club will use its portion for maintenance of the club and purchasing equipment.

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“We’ve got an awful lot of great equipment but the kids go through it in a hurry,” said Acheson. “Sparring gloves get worn out, head gear gets worn out, the uniforms get worn out.”

The organization also needs money to transport the younger, competitive fighters in the Club to events around the province.

Club fees run $40 per month and Acheson said there are no contracts to sign and all are welcome.

“If you don’t have the money, we’ve never turned anyone away. You’ll be expected to wash out a spit bucket or something worse than that but nobody’s turned away because they haven’t got the money and we’re pretty proud of that.”

That approach might be what makes the science of boxing sweet, at least in the case of the local club. sports@reddeerexpress.com

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Local swimmers continue to shine

BY JIM CLAGGETT Red Deer Express Red Deer’s Catalina Swim Club continues to make waves in pools around the area early in the 2012-2013 season posting some very good results in five swim meets over a two week time period, including a solid performance from 46 swimmers in Saskatoon.

“We were just over 80 per cent best times, we broke six or seven club records and Rebecca Smith broke a provincial record already this season so she’s the new 11-12-year-old provincial record holder for 200 IM short course,” said coach Mandi Smith.

That is just a small sample of the medium sized club of the year so it appears

these young men and women have not taken their collective foot off the gas pedal when they hit the water.

“They want to show the rest of Alberta that we are one of the big clubs,” she said.

Smith added the formula for the success of the Catalina Club is quite simple -- it’s the kids.

“They’re incredible. They enjoy working together, they support each other, each others successes they treat them as their own,” said Smith.

“There is not a lot of jealousy, they really support each other and they get really excited for each other.”

There are a few team goals set for the Club including increasing the number of swimmers Catalina sends to nationals in Montreal but reaching the goal has become

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tougher this year as the qualifying times have gotten faster, said Smith. Catalina has also moved up a notch when it comes to competition.

“As a team we have officially moved into the large team category because we’re over 99 registered athletes in our program,” Smith said.

“So we are now competing against Edmonton and Calgary teams for the best in the province.”

This means the 102 swimmers in Red Deer will go head-to-head with clubs sporting more than 400 members and Smith said the goal is to finish the year within the top five large clubs in Alberta.

“These kids are amazing, they’re up for any challenge. They just get excited and we move forward.”

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The Club could have stayed a mediumsized team by not taking in more swimmers but Smith said the interest in the Club has grown from about 60 or so members a few years ago.

“It’s hard to say no to the kids that want to take part in the sport so we try to fit kids in where we can,” she said.

If there was a bigger pool for them to train in Catalina could easily get up to the same numbers as those in the bigger centres, said Smith.

“If there was a full-length competition pool we could have access to these kids would not be the underdogs going into meets, we would be on a level playing field.”

Now that would make quite a splash.

CLAGGETT It seems a woman renting a home in a family-friendly neighbourhood has a problem with the young delinquent living next door.

Shockingly this hoodlum has the nerve to go out and practice basketball between 20 to 40 minutes at a time and get this, he has the brashness to do all this during the daytime and in his own driveway.

Talk about someone having to discipline their child and showing some respect!

The neighbour, a writer who works from the home, claims the noise of the ball is akin to the racket made in an echo chamber and so she can’t get any rest.

Her complaints fell on deaf ears and so she has

produced an ace from her sleeve in order to stop this basketball brat from getting some exercise and fresh air.

She has decided to invoke the Environmental Bill of Rights related to unreasonable and excessive noise and wants taxpayer dollars spent in order to investigate, then rule on how this young man is ruining her world by selfishly playing a sport on his own property.

What will this kid do next? Loudly clean the driveway in the winter? Allow shouts of “He shoots, he scores” escape into the still air while playing road hockey some day? Maybe this kid might push the envelope and let out a laugh after a friend tells a joke.

The inconsiderate parents of this kid then built a moveable wooden panel to roll in front of the neighbours window in order to

block the sound but this instead blocked her view from the window and have just made her more angry. (I’m not sure how she is complaining about the view when she is supposedly sleeping but that’s not for me to decide).

The parents claim the timeframe of practice is not fact as their son is off playing competitive basketball and coaching younger kids so he really isn’t around much.

He probably rounds up these kids and instructs them in ways of burning calories and neighbours at the same time.

I’m sure this woman would be much happier having this arrogant teen breaking into her home late at night and stealing money from her purse.

At least he would be quiet. sports@reddeerexpress.com

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Oilfield

Art at the Lake 3rd Annual Christmas Art Show & Sale Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Sylvan Lake Lion’s Club Hall 5119 - 50A Ave., Sylvan Lake (1 block west from Cobb’s Grocery Store) This one day Christmas Show & Sale will feature original handcrafted artwork, including forged metal work, functional & Raku ceramics, hand-blown glass work, jewelry, watercolour, oil & acrylic painting, pastel drawings, hand-made soaps and unique clothing & scarves.

Come by and help us share in the Christmas spirit over coffee and cookies.

Free Admission For more info, call: 403-748-2557

Personals

60

RED DEER HEALING ROOMS Imagine a Walk-In Clinic where Jesus is the Doctor. It’s a reality! Healing Rooms operate very much like a Walk-In Clinic, except it’s Free and open to all! Open Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at: THE PRAYER HOUSE 4111-55A Avenue, Red Deer. Open to anyone needing healing. No appointment necessary. Ph 403-350-8954

Arts & Crafts Shows

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Coming Events

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ANNUAL COOKIE WALK, BAZAAR & WHITE Elephant Sale Saturday, November 17 9 AM - 1 PM Mount Calvary Lutheran Church 18 Selkirk Blvd. Red Deer Across from 32 St. Firehall Cookie Boxes $7 each Everyone Welcome!

The Farm Studio 10th Annual CHRISTMAS ART SHOW and SALE Saturday/Sunday November 24 & 25 10 AM - 4 PM

WINTER-LICIOUS CRAFT SHOW Saturday, November 17th 10am - 6pm Holiday Inn 67th Street Unique HANDMADE Gifts

1 Mile West, 1 Mile North from Aspelund Road & Hwy 20 Intersection Watch for Signs

Coming Events

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22ND ANNUAL RED DEER CHRISTMAS ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE Nov. 17 & 18. Sat. 10 - 6 & Sun. 10 - 5, Westerner Exposition Grounds. Over 450 sales tables, Canadiana furniture and collectibles.

Carswell’s 403-343-1614 ESL TRAINING Levels 5, 6 & 7 Enroll now for January start Funding Available for those who qualify.

Academy of Learning 403-347-6676

PARKINSON ALBERTA Fundraiser Back to the Future Trilogy Starring Michael J. Fox Carnival Cinemas Red Deer Saturday, November 17th 1:05pm, 3:15pm, 5:15pm Info: 403-346-4463

Raku Ceramics, Watercolours, Other gift ideas

Call 403-748-2557 for more information

Personals

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COUNTRY INTRODUCTIONS.COM Introducing you to down to earth country people like yourself.

Personal Interview.

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Oilfield

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A&B PIPELINERS is accepting resumes: Project Manager SAGD/Facility Construction, Transportation Service Foreman, Pipeline Construction Estimators, Class 1 Truck Drivers & Journeyman Light Duty and Heavy Duty Mechanics. Visit http://www.abpipeliners.com for more details.

Send resumes to; Fax 403-265-0922; email hr@abpipeliners.com.

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CENTRAL PEACE NATURAL GAS CO-OP LTD. requires full-time Gas Utility Operator.

Experience, safety tickets an asset. Clean valid driver’s licence required.

Forward resume: cpngc@telusplanet.net.

Fax 780-864-2044.

Mail: Box 119, Spirit River, T0H 3G0.

NOW LOCATED IN DRAYTON VALLEY. BREKKAAS Vacuum & Tank Ltd. Wanted Class 1 & 3 Drivers with all valid tickets. Top wages, excellent benefits.

Please forward resume to: Email: dv@brekkaas.com.

Phone 780-621-3953.

Fax 780-621-3959.

SEEKING CLASS 1 DRIVERS with off-road fluid hauling experience. Will relocate.

Year round work. Above average wage, appealing benefit packages offered.

Trophy Buck Oilfield Services, Whitecourt, Alberta. Email resume: info@trophybuck.ca.

Fax 780-706-2389

Professionals

810

JOURNALISTS, Graphic Artists, Marketing and more. Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. Free.

Visit: www.awna.com/ resumes_add.php.

Sales & Distributors

830

SOAP STORIES is seeking energetic retail sales reps for Parkland Shopping Centre in Red Deer. $12.50/hr. Email Resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

Trades

850

AN ALBERTA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY is hiring Dozer and Excavator Operators.

Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfield road and lease construction.

Lodging and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & drug testing required. Call Contour Construction at 780-723-5051

deadline: Monday @ 2 p.m.

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Trades

850

Trades

850

Business Opportunities

870

INDUSTRY LEADER expanding with NEW billion $ brand.

Key people to partner with, to work directly with top producer in Canada.

Lucrative and training provided. 780-929-8194

Service Directory

BLUERIDGE LUMBER INC. looking for a 3rd & 4th Class power engineer to operate thermal liquid heating system.

Excellent compensation and benefits. Submit resume to: Box 87, Blue Ridge, AB, T0E 0B0.

Email: jeff.victor @westfraser.com

SOUTHERN ALBERTA Reclamation & Vegetation Control Company seeking following positions: Operations Manager, Ticketed Herbicide Applicators, Fencers, Equipment Operators.

Email resume; jant.lundstrom@gmail.com successful candidate will be contacted.

DYNAMIC RAIL SERVICES LTD. has an immediate opening for a Track Supervisor working out of our Grande Prairie office. The successful applicant will have a minimum of 5 years of track work experience, be able to work unsupervised and have a strong focus on customer service and safety. Compensation includes a benefits package, profit sharing and a company vehicle.

Please submit resumes to: info@khawk.ca.

Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

WELDERS ARE IN GREAT DEMAND! MONEYPROVIDER.COM. 16 week welding program $500 loan and +. No credit refused. Fast, easy, 100% gives you First Period secure. 1-877-776-1660.

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Includes 4 week work DROWNING IN DEBTS? practicum. Grande Prairie Misc.

Helping Canadians 25 campus - January 7, 2013. years. Lower payments Help Fairview campus by 30% or cut debts 70% - February 25, 2013. thru Settlements.

ALBERTA FOOD Service 1-888-999-7882; Avoid bankruptcy! company now hiring for www.gprc.ab.ca Free consultation; F/T dietary cook positions. www.mydebtsolution.com Must be willing to work or toll free 1-877-556-3500 Truckers/ long hrs., weekends & NEED CASH TODAY? evenings. Must have 5 yrs.

Drivers Do you own a vehicle? cooking exp., dietary exp.

Borrow up to $25,000.

No credit checks cash NOW HIRING DRIVERS preferred. Must have current Food Safe cert. Apply same day, Canadian and Leased Operators. to: dinelle3@telus.net owned & operated; Includes incentive package. Contact Greg @ WANTED: Farm labourer www.PitStopLoans.com.

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403-946-5629. with Class 1. $20/hour.

Fax resume to: Legal LEDUC TRUCKING 403-556-6601 or call Services COMPANY LOOKING FOR 403-586-4087 Class 1 Picker/Winch CRIMINAL RECORD? Truck Operators and Have it removed.

One Ton Drivers for Canada’s premier record oilfield hauling. removal provider since Minimum 3 years 1989. BBB A+ rating. commercial driving Confidential, fast & experience, oilfield affordable. experience is preferred.

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GPRC Fairview Campus.

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GO TO YOUR NEXT JOB INTERVIEW WITH 2ND YEAR HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC SKILLS. GPRC, Fairview campus - Heavy Equipment Certificate program.

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INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL. No Simulators. In-the-seat training. Real world tasks.

Weekly start dates.

Job board! Funding options. Apply online! iheschool.com.

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PYRAMID CORPORATION IS NOW HIRING! Instrument Technicians and Electricians for various sites across Alberta.

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PICKER OPERATOR NEEDED. Journeyman ticket and safety tickets required.

Located in Provost, Alberta.

Email resume to: swampdonkeytrucking @live.ca or fax 780-753-3120 REQUIRED FOR AN ALBERTA TRUCKING COMPANY: One Class 1 Driver.

Must have a minimum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be willing to relocate to Edson, Alberta.

Scheduled days off.

Call Lloyd 780-723-5051

Business Opportunities

870

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Guaranteed over 100% return on investment.

Guaranteed location placement. Financing available. Full details call now 1-866-668-6629; website www.tcvend.com.

Employment Training

900

COMPUTING CAREER = Great career.

Study computer technology programs at GPRC, Grande Prairie campus.

Novice to expert. Circuit design and robotics lab, data communications and networking lab.

Diploma/University transfer. 1-888-539-4774; www.gprc.ab.ca.

LEARN FROM HOME. Earn from home.

Medical Transcriptionists are in demand.

Lots of jobs! Enrol today for less than $95 a month.

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Services

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Call this newspaper NOW for details or call 1-800-282-6903 ext. 228

Personal Services

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TRUE ADVICE! True clarity! True Psychics!

1-877-342-3036 or 1-900-528-6258 or mobile #4486. (18+) $3.19/minute; www.truepsychics.ca.

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1-877-297-9883.

Live intimate conversation, Call #7878 or 1-888-534-6984.

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1-877-804-5381. (18+).

RECOVERY CENTRE in beautiful BC coastal community, offers 30-90 day residential programs for drug/alcohol treatment (detox included) and aftercare program in your area. www.prrecovery.ca.

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28 Red Deer Express Auctions

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BUD HAYNES BAY 4, 7429-49 AVE RED DEER

ANTIQUE AUCTION Part 2 SAT Dec. 01 @11 AM

Ron & late Clara Dancer of Calgary Collection Featuring: Over 80 lamps, over 40 ant. telephones-incl. 3eleven digit, 4 candlesticks, Ant. Phones, Mantle Clocks, Beswick & Royal Doulton animals incl. Bunnykins series, Goebel & Belleek Xmas ornaments & eggs, Ant. Music Instruments, Rare ref. books on ant., Ant. Furniture - rocker, chairs, occasional tables ************************* PH: 403-347-5855 budhaynesauctions.com BIG STRAPPER AUCTIONS 4625-46 Street, Lacombe Phone:403-782-5693 REGULAR SALES: WEDNESDAYS @6PM ANTIQUE SALES: first SUNDAY of every month @1PM Check web for full listings & addresses bigstrapperauctions.net CANADIANA AUCTION November 18 10 a.m.

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Furniture, Moorcroft, Royal Albert, Doulton, Medalta, Gingerbread clocks, China, Glassware, Unique & ornate collectibles.

Pilgrim Auction; 403-556-5531; www.auctionsales.ca.

Building Supplies

1550

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1900

Travel Packages

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Grain, Feed Hay

ROUND HAY BALES $20. and up. Delivery available.

No Sunday calls please.

Phone 403-704-3509.

HEATED CANOLA buying Green, Heated or Springthrashed Canola.

Buying: oats, barley, wheat & peas for feed.

Buying damaged or offgrade grain.

“On Farm Pickup” Westcan Feed & Grain, 1-877-250-5252.

4090

Manufactured Homes

JANDEL HOMES. Overstocked and motivated to sell - Immediate or spring delivery.

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Edmonton 1-855-463-0084.

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NEW - EXECUTIVE, 3 bdrm., 2 bath Home in Red Deer.

Immediate Possession.

10 Yr. Warranty.

Own it for only $1,345mo. OAC. Call (403)346-3100 or (403)347-5566

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EquipmentHeavy

1630

GO TO YOUR next job interview with 2nd Year Heavy Duty Mechanic skills. GPRC, Fairview campus - Heavy Equipment Certificate program.

Hands-on training, safety courses, opportunity to write 1st and 2nd HET apprenticeship exams.

Gain 600 hours credit.

1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca.

Concretech Finishing Ltd. Needs Industrial Concrete Finishers for job in Red Deer, starting immediately Four permanent, full-time positions available at $28.00/hr. Job duties include: Checking formwork, granular base and steel reinforcement material; Directing placement of concrete into forms or surfaces; Filling hollows and remove spots on freshly poured cement; Operating power vibrators; Leveling top surface concrete; Finishing concrete surfaces; Installing anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures; Applying hardening and sealing components; Waterproofing, damp proofing and restoring surfaces; Repairing, replacing and resurfacing worn or damaged sections; Signaling and directing pumping from concrete mixing trucks; Stripping concrete forms; Utilizing laser leveling technology; Cutting control joints; Erecting scaffolding and swing stages.

Contact Miguel at 778-389-4407 or concretechfinishing@yahoo.com

Motorcycles

5080

REV UP YOUR ENGINE. Now gain 1st and 2nd year Apprenticeship Motorcycle Mechanic skills. GPRC Fairview campus.

Hands-on training - street, off-road, dual sport bikes.

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NOW - NEW 8 week courses covering small engine, snowmobile, quad or marine outboard repair.

Take one course or all - fit your interest and your timeline. GPRC Fairview campus. Affordable residences.

1-888-999-7882; www.gprc.ab.ca

COMMUNITY BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR We are looking to fill a key position on our Services Management Team. This challenging role will require a self-directed, team-orientated professional with proven behavioral management skills, in addition to strong problem solving, communication, relationship building, teaching and consensus decision making skills.

In exchange we offer a dynamic Servant-Leadership based working environment where your opinion and expertise are both valued and included in our decision making. We will provide you with a supportive, encouraging and challenging growth opportunity.

You will collaborate with the management team to assess and develop positive behaviour management strategies; manage and mentor residential supervisors and proprietors by providing training and support to both frontline and supervisory staff.

Developing positive behaviour strategies will necessitate working very closely with the behavioral team, frontline staff and those in service.

A degree in Rehabilitation or a related field with a focus in behaviour management and several years of directly related experience assessing, developing and implementing behaviour programs is necessary. In addition you will have several years’ experience in a Program Supervisor role, ideally with teaching experience.

Average hours will be 40 per week. Must be able to work evenings and weekends if required. Must have own vehicle and be available for on call duties.

Salary: $4,214/month

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Eagle Builders is expanding its facility to double production. We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

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Site Supervisor Concrete Batch Plant Operator Concrete Finishers Carpenters/Woodworkers Steel Reinforcement Labourers Overhead Crane Operators Quality Control Personnel General Labourers Junior Draftsman

; Top Wages paid based on experience.

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Please forward cover letter and resume quoting competition #4433CBMC by November 22, 2012 to: Human Resources, Parkland CLASS, 6010 – 45th Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3M4, Fax: (403) 342-2677, email: hr@pclass.org

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; Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www.eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403.885.5516 or email: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

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ABORIGINAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICES RDAES offers culturally appropriate support, services and resources that assist Albertans in successfully developing employment, career and educational objectives.

Applications are now being accepted for the

Programming for Older Workers program The POW program will commence Feb. 4, 2013.

Get you application in now!

POW is an 22 week program designed to equip Mature Individuals between 50 to 64 years of age with essential skills that will enhance opportunities for securing a position, remain active, while developing skill sets for employment.

The Program will incorporate Aboriginal culture with mainstream training which include: Life Skills, computer skills, employability skills and academic competency building and workplace training.

Funding will be available to those who qualify.

For more information call/drop in: Red Deer Aboriginal Employment Services #202, 4909 48 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1S8 Tel: (403) 358-7734 Fax: (403) 358-7735 Toll Free: 1-866-358-7734

To place an ad, call 403-346-3356

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HOMES & LIVING

WELCOMING SPACE - The colours of the living room in an Asset Builders show home in Vanier Woods are warm and inviting for family and friends.

Tanis Reid/Red Deer Express

Examining the details of floor underlay I had a wonderful email from a lady last week asking me about all sorts of things that she wanted me to write about. Some topics I have already covered but she asked about underlay which I don’t think I have ever written about because I think people might find it boring.

I may have overlooked that people actually do want to know about underlay! In the past week I have really started listening for that question from my clients and guess what….yup, people are asking about underlay!

So we dive into the exciting world of underlay and under pad, brace yourself – this might require a cup of coffee. To make it not so technical let me give you the ground rules; anything that is glued down requires sub-

Kim

LEWIS floor of some kind. This includes hardwood, vinyl, tile; anything floating requires pad or some sort of liner underneath. Carpet would fall under the ‘floating’ category because technically it isn’t adhered to the product beneath it. The only place this rule is sometimes broken is on concrete floors as it provides a suitable underlayment for almost any glued down or floating product.

Carpet under pad comes in a variety of products, from chip foam to memory foam to solid

rubber. You can choose your under pad and choose your price point as it best suits your project. You should be choosing solid under pad if you have in-floor heating in your home as it has warranty for this type of installation. Constant heat on chip foam under pad can dry out the chemical bond between the foam pieces and can cause your underlay to fail prematurely.

Under pad is also available for any type of floating floor including hardwood, laminate and vinyl plank flooring. These floors require foam or cork underlayment to provide a barrier between the product and the hard floor underneath. Some under pads also come with a plastic layer known as a vapor barrier which is used when floating a product over con-

It’s going to get colder...

crete floors to help prevent moisture damage.

I think where most people get confused is between subfloor and underlay. These are industry terms which I know we in the ‘biz’ toss around like everyday vernacular when in reality most people have NO idea what these terms mean.

Subfloor is the product (typically OSB or plywood) that is adhered to the joists, some products require and additional layer before installation. Underlay comes next and is either a layered plywood or particle board depending on what you are installing. Vinyl is typically installed on a smooth particle board product while ceramic tile is put on top of plywood. Both of these underlayments provide

Kim Lewis is an interior designer in Red Deer with Carpet Colour Centre. Contact her at 403-343-7711 ext.

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stability and the proper thickness required to prevent movement.

When you are gluing a product down to an underlayment, stability is crucial because the product can only follow the underlay it is adhered to – if there is movement in the floor there will be movement in your product causing cracking and lifting.

The things that go under our floors are not that exciting but they are necessary for a long and happy relationship with your floors and deserve as much time, attention and knowledge as your beautiful ceramic tile!

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Tips on how to save for a down payment These tips might be what you need to hear to help you save up for your new home down payment.

And aside from overspending thanks to debit cards, consumers are also likely to dip into overdraft.

Jean-Guy

TURCOTTE A debit card works like a cheque. The difference is that every time you use it, you’re taking money out of your account. That’s why when you overdraw it’s like bouncing a cheque.

You may even make a bunch of purchases before you realize you’ve spent more than you have.

Revert to using cash for daily expenses, cash controls spending, plain and simple. Using cash to pay for everyday purchases such as coffee, transit, lunch and magazines alerts you to the idea that you’re

actually spending real money. There’s a cognitive event that happens when you handle money – it’s called awareness. Over the counter goes the $5 bill and back comes a loonie, a dime, two nickels and four pennies.

Now, add in the awareness of the bills left in your wallet and you become attuned to your temporary wealth, or lack thereof. At the end of the day, what encourages or cautions consumers about spending is knowing where you stand from a financial perspective. That’s why cash can help control spending. Using cash to pay for everyday purchases alerts you to the idea that you’re actually spending real money.

By allotting yourself a weekly cash allowance for entertainment and everyday expenses – such as that daily morning coffee or weekly movie – you are building a budget around what you can spend on these purchases. And once the money in your wallet has been spent, you have to ensure you fight the urge to withdraw more cash or resort back to using your

debit card.

Be realistic about what you typically spend on these items in a week. If you routinely eat out for lunch or stop at Tim Hortons for coffee, count that as well. If you think you’re spending too much on these items, you can then decide to find a less expensive alternative, such as brown-bagging your lunch or making your own coffee.

Let’s say, for instance, that you start the week off with $50 in your wallet and you began to spend it on your purchases. You will see $50 turn into $40, $40 turn into $25, $25 turn into $15 and so on. Every time you look into your wallet, you will see what’s left over from your original $50 and be aware of how quickly your money is being spent.

This alone can make you think twice before making a purchase, and help you get into your new home quicker.

Jean-Guy Turcotte is an Accredited Mortgage Professional with Dominion Lending Centres-Regional Mortgage Group and can be contacted for further information at 403343-1125.

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View The Clues has changed!

We have decided to change up our contest. Rather than looking in the classifieds we want you to focus on the many local business advertisements in the paper.

Below you will find five phone numbers listed. What you have to do is match the phone number to the business.

We still offer the prize of a restaurant gift certificate from one of the City’s many great restaurants. You still enter the contest the same way, by filling out the contest form and dropping off at the Express office prior to entry deadline listed.

403-340-4040 403-346-2514 403-342-1155 403-346-5613 403-343-3000

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Enter in pperson at the Red Deer Express #121, 5301 - 43 St.

WIN A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO: THE ROCK NOV. DRAW DATE: NOV. 29 @ NOON

HOW TO PLAY:

403.309.7365 • #40B, 5250-22nd St. Red Deer

Fill-in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: You must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box.

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OCTOBER WINNER: DIANE LEFEBVRE Name: _______________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________ #121, 5301 - 43 St.

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