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A small bridge that spans the track in Sylvan is named after Bethlehem, a small village in The Netherlands.

“They also have the same little cute bridge over the lake,” said Boom.

“That’s one part of that competitions from the Netherlands. They put it also on this lake.”

Jannie said her friends love it when she puts on her speed skates to glide around the rink.

Boom said she hopes more Canadian youth will give speedskating a try.

EDMONTON — Taking stage today at a public inquiry is what role, if any, the University of Calgary played in a queue-jumping scandal that occurred on its property and allegedly involved a high-ranking employee.

Dr. Ron Bridges, an associate dean in the faculty of medicine, is to testify in Calgary about his involvement with the privately run Helios Wellness Centre.

Clerks and doctors have already testified at the preferential health access hearing about a queue-jumping scheme they allege ran from 2008 to 2012.

The inquiry has heard how patients paid $10,000 each a year to join Helios, a private clinic that dispenses yoga, diet and exercise advice, and rents office space from the university. The non-profit group directed $200,000 or more a year to the university’s faculty of medicine, primarily to pay for scholarships for medical residents.

It has been alleged by witnesses that associate dean Bridges, with help from others, arranged to have Helios patients moved to the front of the line for colon cancer tests at the Forzani and MacPhail Colon Cancer Screening Centre, which rents space from the university but is funded and operated by the province.

Testimony and patient charts indicate Helios patients were given express service at the screening centre — treated and tested within weeks or, at most, months — while everyone else waited two to three years or longer.

Regular patients who missed appointments were moved to the back of the threeyear wait list, while Helios patients were immediately rebooked and treated.

Bridges had just begun to testify when the inquiry wrapped up for a few days last week.

He is expected to address the queue-jumping allegations today.

University spokeswoman Leanne Yohemas declined to be interviewed.

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Little Katie Campbell-McKay, 6, gets up close and personal to one of the cakes in the Centennial Cake Competition at Parkland Mall on Saturday. She waits to sample a slice from Penni Twach of Innisfail, left. Second from right, judge Ben Barthel talks to one of the cake designers. The centennial event drew six entries. Awards were handed out to Vivian McKenzie for People’s Choice and top Amateur. Loni Weselowski won the professional category. See story on page C1.

Newcomers from Netherlands enjoy ‘tradition’ at marathon

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

SPEEDSKATING

Growing up in the Netherlands, Sieka Boom used to spend all her free time on the ice.

These days she watches with delight as Jannie, her 17-year-old daughter, glides lap after lap around the local rink in Olds.

But this weekend Boom felt a little closer to home as she joined the mostly Dutch-crowd to take in the annual Sylvan Lake Ice Marathon.

“Skating, you grew up with it,” said Boom.

“You give (your children) possibilities to skate and you hope they like it.”

Boom said she is envious of the lake because the only option for speedskating in Olds is at the hockey rinks. Speedskating is just as popular in the Netherlands as hockey is in Canada.

Boom is pleased her daughter took to the sport and has channeled a part of her Dutch heritage. Boom noted the popular and frequent competitions in villages throughout her native country.

Technicians chip away millions of years of rock from prehistoric reptile

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Drumheller’s Royal Tyrrel Museum technicians are done chipping away at millions of years of rock to expose a prehistoric crocodile-like reptile that was discovered at Olds College last fall.

The Simoedosaurus, a type of a champsosaur who lived in the Paleocene Epoch in North America, about 60 million years ago.

Champsosaurs were semi-aquatic fresh water reptiles resembling a crocodile and measured abut two metres in length.

Preservation work on the rare Simoedosaurus was completed in January.

Donald Brinkman, the museum’s director of preservation and research, said the find was extremely rare and exceptionally wellpreserved with only two other Simoedosaurus ever discovered in North America. A lower

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Brinkman said by far this discovery was the largest and in the best condition.

“The thing that was most unexpected was the size of the front teeth,” said Brinkman. “It has really enlarged front teeth. They have this overbite where they come over the jaw.”

The technicians removed the rock to expose the champsosaur’s skull, the front of the snout, the neck, the shoulder girdle and the jaw. They left the bones in the rock base.

Brinkman said they did not want to remove individual parts from the rocks because the bones were well preserved and they would risk losing information.

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SPEEDSKATING: A growing sport Likewise Jan Heida of Barrhead was cheering on his two sons and wife during the competition.

Heida said it’s part of their Dutch culture and he wants his children to enjoy it.

Mother Nature was on the organizers’ side for the three-day competition.

Organizers said the crowds of about 100 people each day were larger than in the last two years.

Onlookers, however, said if this event was held in Holland, there would be elbow room only.

Foothills Speed Skating Marathon Association president Henrik Helmig said the sport is gaining popularity in Canada.

Helmig moved to Olds from Holland about 13 years ago where he was a recreational skater.

He took up speedskating about eight years ago because of the Sylvan Lake event.

“Every year we are growing,” said Helmig.

“Not only here, but in the Canadian population.”

The three-day ice marathon began on Friday and wrapped up on Sunday.

Last weekend, 17 skaters participated in the inaugural 24-hour speedskating marathon.

The event was modeled after similar events in the Netherlands. The fundraising event brought in more than $10,000 for the Children’s Wish Foundation. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

FOSSIL: Encased in sandstone Olds College grounds technician Leona Megli found the champsosaur fossil encased in a chunk of sandstone under some debris in October.

Brinkman said he knew it was a champososaur but was surprised to learn it was the rare Simoedosaurus, found typically in Europe.

The more common find is the Champsosaurus. “(The difference) is the Simoedosaurus has a shorter broader stout and these large piercing teeth on the front of the upper jaw,” he said.

“Somehow it was capturing food in a slightly different way. We don’t know if it was going after different food or capturing the same food in a different way.”

In the coming months, the hunt will continue for rest of the skeleton on the college grounds. Brinkman said it will be challenging unless they find the bone and cross section to recognize the rock block.

“But you know, if you don’t look, you don’t find,” he said.

A spot has already been selected in the museum for display. Brinkman said the specimen should be ready for viewing by the May long weekend.

The museum is currently working out details with Olds College to display the specimen for a special event as part of the college’s centennial.

The museum has future plans for a detailed research project on the simoedosaurus. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

INQUIRY: Two lists at clinic

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Sieka Boom of Olds stands with her daugther Jannie, 17, who participated in the Sylvan Lake Ice Marathon on the weekend.

“The University of Calgary does not comment on speculation or rumours.

“We will not be commenting on the current Health Services Preferential Access Inquiry until the hearing is complete and all testimony has been heard,” said Yohemas in an email.

The public colon cancer clinic, better known as CCSC, was founded in 2008 by Bridges, a nationally recognized leader in gastroenterology.

Bridges had a key role in hiring the two people who lead the CCSC to this day: Dr. Alaa Rostom on the medical side and Darlene Pontifex on the business side.

Helios opened around the same time, two floors down from the CCSC in the university-operated Teaching, Research and Wellness Building on the grounds of the Foothills Medical Centre.

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Christoph Waltz won his second supporting-actor Oscar for a Tarantino film, this time as a genteel bounty hunter in the slave-revenge saga Django Unchained.

Tarantino also won his second Oscar, for original screenplay for Django.

Ang Lee pulled off a major upset, won best director for the shipwreck story Life of Pi, taking the prize over Steven Spielberg, who had been favoured for Lincoln.

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The inquiry has heard that Fong and Bridges are longtime friends and worked together on a university campaign that collected more than $300 million from 700 donors around the time both clinics opened.

CCSC staff and some doctors have testified that queue-jumping occurred in two phases.

The first phase was from 2008 to 2010, when the clinic was just opening and was run by the University of Calgary.

Pontifex testified that the startup was a clerical nightmare. The clinic inherited thousands of names on a waiting list for tests.

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The compromise was that the doctors, for an interim period, could book half their time slots from the common queue and half from their own lists.

Clerk Samantha Mallyon testified it was during that time that Pontifex directed her to keep a separate file for Helios patients and book them immediately to be tested.

Mallyon said Pontifex came by her desk once a week to make sure the Helios files got fast-tracked.

Mallyon said the Helios patients were treated by either Bridges, Rostom, or CCSC research director Robert Hilsden. Rostom has denied he played favourites with Helios patients. Hilsden has not testified.

Pontifex said the Helios file was set up at the “implied” direction of Bridges and that from 2008 to 2010 Helios patients jumped the queue.

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Ben Affleck accepts the award for best picture for “Argo” during the Oscars at on Sunday, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck’s Argo, a film about a fake movie, has earned a very real prize: best picture at the Academy Awards.

From the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Jack Nicholson to help present the final prize.

“There are eight great films that have every right, as much a right to be up here as we do,” Affleck said of the other best-picture nominees.

In share-the-wealth mode, Oscar voters spread Sunday’s honours among a range of films, with Argo winning three trophies but Life of Pi leading with four.

Daniel Day-Lewis joined a select group of recipients with his third Oscar, taking the best-actor trophy for his monumental performance as Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War saga Lincoln.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence triumphed in Hollywood’s big games, winning the best actress as a damaged soul in Silver Linings Play-

standing ovation.

At 22, Lawrence is the second-youngest woman to win best actress, behind Marlee Matlin, who was 21 when she won for Children of a Lesser God. Lawrence also is the third-youngest best-actress contender ever, earning her first nomination at age 20 two years ago for her breakout role in Winter’s Bone, the film that took her from virtual unknown to one of Hollywood’s most-versatile and sought-after performers.

With a monumental performance as Abraham Lincoln, Day-Lewis became the only performer to win three bestactor Oscars, adding to the honours he earned for My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood.

He’s just the sixth actor to earn three or more Oscars, tied with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman and Walter Brennan with three each, and just behind Katharine Hepburn, who won four.

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Canadian satellites to be launched ONE WILL WATCH OUT FOR ASTEROIDS

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A woman wipes her eyes as she leaves the Calvary United Baptist Church in Woods Harbour, NS on Sunday.

Many residents of the small fishing village attended a special service dedicated to five local fishermen who were lost at sea after their boat capsized last week.

Families, friends gather to grieve five lost fishermen

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WOODS HARBOUR, N.S. — Hundreds of people gathered in churches in southwestern Nova Scotia on Sunday as friends and religious leaders urged their communities to offer support to the families grieving the loss of five young fishermen.

“This is a time of sorrow,” said Sandy Stoddard, a veteran fishermen who was among the last to have radio contact with the captain of the Miss Ally, 21-year-old Katlin Nickerson.

“I’ve lost a piece of me,” he said as he spoke tenderly to crying relatives in Calvary United Baptist church in Woods Harbour, where about 500 people filled the pews.

Pastor Phil Williams urged the residents of the fishing village to continue supporting one another after a week filled with dashed hopes and criticism of the rescue and recovery efforts for the overturned hull of the boat.

The vessel’s emergency beacon was detected by search-andrescue officials last Sunday, as a storm with hurricane-force winds created massive waves over a 100 kilometres southeast of Liverpool.

The date of Feb. 17 will now be etched in the collective memory of Woods Harbour, said Williams.

“It has been a defining moment in our community’s life,” he said.

“That which we have feared the most has come upon us.”

Police have not formally released the names of the fishermen, but family members have identified Cole Nickerson, Billy Jack Hatfield and Joel Hopkins as three crew on board.

The other two men were identified at a local prayer service last Tuesday evening as Katlin Nickerson and Tyson Townsend.

Williams said during his sermon that the grandmothers and grandfathers he has visited in the weathered homes of the town told him that memories of previous disasters — such as the loss of seven men on a vessel 39 years ago — will help people persevere through difficult times.

“The old grandfather told me, with tears running down his cheeks, ‘We shall get through this together,”’ Williams said to the congregation.

Families of the men aboard the Miss Ally sat in several rows at

the front of the church, hugging each other and crying as church members sang and prayed.

Outside, Kenny Hatfield, the uncle of crew member Billy Jack Hatfield, spoke of the emotional rollercoaster of the past week.

“I had a nephew aboard who was like one of my own sons, and I’ve been crying ever since it happened.

“There’s nothing I can do about it. I loved him and he loved me too,” he said after the service as snow and wind swirled off the ocean.

“He was one of the best fathers.

He had three little children. ...

Their father’s gone now.”

Last night, the community received the news that no bodies were found when a group of professional divers went beneath the vessel on Saturday. The divers also found that the wheelhouse had been torn off, along with the life-raft.

At the Wesleyan church just down the road, family members also gathered and Rev. Rod Guptill delivered a sermon that he said focused on helping the extended family and friends of the five men.

“My message is that we will mourn with the mourning,” said Guptill the night before.

There’s a lot riding on NEOSSat and Sapphire, two Canadian satellites scheduled to be launched from India today.

NEOSSat (Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) could perhaps have proven quite useful had it been in place before a destructive meteor recently exploded over Russia.

David Cooper, the CEO of Microsat Systems Canada, says NEOSSat will be on the lookout for “Aten” asteroids which, every once and a while, will cross Earth’s path.

Atens are a group of near-Earth asteroids which orbit the sun elliptically and periodically cross Earth’s orbital plane.

The Microsat executive said he suspects the space rock that streaked over Russia, causing numerous injuries, must have been an “Aten” asteroid.

“We’re pretty lucky that it just grazed off the Earth’s atmosphere and heated up and exploded, rather than having a trajectory which would have taken it right into the Earth,” Cooper said from his office in Mississauga, Ont. “If it had come down in the middle of New York City it would have made a lot more noise than it did.”

He said that NEOSSat is designed to specifically look for Aten asteroids that can’t be seen from the ground because of the scattering of the sun’s light in the atmosphere.

“Once we detect and track them, we can project their orbit and then forecast ahead — sometimes years or decades (in advance) — where and when they will cross Earth’s orbit. . .

“It will give us a lot more insight into the potential for these asteroids.”

The hope is that if we understand an asteroid’s path, we could take measures to protect ourselves.

In a recent interview, Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary said studies are already being done to see how a threatening asteroid can be deflected.

The planetary scientist said one option would involve exploding a device near an asteroid while another would use a spacecraft to pull it away.

The $15 million suitcase-sized satellite, which will circle about 800 kilometres above the Earth every 100 minutes, is the first space telescope dedicated to looking for potentially hazardous asteroids.

NEOSSat, which was built by Microsat Systems Canada, was jointly funded by the Canadian Space Agency and DRDC (Defence Research and Development Canada).

Sapphire, Canada’s first military satellite, will join NEOSSat on the launch pad.

A total of seven satellites will be launched aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, at 7:25 a.m.

ET. National Defence describes Sapphire as the largest part of the Canadian surveillance system, intended to increase “space situational awareness.”

The metre-long satellite, which weighs about 150 kilograms, will be used to support Canadian and international military operations and well as bilateral commitments such as NORAD. Sapphire will contribute to the United States Space Surveillance Network, which currently tracks more than 22,000 pieces of space debris larger than 10 centimetres.

Ottawa to require that tanning beds carry warning labels OTTAWA — It’s not yet moving to the sometimes hideous pictorial warning labels seen on cigarette packaging, but Ottawa wants to get the message across that tanning beds can be hazardous to your health.

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says Health Canada will soon require that all tanning beds carry warnings about skin cancer and other potential dangers.

The proposed changes come after several provinces moved to prevent the use of tanning beds by young people.

Nova Scotia already bans people under 19 from using tanning beds while Manitoba requires written parental consent before anyone under 18 can use them.

And earlier this month, legislation took effect that would ban those under 18 from using tanning beds in Quebec.

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the use of tanning beds, including skin cancer.”

A public comment period on the proposals will close in early May with regulations expected to be posted later this year.

The regulation of tanning beds for commercial use falls under provincial jurisdiction.

However, Health Canada regulates the sale, lease and import of tanning beds under the Radiation Emitting De-

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“Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer, but it’s also one of the most preventable,” said Canadian Cancer Society president Pamela Fralick.

“Stronger labelling and clearer information about the dangers of tanning beds may reduce the number of young Canadians exposed to this carcinogen, and this is an important step in the right direction.”

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Ontario and British Columbia have announced plans for similar laws.

France, Germany and Australia also have bans in place affecting younger people.

Using indoor tanning equipment before age 35 significantly increases the risk of developing melanoma skin cancer, according to research by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Canada’s proposed tanning bed labels don’t forbid their use, but instead warn the devices are “Not recommended for use by those under 18 years of age.”

The labels would also read: “Tanning Equipment Can Cause Cancer,” and carry a list of other health risks associated with tanning.

“The Harper Government is committed to protecting the health and safety of Canadian families,” said Aglukkaq.

“Young adults should be concerned about the health risks associated with

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Paving over our wealth MUNICIPALITIES MUST LEARN TO PROTECT PRODUCTIVE FARMLAND BY MANAGING URBAN SPRAWL Despite its huge area, Canada has relatively little dependable farmland.

After all, a lot of our country is rock, or buried under ice and snow. Fertile soil and a friendly climate are hard to find.

So it might seem like good news that on a clear day you can see about half the best agricultural land in Canada from the top of Toronto’s CN Tower. To feed our growing urban populations and sustain loDAVID cal food secuSUZUKI rity, it’s critical to have productive land close to where people live.

Some regions of the country, like the Golden Horseshoe surrounding Toronto, have an abundance of class 1 soils — the best there is for food production. But there, and in most urbanized regions of Canada, increasing proportions of these superior soils now lie beneath sprawling housing developments, highways, strip-malls and other infrastructure. As urban communities

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have grown over the years, agricultural lands and natural areas have been drained, dug up and paved over.

Only five per cent of Canada’s entire land base is suitable for growing food.

According to a study by Statistics Canada, our spreading cities sprawl over what was once mostly farmland. Urban uses have consumed over 7,400 square km of dependable agricultural land in recent decades — an area almost three times the size of Prince Edward Island.

Almost half of Canada’s urban base now occupies land that only a few generations ago was farmed. Most of it can never be used for agriculture again, despite city peoples’ efforts to grow food in community plots, on green roofs and by guerrilla gardening.

Though there are strong, sprawlbusting policies in provinces such as Ontario, with its Greenbelt Act and Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan, and British Columbia, with its renowned Agricultural Land Reserve, sadly, our urbanizing ways aren’t slowing.

A recent study by the David Suzuki Foundation examined threats to farmland in a 94,000-hectare patchwork of farms, forests and wetlands circling Toronto and surrounding suburbs called the Whitebelt Study Area. The report warns that this productive mosaic of green space and rich farmland

is at risk from the blistering pace of urban expansion in the Golden Horseshoe.

Municipalities there propose developing more than 10,000 hectares of the Whitebelt over the next three decades, in addition to 52,000 hectares of land the province already approved for development before new policies to curb urban sprawl came into effect. Together, these lands are more than twice the area of the City of Mississauga.

Paving over prime farmland and natural assets like wetlands is foolhardy. Studies show that near-urban croplands and farms contribute billions of dollars in revenue to local economies each year, producing a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables, beef, pork, dairy and award-winning wines.

As the foundation report shows, near-urban farmland and green space represents a Fort Knox of natural benefits that we typically take for granted: trees clean the air, wetlands filter water and rich, productive soils store greenhouse gases.

Today, most of Canada’s towns and cities are at a crossroads. Down one path is continued low-density, creeping urban expansion. We know how this well-worn route looks: endless pavement, long commutes and traffic jams, not to mention the high social and ecological costs associated with

such a wasteful form of urban design.

Simply put, continued sprawl threatens the health and well-being of our communities and the ecosystems that sustain us.

In the other direction is an extraordinary new path: ending sprawl using the principles of smart growth and creating compact, higher-density communities serviced by public transit, bike paths and walking trails, surrounded by local greenbelts of protected farmland and green space.

Our political leaders and citizens must seize this opportunity to embark on a visionary path to grow our communities smarter and protect Canada’s near-urban nature and farmland.

If we value local food and want to maintain the critical benefits that nature provides, we must put food and water first. That’s why we’re calling on municipalities and provincial governments to redouble their efforts to protect our remaining farmland and green space from costly, polluting urban sprawl.

You can contribute to the conversation yourself on Twitter at #FoodAndWaterFirst.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with David Suzuki Foundation Ontario Director Faisal Moola. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Council denying our democratic rights Re: The ward debate in Red Deer A definition of ‘representational democracy’ includes “it is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.”

Great dream.

Our Red Deer reality is a city council being exclusionary over the ward question. Once again refusing to engage with citizens and foster community involvement on the matter.

Coun. Paul Harris says going to a plebiscite would create a dialogue about things that are not a burning issue for the whole.

Were the bike lane plan and the no-crack-smoking bylaw burning issues? $800,000 wasted for a very few and imposed on all of us with no real community input. What about the 98 per cent of citizens not consulted?

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes and others talk of their ability to represent Red Deer as a whole. What a disingenuous comment for councillors to be making.

The ‘whole’ should refer to the 91,000 citizens of Red Deer, not the select few. How many have they actually spoken to? This is the problem with our at-large council.

Council should be fostering community involvement. Democracy!

No wonder so many want changes. Our mayor finding himself in a close battle last election reflects that want.

A plebiscite on a major issue like the ward system would be a very positive and relatively inexpensive step towards a motivated and involved public.

Wouldn’t that make Red Deer a stronger, better city?

We need to take back our city. A simple vote next election could make the difference. Make your voice count.

Councillors Stephen, Wong and Buchanan stood up for our democratic rights. Cheers!

Lloyd Johnson Red Deer

Bike lane award ignores reality Red Deer has recently received an award from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) for the bike lane pilot project.

It is important to note that one of Red Deer city council’s most vocal supporters of the bike lanes was a member of the FCM board from 2011 to 2012.

The award was given by a group of people who don’t have to drive in Red Deer and apparently have never visited our city in the winter.

What worries me is this award will serve as a green light for council to continue to spend our tax dollars on pet projects like this, that the majority of citizens believe we don’t want or need.

City council moved forward on this program with approximately 250 online responses from the citizens of Red Deer, most of which were from the local bike club.

After council voted to take away driving lanes and spend $800,000 on bike lanes (which have proven largely unused, especially during the six to seven months of winter), I set up an online petition asking them, in essence, to rethink the program. In 10 days, the petition received approximately 3,000 names and comments, and this with mostly word of mouth promotion.

Most residents of our city are not aware that our city will be $258 million in long-term debt at the end of this year and plan to spend over $1.3 billion in the next 10 years.

It’s also important to note, there is no rainy day/ contingency fund left and taxes get raised above inflation and population growth every year.

The other thing that worries me is council voted

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down a motion to let the citizens of Red Deer vote on how we want to be governed during the next election.

Holding a plebiscite on a major issue during an election is an inexpensive method of getting feedback from the citizens, and yet council is afraid of letting the people decide.

The good thing that comes out of the whole bike lane issue is that citizens are now aware of how city council has spent and wasted our tax dollars over the last number of years. They are now realizing it is time for a more fiscally responsible council. I hope the citizens are still concerned enough in October to do some research and find this type of new candidate, get out and vote, and bring common sense back to the governing of our city.

Ryan Handley Red Deer

Air pollution risk greater than shown The briefs article, Air quality risk moderate, in the Feb. 8 Advocate, notes that pollution levels in Red Deer can reach a level of four or even five on a scale of 10.

This has to be a concern as children, seniors and residents with heart or lung disease can suffer illeffects at this level. Checking on the research, it is questionable whether there is a safe level of air pollution and we would all probably lead a longer and healthier life if air pollution levels were reduced to the lowest practical level.

A huge problem with relying on data from a monitoring unit is that pollution levels can be many times higher than the readings at the unit indicate. For example, the level of exposure to pollutants can be

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much higher on busy streets or truck routes. In this regard, the level of pollutants on Ross Street are routinely three times higher than the level indicated by the monitoring unit.

Monitoring fails completely, with regard to residential wood burning as a family can be exposed to high levels of smoke and carcinogens pouring into their homes from a neighbour’s chimney while the pollutants dissipate before reaching a monitoring unit. Most of the emails I receive, from across Canada, have nothing to do with the Air Quality Health Index but are from families whose health is being affected by a neighbour’s wood smoke.

It is troubling that the city’s Environmental Master Plan (EMP) includes no effective clean air measures or effective monitoring. Avoiding monitoring for the carcinogens known to be present in the Red Deer air is particularly disturbing. Unfortunately, the EMP is a “green” document and there is no record of green measures being effective in either reducing greenhouse emissions or urban air pollution.

Municipalities around the world that care for the environment have dramatically reduced air pollution by eliminating urban wood and coal burning and introducing mandatory emission tests for vehicles.

These measures do result in some inconvenience for residents but a healthier environment is worth the inconvenience. Alberta’s cities need to borrow ideas from more environmentally-conscious cities, if for no other reason than our already fragile health-care system will be severely strained by the cost of treating pollution-related diseases.

Alan Smith Alberta director Canadian Clean Air Alliance Red Deer

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Feds dispute information ranking CANADA RANKED 55TH IN THE WORLD FOR UPHOLDING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government is dismissing a report that ranks it 55th in the world for upholding freedom of information, saying it has a sterling record for openness.

But a four-page document outlining the federal rebuttal took five months to release after a request under the Access to Information Act — underscoring the very delay problem that contributed to Canada’s dismal ranking.

A human-rights group based in Halifax has issued three report cards since 2011 on Canada’s anemic standing in the world with regard to so-called right-to-know legislation.

The Centre for Law and Democracy used a 61-point tool to measure Canada’s legislation against that of other countries, in co-operation with Madridbased Access Info Europe.

Canada’s standing in September 2011 was 40th of 89 countries, fell to 51st in June last year, then to 55th of 93 countries last September, behind Mongolia and Colombia.

“While standards around the world have advanced, Canada’s access laws have stagnated and sometimes even

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Canada’s information commissioner Suzanne Legault. regressed,” the centre concluded, noting Canada was a world leader in 1983 when its federal information law came into force.

The research won praise from Canada’s information commissioner, Suzanne Legault, who said “the analysis that this group has done is going to be

a really useful tool” in her own investigation into freedom-of-information issues.

But an internal memo last summer to Treasury Board President Tony Clement cites the report’s “weaknesses,” saying the methodology “does not allow for an accurate comparison of the openness of a society and of its government.”

The memo from Michelle d’Auray, then secretary of the Treasury Board which oversees the access-to-information system, noted the report did not take into account the government’s pro-active disclosure of information; the 2006 expansion of the Act to cover some 250 additional entities such as Crown corporations; or years of court rulings that reinforce citizens’ right to information.

The internal memo was among a group of records requested from Treasury Board last September by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. The law requires a response within 30 days, but the agency gave itself a 120-day extension — four additional months — so it could consult with the Privy Council Office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own department.

The report card from the Centre for

Law and Democracy found that such unilateral, lengthy extensions are invoked too often by federal departments, calling delay a “classical way of effectively denying requests.”

“Public authorities should be limited to one extension of no more than 30 days, applicable only in appropriate cases,” the centre said in a key recommendation for reform.

Treasury Board has several projects underway that it says will help modernize the access-to-information regime, which relies on an act little changed since 1983, well before the digital age.

This spring, it is launching a sixto-12-month pilot project with three departments to allow the online submission of requests and fees, and online tracking of the progress of the file. Depending on the success of the pilot, it may be expanded government-wide.

Currently, the system is paperbased, with most users having to write $5 cheques for the basic application fee and to send their requests by mail.

And sometime in 2013-2014, summaries of access-to-information requests are to become searchable online in a database that includes all federal departments and agencies.

Quebec starts long-awaited tuition summit ONE YEAR AFTER ITS ‘MAPLE SPRING’

BY ANDY BLATCHFORD AND BENJAMIN SHINGLER THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Not even the most militant of Quebec’s student federations expects this week’s education summit to plunge the province into another Maple Spring.

Quebec gained international attention last year when a dispute over proposed tuition hikes boiled into a months-long uprising.

The unrest, dubbed the Maple Spring, saw thousands of protesters swarm Montreal streets night after night.

The crisis eventually faded away, in part because the Liberals lost power and the incoming Parti Quebecois government cancelled the tuition increases.

The PQ stickhandled its way through the perilous political issue, during the election, by promising to come up with a new tuition policy at an education summit.

Some students are feeling disillusioned and boycotting the two-day summit, which starts Monday, because they believe the new government has tuned out some of their ideas.

The ranks of the restive, however, appear smaller than last year.

“We are aware... that there will not be a new Maple Spring,” said Blandine Parchemal of the ASSE student federation, one of the more militant groups within the movement.

“The Maple Spring is over.”

The once-powerful ASSE, led by its charismatic former spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, suffered several setbacks last week after it failed to gather

support on a strike vote from a number of its associations.

The most symbolic setback came at a college near Montreal known as a bastion of activism, which was the first school to declare a strike last February in an event that kicked off the movement.

This time, College de Valleyfield not only voted against the strike, it tabled a motion to disassociate itself from ASSE. That doesn’t mean the tuition divide between students and the government has disappeared.

One of the major sticking points is the PQ government’s intention to freeze rates, which are the lowest in Canada, but to introduce small increases indexed to inflation.

Some student federations that made up last year’s protest movement have drawn a line in the sand at an absolute tuition freeze.

They say they refuse to accept indexation.

ASSE, meanwhile, decided to boycott the summit completely over the government’s refusal to debate the group’s desire for zero tuition.

They view free university as an achievable goal, if only policy-makers would make it a priority like in many other jurisdictions. Former premier Jacques Parizeau, who as a young civil servant in the 1960s helped build the province’s university network, expressed support for their cause.

The federation is now planning to take its battle back into the streets. ASSE has planned to stage a protest Tuesday outside the summit venue.

With memories of last year’s clashes with demonstrators, Montreal police pledge to be present in large numbers and will maintain a security perimeter around the summit’s building.

Student associations representing junior colleges and universities affiliated with ASSE have also voted to hold a one-day strike on Tuesday.

Toronto cardinal keeping open mind on how to pick new pope THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Toronto’s Thomas Cardinal Collins says he is keeping an open mind and will keep an open ear to the advice of other cardinals as he heads to Vatican City to help select a new pope.

Collins says he has no idea yet what characteristics the next pope should have, adding he will first get to know the 116 cardinals who will join him in conclave to pick the next head of the Catholic Church.

Collins says he has been intensely studying historical studies of the “awesome process” of a papal conclave, which he has never participated in before.

He says he has received emails encouraging him to express a willingness to become pope, but adds he has no interest in the church’s top post.

Pope Benedict will greet Collins and the assembled College of Cardinals before officially retiring Thursday, touching off the process of deciding on his successor.

Quebec’s Marc Cardinal Ouellet is considered a possible front-runner to replace Benedict, and Collins says any country that sees one of its cardinals become pope will be pleased.

“Whatever country the pope is from will prob-

ably be very happy about it,” Collins said Sunday after giving his final mass in Toronto before leaving for Rome.

He told reporters he expects a dynamic selection process, as cardinals from around the world strike up relationships and jointly grapple with the succes-

sion question.

“Before I am kind of locking or casting in stone what I think are the traits essential in the next pope, I want to listen and to reflect... I think obviously we want a very holy person, a person filled with the spirit of the lord,” he said.

“But the question is

for now, which one is the pope for this situation with the church” currently, Collins added.

“I’m looking forward to discovering more about the situation of the church around the world before I settle in on what are the qualities precisely needed.”

But any protest revival from within ASSE faces an uphill climb. Several of its member unions voted last week against the strike, including those from some of the most militant schools during last year’s uprising.

“There’s a lot of exhaustion,” said Parchemal, ASSE’s secretary of academic affairs. She was referring to the compressed, intensive academic schedules students have had to endure after the 2012 strikes cancelled sessions.

She maintained, however, that the associations that voted against the strike still oppose indexation and support free tuition. Parchemal added that some schools that voted against strikes last year, actually supported the most recent one.

That stood in contrast to places like College de Valleyfield — where the vote was 366 against the strike and 124 in favour of it, said a student-union representative.

“We didn’t expect to be crushed like that,” said Cedrick Mainville, himself a supporter of the strike.

He blamed the loss on student fears that a Yes vote would lead to a prolonged strike like last year.

ASSE’s approach is much different than that of FEUQ, the largest student group in the province.

The organization, which says it represents 125,000 students, plans to take its concerns to the summit’s negotiating tables rather than into the streets.

FEUQ president Martine Desjardins believes the student movement still has many potential avenues to explore before presenting a strike vote.

“Before that, you need to prove that you’ve tried everything that you could,” said Desjardins, who led FEUQ during last year’s protests.

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U.S. ordered out of Afghan province AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT TELLS ALL U.S. SPECIAL FORCES TO LEAVE EASTERN PROVINCE WITHIN TWO WEEKS BECAUSE OF ABUSE AND TORTURE ALLEGATIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president on Sunday ordered all U.S. special forces to leave a strategically important eastern province within two weeks because of allegations that Afghans working with them are torturing and abusing other Afghans.

The decision seems to have caught the coalition and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, a separate command, by surprise. Americans have frequently drawn anger from the Afghan public over issues ranging from Qurans burned at a U.S. base to allegations of civilian killings.

“We take all allegations of misconduct seriously and go to great lengths to determine the facts surrounding them,” the U.S. forces said in a statement.

Also Sunday, a series of attacks in eastern Afghanistan showed insurgents remain on the offensive even as U.S. and other international forces prepare to end their combat mission by the end of 2014.

Suicide bombers targeted Afghanistan’s intelligence agency and other security forces in four coordinated attacks in the heart of Kabul and outlying areas in a bloody reminder of the insurgency’s reach nearly 12 years into the war.

Presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said the decision to order the American special forces to leave Wardak province was taken during a meeting of the National Security Council because of the alleged actions of Afghans who are considered linked to the U.S. special forces.

He said all special forces operations were to cease immediately in the restive province next to Kabul, which is viewed as a gateway to the capital and has been the focus of counterinsurgency efforts in recent years.

The Taliban have staged numerous attacks against U.S.-led coalition forces in the province. In August 2011, insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter, killing 30 American troops, mostly elite Navy SEALs, in Wardak. The crash was the single deadliest loss for U.S. forces in the war.

Afghan forces have taken the lead in many such special operations, especially so-called night raids.

“Those Afghans in these armed groups who are working with the U.S. special forces, the defence minister asked for an explanation of who they are,” Faizi said. “Those individuals should be handed over to the Afghan side so that we can further investigate.”

A statement the security council issued in English said the armed individuals have allegedly been “harassing, annoying, torturing and even murdering innocent people.”

Ceasing all such operations could have a negative impact on the coalition’s campaign to go after Taliban leaders and commanders, who are usually the target of such operations.

Faizi said the issue had already been brought up with the coalition.

The U.S. statement said only that the announcement was “an important issue that we intend to fully discuss with our Afghan counterparts. But until we have had a chance to speak with senior Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan officials about this issue, we are not in a position to comment further.”

The brazen assaults, which occurred within a three-hour timespan, were the latest to strike Afghan forces, who have suffered higher casualties this year as U.S. and other foreign troops gradually take a back seat and shift responsibility for security to the government.

The deadliest attack occurred just after sunrise — a suicide car bombing at the gate of the National Directorate of Security compound in Jalalabad, 125 kilometres (78 miles) east of Kabul.

Guards shot and killed the driver but he managed to detonate the explosives-packed vehicle, killing two intelligence agents and wounding three others, according to a statement by the intelligence agency.

Provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai confirmed the casualty toll and said the building was damaged in the attack.

A guard also shot and killed a man in an SUV filled with dynamite that was targeting an NDS building on a busy street in Kabul, not far from NATO headquarters. The explosives in the back of the vehicle were defused. Blood stained the driver’s seat and the ground where security forces dragged out the would-be attacker.

Shortly before the Jalalabad attack, a suicide attacker detonated a minivan full of explosives at a police checkpoint in Pul-i-Alam on the main highway between Kabul and Logar province. One policeman was killed and two others were wounded, along with a bystander, according to the NDS. Also in Logar province, which is due south of Kabul, a man wearing a suicide vest was stopped by police as he tried to force his way into the police headquarters for Baraki Barak district, said Din Mohammad Darwesh, the provincial government spokesman. The attacker detonated his vest while being searched, wounding one policeman, according to Darwesh and the NDS. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the Jalalabad attack and two others in the eastern province of Logar in an email to reporters. He did not address the attempted assault in Kabul.

Raul Castro vows to leave Cuba presidency in five years

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA, Cuba — Raul Castro announced Sunday that he will step down as Cuba’s president in 2018 following a final five-year term, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era. He tapped rising star Miguel DiazCanel as his top lieutenant and first in the line of succession.

The 81-year-old Castro also said he hopes to establish two-term limits and age caps for political offices including the presidency — an astonishing prospect for a nation led by Castro or his older brother Fidel since the 1959 revolution.

The 52-year-old Diaz-Canel is now a heartbeat from the presidency and has risen higher than any other Cuban official who didn’t directly participate in the heady days of the revolution.

“This will be my last term,” Castro

said, his voice firm.

In his 35-minute speech, Castro hinted at other changes to the constitution, some so dramatic that they will have to be ratified by the Cuban people in a referendum. Still, he scotched any idea that the country would soon abandon socialism, saying he had not assumed the presidency in order to destroy Cuba’s system.

“I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba,” he said. “I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.”

Castro fueled interest in Sunday’s legislative gathering after mentioning on Friday his possible retirement and suggesting lightheartedly that he had plans to resign at some point.

It’s now clear that he was dead serious when he promised that Sunday’s speech would have fireworks, and would touch on his future in leader-

ship.

Cuba is at a moment of “historic transcendence,” Castro told lawmakers in speaking of his decision to name Diaz-Canel to the No. 2 job, replacing the 81-year-old Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, who fought with the Castros in the Sierra Maestra.

Castro said that Diaz-Canel’s promotion “represents a definitive step in the configuration of the future leadership of the nation through the gradual and orderly transfer of key roles to new generations.”

Since taking over from Fidel in 2006, Castro has instituted a slate of important economic and social changes, expanding private enterprise, legalizing a real estate market and relaxing hated travel restrictions.

Still, the country remains ruled by the Communist Party and any opposition to it lacks legal recognition.

Castro has mentioned term limits

before, but he has never said specifically when he would step down, and the concept has yet to be codified into Cuban law.

If he keeps his word, Castro will leave office no later than 2018. CubanAmerican exiles in the United States have waited decades for the end of the Castro era, although they will likely be dismayed if it ends on the brothers’ terms.

Nevertheless, the promise of a change at the top could have deep significance for U.S.-Cuba ties. The wording of Washington’s 51-year economic embargo on the island specifies that it cannot be lifted while a Castro is in charge.

Fidel Castro is 86 and retired, and has appeared increasingly frail in recent months. He made a surprise appearance at Sunday’s gathering, receiving a thunderous ovation from lawmakers.

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Rebels edged by Tigers CURTIS GRANDERSON

SPRING BREAK New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson is expected to be out until May after breaking his right forearm. The slugger was hit by a pitch from Toronto’s J.A. Happ in the bottom of the first inning Sunday, his first at-bat of spring training. The Yankees, who were beat 2-0 by a Toronto Blue Jays’ split-squad, first called it a bruise but X-rays revealed the break. The team said Granderson could be out 10 weeks, which means he’ll miss about a month of the regular season.

“Mentally, you understand this is part of it, but at the same time now there’s not much I can do about it except do the best things I can to not make it worse,” Granderson said.

Today

● Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Innisfail, second game of bestof-three South Central League North quarterfinal, 7:10 p.m.

Tuesday

● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Sylvan Lake, third game of best-of-three South Central League North quarter-final, if necessary, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, first game of best-of-five AMHL South Division semifinal, 7:15 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Wheatland at Lacombe, third game of best-ofthree South Central League North quarterfinal, if necessary, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, third game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 7:45 p.m., Arena.

Friday

● Curling: Provincial juvenile championship at Sylvan Lake.

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Red Deer Rebels forward Rhyse Dieno gets ready to fire a shot on the Prince Albert goal during Saturday nights game at the Centrium. The Rebels won the game 4-2 on the night where they saluted the Rustlers by wearing throwback jerseys. For more on that game please see B2.

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Tigers 5 Rebels 4 MEDICINE HAT — Playing their third game in as many nights, the Red Deer Rebels were likely a tired team Sunday.

Brent Sutter, however, didn’t want to hear that.

“We played with some urgency in the third period, but during the first two pe-

riod there was a lack of a lot of different things. There was a certain acceptance of just wanting to be close here tonight,” said the Rebels GM/head coach following a 5-4 Western Hockey League loss to the Medicine Hat Tigers.

“Being tired is no excuse. They (Tigers) played three in three, too.”

Sutter disliked his team’s lack of discipline. The Tigers, who led 3-1 after one period and 5-2 after 40 minutes, were two-

Iginla gets pair as Flames beat Coyotes THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 5 Coyotes 4 CALGARY — Calgary captain Jarome Iginla scored twice Sunday night and the Flames had goals 23 seconds apart in the game’s final two minutes to rally back for a 5-4 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes.

It was a turbulent third period for the home team, who had surrendered a 3-2 lead held entering the final 20 minutes.

In the middle of it all was Iginla, who entered the night with one goal on the season and just two in his last 28 games.

Iginla tied the game at 18:37 when he got just enough of his stick on a cross-ice pass from Alex Tanguay, to bounce the puck past Phoenix goaltender Mike Smith.

With the Scotiabank Saddledome sell-out crowd of 19,289 still buzzing, Calgary took the lead with Lee Stempniak wheeling out of the corner and hitting Curtis Glencross with a perfect feed.

Glencross one-timed a slapshot past Smith, stunning those on the visiting bench.

Tim Jackman and Mike Cammalleri also scored for Calgary

(7-7-3), which wraps up its threegame homestand with back-toback victories against two teams it is chasing in the Western Conference.

Raffi Torres had a pair to lead the way for Phoenix (8-7-3).

Michael Stone and Nick Johnson also scored.

Trailing 3-2 entering the third period, Torres notched his second of the night at 2:22.

The Coyotes winger started the sequence with a nifty behind-the-back pass to defenceman Zbynek Michalek as he crossed the Flames’ blue-line.

Torres then raced for the net and buried Michalek’s return pass behind Joey MacDonald.

At 8:48, Nick Johnson put the Coyotes into the lead backhanding in a rebound from Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s point shot.

An eventful second period saw Phoenix score twice to erase a 1-0 deficit before Calgary stormed back with two goals in the final four mintues of the period to regain a onegoal lead.

Phoenix tied it 1-1 at 5:32 on a tough break for Flames defenceman Jay Bouwmeester.

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Phoenix Coyotes’ Chris Summers gets checked by Calgary Flames’ Curtis Glencross during NHL action in Calgary, Sunday.

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for-nine on the power play.

Curtis Valk opened the scoring just 32 second into the contest with Rebels defenceman Mathew Dumba serving an interference penalty.

Cody Thiel, with his third goal of the season, pulled the visitors even at 6:09, but Miles Koules gave the Tigers a permanent lead roughly five minutes later, then added a power-play tally at 17:39.

Sutter didn’t like either of the first two goals allowed by Bolton Pouliot, who got a rare start in the Red Deer net. But the Rebels bench boss was of the opinion that Pouliot was far from alone as an early noshow.

“At this time of the year your back-up goalie can’t accept being average in games because he hasn’t been playing,” said Sutter. “And the team in front of him can’t accept being average at this time of the year, either.

“That can’t happen. At this time of year you have to get used to playing a large amount of games in a short period of time because that’s the way playoffs are and this is supposed to be playoff-type hockey.”

Conner Bleackley cut the deficit to 3-2 early in the second period, but Valk potted his second of the evening — and 40th of the season — midway through the stanza to restore the Tigers’ two-goal cushion, then completed his hat trick three minutes later.

The Rebels charged back with third-period markers from Bleackley and Brooks Maxwell, but the rally fell short.

“During the first two periods our best player was a 16-year-old forward (Bleackley),” said Sutter. “The onus is on your older players to lead the way and they decided to do that in the third and played well as a group.”

Cam Lanigan turned aside 27 shots in the Medicine Hat goal. Pouliot finished with 33 saves.

The Rebels return to action Tuesday at the Centrium versus the red-hot Saskatoon Blades. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ontario’s skip Rachel Homan, left. third Emma Miskew, second Alison Kreviazuk and lead Lisa Weagle pose with the trophy after winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Sunday in Kingston, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS KINGSTON, Ont. — Ontario’s Rachel Homan defeated Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones 9-6 on Sunday night to win the gold medal at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

It was the first national women’s curling title for Homan and her Ottawa Curling Club team of Emma Miskew, Lisa

Weagle, Alison Kreviazuk and alternate Stephanie Drew.

They will represent Canada at next month’s world women’s curling championship in Riga, Latvia.

“I can’t even comprehend what just happened right now,” Homan said.

“It’s unbelievable.”

The Ontario skip hugged her teammates and coach after the vic-

tory and was overcome with emotion while speaking to reporters after the win. She had to pause on occasion as tears of joy welled in her eyes.

The partisan crowd at the K-Rock Centre roared its approval in the opening end as Homan jumped out to an early lead.

Jones crashed on a guard and Homan made a nice draw to score three.

Jones cut into the lead by scoring one in the second end and adding another single in the fourth.

Play was delayed for a couple minutes in the fifth end when Weagle’s broom accidentally made contact with a stone at the 12-foot.

The stone was raised by the broom and the rock actually popped up in the air when the thrown stone made contact with it. Two displaced stones had to be returned to their original spots and the Ontario stone was taken out of

play.

Homan and her teammates kept their composure after the miscue and the 23-year-old skip came through with a draw for a single and a 4-2 lead.

Jones, a four-time national champion, tied the game with a double in the sixth end but Homan regained the lead in the seventh.

She cleared two Manitoba stones from the eight-foot with her first shot. Jones was heavy with her final throw, leaving Homan with a draw to score three and the crowd erupted when she nailed it for a 7-4 lead.

Ontario padded its lead with a steal of two after Jones missed a triple takeout attempt in the eighth end.

“They played great,” Jones said.

“They played lights out and they deserved to win today.”

Jones scored two points in the ninth.

Earlier in the day, B.C.’s Kelly Scott de-

feated Team Canada’s Heather Nedohin 10-8 to win the bronze medal.

Scott picked up a single in the ninth end and stole another point in the 10th for the victory.

The result came after a disappointing loss to Nedohin in the 3-4 Page playoff game a day earlier.

“We brought our hit weights down today and really didn’t change anything other than that and had a great game out there,” Scott said.

“So that’s how you want to leave an event like this.”

The game was a rematch of last year’s final in Red Deer, Alta., where Nedohin beat Scott 7-6 to win the gold.

It was a tough day for Nedohin, who dropped an 8-5 decision to Jones in the semifinal before falling to Scott. Homan beat Jones in the 1-2 Page playoff game on Saturday to lock up a berth in the championship game.

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B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Feb. 25, 2013

Rebels get win on special night

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 4 Raiders 2 It was important to Brent Sutter that his Red Deer Rustlers — err, Rebels — show their best stuff before a large gathering Saturday at the Centrium.

Their 4-2 come-from-behind Western Hockey League victory over the Prince Albert Raiders was a bonus.

Adorned in throwback Red Deer Rustlers jerseys, the Rebels fired three unanswered third-period goals to move two points clear of the Raiders in the battle for fourth spot in the Eastern Conference. Among the 6,554 spectators were numerous Rustlers alumni — players and coaches — dating back to the early days of the junior A franchise, which was born in 1967.

“Obviously it was a great day to honour the Rustlers and their legacy here in the city and Central Alberta,” said Rebels GM/head coach Sutter. “To get two points too is huge for ourselves.

This is a big win for us.”

Down 2-1 after 40 minutes, the Rustlers pulled even when Matt Bellerive

connected 7:29 into the final frame, finishing a nifty three-way passing play that involved Scott Feser and Wyatt Johnson.

Rhyse Dieno potted the eventual winner just over six minutes later, taking a feed from Brooks Maxwell, stepping around a Raiders defenceman and beating netminder Luke Siemens.

Turner Elson added a short-handed, empty-net goal at 18:59, the marker set up by Mathew Dumba’s block of a shot in the Rebels zone.

Davis Vandane notched a late firstperiod goal for the visitors and Jayden Hart increased the margin with a power-play tally at 8:19 of the second period. The Rebels ignited their rally with a power-play goal of their own at the 12- minute mark, defenceman Haydn Fleury moving in from the point and catching the far corner.

“That was a big power-play goal, it got us right back in it,” said Sutter.

“Both goalies (Siemens and Red Deer’s Patrik Bartosak) played well tonight, it’s not like there weren’t scoring opportunities. There was plenty of chances, we just weren’t capitalizing. But we kept telling ourselves we have to score

to win and we kept getting pucks to the net.”

Sutter reminded his players during the second intermission that it was important to establish themselves on home ice.

“We’ve been working hard at that and there’s not a better way to establish yourself than being down in the third period in your own building and going out there and getting a win,” said the Rebels bench boss.

“We knew we would have to score some goals to do that, but also shut down a very good hockey team. Our details, especially in the third period, were very good. We didn’t have any turnovers. We were really good in the third and smart in how we played the game.”

And to pull out the victory in Rustlers jerseys on a special day was extra sweet.

“It was pretty neat seeing some of the guys. Some of them I haven’t seen since I was 20 years old, and that’s five years ago,” Sutter joked. “All the (former players) were grateful for this, it had never been done for the Rustlers. It was a pretty special evening,

for sure.”

Sutter, who sported the same Rustlers jersey when he led the team to the Canadian championship in 1980, has never met many of the players who were in Red Deer before he arrived.

He acquainted himself with a few Saturday.

“It was pretty cool to see and meet some of these guys,” said Sutter. “They are guys who when I came to play with the Rustlers, I had only read about them. There were guys here who are in their 60s and 70s and others who are in their 30s now. It was a great day for our community and a great day for Central Alberta.”

Sutter admitted that there was a group that wondered why he never re-named the Rebels as the Rustlers when he purchased the WHL team in 1999.

“The Rustlers name has its own legacy here,” he said. “The Rustlers teams forged their own identities in Red Deer and deserve to have their own legacy. To keep the Rebels name was the right thing to do. The Rustlers are the Rustlers.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Kings going to nationals as ACAC champions

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

RDC VOLLEYBALL

Kings 3 Trojans 0 FORT McMURRAY — The RDC Kings are finally back in familiar territory.

For the first time in six years the Kings are on top of the Alberta Colleges Men’s Volleyball League after beating the SAIT Trojans 25-17, 25-20, 25-23 in the league championship final Sunday afternoon.

The Kings, who are the all-time winningest men’s volleyball program in Canadian Colleges Athletic Association history, will return to the nationals for third straight year, but it’s the first time they go in as Alberta champions.

“I’m in my sixth season as head coach and it’s the first gold medal for us, so it’s good for the program and the guys and it gets a monkey off my back,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha.

The Kings toughest test at the provincials was a 3-2 decision over The Kings University College Eagles Friday. They then whipped Briercrest Bible College Clippers 25-18, 25-21, 25-22 in the semifinals

before disposing of the Trojans, who will also attend the Canadians in Welland, Ont. “That first match was a grind as it seemed to take us some time to get rid of some nerves and once we got those out of the way we settled down.”

The Kings had a load of confidence heading into the semifinal as they easily handled Briercrest late in the regular season.

Schulha, and his assistant coaches, spent a good portion of Saturday evening setting up a game plan for SAIT. “We devised a game plan and they executed it perfectly,” said Schulha. “We didn’t expect to win 3-0, but the guys played well, which was nice to see.”

Tim Finnigan played a major role in the Kings success as he was named tournament all-star and MVP. “He carried us in that first match against the Eagles and was strong all weekend,” said Schulha.

Chris Osborn was also named to the all-star team.

Oilers rally for SO win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 3 Coyotes 2 SO EDMONTON — Facing one of the toughest trips imaginable, the Edmonton Oilers didn’t want the extra weight of a monkey on their backs for the journey.

Jordan Eberle scored in regulation and in the shootout as the Oilers snapped a two-game slide with a 3-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Gagner also scored in the shootout and Teemu Hartikainen had the other goal in regulation for the Oilers (7-7-3), who rallied from a 2-0 deficit to close out their five-game home stand 2-3.

Oilers head coach Ralph Krueger said it was crucial his team get a win before heading out on what could be a season-defining nine-game road trip.

“We were very disappointed with our last two games and the magnitude of these two points was clear to us,” he said. “To be down 2-0 was a real test of our mettle and our makeup. ’To go on the road with these points gives us some good energy that we desperately needed.’

Gagner agreed that the team simply could not allow themselves to go on such a long journey on a three-game skid.

“We desperately needed to win this game,” he said. “We weren’t happy with how the home stand went. We knew how big a lift it would be to come into this game and find a way to win it.

It’s a good feeling here right now, but we have to keep our foot on the gas for this trip and continue with the right habits.”

Kyle Chipchura and Mikkel Boedker scored for the Coyotes (8-6-3), who had a two-game winning streak snapped.

“It was a disappointing to lose after having a 2-0 lead,” said Coyotes captain Shane Doan. “You expect to win at that point and unfortunately we didn’t.

We had opportunities on the power play and we didn’t capitalize on them.

We have to be better than that.”

Phoenix goaltender Mike Smith was excellent with 41 saves, but couldn’t stop Eberle and Gagner in the shoot-

out.

“Those were two of the best penalty shots that I have seen in my life,” Krueger said. “Smith is one of the best goalies in the league, those goals were just world class.”

The Coyotes started the scoring after some prolonged pressure just over five minutes into the game. Chipchura shovelled a shot towards the net that just trickled across the goal line before Oilers starter Nikolai Khabibulin could reach back to glove it to safety.

Edmonton had a couple of opportunities to tie the game late in the first, both short handed. Eric Belanger and then Gagner were able to break loose on breakaways, but both were stoned

by Smith.

The Oilers came close again five minutes into the second period as Ryan Jones lifted a rebound over Smith, only to see defenceman Keith Yandle swoop in and glove it out of harm’s way.

Phoenix made it 2-0 midway through the second with Oiler Nick Schultz serving a double minor for high-sticking. Edmonton had killed off the bulk of the penalty before a Mikkel Boedker shot got past Khabibulin and hit the post, allowing Lombardi to sweep in the rebound from the doorstep.

Edmonton finally got on the board with 3:38 remaining in the second period as Nail Yakupov showed some speed hustling for a dump in and sent a backhand pass to Eberle who chipped it past Smith.

The Oilers tied the game eight minutes into the third on the power play as Ryan Smyth tipped a Justin Schultz shot and it went straight to Hartikainen at the side of the net for his first of the season.

Edmonton had the best chance in overtime with a power play, but Smith was able to make a dramatic glove save on a hard shot by Gagner.

Khabibulin stopped Boedker and David Rundblad in the shootout and finished with 34 saves.

The Oilers now embark on a ninegame road trip, starting Monday in Chicago, with the Canadian men’s curling championships occupying Rexall Place for the next two weeks.

“Braden O’Toole and Sam Brisbane could have easily made it as well,” said Schulha, who credited the move of Osborn into the middle from the right side as a key to the team’s success.

“We moved Braden in on the right side and those moved paid off,” he said. “It gave us more balance and made us a hard team to scout.”

O’Toole was the player of the match against the Clippers with 10 kills, 10 digs and five aces while Finnigan had 11 kills and Osborn 10 kills and a block. Finnigan, who played for SAIT the last two years, had 14 kills and six digs against the Trojans while O’Toole added 12 kills and four aces and Osborn nine kills, two blocks and three digs.

Former King Darcee Froese had 11 kills for SAIT. The Kings, who are ranked No. 1 in Canada should go into the nationals as the top ranked team.

“The last two years we were the second team out of Alberta and had a tough draw. This year it should be better, although there are no easy matches once you get to that level, just like the provincials,” said Schulha. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC WOMEN’S PLAYOFF HOCKEY

Queens finish off Griffins in battle of tired teams

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Queens 3 Griffins 0 Two tired teams tangled Sunday afternoon at the Arena, with the Red Deer College Queens possessing a little more energy and emerging with a 3-0 win over the Grant MacEwan Griffins.

The Queens, in the process, advanced to the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League final against the NAIT Ooks.

The Queens took the best-of-three semifinal 2-1 well under 24 hours after falling 2-1 in double overtime Saturday at Grant MacEwan.

“Yesterday was a long day,” said RDC head coach Trevor Keeper. “It was unfortunate we had to get a 12:30 game time today, but with minor hockey that’s all there was available.”

Keeper’s crew got second-period goals from Laura Solomons and Emily Lougheed and Solomons all but sealed the deal when she connected from the high slot midway through the final frame. Camille Trautman stopped 28 shots to earn the shutout, while Griffins netminder Brenna McNutty also made 28 saves.

“The girls played really well for eight of nine periods in this series,” said Keeper, whose squad watched the Griffins’ Kendra Rosychuk notch the winning goal at 9:13 of double overtime Saturday night.

“We outshot them something like 11-3 in overtime,” said Keeper. “It was just one of those games where we had so much pressure. We had a goal disallowed and they came back and scored on a perimeter shot that kind of ricocheted.

“But the girls fought though it and stuck with it today. They were good right to the end . . . for all three periods.”

Samantha Schulz also scored Saturday for Grant MacEwan, which got a 28-save performance from McNutty.

Ashley Graf notched a third-period goal for the Queens, while Trautman stopped 26 shots.

The Queens will take momentum into Thursday’s championship series opener at NAIT, which drew a firstround playoff bye for finishing first — one point ahead of RDC — during the regular season.

“As a coach you want to get that first-round bye so you don’t risk injuries, but if you can get through (a semifinal) without injuries it’s better to be playing playoff hockey than practising and waiting,” said Keeper.

“In hindsight it was a good thing that we had a tough series. Grant MacEwan plays hard, they forecheck hard.

You learn things from every playoff game, so it was a good thing for our team.”

The second game of the series is slated for Saturday at 5:15 p.m. at the Arena. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF dx-Edmonton 64 43 16 2 3 239 d-Saskatoon 62 38 21 0 3 235 Calgary 62 40 18 1 3 220 Red Deer 63 34 23 4 2 182 Prince Albert 62 33 23 2 4 201 Medicine Hat 64 33 28 2 1 217 Swift Current 63 29 27 3 4 179 Kootenay 62 31 29 2 0 172 Lethbridge 62 25 28 2 7 185 Moose Jaw 62 21 32 3 6 157 Regina 62 21 34 3 4 159 Brandon 63 21 37 3 2 167

GA 138 182 171 181 198 213 175 183 204 220 226 258

Pt 91 79 84 74 72 69 65 64 59 51 49 47

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt dx-Portland 63 51 9 1 2 292 141 105 dx-Kelowna 63 44 15 3 1 273 161 92 x-Kamloops 63 41 17 2 3 226 165 87 Tri-City 61 36 22 1 2 212 182 75 Spokane 62 36 24 2 0 228 202 74 Victoria 61 32 24 1 4 194 311 69 Seattle 62 21 33 7 1 176 245 50 Everett 62 22 35 1 4 145 226 49 Prince George 62 18 36 2 6 154 232 44 Vancouver 63 16 45 2 0 169 268 34 d — Division leader. x — Clinched playoff berth.

Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Saturday’s results Everett 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Kootenay 5 Calgary 1 Medicine Hat 2 Swift Current 0 Red Deer 4 Prince Albert 2 Saskatoon 7 Moose Jaw 1 Kelowna 7 Victoria 2 Portland 6 Prince George 1 Spokane 2 Kamloops 0 Tri-City 8 Edmonton 1

Dumba RD (interference) 16:41, Bleackley RD (hooking) 19:41 Third Period 8. Red Deer, Bleackley 9 9 (Ness, Hamilton) 9:54 9. Red Deer, Maxwell 8 (Elson) 15:39 (sh) Penalties – Ryckman MH (cross) 7:42, Johnson RD (interference) 14:02.

Shots on goal Rebels 8 10 13 — 31 Tigers 14 12 12 — 38 Goal – Red Deer: Pouliot (L, 5-9-0) (pulled at 7:36 of opening period, back at 7:07 of opening period) Bartosak (*, 28-12-4, pulled at 7:07 of opening period); Medicine Hat: Lanigan (W, 22-15-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) – Red Deer: 0-4; Medicine Hat: 2-9.

Attendance – 4,006.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 19 13 6 0 26 New Jersey 19 10 5 4 24 Philadelphia 20 9 10 1 19 N.Y. Rangers 17 8 7 2 18 N.Y. Islanders 19 8 10 1 17

Montreal Boston Ottawa Toronto Buffalo

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts 18 12 4 2 26 15 11 2 2 24 19 11 6 2 24 19 11 8 0 22 19 6 12 1 13

Carolina Tampa Bay Winnipeg Florida Washington

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts 17 9 7 1 19 18 9 8 1 19 18 8 9 1 17 18 5 9 4 14 17 6 10 1 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 18 15 0 3 33 St. Louis 18 10 6 2 22 Detroit 19 9 7 3 21 Nashville 19 8 6 5 21 Columbus 19 5 12 2 12

Sunday’s results Kootenay 2 Lethbridge 0 Medicine Hat 5 Red Deer 4 Swift Current 6 Brandon 1 Vancouver 4 Seattle 1 Monday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Tuesday’s games Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver Minnesota Calgary Edmonton Colorado

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts 18 10 4 4 24 17 8 7 2 18 17 7 7 3 17 17 7 7 3 17 17 7 8 2 16

GF GA 65 48 48 49 58 62 41 44 56 64 GF GA 52 39 45 34 46 36 53 44 48 63 GF GA 50 51 69 58 48 57 42 65 48 55

GF GA 58 35 55 52 57 54 39 43 40 56 GF GA 52 48 37 42 48 59 40 46 42 51

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 16 13 2 1 27 57 42 Dallas 18 9 8 1 19 47 48 Phoenix 18 8 7 3 19 50 49 San Jose 17 8 6 3 19 41 39 Los Angeles 16 8 6 2 18 40 39 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s games Swift Current at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Rebels 4, Raiders 2 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Vandane 10 (Perreaux, Draisaitl) 15:38 Penalties — Danyluk PA (tripping) 1:07, Johnson RD (high-sticking), 3:33, Gardiner PA (checking from behind, fighting), Fafard RD (instigator, fighting, misconduct) 9:13, Perreaux PA (slashing) 10:12.

Second Period 2. Prince Albert, Hart 11 (Busenius, McNeill) 8:19 (pp) 3. Red Deer, Fleury 4 (Dumba, Dieno) 12:00 (pp) Penalties — Gaudet RD (tripping) 6:41, Morden PA (boarding) 10:40.

Third Period 4. Red Deer, Bellerive 13 (Feser, Johnson) 7:29 5. Red Deer, Dieno 25 (Maxwell) 13:50 6. Red Deer, Elson 21 (Dumba) 18:59 (sh-en) Penalties — Busenius PA (interference) 4:15, Johnson RD (delay of game) 18:30.

Shots on goal Prince Albert 17 12 9 — 38 Red Deer 19 12 9 — 40 Goal — Prince Albert: Siemens (L,31-18-5); Red Deer: Bartosak (W,28-12-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Prince Albert: 1-3; Red Deer: 1-4.

Attendance — 6,554 at Red Deer Sunday’s summary Rebels 4 at Tigers 5 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Valk 39 (Leier, Bredo) 0:32 (pp) 2. Red Deer, Thiel 3 (Fafard) 6:09 3. Medicine Hat, Koules 16 (Pearce, Hodder) 10:54 4. Medicine Hat, Koules 17 (Stanton, Lewington) 17:39 (pp) Penalties – Dumba RD (interference) 0:09, Johnson RD (holding the stick), Pearce MH (high sticking) 3:27, Pearce MH (slashing) 8:31, Bellerive RD (high sticking) 13:20, Leier MH (tripping) 13:24, Gaudet RD (double spearing) 14:40, Bleackley RD (kneeing) 18:15.

Second Period 5. Red Deer, Bleackley 8 (Bellerive, Hamilton) 3:42 6. Medicine Hat, Valk 40 (Shinkaruk, Doty) 10:12 7. Medicine Hat, Valk 41 (Hodder, Jensen) 13:23 Penalties – Doty MH (hooking) 4:18, Pearce MH (hooking) 12:09, Hamilton RD (slashing) 13:10,

Saturday’s Games Edmonton 3, Phoenix 2, SO Washington 5, New Jersey 1 Philadelphia 5, Winnipeg 3 Los Angeles 4, Colorado 1 Detroit 4, Nashville 0 Tampa Bay 5, Carolina 2 Ottawa 3, Toronto 2 Montreal 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 N.Y. Islanders 4, Buffalo 0 Dallas 3, San Jose 1 St. Louis 2, Columbus 1 Calgary 3, Minnesota 1

Third Period 3. Calgary, Stajan 2 (Iginla, Butler) 7:19 4. Calgary, Stajan 3, 19:51 (en) Penalties — Zucker Minn (goaltender interference) 12:53, Wideman Cal (boarding) 13:56.

Shots on goal Minnesota 13 7 10 — 30 Calgary 7 11 9 — 27 Goal — Minnesota: Backstrom (L,6-5-2); Calgary: MacDonald (W,2-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Minnesota: 0-2; Calgary: 0-2.

Attendance — 19,289 (19,289) at Calgary.

Oilers 3, Coyotes 2 (SO) First Period 1. Phoenix, Chipchura 2 (Johnson, Bissonette) 5:23 Penalties — VandeVelde Edm (holding) 9:25, Moss Phx (hooking) 12:26, Eager Edm (tripping) 14:56, Petry Edm (interference) 16:53.

Second Period 2. Phoenix, Lombardi 1 (Boedker, Korpikoski) 9:42 (pp) 3. Edmonton, Eberle 6 (Yakupov, Gagner) 16:22 Penalties — N. chultz Edm (double high-sticking) 6:15, Klesla Phx (tripping) 10:54, Eager Edm (slashing) 13:55.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Hartikainen 1 (Smyth, J. Shultz) 8:04 (pp) Penalties — Belanger Edm (hooking) 4:21, Yandle Phx (tripping) 7:57.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalty — Korpikoski Phx (hooking) 0:55.

Shootout Edmonton wins 2-0 Phoenix (0) — Boedker, miss; Rundblad, miss; Edmonton (2) — Gagner, goal; Eberle, goal.

Shots on goal Phoenix 9 11 14 2 — 36 Edmonton 12 16 11 4 — 43 Goal — Phoenix: Smith (SOL,6-4-2); Edmonton: Khabibulin (W,2-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Phoenix: 1-7; Edmonton: 1-4.

Attendance — 16,839 (16,839) at Edmonton.

Sunday’s summary Flames 5, Coyotes 4 First Period 1. Calgary, Jackman 1 (Cervenka, Butler) 2:15 Penalties — Vermette Phx (double high-sticking) 5:49, Stempniak Cal (tripping) 11:01.

Second Period 2. Phoenix, Stone 1 5:32 (pp) 3. Phoenix, Torres 3 (Lombardi, Ekman-Larsson) 14:01 4. Calgary, Iginla 2 (Bouwmeester, Tanguay) 16:26 5. Calgary, Cammalleri 5 (Glencross, Stempniak) 19:25 Penalties — Begin Cal (high-sticking) 3:05, Stajan Cal (holding) 3:22, Stajan Cal (interference) 5:26, Summers Phx (holding) 6:43, Cammalleri Cal (face-off violation) 11:58, Vermette Phx, Iginla Cal (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 6. Phoenix, Torres 4 (Michalek, Doan) 2:22 7. Phoenix, Johnson 4 (Ekman-Larsson, Bissonnette) 8:48 8. Calgary, Iginla 3 (Tanguay, Stajan) 18:37 9. Calgary, Glencross 2 (Stempniak, Butler) 19:00 Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Phoenix 6 7 14 — 27 Calgary 7 15 9 — 31 Goal — Phoenix: Smith (L,6-5-2); Calgary: MacDonald (W,3-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Phoenix: 1-5; Calgary: 0-3.

Attendance — 19,289 (19,289) at Calgary.

AJHL North Division GP W LOTL SOL x-Spruce Grove 59 34 16 7 2 Grand Prairie 58 34 20 3 1 Bonnyville 58 30 19 6 3 Fort McMurray 58 31 21 5 1 Whitecourt 58 30 20 6 2 Drayton Valley 58 29 22 4 3 Sherwood Park 58 27 24 1 6 Lloydminster 59 20 32 4 3

Sunday’s Games Boston 4, Florida 1 Detroit 8, Vancouver 3 Winnipeg 4, New Jersey 2 Chicago 1, Columbus 0 Carolina 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Pittsburgh 5, Tampa Bay 3 Anaheim 4, Colorado 3, OT Calgary 5, Phoenix 4

GF 178 178 172 167 220 173 175 164

GA 155 150 168 165 212 170 176 222

Pt 77 72 69 68 68 65 61 47

South Division GP W LOTL SOL GF GA Pt y-Brooks 58 52 3 1 2 282 109 107 x-Okotoks 58 36 18 2 2 185 149 76 x-Camrose 58 34 18 2 4 179 155 74 x-Drumheller 58 29 25 2 2 179 170 62 Canmore 58 22 30 4 2 150 214 50 Olds 58 22 31 3 2 164 204 49 Cal. Mustangs 58 20 31 6 1 170 211 47 Cal. Canucks 58 15 39 3 1 129 235 34 x — Clinched playoff berth. y — Clinched division title. Note: Two points for a win; one for an overtime or shootout loss.

Monday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia,5 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Dallas at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s results Brooks 8 Canmore 2 Okotoks 3 Olds 2 (SO) Whitecourt 7 Drayton Valley 6 (OT)

Saturday’s summaries Saturday’s results Drumheller 5 Canmore 3 Okotoks 4 Calgary Canucks 0 Brooks 3 Camrose 2 (SO) Whitecourt 6 Spruce Grove 3 Lloydminster 6 Bonnyville 2 Grande Prairie 3 Drayton Valley 2 (SO)

Flames 3, Wild 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Tanguay 5 (Bouwmeester) 1:40 2. Minnesota, Coyle 1 (Bouchard, Brodziak) 8:56 Penalty — Comeau Cal (face-off violation) 12:24.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Coyle Minn (interference) 1:38, Rupp Minn, Aliu Cal (misconduct) 14:20.

Sunday’s game Grande Prairie 3 at Sherwood Park 2

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 33 20 .623 — Brooklyn 33 24 .579 2 Boston 29 27 .518 5 1/2 Toronto 23 33 .411 11 1/2 Philadelphia 22 32 .407 11 1/2

Miami Atlanta Washington Orlando Charlotte

Indiana Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Southeast Division W L Pct 40 14 .741 31 23 .574 17 37 .315 15 41 .268 13 43 .232

GB — 9 23 26 28

Central Division W L Pct 35 21 .625 32 24 .571 26 28 .481 22 36 .379 18 38 .321

GB — 3 8 14 17

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Saturday’s Games Denver 113, Charlotte 99 Cleveland 118, Orlando 94 Washington 105, Houston 103 Miami 114, Philadelphia 90 Indiana 90, Detroit 72 Atlanta 103, Milwaukee 102 L.A. Clippers 107, Utah 94 Sunday’s Games L.A. Lakers 103, Dallas 99 Golden State 100, Minnesota 99 New Orleans 110, Sacramento 95 Miami 109, Cleveland 105 New York 99, Philadelphia 93 Memphis 76, Brooklyn 72 San Antonio 97, Phoenix 87 Portland 92, Boston 86 Oklahoma City 102, Chicago 72

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 45 13 .776 — Memphis 37 18 .673 6 1/2 Houston 31 27 .534 14 Dallas 25 30 .455 18 1/2 New Orleans 20 37 .351 24 1/2

Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland Minnesota

Phoenix

Northwest Division W L Pct 41 15 .732 35 22 .614 31 25 .554 26 30 .464 20 33 .377

GB — 6 1/2 10 15 19 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 40 18 .690 33 23 .589 28 29 .491 19 38 .333

GB — 6 11 1/2 20 1/2

Monday’s Games Washington at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m.

Boston at Utah, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Orlando at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Golden State at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Sacramento at Orlando 5:00 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland 5:00 p.m.

Detroit at Washington 5:00 p.m.

Milwaukee at Houston 6:00 p.m.

Golden State at New York 6:00 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis 6:00 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City 6:00 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Utah 7:00 p.m.

Denver at Portland 8:30 p.m.

Golf WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Weekeed Results At Marana, Ariz.

Dove Mountain, The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Yardage—7,791; Par—72 Seeds in parentheses SATURDAY Round of 16 Jason Day (41), Australia, def. Bubba Watson (8), U.S., 4 and 3.

Ian Poulter (11), England, def. Tim Clark (59), South Africa, 5 and 3.

Steve Stricker (14), U.S., def. Scott Piercy (35), U.S., 1 up.

Webb Simpson (15), U.S., def. Gonzalo FernandezCastano (31), Spain, 2 up.

Graeme McDowell (17), Northern Ireland, def.

Shane Lowry (64), Ireland, 3 and 2.

Matt Kuchar (21), U.S., def. Nicolas Colsaerts (37), Belgium, 4 and 3.

Hunter Mahan (23), U.S., def. Martin Kaymer (26), Germany, 5 and 4.

Robert Garrigus (36), U.S., def. Fredrik Jacobson (45), Sweden, 3 and 1.

Curling

Quarter-finals Ian Poulter (11), England, def. Steve Stricker (14), U.S., 3 and 2.

Hunter Mahan (23), U.S., def. Webb Simpson (15), U.S., 1 up.

Jason Day (41), Australia, def. Graeme McDowell (17), Northern Ireland, 1 up.

Matt Kuchar (21), U.S., def. Robert Garrigus (36), U.S., 3 and 2.

SUNDAY Semifinals Hunter Mahan (23), U.S., def. Ian Poulter (11), England, 4 and 3.

Matt Kuchar (21), U.S., def. Jason Day (41), Australia, 4 and 3.

Championship Matt Kuchar (21), U.S., def. Hunter Mahan (23), U.S., 2 and 1.

Consolation Jason Day (41), Australia, def. Ian Poulter (11), England, 1 up.

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2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts KINGSTON, Ont. — Final round-robin standings and weekend playoff results from the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship, to be held at the K-Rock Centre: Province (Skip) W L x-Manitoba (J.Jones) 11 0 x-Ontario (Homan) 10 1 x-B.C. (Scott) 8 3 x-Canada (Nedohin) 7 4 Saskatchewan (Shumay) 6 5 New Brunswick (Crawford) 6 5 Nova Scotia (Arsenault) 5 6 P.E.I. (Birt) 5 6 Quebec (Ross) 3 8 NWT/Yukon (Galusha) 2 9 N.L. (S.Devereaux) 2 9 Alberta (K.Moore) 1 10 x — clinched playoff berth.

PLAYOFFS Sunday’s results Semifinal Manitoba (J.Jones) 8 Canada (Nedohin) 5 Third Place B.C. (Scott) 10 Canada (Nedohin) 8 Championship Ontario (Homan) 9 Manitoba (J.Jones) 6

Toronto Buffalo Philadelphia Rochester

GP 8 7 7 8

NLL East Division W L Pct. 6 2 .750 4 3 .571 4 3 .571 3 5 .375

West Division GP W L Calgary 9 5 4 Washington 9 5 4 Edmonton 9 4 5 Minnesota 8 3 5 Colorado 7 2 5

Pct. .556 .556 .444 .375 .286

GF 97 78 76 88

GA GB 84 — 86 1 1/2 85 1 1/2 81 3

GF 128 111 111 99 78

GA GB 118 — 110 — 98 1 106 1 1/2 98 2

Week Eight Sunday’s results Edmonton 14 Minnesota 9 Philadelphia 14 Colorado 12 Saturday’s results Washington 16 Calgary 14 Philadelphia 10 Rochester 8 Friday’s result Minnesota 13 Edmonton 8 Week Nine Thursday, Feb. 28 Buffalo at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, March 1 Philadelphia at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 2 Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Rochester at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 3 Minnesota at Washington, 4 p.m.

Saturday’s results Page Playoffs Three vs. Four Canada (Nedohin) 8 B.C. (Scott) 4 One vs. Two Ontario (Homan) 8 Manitoba (J.Jones) 5

Baseball L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2

Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .667 .667 .667 .500 .500 .500 .500 .000 .000 .000

Chicago Miami New York Pittsburgh Arizona

NATIONAL LEAGUE W 2 1 1 2 1

L 0 0 0 0 1

Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500

MOGUL SKIIING THE CANADIAN PRESS INAWASHIRO, Japan — Mikael Kingsbury and Audrey Robichaud led a four-medal performance for Canada in World Cup moguls on Saturday.

Kingsbury, the defending World Cup champion from Deux Montagnes, Que., scored 23.41 points to secure his sixth title this season. Bradley Wilson of the United States was second, followed by Alex Bilodeau of Rosemere, Que., in third.

After eight of 12 events, Kingsbury leads the standings with 705 points. Bilodeau is next with 513. Patrick Deneen of the U.S. is third with 443.

Quebec City’s Robichaud won her first title of the season in the women’s event, scoring 20.62 points to finish ahead of Nikola Sudova of the Czech Republic and Montreal’s Chloe Dufour-Lapointe.

Colorado 1 1 .500 Milwaukee 1 1 .500 San Francisco 1 1 .500 San Diego 1 2 .333 Atlanta 0 3 .000 Cincinnati 0 3 .000 Los Angeles 0 1 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 St. Louis 0 2 .000 Washington 0 1 .000 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 3, Tampa Bay (ss) 2 Baltimore 5, Minnesota 3 Houston 8, Philadelphia 3 Toronto 10, Detroit 3 Miami 8, St. Louis 3 N.Y. Yankees 8, Atlanta 3 Tampa Bay (ss) 4, Boston 3 Kansas City 4, Texas 2 Chicago White Sox 9, L.A. Dodgers 0 Chicago Cubs 11, L.A. Angels (ss) 2 San Francisco 4, L.A. Angels (ss) 1

Sunday’s Games Boston 5, St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 9, Atlanta 2 Tampa Bay 10, Minnesota 7, 10 innings Detroit 5, Philadelphia 5, tie, 10 innings Toronto (ss) 2, N.Y. Yankees 0 Baltimore 5, Toronto (ss) 4 Houston 7, N.Y. Mets 7, tie Washington 2, Miami 2, tie, 10 innings Kansas City 7, Texas 5 Cleveland (ss) 7, Milwaukee 4 Chicago Cubs 4, San Francisco 3 Cleveland (ss) 3, Cincinnati 0 Seattle 8, San Diego 3 Oakland 7, L.A. Angels 5 Chicago White Sox 2, L.A. Dodgers 2, tie Arizona 8, Colorado 6

Miami vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Detroit vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Boston (ss) vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Boston (ss) vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Houston vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Cleveland vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 1:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (ss) vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Milwaukee (ss) at Phoenix, 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 1:10 p.m.

Washington vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 4:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Tuesday’s Games Houston (ss) vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

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Washington vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Detroit vs. Houston (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:35 a.m.

Arizona (ss) vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 1:05 p.m.

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Underdog NAIT wins ACAC title QUEENS FALTER AT HOME AND LOSE IN BRONZE MEDAL GAME

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

TIM FINNIGAN

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Power hitter and Red Deer native Tim Finnigan played a major role in the RDC Kings capturing gold at the Alberta Colleges Men’s Volleyball League championship in Fort Mcmurray Sunday. Finnigan was a one-man wrecking crew in the Kings 3-2 win over The Kings University College Eagles, finishing with 23 kills, three aces and six digs. He then added 11 kills in a 3-0 win over Briercrest and 14 more in a 3-0 win over the SAIT Trojans in the final. For his efforts he was selected to the tournament all-star team and named MVP. Earlier in the week he was named to the ACAC All-Conference team.

THIS WEEK Tuesday

● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, first game of best-of-five AMHL South Division semifinal, 7:15 p.m., Arena.

Thursday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, third game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 7:45 p.m., Arena.

Friday

● Curling: Provincial juvenile championship at Sylvan Lake. ● Major midget female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, third game of best-of-five AMMFHL South semifinal, 7 p.m., Kin City B. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Airdrie, fourth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 8 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Sylvan Lake, fourth game of bestof-seven provincial semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Curling: Provincial juvenile championship at Sylvan Lake. ● Major midget female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five AMMFHL South semifinal, if necessary, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC Queens, second game of best-of-five ACAC final, 5:15 p.m., Arena. ● Senior AAA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Bentley, fifth game of bestof-seven provincial semifinal, if necessary, 7 p.m. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.

Sunday

● Curling: Provincial juvenile championship at Sylvan Lake. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, third game of best-of-five AMHL South Division semifinal, 3 p.m., Arena.

Ooks 3 Rustlers 2 The NAIT Ooks simply wouldn’t go away.

They just kept winning when they weren’t expected to and when it was over they stood as the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League champions.

The Ooks needed five sets to win all three games. They opened against Medicine Hat on Friday, winning the fifth set 19-17.

They then got past the RDC Queens 2523, 19-25, 25-21, 16-25, 16-14 in the semifinal Saturday before downing the Lakeland Rustlers 13-25, 27-25, 16-25, 25-23, 15-11 in the gold medal match Sunday afternoon at RDC. “We were like the Bad News Bears, we kept hanging around,” said Ooks head coach Lorne Sawula, a former national team head coach. “We hunted and pecked and worked hard to make ourselves adapt.

In the end I thought we were the mentally strongest team here. We were on a razor thin edge and on another day we could be someplace else, but today was our day.”

The Ooks, who won their first-ever ACAC title, came through after losing their top power hitter Ashley Lee with an ankle injury in the fourth set.

“Kelsey (Tymkow) came in and did terrific job as a first-year player,” said Sawula.

“But everyone did. We had a little role for everyone, even if it was in training. They were all there come game time.”

Sarah Watson-Kostaniuk had 12 kills, 11 digs, two aces and a stuff block for the Ooks, who were led by setter and tournament MVP Kelsey Bleier, who is a former RDC Queen. Peggy Sommerfeld had 15 kills for Lakeland, who reached the final with a 25-22, 25-21, 24-26, 21-25, 15-6 win over the Grant MacEwan Griffins.

The Griffins defeated the Queens 17-25, 26-24, 26-28, 25-23, 15-5 in the bronze medal match.

For the second day in a row the Queens made a number of mistakes when it counted the most.

“I thought we started not bad, but as the match went on we fell back into a bit of a rut and were tentative,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “When we needed to we didn’t play at the level of preparation we came into the weekend at.”

The Queens had a chance to go up 2-0 and were hitting at 24-23, but didn’t put the ball away giving the Griffins an opportunity to come back.

“We talked about it that it can be a roller coaster ride and if you let them hang around long enough suddenly the pressure shifts to you . . . and we just didn’t execute under pressure today.”

The same could be said about Saturday when they missed a pair of serves late in the fifth set when it appeared they had the momentum.

“Those two missed serves were big, but we gave them an 8-2 run to start the set and that was as important,” said Walton.

Sawula said he felt bad for the Queens.

Photo by Tony Hansen/Freelance

RDC Queen Amber Adolf lays out for a dig during the bronze medal game at the ACAC women’s volleyball championship at RDC on Sunday.

“I do feel bad for them. They got feeling the pressure of winning at home and collapsed a little.”

Serving proved to the difference as the Ooks didn’t miss a serve after the first set while RDC missed four just in the final set alone.

The Queens, who are much younger team than NAIT and Lakeland, could lose a number of their starters this season.

“We were on a three-year cycle and last year winning bronze was an important step in our development for this season,” said Walton.

“The pieces were in place and we were challenging. We finished first (during the season), but we didn’t perform at the level we were prepared to play at.

“The pieces just didn’t line up right.

They were jagged when we needed smooth.

We missed opportunities when we had chances to go on runs, like missing a serve, hitting the net, or the ball wasn’t in the right spot for a hitter. They all added up to knock us off our rhythm.”

Walton added he felt for his graduating players, and added they made a big contribution to the program.

“The Central Alberta kids helped volleyball in this area considerably,” he said.

“They were role models for kids to look up to. Kids coming through the club program know there’s a place to play and they can play at this level. It means a lot to the area and all you have to do is look at the fans out this weekend. They filled the gym for women’s volleyball, so we’re doing something right.”

As for the future Walton feels it will con-

tinue to be bright.

“We’ll try to put the pieces together and add a few pieces we need for next season.

Plus we have a number of pieces still here and it will fall on our shoulders, as coaches, to get the most of out them.”

Tournament all-star Brooke Sutter had 11 kills and 10 digs against MacEwan while Shelby Bramall added nine kills, seven digs and four blocks, Karissa Kuhr nine kills, 14 digs and four blocks, libero Maddi Quinn 29 digs and Kirsten Sorensen two aces, a block and 14 digs. Kimberly Bolin had 17 kills for MacEwan.

Sutter had 16 kills, 17 digs and two aces against ]NAIT while Kuhr added 13 kills and 16 digs and Amber Adolf 12 kills, 24 digs, two aces and a block. Quinn added 30 digs.

Meanwhile, the Olds Bronocs, who played their best game of the weekend Saturday — a 25-21, 250-15, 210-25, 14-25, 15-12 win over Grande Prairie — lost 25-23, 15-25, 19-25, 16-25 to Briercrest Bible College Clippers in the consolation final to finish in sixth place.

“It was a disappointing end to the season as we didn’t look after our defensive responsibilities or our game planning which comes with a more experienced team, “ said Broncos head coach Chris Wandler.

“But overall I was happy with how the season went. I think we’re there and on our way to better things next year.”

Telaina Snider had 12 kills and nine digs, Sage Fahlman six kills and 10 digs and Shael Bourne 19 digs against the Clippers. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

MINOR HOCKEY Minor midget AAA Dawson Reykdal, Ben Strautman and Chad Gross scored for the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs in a 3-3 tie with the host Rockyview Raiders Sunday.

Branden Bilodeau made 21 save for Northstar, which held a 34-24 advantage in shots.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer IROC Chiefs got their only goal from Riley Mathies in a 4-1 loss to the host Calgary Blackhawks.

Carson Franks blocked 32 shots for the Chiefs, who fired 55 at the opposition net.

On Saturday, Chase Olsen scored twice to lead the Northstar Chiefs to a 5-1 win over the visiting Calgary Canucks.

Strautman, Troy Brown and Layne Bensmiller had the other Northstar goals, while Brody Dirk made 16 saves for the win.

The hosts held a 33-17 edge in shots.

The IROC Chiefs also enjoyed success Saturday, getting two goals from Quentin Greenwood in a 7-2 win over the host Calgary Bruins.

Rounding out the IROC attack with a goal apiece were Mathies, Ryley Smith, Bradley Makofka, Andrew Perry and Ty Wagar. Franks made 30 saves as the Chiefs outshot their opponents 48-32.

Midget AA The Wheatland Chiefs downed the Lacombe Rockets 4-1 Sunday at Hussar to complete a sweep of their best-ofthree South Central League North Division quater-final.

Ryan Skoreyko had the lone goal for the Rockets, who were outshot 34-33. Brandon Woltjer and Peter Luymes each made 15 saves for Lacombe.

Wheatland used a third-period goal to post a 4-3 win in Saturday’s series-opener at Lacombe, where the Rockets’ triggermen were Mik Doell, Ryan Swier and Ben Funkhouser.

Luymes turned aside 49 shots in a losing cause. Dakota Taylor made 32 saves for Wheatland.

Major Bantam Girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs finished their regular

schedule with a pair of losses, falling 6-3 to the Calgary Outlaws Saturday and 2-1 to conference-leading Rocky Mountain Raiders in Cochrane Sunday.

Eric Nelson, Carley Wlad and Maddison Toppe scored against the Outlaws while Mairead Bast connected against the Raiders.

Christina Boulton made 37 saves against the Raiders.

The Chiefs finished in third place in the South Division.

Bantam AA The Airdrie Lightning slipped past Red Deer Ramada 3-2 Sunday at the Arena to force a third and deciding game in the best-of-three South Central League North quarter-final.

The third game will be played Tuesday at Airdrie.

Ramada’s goal were supplied

by Benjamin Isaac and Michael Kellough. Losing goalie Justin Travis made 21 saves, with Brett Petek blocking 22 shots for Airdrie.

Caden Shybunka scored twice and Travis made 36 saves as Ramada opened the series with a 4-0 win Saturday at Airdrie. Brad Penny and Nathan Dyck had the other Red Deer goals.

Meanwhile, the Innisfail Flyers, with Josh Gette and Tyrell McCubbing each tallying twice, got past the Bow Valley Timberwolves 5-2 in Saturday’s North quarter-final opener at Cochrane.

Bryson Muir scored the other Innisfail goal. Lane Brann got the win with a 27-save effort.

The second game of the series is set for tonight at 7:10 p.m. at Innisail.

Peewee AA Eric Moore’s power-play goal in overtime gave the Red Deer TBS Chiefs a 4-3 win over the Sylvan Lake Lakers in South Central League playoff action Sunday at the Arena.

Josh Tarzwell, with two goals, and Colby Chavez-Leech also tallied for TBS, which forced a third and deciding game in the North Division quarter-final.

The game is set for Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Sylvan Lake.

Photo by Carson Papke/Advocate staff

Sylvan Lake’s Wyatt Gelinas fights for the puck with Red Deer’s Matias Letwin while Keaton Sawicki follows the play. The two Pee Wee AA teams met in the first game of their playoff series at the Arena on Sunday. Red Deer won the game 4-3.

Hayden Clayton, Khale Skinner and Caileb Berge scored for the Lakers, who fired 40 shots at Red Deer netminder Bretton Park. Brayden Laturnus and Ethan Weberg combined to make 18 saves for the visitors.

Sylvan Lake opened the series with a 6-3 home-ice victory Saturday, thanks to single goals from Berge, Wyatt Gelinas, Josh McNeil, Kale Seelen, Ryan McBeath and Loclyn Kabatoff and a 23-save effort from Laturnus.

Replying for TBS were Tarzwell, Luke Bast and Keaton Sawicki. Park stopped 25 shots.

In another North quarterfinal, the Airdrie Lightning slipped past the Red Deer Parkland Chiefs 7-6 Sunday in the third and deciding game at the Collicutt Centre.

Scoring twice for Parkland were Kyle Budvarson and Jace

Paarup, while Ben LeBlanc and Sean McGonigal added single goals.

Eric Johnson and Josh Anderson combined to make 25 saves for the Chiefs, who were outshot 32-26.

Parkland evened the series with a 5-2 win Saturday at Airdrie, getting goals from Angus MacLeod, Connor Dawes, Layne Harty, Lynden Kidd and Brandon Border.

Anderson stopped 33 shots for the victory, while Airdrie netminder Cole Kohut made 50 saves.

Home ice didn’t favour the Chiefs, who lost the series oener 6-1 Friday at the Collicutt Centre.

Levi Amundson potted the lone Parkland marker. Eric Johnson made 36 saves in a losing effort, while Kohut blocked 23 shots at the other end.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 B5

Johnson cruises to second win at Daytona

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A big first for Danica Patrick, but an even bigger second for Jimmie Johnson.

Patrick made history up front at the Daytona 500 Sunday, only to see Johnson make a late push ahead of her and reclaim his spot at the top of his sport.

It was the second Daytona 500 victory for Johnson, a five-time NASCAR champion who first won “The Great American Race” in 2006.

“There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500. I’m a very lucky man to have won it twice,” said Johnson, who won in his 400th career start. “I’m very honoured to be on that trophy with all the greats that have ever been in our sport.”

It comes a year after Johnson completed only one lap in the race because of a wreck that also collected Patrick, and just three months after Johnson lost his bid for a sixth Sprint Cup title

to go two years without a championship after winning five straight.

Although he didn’t think he needed to send a message to his competitors — “I don’t think we went anywhere; anybody in the garage area, they’re wise to all that,” Johnson said — the win showed the No. 48 team is tired of coming up short after all those years of dominance.

“Definitely a great start for the team. When we were sitting discussing things before the season started, we felt good about the 500,” Johnson said, “but we’re really excited for everything after the 500. I think it’s going to be a very strong year for us.”

Patrick is hoping for her own success after a history-making race.

The first woman to win the pole, Patrick also became the first woman to lead the race. She ran inside the top 10 almost the entire race, kept pace with the field and never panicked on the track.

Her only mistakes were on pit road,

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Alex Hustad scored twice and Kade Taplin made 31 saves to lead the Airdrie Thunder to a 5-4 Heritage Junior B Hockey League playoff win over the visiting Red Deer Vipers Sunday.

The best-of-seven North Division semifinal is tied 1-1 with the third game set for Thursday at 7:45 p.m. at the Arena.

Jeffery Kohut potted two goals for the Vipers, who got singles from Justin Corbett and Chris Robertson.

Brendan Mandrusiak turned aside 27 shots in the Red Deer net.

The Airdrie power play proved to be the difference, with the hosts going four-for-eight with a man advantage.

The Vipers, with Kolton Gillett firing three goals and Jonathan Finnigan and Jordan Koopmans each notching a pair, throttled the Thunder 10-2 in the series-opener Saturday at the Arena.

Also scoring for Red Deer — which was a blazing eight-for-nine on the power play — were Ryan Thomson and Colten Brule. Mandrusiak turned aside 25 shots, while Tap-

lin and James Fisk combined to make 48 saves for Airdrie.

In the other North semifinal, the host Blackfalds Wranglers blasted the Mountainview Colts 9-4 Sunday to grab a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven set.

Trent Hermary turned in a hat-trick performance for the Wranglers. Jason Bell, Jared Kambeitz, Chance Abbott, Jared Guilbault, Jared Williams and Landon Wolitski each added a single goal and winning netminder Layne Swier made 33 saves.

Mike Byer and Brendan McCambly faced 49 shots in the Mountainview net.

The Colts were assessed four of seven minor penalties, with the Wranglers picking up the lone major and misconduct.

The second game goes Tuesday at Didsbury, with the clubs returning to Blackfalds for a third contest Thursday.

On Friday, Mountainview advanced to the semifinals with a 5-1 victory over the visiting Three Hills Thrashers.

The Colts swept the best-of-three survivor series.

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Pair of RDC teams win bronze at curling champs CURLING OLDS — The RDC women and mixed teams both won bronze at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference curling championships during the weekend.

The RDC women’s team of Kaitlyn Sherrer, Tanis Steinbach, Julie Primrose, Lindsay Janko and Taylor Lindstrom, defeated Grant MacEwan and Lakeland in round-robin play while losing to NAIT. They then lost the 1-2 page playoff to NAIT and the semifinal to Grant MacEwan.

The team rebounded with a 6-2 win over Lakeland in the third-place game, which earned them a berth in the national finals, March 19-23 at NAIT. The RDC mixed team finished 1-2 in roundrobin play, losing to the University of Alberta, Augustana and Lakeland and beating Olds.

The RDC team then lost an extra end game to Olds in the 3-4 playoff game before downing Olds 5-4 in the third-place game.

The mixed team consisted of Nicole Ireland, Jack Sugden, Taryn Williams and Jeff Ireland.

NAIT went undefeated to win the women’s title with Augustana taking the mixed crown. NAIT won the men’s championship.

“The women played great in the round-robin before losing a tough playoff game to NAIT,” said RDC coach Brad Hamilton. “They then had trouble rebounding in the semifinal late Saturday, but played well Sunday morning to win the medal.

They’re definitely looking forward to the nationals.

“The mixed team kept improving all season and were happy to come home with a bronze.”

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Calgary LW Steve Begin played in his 500th career game ... Iginla’s two points gives him 1,086 in his career, moving him to within two points of Theo Fleury for 59th on the NHL all-time list.

He had Michael Stone’s point shot carom off defensive partner Mark Giordano in front and hit him in the skate as he tried to control it and bound straight into the net.

The goal came six seconds after the Coyotes were put right back onto the power play for the third time in the period. Boosted by a couple key faceoff wins by Blake Comeau, the Flames In the semifinal, Nedohin led 4-2 afhad just finished effectively killing off ter six ends but Jones pulled even with a 1:43 two-man advantage. a pair in the seventh and stole two in As the gate opened to let Matt Sta- the eighth. Nedohin scored one in the jan back onto the ice to return the ninth to cut the Manitoba lead in half Flames to even strength, the Flames but couldn’t complete the comeback. centre poked the puck off the stick of The 38-year-old Jones also won a Keith Yandle while he was still stand- world title in 2008. Homan, 23, won a ing inside the penalty box. On the rare- Canadian junior title in 2010 and finly seen play, Stajan was correctly as- ished fourth in her only previous Scotsessed an interference penalty under ties appearance in 2011. rule 56.2 of the NHL rule book. The Jones was 11-0 over the round robin crowd was displeased with the call, jeering referees Ian Walsh and Tim Peel for the remainder of the period.

Phoenix took a 2-1 lead at 14:01 of the second when Torres got behind the Flames defence on a two-on-two, was threaded a pass by former Flame Truck Decks, Welding Skids, Headache Matthew Lombardi, and Rack & Rocket Launchers and lots more. tucked a backhand behind MacDonald.

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Home of: Calgary failed to score on 30 shots against Smith when the two sides met last Tuesday. On this night, the Flames would see their first shot go in.

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where she got beat on the race back to the track, and on the final lap, when she was running third but got snookered by the veterans and faded to eighth.

That’s going to stick with Patrick for some time.

“I would imagine pretty much anyone would be kicking themselves about what they coulda, shoulda have done to give themselves an opportunity to win,” she said. “I think that’s what I was feeling today, was uncertainty as to how I was going to accomplish that.”

There were several multicar crashes, but no one was hurt and none of them approached the magnitude of the wreck that injured more than two dozen fans in the grandstand at the end of the second-tier Nationwide Series race on the same track a day earlier. Daytona International Speedway workers were up until 2 a.m repairing the fence that was damaged in the accident, and track officials offered Sunday morning to move any fans who felt uneasy sit-

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Several drivers said the accident and concern for the fans stuck with them overnight and into Sunday morning, and Johnson was quick to send his thoughts from Victory Lane.

“I just want to give a big shout-out to all the fans, and I also want to send my thoughts and prayers out to everybody that was injured in the grandstands,” Johnson said.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose father was killed in this race 12 years ago, was involved in Saturday’s accident but refocused and finished second to Johnson, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate.

“Me personally, I was just really waiting to get the news on how everybody was, how all the fans were overnight, just hoping that things were going to improve,” Earnhardt said, adding that he “wasn’t really ready to proceed until you had some confirmation that things were looking more positive.”

SENIOR AAA HOCKEY The Sylvan Lake Admirals are on the ropes.

The Admirals ventured into Bentley Saturday night and emerged on the wrong side of a 4-0 score, as the host Generals got two goals from Chris Neiszner and a 14-save shutout performance from Dan Bakala to grab a 3-0 lead in the provincial senior AAA hockey semifinal.

The fourth — and possibly final — game of the best-of-seven set is scheduled for Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Multiplex.

Don Morrison and Matt Stefanishion also tallied for the Generals, who fired 34 shots at Admirals netminder Andrew Williams.

Bentley took a 2-0 series lead Friday with a 5-2 win at Sylvan Lake.

Scoring for the Generals were Neiszner, Jeremy Colliton, Travis Dunstall, Curtis Austring and Keenan Desmet, while Paul Mailey and Cody Esposito replied for the Admirals.

Bakala made 35 saves in the Bentley net. Williams stopped 42 shots in a losing cause.

to become the first skip since British Columbia’s Linda Moore to go undefeated. Moore went 10-0 in 1985 and then won the final in Winnipeg.

Homan’s only loss of the round robin was to Jones.

Nova Scotia’s Colleen Jones holds the Scotties record with six titles. She returned as vice-skip on Mary-Anne Arsenault’s rink this year but they finished 5-6 and did not make the playoffs.

The Homan and Jones rinks receive $15,500 in prize money for reaching the final. Scott’s team gets $12,000 and Nedohin’s rink receives $7,000.

Meanwhile, the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs moved to within one win of advancing to the provincial final with a 3-2 win Saturday over the visiting Stony Plain Eagles.

Blair Manning and Brian Woolger notched third-period goals for the Chiefs, who lead the best-of-seven semifinal 3-0. Bryan Forslund also connected for Fort Saskatchewan, while the Eagles got goals from Tate Locke and Brandon Skinner.

Chiefs goaltender Jim Watt made 32 saves.

Wade Waters blocked 26 shots for the Eagles.

The Chiefs prevailed 6-3 in Friday’s second game of the series, getting two goals from each of Dan Baum and Trevor Kordyban and singles off the sticks of Woolger and Jamie Marshall . Brandt Middleton, with two goals, and Blair Hennes scored for the host Eagles.

Blake Grenier stopped 36 shots for the winners.

Waters made 27 saves at the other end.

The series continues Saturday at Stony Plain.

Teams finishing fifth through 12th receive $3,400 each and all 12 teams receive $4,167 for title sponsor cresting.

Homan’s team also receives $10,000 for wearing cresting at the world championship along with $40,000 from Own The Podium for training and competition expenses. Sport Canada will provide them with $144,000 over a two-year period.

The men’s national championship — the Tim Hortons Brier — is set for March 2-10 in Edmonton. The winner will represent Canada at the March 30-April 7 world men’s curling championship in Victoria.

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He has covered everything from local minor sports to national and international events, including the Winter Olympics. He received the Bell Memorial Award and was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1999. He received the Founders Award for longtime dedication to the Central Alberta High School Football League in 2004 and in 2006 was presented with the Alberta Schools Athletic Association Routledge Award for media recognition.

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Bautista, Santos return to action for Jays BAUTISTA HITS HOME RUN AND SANTOS IMPRESSES IN LOSS TO ORIOLES

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DUNEDIN, Fla. — Jose Bautista hit the scoreboard with a homer and reliever Sergio Santos looked impressive in his return from shoulder surgery as a Toronto Blue Jays split-squad lost 5-4 to the Baltimore Orioles in spring training play Sunday afternoon.

Another Toronto squad played to a 2-0 win over the New York Yankees in nearby Tampa, with manager John Gibbons looking on. Bench coach DeMarlo Hale led the Jays (2-1) in their home spring opener before 3,802 at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium on a cloudy 22 C day.

In Tampa, Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson broke his right forearm when he was hit in the first inning by Toronto starter J.A. Happ. The Yankees expect the slugger to be out for some 10 weeks.

At Dunedin, Santos came in the third inning for his first action since last April, when he was shut down after just six appearances as the Jays closer. He had shoulder surgery in July.

Santos hit 95 m.p.h. twice in retiring the Orioles (2-0) in order in the third, finishing off the inning with a nice stab fielding play on the mound.

“For my first inning and being Feb. 24, I’ll take it,” said Santos. “It’s good.

The ball was coming out free and easy.”

And he wasn’t hurting, as he did last season. Santos threw one slider and five fastballs, all for strikes.

Santos’ performance is encouraging to a team still waiting on Casey Janssen, who is also making his way back from shoulder surgery. Janssen, who took over as closer last season in Santos’ absence, hopes to be ready by Opening Day but is sticking to a slow and measured program.

Bautista showed he was back from wrist surgery when he homered off Troy Patton in the third, sending the ball into the protective mesh in front

of the scoreboard and driving in Jose Reyes for a 3-2 lead.

He had come close in the first, slamming a ball to the warning track in right field.

“It feels good,” Bautista said. “I took a couple of big hacks today in good hitters’ count. It felt perfect. It feels good to connect (with) the ball after a while (of) not playing.”

Santos enjoyed watching Bautista go long.

“We’ve got a lot of great pieces,” he said. “I think if we stay healthy and play the way everybody’s played in the past, then I like our chances.”

Mark Buehrle started for the Jays, retiring the first four Orioles he faced.

Then the bottom fell out and the veteran left-hander exited, after giving up a single, Steve Pearce’s homer, single and single to the next four batters in the second, having thrown 35 pitches and 24 strikes.

Pearce split 2012 with the Astros, Orioles and Yankees in addition to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Bobby Korecky came in and cleaned up the mess.

“Obviously the second inning, I didn’t locate (the ball) as well,” said Buehrle, who seemed unfazed by what was essentially a short practice outing.

“Seems like I never pitch too good in spring training,” he added. “My number aren’t good.”

The 33-year-old Buehrle came over to Toronto in the blockbuster trade with Miami in November. In 2012, the left-hander went 13-13 with a 3.74 earned-run average and 125 strikeouts in 202.1 innings.

It was the 12th straight season Buehrle had posted 10 wins, 30 starts and 200 innings pitched.

Toronto left-hander Aaron Loup followed Santos with a 1-2-3 inning. Jeremy Jeffress had two strikouts in his hitless one inning.

Despite the loss, the Jays pitchers did well with two walks and 10 strikeouts among them. Their Baltimore counterparts had five walks and five strikeouts.

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Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista celebrates with his teammates in the dugout after he hit a two run homerun against the Baltimore Orioles during third inning MLB Grapefruit League baseball action Dunedin, Fla., on Sunday.

Jair Jurrjens, a native of Curacao who represented the Netherlands at the 2006 World Baseball Classic, pitched the first two innings for the Orioles (2-0).

The 27-year-old split last season with the Atlanta Braves and triple-A Gwinnett Braves.

Veteran Mark DeRosa had put the Jays on the board in the second with an RBI single, bringing home J.P. Arencibia from second.

An RBI single by Pearce in the sixth tied it at 3-3 and Baltimore pulled ahead 5-3 in the eighth on a Jason Pridie RBI double and Yamaico Navarro

RBI single off Tommy Hottovy, whose cause was not helped by a Ryan Goins error.

Kevin Ahrens closed the gap to 5-4 with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth.

Toronto came close in the ninth, with Adam Loewen on second and Mike Nickeas on first, but Baltimore right-hander Rob Delaney got Josh Thole for the final out and the save.

Mike Belfiore got the win with one inning of scoreless relief while Hottovy took the loss.

Toronto left 11 on base, compared to eight for Baltimore.

Kuchar wins another big title at Match Play Championships

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Kobe drops 38 as Lakers top Mavs THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Kobe Bryant was just a little better than Dirk Nowitzki in a spirited game befitting Western Conference leaders — not teams battling for ninth place.

Bryant had 38 points to win a scoring duel with Nowitzki, and Steve Nash helped beat his former team by scoring 20 points for the first time with the Los Angeles Lakers in a 103-99 victory against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

Nowitzki finished with a season-high 30 in a game that had a playoff feel from the start, even though both teams still have plenty of ground to make up to even qualify for the post-season. They trail eighth-place Houston by several games, but they are the franchises that have the last three NBA titles won by teams from the West.

Bryant and Nowitzki had 16 points apiece in the first half and were still even at 24 after the third quarter before Bryant scored 14 in the fourth, including seven

in the last 3 minutes.

They were a combined 8 of 9 from 3-point range and hit 24 shots and 12 free throws between them.

“It’s fun,” said Bryant, who also had 12 rebounds and seven assists.

“He’s one of my all-time favourites. He’s a throwback type of player. He doesn’t mind the physicality. He made some incredible plays down the stretch.”

Bryant, who went past the 31,000-point mark, was playing in Mark Cuban’s building two days after the outspoken Dallas owner suggested in a radio interview that the Lakers might have to consider dumping the five-time NBA champion through the amnesty clause. The Lakers responded by calling the comment inappropriate, and Cuban defended himself before the game.

“Amnesty THAT,” Bryant tweeted after the game.

“I’m sure if he wants to amnesty Dirk, that’s something we’ll be willing to entertain,” Bryant told reporters.

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Matt Kuchar holds up the Walter Hagen Cup after defeating Hunter Mahan 2 and 1 in the final round of play during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Sunday, in Marana, Ariz.

MARANA, Ariz. — Even in the most stressful form of golf, Matt Kuchar and his easy smile made the Match Play Championship look like a weekend game with his buddies.

It was fun when he built a 4-up lead at the turn.

And when Hunter Mahan threw his best golf at him during a wild back nine Sunday at Dove Mountain, Kuchar never looked rattled, never felt as if the match belonged to anyone but him, and never lost the lead.

Kuchar kept momentum on his side with four birdies on the back nine, the last conceded on the 17th hole for a 2-and-1 victory. He captured his first World Golf Championship and put his name in the conversation as among the most lethal players in match play.

In his case, looks are deceiving.

“Match play I find to be such an amazing, unique format, so much fun to play and so much pressure,” Kuchar said. “It seems like each hole there’s so much momentum riding and so much pressure on every hole. To come out on top after six matches of playing the top 64 guys in the world, it’s an incredible feeling.”

Mahan, trying to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the Match Play Championship, had gone 169 holes without trailing dating to the opening round last year until Kuchar won the fourth hole of the championship with a par. Mahan never caught up, though it wasn’t from a lack of effort. Every time he cut into the deficit, Kuchar answered the challenge — a 15-foot birdie putt on the 12th hole with Mahan in tight, and a 10-foot birdie putt on the 15th with Mahan poised to cut the lead to one hole. And he did it all with that warm smile on a day so frigid they traded golf hats for ski caps.

“He does it differently,” said Mahan, who had to get past the ultra-intense Ian Poulter in the semifi-

nals earlier Sunday. “He’s more like a fuzzier, Peter Jacobsen kind of guy who likes to talk. He’s super competitive, there’s no doubt about it. He plays golf to win, and he works hard at it. I think he really enjoys playing. When you play against him, you know what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a competitive guy who’s probably not going to make mistakes.”

This time, it was Mahan who made the mistakes.

He allowed Kuchar to win consecutive holes with pars, and Mahan fell further behind when Kuchar hit pitching wedge to 3 feet for birdie on the par-3 sixth and Mahan hit a poor second shot that kept him from matching birdies with Kuchar on the par-5 eighth.

But even 4 down at the turn, there was never a dull moment on the back nine.

For all the great shots in a 25 mph wind that felt harsh with the cool, desert air, the match ended with a thud.

Kuchar was 1 up on the 17th hole when both drove into the bunker. Their golf balls were only a few feet apart, but Mahan’s had sunk slightly in the sand, making it difficult for him to get a clean hit. He came up woefully short, the ball rambling through the desert until it landed in a bush. It took him four shots to reach the green, and with Kuchar only about 4 feet away, Mahan conceded the birdie and the match.

“Just had a bad stretch against Matt on the front nine there that put me just a little bit too far behind,” Mahan said.

Kuchar became the second player in the last three years to win the Match Play Championship without ever playing the 18th hole.

Mahan nearly forced him to the final tee. He made a long two-putt par to win the 10th, and played a tough chip from the mound of a bunker to about 6 feet for a birdie on the next hole, cutting the lead in half. Mahan followed with a tee shot into about 10 feet on the par-3 12th, the momentum squarely on his side. Kuchar, however, followed with an 8-iron to just inside 15 feet and made the birdie putt.

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Tasting the centennial cakes BOWL FOR BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS For the 33rd time, teams from across the community will have a chance to bowl and raise funds for Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Servus Credit Union presents the event, which supports the program that provides adult mentors to children. The goal this year is to recruit 100 teams of bowlers to participate in the March 3 event, raising $100,000. To get involved in the event, visit www.reddeer. kintera.org/bowlforkids or contact the agency at 403-342-6500.

WOMENS WELLNESS DAY Women are invited to Find their Bliss at the 11th annual Women’s Wellness Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. Presented by the Town of Penhold, the nonprofit event celebrates women and all that they are and all that they do. Keynote speaker Teresa Rilling will present Finding Your Bliss, While Living with Blisters. Events include a fashion show, and sessions on getting a more restful sleep, burlesque, medicinal plants, self defence and creative expressions.

Participants must be over 18. Tickets are $45 each and include a catered lunch.

For tickets or more information, contact the town office at 1 Waskasoo Ave. or call 403-886-3269.

COMBINING MEDIAS The art of combining medias will be taught at the Gallery on Main in Lacombe on Saturday.

Artist Doug Strickland will instruct on using watercolours combined with pen and ink and acrylics. The $75 class fee includes supplies and lunch. The class runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information and to register, call Laverne at 403-782-3402.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Give ‘em cake.

Red Deerians did not waste any time lining up to sample a slice of six creative and tasty centennial cakes at the Parkland Mall on Saturday.

The delectable event drew six bakers from Central Alberta who put their clever talents to the baking and decorating test in the 2013 Centennial Cake Competition.

Leslee Burton, events committee chairperson, said she was surprised there wasn’t more entries but she was pleased to see no shortage of cake samplers at Parkland Mall.

Burton said celebrating the Centennial is gaining momentum with more and more people attending events. “(The First Night Skating Party on New Years’ Eve) kind of set the tone because people are aware of the centennial and things are going on,” said Burton.

“It’s really picked up momentum.”

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tennial organizing committee is just getting warmed up as the major events continue to unfold.

“There’s no reason to leave town,” said Burton.

In March, plant lovers can purchase a little piece of history by taking home a Centennial plant from Parkland Nurseries and Garden Centre.

The three centennial plants –– Hot Wings Tatarian Maple (tree), Ivory Halo Dogwood (shrub) and Tiny Hope Lily (flower) are now available for purchase. The hardy plants were developed by Parkland to grow in this area.

“There’s something whether you have a balcony or a huge property,” said Sheila Bannerman, committee chairperson.

“There’s something for ev-

erybody.”

Vouchers are available at the centennial office (4816-Gaetz Avenue) and a table will be set up at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre and the Recreation Centre on March 24. A portion of the sales will go into the events for the centennial.

On March 25, the city celebrates its actual birthday – the day Red Deer was incorporated as a city. A special Red Deer city council meeting is planned.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes a judge in the cake competition, said the event is still under wraps but that will be the commemorative day.

“I can’t tell you,” said Wyntjes. “We talked about the time capsule and what we’re going to do. Personally I am going to be writing a letter to the future

council in 100 years ... All the other councillors may do something else. It’s shaping up to be a good year so far.

Some March Centennial Events: ● March 20 — Central Alberta Historical Society presents local historian Michael Dawe who will give a talk entitled 1913 Red Deer becomes a City, in the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library. ● March 23 — International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Go to www. immigrant-centre.ca for information. ● March 24 — Free entry to G.H. Dawe Community Centre, Collicutt Centre and the Recreation Centre. Committee members, city council and city staffers will be present. ● March 25 — The City’s official centennial birthday (incorporation date). Special city council meeting in council chambers.

For a complete list of events go to www.reddeer2013.ca and check out the Red Deer 2013 Centennial Facebook group. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

City’s newest youths tell their stories YOUNG IMMIGRANTS DESCRIBE JOURNEYS

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The stories are of war, poverty, separation and fear.

The stories are of peace, opportunity, reacquaintances and excitement.

And the stories are of bewilderment at why people choose to live in a place where winter weather warrants winces.

The stories, the 16 found in Steps Along Our Journey, are the accounts of some of the newest Red Deerians, youth who came from far away countries and are establishing new lives in Canada.

One of those stories belongs to Martha Gatluak, 18, who woke up one day in Sudan to find a tragedy that would uproot her family and eventually lead her to the Canadian prairie.

The Notre Dame High School student did not even know Canada existed when a man was found dead in her family’s backyard in her home country one morning. When fellow villagers subsequently accused her family of killing the man, Gatluak’s mother fled on foot with her two children.

The trio walked all the way to Kenya, where they lived in refugee housing for four years.

When it finally came time to come to Canada in 2010, Gatluak, was thrilled.

“I was so happy because I really wanted to go to school. That was the one thing I was hoping on, and when we got here I was so happy,” she said.

But there were struggles still in Canada. Being unfamiliar with the language and without friends, life at the beginning was very lonely.

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16 local teens involved in a book project through the Central Alberta Refugee Effort in Red Deer gathered at the Red Deer Public Library Friday for the launch of their book. Titled Steps Along Our Journey the book features stories of personal immigration experiences and photographs of each participant taken by photographer Tracy Kuhl.

But now, with friends and better language skills, she is hopeful for a future in which she hopes to become a nurse.

“I feel good. I feel like I could do anything right here now,” expressed Gatluak.

For Hector Jordan Ortiz, maintaining the culture of his home country of Mexico is important. The 17-year-old is part of the small Mexican community in Red Deer, but he will not let his heritage define him.

“We are in Canada now. We have to be Canadian. We have to speak English. We have to

keep our culture, but you have to be open to learn more about Canada, about more people,” he said.

The stories of Jordan Ortiz, Gatluak, and 14 other local immigrant youth are compiled in Steps Along Our Journey, a book put out by the Central Alberta Refugee Effort (CARE).

The book is available for $25 through CARE. “I’m really proud of us,” explained Jordan Ortiz, “because it’s not easy to talk about ourselves and our stories. You want to show how your feelings were

when you came here. We want to tell the story that it’s not easy to have that change.”

The youth worked for months on the book project, and CARE. settlement practitioner Rachel Pinno hopes locals read the youths’ stories.

“I hope it will get them to know their neighbours. We can learn so much from their cultures and from their lives and in turn we have so much to offer them as we can share about Canadian culture and help them adjust,” she said. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Les’s Trailer Park residents getting a new water well

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“THERE’S SOMETHING WHETHER YOU HAVE A BALCONY OR A HUGE PROPERTY. THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY.”

Les’s Trailer Park residents will soon be turning on the taps to fresh water flowing from a new well on the site.

Workers began drilling a new water well on the site just west of Red Deer on Burnt Lake Trail last week.

The Calgary-based owner Robert Bresciani was ordered to stop unauthorized groundwater withdraws at the mobile home park under a Nov. 22 enforcement order by Environment Protection and Enhancement Act and the Water Act. He was given the option to either drill a new well, construct a new water treatment system or reclaim the primary well.

The original deadline was extended to Feb. 28 from Dec. 14.

Long-time resident

Anne Philion said she was pleased the well is being replaced and hopes next the sewer system will get an overhaul. She looks forward to turning on the taps without getting a “skunk smell.”

“That makes sense,” said Philion. “That’s the cheapest option. I don’t know why he wouldn’t do it in the first place.”

Carrie Sancartier, a Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) public affairs officer, said the order was amended in December to allow the owners additional time to get the work done.

Sancartier said any work on the site must be done in accordance with the terms and the conditions of the enforcement order.

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development is continuing to monitor

the compliance with the order.

Alberta Health Services and SRD have been working with Bresciani since 2011 to bring the systems up to code. AHS issued a boil water advisory in September because there was concerns surface water could be getting into groundwater used to supply the park making the water unsafe for human consumption.

Regular water samples were not being submitted for testing.

A few weeks later, Bresciani told the tenants they had one year to leave the premises because he could not afford the upgrades to the water and sewer systems.

The owners also said in September he was getting out of the business because he was tired of fighting with the provincial government.

Bresciani has owned the park since 1978. He later rescinded the evic-

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Poseidon Drilling Ltd. owner and driller Kris Schindel, right, and his crew Dayne Stumpf and Landon Dorval work to drill a new water well at Lesís Trailer Court on this week. tion notices indicating if residents paid their rent, he would not give them the boot. The 72-unit trailer park has been a

regular hot spot of complaints and controversies for more than 30 years. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Flu shot didn’t help older people DATA SUGGEST THIS YEAR THE VACCINE DIDN’T PERFORM VERY WELL

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS This year’s flu vaccine provided little protection to people 65 and older who got a shot, new data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reveal.

The study estimates how well the vaccine did at preventing people from becoming sick enough to need to see a doctor — preventing “medically attended flu” in influenza science parlance.

And the data suggest this year the vaccine didn’t perform very well for older adults.

It found that a flu shot cut an older adult’s risk of contracting a case of influenza A H3N2 that needed medical care by only nine per cent.

When the scientists calculated the overall effectiveness — the vaccine’s ability to prevent medically attended flu caused by both flu A and B viruses — the estimate was 27 per cent for older adults.

The findings are disappointing given the H3N2 component in this year’s vaccine is well matched to the viruses circulating.

Paradoxically, the B component of the vaccine isn’t as closely matched to circulating viruses, yet it is performing better, according to the study.

Dr. Joe Bresee, a flu expert with the CDC, said older adults need to know that if they got a flu shot and they develop flu-like illness, they may have influenza and should see a doctor to determine if they should take antiviral drugs.

“We wanted to make sure that people knew that — especially if you’re elderly to know that — because we still want to communicate the fact that if you do get sick, get antivirals.

“And don’t assume just because you got the vaccine, that that flu-like illness you’ve got can’t be flu,” said Bresee, who heads the CDC flu division’s epidemiology team.

This type of study may actually overestimate the effectiveness of the vaccine, some experts say.

It cannot capture a picture of what percentage of people got a shot and got the flu but didn’t see a doctor.

Most people simply ride out a case of the flu in bed.

As well, it doesn’t account for people who become so sick they go directly to hospital, which would not be uncommon in elderly people with influenza.

The findings are an interim estimate, based on data gathered during the middle of the flu season.

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Carlos Maisonet, 73, reacts as Dr. Eva Berrios-Colon, a professor at Touro College of Pharmacy, injects him with flu vaccine during a visit to the faculty practice center at Brooklyn Hospital in New York.

‘WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE KNEW THAT — ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE ELDERLY TO KNOW THAT — BECAUSE WE STILL WANT TO COMMUNICATE THE FACT THAT IF YOU DO GET SICK, GET ANTIVIRALS. AND DON’T ASSUME JUST BECAUSE YOU GOT THE VACCINE, THAT THAT FLU-LIKE ILLNESS YOU’VE GOT CAN’T BE FLU.’ — DR. JOE BRESEE, A FLU EXPERT WITH THE CDC

The researchers doing this work are continuing to gather data and will run a final analysis at the end of the season.

The numbers may change slightly in the final analysis; in this run-through, the overall vaccine effectiveness figure dropped to 56 per cent from 62 per cent in an analysis conducted in January.

But Bresee suggested that the current figures are likely a pretty accurate reflection of the vaccine’s performance in older adults.

“The nine (per cent) is going to change a little bit one way or the other,” he said in an interview from Atlanta.

“But the nine’s not going to become a 50, definitely, as we add data. I think we’re confident that the effectiveness against that A strain in the elderly is going to be quite low.”

Even in younger adults and children, the study suggests this year’s vaccine offered modest protection.

Bresee described it as “moderate” and said it’s a word people in the flu world are starting to realize seems to apply to flu vaccine.

Even in young adults — the group which typically mounts the best immune response to flu vaccine — the performance of this year’s vaccine was not stellar.

In people aged 17 to 49, it cut the risk of medically attended flu by 52 per cent overall.

But for the H3N2 component, the protection was only 46 per cent in this age group.

Dr. Danuta Skowronski, a flu expert with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, said the findings are consistent with Canadian and European vaccine effectiveness estimates released in recent weeks.

For Canada the H3N2 effectiveness rate was 45 per cent, she noted, while European investigators pegged the effectiveness against that component at 42 per cent.

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ing aggressive treatment unless clearly warranted.

“So we try not to treat when we don’t need to treat, and when we do treat, we try to limit the amount of skin that we remove (from the) cervix,” she said from Regina.

Dickinson said the task force, which bases its recommendations on international studies and epidemiological evidence, attempts to balance potential benefits against potential harms. Much of the data comes from other countries, and the three medical organizations called that evidence “weak.”

Blake said there is no data on Canada’s female population that would show it is safe to wait until age 25 to start screening or for waiting three years between tests — an interval she suggested women would find difficult to remember.

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The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada and two related medical organizations are taking issue with a national task force’s recommendations that women wait until age 25 to start cervical cancer screening.

In a newly released position paper, the SOGC, the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and the Society of Canadian Colposcopists say age 25 is too late to begin Pap testing because precancerous and cancerous lesions may have developed earlier in some women.

The groups say young women should have their first Pap smear at age 21 and have them done every two to three years.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, which issued national guidelines in early January, advises that women wait three years between screenings, which should continue to age 69. For years, women were told to get annual Pap smears, though that interval has been stretched in recent years in a number of countries.

Dr. Jennifer Blake, CEO of SOGC, said the task force was correct in saying that waiting until 25 would have little effect on the number of women under 25 who die from cervical cancer, which usually is a relatively slow-growing cancer.

“But we do think that you can find — and we do find — advanced lesions in young girls or even if we find early lesions in young girls, just by doing very minor things, removing those abnormal cells even in the process of a biopsy, you impact the natural history of the disease,” Blake said Thursday from Ottawa.

“And what can happen then is if you do end up needing to treat, treatment is less destructive,” she said, explaining that having to remove a larger part of an otherwise healthy cervix can affect a woman’s fertility.

That was a major concern of the task force, which

suggested that Pap smears that turn up abnormal tissue can lead to overly aggressive treatment in young women that can affect future fertility. Treatment can result in an inability to carry a pregnancy to term.

“That doesn’t mean you don’t start screening,” said Blake. “That means you don’t over treat.”

“So we now say that if you are seeing problems in younger women, you can safely watch them with conservative treatment, just doing a biopsy and watching.”

But Dr. James Dickinson, chair of the task force, said age 25 was recommended because evidence shows that cervical cancer is rare in young women, even up to age 30, and “vigorous screening has not reduced cancer much at these young ages.”

Dickinson, a professor of family medicine at the University of Calgary, said 10 per cent of Pap smears are positive in women up to age 30 and require at least one cervical biopsy and possible treatment that can lead for some to miscarriage or premature labour.

“Those women, those young women, have a risk that this can cause trouble because the cervix has a function — it holds babies in. And part of that function may be lost,” Dickinson said from Gold Coast, Australia, where he is on sabbatical at Bond University’s Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice..

Women can also suffer psychological harm, worrying about whether they have cancer as they wait for biopsy results, he said.

Dr. Betsy Brydon, president of the Society of Canadian Colposcopists — the doctors who perform cervical biopsies — said new guidelines were issued in December aimed at reducing potential harm from diagnostic and treatment procedures, and discourag-

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CEO of McIlhenny company dies Paul C. McIlhenny, chief executive and chairman of the board of the McIlhenny Company that makes the trademarked line of Tabasco hot pepper sauce and other products, has died, the company said Sunday. He was 68. A company statement released at its Avery Island headquarters in south Louisiana said McIlhenny died Saturday. McIlhenny was a member of a family whose 145-yearold company has been producing the worldfamous Tabasco sauce for generations. The statement said he joined the company in 1967 and directly oversaw production and quality of all products sold under the Tabasco brand for 13 years.

Under McIlhenny’s guidance, the company experienced many years of record growth in sales and earnings and also introduced several new flavours, other sauces and products.

The company said McIlhenny was serving as chief executive, board chairman as well as a company director at the time of his death. He was a sixth-generation member of the family to live on Avery Island and among the fourth generation to produce the Tabasco brand sauce, it added.

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Traders watching earnings, cuts WONDERING IF U.S. POLITICIANS CAN COME UP WITH ALTERNATIVE TO SEQUESTRATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Investors will have plenty to chew on this week including earnings news from most of the big Canadian banks and the latest economic growth data for Canada.

But the week could very start out on a cautious tone as traders wonder if U.S. politicians can come up with an alternative to the sequestration, the name for an automatic series of across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect Mar. 1.

And the eurozone debt crisis could be back in focus depending on the outcome of an Italian election Sunday and Monday that is too close to call.

North American markets finished last week little changed after investor sentiment took a hit from another indication that the Fed is considering ending its current economic stimulus program involving

bond purchases.

Minutes from the Fed’s latest policy meeting showed that some policy-makers were worried that the bank’s US$85 billion in monthly bond purchases could eventually unsettle financial markets or cause the central bank to take losses.

The best bit of news this week could come from the big banks. Traders will take in quarterly earnings from Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO), Royal Bank (TSX:RY), TD Bank (TSX:TD) and CIBC (TSX:CM).

“We may find results a little bit more subdued given the slowdown in the housing market,” said Colin Cieszynski, market strategist at CMC Markets Canada, adding that investors expect dividend increases from all four banks, along with Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) which reports next week.

“Volumes have come down but housing prices haven’t come down much but certainly there’s a big risk out there that prices

could come down. Clearly, they have huge exposure to the Canadian housing sector.”

The Canadian Real Estate Association said last week that the number of homes sold in Canada last month was down 5.2 per cent from January 2012.

The January national average sales price compiled by the industry group was $354,754, up two per cent from a year earlier.

Investors will look ahead to Friday, when a round of federal budget cuts known as the “sequester” will hit unless Congress and President Barack Obama can strike a deficit-reduction deal to avert them.

The cuts would total about US$85 billion and economists warn that they would take a bite out of U.S. economic growth. But many traders seemed resigned to the cuts going through.

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Pipeline reaches halfway point in U.S. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS ARE ALIGNING AND WELDING A 485-MILE SECTION

BY DAN HOLTMEYER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY — While the debate continues over whether the United States will approve a proposed oil conduit from Canada to the Gulf Coast, the segment from Cushing, Okla., to the Texas Gulf Coast is halfway toward completion and could be transporting oil by the end of the year.

President Barack Obama travelled to Oklahoma nearly a year ago to tout construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline from the Cushing oil hub to Houston-area refineries.

A decision on whether to allow the longer pipeline awaits the results of a U.S. State Department review that is necessary because the oil would be carried across an international border.

Nearly 4,000 workers in Oklahoma and Texas are aligning and welding a 485-mile section, TransCanada spokesman David Dodson told The Associated Press. “We’re right at peak right now,” he said.

“We hope to have it in operation by the end of this year.”

TransCanada applied for a federal permit almost five years ago but its construction has become controversial.

Environmentalists warn of potential spills and say extracting and using tar sands oil, which the pipeline would carry from Alberta, would worsen climate change.

Unions and TransCanada counter the project will bring thousands of jobs and bolster the United States’ oil supply from its friends and neighbours.

Obama rejected the permit early last year but left the door open for a retry that the State Department is currently considering. A decision could come by summer.

Because the Gulf Coast segment doesn’t cross an international border, its approval process was much simpler and work began last August, Dodson said.

When completed, the segment will carry 700,000 gallons of oil each day from the existing pipeline network centred around Cushing to the southern refineries.

Now about 850 labourers are at work in Oklahoma, with roughly 3,000 more in Texas. Most are temporary contracts. Dodson said he didn’t know when those numbers would start winding down.

Pipeliners Local 798, a national union based in Tulsa, Okla., has about 250 of its members working on the pipeline’s northern two-thirds, union business manager Danny Hendrix said.

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This image provided by Samsung shows the Samsung GALAXY Note 8 with a stylus. Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple’s iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen.

Samsung takes on iPad Mini EXPANDS LINEUP PEN-BASED TABLETS WITH GALAXY NOTE 8.0

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple’s iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen.

The Korean company announced on Sunday in Barcelona that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an 8-inch screen, putting it very close in size to the Apple’s tablet, which launched in November with a 7.9-inch screen.

It’s not the first time Samsung has made a tablet that’s in the Mini’s size range: it’s very first iPad competitor had a 7-inch screen, and it still makes a tablet of that size, but without a pen.

Samsung will start selling the new tablet in the April to June period, at an as yet undetermined price.

It made the announcement ahead of Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry’s annual trade show, which

starts Monday in Barcelona, Spain.

The Note 8.0 fills a gap in Samsung’s line-up of pen-equipped devices between the Galaxy Note II smartphone, with its 5.5-inch screen, and the Galaxy Note 10.1, a full-size tablet.

Samsung has made the pen, or more properly the stylus, one of the tools it uses to chip away at Apple’s dominance in both tablets and high-end smartphones.

Apple doesn’t make any devices that work with styluses, preferring to optimize its interfaces for fingers, mice and touchpads.

On Samsung’s Note line, the pens can be used to write, highlight and draw. The screens also sense when the mouse hovers over the screen, providing an equivalent to the hovering mouse cursor on the PC. However, few third-party applications have been modified to take full advantage of the pens.

RRSP still tops most Canadians’ retirement savings Even with a myriad of other options, the registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) still is the cornerstone of retirement savings for most Canadians, although they may not be using it to its fullest advantage.

The newest retirement savings vehicle on the block is the pooled registered pension plan (PRPP). Designed to help the estimated 3.5 million Canadians who do not have employer-sponsored pension plans TALBOT or RRSPs, the PRPP BOGGS would be a great adjunct to the RRSP if and when it comes

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formally into being.

“At the moment, we don’t know a lot about the environment of the program because Ottawa and the provinces are still making their decisions about it,” said Colin Montgomery, a financial adviser and certified financial planner with Edward Jones.

“PRPPs alone probably will not be enough when it comes to retirement planning, and individuals will need advice based on their own financial situation.”

A PRPP is a defined as a contribution pension system offered by a third-party financial institution, such as a bank or insurance company.

The plan’s administration and fiduciary duty will be the responsibility of the financial institution, making it fairly easy for small- to medium-sized companies to set one up.

There likely will be some major differences between RRSPs and PRPPs. PRPPs,

for example, are locked-in until the age of 55 at the earliest, and in some provinces it may be as high as 65.

Unlike RRSPs, you can’t get your money out of a PRPP once it is in, and therefore you could not take advantage of programs like the federal homebuyers plan, which allows you to withdraw up to $20,000 to buy your first home, or to take out money taxfree for post-secondary tuition costs.

As well, you may not have as many investment options as you do with an RRSP. The actual investment guidelines will be set by the government, and then individual plan administrators will offer products that meet those guidelines for investors to choose from.

Contribution limits to a PRPP are the same as to your RRSP but cannot exceed your overall allowable limit.

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RRSP: Investors make choices If you have $30,000 of RRSP contribution room, you could make any contributions to both plans as long as the total does not exceed $30,000.

“At the moment, we don’t know how the plan will be administered and how advice will be offered, said Montgomery.

“The government sets the options, the administrator sets the products and the investors make the choice.”

Statistics show that Canadians are saving less than four per cent of their disposable income and, despite the billions of dollars invested in RRSPs and tax free savings accounts (TFSA)s, they have plenty of room to add more to their retirement plans.

For example, only 26 per cent of eligible tax filers contributed to an RRSP in 2010.

While total RRSP contributions in 2010 rose to $33.9 billion, up from $33 billion in 2009, the total amount that Canadians were entitled to contribute in 2010 grew to $717 billion from $671 billion in 2009.

Twenty-one million Canadians have a total of $632 billion in total unused RRSP contribution room.

“Vehicles like the TFSA and the PRPP are giving people a further incentive to save for their retirement,” Montgomery said.

“They all are good adjuncts to the RRSP, but people need to look at the own individual situation and decide what the best options are for them.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

CUTS: Market realizes ‘something needs to happen’ “Yes we’re talking billions but in the context of the U.S. national product, they are manageable,” said Patrick Blais, managing director and portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management, adding it is expected the cuts would affect about one per cent of economic growth.

“That said, the market realizes that is something that needs to happen, there needs to be some deficit reduction.

“We would have preferred a bargain that would address the more significant issue of entitlements.

This is directed less efficiently as discretionary items but it’s better to start addressing the issue than to push it down the road.”

In Europe, the Italian elections could stoke renewed worries over Europe’s debt crisis especially if there is a protracted period before a government is formed. But Blais points out that what happens in Germany is key to the eurozone.

“With respect to the Italian elections, Europe lives by Germany and the fundamentals and the economic indicators in Germany are positive and we think the market will refocus on the German economy as the main driver for Europe,” he said.

There was good news on that front at the end of last week after survey of German business optimism rose sharply, adding to evidence that the country will avoid a recession.

Germany’s economic vitality is crucial for the beleaguered region, offsetting economic contraction in surrounding countries.

On the economic front, Statistics Canada is expected to report Friday that Canadian gross domestic product grew by 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter.

But it looks like growth started to flatten at the end of the year as the economy likely contracted by 0.1 per cent in December after rising 0.3 per cent in November.

PIPELINE: ‘Good-paying jobs’ He estimated about half of those welders are from Oklahoma.

“These jobs are really good-paying jobs,” Hendrix said. “They provide not only a good living wage, they provide health care and they also provide pension.”

Throughout the approval process, TransCanada has stressed those benefits, saying the pipeline could support thousands of people in economically rough times.

Hendrix said the jobs were appreciated but not as urgent as they’ve been portrayed.

“All that being said, here’s the deal: We’ve been very fortunate in the pipeline business,” he said.

“When the rest of the economy was in terrible shape, we’ve been doing very well. It’s not a deal breaker or a killer for us if we don’t get it.”

Work started in Oklahoma about two months ago.

Dodson, from TransCanada, said protests against it — formerly limited to Texas — have come with it. At least two so-called “direct actions” involved people locking themselves to construction equipment to prevent its use, leading to 10 arrests in central Oklahoma. Such civil disobedience tactics have become a mainstay of the pipeline’s opposition.

A rally near the White House on Feb. 17 drew 35,000 protesters, according to organizers, a few days after celebrities and prominent environmental activists tied themselves to the White House fence.

“What we’re working on — and experiencing some success with — is trying to amplify the voices of people who aren’t represented by the national discourse,” said Jay Morris, a spokesman for the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance in Oklahoma.

Those people include those living at both ends of the Keystone XL proposal, he said: where the oil is extracted and where it’s processed and refined.

Protests will continue, Morris said, and his group will keep trying to unify opposition even if the Keystone XL pipeline is finished from Canada to Texas.

In the meantime, Hendrix said, pipeline workers with his union will keep an eye on Washington.

“If the permit gets approved, we’ll start construction on the northern end of it immediately,” he said.

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Drought reshaping U.S. beef industry FEEDLOTS, MEATPACKERS CLOSING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WICHITA, Kan. — Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them.

Some feedlots in the nation’s major cattle-producing states have already been dismantled, and others are sitting empty.

Operators say they don’t expect a recovery anytime soon, with high feed prices, much of the country still in drought and a long time needed to rebuild herds.

The closures are the latest ripple in the shockwave the drought sent through rural communities.

Most cattle in the U.S. are sent to feedlots for final fattening before slaughter.

The dwindling number of animals also is hurting meatpackers, with their much larger workforces.

For consumers, the impact will be felt in grocery and restaurant bills as a smaller meat supply means higher prices.

Owner Bob Podzemny has been taking apart the 32,000-head Union County Feed Yard near Clayton, N.M. It closed in 2009 when a bank shut off its operating capital in the midst of the financial crisis, and Podzemny said he doesn’t see reopening after struggling through Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

“There just are not that many cattle in this part of the country no more, and it is not profitable to bring them in and feed them, so it is shut down,” Podzemny said.

He’s now feeding a few cattle in another feedlot, buying them at about 450 pounds and growing them to 800 to 850 pounds.

He then sells them to others who bring them to the typical 1,200- to 1,300-pound slaughter weight.

“It is making a little money now on just growing feeders and selling them as feeders rather than finishing them all the way out,” Podzemny said.

“We do what we got to do to survive, you know.”

Cattle numbers have been falling for years as the price of corn used to feed animals in feedlots skyrocketed.

The drought accelerated the process, but many feedlots were

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A farmer picks up a bale of hay while feeding cattle on his farm near Big Springs, Kan. Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them. able to survive at first because ranchers whose pastures dried up weaned calves early and sent breeding cows to be fattened for slaughter.

But now far fewer livestock than normal remain on the farms.

And, ironically, if it rains this spring and summer, even fewer animals will go into feedlots because ranchers will hold back cows to breed and rebuild their herds.

Texas, the largest beef-producing state, has been particularly hard hit with a historic drought in 2011 from which it still hasn’t fully recovered.

“Most of the bad news is in Texas,” said Dick Bretz, an Amarillo broker who specializes in selling feed yards and other agribusinesses.

“That is where I see most of the empty yards, that is where I see most of the interest in selling yards and where I see the least interest in buying yards.”

He recently dismantled a 7,000-head feed yard in Hereford,

Texas, for a new owner who had bought it for the land, not the business.

The previous owner had lost the property to foreclosure, and the facility was in very poor condition and would have cost too much to repair, he said.

When corn prices first spiked to $8 a bushel nearly four years ago, about 70 big feed yards went up for sale in the High Plains feeding area that includes Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, Bretz said.

Today, there are 10 and 15 feed yards for sale in the region, mostly in Texas. Bretz said he knows of 15 more that are empty, three recently dismantled and two others now being torn down.

Feed yards typically employ one worker per 1,000 head of cattle, so even big ones may not have more than a few dozen workers. But they supply meatpacking plants, which have much bigger workforces, and feedlot closures could herald greater unemployment to come.

Conservative candidate in crisis-hit Cyprus favoured to win presidential election runoff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICOSIA, Cyprus — With Cypriots facing the spectre of financial meltdown, the conservative candidate in a presidential election runoff was favoured to beat his leftwing rival Sunday.

Opposition leader Nicos Anastasiades garnered 45.46 per cent of the vote in the first round of voting, about 18 points more than Stavros Malas, who is backed by outgoing President Dimitris Christofias’ communist-rooted AKEL party.

The candidate who gets the simple majority in the second round will win the race.

The new president will be under pressure to quickly finalize a financial rescue package with the eurozone’s other 16 countries, and the International Monetary Fund to keep the country solvent as the economy shrinks and state coffers run dry. He will face a tough battle convincing reluctant countries, especially Germany, that tiny Cyprus deserves help after its banks lost billions of euros on bad Greek debt.

Last year, Cyprus sought financial assistance of up to (euro)17 billion ($22.7 billion), a sum roughly equivalent to its annual gross domestic product, which has raised concerns whether the country would be able to pay

back any loan. The country has been unable to borrow from international markets since mid-2011, and turned to long-time ally Russia last year for a (euro)2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) loan to keep it afloat.

Cyprus, a divided island of around 1 million people in the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, is one of the smallest members of the 27-nation European Union and faces deep political and economic problems.

In 1974, it was split into an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.

Decades of talks on resolving that division so

far have gone nowhere, and dealing with the financial crisis now takes priority. Only the 545,000 eligible voters in the south can cast their ballots in the election.

The conservatives have capitalized on widespread discontent over what many view as five years of failed rule

by Christofias.

An Anastasiades campaign billboard reading “Could you stand another five years of the same?” plays to that discontent.

“Today’s choice is twofold: one is to carry on with today’s government and the dead ends that we face. The other is a choice for a new era,” Anastasiades, 66, said after voting. “(Voters) will conscientiously choose

the future of our county, either to go forward or stay in the past.”

Malas, a political newcomer, urged voters to select “policies that will help our country to resist and to safeguard social cohesion.”

“We are determining the future of our country in a Europe that is contemplating which course it will follow given this great economic crisis,” he said.

Voters understand that financial recovery will be a long, tough struggle, regardless of who wins.

“Whoever wins today will have a difficult time to overcome all these problems, because of the mistakes of the past,” said Maria Constantinou, 31.

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Waltz wins supporting-actor prize ‘AMOUR’ WINS FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PRIZE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Christoph Waltz really owes Quentin Tarantino. Waltz won his second supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for a Tarantino film, this time as a genteel bounty hunter in the slave-revenge saga Django Unchained.

In a choked voice, Waltz offered thanks to his character and “to his creator and the creator of his awe-inspiring world, Quentin Tarantino.”

Waltz also offered gracious thanks to his supporting-actor competitors, who included two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro and Oscar recipient Tommy Lee Jones, who had been considered a slim favourite over Waltz for the prize.

A veteran performer in Germany and his native Austria, Waltz had been a virtual unknown in Hollywood when Tarantino cast him as a gleefully evil Nazi in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, which won him his first Oscar.

Waltz has since done a handful of other Hollywood movies, but it’s Tarantino who has given him his two choicest roles.

Backstage, Waltz had a simple explanation for why the collaboration works.

“Quentin writes poetry, and I like poetry,” Waltz said.

The foreign-language prize went to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s old-age love story Amour, which had been a major surprise with five nominations, including picture, director and original screenplay for Haneke and best actress for Emmanuelle Riva, who turned 86 on Sunday and would be the oldest acting winner ever.

The top prize winner at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Amour follows the agonizing story of an elderly man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) tending his wife (Riva) as she declines from age and illness.

The Scottish adventure Brave, from Disney’s Pixar Animation unit, was named best animated feature.

Pixar films have won seven of the 12 Oscars since the category was added.

The story of an dauntless princess (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) who balks at her parents’ attempts to marry her off, Brave won out over a strong field

that included Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph and Frankenweenie.

“I just happen to be wearing the kilt,” said “Brave” co-director Mark Andrews, who took the stage in his trademark Scottish garment.

The upbeat musical portrait Searching for Sugar Man took the documentary feature prize over a lineup of sober films that included the AIDS chronicle How to Survive a Plague, the militaryrape critique The Invisible War and the Israel-Palestine studies 5 Broken Cameras and The Gatekeepers.

Searching for Sugar Man follows the quest of two South African fans to discover the fate of acclaimed but obscure singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who dropped out of sight after two albums in the 1970s and was rumoured to have died a bitter death.

“Thanks to one of the greatest singers ever, Rodriguez,” said Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul.

Oscar host Seth MacFarlane opened with a mildly edgy monologue that offered the usual polite jabs at the academy, the stars and the industry.

He took a poke at academy voters over the snub of Ben Affleck, who missed out on a directing nomination for best-picture favourite Argo, a thriller about the CIA’s plot to rescue six Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis.

“The story was so top secret that the film’s director is unknown to the academy,” MacFarlane said. “They know they screwed up. Ben, it’s not your fault.”

William Shatner made a guest appearance as his Star Trek character Capt. James Kirk, appearing on a giant screen above the stage during MacFarlane’s monologue, saying he came back in time to stop the host from ruining the Oscars.

“Your jokes are tasteless and inappropriate, and everyone ends up hating you,” said Shatner, who revealed a headline supposedly from the next day’s newspaper that read, “Seth MacFarlane worst Oscar host ever.”

The performance-heavy Oscars also included an opening number featuring Charlize Theron and Channing Tatum, who did a classy dance while MacFarlane crooned Just the Way You Look Tonight. Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt then joined MacFarlane for an elegant musical rendition of

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Channing Tatum, left, and Charlize Theron perform during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, in Los Angeles.

High Hopes.

Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron lined up a top-notch cast of stars as presenters, including The Avengers co-stars Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner. They presented two prizes that went to the shipwreck tale Life of Pi, cinematography and visual effects.

“This movie was quite a beast to

make,” said cinematographer Claudio Miranda, who shot dazzling images for the story of a youth adrift on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

Miranda’s win marked another round of Oscar futility for revered cinematographer Roger Deakins, who was nominated for the James Bond adventure Skyfall.

Deakins has been nominated 10 times but has yet to win.

Dark Skies abducts plots from better movies FROM POLTERGEIST TO THE BIRDS, ALIEN-ABDUCTION THRILLER DARK SKIES MIXES IDEAS FROM OTHER MOVIES TO MAKE AN UNORIGINAL SNOREFEST

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Dark Skies 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 14A Dark Skies is an alien-abduction thriller where the biggest acts of appropriation involve the lifting of plots from other — and often better — films.

Classic 1982 ghost story Poltergeist is the most obviously raided in this tale of how outer-space visitors bedevil a suburban American family, Lacy (Keri Russell of Waitress and FX series The Americans) and Daniel Barrett (J. Edgar’s Josh Hamilton).

Hamstrung by recessionary times, she’s a struggling realtor, he’s unemployed, and they’re trying to keep the neighbours and their kids from finding out how deep a hole they are in.

Turns out, this is going to be the least of their problems.

Elder son Jesse (Toronto’s Dakota Goyo) is a good kid going through a surly young teen phase.

He prefers the company of a bad-seed pal who has access to soft-core porn and weed.

He still has a nurturing relationship with cute younger brother Sam (Kadan Rockett), a charming poppet who draws odd versions of family life.

Backyard barbecues soon give way to escalating weird episodes in the Barrett house, as things do more than go bump in the night while the family sleeps.

When Lacy wakes to the results of what look like various frat-boy pranks, the kids deny involvement.

The story treats classics like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Exorcist, The Birds and a touch of The Amityville Horror like an all-youcan-eat buffet.

Thank goodness for Paranormal Activity (also produced by the team behind Dark Skies).

In-home security cameras are the saviour of weak plots everywhere.

The weirdness culminates in an unexpected visitor as the alien home invasion engulfs the kids, leaving them with strange marks all over their bodies that raise neighbours’ eyebrows and suspicions.

Hysterical, Lacy turns to Google for help, despite hubby Daniel’s dismissals that “we don’t self-diagnose over the Internet.”

She finds enough information to visit worldweary alien expert Edwin Pollard (J.K. Simmons in a sleepy cameo), a low-key fellow who lives in a downtown apartment papered with documents, sketches of menacing space monsters and photos of missing kids.

Pollard has much in common with the Barretts — especially Daniel — and after a crash course in Alien Abduction 101 he advises them to go home and prepare for battle with the interstellar baddies who are clearly coming for a kid.

Billed as being “from the producer of Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Sinister,” the publicity bumph glosses over the fact that Dark Skies was written and directed by Scott Stewart, who has yet to be absolved for the noxious vampire tale Priest.

Annoyingly, Dark Skies has the attention span of a three-year-old. Ideas are floated then abandoned and disturbing

accusations made and never followed upon.

Russell is a pleasant mom and the strongest member of the cast, hell bent on saving her family, although she’s thin to the point of distraction.

Counting the veins in her forehead is an unavoidable pastime when the story lags.

With a couple of decent scares in the mix, Dark Skies hints it could have been much better if only there had been some original thought employed in the script.

Whether it’s laziness or a naïve belief that a younger movie-going audience won’t know thrillers from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, Dark Skies

is a disappointing ripoff and reheating of other ideas.

Audiences deserve better than recycled material for their $13.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Husband’s remarks abusive Dear Annie: My husband criticizes me all the time.

He also says the nastiest, most hurtful things when we argue. I have been called a slut and a troublemaker and threatened about almost everything. I don’t believe he feels bad about the way he treats me, and even when I tell him how painful it is, he continues to do it.

We all have made mistakes in our past, but he paints himself as the most innocent and pure person alive.

Because of all of this, I find it hard to be intimate with him.

My husband tells me he says these things because I am provoking him.

Counseling is out of the question, as he would never admit there is a problem with the way he treats me.

Would someone behave like this if he doesn’t mean it? —N.N. Dear N.N.: Your husband is a classic verbal abuser. Constant criticism and calling you names is a way to control and manipulate you.

He also threatens you so you will be afraid of angering him. He refuses to discuss his behavior because he doesn’t want to take responsibility for it. You have told him his words are hurtful, but it makes no difference.

His abuse is not your fault, but it is important that you make it clear it is unacceptable.

Otherwise, he will continue to belittle you, and in some cases, the behavior can escalate to physical abuse.

Please lean on your family and friends for support, letting them know what is going on.

We also strongly urge you to get counseling on your own in order to decide whether you can set boundaries that he will follow, or whether you must leave for your own safety and sanity.

Dear Annie: I am a 25-year-old woman with very short, spiky hair.

I wear girly clothes, yet time and time again, people think I am gay.

It drives me absolutely crazy. I have seen my hairstyle on other women, and it would never occur to me to think they are gay.

I admire guys when they walk by like any other woman my age.

I like my hair short because it takes me three minutes to style, which means I can sleep longer.

The length of my hair has nothing to do with my sexual orientation. I hope people will see this and think twice. — Short, Sassy and Straight Dear Short: With so many female celebrities wearing short, spiky hairstyles these days, we are amazed that anyone would make such assumptions.

Ask a few friends why your appearance gives others this impression.

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PARIS — In France, eating is supposed to be an art.

Foodies from around the globe flock to the world’s gastronomic centre to discover the true meaning of fine dining — a convivial sharing of dishes, lovingly prepared, which capture the imagination, the taste buds and the essence of the land.

Enter reality.

The Europe-wide uproar over horse meat being sold as beef has exposed a labyrinthine network of companies and countries that trade the meat used in packaged meals.

And even the French, it appears, head to the microwave at night after work to zap frozen meals created in far-off factories.

Up to 41 per cent of French expenditures for meals go to factory-prepared dishes and frozen products, France’s national statistics agency said in a 2008 report.

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are,” gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously wrote 165 years ago in his treatise on taste.

HIOROSCOPE Monday, February 25 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chelsea Handler, 38; Sean Astin, 41; Tea Leoni, 47 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: We are experiencing a Full Moon in Virgo today. The past six months are reaching a culminating point during this time and we will be faced with issues that will have to be acted upon quite immediately. Opt for healthy decisions and practical solutions in the longterm. And, since the Sun squares Jupiter, we would be wise ASTRO to act according to DOYNA our limits and avoid exaggeration. This self-disciplined attitude will be of great assistance to us today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the upcoming year will ask you to put some order into your closest relationships. You will put extra efforts into filling out the missing holes into your life and by improving your relationships with others.

This will be the time when you will seek a practical commitment that suits your most basic, practical needs.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your attention will be focused towards your overall

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highest proportion of households in Europe with working parents and “these markets are growing.”

“When you have an adolescent at home, you have to leave something to eat, so you leave a prepared dish,” she said.

Indeed, the youth of France are propelling this trend, less eating at home, snacking more and relying more on fast food, experts say.

Even still, French snacking between meals is more than two times less prevalent than in the United States, according to a report by Celine Laisney, who monitors trends for the French Agriculture Ministry.

Supermarkets — where up to 70 per cent of food spending takes place — are also making traditional open-air markets and specialty food shops seem quaint.

“From the moment you have big supermarkets, you have a completely different, new relationship between eating and food,” says leading food sociologist Claude Fischler.

“There is a sort of anxiety over ... products transformed by industry. At the same time, these transformed products, we eat them more and more,” he said.

physique and you will experience a reality check in terms of your lifestyle habits. Be prepared for a wake-up call and make the necessary adjustments. At work, start prioritizing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be strongly tempted to reveal your true nature in a romantic situation. You are feeling more emotionally expressive and you let yourself be taken aback by some cordial revelations of pure love. Do not say that you were not warned.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will be taken back in time and will reminisce the past and a certain parental matter will certainly touch you. Nostalgia and your emotionality will climb higher than the Eiffel tower.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Communication of all sorts will expose a certain amplified sentimental value to them and you will feel emotionally connected to your thoughts. You will widen your need to carry out only open and sincere conversations without a trace of smoke in them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This Full Moon will make you more aware of your true potential and your abilities in terms of merit and self-worth. Hard work and efforts that were accumulated until now will flourish and expose you to new possibilities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Vital changes will occur for you particularly, at this time, dear Virgo. You could make some important adjustments to your life relating to your living space or a career change. It could also be pertaining to your overall physical wellness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There is little that others didnít know about you up until now. Let go of old resentments, fears or

“They’re omnipresent. That’s how we shop. We use kitchen time for other things.”

Horse meat falsely labeled as beef has turned up in prepared foods across Europe with a French company, Spanghero, at its epicenter.

The company denies that it purposely mislabeled meat it bought from a Dutch trader and repackaged in Luxembourg. A Romanian company says it provided the original horse meat and labeled it as such.

The horse meat scandal will have an impact on sales of prepared foods, but likely only in the short term, experts told The Associated Press.

Unlike the mad cow disease crisis in the 1990s and the bird flu crisis in the mid-2000s — which led to extended drops in beef and chicken sales — the horse meat found in lasagna and other prepared dishes does not pose a health risk.

“It’s a matter of disgust,” said Fischler.

“You’ve been eating something you were not aware of.”

Yet horse meat, which is much cheaper than beef, has been eaten happily for decades by some in France who appreciate both the savings and the taste.

phobias. You may also need more relaxation and rest, which will be apparent to others as well. Heal your spirits. Do some yoga.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ready or not, it’s time to come out and join some of your friends. Be prepared to get more involved in teamwork activities, socialize and accept friendly invitations. This will allow you to find who your true friends are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Listen to your hear’s desire and follow your gut instinct when it comes to your career choices.

Your area of professional realm and worldly success will be highlighted now. You may swiftly have a complete change of heart in terms of your career choice.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Expand your horizons and say hello to freedom or that independence you sought after. You are finally released from your inhibiting forces. You are feeling inspired to pursue life under a different perspective.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Private matters that you kept leashed until now, may appear to the surface now. Sometimes, we cannot control the flow of energy that is exposed out there. Don’t burry yourself into unresolved matters which you cannot control.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A close relationships will emerge now and require your undivided attention. You’ll have to either be more compromising in order to advance it or you’ll just have to deal with its consequences. You might have to let go of a past romantic interest that you still seem to hold on to.

Astro Doyna — Internationally Syndicated Astrologer/Columnist.

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Today, the French are caught in a contradiction: The pleasure of eating good food still defines them but their busy lives increasingly determine what they eat.

France set the standards long ago and upholds them today with coveted Michelin stars for top chefs and annual “taste weeks” devoted to cultivating a discerning palate for its children.

In 2010, the French gastronomic meal was declared an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity” by UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural arm.

Deep pockets will still get diners a quality meal at even no-star restaurants, but at home or at work it’s another story.

Gone are the two-hour lunches. Traditional bakeries stand in as sandwich shops while supermarkets provide industrially-prepared meals.

“The French need prepared dishes because women work.

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Wage: Based on Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd 40/hrs. per week w/some * Extensive travel is qualifications and years of is seeking an exp’d weekends, daytime hrs. required. experience, plus benefits FLOORHAND Fax resume w/ref’s to * Excellent people skills. and RRSP matching plan.

Locally based, home every 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black * H2S Alive and First Aid. Submit resumes: night! Qualified applicants * Certified D&A tester, Email: jobs@ must have all necessary an asset. connectingcare.ca valid tickets for the position * Drivers License, with Closing: April 15, 2013 being applied for. clean Abstract.

Only successful applicants Bearspaw offers a * Must relocate to Hinton. will be notified. very competitive salary and benefits package Something for Everyone “NO SAFETY COPS along with a steady CCCSI is hiring sanitation WANTED” Everyday in Classifieds work schedule. workers for the afternoon We want to build a safety Please submit resumes: You can sell your guitar and evening shifts. Get culture, NOT enforce one.

Attn: Human Resources for a song... paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Email: or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Call 403-348-8440 or fax Please submit resume to hr@bearspawpet.com and we’ll sell it for you!

403-348-8463 hr@alstaroc.com or fax to Fax: (403) 258-3197 or 780- 865- 5829 Something for Everyone Mail to: Suite 5309, Please quote job 333-96 Ave. NE Everyday in Classifieds # 68791 on your resume.

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NICOLE STEWART February 25, 2012 We little knew that morning that God Was going to call your name.

In life we loved you dearly, In death we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you, You did not go alone; For part of us went with you, The day God called you home.

You left us peaceful memories, Your love is still our guide; And though we cannot see you, You are always at our side.

Our family chain is broken, And nothing seems the same; But as God calls us one by one, The Chain will link again.

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Love Emily, Noah and the Nelson family

MANAGER INVENTORY & LOGISTICS

Marriages RYAN LYLE AND ELESHA WINTER Feb. 25, 2013 Congratulations!

Today you marry your best friend and lover, starting your own family and continuing the legacy.

Much Love - Your Family

Celebrations

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Please specify position when replying to this ad.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

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Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Excellent judgment and a genuine concern for safety.

Strong problem solving and organizational skills.

Ability to be on call, travel when required, work weekends and overtime.

Must possess knowledge of oilfield equipment.

Education and Experience: •

Must have previous Inventory Management & Procurement experience Valid driver’s license Experience with budgeting, cost controls and strategic planning.

All candidates must be • able to pass a pre-employ- • ment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and Please apply directly to abstract to 403-314-2340 abutler@ or email to safety@ predatordrilling.com providencetrucking.ca www.predatordrilling.com

Oilfield

SHIFT GEARS WITH YOUR CAREER! in our Red Deer location

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Heavy Duty Mech. (App 2nd/3rd yr, Journeyman/Red Seal) Hwy Hauling Long/Short CAN/US Oilfield Hauling Journeyman Picker Operators Winch, Bed Truck Operators Logistics Coordinator (Experienced required) Swampers (Class 5 driver’s license preferred) www.vdmtrucking.com

Locations in: à Edmonton à Grande Prairie à Red Deer Fax: 780-463-3341 Email: jobs@vdmtrucking.com

RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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WANTED: Outside sales people for a fast growing security company.

Successful applicants must possess an outgoing personality, be self motivated, and be very organized. Door to door sales experience is an asset but not necessary.

Please email resume to hr@ bond-ocommunications.com WEST 285 LTD. o/a O/A Energy Factor in Red Deer req’s F/T shift sales people $14/hr & 1 to 2 yrs. Exp’d supervisor, $17.50/hr email: west285ltd@gmail.com

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CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

As an Approved Home proprietor you will provide ongoing training and support in addition to daily structure in a positive supportive home environment.

The successful candidate will benefit from experience with individuals with FASD as well as demonstrate a creative approach for elevating internal stressor. The young man is planning to seek employment in Red Deer and has applied to attend the Red Deer College starting in the fall 2013. The individual will pay Room & Board.

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

Part of the hiring process demands proof of a current Criminal Record check prior to starting. Catholic Social Services will facilitate an orientation session to the Approved Home Program and on-going monthly training is offered as well. The monthly remuneration for the successful candidate is $1300.00.

Interested applicants please contact Catholic Social Services @ 403-347-8844

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

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

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MCDONALD’S Restaurants in Gasoline Alley (East and West) are now hiring full time TEAM LEADERS (Food Service Supervisors). Starting wage is between $11.05 to $13.00 per hour, depending upon previous experience and/or equivilent education. All restaurants are 24 hours so applicants must be willing to work flexible shifts, weekend, evenings and late nights.

We offer benefits and opportunities for further advancement. Apply in person, or on line at cbay22@telus.net or fax resume to 403-783-4251.

Catholic Social Services is offering a rewarding opportunity with the Approved Home Program serving a young adult male diagnosed witih developmental disabilities. This young man has in the past been receiving supports from the FASD Network.

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

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Restaurant/ Hotel

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

BALLOON RIDES

LOST on Feb 18th mens black WALLET, maybe Bower area?

Call 403-396-6997 or 403-346-7092 LOST: BLACK INFINITY KEY FOB near Fire Station #4, Deerpark.

Please call 403-346-1860

PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc

Winch truck operator Picker operator

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Predator Drilling is Western Canada’s premiere drilling operator.

Predator is a leading service provider in Oil Sands Delineation, Preset Drilling, Shallow Horizontal Oil and Gas well drilling. Predator’s culture of excellence is based around our Core Values: Accountability, Safety, Teamwork and Performance Excellence.

Reporting to the VP of Operations, the Manager Inventory & Logistics is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Shipping & Receiving Department, Warehousing of Predator Equipment, Asset Management, Fleet and maintaining all inventory and assets in NAV database.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

LOST Men’s Swiss Army Syncrude watch.

Silver. Reward offered.

Please call 403-342-0015

Personals

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HE KEEPS GOING...

AND GOING... AND GOING...

Monday, February 25 Marlin Styner turns the big 5 - 0 !

Happy Birthday!!

I love you...Diane

CLASSIFICATIONS

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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Feb. 25, 2013

Electronics Technicians Needed We are seeking the services of an Electronic Technician to work for the ADGA Group at the Correctional Services Canada facilities in the Drumheller area and at various locations within Alberta. Responsibilities include performing maintenance of electronic security/safety systems.

To apply, please email careers@adga.ca and quote reference# ETD3422-NB

Compensation ranging from $36.90 - $49.16/hour Evraz will be holding a Trades Job Fair at the iHotel on 67th on February 27th from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Interviews will be conducted on site as part of an immediate hiring process.

Evraz Inc. NA is the largest producer of steel and pipe in Western Canada and a recognized leader in the North American oil and gas industry. We are committed to safe, responsible work practices and strive to recruit individuals who share our dedication to continuous success.

We offer employees competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including significant bonus opportunities.

Evraz is expanding maintenance coverage to all shifts and is in need of the following positions:

Skilled Trades People, Millwrights, Electricians and Machinists Applicants must possess a valid provincial journeyman certification or Interprovincial Red Seal certification.

Previous work experience in an industrial manufacturing setting is preferred, but First Choice Collision not required. These are full Seeking Journeyman or time shift work positions.

2nd /3rd year apprentices. Duties include troublePositions for body, prep shooting and maintenance and refinishing technicians of plant equipment. needed for our car and light truck division. Top If you are looking for a wages, bonus programs career with a strong and benefit package. Fax company, you owe it to resumes to yourself to attend the (403) 343-2160; e-mail Evraz Trades Job Fair. choice2@telusplanet.net Plan to visit us at the iHotel or drop off in person @ #5, on 67th on February 27th 7493, 49th Avenue from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Crescent, Red Deer.

All potential hires will be required to attend and pass a pre-employment medical including drug screening test before being offered employment.

Landscaper/laborer For more information on We are currently looking Evraz’s North American for an energetic, positive, operations, visit www.Evrareliable, mature and skilled zIncNA.com individual to fill this position.

Evraz..making the world stronger.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:: * No formal education CELEBRATIONS req`d HAPPEN EVERY DAY * 44 hrs. per wk with some IN CLASSIFIEDS wknds. * Heavy lifting, running Looking for a place equip., yard maintenance, to live? lawncare, snow removal.

Take a tour through the Wage $25.hr.

CLASSIFIEDS Expected start date: ASAP Those interested please Truckers/ email resume to: Drivers resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax to 403-729-2396.

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SECURITY guards wanted, F/T & P.T days, nights ,evenings, weekends and holidays.

Must be bondable, and have security guard license.

Call or fax 587-273-0077 to set up appointment

SHOP FOREMAN

Pressure Piping & Steel fabrication shop Only experience personnel need apply -Journeyman Pipefitter preferred -Must be able to organize men and projects -Background & experience with Acorn Piping program Understanding and implementation of QC for structural & Piping -Oversee all material ordering, handling & receiving -Competitive Wage & Benefits Please apply to info@ dynamicprojects.ca or fax 403-340-3471

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

CLASS 1 or 3 Drivers needed Please fax or email your driver’s advstract, references and resume to: Mike.castilloux@ lafarge-na.com 403 347 8060(fax) Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Truckers/ Drivers

Employment Opportunity. * Class 3 license a must. *Class 1 preferred * Picker experience a plus Distribute precast concrete in central AB area.

Fax resume with clean driver’s abstract to: 403-886-4853 or drop off resume at: 930 Fleming Ave. Penhold.

Inquiries, call Gary 403-588-6505

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Join Distinctly Tea in the high growth & high margin retail loose leaf tea industry. Steve@fylypchuk.com

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880

ACADEMIC Express

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY

Deer Park area Dowler St. & Dowler Close $173/mo.

GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. per day

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. & Leung Close $61/mo.

Rosedale Approx. 2 blks of Reichley St. & Reighley Close $68/mo.

GED classes evening and days

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Women in the Trades

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Math and Science in the trades Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be avail.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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

Carriers Needed For 4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN Highland Green Holmes St. & Heath Close

PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl.

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• Class 1 Drivers • Lowbed Drivers with Class 1

Top wages paid based on experience Assigned units Scheduled days off Valid safety tickets an asset

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

1100

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

COUNTERTOPS

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Escorts

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

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Employment Training

SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300 DEADLINE THURS. 5 P.M.

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YOUR CAREER IN

ACCOUNTING Payroll Administrator Computerized Accounting Computerized Payroll Accounting and more!

SERVICE WRITER

Financial assistance may be available to qualified applicants.

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

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Handyman Services

1200

HANDYMAN PLUS Painting, laminate, tile, mud/ tape, doors, trim, Call 403-358-9099

Massage Therapy

1280

ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650 CINDY’S Western & Chinese Traditional Massage, micro computer diagnosis. Insurance avail.

New girls coming. 4606 48 Ave. 8 a.m.- 9:30 p.m. 7 days a wk. 403-986-1691

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445

Massage Therapy

1280

VII MASSAGE

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Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels.

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE

COUPLES SPECIAL

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Bring loved one & the 2nd person is 1/2 price.

Open daily 9 am-9 pm.

403-986-1550 #3 4820-47 Ave 4 therapists, Insurance receipts

We’re your lucky charms Call 403-550-0732 mydiamondgirls.org

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

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346 JUNK REMOVAL, Yard/ Garden Serv. 588-2564

Moving & Storage

is expanding its facility to double production.

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Contractors

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www.eaglebuilders.ca.

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

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TRY Central Alberta LIFE

- Batch Plant Operator - Carpenters/Woodworkers - General Labourers

1000-1430

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

100,000 Potential Buyers???

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

CLASSIFICATIONS

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Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

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• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Pidherney’s is growing and requires experienced Truck drivers to work with our team:

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY

Sherwood Crsc Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

STUCCO Labourers.

Needed Immed. Exp’d but will train. Drivers License pref’d. 403-588-5306

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SUNNYBROOK AREA

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

Duties include: • All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction Attributes: • Organized & Reliable • Outgoing • Physically fit • Mechanically inclined • Entry level position • On the job training • Permanent position • Tool allowance • Training allowance • Company benefits

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Lagrange Crsc

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Summer Employment Opportunity From May 1st - Sept. 15, 2013 Campground Manager: Tail Creek Park Campground Highway 11 & Highway 21, along the Red Deer River Only Serious Inquiries Please Application deadline March 15, 2013 Submit letter of intent and or resume to Marlene Lanz, Métis Nation of AB Region 3 President 1415 - 28 ST NE, Calgary, AB T2A 2P6 Phone: 1(403)569-8800 or 1-800-267-5844

INGLEWOOD AREA

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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BOWER AREA

Isbister Close Inkster Close

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Adams Close/ Adair Ave. Ainsworth Crsc.

Allsop Ave.

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Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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For afternoon delivery once per week

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

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

ALSO Wedgewood Gardens St. Joseph’s & Montfort Heights

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook

DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Good communication, skills both verbal and written. Must have effective time management skills and able to multi task in a fast paced environment.

Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant.

Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

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

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

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

Good for adult with small car.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

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Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

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WESTLAKE 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. /day

Adult Education and Training

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

FULL-TIME Truck Driver required at Eastman Feeds, Experience an a s s e t . Wo r k s c h e d u l e Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm. Competitive wages and benefits. Apply with resume and drivers abstract via email: cliff.miller@eastmanfeeds. com or fax to (403) 341-3144.

Business Opportunities

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Blue Grass Sod Farms, Box 11, Site 2, RR #1, Red Deer, Alberta F/T farm equipment technician req’d with exp. repairing farm equipment. $31 hr, 44 hrs week, dental & health benefits avail.

Email resume to debbie. lefeuvre@bg-rd.com or fax 403-342-7488

Trades Job Fair

860

Truckers/ Drivers

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

A COUPLE OF PAINTERS

Call for all your painting requirements. 15 yrs. exp.

Kory at 403-347-9068 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Seniors’ Services

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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com Start your career!

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NO RIG WELDERS Must be able to read blueprints. Flare stack experience and Stainless welding ticket would Be a asset. Great rates and hours. Merit program.

Please email resume to info@dynamicprojects.ca Or fax to (403)340-3471

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Groups list overused health care

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Don’t be afraid to question your doctor and ask, “Do I really need that?”

That’s the advice from leading medical groups who came up dozens of tests and treatments that physicians too often prescribe when they shouldn’t.

No worrisome stroke signs? Then don’t screen a healthy person for a clogged neck artery, the family physicians say. It could lead to risky surgery for a blockage too small to matter.

Don’t try feeding tubes in people with advanced dementia, say the hospice providers. Helping them eat is a better option.

These are examples of potentially needless care that not only can waste money and time, but sometimes can harm, says the warning being issued Thursday from medical specialty groups that represent more than 350,000 doctors.

Too many people “think that more is better, that more treatment, more testing somehow results in better health care,” said Dr. Glen Stream, former president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which contributed to the list. “That really is not true.”

The recommendations are part of a coalition

Pet group says Americans spend $53 billion on their pets last year THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The economy may have remained sluggish last year but Americans refused to scrimp on their pets, with animal lovers spending upwards of $53 billion on food, veterinary care, kennels and other services in 2012.

That’s up 5 per cent from 2011, when spending first broke the $50 billion barrier, says the American Pet Products Association, a trade group based in Greenwich, Conn. And APPA President and CEO Bob Vetere predicts another 4 per cent gain this year.

At about $34.3 billion, food and vet care represented about two-thirds of total spending, with money spent on supplies and over-the-counter medications rising by more than 7 per cent.

Spending on the growing market of alternative vet care, such as acupuncture, totalled about $12.5 billion.

Vetere says spending on services like grooming, boarding, hotels and pet-sitting grew nearly 10 per cent during 2012 to almost $4.4 billion.

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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — An 11-year-old girl who’s been playing football since kindergarten wants Philadelphia’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to overturn a boysonly rule.

Caroline Pla (plah) has played the last two years in a Catholic youth league in suburban Bucks County.

But the archdiocese let her know last year the league doesn’t accept girls.

At least a few dioceses around the country let girls play football, and about 1,600 play in U.S. high schools.

The Women’s Sports Foundation argues that co-ed sports foster mutual respect among boys and girls. And the foundation says contact sports are safe for preadolescents.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput (SHAP’-yoo) says he’ll review the football policy this spring, after hearing from a panel of parents, coaches and doctors.

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But if someone is dying of something else, or is in the terminal stages of heart disease, it can issue repeated painful shocks, to no avail. Yet fewer than 10 per cent of hospices have formal policies on when to switch off the implants.

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called Choosing Wisely, formed by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. Participating medical societies were asked to identify five tests or treatments that are commonly overused in their specialty. The list is aimed at doctors and includes references to published studies. Consumers Reports and other consumer groups are publicizing the information in more patient-friendly terms.

This year’s list adds 90 more overused kinds of care. Some other examples: ● Don’t use opioid painkillers for migraines except as a last resort, say the neurologists. There are better, more migraine-specific drugs available without the addictive risk of narcotics. Plus, frequent use of opioids actually can worsen migraines, a concept known as rebound headache. ● Just because a pregnant woman misses her due date, don’t race to induce labour if mom and baby are doing fine, say the obstetricians. Inducing before the cervix is ready often fails, leading to an unneeded C-section. “Just being due by the calendar doesn’t mean your body says you’re due,” Stream notes. ● Don’t automatically give a child a CT scan after a minor head injury, say the pediatricians. About half of children who go to the ER with head injuries get this radiation-heavy scan, and clinical observation first could help some who don’t really need a CT

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Printing body parts? It’s possible SCIENTISTS CRAFT AN EAR USING 3-D PRINTER AND LIVING CELLS tive Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, who wasn’t involved in the new research.

Three-dimensional printers, which gradually layer materials to form shapes, are widely used in manufacturing. For medicine, Atala said the ear work is part of broader research that shows “the technology now is at the point where we can in fact print these 3-dimensional structures and they do become functional over time.”

Today, people who need a new ear often turn to prosthetics that require a rod to fasten to the head. For children, doctors sometimes fashion a new ear from the stiffer cartilage surrounding ribs, but it’s a big operation. Spector said the end result seldom looks completely natural. Hence the quest to use a patient’s own cells to grow a replacement ear.

The Cornell team started with a 3-D camera that rapidly rotates around a child’s head for a picture of the existing ear to match. It beams the ear’s

geometry into a computer, without the mess of a traditional mould or the radiation if CT scans were used to measure ear anatomy.

“Kids aren’t afraid of it,” said Bonassar, who used his then-5-year-old twin daughters’ healthy ears as models.

From that image, the 3-D printer produced a soft mould of the ear. Bonassar injected it with a special collagen gel that’s full of cow cells that produce cartilage — forming a scaffolding. Over the next few weeks, cartilage grew to replace the collagen. At three months, it appeared to be a flexible and workable outer ear, the study concluded.

Now Bonassar’s team can do the process even faster by using the living cells in that collagen gel as the printer’s “ink.”

The 3-D technology directly layers the gel into just the right ear shape for cartilage to cover, without having to make a mould first.

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Photo provided by Cornell University, taken Feb. 13, 2013, shows a 3-D printer being used to engineer a new ear. Combining 3-D technology with injections of a cow’s cartilage-producing cells allowed researchers to craft an ear, a first step toward one day growing customized replacement ears for people who need them. Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it’s possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells. The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.

WASHINGTON — Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it’s possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells.

The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.

It’s part of the hot field of tissue regeneration, trying to regrow all kinds of body parts. Scientists hope using 3-D printing technology might offer a speedier method with more lifelike results.

If it pans out, “this enables us to

rapidly customize implants for whoever needs them,” said Cornell biomedical engineer Lawrence Bonassar, who co-authored the research published online in the journal PLoS One. This first-step work crafted a human-shaped ear that grew with cartilage from a cow, easier to obtain than human cartilage, especially the uniquely flexible kind that makes up ears. Study co-author Dr. Jason Spector of Weill Cornell Medical Center is working on the next step — how to cultivate enough of a child’s remaining ear cartilage in the lab to grow an entirely new ear that could be implanted in the right spot.

Wednesday’s report is “a nice advancement,” said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenera-

For U.S. adults 11 per cent of daily calories come from fast food

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The new CDC study found that obese people get about 13 per cent of daily calories from fast food, compared with less than 10 per cent for skinny and normal-weight people.

There was no difference seen by household income, except for young adults.

The poorest — those with an annual household income of less than $30,000 — got 17 per cent of their calories from fast food, while the figure was under 14 per cent for the most affluent 20and 30-somethings with a household income of more than $50,000.

That’s not surprising since there are disproportionately higher numbers of fast-food restaurants in low-income neighbourhoods, Nestle said.

Fast food is accessible and “it’s cheap,” she said.

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OPINION MARYANN BARR

Mary-Ann Barr has been a columnist for most of the 27 years she’s worked at the Advocate. Name any subject and she’ll usually have something to say about it, especially if it pertains to something local.

A journalist for over 35 years, she arrived at the Advocate in 1986 from Grande Prairie.

When she’s not forming an opinion for her column the Barrside, or working her other newsroom duties as long-time assistant city editor, you might find her trying to hit a golf ball, fly fishing, canoeing, camping or cheering on the Flames, no matter what.

ATLANTA — On an average day, U.S. adults get roughly 11 per cent of their calories from fast food, a government study shows.

That’s down slightly from the 13 per cent reported the last time the government tried to pin down how much of the American diet is coming from fast food. Eating fast food too frequently has been seen as a driver of America’s obesity problem.

For the research, about 11,000 adults were asked extensive questions about what they ate and drank over the previous 24 hours to come up with the results.

Among the findings: ● Young adults eat more fast food than their elders; 15 per cent of calories for ages 20 to 39 and dropping to 6 per cent for those 60 and older. ● Blacks get more of their calories from fastfood, 15 per cent compared to 11 per cent for whites and Hispanics. ● Young black adults got a whopping 21 per cent from the likes of Wendy’s, Taco Bell and KFC. The figures are averages. Included in the calculations are some people who almost never eat fast food, as well as others who eat a lot of it.

The survey covers the years 2007 through 2010 and was released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The authors couldn’t explain why the proportion of calories from fast food dropped from the 13 per cent found in a survey for 2003 through 2006.

One nutrition professor cast doubts on the latest results, saying 11 per YOU HAVE A STAKE IN HOW OUR ENERGY IS RESPONSIBLY DEVELOPED cent seemed implausibly low. New York UniverAND REGULATED. HELP SHAPE ALBERTA’S ENERGY FUTURE. sity’s Marion Nestle said it wouldn’t be surprising The Alberta Energy Regulator will be more effective and efficient for industry and landowners, while building if some people underon our commitment to sound environmental stewardship. Help shape energy regulation that works for all reported their hamburgAlbertans for the next 50 years. ers, fries and milkshakes since eating too much fast Visit energy.alberta.ca to complete an online survey and then plan to join the food is increasingly seen as something of a no-no. conversation at a special public information event in these communities.

“If I were a fast-food company, I’d say ’See, we have nothing to do Tuesday, February 26 Red Deer & Sundre with obesity! Americans are getting 90 per cent of Friday, March 1 Drayton Valley their calories somewhere else!”’ she said.

The study didn’t inMonday, March 4 Lloydminster clude the total number of fast-food calories, just the Tuesday, March 5 Camrose percentage.

Previous government research suggests that the Wednesday, March 6 Edmonton/Nisku average U.S. adult each day consumes about 270 Monday, March 11 Edson calories of fast food — the equivalent of a small McDonald’s hamburger and a few fries.

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