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Michener closing RESIDENTS TO BE MOVED TO NEW GROUP HOMES AND SENIORS RESIDENCES

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Michener Centre will close and residents with developmental disabilities in its care will move to new group homes and seniors residences.

The 90-year-old centre once had more than 2,200 residents. Today 228 people call the centre home and 640 staff work there.

Frank Oberle, Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities, announced the closure Monday in a private meeting in Red Deer with the Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Centre, who called the move a betrayal.

“We’re closing the north and south sites of Michener over the coming year. We made a commitment we’ll provide care in the community,” Oberle said, adding personalized community care is seen by experts as more beneficial than institutions.

Society president Bill Lough of Sundre, one of more than 100 people who attended the private meeting, said the provincial government betrayed everyone with loved ones at Michener Centre.

“We were told no one would ever be forced out,” he said, referring to Moving Ahead, a 2007 study whose recommendations included consolidating all operations into Michener’s south site. That was never done despite the society’s lobbying or that 90 per cent of residents interviewed for the study asked to remain at Michener Centre.

“It’s about money. The physical buildings are not the issue here. It’s continuity and quality of care. For the government to say this model is no longer valid is ludicrous,” Lough said.

Michener Centre consists of about 300 acres of land on two separate sites in central and northeast Red Deer. Opened in 1923 as a residence and training school for people who were then termed “mentally defective.” The institution grew to 60 buildings and housed more than 2,200 residents.

Oberle said preliminary planning is underway to set up group homes for about 75 residents using provincial surplus housing.

“We have an inventory of homes and some will need renovations.”

About 50 “medically fragile” senior residents will be moved to seniors facilities.

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Bill Laugh, president of the society of parents and friends of Michener Centre stands outside one of the residences on at Michener Centre on Monday.

“We’ve been working closely with Alberta Health and they believe we can absorb the people we have here.”

About 100 residents in Michener Hill group homes just south of the centre will remain in those homes.

“We want to begin moving by September and our target is January 2014 to have all the residents moved out. We’ll transition people, not evict them.

We’ll plan for each individual.”

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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Domestic violence pilot project ending VICTIM OF PROVINCIAL BUDGET CUTS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Construction work has begun on a four-storey, 100 room Microtel Inns and Suites in Gasoline Alley.

“It’s going to be a substantial project.”

Those staying at the Microtel are likely to include Hwy 2 travellers, energy workers temporarily posted in the region and visitors to Red Deer, said Arsenault. The site is close to Westerner Park and other local attractions, he said, and should become more accessible once proposed improvements to Leva Avenue are completed and a Hwy 2 flyover from Gaetz Avenue is constructed.

Several room types will be available, including some with kitchen facilities for extended stay guests.

The meeting rooms should accommodate 40 to 60 people, said Arsenault.

The hotel is being developed for him by MasterBuilt Hotels Ltd. of Calgary. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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(from Michener Centre: A History 1923-1983 and Red Deer Advocate files)

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Construction begins on hotel, restaurants for Gasoline Alley Groundwork for a 100-room hotel and a pair of restaurants on the west side of Gasoline Alley is underway.

Slated to operate as Microtel Inns & Suites, the four-storey hotel will include a pool, waterslide, fitness area and two meeting rooms. It will be located on Leva Avenue, just south of Hampton Inn and Suites.

Alan Arsenault, who will own and operate the hotel, said he’s close to striking a deal with a nationally branded restaurant chain to occupy one of two adjacent pad sites. He hopes to secure a national breakfast restaurant for the other.

“It’s always been the natural stopping point between Calgary and Edmonton, and Edmonton and Calgary,” said Arsenault of Gasoline Alley. “So to have a family restaurant that isn’t as fast-food as a McDonald’s or Wendy’s and that, I think is going to be a good complement.”

He also believes Microtel, which is part of the Wyndham Hotel Group and is known as an upperend economy brand, will be a nice addition to the area. It, along with Hampton Inn and Suites, and Holiday Inn and Suites on the east side of Gasoline Alley, should draw more guests to the south side of Red Deer, said Arsenault.

“The more amenities that are in the area, the better.”

He expects to apply to Red Deer County for a development permit within the next few weeks, and hopes to have the hotel up and running by May of next year. It’s too early to have a firm budget for the project, he said, but construction costs should exceed $10 million.

1923 — Opens as the Provincial Training School in Red Deer with 108 people 1930 — 190 residents 1939 — 210 residents 1950 — 293 residents 1959 — 1,433 residents 1972 — 2,200 residents 1973 — 2,097 residents 1976 — 1,800 residents 1977 — Renamed Michener Centre same time as new Roland Michener Recreation Centre opens 1980 — 1,657 residents 1983 — 1,500 residents 1996 — 600 residents and 900 staff 2013 — 228 residents and 600 staff 2013 — Alberta government announces closure of Michener Centre

A provincial grant program that is paying for Red Deer’s three-year pilot project using GPS devices to monitor domestic violence offenders is coming to an end as a result of last week’s budget.

The pilot project will only continue to be funded to the end of its term.

Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter received $450,000 from the provincial government’s Safe Communities Innovation Fund for the Global Positioning System electronic monitoring project that ends in 2014.

Michelle Davio, spokesperson for Alberta Justice and Solicitor General, said on Monday funding for the pilot will continue until the end of the three years.

“SCIF is winding down, but everyone with funds committed to them will get those funds. There will be no new grants coming out of SCIF,” Davio said.

Red Deer has 10 ankle monitors for domestic violence offenders who are found guilty and have probation orders.

Members of the project’s management committee — made up of RCMP, Community Corrections, the provincial Crown, shelter staff and others involved in addressing domestic violence in the community — will be meeting with a provincial official on Tuesday to find out more about the impact to funding.

Ian Wheeliker, executive director of Red Deer’s shelter, said he hopes the final year will continue to be funded.

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Magnotta lawyers seeking to ban media, public from hearing

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Lawyers for the man accused of murdering a Chinese student and dismembering his body want the media and public barred from his preliminary hearing.

The evidence presented Monday supporting the motion by lawyers for Luka Rocco Magnotta is subject to a publication ban.

Magnotta’s legal team, led by Toronto-based lawyer Luc Leclair, argue the only people who should be allowed to remain in the courtroom are the prosecutors, the judge and a court clerk.

They say it’s necessary to guarantee Magnotta a fair trial.

Clad from head to toe in white, Magnotta sat impassively and quietly, with his arms folded in his lap. His feet and hands were shackled and he was in a glass box that was sealed off from the rest of the courtroom.

He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of Jun Lin last May. The preliminary hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to send him to trial.

His court dates have usually come with a heavy media presence — and Monday’s was no different.

A handful of journalists were able to cram into a high-security room, with as many 30 people in a spillover room in another part of the courthouse.

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Notre Dame High School students Michelle Roth, left, and Nicole Willson sell T-shirts to Nolan Bruin and Sasha Ward before a benefit hockey game at the Arena on Monday night. The Winning for Willms event in memory of Notre Dame student Kale Williams was hosted by the Notre Dame Final Grad Service Project. During a week of activities, the grad service project hopes to raise $45,000 for Suicide Information and Education Services. The evening featured a silent auction was, the AAA Midget Optimist Chiefs played a game wearing jerseys emblazoned with Kale Williams initials and Kale’s parents Dean and Nicole Williams dropped the ceremonial puck to start the game. Anyone interested in helping the group meet its goal can make a donation at the school or call the school at 403-342-4800.

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MICHENER: Question timing of the meeting Lough said in 10 years as president of Michener society organization, and more as a member, three government ministers told the society the province lacked group home capacity, especially in Calgary.

Lough’s brother lived at Michener Centre for more than 20 years until his death several years ago.

“If you’re going to acquire new group homes, why not build them here?” Lough said.

Formed in 1954 to further residents’ quality of life, the society has about 250 members. In 1969, it opened one of Alberta’s first group homes for developmentally disabled adults in Red Deer’s West Park.

Diane Esslinger of Edmonton, whose brother Larry is a 50-year Michener resident, questioned the meeting’s timing.

“It was called at 9 a.m. on short notice two days after the budget came down, a day after the time change and 90 per cent (of society members) live outside Red Deer. We think it was a sneaky thing to make the meeting at this time to try to avoid conflict.

“I told the minister that his title may be honourable, but this closure isn’t.”

Some society members agree with the province’s approach.

“I feel how they’re feeling,” said Christina Martin of Bonnyville, who attended with her sister Anne Reid of Wabamun because their sibling, Dorothy Reiter, is a Michener resident.

“We fought our sister being moved (to a group home) for years, but she’s better off now. Her group home is a real home.”

Esslinger praised Michener staff for their “exemplary care with a great deal of compassion and love” and hopes they’ll follow the residents into the new group homes.

Alberta Union of Provincial Employees president Guy Smith said of the centre’s 640 staff, only 200 will move to the group homes.

“I understand about 400 will be redeployed or terminated. That’s going to have a huge impact on the Red Deer economy.

“This government goes on about how it likes to consult with Albertans and not target the most vulnerable and there are two promises broken already.”

Other political parties were quick to criticize the closure.

“Instead of providing adequate funding to protect seniors and vulnerable Albertans, this government is throwing them and their families into chaos,” said NDP seniors critic Rachel Notley.

“I’m not convinced that this new policy maintains

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Eleanor Esslinger, left, and her daughter Diane fear for their son and brother Larry, a 50-year Michener Centre resident, after the province announced Michener Centre’s closure Monday. or improves the quality of life for those who would be affected by this change,” said Liberal human services critic David Swann.

Wildrose Human Services critic Jeff Wilson said families and patients deserve more details.

“Right now it seems that there are fewer spaces for vulnerable Albertans in Red Deer and it’s time for this government to provide some real answers,” Wilson said in a press release.

Wildrose seniors critic Kerry Towle said sending 50 vulnerable seniors to an “already overcrowded seniors system isn’t responsible — it’s mismanagement.”

Lough said the society’s fight has just begun.

“We’ll meet with our membership in Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton and we’ll challenge this decision.”

Oberle said ensuring quality resident care is his priority, not what happens to the Michener lands and buildings, some of which are already closed.

“The buildings are managed by Alberta Infrastructure and they’ll determine what will happen with them. They’ll likely talk to the City of Red Deer.

They’ll find some other use for them – or not,” Oberle said. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

PROJECT: Improved safety for victims “We haven’t yet received any official notifica-

tion,” Wheeliker said.

Anders Quist, Red Deer’s chief Crown prosecutor, said the program was working well.

“It was looking like it was helping to keep offenders out of trouble and that of course leads to improved safety for the victims,” Quist said.

Ankle monitors, equipped with a built-in cellphone and radio frequency, are tracked constantly.

They alert police if offenders goes near or into an area they are not allowed to go, like a victim’s house or workplace, disobeys court-ordered curfews, and if monitors are damaged in an effort to take them off.

Quist said the devices tended to reduce the number of times offenders tried to contact the victims because they knew the likelihood of getting caught was much greater.

A couple of weeks ago, an offender was convicted of breach of probation for trying to remove the device which self-reports if anyone tampers with it, he said.

Quist said it was always known that the program might not be renewed. Since it initially ran under budget, it could possibly be extended for several more months.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, which represents correctional peace officers, says the province has cut $5.07 million from correctional services programs.

Another service that was eliminated was intermittent sentencing for offenders to allow them to serve their sentences on weekends.

“I think you might find judges erring on the side of caution and putting more folks into correctional sentences, which will increase the pressure on overcrowding,” said AUPE president Guy Smith.

“Even with the opening of the new remand centre in Edmonton, that’s not going to relieve the pressure that much.”

Correctional officers are also concerned about budget cuts that will eliminate electronic monitoring across the province, he said.

“Their number one mission is to make sure Albertans are safe and secure. They know that this program was working well, offenders in the community were being monitored closely.”

Red Deer Remand Centre, where offenders can serve on weekends, has the equivalent of 61 full-time employees and capacity for 146 inmates. Average daily population in 2011-12 was 137 inmates.

“On any given weekend in Alberta, there are an average of 207 inmates serving intermittent sentences in provincial correctional facilities,” Davio said.

Anyone who is currently sentenced to intermittent custody will be able to continue serving their sentence on weekends. But after the budget is passed that option will no longer be available, she said.

She said eliminating intermittent custody will reduce costs to the justice system by $942,000 annually.

Those offenders have to be kept separate from other inmates to avoid smuggling. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Numbers are unofficial.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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Province on track to repay borrowing in 85 years, says Wildrose

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s plan to borrow billions for infrastructure is so underfunded it will take until the end of the century to pay it all back, the opposition Wildrose party charged Monday.

“The debt repayment plan that this premier is proposing (in the new budget) does almost nothing to pay down the $17 billion in debt,” Wildrose leader Danielle Smith told the house during question period.

Smith noted that the budget, presented last Thursday, allocates $205 million to debt repayment by 2016, when the balance of the $17 billion will be borrowed.

“It’s kind of like making the minimum payment on a credit card,” said Smith. “Does the premier know that if she only pays the bare minimum, it will take 85 years for her to pay off her $17-billion debt?

“Is this what the premier meant when she called this a budget for the generations?”

Finance Minister Doug Horner told the house that the Wildrose numbers are misleading, given that the money and payment terms haven’t been set. He said when the money is borrowed there will a plan to pay it back in a timely fashion.

He pointed out that $1.1 billion already borrowed to twin the highway to Fort McMurray is earmarked to be repaid in two decades.

He said there will be a similar plan with the rest of the $17 billion.

“We have a debt retirement plan. We’re going to set dollars aside. (Smith) should do her homework and read the budget,” said Horner.

Last week’s budget announced the government will borrow $4.3 billion this year to pay for infrastructure in a province whose population is growing by 100,000 a year.

That borrowing figure will rise to $17 billion by 2016.

The province plans to pay $40 million this year toward the principal, $112 million next year and $205 million by 2016.

Smith said the payment plans need to be more aggressive, adding that at current rates the government would owe $600 million in interest payments on that debt by 2016 — three times what the current budget plans to put down on the principle.

Redford told the house Smith will soon have her answer on the government’s debt repayment plan.

“The answer to the honourable member’s question is that a year from now we’re going to have more schools, we’re going to have family-care clinics, we’re going to have hospitals, we’re going to have roads, we’re going to have irrigation systems because that’s what builds Alberta,” said Redford.

“It is a long-term view. It is for generations to come.”

In the first question period since Horner delivered the 2013-14 budget, opposition leaders accused Redford of breaking promises made during last year’s election NDP Leader Brian Mason said Redford has broken key pledges for long-term sustainable funding for health and for grade school education, has reneged on hospital expansion in some centres, and is cutting programs for seniors.

“It’s amazing to me how the premier can break almost every promise she made and stand in this house and say that she kept her trust with Albertans,” said Mason.

Redford they did their best to mitigate the impact on Albertans, given that falling oil revenues led to $6 billion less revenue than the province had expected to take in this year.

“We were able to ensure that we did not make across-the-board cuts, that we did not raise taxes, that we invested in a savings plan, that we protected vulnerable people and we continued to build this province,” said Redford.

The budget holds the line on spending but still forecasts a $2-billion deficit along with the $4.3 billion in borrowed money.

Post-secondary institutions saw their $2 billion in operating grants cut by almost seven per cent.

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An investigation is underway into a collision between a small car and a Canadian Pacific Railway train that occurred near Rimbey at about 5 p.m. on Monday. Kevin Hrysak of Canadian Pacific Railway said there were no injuries to the woman driving the car or the train crew. The collision occurred 3.2 km east of Rimbey at a private rail crossing from a residence or business. He said the westbound train with 12 loaded tanker cars would have been travelling 40 km per hour or less on that track, which is not a main line.

Sylvan drops escorts from business licensing bylaw PLANS TO DEAL WITH CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE SEPARATELY

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Escorts have been dropped from Sylvan Lake’s business licensing bylaw to be dealt with separately.

Coun. Sean McIntyre said it was clear that licensing escort agencies was “complicated and touchy issue” and was overshadowing the other parts of the bylaw. He suggested escorts be dealt with in their own bylaw.

Council agreed and first reading for the licensing bylaw was passed on Monday night, without escorts.

A public hearing is not required but council opted to hold one on April 8 to give local residents an opportunity to provide their input on the bylaw, which regulates businesses, including mobile businesses, buskers, pawn shops, secondhand stores and tourist homes.

An escort bylaw will come back to another meeting. Council agreed not to deal with on the same night as the other bylaw so as not to “muddy the waters.”

In an open mic session at the beginning of the meeting, council heard local resident Joel Loh’s take on why tackling escort licensing was a bad idea.

Attempts by other municipalities to regulate escort agencies through high licensing fees and rezoning restrictions have not survived court challenges, Loh said.

In one case, an escort agency owner facing criminal charges argued complicity on the part of the City of Calgary because it licensed escort agencies.

“There is a danger when it comes to opening this Pandora’s Box,” he said. “You cannot control prostitution once you open the door to it.”

Sylvan Lake was considering tough licensing regulations for escort agencies to regulate the businesses, which are not illegal and can now apply for a business licence with no restrictions.

Under proposed rules, escort agencies would have to pay an annual fee of $5,000 and escorts $300. Agencies would be required to get RCMP checks and open their financial records to scrutiny. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Town considers making mayor a full-time job

BY ADVOCATE STAFF It may be time mayor of Sylvan Lake is considered a full-time job, said a town councillor on Monday.

Sean McIntyre said the mayor is expected to available at most times and has a full workload considering the position’s role advocating on behalf of the community and acting as a liaison with the province.

“I think the time has come for Sylvan Lake to make that consideration,” McIntyre said of the prospect of turning the position full-time and bumping up compensation accordingly.

However, the woman holding the mayor’s job was not so sure.

“I think statistics will show that communities of our size don’t have full-time mayors,” said Susan Samson.

The compensation mayor and councillors receive

doesn’t come close to a wage for the positions, which should be seen as community service.

Turning the job into a full-time position may also deter residents who have other jobs from considering running, she added.

Sylvan Lake’s mayor is paid $2,494 per month and councillors receive $1,157. They are also paid $240 for full-day meetings and $120 for half-day meetings and $50 for council-sanctioned meetings.

Council approved at Monday’s council meeting the members of a five-citizen remuneration committee to review compensation this year. ● Sylvan Lake residents can participate in the annual head count online this year. Personal identification numbers will be assigned to each household and beginning April 19 residents can fill out the online census. Enumerators will make the rounds from May 1-31. Homes that have provided information online will be crossed off the list.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Let Us Vote rattling city council First we had the Occupy movement, Idle No More began in Canada, as then we had Idle No More, and now a movement by Aboriginal Peoples, right here in Red Deer we have the inspired by the hunger strike of Chief birth of Let Us Vote.

Theresa Spence in Ottawa.

While it may not reach Canadians across the the grand scale that the country became part of the Occupy and Idle No More movement, which, among protests have, Let Us Vote other things, raised awarecertainly has the potential ness about aboriginal rights to bring political change to and again, social and politithe streets of our own dear cal issues.

River City.

In Red Deer, Idle No Social/political change more held several events, often comes with the start of all peaceful, including a something small by the so“flash mob” in mid-Janucalled “99 per cent” . ary.

The Occupy protest be“We showed that we’re MARY-ANN gan in September 2011 in supporting the chiefs and BARR New York. It soon spread each other. We’re doing this to 82 communities, includfor the land and water and ing, eventually, achieving a not just out treaty rights. small presence in Red Deer.

It’s about the economy and Occupy brought attention to the dis- the land as well,” one of the protesters proportionate distribution of wealth, told the Red Deer Advocate. corruption, and social issues.

We might have gone another decade It’s difficult to sum up Occupy but without seeing so much political/soit is in part a movement to make more cial action in Red Deer in such a short people socially and politically aware span, albeit rather mild in the grand of various injustices, and ultimately scheme. bring about change.

But then along came Garfield Marks, In Red Deer, those that participated and several other Red Deer residents, in Occupy events seemed to want to un- who are upset with what they believe derline the importance of democracy. is a lack of public input at city hall,

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and the rejection by city council to hold a plebiscite on whether Red Deer should have a ward system.

That plebiscite would have taken place during the municipal election to be held Oct. 21.

Let Us Vote formed after council rejected the idea of the plebiscite. It has gone so far as opening an office in downtown Red Deer to roll out a petition that will need 10,000 signatures to force a plebiscite. The petition will begin to circulate April 1.

Red Deer city council operates on an at-large system now where all councillors represent the entire city.

A ward system would see, for example, the city divided into quadrants, and two members of council in each quarter representing their constituents.

Since citizens became aware that there is going to be a petition, Marks has said that he’s shocked by the response.

It seems that people are talking to Let Us Vote not just about a ward system, but about all sorts of things.

“It’s amazing how big this thing is and how involved people can be when people want to get involved,” he said last week.

If council wasn’t listening when they

rejected the ward plebiscite a month ago by a 5-3 vote, they certainly are now.

It would seem that Let Us Vote has already begun to cause change.

Some members of council are willing to start a discussion again on representation, including a ward system.

They are apparently feeling misunderstood, according to Coun. Lynne Mulder, who with other members of council wants a broader, more comprehensive discussion on electoral representation.

So Mulder and Coun. Paul Harris last week introduced a motion that could lead to further discussion on a ward system and other forms of representation.

That motion could be dealt with at council’s next meeting, on Monday.

Given that council is under refreshingly new pressure with the formation of Let Us Vote, my bet is we will see a ward system plebiscite after all.

Let Us Vote is guaranteed to shake up and remind council that they sit on council not because they were appointed, but because they were elected.

Mary-Ann Barr is the Advocate’s assistant city editor. She can be reached by email at barr@reddeeradvocate.com or by phone at 403-314-4332.

LETTERS Pay parking system needs to change I live in Sylvan Lake. I, and many from here, are sent to the Red Deer hospital for tests, X-rays, etc.

Parking is always a problem and can be expensive. If I come to visit, I have a choice in how long I will stay and so pay accordingly. However, if I come for a test, that is an unknown time.

So there I am, trying to estimate how long I should pay for. I pay for extra time as I don’t want to be running out to put more money in a meter. In the hospital parking, why can’t I pay as I leave?

As to street parking, it seemed absurd that when I arrived very early one morning the meter was fed from away from the street, making it dark and very hard to read the meter and dangerous with the snow and the slope of the land.

I sincerely wish that we could pay as we leave.

This will eliminate some of the stress to a sick person and/or the person attending the sick person.

I have been to the hospital parking in Vancouver and Kamloops, and with each of those you pay when leaving.

Vernie Munroe Sylvan Lake

Thank goodness those ‘White Belters’ didn’t win the Brier Thank goodness the “White Belters” from Ontario did not win the Tim Hortons Brier!

Had they won, the next Brier commentaries would be intolerable to listen to and watch, with a further proliferation of “look at us (or me)” vignettes, verbosity and games.

Luckily, without an ordaining win, there is now little chance that the T Hortons name will be changed to T Howards.

Congrats to Northern Ontario for winning the Brier and breaking up the old boys winning club of curling.

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Be smart, get your exercise, stay healthy Science and technology have al- suffering and expense, and an early ready done so much to improve both death. And so much of it is easily and the length and quality of inexpensively preventable our lives that we sometimes — through regular exercise. take their advances for This is not news. We algranted. We baby boomers ready know this. are the healthiest, wealthiBut now, we are learning est and longest-lived genthat another scourge of ageration of all that have ing that we boomers will all preceded us, yet we often eventually have to face — ignore the wisdom that all the onset of senility — can our knowledge has to offer. be pushed back easily and And if we don’t smarten inexpensively through exup, we’re going to end up . . ercise. But will we be smart . well . . not smart. enough to take advantage We already know that of it?

GREG stroke and heart disease Last week, the Ontario NEIMAN are the top causes of death Brain Institute released a for our generation. We alreport that compiled the ready know the risk factors, lessons learned in 55 medithe conditions that increase cal studies on the effects of our statistical chances of falling to exercise. The process is called data these top killers. mining; it’s the latest scientific method But as a group, we smoke in high to avoid the expense of re-inventing numbers, we are overweight and sed- the wheel. entary, and we cope with high blood Their researchers strongly recompressure and high blood cholesterol mend that the Public Health Agency of through drugs. We prefer the stress of Canada’s guidelines maintain the stanoverwork to the worry about not hav- dard of 150 minutes of moderate to viging enough money. orous physical activity per week. That So, for far too many of us, the result comes to half an hour of exercise, five is the onset of serious illness, years of times a week. They define “moderate

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to vigorous” as something that makes breathing harder while still allowing a person to sing. If you can’t sing, just call it vigorous.

That’s the minimum, not the full prescription. And yet, 85 per cent of Canada’s adults don’t meet that minimum.

Now, this would not be news if the call were made to prevent heart disease and stroke. We already know that a program of regular exercise can do this.

This study recommends exercise to push back the onset of senility.

If you asked people of a certain age which they feared more, having a heart condition, or losing their entire identity to Alzheimer’s, what’s the answer you’re most likely to get?

If you’re like me, and don’t spend your free time reading the scientific reports of data miners, allow me to recommend a good book.

The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain

by Barbara Strauch makes you feel positively grand about being middleaged.

If you study the data, she says, there is no such thing as a mid-life crisis or the empty nest syndrome for the vast majority of people in their middle

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But it’s the last third of the book that will make you want to keep it on your e-reader so you can refer to it again and again.

Strauch interviewed the people who discovered that our brains do not need to decay as we age. Contrary to a century of medical belief, we really do grow new brain cells all through our lives.

Especially in that part of the brain associated with memory, the dentate gyrus.

What’s the trigger that produces these new brain cells? Exercise. Regular, moderate to vigorous exercise.

As a generation, what do we do with this information? Well, one thing we shouldn’t do is put up barriers to getting our participation numbers up.

Swimming pools, recreation paths, ski trails — and yes, even bike lanes, where needed — are far cheaper than long-term care beds. And more fun to have.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Another 33 people have been charged in the Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver in June of 2011.

The B.C. Criminal Justice Branch says the latest accused include 23 adults and 10 young persons, and some of the newest charges were sworn as far back as last October, but are only being revealed now.

Most of the charges include taking part in a riot, mischief, and break and enter, while some people are also charged with assault and having their faces masked.

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Canadian network television satellite trucks set up outside the church in La Motte, Que Monday. With Marc Cardinal Ouellet considered among the papal front-runners, people in this northwestern Quebec village of 439 people began transforming the basement of his old church into a media room.

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Robert Dennis, a Queen’s University teaching fellow who specializes in the modern Vatican, thinks Ouellet learned from his stint in Quebec.

Dennis said it likely taught him a lot about being a minister of the gospel in a secular society, an experience that could be useful if he ever became pope.

“In one sense the time in Quebec is a very important dry run, as he may have that opportunity on a much bigger stage,” said Dennis, who said Ouellet was simply trying to stay true to his theologically and socially conservative beliefs rather than adapt to the province.

“Maybe he was not fully aware of the way the province was when he returned, but I don’t really buy that.”

Ouellet himself has expressed concern that Quebecers never replaced their devotion to the church, a once-defining cultural attribute, with anything substantive.

“I’m watching Quebec society evolve and I ask myself: Are we not watching some sort of implosion?” Ouellet told interviewer Pierre Maisonneuve in the 2006 book “Le journaliste et le cardinal.”

“It’s not a violent explosion, but an implosion: something is broken inside, and there is an emptiness in our society, a deep malaise.”

Back in northwestern Quebec, his friend Claudette Boucher says Ouellet is far from a pessimist when it comes to the future of the church in Quebec.

“He remains optimistic about all this — that it’s just, as they say, that their spirits have been put to rest, that it will come back,” she said.

The father of a deaf man from Kamloops, B.C., says his son was robbed and pushed over a three storey railing while staying at a resort hotel in Mexico.

Ron Simpson says his son Kevin suffered a broken hip, skull fracture and crushed ankle in the attack in Cabo San Lucas last weekend.

He says Kevin was robbed of $850 and pushed off a third floor level of the hotel to the concrete below.

The Canadian foreign affairs department says it’s investigating the incident.

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LA MOTTE, Que. — A Canadian man who could become the next pontiff has frequently told friends he was surprised about his own rapid rise within the Roman Catholic Church.

A “totally euphoric” Cardinal Marc Ouellet, now considered among the contenders for the papacy, phoned longtime friend Claudette Boucher in 2001, shortly after he learned that Pope John Paul II would soon ordain him a bishop.

She says Ouellet asked her and her husband, Yvan, to pray for him because he didn’t think he was worthy enough for the new role.

“He told us that he needed us,” Boucher said in an interview at her home in the northwestern Quebec community of Val d’Or, near Ouellet’s hometown of La Motte.

“For sure, it was a big moment of emotion... He’s a man who’s always surprised.”

Ouellet told them his legs felt numb during the ceremony, she recalled.

An even bigger assignment could be on the horizon, as cardinals gather today in Rome’s fabled Sistine Chapel to begin choosing the next pontiff.

Some reports have Ouellet among the favourites to become leader of the 2,000-year-old church, although other analysts don’t mention him at all.

If he succeeds, the hockey-loving outdoorsman would become the first non-European since the 8th century to inherit St. Peter’s throne.

During his rise through the church ranks, Ouellet was stunned simply to be named archbishop of

Quebec City and Primate of Canada in 2002, Boucher said. He had spent decades abroad when his new position brought him back to Quebec.

It proved to be a bumpy transition for man whose home province had undergone a significant transformation during the years he was away.

Starting in the 1960s, Quebec’s once-full churches emptied out, a change that gradually loosened religion’s influence on society and politics in the province.

After his arrival in Quebec as archbishop, Ouellet’s more traditional stance on subjects like abortion and same-sex marriage often clashed with the views held in the significantly secularized Quebec.

Ouellet, who had spent years working as a missionary in Colombia, lacked experience in Quebec and wasn’t around to watch the evolution of the relationship between the church and state.

“Let’s say, he was not in the ideal situation, and when we’re not prepared, it’s riskier and the challenge is greater,” said Gilles Routhier, dean of the theology department at Quebec City’s Universite Laval.

“It didn’t make things easy.”

In one example of how his mindset conflicted with popular opinion, Ouellet told media during a May 2010 pro-life rally in Quebec City that abortion was unjustifiable, even in cases of rape.

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Ouellet returned to the Vatican later that year when Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to head the powerful Congregation for Bishops, which vets bishops’ nominations worldwide.

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OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs is confirming that a Canadian has died in Panama.

The news comes amid media reports that police in the Central American country are looking into whether a body found in a suitcase is that of a missing Ottawa man.

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LEADERSHIP RACE Signing with Harper marks step toward new powers for N.W.T. Only one-third of TERRITORIES MOVE CLOSER TO CONTROL OVER LAND AND RESOURCES

BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS YELLOWKNIFE — A stroke of the pen has brought the Northwest Territories closer to control over its own land and resources.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and N.W.T. Premier Bob McLeod signed a draft agreement at the legislature Monday that marks the end of talks to loosen the territory’s ties with Ottawa.

“The heavy lifting is done,” Harper told a legislature full of politicians and members of the public. “The issues are resolved and negotiators have reached consensus on the terms of a final devolution agreement.”

Harper said the day was “historic.”

“Our government believes that the opportunities and challenges here would be better handled by the people who understand them best, that is to say, you who live here in the Northwest Territories.

“Whenever possible you should be making the decisions about regional matters. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what devolution is all about.”

The deal, which is still subject to public input, would put control over its resources in the hands of the territory’s northerners for the first time. It would also give them a big chunk of the royalties those resources produce — money that would be shared with the five of seven N.W.T. aboriginal governments that have signed on.

The signed draft isn’t the final version of the deal — just the final text reached by negotiators.

Devolution, which does not mean full provincial status for the territories, is expected to come into force on April 1, 2014.

Harper and McLeod said the deal must still go before the territory’s aboriginal groups to ensure its doesn’t breach any of their

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper (right) and N.W.T. Premier Bob McLeod look up during an event in Yellowknife, on Monday. constitutionally guaranteed treaty rights.

“We cannot rule out changes,” Harper told reporters. “But what we witnessed this morning will certainly get us a long way to what we’ll eventually approve.”

The public will have a chance to look at it as well, but McLeod said there isn’t much room to move.

“My expectation is that it’s a done deal. I don’t expect it to change very much.”

A vote is also expected in the legislature, but the premier has the legal right to sign intergovernmental deals on his own, so a vote in the legislature wouldn’t necessarily be binding.

Monday’s development was welcomed by Nellie Cournoyea, director of the Inuviauit Regional Corp., one of the first aboriginal groups to sign on to the deal.

“There will be more responsibility for (the territory) to really

work with us, to make what we have and what they have really bring some economic opportunities,” she said.

Cournoyea warned that many of the details still need to be worked out — notably, how the territory will work with the aboriginal governments.

Under the agreement in principle, the N.W.T. would keep half its resource royalties without losing federal transfers, up to a total of five per cent of its total budget expenditures.

The territory is expected to reap about $65 million a year from those royalties. About 18 per cent of that will be transferred to the five aboriginal governments who have signed on.

The feds will send another $65 million to the territory to compensate it for the cost of those responsibilities, including the salaries of federal bureaucrats who would go onto the N.W.T. payroll.

Ottawa sweetens parental leave benefits THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA, Ont. — The federal government, under fire over tougher employment insurance rules, is sweetening benefits for parents.

It says it will allow individuals receiving parental benefits through EI to qualify for sickness benefits as well, starting March 24.

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley says about 6,000 people may be able to access the

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expanded benefit.

People receiving parental benefits aren’t currently able to access EI sickness benefits because they’re not considered to be otherwise available for work.

Finley says the new rule will make EI more flexible for parents, allowing them to qualify for benefits if they fall ill or are injured while on parental benefits.

The change was originally proposed by New Democrat MP Chris Charlton as part of a pri-

vate-member’s bill introduced last year.

The government is “cherry picking benefits for good news,” Charlton said Monday.

Canadians should be allowed to stack their benefits, using more than one concurrently, which is why her bill wasn’t limited to just parental and sickness benefits, she said.

“Say your company closes while you’re on maternity benefits. You can’t access your regular benefits,” Charlton said.

“You should be entitled to the same benefits as your colleagues.”

Finley’s announcement comes on the heels of a slew of controversial EI reforms the government says it’s phasing in to combat fraud.

Members of the opposition and Atlantic premiers have criticized the government, saying the changes don’t make sense for workers and could devastate seasonal industries such as fishing, farming or tourism.

OTTAWA — Less than a third of the almost 300,000 members and supporters who signed up to choose the Liberal party’s next leader have so far registered to vote, prompting front-runner Justin Trudeau’s camp to complain about a host of technical glitches and request a one-week extension on registration.

With only three days left to register, just 89,000 had registered by Monday evening.

Members and supporters must register by Thursday in order to be entitled to vote.

The party boasted last week that 294,000 people had signed up over the course of the leadership contest.

Most signed up free of charge, taking advantage of the party’s new supporter class, which was intended to broaden the Liberal base and engage more than just card-carrying, dues-paying members in the leadership vote.

While only a fraction so far have bothered to take the next step, spokeswoman Sarah Bain says the party is pleased with the number who’ve registered.

She said the party has seen “a healthy surge” in registrations as the Thursday deadline looms.

However, the Trudeau team — which has boasted of signing up as many as 165,000 supporters — has written the co-chairs of the leadership vote rules committee, expressing concern about numerous technical glitches that are preventing people from registering.

Trudeau representative Cyrus Reporter asks that registration be extended by one week and that the party “engage additional resources” to create a “high intensity phone bank” to contact anyone who has not yet registered.

It’s vital that new supporters’ first experience with the party be rewarding if there is to be any

hope of them eventually becoming full-fledged party members, donors or election volunteers, Reporter argues.

“In effect, these new recruits are ‘kicking the tires’ of our party,” he writes.

“Unfortunately, unless action is taken, we will have an unacceptable number of supporters who will not be able to participate in the activity that they have signed up for: voting for our new leader.”

Reporter identifies a particular problem with the “tens of thousands” of supporters — in fact, the Trudeau team says its more than 100,000 — who signed up without providing email addresses. He says only five per cent of those people have registered so far.

The party had to use regular mail to send registration forms to people without email addresses.

According to Reporter: ● The first batch of mailings included incorrect numerical codes that didn’t allow recipients to register. ● The final mailing was sent only last Thursday and Friday and many people still haven’t received their registration forms. Canada Post has told the Trudeau team that supporters outside Ontario won’t receive the forms until one or two days before Thursday’s registration deadline. ● English-speaking supporters in Quebec have received registration packages in French.

Reporter says individuals who did provide email addresses have also experienced some problems.

For instance, some have found there is no “submit” button on their online registration form; the party has told them to update their browsers, with minimal advice on how to do that.

The Trudeau team submitted help requests on behalf of 124 supporters who did not receive an online registration email from the party, although they have valid email addresses.

Former Vancouver man pleads guilty to 1999 killing THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — More than 14 years after the body of a Vancouver high school student was dumped on a deserted street, her killer is finally facing justice.

Ninderjit Singh pleaded guilty Monday in B.C. Supreme Court to the second-degree murder of 18-year-old Poonam Randhawa.

The plea caps what was one of the longest manhunts in Vancouver police history, spanning at least two Canadian provinces and two U.S. states.

Defence counsel Russ Chamberlain said outside of court that his client — who is not a Canadian citizen — will face a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole for 10 years and then deportation to India.

“It’s a good result for the administration of justice,” said Chamberlain.

“It puts to bed a long investigation.

“It brings finality for the family and it brings certainty to the results of the police investigation and the criminal prosecution.”

Vancouver police held a news conference in August 2011 after Singh was arrested in California.

“We got him,” Deputy Chief Warren Lemcke told the media. “After years of searching, nearmisses and heartbreaking attempts, we got him.”

Lemcke described Randhawa as beautiful, with a bright smile and bubbly spirit.

He said it was the young woman’s spirit that kept her parents going after losing their son to illness, until their daughter was killed in January 1999.

Members of Randhawa’s family, police and prosecutors declined to comment following the plea.

The judge has set a sentencing hearing for March 27 and 28.

Chamberlain said Crown counsel advised him Thursday it was willing to accept a plea of second-degree murder from Singh who had been initially charged with first-degree murder.

Chamberlain said he was in favour of the deal and advised Singh to take it, but it wasn’t until Monday morning that the former truck driver actually signed the papers.

“It was the right thing for him to do because I felt there was, on the evidence as I knew it, a substantial likelihood that he would be found guilty of first-degree murder,” said Chamberlain.

The tragedy dates back to Jan. 26, 1999 when Randhaw’s body was found along what police have said was a deserted lane near Sir Winston Churchill secondary school.

She had just turned 18.

Chamberlain said his

client fled first to Seattle, Wash., and then to California where he managed to live a double life as a truck driver.

The investigation took police to Calgary and included a tactic, known as a Mr. Big sting, in which undercover operators posed as criminals to elicit information on Singh’s whereabouts, said Chamberlain, noting the effort was unsuccessful.

The case even appeared on the TV show America’s Most Wanted.

But Singh eluded capture by altering his appearance, gaining weight, growing a beard and even wearing a turban, police said.

His luck ran out in August 2011, when he was arrested while driving away from his home in Riverside County, Calif., about a two-hour drive from Los Angeles, with his wife and two young children.

Chamberlain said he doesn’t know how police tracked down his client, but noted the plea means Singh will also be lost to his wife and children because he will never be eligible to return to the U.S. where his family lives.

“He’s going to be separated from his wife and his children, and the only place he’s going to have a meaningful relationship with his wife or children will likely be in his home country which is the state of Punjab, India.”

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I have never done this before, but I decided to dedicate a whole article to my newly acquired kitchen appliance — the Vitamix.

I had walked past this blender a few times and sampled countless smoothies during demonstration done at Costco, mostly dismissing it as another expensive gadget.

After destroying another $100 blender by crushing ice and making thick, heavy dips, I decided it was time give the Vitamix a second look.

After two months of use, MADHU I can confidently say that BADONI the Vitamix is a blender like no other. It is Lamborghini in the blender world. With its two horsepower motor it acts as a grinder, a food processor, an ice cream maker, a juicer, a smoothie maker, a cappuccino maker and so much more in one amazing package.

It can make hot piping soup from scratch. The Vitamix does not have a heating element within the blender and that is the neat trick with this.

The friction and high power generates heat which heats up the soup while it is being puréed.

You don’t need to finely chop all the ingredients either, just course cut — celery stock into two pieces, zucchini into chunks, and peppers into quarters — add liquid and start blending.

It takes about two minutes to get the soup really smooth and about three more minutes to get it piping hot. A couple of extra seconds lets you chop and mix in additional ingredients to add a little chunkiness into the soup. In about six minutes you can eat hot soup made from fresh whole ingredients, all in the time it takes to open and heat a can of sodium-soaked, store-bought soup.

The velvety texture of the resulting soup also gives the illusion that heavy cream has been added but there isn’t making Vitamix soups appealing to calorie reduced dieters and Vegans.

It is also a great way to use up extra produce that is shriveling up at the back of your produce drawer; just toss it into the turbo-charged blender and process it until it’s as creamy and frothy.

Throw in a few herbs, a complementary spice or two, a grating of pepper, and voila — gourmet soup without the cooking!

The high power also comes in handy when you are making green smoothies. If you’re new to green smoothies, they are a simple blending of vegetables such as spinach, kale, or chard with sweet fruits like bananas, apples, mangoes, oranges, or pineapples. Though it looks green, the sweetness of the fruit predominates “hiding” all the greens that are elusive in our diets. Because of the fibrous nature of most green vegetables, my older blender gave these smoothies a chewy characteristic, with a few chunks of vegetable. With the Vitamix, however, it is smoothie magic; the greens are converted into a beautiful silky puree, giving the drink a milkshake like consistency.

Another aspect of the blender that has me wanting to sing its praises is its ability to grind; with ease ice cubes turn into slush, raw oats into a powder grains or flour, and granulated sugar magically convert to icing sugar. For people who want to make their own nut butters, this is a dream come true. It easily beats up chick peas into a creamy hummus and mug of cappuccino with a frothy milky head.

Saving the best aspect for last, my number one favourite think about the Vitamix is the ease of cleaning it. Since the blender is one piece, you no longer have to struggle with the base as is the case in the old blenders. You simply, fill half of the blender with water and a little dish soap, then blend at high speed for about 15-20 seconds.

Rinse once or twice and bingo, your container is completely clean and ready to use!

My one complaint with Vitamix is their recipes for ice cream. Most require ice to “freeze” the ice cream. While this is great for showcasing the ability of the Vitamix to convert ice cubes into slush, the resulting flavour ends up tasting, at least to me, more like — well ice. But this is not a blender problem just a recipe hiccup that easily be fixed by using frozen fruit or re-blending the ice cream mixture once it is previously frozen.

The Vita mix, the total nutrition centre model, is approximately $500 at Costco, as well as through www.vitamix.com. Maybe a bit pricey but if you are serious about cooking it is a serious tool and serious tools are expensive in any trade.

Here are some of my tried recipes using the Vitamix but follow me on Twitter @madhubadoni to see more of my Vitamix adventures.

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Corn Chowder

1.5 cups corn 1 red bell pepper 1 large zucchini 2 garlic cloves 1 heaping tsp onion powder a dash of cayenne a dash of nutmeg sea salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste 1/2 cup water Avocado, cherry tomatoes, a little extra corn and cilantro as garnish In your Vitamix, add corn, water, red bell pepper, zucchini, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cayenne, onion and garlic powder and blend on high until creamy. The longer you blend, the warmer your soup will be. Taste and adjust seasonings to your liking then garnish with fresh avocado slices, cherry tomatoes, corn kernels and cilantro!

Spinach Mango Smoothie

(frozen mango gives you a thicker shake) 1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves, washed 1 ripe mango (or frozen) 1/4 cup orange juice

Peel and slice mango. Combine with spinach and orange juice in Vitamix blender on high for 1 minute.

Cappuccino

(From Vitamix recipe book) 1 tablespoon white chocolate chips 1 teaspoon instant coffee 3/4 cup skim milk, hot 1 teaspoon vanilla extract sugar to taste Place all ingredients into the Vitamix container in the order listed and secure lid. Select variable 1. Turn machine on and quickly increase speed to Variable 1, then to Hight. Blend for 10-15 second or until desired consistency is reached.

After two months of use, I can confidently say that the Vitamix is a blender like no other. It is Lamborghini in the blender world. With its two horsepower motor, it acts as a grinder, a food processor, an ice cream maker, a juicer, a smoothie maker, a cappuccino maker and so much more in one amazing package.

Avocado and Coconut Ice Cream

2 medium size avocados 1 cup coconut cream zest of 1 lime zest juice from 1 lime 1/2 cup sugar Roasted coconut for garnish

Place avocado, coconut cream, lime juice and zest and sugar into Vitamix. Blend till nice and creamy! Pour batter in a glass dish and place into freezer to set. After it is soft frozen re-blend. Serve soft.

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Tortoise missing for 30 years found Sometimes you have to and other reasons to spring clean stop monitoring kids Years ago when our oldest son Just a couple weeks ago I was just over two years old and I dreamt I had forgotten to feed was seven months pregnant with the fish in our aquarium. In my our second, we had to sell our en- dream the fish were still alive, tire flock of chickens because we but the half the water had evapowere moving to town. rated from their tank When the people and when I rushed to came to pick up the feed them they were fechickens Darcy was rocious in their hunger. at work. The couple We haven’t even had an took in my enormous aquarium for almost a belly and the toddler decade. At least I hope wrapped around my we haven’t. knee and insisted I just The worst thing that point the way to the ever really happened coop and they would was when Shoeless the take it from there. cat went missing for a For the next couple day and a half. weeks I kept having a On the afternoon of SHANNON dream—or more like a day two I opened the MCKINNON nightmare—that they door to the storage had left some chickens shed and a blur of fur behind and now they sailed past my ankles. were out in the coop To this day Shoeless without any feed or water. keeps a wary distance whenever I finally had to struggle through I open the shed door. Strangely the snow drifts to see for myself enough, I never even dreamt he that the coop was, indeed, empty. was in the shed.

Years later when we had sheep I I just read about a story that would dream that I had left a ewe makes all these dreams—and even in the barn after lambing and for- the story about the poor horse and got about her.

Shoeless the cat’s day and a half The flock had long since left in the shed—pale in comparison. the winter corral to graze on the This story is about Manuela, a hillside, but in my dream some- pet tortoise who disappeared from how this poor ewe and her pair her home In Rio De Janeiro in of lambs had been abandoned in 1982 while the house was undergotheir stall. Of course the barn was ing renovations. empty.

The family carried out a lengthy Once I talked to a rancher who search but finally came to the sad admitted having the same type of conclusion that one of the condream about leaving a cow locked struction workers must have left in a barn for months. the front door open and the torAnother had actually left a toise had somehow walked away. horse in a barn by itself for almost Thirty years later, Leonel the a week. He thought his brother father, passed away and his four was looking after it, and the broth- children began the difficult task er thought he was. of cleaning out their childhood Thankfully the horse survived home. by licking frost off the window, Most daunting of all, was the but it still left the brothers—and second-floor storage room their no doubt the horse—shaken. father had filled with electrical

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items.

His daughter recalled how her father had been in the habit of bringing broken things home, with the idea of fixing them. “‘If he found an old television he thought he might be able to use a part of it to fix another one in the future, so he just kept accumulating things. We never dared go inside that room,” she said.

Leonel’s son, Leandro had just finished packing a box containing a broken record player to the curb when a neighbor who was watching the proceedings inquired, “Are you throwing the tortoise out too?”

Sure enough, there was Manuela in the box, thirty years older but still very much alive. The children were thrilled to have their pet back, but shocked at how he managed to survive for 30 years in the storage room.

Apparently red-footed tortoises can go for long periods without eating and have been known to survive for two to three years without any food at all...but three decades?

The only plausible explanation is that Manuela survived by eating termites from the wooden components of the old television and radio sets and perhaps from the wooden floors.

So if you’ve ever had a pet tortoise go missing, you might want to be a bit more thorough during the upcoming spring cleaning. You never know what you might find. I, on the other hand, am pretty sure what I am going to dream about tonight.

Shannon McKinnon is a humour columnist from Northern BC. You can read past columns by visiting www.shannonmckinnon.com

Life is like a box of chocolates “Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

— Charlotte Bronte, English novelist and poet Forrest Gump?

I had just removed the wrapping paper from a Christmas gift presented to me by my sister. It was a book by Winston Groom entitled Forrest Gump. It seemed an odd title to me. The cover looked almost cartoon-like.

This was years before the movie with Tom Hanks.

“What’s it about?” I asked.

“Oh, you’ll love it,” she replied. “It’s about this fellow by the name of Forrest Gump. He’s not the brightest man but he has all these adventures and he changes the world.”

“What kind of advenMURRAY tures?” I wasn’t much into FUHRER reading novels at the time – especially ones with cartoon covers. I preferred non-fiction, mostly autobiographies of famous people.

“Grand adventures,” she said. “You’ll have to read it to find out more.”

I never did read it. In fact, a few years later, I tossed it into a box of items going to the local secondhand store. I wished I hadn’t. The book was gone and, all too soon, so was my sister. I didn’t expect much from the book. I literally judged it by its cover and I was wrong.

Today, Forrest Gump is precisely the type of book I enjoy reading. Forrest sees the world simply and truthfully with a type of clarity many of us do not possess. Despite an IQ that is — by all reckoning —considerably lower than most people’s, he is able to move successfully through life, succeed personally and in business and touch the hearts of everyone he encounters.

Yes, it’s a work of fiction but the life lessons are sound and more applicable today than ever.

In the book and subsequent movie, Forrest’s mother tells him that, “Life is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get.”

It’s a fact that what we expect and what we get are often too completely different things. How we deal with what life presents us with is the true test of our character.

There’s something profoundly intriguing in Forrest’s ability to embrace life free of expectation.

To, figuratively speaking, reach into that box of chocolates, withdraw whatever our fingers touch and savour it.

Mama Gump does not want Forrest to limit himself – she does not want him to buy into the predictions and expectations of others.

She tells Forrest that we all must do the best with what we’ve been given.

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What can I do?

Jim: It’s hard to say for certain without knowing all the details (such as his age), but this sounds like it might be an opportune time for what Dr. Kevin Leman calls “reality discipline.”

This method is less exhausting and more successful than ranting, raving, blaming, pleading, begging or threatening.

It helps children learn to think for themselves and to JIM become more responsible DALY through guidance and actionoriented techniques. Dr. Leman says, “Action-oriented discipline is based on the reality that there are times when you have to pull the rug out and let the little buzzards tumble. I mean disciplining your children in such a way that he/she accepts responsibility and learns accountability for his actions.”

When it comes to your son and his homework, we’d suggest that you stop “monitoring him at every step.”

Let him see what happens when he turns in an assignment late, or fails to turn it in at all.

He needs to discover that his actions, or in this case, inactions, have consequences.

And he needs to understand that you will not always bail him out when he fails to take responsibility.

Your desire to see him not fall behind in school is admirable, but again, you’re not doing him any favors by making his homework your burden.

A few missed assignments will not doom him for life. In fact, they very well may be just the motivation he needs to start doing his homework.

Question: Our daughter is out of control with her lying.

It isn’t just big things; she lies about everything.

We have taken privileges away and disciplined her, and nothing seems to help.

Why does she do this? And is there something we can do to help her understand the deceit behind the lying?

Leon Wirth, executive director of Parenting and Youth: Virtually every child lies at some point, but some seem to make an art out of it.

We’re sorry for the stress this has placed on your family.

First, it’s important to note that preschool-age children do not fully comprehend the difference between lies and the truth.

Parents with young kids need to be sure they understand this difference before lowering the boom.

It sounds like your daughter is old enough to know what she’s doing, however. The question you need to ask is, “Why?” Is she lying to avoid unpleasant consequences or to gain an advantage of some sort?

Or is she using lying as a means of getting your attention?

Dishonesty is never justified, but sit down with her and see if you can ascertain what might be at the root of her behavior.

Make sure she understands that it’s important for her to always tell you the truth, even when it hurts her to do so.

You mentioned that taking privileges away hasn’t helped.

But maybe you just need to find out what’s important to her.

There’s no value in barring her from the TV if she’s not really that invested in watching TV. When determining consequences for misbehavior, it’s important to identify those things that will truly motivate a child to do better.

Finally, be aware of the example you’re setting in this regard.

The best way to teach honesty is to be honest.

If you find yourself taking liberties with the truth, you’ll have little authority in preventing your daughter from doing the same.

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ward with a confident expectation of good things.

One of our greatest challenges is assessing the expectation we have for ourselves.

Expectations can limit our success or launch us into the life we desire.

In many ways, Forrest is like a child — free of preconceived notions about the inherent fairness of life or the limitations that come from living in fear.

Forrest believes and therefore achieves.

Forrest runs believing his magic shoes can take him anywhere. Is fear limiting your life experience?

Have you stopped believing? Time to find your magic shoes and start running.

A crucial element of embracing life is having faith. In the novel, Forrest’s mother has unwavering faith in her son and will do whatever it takes to ensure that he is given the opportunities she is convinced he deserves.

It’s important to surround ourselves with people who believe in us and have faith in our abilities.

Friends and family that we can turn to for support, encouragement and advice.

And by this, I mean a grounded and viable faith that is not built upon hollow compliments and empty platitudes.

People who truly know who we are, who recognize our potential and are not afraid to be completely open and honest with us when necessary.

Of course, we must have faith in ourselves and abilities, too.

Essentially, we must know ourselves. This is much more likely when we have good self-esteem and a grounded sense of self. Did Forrest have good selfesteem?

He certainly had an understanding of who he was as is evident in a comment his makes to Jenny. “I’m not a smart man … but I know what love is.”

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and I would take this even a step further and suggest that having faith in our fellow man — the essential president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus good of mankind — is crucial to living a life that is on the Family radio program.

Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at positive and empowering.

Forrest teaches us not to play the victim. We all www.facebook.com/DalyFocus. have tragedy to overcome. Standing by his mother’s grave marker Forrest acknowledges that dying is a part of life, though he Proudly serving Red Deer and the surrounding community wishes it wasn’t. Life can be brutal at times. Painfully so.

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Clogged arteries found in mummies

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Chef Brook Kavanagh prepares a horse-meat steak at Toronto’s La Palette restaurant. Below, a horse-meat steak.

What horse meat scandal?

TORONTO DELI OWNER DOESN’T EAT ANY OTHER KIND OF MEAT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Horse meat found lurking in beef products in Europe has some meat eaters worried about what’s on their dinner plate, but not Filomena Lorusso — she knows it’s all horse, of course.

Lorusso, the owner of Toronto deli Cavallino Carne Equina and Groceries, feels so strongly about horse meat, it’s not just the only type of meat she sells, it’s the only kind of meat she eats.

“We do not serve beef, I do not eat beef,” she says. “I eat only horse meat.”

Lorusso’s customers are mainly of French, Italian and Russian backgrounds, she says, but she has seen all types of people purchase horse meat.

“Any way you eat beef, we eat horse,” she says. “Sandwiches?

Yes. Barbecue? Yes. Every way.”

Shamez Amlani, owner of La Palette on Queen Street in Toronto, says horse meat is not as popular here as it is in France, where he lived for several years, but it is delicious.

“It tastes like beef — a little sweeter, and more tender,” he says. “Don’t cook it beyond medium rare.”

La Palette serves horse tenderloin in two ways on their menu.

Both options are $35, the most expensive entrees on the menu (along with the bouillabaisse) but Amlani says their horse meat is flavourful, lean, and definitely popular.

“We want to serve European food and so when I found a source in Quebec that had nice horse tenderloin, we jumped on it,” he says.

“I’d say at least one in 10 diners end up trying it. In foodie culture, people love to try things they haven’t had before. Being at the top of the food chain and a meat eater, why deny yourself something healthy and tasty?”

But he agrees it’s not for everyone. Definitely not for Kyle Boult, a financial analyst who lives downtown Toronto.

“I personally think eating horse meat is gross,” he says. “It’s not what we know. I’ve also heard it’s

very tough.”

Canada has become a major international horse meat supplier since a U.S. federal court ruling in 2007 closed the last horse-processing plant in that country.

In January 2011 — when it was reported that 100,000 live horses imported from the U.S. were slaughtered in Canada each year — the consumption of horse meat became a national issue of ethics.

Although its sourcing is still an issue, the debate has shifted to issues of personal taste.

Horse meat is eaten in a number of countries, including France, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Italy. But the latest horse meat scandal in Europe has angered many meat eaters, especially in the U.K., where eating animals considered as pets is taboo.

“It now seems to completely be a cultural thing,” says Mark Schatzker, an award-winning food and travel writer and author of the book Steak.

“I’ve spoken to Temple Grandin (a humane slaughter expert), who is sort of the ultimate authority in my mind, and she says if the slaughter is done properly, there’s no difference from a humane point of view between horse meat and beef.”

Schatzker also says that while detractors of eating horse say slaughtering horses is cruel, their intentions often cause more harm if they can’t offer an alternative

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FORREST: Embrace all that life offers Forrest teaches us to step out of resistance and embrace all that life offers us. To stop complaining and playing the victim.

Forrest doesn’t blame the heavens, himself or anyone else. He never resists what’s happening. He fully accepts the moment and lives in alignment with it.

Truth is in behaviour. Actions speak louder than words. “Stupid is and stupid does,” says Forrest. I would amend that to say wise is as wise does.

Our words mean little if our actions do not align.

solution. “They got rid of horse slaughters in the States, and people didn’t have anything to do with their horses once they got old,” he says.

“They’re a terribly expensive animal to keep, so they were releasing them into parks and dumping them into other people’s barns and stuff. It turned into a crisis.”

Dr. Melanie Joy, a Harvard psychologist and author of Why We Eat Pigs, Love Dogs and Wear Cows, has spent 20 years studying the issue of why some people consider it OK to eat some animals but not others. She agrees people’s aversions to horse meat have absolutely nothing to do with the animal.

“We haven’t been socialized for disconnect with horses,” Joy says over the phone from her home in Cambridge, Mass. “Animals like monkeys or gorillas we see as beings, for example, not food. It’s the difference between eating someone, not something.”

Joy, who doesn’t eat meat at all, says that if the food scandal in Europe had instead been that chicken was being replaced with turkey, the story wouldn’t be getting as much attention.

“People tend to think it’s only vegans and vegetarians that bring their views to the dinner table, but by saying it’s OK to eat beef and gross to eat horse — you’re doing the exact same thing,” she says.

When we live life courageously and deliberately, we define our destiny.

We release ourselves from everyone else’s expectations and begin to live the life that is rich and fulfilling. Joyous living is really about being our best, being fully engaged in whatever we’re doing, holding ourselves accountable and establishing firm, yet healthy boundaries.

To live life fully, we must step out of fear and be willing to take a stand for what we believe to be true.

“I don’t know if we each have a destiny or if we’re all just floating around accident-like on a breeze,” said Forrest. “But I think maybe it’s both … happening at the same time.”

Perhaps life is truly like a box of chocolates. We never know what we’re gonna get and just maybe that is the way it should be.

LONDON — Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever study of mummies searching for the condition.

Researchers say that suggests heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising.

CT scans of 137 mummies showed evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, in one third of those examined, including those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles.

Atherosclerosis causes heart attacks and strokes.

More than half of the mummies were from Egypt while the rest were from Peru, southwest America and the Aleutian islands in Alaska.

The mummies were from about 3800 B.C. to 1900 A.D. “Heart disease has been stalking mankind for over 4,000 years all over the globe,” said Dr. Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City and the paper’s lead author.

The mummies with clogged arteries were older at the time of their death, around 43 versus 32 for those without the condition.

In most cases, scientists couldn’t say whether the heart disease killed them.

The study results were announced Sunday at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in San Francisco and simultaneously published online in the journal Lancet.

Thompson said he was surprised to see hardened arteries even in people like the ancient Aleutians who were presumed to have a healthy lifestyle as hunter-gatherers.

“I think it’s fair to say people should feel less guilty about getting heart disease in modern times,” he said. “We may have oversold the idea that a healthy lifestyle can completely eliminate your risk.”

Thompson said there could be unknown factors that contributed to the mummies’ narrowed arteries.

He said the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in underground caves in modern-day Colorado and Utah, used fire for heat and cooking, producing a lot of smoke.

“They were breathing in a lot of smoke and that could have had the same effect as cigarettes,” he said.

Previous studies have found evidence of heart disease in Egyptian mummies, but the Lancet paper is the largest survey so far and the first to include mummies elsewhere in the world.

Dr. Frank Ruehli of the University of Zurich, who runs the Swiss Mummy Project, said it was clear atherosclerosis was notably present in antiquity and agreed there might be a genetic predisposition to the disease.

“Humans seem to have a particular vulnerability (to heart disease) and it will be interesting to see what genes are involved,” he said. Ruehli was not connected to the study.

“This is a piece in the puzzle that may tell us something important about the evolution of disease.”

Other experts warned against reading too much into the mummy data.

Dr. Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation said calcified arteries could also be caused by other ailments including endocrine disorders and that it was impossible tell from the CT scans if the types of calcium deposits in the mummies were the kind that would have sparked a heart attack or stroke.

“It’s a fascinating study but I’m not sure we can say atherosclerosis is an inevitable part of aging,” he said, citing the numerous studies that have showed strong links between lifestyle factors and heart disease.

Researcher Thompson advised people to live as healthy a lifestyle as possible, noting that the risk of heart disease could be reduced with good eating habits, not smoking and exercising.

“We don’t have to end up like the mummies,” he said.

Online: http://www.thelancet.com

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Flames lose to Kings, again SERGEI BOBROVSKY

NHL STARS OF THE WEEK Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky has been named the NHL’s first star of the week for his role in the Blue Jackets’ recent surge.

Bobrovsky posted a league-high four victories last week as the Blue Jackets extended their winning streak to five games.

He had a 0.77-against average, a .972 save percentage and a shutout over that span.

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was named the week’s second star after leading all skaters with nine assists and 11 points in four games.

Crosby is on an eightgame point streak (five goals, 15 assists) and leads the league in scoring. Los Angeles Kings centre Jeff Carter was named the third star after scoring six goals in four games last week. He is tied for second in the league with 17 goals this season.

Tuesday

● AJHL: Olds at Okotoks, fifth game of best-of-five South Division quarter-final, 7 p.m.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kings 3 Flames 1 LOS ANGELES — Captain Dustin Brown scored two goals, Jonathan Quick made 23 saves and the surging Los Angeles Kings beat Calgary 3-1 on Monday night for their second win over the Flames in three days.

Brown and Jarret Stoll scored first-period goals before Brown added an emptynetter for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who moved up to third place in the Western Conference with their 11th win in 14 games.

Despite a rough third period dominated

by Calgary, the champs finished their fivegame homestand with four victories. With steadily improving play after a rough start to the season, Los Angeles trails only Chicago and Anaheim in the West race.

Mikael Backlund ruined Quick’s shutout bid with 5:22 to play for last-place Calgary, which has lost six straight on the road.

Joey MacDonald stopped 19 shots for the Flames, who got outscored 13-3 while losing all three games of their Southern California road trip, including a 4-0 blanking by Anaheim last week. Los Angeles routed Calgary 6-2 on Saturday, chasing Miikka Kiprusoff in the process.

With this victory, Los Angeles swept its season series with Calgary for just the second time in franchise history and the first time in 13 years.

The Kings didn’t even need a goal from Jeff Carter to wrap up their eighth home victory in nine games. The power forward had scored 13 of his 17 goals in his last 13 games, putting him in a second-place tie in the Richard Trophy race.

After Saturday’s loss by Calgary and Sunday’s wins by Colorado, Columbus and Edmonton, the Flames began the week in 15th place in the West.

Brown swiftly put the Kings ahead in the rematch by sneaking behind Jay Bouwmeester and tucking home a sharp crossice pass from Slava Voynov for his seventh goal of the season. Moving the puck swiftly and easily, Los Angeles doubled its lead four minutes later when Jake Muzzin found

Stoll in the slot for a shot that dislodged the water bottle from the back of MacDonald’s net. Muzzin, a rookie defenceman, had assists on both first-period goals, giving him 10 points this season — the same number as Drew Doughty, Los Angeles’ $56-million former Norris Trophy finalist and playoff hero. Muzzin also has five goals — five more than Doughty, and tops among NHL rookie defencemen — and a plus-11 rating in his breakout season, finally getting his NHL chance due partly to the injury absences of Matt Greene.

After a scoreless second period, the

Kings killed off a 27-second two-man disadvantage early in the third. Calgary kept dominating play, and Backlund finally capitalized when he broke in on net and beat Quick low for his fourth goal of the season.

NOTES: Kings C Tyler Toffoli was a healthy scratch, delaying his NHL debut.

The high-scoring 20-year-old prospect was recalled Sunday from the AHL. ... Calgary D Cory Sarich, a healthy scratch in nine consecutive games, returned to the lineup in place of Derek Smith. Flames LW Curtis Glencross missed his second straight game with an upper-body injury.

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Wednesday

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● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-seven Northern Division final, 8:15 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer at Calgary Buffaloes, second game of best-of-five AMHL South Division final, 8:15 p.m., South Fish Creek Arena.

Thursday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, fifth game of best-of-seven Northern Division final, if necessary, 7:30 p.m. ● Bantam A hockey: Provincial championship at Stettler, first game at 4 p.m., last game at 7 p.m. ● Atom C hockey: Provincial championship at Sundre, games at 5 and 7:15 p.m. ● Atom D hockey: Provincial championship at Consort, games at 6 and 8:30 p.m.

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Calgary Flames goalie Joey MacDonald defends the net as Los Angeles King Jarret Stoll attacks a rebound in the second period of an NHL game in Los Angeles, Monday.

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Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin stiff-arms San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver during Super Bowl XLVII, Feb. 3, in New Orleans. Boldin will now be part of the team he helped beat in the Super Bowl after being traded to San Francisco, Monday.

On the eve of NFL free agency, trades involving top receivers Anquan Boldin and Percy Harvin grabbed the headlines.

In an odd twist Monday, Boldin went from the Ravens to the San Francisco 49ers, the team he helped Baltimore beat 34-31 in last month’s Super Bowl.

Harvin, who expressed his discontent in Minnesota, was sent to Seattle, where he will join former Vikings teammate Sidney Rice.

San Francisco acquired the 32-year-old Boldin for a sixth-round draft pick. Boldin, a star in Baltimore’s run to the Super Bowl title last season, must pass a physical to complete the deal.

“Anquan was a great receiver for myself and for our football team,” said quarterback Joe Flacco, who signed a six-year, $120.6 million deal with the Ravens last week. “It’s sad to see a guy like that go, but at the same time, you want what’s best for him and you just wish him the best of luck.

“Anquan was a big part of this football team, a big part of this offence. He’s one of the main reasons we won the Super Bowl this year.”

Boldin had six catches for 104 yards and a touch-

down in the Super Bowl victory. He had said he’d consider retirement rather than leave Baltimore. But going to the NFC champions might change his mind.

“It’s a business, man.

Those things are going to happen,” Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones said.

“I wish Q the best. He’s always a Raven with me, and we got something they can’t take from us.”

Added fellow Baltimore receiver Torrey Smith: “It’s not so much about football when you lose someone like that, someone you love like a brother and would do anything for you.”

The 24-year-old Harvin, Minnesota’s moody and multi-talented receiver, will join the Seahawks for a package of draft picks that includes Seattle’s firstround selection next month, No. 25 overall. He also must pass a physical.

Minnesota will also get Seattle’s seventh-round pick this year and thirdround selection in 2014.

League MVP Adrian Peterson was not thrilled over the news.

“The best all around player I ever seen or you’ll ever see! Goes to Seattle!

I feel like I just got kicked in the stomach. Several times!!!” Peterson posted on Twitter.

Harvin was producing at an All-Pro level until badly spraining his left ankle last Nov. 4 in a game at Seattle.

He was placed on injured reserve a month later. He led the NFL in total yards at the time of his injury.

Harvin, who also has suffered from migraines, will enter the fifth and final season of his rookie deal with a $2.9 million salary that’s well under market value — unless the Seahawks rework it.

Also on Monday the Giants are allowing Victor Cruz to enter restricted free agency, placing a firstround tender on the wide receiver.

Team owner John Mara said the Giants will risk having Cruz agree to a contract with another club.

New York has the right to match any offer. If the Giants allow him to leave, they will get a first-round draft choice as compensation.

The tender is worth $2.879 million for 2012 for Cruz, who has not made half of that in his three pro seasons.

Cornerback DeAngelo Hall was cut by the Redskins, a casualty of the team’s NFL-imposed salary cap penalty. Washington is over the cap because of an $18 million sanction for the way it structured contracts during the 2010 uncapped season.

Hall had two years remaining on the six-year, $54 million deal and was due to make $7.5 million in salary in 2013.

March could be madness if regular season is indication

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NEW YORK — College basketball fans with fond memories of the wild 2011 NCAA tournament may have forgotten this fact: A mostly tranquil regular season led up to it, with the four top seeds combining for just 13 losses.

Back in 2007, by contrast, the No. 1 seeds had 18 defeats among them. Then the tournament started, and the familiar upsets of March were almost nowhere to be found.

College basketball analyst Clark Kellogg would love to be calling three weeks full of stunners this year. But he knows it’s hardly inevitable — despite a season when the topranked team never seemed safe.

“I’ve already told a number of people I hope it plays out the way it did during the regular season, but there are no guarantees,” Kellogg said Monday.

A chaotic season can turn into a tame tournament for many reasons.

Matchups are always part of the mystery.

Some years, the top seeds find themselves up against a string of opponents they stack up favourably against. Other seasons, they run into a team in an early round whose strengths seem perfectly targeted for what-

ever their weakness.

Kellogg sounded another note of caution about why the regular season instability may not be a predictor of true March Madness: Tournament games are on neutral courts.

“Much of the tumult you see during the regular season happens in conference play on the home court of the underdog,” he said.

Still, Kellogg is expecting a topsy-turvy tournament, evidenced by his struggle in picking the Final Four. He suggests that two of the top teams will make it to Atlanta, joined by a school from a power conference that had an unremarkable regular season, with perhaps a George Mason-esque squad to round out the field.

Kellogg bases that as much on the muddle in the middle of the brackets as on the vulnerabilities of the highest-ranked teams.

He thinks the selection committee will struggle to differentiate programs for the fifth through 14th seeds.

“Because of that, you’re going to have some matchups that will create high drama,” he said.

“And teams that come out of 8-9 games against certain 1s may be better positioned to move on.”

With most conference tourneys yet to start, the four No. 1 seeds will total at least 16 losses when this season’s NCAA tournament opens next week. The contenders for those spots certainly seem very beatable, but perhaps they will roll through the tourney. Maybe Indiana will dominate once it escapes the brutal Big Ten. Maybe Duke is a powerhouse again with Ryan Kelly healthy. Maybe Gonzaga really is as good as its record despite playing outside a power conference.

The 2007 and 2011 NCAA tournaments — the two extremes of predictability in recent memory — prove that we’re all just guessing. Six years ago, Florida returned nearly everybody from its national championship team, yet hardly dominated during the regular season, losing five games.

The No. 1 ranking was held by five different schools. Yet this led to an NCAA tournament when perhaps the most surprising development was the lack of surprises.

Not counting 8-9 games, there were just two upsets in the first round. The worst seed in the round of 16 was a No. 7 — not exactly Cinderella. Seven of the final eight teams were top-two seeds, with the lone exception a No. 3. And Florida repeated as champion.

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Basketball Pt 103 90 93 85 77 75 73 68 62 59 56 52

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W LOTL SOL GF dx-Portland 68 53 12 1 2 310 dx-Kelowna 69 49 16 3 1 293 x-Kamloops 70 45 20 2 3 249 x-Spokane 68 41 25 2 0 253 x-Tri-City 68 40 24 1 3 236 x-Victoria 69 33 29 2 5 214 Seattle 69 23 37 7 2 193 Everett 69 24 39 2 4 161 Prince George 68 21 39 2 6 169 Vancouver 70 21 47 2 0 193

GA 158 172 178 218 203 244 269 255 250 288

Pt 109 102 95 84 84 73 55 54 50 44

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.

Sunday’s results Calgary 4 Red Deer 3 (OT) Portland 5 Victoria 2 Vancouver 5 Prince George 3

10 9 7

13 14 13

1 3 6

21 21 20

69 67 64

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA 26 21 2 3 45 85 58 24 18 3 3 39 85 62 24 13 9 2 28 58 59 24 14 8 2 30 71 60 26 12 9 5 29 68 66 25 13 10 2 28 76 77 24 11 7 6 28 66 67 24 11 7 6 28 56 57 25 12 10 3 27 72 72 24 12 10 2 26 67 67 25 10 9 6 26 54 61 24 10 10 4 24 62 69 26 10 12 4 24 61 72 25 9 11 5 23 60 76 24 9 11 4 22 64 82

d-Chicago d-Anaheim d-Minnesota Los Angeles Detroit St. Louis d-Vancouver San Jose Phoenix Dallas Nashville Colorado Columbus Edmonton Calgary

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader Sunday’s Games Columbus 3, Detroit 2, SO New Jersey 3, Winnipeg 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 1 Montreal 5, Florida 2 Pittsburgh 6, N.Y. Islanders 1 Edmonton 6, Chicago 5 Philadelphia 3, Buffalo 2 Minnesota 4, Vancouver 2 Colorado 3, San Jose 2, OT Anaheim 4, St. Louis 2

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Boston at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

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

Toronto at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

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

Prince George at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Prince Albert at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s summaries Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP Dieno 47 Elson 63 Dumba 61 Ness 70 Maxwell 70 Hamilton 68 Bellerive 67 Gaudet 64 Johnson 54 Millette 45 Fleury 64 Bleackley 64 Volek 30 Fafard 65 Stockl 61 Underwood 67 Feser 30 Doetzel 47 Thiel 50 Pochuk 31 Pouliot 19 Boomgaarden 20 Bartosak 54

G 27 26 16 18 10 9 15 5 10 10 4 9 9 1 3 2 1 0 4 2 0 0 0

A 32 31 26 20 28 28 20 20 11 9 15 9 8 10 7 8 5 6 1 3 1 1 0

Pts 59 57 42 38 38 37 35 25 21 19 19 18 17 11 10 10 6 6 5 5 1 1 0

PIM +/8 18 60 27 80 11 28 -5 24 9 45 0 47 -6 59 11 42 4 20 -3 21 5 28 -2 14 -4 98 12 21 -4 95 6 9 -2 20 -2 37 -10 10 -3 2 — 28 -6 12 —

Goaltenders Bartosak Pouliot

MP 3078 973

GA 116 57

SO 5 0

GAA 2.26 3.52

Sv% .935 .904

WHL LEADERS Through Mar. 11 SCORING Leipsic, Por Petan, Por Col.Smith, Kam Rattie, Por Feser, TC Bell, Kel St. Croix, Edm Lipon, Kam Lowry, SC Valk, MH

G 44 45 41 44 42 37 37 36 44 43

GOALTENDERS (Minimum 1,000 minutes played) W L O Jarry, Edm 17 7 0 Carruth, Por 29 7 2 Bartosak, RD 33 13 5 Brossoit, Edm 32 8 5 Cheveldave, Kam 35 16 2

A 70 66 62 58 59 52 52 53 41 42

GAA 1.63 2.08 2.26 2.29 2.39

Pt 114 111 103 102 101 89 89 89 85 85

SO 6 7 5 5 6

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA d-Montreal 26 17 5 4 38 84 66 d-Pittsburgh 26 18 8 0 36 97 76 d-Carolina 24 14 9 1 29 75 69 Boston 23 17 3 3 37 70 50 Toronto 26 15 10 1 31 79 70 Ottawa 26 13 8 5 31 61 54 New Jersey 26 12 9 5 29 65 75 N.Y. Rangers24 13 9 2 28 63 58 Winnipeg 25 12 11 2 26 63 74 Philadelphia 27 12 14 1 25 75 82 N.Y. Islanders26 11 12 3 25 77 88 Tampa Bay 25 10 14 1 21 85 79

South Division Bye: Brooks Okotoks (2) vs. Olds (7) (Series tied 2-2) Sunday’s result Olds 4 Okotoks 2 Saturday’s result Okotoks 6 Olds 5 Tuesday’s game Olds at Okotoks, 7 p.m.

Camrose (3) vs. Calgary Mustangs (6) (Camrose wins series 3-1) Sunday’s result Camrose 5 Calgary Mustangs 2 Saturday’s result Camrose 2 Calgary Mustangs 1 (OT) Drumheller (4) vs. Canmore (5) (Drumheller wins series 3-0) Saturday’s result Drumheller 4 Canmore 3 (OT) AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Providence 59 35 19 0 5 167 Portland 59 33 21 3 2 173 Manchester 59 28 24 3 4 174 Worcester 57 27 23 1 6 143 St. John’s 60 23 32 1 4 144

Monday’s Games Boston 3, Ottawa 2, SO Calgary 1 at Los Angeles 3

Monday’s games No Games Scheduled.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Miami 47 14 .770 — d-New York 38 22 .633 8 d-Indiana 39 24 .619 9 Brooklyn 37 27 .578 11 Chicago 35 28 .556 13 Boston 34 28 .548 13 Atlanta 34 28 .548 13 Milwaukee 32 29 .525 15 Toronto 25 39 .391 23 Philadelphia 24 39 .381 24 Detroit 23 43 .348 26 Cleveland 21 42 .333 27 Washington 20 41 .328 27 Orlando 18 46 .281 30 Charlotte 13 50 .206 35

Friday’s result Bonnyville 2 Drayton Valley 0 Whitecourt (4) vs. Fort McMurray (5) (Whitecourt wins series tied 3-2) Saturday’s result Fort McMurray 5 Whitecourt 4 (OT) Friday’s result Whitecourt 3 Fort McMurray 1 Monday’s game Fort McMurray 3 at Whitecourt 4

72 83 98

Flames 1 at Kings 3 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Brown 7 (Voynov, Muzzin) 5:39 (pp) 2. Los Angeles, Stoll 4 (Muzzin) 9:40 Penalty — Giordano Cal (hooking) 5:09, Los Angeles bench (too many men, served by Fraser) 17:28.

Second Period No Scoring Penalty — Clifford LA (high-sticking) 3:34.

Third Period 3. Calgary, Backlund 4 (Tanguay) 14:38 4. Los Angeles, Brown 8, 19:33 (en) Penalties — Richards LA (hooking) 0:29, Doughty LA (hooking) 2:02.

Shots on goal Calgary 8 7 9 — 24 Los Angeles 7 8 7 — 22 Goal — Calgary: MacDonald (L,3-4-1); Los Angeles: Quick (W,9-7-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 0-4; Los Angeles: 1-1.

Attendance — 18,118 (18,118).

Bruins 3, Senators 2 (SO) First Period 1. Ottawa, Latendresse 1 (Gonchar, Phillips) :55 2. Ottawa, Turris 5 (Phillips) 7:18 3. Boston, Thornton 2 (Chara) 19:16 Penalties — Smith Ott (boarding) 9:21, McQuaid Bos (boarding, fighting), Wiercioch Ott (double instigating, instigating, fighting, misconduct) 11:49.

Second Period 4. Boston, Paille 5 (Krejci) 8:53 Penalties — Krejco Bos (slashing) 6:15, Smith Ott (tripping) 15:42 Third Period No Scoring.

Penalty — Hamilton Bos (cross-checking) 6:27 Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout (Boston wins 2-1) Ottawa (1) — Silfverberg, miss; Turris, goal; Alfredsson, miss; Daugavins, miss. Boston (2) — Seguin, miss; Bergeron, goal; Marchand, miss; Krejci, goal.

Shots on goal Boston 16 7 9 3 — 35 Ottawa 15 8 6 3 — 32 Goal — Boston: Rask (W,13-2-3); Ottawa: Lehner (SOL,1-0-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Boston: 0-3; Ottawa: 0-2.

Attendance — 20,256 (19,153) at Ottawa.

AJHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-5) North Division Bye: Spruce Grove Grande Prairie (2) vs. Sherwood Park (7) (Sherwood Park wins series 3-1) Saturday’s result Sherwood Park 3 Grande Prairie 2 Friday’s result Sherwood Park 4 Grande Prairie 2 Bonnyville (3) vs. Drayton Valley (6) (Bonnyville wins series 3-1) Saturday’s result Bonnyville 7 Drayton Valley 0

GA 152 178 163 160 188

Pt 75 71 63 61 51

Springfield Connecticut Albany Bridgeport Adirondack

Northeast Division GP W LOTLSOL 57 34 16 4 3 61 28 25 5 3 57 26 20 1 10 57 24 24 5 4 58 23 30 2 3

GF 180 175 154 170 138

GA 136 185 160 192 170

Pt 75 64 63 57 51

Syracuse Binghamton W-B/Scranton Hershey Norfolk

GP 60 59 60 60 58

East Division W LOTLSOL 36 17 3 4 36 17 1 5 32 25 2 1 28 24 3 5 27 26 4 1

GF 205 178 141 155 144

GA 162 147 138 153 159

Pt 79 78 67 64 59

WESTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Toronto 57 31 20 2 4 180 Rochester 57 31 22 3 1 186 Abbotsford 62 28 25 3 6 133 Lake Erie 61 27 25 2 7 171 Hamilton 59 24 29 1 5 126

GA 153 163 151 178 172

Pt 68 66 65 63 54

Midwest Division GP W LOTLSOL Grand Rapids 58 35 19 2 2 Chicago 56 29 19 4 4 Milwaukee 58 28 24 3 3 Rockford 59 30 27 1 1 Peoria 59 25 27 4 3

GF 191 153 147 184 144

GA 157 147 170 176 177

Pt 74 66 62 62 57

South Division W LOTLSOL 33 16 4 6 35 20 2 3 30 21 4 4 28 22 2 6 26 26 1 4

GF 173 183 160 183 149

GA 152 155 153 193 164

Pt 76 75 68 64 57

Texas Charlotte Houston Okla. City San Antonio

GP 59 60 59 58 57

Note: 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 which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Sunday’s results Toronto 4 Peoria 1 Rochester 3 Abbotsford 2 (SO) Grand Rapids 4 Hamilton 1 Albany 3 Adirondack 2 (SO) Connecticut 4 Providence 2 Houston 5 Charlotte 2 Worcester 5 Portland 3 Binghamton 3 Hershey 2 Chicago 3 Rockford 2 Oklahoma City 3 San Antonio 2 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 5 Manchester 4 (SO) Monday’s results No Games Scheduled.

Tuesday’s game Springfield at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Norfolk at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Adirondack at Portland, 5 p.m.

Lake Erie at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Worcester, 5 p.m.

Binghamton at Rochester, 5:05 p.m.

Peoria at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Abbotsford at Texas, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Abbotsford at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Friday’s games Hamilton at St. John’s, 4 p.m.

Texas at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Bridgeport at Manchester, 5 p.m.

Adirondack at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.

Springfield at Providence, 5:05 p.m.

Albany at Rochester, 5:05 p.m.

Norfolk at Syracuse, 5:30 p.m.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Worcester, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Rockford, 6:05 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Optioned RHP Zach Clark, LHP Mike Belfiore and OF Xavier Avery to Norfolk (IL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Optioned RHP Simon Castro and LHP Santos Rodriguez to Charlotte (IL) and RHP Nestor Molina to Birmingham (SL).

Reassigned OF Stefan Gartrell, RHP Erik Johnson, INF Seth Loman, INF Marcus Semien, LHP Scott Snodgress, OF Trayce Thompson and OF Keenyn Walker to their minor-league camp.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Selected the contract of LHP Rich Hill from Columbus (IL). Placed RHP Blake Wood on the 60-day DL. Optioned OF Tim Fedroff, RHP Trey Haley, LHP TJ House, RHP Chen-Chang Lee and RHP Danny Salazar to Columbus. Reassigned INF Matt LaPorta, RHP Fernando Nieve and C Roberto Perez to their minor-league camp. Granted the unconditional release of OF Ben Francisco. Signed LHP Scott Barnes, OF Ezequiel Carrera, INF Juan Diaz, C/ INF Yan Gomes, LHP Nick Hagadone, RHP Frank Herrmann, LHP David Huff, INF Jason Kipnis, RHP Chen-Chang Lee, INF Mike McDade, INF Cord Phelps and RHP Josh Tomlin to one-year contracts.

Renewed the contracts of RHP Carlos Carrasco and RHP Vinnie Pestano.

DETROIT TIGERS—Optioned C Ramon Cabrera and INF Dixon Machado to Erie (EL) and RHP Melvin Mercedes to Lakeland (FSL). Assigned INF Eugenio Suarez and OF Daniel Fields to their minor-league camp.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned C Chris Herrmann to Rochester (IL) and RHP B.J. Hermsen, RHP Trevor May, RHP Michael Tonkin, C Josmil Pinto and INF Danny Santana to New Britain (EL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Agree to terms with OF Ben Francisco on a minor league contract.

Optioned LHP Francisco Rondon, RHP Dellin Betances, RHP Brett Marshall, and C Austin Romine to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) and LHP Manny Banuelos, LHP Nik Turley, RHP Jose Ramirez and OF Ramon Flores to Trenton (EL). Reassigned RHP Chase Whitley, C J.R. Murphy and INF Luke Murton to their minor-league camp.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Optioned RHP Arnold Leon to Sacramento (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Optioned RHP Alex Colome, LHP Mike Montgomery and LHP Frank De Los Santos to Durham (IL); LHP Enny Romero to Montgomery (SL) and LHP Felipe Rivero to Charlotte (FSL). Reassigned RHP Marquis Fleming, RHP Matt Buschmann and LHP Adam Liberatore to their minor-league camp.

National League CHICAGO CUBS—Optioned RHP Alberto Cabrera, RHP Trey McNutt, LHP Brooks Raley and INF Logan Watkins to Iowa (PCL) and RHP Robert Whitenack to Tennessee (SL). Assigned RHP Nick Struck to their minor-league camp.

COLORADO ROCKIES—Optioned INF Cristhian Adames and Rafael Ortega to their minor-league camp. Reassigned RHP Chad Bettis, RHP Parker Frazier, RHP Dan Houston, LHP Tyler Anderson, LHP Erick Threets, C Lars Davis and OF Kyle Parker to their minor-league camp.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Optioned RHP Matt Magill and RHP Steve Ames to Albuquerque (PCL). Reassigned RHP Matt Palmer to their minorleague camp.

MIAMI MARLINS—Optioned RHP Evan Reed, RHP Alex Sanabia, LHP Brad Hand and OF Kyle Jensen to New Orleans (PCL) and RHP Sam Dyson, LHP Edgar Olmos and OF Marcel Ozuna to

Jacksonville (SL). Reassigned RHP Jordan Smith and C Wilfredo Gimenez to their minor league camp.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Optioned RHP Jorge Rondon to Memphis (PCL).

American Association LAREDO LEMURS—Released RHP Chris Chavez.

SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS—Released C Al Quintana.

Can-Am League NEWARK BEARS—Signed RHP Greg Lane and 1B Marc Palestina.

QUEBEC CAPITALES—Released OF Steve Brown and RHP Roque Mercedes.

Frontier League LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Signed RHP Dale Dickerson. Released INF Aaron Klinec and OF Adrian Ortiz.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS—Signed RHP Selby Brummett and RHP Tyler Hanks.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS—Released INF Travis Weaver.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Released RB Beanie Wells and RB Fozzy Whittaker.

BUFFALO BILLS—Signed CB Leodis McKelvin to a contract extension.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Released LB Dan Connor.

DENVER BRONCOS—Re-signed S David Bruton to a three-year contract. Released LB D.J. Williams and QB Caleb Hanie.

HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed TE Phillip Supernaw.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Tendered a contract off to WR Victor Cruz. Signed DT Cullen Jenkins.

NEW YORKS JETS—Signed QB David Garrard.

TENNESSEE TITANS— Tendered a contract off to C/G Tire Fernando Velasco.

Storage SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS— Available Signed NT Ian Williams to a twoyear contract extension. Acquired WR Anquan Boldin from Baltimore for a 2013 sixth-round draft pick.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS— Released CB DeAngelo Hall.

Canadian Football League B.C. LIONS—Signed WR Marco Iannuzzi to a contract extension.

United States Football League USFL—Named Jim Bailey president and CEO.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Returned F David Ullstrom to Bridgeport (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES—Signed F Henrik Samuelsson to a three-year entry-level contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS—Reassigned RW Matt Pelech to Worcester (AHL). Reassigned F Tommy Grant to San Francisco (ECHL) from the Worcester.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Reassigned D Brendan Mikkelson to Syracuse (AHL). Recalled D Radko Gudas from Syracuse. Acquired F Dan Sexton from Anaheim for F Kyle Wilson.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Recalled C Andrew Ebbett from Chicago (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS—Released F Chad Costello.

PEORIA RIVERMEN—Signed F Mike Pelech to a professional tryout contract.

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Traded D Patrick Cullity to St. John’s for future considerations.

WORCESTER SHARKS—Recalled F Yanni Gourde from San Francisco (ECHL).

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES—Announced G Pat Nagle and F Alex Hutchings were reassigned to the team by Syracuse (AHL).

GWINNETT GLADIATORS—Announced F Doug Jones was returned to the team from Texas (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY—Signed D Kofi Opare.

National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC—Signed D Kendall Johnson and MF Taylor Lytle.

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-San Antonio 49 15 .766 — d-Oklahoma City 47 17 .734 2 d-L.A. Clippers 45 20 .692 4 1/2 Memphis 42 19 .689 5 1/2 Denver 43 22 .662 6 1/2 Golden State 35 29 .547 14 Houston 34 30 .531 15 Utah 33 31 .516 16 L.A. Lakers 33 31 .516 16 Dallas 29 33 .468 19 Portland 29 33 .468 19 Minnesota 21 39 .350 26 Phoenix 22 42 .344 27 New Orleans 22 42 .344 27 Sacramento 22 43 .338 27 1/2 d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot Sunday’s Games Oklahoma City 91, Boston 79 L.A. Lakers 90, Chicago 81 Miami 105, Indiana 91 Toronto 100, Cleveland 96 Orlando 99, Philadelphia 91 Dallas 100, Minnesota 77 New Orleans 98, Portland 96 Milwaukee 115, Sacramento 113 L.A. Clippers 129, Detroit 97 Monday’s Games Philadelphia 106, Brooklyn 97 San Antonio 105, Oklahoma City 93 Utah 103, Detroit 90 Denver 108, Phoenix 93 New York at Golden State, Late Tuesday’s Games Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Boston at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Portland, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Miami at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Washington, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

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

New York at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Individual Leaders Scoring Durant, OKC Anthony, NYK Bryant, LAL James, MIA Harden, HOU Westbrook, OKC Irving, CLE Curry, GOL Wade, MIA Parker, SAN Aldridge, POR Ellis, MIL Lee, GOL Lillard, POR Pierce, BOS Griffin, LAC Lopez, Bro Holiday, PHL Jennings, MIL Gay, TOR Williams, Bro DeRozan, TOR Jefferson, UTA George, IND West, IND Horford, ATL Walker, CHA Smith, ATL Mayo, DAL Crawford, LAC Cousins, SAC Lawson, DEN Bosh, MIA Afflalo, ORL Anderson, NOR Gallinari, DEN Smith, NYK Thompson, GOL Johnson, Bro

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS—Recalled F Patrick Maroon and F Devante Smith-Pelly from Norfolk (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Assigned D Cody Goloubef to Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS—Recalled F Tomas Vincour from Texas (AHL).

Assigned F Matt Fraser to Texas.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS— Recalled F Matt Halischuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Activated RW Brandon Yip from injured reserve.

Placed F Patric Hornqvist and F Colin Wilson on injured reserve.

PGA Tour FedExCup Leaders Through March 10 Rank Player Points 1.Brandt Snedeker 1,282 2.Tiger Woods 1,105 3.Matt Kuchar 846 4.Phil Mickelson 744 5.Steve Stricker 716 6.Russell Henley 659 7.Charles Howell III 656 8.Hunter Mahan 645 9.Brian Gay 633 10. Dustin Johnson 625 11. Michael Thompson 582 12. John Merrick 575 13. Chris Kirk 497 14. Keegan Bradley 461 15. Josh Teater 427 16. Jimmy Walker 426 17. Tim Clark 422 18. Scott Piercy 421 19. Jason Day 417 20. Webb Simpson 407 21. Fredrik Jacobson 401 22. Bill Haas 401 23. Luke Guthrie 397 24. Geoff Ogilvy 363 25. Robert Garrigus 361 26. Charlie Beljan 347 27. Brian Stuard 341 28. Scott Brown 337 29. James Hahn 329 30. Graeme McDowell 314 31. Rickie Fowler 300 32. Bubba Watson 299 33. Charl Schwartzel 296 34. Kevin Stadler 287 35. David Lingmerth 283 36. Brendon de Jonge 278 37. Nick Watney 271 38. Ian Poulter 259 39. Ryan Moore 258 40. Sergio Garcia 244 41. Ryan Palmer 238 42. Billy Horschel 238 43. Adam Scott 233 44. Justin Rose 231 45. Bryce Molder 225 46. John Rollins 221 47. Erik Compton 220 48. Graham DeLaet 219 49. Matt Jones 218 50. Nicholas Thompson 217 51. Scott Stallings 217 52. David Lynn 215 53. Lee Westwood 211 54. Ted Potter, Jr. 211 55. Carl Pettersson 207 56. Kevin Streelman 205 57. Charlie Wi 200 58. Aaron Baddeley 196 59. Cameron Tringale 191 60. Brendan Steele 185 61. Peter Hanson 185 62. Fabian Gomez 182 63. George McNeill 180 64. Bob Estes 178 65. Jim Furyk 175

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World Golf Ranking Through March 10 1. Rory McIlroy NIR 2. Tiger Woods USA 3. Luke Donald ENG 4. Brandt Snedeker USA 5. Justin Rose ENG 6. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 7. Adam Scott AUS 8. Steve Stricker USA 9. Matt Kuchar USA 10. Phil Mickelson USA 11. Lee Westwood ENG 12. Ian Poulter ENG 13. Bubba Watson USA 14. Keegan Bradley USA 15. Graeme McDowell NIR 16. Charl Schwartzel SAF 17. Sergio Garcia ESP 18. Jason Dufner USA 19. Webb Simpson USA 20. Peter Hanson SWE 21. Dustin Johnson USA 22. Hunter Mahan USA 23. Nick Watney USA 24. Ernie Els SAF 25. Bo Van Pelt USA 26. Zach Johnson USA 27. Jim Furyk USA 28. Martin Kaymer GER 29. Bill Haas USA 30. Branden Grace SAF 31. G. Fernandez-Castano ESP 32. Rickie Fowler USA 33. Jamie Donaldson WAL 34. Carl Pettersson SWE 35. Jason Day AUS 36. Paul Lawrie SCO 37. Scott Piercy USA 38. Robert Garrigus USA 39. Francesco Molinari ITA 40. Nicolas Colsaerts BEL 41. Thorbjorn Olesen DEN 42. George Coetzee SAF 43. Michael Thompson USA 44. Ryan Moore USA 45. Matteo Manassero ITA 46. John Senden AUS 47. Fredrik Jacobson SWE 48. Russell Henley USA 49. Geoff Ogilvy AUS 50. Richard Sterne SAF 51. Hiroyuki Fujita JPN 52. David Lynn ENG 53. Tim Clark SAF 54. Padraig Harrington IRL 55. Alexander Noren SWE

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Bowling Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday-Club 55 plus High Single: Claude Gagne 260. High Triple: Gagne 696.

Monday Mixed High Single: Daryl Derkson 301. High Triple: John Stryker 683.

Tuesday Mixed High Single: Kevin Armstrong 321. High Triple: Armstrong 758.

Wednesday-Club 55 plus High Single: Lorne Fowler 319. High Triple: Fowler 693.

Wednesday Mixed High Single: Josh Bota 337. High Triple: Terry Ell 817.

Thursday Morning Ladies High Single: Donna Caine 268. High Triple: Caine 601.

Thursday Mixed High Single: Anthony Streit 276. High Triple: Bill Sabbe 717.

Monday Scratch League High Single: Kevin Armstrong 360. High Quad: Armstrong 1,115.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers High Single: Rylee Ehret 101.

Bowlasaurus High Single: Sylis Gray 107.

Peewees High Single: Kedrixx Streit 139. High Double: Streit

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Bantams High Single: Kennedy Chrest 203. High Triple: Chrest 492.

Juniors High Single: Cody Pratt 325. High Triple: Pratt 679.

Seniors High Single: Dylan Yechtel 284. High Triple: Yechtel 736.

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New guidelines for concussions UPDATED GUIDE HELPS DOCTORS, SPORTS TEAMS BETTER MANAGE CONCUSSIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An international panel of experts has issued an updated consensus statement on evaluating and treating sports-related concussions, which includes some tweaks on managing the brain injury and a discussion on the possible link with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. The goal of the statement is to update doctors, athletic therapists and other health-care providers on the best way to diagnose a concussion at a sporting event and to manage the patient’s recovery over time.

“Concussion is one of the most complex injuries to diagnose and treat, and our understanding of concussion is constantly evolving,” said panel co-chair Dr. Willem Meeuwisse, leader of the University of Calgary’s Brain Injury Initiative.

“This document attempts to give health-care professionals a road map to what we believe will provide the best patient outcomes.”

The paper is also intended to help advise sports federations — among them those representing hockey, football and soccer — on how to adapt the guidelines to their individual sport.

Published in the April issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the statement was penned following a meeting of 32 experts, including several Canadians, in Zurich last November. Experts have met roughly every four years since 2001, and this is the fourth consensus document to be issued.

One change in the updated version is that an athlete who has suffered a concussion may not always have to rest their brains and bodies as long as previously thought before returning to cognitive and physical activities.

Based on the latest studies, the panel agreed that some of the current treatment protocols — including extended rest — are largely unproven and may not be ideal after the first week following injury.

They suggest that a gradual return to school, social and physical activities is “a sensible approach,” but that athletes should receive medical clearance before returning to competition.

“Typically, we see around 80 per cent of athletes will be recovered within about a week to 10 days,” Meeuwisse said Monday from Calgary.

“What’s changed is in the past, we would say if you’re not better, well ’get more rest.’ And now we’re recognizing that in the 20 per cent or so who are not recovered by 10 days, that often there are other things that are going on that require a more detailed assessment and often can benefit from rehabilitation.”

Even some light exercise can be beneficial after the acute phase of concussion has passed, recent research now suggests.

Dr. Paul Echlin, a sports medicine physician who treats concussion and also conducts research on the injury, said it’s helpful to have experts weigh the research as it evolves over time and disseminate any new knowledge to health providers, athletes of all ages and levels of play, parents and coaches.

“I think it’s important that this continue, this centralized and this sequential review of knowledge, and the promotion of when the knowledge does change to pay attention and document it, so there’s not multiple entities saying this is the way to proceed on this injury,” Echlin said from Burlington, Ont. “I think having one source is much better than having three or four sources, which sometimes confuses the patient.”

After sifting through the latest studies, the panel

also confirmed that even the most state-of-the-art helmets and mouth guards do not prevent a concussion, which occurs when the brain is shaken inside the skull, similar to an egg yoke slamming the inside of its shell.

“While some of the newer technology show a reduction in some of the forces that you can measure in a lab, we’re not seeing any reduction in concussions, which means it’s not probably having the degree of effect on how the brain moves inside the skull, which is really the issue,” Meeuwisse said.

“And some people are concerned that putting more padding on is going to let people hit harder without hurting as much, but yet may have as much or more brain effect,” he said.

As the consensus statement says: “An important consideration in the use of protective equipment is the concept of risk compensation ... where the use of (this) equipment results in behavioural change, such as the adoption of more dangerous playing techniques, which can result in a paradoxical increase in injury rates.”

While it’s advisable to wear a mouth guard because they prevent dental and facial injury, the panel concluded the devices do not lower the risk of sustaining a concussion due to a blow to the head.

And despite all the media attention about the brains of some deceased athletes showing evidence of CTE, the experts say there is not enough evidence to conclude that repeated concussions cause the progressively destructive neurological disease.

“It’s a recognition that this science is in a very early stage of its development,” Meeuwisse said.

“If you look at the scope of concussion, you have millions of sport-related concussions happen every year and yet we have a very small, isolated number of CTE (cases).”

NFL free agency has depth but little star power The secret meetings and late-night flights on private jets might still be a part of this year’s NFL marketplace.

Ah, but for glam, glitz and pure mega wattage, no one will come close to reprising the free agency frenzy that caught the country’s attention last year when Peyton Manning was wooed and wowed from coast to coast before finally settling on Denver.

Most of the big names in this year’s class of free agents aren’t even BIG names. They’re not even BIG stars. Certainly not in Manning’s class.

Sure, Ed Reed is coming off helping a Super Bowl season with Baltimore, Wes Welker catches 100 passes every year, and Dashon Goldson is an AllPro. But this crop is more about aging defensive players like Charles Woodson, Brian Urlacher and Ronde Barber. And then are some solid but hardly unforgettable receivers and running backs: Greg Jennings, Mike Wallace, Reggie Bush and Michael Turner.

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BRIEFS Three Midget Lakers named to all-star team Three members of the Sylvan Lake Lakers have been named to the South Central Alberta Midget AA Hockey League all-star team.

Defenceman Bryce Marshall and forwards Travis Mayan and Tyler Yach will suit up with the South Central select squad in an April 6 game versus the Hockey Calgary all-star team at Cochrane.

Also named to the South Central all-star team are Lacombe Rockets goaltender Peter Luymes and forward David Luymes, Red Deer Pro-Stitch blueliner Kyle Kapalka, Red Deer Elks forward Connor Einhorn and forward Cody Phillips of the Innisfail Flyers.

The team will be coached by Lakers bench boss Lloyd Cox and his Sylvan Lake staff of assistants Jim Lawrence and Tim Ostiguy. Lakers trainer Cassie Donagy and manager Laurie Yach round out the off-ice staff.

When full free agency begins Tuesday at 4 p.m. EDT, with all 32 teams under the $123 million salary cap, the bidding wars might be furious for a while. Or perhaps not, considering the dangers of signing players beyond their peak years to rich deals that can financially hamstring teams in the future. The stakes are high.

“We did this study to try to determine what the hit rate was,” says Bill Polian, who built the Bills, Panthers and Colts into Super Bowl teams and now is analyst for ESPN and SiriusXM. “It ends up in our study being about what it was for the draft, right around 50 per cent, slightly above that.

“You then get into the qualitative judgment or subjective judgment of ’at what cost?’ So player A, who cost you $12 million a year, is he a success if he starts or is he a success if he helps you get to the playoffs?”

The number of free agents who helped their teams get to the playoffs last season is impressive. From the Super Bowl rosters alone are Baltimore safety Reed, linebacker Dannell Ellerbe and LB-DE Paul Kruger; 49ers

safety Goldson, DT Isaac Sopoaga, TE Delanie Walker and WR Randy Moss.

And you can throw in Welker, Turner, Sam Baker, Dan Koppen, Andre Smith and Fred Davis.

Both backfields are loaded with candidates without contracts. Joining Reed, Goldson, Woodson and Barber among defensive backs available are Aqib Talib, Brent Grimes, Kenny Phillips, LaRon Landry and brother Dawan Landry, Dominique RodgersCromartie, Keenan Lewis, and Quentin Jammer.

Tailbacks and fullbacks include Bush, Turner, Steven Jackson, Ahmad Bradshaw, Jerome Felton, Shonn Greene and Rashard Mendenhall.

Polian warns about one position being a risk in the draft: wide receiver.

But he says in free agency, that’s not necessarily the case. So spending big bucks on Welker, Wallace, Jennings, or taking a gamble on Moss, Deion Branch or Julian Edelman might pay off.

Of high interest is how longtime stars with their current teams fare on the marketplace. Urlacher is 34, Reed is 35, Woodson is 36 and Barber is 37.

Do owners and general managers take a chance that each of those perennial Pro Bowlers have enough left to bring more than experience and leadership to their teams?

“There are clubs, we were one of them, that said if a guy’s 27 years of age or above, we’re probably not going to go for a long-term deal at big money,” Polian says. “But if you feel you’re one quality receiver away and the physical exam turns out to be OK, you might do it. Again, that is what makes free agency interesting.”

What also made the grab bag of extra interest was a three-day window allowing teams to talk to representatives of unrestricted free agents. The idea was to eliminate tampering.

“I think it’s fair to say that everybody will be interested to see how it works out, what the results of it are,” Polian said. “I wouldn’t say everybody was enthusiastic about it. We all had some reservation. But, on balance, I think it’s fair to say that we felt that it was something that would at least bring some organization to what had been a very chaotic process.”

Generals host Eagles in provincial finals Friday

ship. Dundas leads Brantford 2-0 in a best-of-seven set.

Either the Power River Regals or Fort St. John Flyers will represent B.C. in the Allan Cup. The best-of-five B.C. final starts March 21, with the entire series to be played at Fort St. John.

The first games are set for 4 and 4:15 p.m. Thursday at the Stettler Blue and Red arenas. The championship final goes at 3 p.m. Sunday. ● The Alberta atom C championship tournament is slated for Thursday to Sunday at Sundre, where the host Huskies will be joined by the Rimbey Renegades, Kitscoty Storm, Foremost Flyers, Tofield Titans, Beiseker Blazers, Beaverlodge Blades and Barrhead Hawks.

Rimbey takes on Kitscoty in the opening game at 5 p.m. Thursday. Sundre and Foremost will meet at 7:15 p.m.

The championship final is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

The Bentley Generals will host the Stony Plain Eagles Friday in the opening game of the best-of-seven Alberta senior AAA hockey championship series.

The games goes at 8 p.m.

The teams will hook up Saturday night in Stony Plain and Games 3 and 4 will be played March 22-23 in Bentley and Stony Plain. Additional games, if required, will be played March 29 at the Red Deer Arena and March 30 at Stony Plain, with the site of a seventh contest to be announced.

The Generals will host the six-team Allan Cup — Canadian senior AAA championship — tournament April 1520 at the Red Deer Arena.

The Clarenville Cougars of Newfoundland have already been confirmed as the Atlantic representative.

Meanwhile, the Saskatchewan/Manitoba representative will be decided at the conclusion of a best-of-five series starting March 22 at Rosetown, Sask.

The Red Wings will host the entire series against the Southeast Prairie Thunder of Manitoba.

The Kenora Thistles will take on either the Dundas Real McCoys or Brantford Blast in the Ontario champion-

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Sunday at the Dawe Centre.

Bostock had five goals against Fort The Revenge reached the final by McMurray with Caine, Rachel Billett, defeating the St. Albert XIr8 7-2 in the Sierra Hilman and Baillon adding on semifinals while the Edmonton Luna- each. chix defeated the Red Deer Fearless Baillon had two goals and Bostock 6-1. and McCullough one apiece against St. Albert went on to down the Fear- Medicine Hat. less 7-6 in a shootout, following the second overtime period, in the bronze medal game.

The St. Albert goalie proved to be the difference in the game as Red Deer held a 61-17 edge in shots on goal., Kelsie Bostock and Ashlin Caine had two goals each for Fearless with singles added by Megan McCullough and KenGET SAVINGS OF nedy Baillon.

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The Lacombe Rockets will host the provincial atom A hockey championship Friday to Sunday.

Also competing in the tournament are teams from Olds, Wainwright, Drayton Valley, Sexsmith, Taber, Wetaskiwin and Devon.

The provincials open Friday at 8 and 8:15 a.m. at the Barnett 1 and 2 arenas and conclude with Sunday’s 3:30 p.m. final. ● The Stettler Storm will entertain the rest of the province in the Alberta bantam A championship Thursday to Sunday.

Joining the Storm in the 10-team event are the Olds Grizzlys, Edmonton KC Sabres, Calgary Westwood Warriors, Beaumont Braves, Lloydminster Blazers, Grande Prairie Knights, Sherwood Park 815 and Okotoks Oilers.

Circle T edges Triple A James Johanson had 15 points and Dallas Demontigny 12 as Circle T edged Triple A 48-45 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday.

Dave Misner had 17 points and Russ Hart nine for Triple A. In other action, Nathan Dixon dropped in 45 points and Taylor Armstrong added 17 as Carstar beat investor’s 92-85.

Ray Teskey had 22 points and Jarrett Hart 21 for Investors.

Winners will be announced at the REBEL PLAYOFF PREVIEW, in the March 22 Red Deer Advocate

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City census goes online FUNDS RAISED FOR PETS Almost $5,000 was raised for a Red Deer animal rescue shelter.

Global Pet Foods Red Deer, through the seventh annual Show Us Your Heart campaign raised $4,383 for local pets in need and 100 per cent of the funds will go to Whisker Rescue, a no-kill animal shelter in Red Deer. Nationally Global Pet Foods raised more than $170,000 for various animal shelters throughout Canada.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s head count is going virtual.

Starting on March 25, a census letter will be hand-delivered to every house in Red Deer.

In the letter there’s a PIN specific to each address that will allow residents to fill out questions on a secure website linked to the city’s site.

Residents will need that PIN to access the online census.

‘WE ARE REALLY ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO GO ONLINE AND USE THE NEW TOOL.’ — ERIN STUART, DEPUTY CITY CLERK

“When they enter that PIN along with their address, it will take them to an area where they are able to answer the ques-

tions,” said Erin Stuart, deputy city clerk.

“That information is submitted to the city.”

The online census portion will be offered April 2 to 16.

Enumerators will start door knocking on houses that did not respond online on April 19.

“We are really encouraging people to go online and use the new tool,” said Stuart.

“We’re really hoping for a significant show online.”

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WATER PLANS On Friday, people can learn more about the Alberta government’s consultations on water and its use.

The state of the province’s Water Conversations on the future of drinking and wastewater systems, healthy lakes, hydraulic fracturing and water management will be presented by Andy Lamb, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development’s Central Region director. Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski will also discuss the provincial budget at the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance monthly Ambassador breakfast. The event is from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Quality Inn North Hill at 7150 Gaetz Ave. Cost is $15 per person.

SENIORS MARK ST. PATRICK’S Food, drink, music and crafts will be on offer at the Golden Circle on Saturday in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. From 1-3 p.m. people are invited to come down for tea and dessert accompanied by entertainment from the Golden Circle Ho-Downers. There will also be a table of crafts for those in the mood for some shopping.

Tickets are $5, available at the front desk. The Golden Circle is located at 4620 47A Ave.

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta.

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Jazz Explosion vibraphone player Susan Yaworski plays her part as the Red Deer Community Band Society 18-piece jazz band takes to the stage at the Cornerstone Dinning Room at Red Deer College on Friday. An evening of Dueling Jazz with a Touch of Class was hosted and presented by the Red Deer College Hospitality and Tourism Management students, in the second of four evenings of food and entertainment this month. On March 16 the students will present their Flavours of Alberta dining experience. On March 22 the Night of Illusion will begin at the Cornerstone and then carry on to the City Centre Stage where illusionist TriXtan will perform.

Flavours of Alberta is sold out but the Night of Illusion still has tickets available. For tickets contact Kayla at 403-352-1049.

Frauds and scams are commonplace and a little knowledge can prevent people from becoming victims.

Locally recent frauds have victimized local residents.

An Internet romance scam defrauded two people out of $40,000, a person posing as a Canadian Cancer Society representative and soliciting donations defrauded people of more than $10,000 and a person lost their rent and a damage deposit to a fake Craigslist ad for a rental property the scammer did not own.

From January to October in 2012 there were 852 cases of fraud reported to the Red Deer City RCMP. March is Fraud Prevention Month and the RCMP would like to remind people of frauds that are common.

Money transfer requests are common and have been found all over the world.

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Rotarians roll out gift of wheelchairs for Mexico’s needy

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Travelling through areas of Mexico, sometimes on what could generously be described as roads, Neil Swensrude and a group of volunteers rolled out 490 wheelchairs throughout the Central American nation.

The program, which is run by the Red Deer East and Sylvan Lake Rotary Clubs, is now in its 10th year and has provided 2,436 wheelchairs to countries including Belize, Cuba, South Africa, Ukraine and the Philippines.

Swensrude, the project cochair, said they received a lot of community interest and this was their eighth wheelchair distribution.

A total of 29 people — Rotarians, family members and friends — spent two weeks distributing the wheelchairs at six different locations in Mexico ranging from towns such as Huatulco to small mountain villages such as San Felipe.

“That was about a six-hour journey on not much of a road,”

said Swensrude.

“We even had to get out of the van on one occasion and walk around a curve because there was only about four inches left for the tire before it would go over a cliff.”

The 25- to 30-km trip took three hours complete.

They went to several other locations as well to deliver the new wheelchairs, which cost $150 each.

Swensrude said the group would go into the centre of the various communities, dressed in bright red Team Canada hockey jerseys and distribute the wheelchairs.

“You see 29 of those (Canada jerseys) it attracts attention from all the communities, towns, media, civic dignitaries because it is a major project,” said Swensrude.

When they go to the communities, Swensrude said many of the wheelchair recipients come in for their wheelchairs on the back of a truck, crawl in, are carried in or come in by ambulance.

Even those who can’t come in will have the social service

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Rotarian assists a recipient of a donated wheelchair during a recent trip to one of six remote locations in Mexico. agency go out to their home and deliver the wheelchair.

Rotarians from several different clubs worked together to raise $60,000 in a 12-week period for the trip.

The clubs involved include Red Deer East, Sylvan Lake, Okotoks, High River, Rocky Mountain House, Lacombe Daybreak, Red Deer Centennial and Northbrook, Illinois, as well as the Huatulco club.

Swensrude credited the success of the campaign over the past 10 years in part due to the level of public awareness through media.

“We open it up to every-

body,” said Swensrude.

“Not only to everybody to make a contribution, we like to open it up to everybody to participate in the experience.

It inspires people simply to do more because they can have the opportunity of seeing what happens.”

He said seeing those get the wheelchairs, the young child, the elderly, a person without legs is a great experience.

“They not only see them, they actually lift them into the wheelchair,” said Swensrude. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate. com

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‘FIRST THURSDAY’ PERFORMANCE

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BRIEFS Cadet exels at biathlon He has that rare ability of being able to shoot well even after sprinting over snow-covered hills on a pair of cross-country skis. Red Deer biathlete Brad Saunders, a sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, earned a bronze and a silver medal in the National Cadet Biathlon Championship, run last week at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Que. Saunders, 15, took silver in the senior male division of the Mass Start and followed that up with a bronze in the Senior Male Brad Saunders Pursuit, reaffirming the record he has already established by winning multiple medals in previous competitions.

Water concerns to be addressed A revised water strategy in Alberta could pit an individual’s right to clean water against the economic power of corporations for whom the stuff of life has become a commodity, say organizers of a pair of water-related events in Red Deer on March 19.

Derrick Callan, Chair of the Council of Canadians Red Deer Chapter, invites people who have concerns about their water resources to come to either or both events.

The first event will be a demonstration and discussion of water issues, set for the Red Deer College Forum from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Following that, the group will screen a documentary, A Bottled Life, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 2301 at the college.

There is no fee to attend either event. People are encouraged to use what they have learned to join Alberta Environment’s public consultation on water, which wraps up at the end of this month. Learn more online at www.environment.alberta.ca

For more information email publicawareness@ care2centre.com.

There were no injuries as the plant was evacuated and the fire was quickly put out.

Events to mark diversity

Injury on job charges stayed

Hockey teams donate to Africa

Red Deer’s diversity will be celebrated later this month with several planned events as part of Red Deer Centennial Cultural Diversity Week.

From March 17 to 23 the events will be hosted by several community organizations including the Hub on Ross, Central Alberta Refugee Effort, Central Alberta Diversity Association, Everyone’s Home, Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association and the Red Deer and District Archives.

On March 17, from 1 to 3 p.m., the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 6300 45th Ave., will hold nature activities for new Canadians.

On March 19, at Red Deer College, 100 College Blvd., there will be an Ukrainian psyanka from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

March 21 will feature a youth summit for junior high students called Be the Change.

A film called Brooks - the City of 100 Hello’s will be screened on March 22 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hub on Ross, 4936 Ross St., and discussion with the filmmaker will follow.

The week wraps up with the Red Deer Centennial Cultural Mosaic Celebration on March 23, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Festival Hall, 4214 58th St.

Charges have been stayed against a gravel company accused of creating an unsafe working environment after a man was injured on the job.

HBF Crushing Inc. was to have gone to trial this week on charges laid after a worker’s arm was caught in a pulley on March 6, 2009, while he was working at a gravel pit near Delburne.

Operating under contract to Fath Industries, HBF Crushing was charged with failing to provide a safe workplace, failing to maintain equipment in a way that prevents workers from being injured and failing to ensure equipment was installed and managed as prescribed by the manufacturer.

The charges were stayed in September of 2012.

The Crown may reopen the file at any time within a year from the date the charges were stayed.

Two hockey teams from the Word of Life church have partnered with two local businesses to raise money to send pigs to central African nations.

The Word of Life Warriors and Word of Life Kings are donating $3 per goal they score.

With only a few games left in the regular season the Warriors have scored 223, while the Kings have pitched in 150.

Three local businesses, Source for Sports and Pro Paint Industrial Blasting and Coating and Downey, Roth, Hrywkiw, Fidek LLP are helping out.

Pro Paint is matching the donation for all Warriors goals while Downey, Roth, Hrywkiw, Fidek LLP are contributing at least $500. Source for Sports hasn’t specified the size of their donation yet, but are contributing.

The money raised goes towards buying pigs for children in Rwanda and Congo.

Each baby pig costs $35 and eight months after the pig is purchased it grows up and can produce a litter of, on average, eight pigs. These pigs can be sold, or used for food.

Last year the teams were just shy of raising $3,000 and this year they expect to raise more.

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Matthew McGuigan plays flute while accompanied by pianist Kathleen van Mourik at the Snell Auditorium in the downtown branch of the Red Deer Library. First Thursdays at the Snell is a free lunchtime concert from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. McGuigan and van Mourik played four pieces including Sonate for flute and piano by Philipe Gaubert, Mei by Kazuo Fukushima, Le merle noir by Oliver Messiaen and Duo for Flute and Piano by Aaron Copland. Audio and video presentation for this and most First Thursday events are streamed live at http:www. rdpl.org/events/liveAtRDPL

Faulty cable cause of fire A fault cable inside a wall caused a fire in a Blindman Industrial Park steel plant last week.

About $10,000 damage was caused when the small blaze broke out at Evraz Industries’ steel pipe plant March 5.

Teacher charged with sex offences against female student

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Police have charged a teacher with sexual offences against a teenage student.

It’s alleged that Piotr Zaloba had a sexual relationship with the girl between Feb. 1 and March 8 of this year.

The 27-year-old was on a temporary contract and teaching Grade 9 at an Edmonton Catholic school.

Joan Carr, superintendent of the Edmonton Catholic School Board, said the teacher was suspended last week when the allegation surfaced.

She said she was personally “heartbroken and devastated” by the news.

“We have launched our own inter-

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CENSUS: Difficult to gauge benefit this year The city skipped the census in 2012 because a lower growth rate meant the process would not end up being cost neutral. In 2011, the city’s population was sitting at 91,877.

Stuart said they hope it will save the city some money and be more environmentally friendly but it’s difficult to gauge the benefits this year.

“We really encourage people to use the online portion,” said Stuart.

“It’s really easy and convenient. We’ve tested it out within the office here. It’s a great way to save paper, reduce clutter and help the environment out.”

There are no additional questions this year. The city will ask the standard questions including the number of people living at the residence, the genders, year of birth and whether or not they are Canadian citizens.

The census conducted to help with infrastructure and program planning, determine grant funding and also provides useful demographic information to community agencies.

Last week the city put out a call for census takers and all the positions have been filled. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

nal investigation ....” she told a news conference Monday. “We wish to assure our parent community that our schools are safe places.”

Letters were being sent home to students and their parents asking them to come forward if they have similar allegations.

“The safety of our students is always our first priority,” said the letter.

wants to purchase it. They will send a cheque or money order of greater value than the item.

They will request to send the remaining difference back by money order or cash, which cannot be traced.

The victim later learns that the original cheque or money order is fraudulent. Police said never send money or give credit card or online account details to anyone you don’t know or trust.

Internet scams are common and fraudster use unsolicited or junk emails, known as spam, to prey on victims.

They use a variety of tricks to get their software on your computer, through links, pop-up messages or fake websites. The sole purpose of these efforts is to infect a person’s computer.

Another common form of fraud are emergency scams where an individual contacts a victim by phone advising they have been arrested by police and are in need of funds for bail.

The scammer poses as a family member, often a grandchild, provides some details in an effort to prove who they claim to be.

The individual attempts to secure money from the victim for their release from police custody, though there have been a number of variations to this scam.

In some cases people have been defrauded thousands.

RCMP suggest people do not give out their personal information, unless they are able to confirm who is on the other end; do not send any money or pay a fee to claim a prize; be suspicious of a “today only” offer, if it is a truly legitimate deal, it will be there tomorrow; treat personal information with care and

“Please use this as an opportunity to discuss this incident with your child.”

Insp. Dave Spiers said police continue to investigate the case.

Zaloba is charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and child luring.

He is to appear in court April 15.

don’t leave it lying around; shred old bills and rely on established businesses or individuals, whose reliability and credibility can be established through professional organizations such as the Better Business Bureau or a chamber of commerce.

For more information on frauds or scams refer to the Canadian anti-fraud centre at www.antifraudcentre.ca or the competition bureau’s information centre at www.competitionbureau.gc.ca.

If you have been a victim report it to the Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575 and to the Canadian antifraud centre at 1-888-495-8501.

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Weak economic growth forecast CANADA IN FOR WEAK PERIOD AS U.S. SHOWS IMPROVEMENT: OECD

BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada is in for a period of weak growth that will see the country lose its cherished place as the best economic performer among big industrial nations, the OECD said Monday in a fresh assessment of global prospects.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s latest composite leader indicator report, a forward looking assessment, projects that the data “continues to point to weak growth” in Canada, whereas it finds the recovery in the United States and Japan “firming.”

The Paris-based economic group also cites Germany, another Group of Seven nation to which Canada is compared, as ready for a pick-up in growth.

The finding is not a surprise given that Canada’s economy has been braking since last

‘CANADA IS NOT LEADING ANYMORE. CANADA IS ENTERING THIS PERIOD IN WHICH WE WILL UNDERPERFORM.’ — CIBC SENIOR ECONOMIST BENJAMIN TAL

summer, with the third and fourth quarters of 2012 producing some of the slowest grossdomestic-product speeds since the recession at 0.7 and 0.6 per cent respectively.

On Friday, a group of about a dozen private sector economists told Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to expect more of the same in 2013 with real GDP growth of about 1.7 per cent.

CIBC senior economist Benjamin Tal says Canadians should get used to no longer being leader of the G7 pack in terms of growth.

“Canada is not leading anymore. Canada is entering this period in which we will under-

perform,” he said, explaining that the main drivers of growth so far into the recovery — consumer spending and housing — have topped out.

The Bank of Canada has counted on exports and business investment to take up the slack, but that will depend on foreign markets, particularly the U.S., becoming stronger economically.

Tal points out that the U.S. beat Canada for GDP growth last year for the first time since the 2008-09 recession, recording a 2.2 per cent advance over Canada’s 1.8.

The OECD leading indicator report does not give a specific

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Mexico moves against tycoon MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Pena Nieto moved Monday to overhaul and strengthen the weak and chaotic regulations that have allowed the world’s richest man and its largest Spanishlanguage media empire to exert near-total control of Mexico’s lucrative telephone and television markets.

The reforms would give the Mexican government tools to take on multibillionaire telephone tycoon Carlos Slim and Televisa CEO Emilio Azcarraga, independent observers said. The two rivals’ holds on their respective markets have been widely seen as emblems of regulatory dysfunction in a country aspiring to join the ranks of the world’s economic superpowers.

— The Associated Press

growth figure for economies, but sees the U.S., Japan and Germany as being on the upswing, while Canada is stalled.

NDP finance critic Peggy Nash says the government should resume investing in the economy.

She notes that while municipalities have been citing the infrastructure deficit in terms needed roads, bridges and public transit improvements, Ottawa is missing an opportunity to invest when interest rates are at historic lows.

“Obviously people expect us to be prudent with tax dollars, but ... we’ll never find a better time and a better price to leverage federal dollars for things like infrastructure,” she said.

“Not only is lack of infrastructure hurting the economy now, but why make these investments (later) when interest rates are higher and it costs you more money?”

Please see FLAHERTY on Page C4

REAL ESTATE ‘BONANZA’

House prices to remain flat for 10 years: TD

Financial records of top officials, celebrities posted online LOS ANGELES — Authorities and celebrities were grappling Monday with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars such as Jay-Z and Mel Gibson. Los Angeles police said they were investigating how the Social Security number, address and a credit report of the police chief ended up on the site. The site also posted the same information about FBI Director Robert Mueller; the bureau said it was aware of the site but declined to say whether it was investigating.

The site also targeted stars such as Beyonce, Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton. Info posted about Vice-President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not include credit reports but included addresses and other sensitive information.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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Sarah Palin, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2008, and former Alaska governor speaks in Washington. Palin has a deal with HarperCollins for “A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas,” scheduled for November. HarperCollins announced Monday, that the book will criticize the “over-commercialism” and “homogenization” of Christmas and call for a renewed emphasis on the religious importance.

Sulvaris to develop sulphur fertilizer plant in Rocky area

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A Calgary-based fertilizer company plans to tap into the Strachan Gas Plant for its newest product.

Sulvaris Inc. announced on Monday that it has struck an agreement with Keyera Corp. to develop a sulphur fertilizer production facility at Keyera’s gas plant southwest of Rocky Mountain House.

It said the new facility will convert elemental sulphur from the gas plant’s operations into a plant nutrient sulphur fertilizer called Vitasul.

The new facility will be owned as a 50/50 joint venture between Keyera and Sulvaris, with Keyera operating it and producing Vitasul for Sulvaris on a fee-for-service basis.

Sulvaris will market and distribute the product.

Vitasul, which was developed by Sulvaris, consists of microscopic sulphur particles that have been pelletized into fertilizer granules. Once in the soil, they disperse and are converted into plant nutrient sulphur.

Sulvaris said in a release that plant nutrient sulphur is needed for the production of chlorophyll, oil and protein.

It added that plant nutrient sulphur deficiency in soils is a growing problem, and that Vitasul has proven effective in global field trials on a variety of crops, including canola, corn and wheat.

The Strachan facility will be able to produce approximately 217,000 tonnes of Vitasul per year. This is expected to be sold in Canada, the United States and Asia.

Randy Boomhour, chief financial officer with Sulvaris, said the Strachan facility will be the first to produce Vitasul on a commercial scale.

He said the sulphur feedstock will come from that gas plant, and others.

“Really what sulphur is, for all intents and purposes, is a waste or a byproduct off of oil or gas production.

We’re taking that by-product, or waste product, and turning it into a high-value-added fertilizer product that the world really needs.”

Few details about the new facility are available, including its cost. Boomhour said it represented a “material financial investment” and that it would have a visible effect on the Strachan Gas Plant’s appearance.

He said new, permanent jobs would result, but didn’t elaborate.

Engineering work for the project is underway, said Sulvaris in its release, and subject to regulatory approvals, financing and final approval by it and Keyera, construction should begin this year and wrap up early in 2014.

The Strachan gas plant performs a number of natural gas processing services, including sulphur recovery.

It’s connected to three major gathering systems, with a capture area covering approximately 2,500 square km. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

OTTAWA — Canada’s real estate bonanza of the past decade has come to end and the long-term trend as one of the most profitable places to invest is also not encouraging, a new research paper from the TD Bank argues.

The “special report” from one of Canada’s largest banks makes the case that gains in housing prices have been exceptionally strong over the last 10 years, even when accounting for a sharp drop during the 2008-09 recession.

But now is the time for ‘I DO NOT THINK a bit of a payback.

The report does not WE HAVE A predict a collapse in HOUSING BUBBLE house prices as some analysts have suggestIN CANADA. ed. In fact, it sees pricWE HAVE HAD es rebounding after a few years of a correcABNORMAL tion to as high as eight STRENGTH IN THE per cent.

MARKET DURING However, the longer term trend is for home A PERIOD OF LOW price gains to average about two per cent INTEREST RATES...’ over the next 10 years — TD CHIEF ECONOMIST — flat once inflation CRAIG ALEXANDER is taken into account, says TD chief economist Craig Alexander.

“I do not think we have a housing bubble in Canada,” said Alexander.

“We have had abnormal strength in the market during a period of low interest rates and when rates go up over the next three years, you will get a cooling and weaker prices, but not a permanent shock and not a sharp correction.”

The bank said tighter rules for borrowers and lenders are only part of the reason to expect prices to moderate. Other contributing factors include the aging population, modest growth in both the population and the economy and, eventually, higher interest rates.

The bank thinks the market could correct by as much as eight per cent over the next three years, but Alexander said it is possible that prices won’t fall as much as that.

Some forecasters, including Capital Economists, have predicted a bigger correction is in the offing, arguing that houses in Canada may be overpriced by as much as 25 per cent.

But Alexander says that exaggerates the problem, believing the overvaluation is closer to 10 per cent.

The problem with the housing collapse scenario, says Alexander, is that typically a sharp price correction needs a trigger in terms of a steep increase in interest rates or unemployment, both of which appear unlikely at this point.

While sales, starts and building permits issued have come off the boil in the past half year, particularly since tighter mortgage rules went into effect in July, home prices in Canada have remained relatively resilient with the exception of perhaps the condo market in Vancouver and Toronto. The Canadian Real Estate Association calculation for January found the average home sold for $354,754, about two per cent more than a year earlier.

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Hobbema business nabs award of distinction A Hobbema financial institution has been awarded a 2013 Alberta Business Award of Distinction.

Niwihcihaw Acceptance Ltd. was presented with the Eagle Feather Business Award of Distinction Friday evening in Edmonton.

That award goes to a First Nation-owned business with “outstanding achievement in business” and which has “in-

EAGLE FEATHER BUSINESS AWARD corporated entrepreneurial and cultural concepts into its operation.”

Niwihcihaw Acceptance provides personal consumer loans to members of Ermineskin Cree Nation and other First Nation communities and agencies. Its name means “helping hands”

in Cree.

A release issued by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, which organizes the annual awards, said Niwihcihaw Acceptance’s mandate is to promote economic growth and selfsufficiency.

It’s also involved in a number

of community activities.

There were 11 Alberta Business Awards of Distinction presented, with the categories consisting of Aboriginal Woman Entrepreneur, Diversity Leadership, Employer of Persons with Disabilities, Employer of Youth, Small Business, Aboriginal Relations, Marketing, Youth Entrepreneur, Export and the Premier’s Award of Distinction.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.97 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.00 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.17 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.10 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.64 Cdn. National Railway . 103.08 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 130.28 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 79.08

Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.82 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.15 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 32.99 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.11 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.50 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.89 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.31 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.75 Research in Motion. . . . . 15.29

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Optimism that BlackBerry’s new Z10 smartphone will make a big splash in the U.S. helped push the Toronto stock market slightly higher Monday.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 22.87 points to 12,858.49 and the TSX Venture Exchange slipped 1.58 points to 1,116.27.

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) shares ran up $1.86 or 13.85 per cent to $15.29 amid news that the company’s new Z10 smartphone will go on sale in the U.S. on March 22 through AT&T. The Z10 has already launched in Canada and the U.K. to date. But a success in the U.S. smartphone market is considered key to the new BlackBerrys.

The Canadian dollar edged up 0.26 of a cent to 97.43 cents US. In New York, the Dow Jones racked up yet another record high close, as it did in a string of higher closes last week. The Dow has now recouped all the losses resulting from the 2008 financial crisis and the recession that followed.

The blue chip barometer gained 50.22 points to 14,447.29, the Nasdaq composite index edged 8.51 points higher to 3,252.87 and the S&P 500 index was up 5.04 points to 1,556.22.

Commodity prices and TSX resource stocks had earlier retreated following the release of weaker than expected Chinese economic data over the weekend.

Industrial production was up 9.9 per cent year over year in January while retail sales rose 12.3 per cent in February. However, both figures were below expectations and weaker than the previous month.

Worries also grew that China’s central bank is reining in lending as other figures showed that new loans came in at a less than expected 620 billion yuan.

On top of it all, China’s inflation rate was 3.2 per cent in February, which was also higher than economists expected.

Analysts also cautioned that the Chinese numbers were likely impacted by the country’s Lunar New Year holiday period and suggested it would take a few more months of data to get a clearer picture. But they point out that China is still a star economic performer, just not as strong as before.

That sentiment was evident on the metals market where May copper shook off early declines to close a cent higher at US$3.52 a pound.

The base metals also recovered early losses and closed slightly higher.

Inmet Mining Corp. (TSX:IMN) continues to be in play. It’s the target of a $5.1-billion hostile takeover offer from First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM), which has said its offer of stock and cash worth about $72 per share will expire later Monday. Toronto-based Inmet has recommended that shareholders reject First Quantum’s bid, although it hasn’t produced a superior offer. Inmet shares rose 11 cents to C$68.63 while First Quantum was 22 cents higher at $20.64.

The energy sector also moved into positive territory, up 0.27 per cent with April crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange up 11 cents to US$92.06 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) gained 13 cents at C$31.58 .The gold sector was the biggest TSX drag, down about 0.45 per cent as April bullion gained $1.10 to US$1,578 an ounce. Goldcorp (TSX:G) faded 33 cents to C$33.23.

The board of Aurizon Mines Ltd. (TSX:ARZ) has adopted a new shareholder rights plan, saying it wants to prevent Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX:AGI) from using its voting power to defeat a better takeover offer from a rival company. Alamos already owns 16 per cent of Aurizon and has offered to buy up the rest of its stock.

Aurizon’s board is supporting a rival offer from Hecla Mining Co. and said Monday that its new rights plan will ensure all shareholders are treated equally. Alamos shares added two cents at C$14.56 while Aurizon shares were four cents lower at $4.51.

Consumer staples stocks also weighed on the TSX as Maple Leaf Foods (TSX:MFI) gave back 59 cents to $12.91.

In other corporate news, Clearwater Seafoods Inc. (TSX:CLR) shares rose 12 cents to $5.09 as it reported quarterly net income of $10.5 million or 17 cents a basic share, down from $16.4 million a year ago. It also posted record revenues of $350.4 million for all of 2012.

On the domestic economic front, data coming out at the end of the week is expected to show the Canadian housing market is cooling at a faster pace. Existing home sales for February are expected to show a 12.5 per cent year-over-year decline following a 5.2 per cent slide in January. Average prices for February are expected to slip one per cent.

In the U.S., investors will take in the February report on retail sales on Wednesday. It is expected sales rose by 0.5 per cent following a 0.1 per cent rise in January.

Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.50 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.00 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 43.24 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.14 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 15.23 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.21 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 69.19 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.97 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.93 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 12.91 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.26 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.60 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 52.51 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.98 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.93

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Monday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,858.49 up 22.87 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,116.27 down 1.58 points TSX 60 — 739.39 up 1.49 points Dow — 14,447.29, up 50.22 points, fifth-straight historic close S&P 500 — 1,556.22 up 5.04 points Nasdaq — 3,252.87 up 8.51 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 97.43 cents US, up 0.26 of a cent Pound — C$1.5315, down 0.31 of a cent Euro — C$1.3378, up 0.03 of a cent Euro — US$1.3034, up 0.37 of a cent Oil futures: US$92.06 per barrel, up 11 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,578 per oz.,, up $1.10 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $30.746 per oz., down 13.6 cents $988.48 kg., down $4.38 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 1,116.27, down 1.58 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 146.92 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: May ’13 $1.60 higher $636.30; July ’13 $0.50 higher $628.30; Nov. ’13 $0.20 lower $616.400; Jan. ’14 $1.70 lower $557.60; March ’14 $1.70 lower $552.80; May ’14 $1.70 lower $550.70; July ’14 $1.70 lower $548.80; Nov. ’14 $1.70 lower $537.60; Jan ’15 $1.70 lower $537.60; March ’15 $1.70 lower $537.60.

Barley (Western): March ’13 unchanged $242.00; May ’13 unchanged $243.00; July ’13 unchanged $243.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $243.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $243.50; March ’14 unchanged $243.50; May ’14 unchanged $243.50; July ’14 unchanged $243.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $243.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $243.50; March ’15 unchanged $243.50.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 144,300 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 144,300.

BlackBerry facing off against Samsung’s latest smartphone as it launches in U.S.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The launch of BlackBerry’s new smartphones in the United States later this week, following its debut in several other countries, will put the company in direct competition with hype for a new device from one of its biggest rivals.

Samsung is expected to unveil the latest version of its top-selling Galaxy smartphone series on Thursday, just days before the new BlackBerry Z10 becomes available through wireless carriers AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile.

These close releases could leave smartphone buyers asking themselves, should I go with the new BlackBerry (TSX:BB) or the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4?

An early 2013 launch had reassured that the BlackBerry Z10 had breathing space before other new phones hit stores later this year, including an expected new iPhone from Apple. But the anticipated clash of the two phones could spell out another challenge for the Waterloo, Ont.-based company, which formerly called itself Research In Motion.

Though details of the new Samsung phone won’t be revealed until Thursday during an event at Radio City Music Hall in New York, rumours already suggest it will be slightly larger than its earlier version.

Another is that it will feature technology that tracks the user’s eye and automatically scrolls through a website at the same pace as the user reading the page.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is expected to be released sometime this spring.

Meanwhile, AT&T Inc. said it would begin presales of the BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone on Tuesday, leading up to an official release on March 22. The company said on Monday that the phone will sell for US$199.99 under a two-year contract.

Fellow U.S. carrier T-Mobile said it will carry the BlackBerry device for its business customers as early as the end of this week, though it did not provide details on the availability for non-business customers.

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The phone is already available in the U.S. by Solavei, a smaller no-contract carrier, for about $1,000.

The keyboard version of the new BlackBerrys still does not have an official release date in any country.

BlackBerry shares gained 14 per cent, or $1.86, to close at $15.29 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with nearly 11.4 million shares traded.

A perceived success in the U.S. smartphone market is seen as crucial for the new BlackBerrys. The U.S. is where Apple’s iPhone is most dominant and where Android smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S3 are gaining traction.

Last month, Samsung stepped up a campaign aimed directly at the BlackBerry enterprise customers, which are the business clients that have come to rely on the smartphone.

The advertising spots, which include one starring movie director Tim Burton, feature employees at a gaming company who deride older BlackBerry models for having a noisy keypad and an outdated camera.

Anecdotal evidence for the new BlackBerry sales continue to suggest that demand remains strong across various regions.

Jefferies analyst Peter Misek published a note on Monday which said the BlackBerry Z10 continues to sell well, with his retail outlet checks showing that it is sold out in many new markets.

“India has been particularly strong,” he wrote.

“And we believe AT&T will heavily support the (new BlackBerrys) with it possibly becoming AT&T’s preferred mobile device management partner across all channels.”

BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins also has said the BlackBerry Z10 is selling well in various markets, though he hasn’t released any hard data.

At a conference in Waterloo last week he pointed out that sales in India were surprisingly strong to the point that the company was running out of stock.

The company’s latest quarterly results are expected to be released on March 28.

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U.S. government sells nearly $490 million worth of General Motors stock

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — The U.S. government has sold another chunk of its stake in General Motors Co. The Treasury Department says in its February report to Congress that it sold $489.9 million worth of GM common stock last month.

The report dated Monday says the government has recovered about $29.8 billion of its $49.5 billion bailout of the Detroit automaker.

That means taxpayers are still $19.7 billion in the hole.

The Treasury says the price per share will be revealed later.

GM stock sold in a range of $26.19 to $29.36 in February.

At the midpoint of the range, $27.78, the government would have sold roughly 17.6 million shares.

That means it still owns about 277 million shares.

Those would have to sell for around $71 each for the government to break even, more than double the current trading price. GM shares closed Monday up 31 cents, or 1.1 per cent, at

$28.31. In January, Treasury announced a plan to sell the shares by early 2014 and said that it hired JPMorgan Securities and Citigroup Global Markets to conduct the sale.

The banks will get one cent for every share they sell, for a fee of up to $3 million.

When the government finally sells all of its shares, it will end a sad chapter in GM’s history.

The company nearly ran out of cash in 2008 and needed government money to survive a trip through bankruptcy reorganization.

Since then, GM has posted 12 straight quarters of profits. Last year, the company bought 200 million of its shares from the government for $5.5 billion.

GM shares sold for $33 each when they began publicly trading again in November, 2010.

The shares rose shortly after the sale but fell dramatically early last year as the U.S. economy slowed and Europe headed toward recession. A strengthening U.S. economy and the stock buyback have pushed the price higher.

China’s auto sales accelerate from 2012 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — China’s auto sales accelerated in the first two months of this year, rising 19.5 per cent over the same period of 2012 in a possible positive sign for an economic recovery.

Automakers sold 2.8 million cars in January and February, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported Monday. Total sales, including trucks and buses, rose 14.7 per cent to 3.4 million vehicles.

That growth was an improvement over 2012’s full-year rate of 7.1 per cent for cars and 4.3 per cent for vehicles overall.

“We expect cyclical recovery in the Chinese economy to continue in 2013,” said JP Morgan economist Haibin Zhu in a report. “The gradual

improvement in the macro environment would likely support some moderate growth in auto sales during the year.”

Global automakers are looking to China, the biggest market by number of vehicles sold, to drive revenues amid weakness elsewhere.

Sales that grew by double digits in early 2012 decelerated due to an economic slump and ownership curbs imposed by some cities to control traffic and smog.

The communist government is promoting auto manufacturing and ownership but has tried to fine-tune policies to encourage sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

A government forecast in January said total vehicle sales should rise to 20.8 million this year, up from 19.3 million last year.

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HOMES: Next decade will be weaker Still, the report makes clear that the next decade for housing will be significantly weaker than the previous three.

Since 1980, home prices have climbed on average by 5.4 per cent annually, including a spike of seven per cent a year in the last 10 years. By contrast, TD expects prices to fall in the next two or three years, rising to average annual increases of 3.5 per cent after 2015 for an average annual gain of two per cent overall in the upcoming decade.

In terms of return on investment, real estate will not reap the bonanza of the past decade, but remains relatively attractive because profits on a primary residence are tax free, the report points out. It estimates the annual pretax return to be about 4.4 per cent over the next 20 years, which is higher than expected yields on bonds.

Somewhat surprisingly, the report predicts Vancouver and Toronto, along with Victoria, Edmonton and Calgary will continue to outpace the national average in terms of home prices over the next 10 years.

Vancouver and Toronto are regarded as the cities with the most inflated prices — despite recent corrections — but TD argues that the two cities will realize the biggest influx of immigrants, so demand will remain higher.

The Alberta cities will do well because of both population growth and higher than average income growth.

Alexander says the two biggest fac-

General Motors Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Daimler AG’s MercedesBenz have launched lower-priced Chinese brands for the vast but poor rural market.

GM said sales of GMbrand vehicles by the company and its Chinese joint venture partners rose 7.9 per cent in January and February over a year earlier to 525,835 vehicles. Ford Motor Co. said sales rose 46 per cent to 105,209 vehicles.

Nissan said its sales in January and February were down 14.1 per cent from a year earlier to 174,000 vehicles. However, the company said that was an improvement after a plunge in sales last year.

Sales of Japanese brands suffered due to tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

tors in trend home prices are population growth and housing formation, which both favour Toronto and Vancouver.

FLAHERTY: No significant new spending planned Flaherty said last week not to expect significant new spending in the upcoming budget, expected on March 26, adding that his focus remains on balancing the budget in 2015-16. For that, he may need to trim spending and close tax loopholes, he said.

The economists who advised the minister agreed the economy is not sufficiently weak to require more stimulus, although at least one said Flaherty should be careful not to cut too deeply.

Tal noted that Canada’s economy, although about to lag some others in growth, remains relatively healthy when stacked against its G7 rivals.

Canada’s superior performance the past four years means the economy has already recovered all the losses in output and jobs lost during the slump — and more — while many others remain in catch-up mode.

The U.S. still has not recouped all the jobs it lost in the slump, for instance, while Canada has not only done so, but added more 500,000 workers on top of that level. In terms of economic output, several large European countries, notably Italy and Spain, remain mired in recession.

“Those leading indicators tell you where you are going, they don’t tell you the level you are at,” he explained.

“We’re operating at a relatively high level, while the U.S. and other places, they are operating at very low levels.”

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In this image provided by DC Entertainment, Batman’s mythology is going to be tweaked by writer Scott Snyder in an 11-part story dubbed ‘The Zero Year.’ Batman, created by Bob Kane, is one of DC’s iconic characters, having first appeared in May 1939 in ‘Detective Comics’ No. 27. Snyder says Batman’s origin is not being revised but being built upon.

Batman goes back to Year Zero MYTHOLOGY, HISTORY GETTING NEW BOOST FROM DC ENTERTAINMENT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Batman’s transformative years are getting a few new twists.

DC Entertainment is going back into Bruce Wayne’s past to see how he began his transformation from wealthy socialite to the scourge of Gotham’s criminal underworld.

Key elements of the character’s history are staying the same — the murder of Wayne’s parents, for example — says Scott Snyder, the writer of Batman since its relaunch debuted in 2011.

“It’s not ‘let’s redo the origin,”’ he said Monday.

“It’s time for a new story showing how Batman became who he is in the New 52.”

Snyder said the decision grew out of the success of the first year-and-a-half of DC’s New 52, a sweeping reorganization of the

publisher’s characters that saw many given new origins and costumes that blended those from their first appearances decades ago with contemporary changes.

Snyder said readers will see how the crime fighter found his calling and what challenges he faced when first donning the costume of the Dark Knight.

The augmented origin begins June in the pages of Batman in an 11-issue story called The Zero Year that is illustrated by Greg Capullo.

“We tried to preserve as much of Batman’s history as we could and keep what we could of this history intact,” Snyder said of the change.

“It’s The Zero Year, the one that no one has told the story of before. We see how Bruce became the Batman, built the cave, faced off with his first super villain.”

It’s not so much an origin story

as it is a view into Batman’s formative years.

“We’re not going to take apart Year One,” Snyder said, referring to the Frank Miller-David Mazzucchelli four-issue arc that recounted how Wayne began to fight crime after years away.

Instead Snyder, an Eagle Award-winning writer whose other efforts for DC include Swamp Thing and American Vampire, said the Zero Year story will give readers new glimpses into the Bob Kane-created character who made his first appearance in the pages of Detective Comics No. 27 in May 1939.

“It’s time for a new story showing how Batman became who he is in the New 52,” said Snyder. “It builds up the mythology.”

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LONDON — The time is coming — maybe sooner than you expect — when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don’t think “Harry Potter.”

The 23-year-old actor has gone from boy wizard to Broadway hoofer to Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, whom he plays in new film Kill Your Darlings.

He has several wildly different films lined up, and is soon to take to the London stage as star of Martin McDonagh’s barbed comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan.

The play gives audiences the chance to see Radcliffe in yet another new light, as Billy, a disabled orphan in 1930s Ireland who harbours an unlikely dream of Hollywood stardom.

Cripple, which opens in June Daniel Radcliffe for a 12-week run, is part of a West End season of plays overseen by director Michael Grandage, who has assembled an A-list company of actors that includes Radcliffe, Ben Whishaw, Judi Dench and Jude Law. First staged in 1996, the play is a typically potent mix of comedy and cruelty from the writer-director of the violent, witty movies In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths.

“He walks that line between tragedy and comedy so brilliantly,” Radcliffe said of McDonagh.

“I think one of the hilarious things about this play is, by our standards today, how politically incorrect it is,” said the actor, looking lean if a tad tired — he’s been at the gym, working out ahead of rehearsals for the play — in the troupe’s office atop a West End playhouse. “So much of the comedy is just people being relentlessly cruel to Billy.

“I’m trying to write something at the moment, and it’s just so dark, and I think it’s funny, but I’m not sure if anybody else ever would. I aspire to be a poor man’s Martin McDonagh.”

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the one-time boy wizard is a fan of the edgier end of comedy — and that he’s working on a screenplay. His entire post-Potter career feels designed to wrong-foot anyone seeking to pigeonhole him.

The play is Radcliffe’s first time on the West End stage since his 2007 run in Equus, Peter Shaffer’s play about a troubled stable boy who blinds horses. It featured the then-teenage actor in a nude scene. Radcliffe said Equus was “a signal of intent as to what I wanted to do.”

“I didn’t just want to take an easy way out of this. I wanted to really try and take risks and make a career for myself.”

Since then, he’s mixed movies and theatre work, including a 2011 Broadway run as a scheming businessman in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Stompin’ Tom helped plan his own public memorial

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS For roughly two weeks before his death, Stompin’ Tom Connors helped to arrange the public memorial that will be held in his honour on Wednesday.

The black-hatted Canadian music icon died of natural causes last week at age 77, and the nature of his illness gave him time to specify his plans for a public celebration.

“Oh, nobody knew exactly what he wanted more than he did, and that’s typical Tom, through and through,” spokesperson Brian Edwards said Monday in a telephone interview.

“I mean, nobody would expect anything less. Right down to some things that will happen there on Wednesday night, he’s written all over it — there’s no doubt about it.”

Edwards, who worked personally with Connors to make the arrangements, said the evening event will be a mix of live music, video clips, family photos and remembrances of Connors delivered by close friends, musical peers and government officials.

Edwards confirmed that speakers will include Canadian politician Ken Dryden, former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, former EMI president Deane Cameron and Peterborough Mayor Daryl Bennett, while the evening will also include performances from former Rheostatics frontman Dave Bidini, folk singer/songwriter Sylvia Tyson, Nova Scotia country-folk singer Cindy Church and Connors collaborators Dave Gunning and Juno nominee J.P. Cormier.

More guests are yet to be confirmed.

“It’s going to be a good mixture (of) everybody that Tom would have wanted on there,” Edwards

arena — and thus a fitting venue in a way.

Although he added that he and Connors kicked around a number of possible locations, Peterborough, Ont., emerged as the most sensible choice even though Connors lived in Halton Hills, Ont. Peterborough is the place where Connors received his “Stompin’ Tom” moniker way back in 1967 during a gig at the King George Hotel, and it became a favoured locale for the folkcountry original.

Fans will be rewarded with rarely gleaned perspectives into Connors. Edwards says he had access to the family vault of previously unseen photos and videos of Connors — images of The Hockey Song writer with a moustache during his self-imposed hiatus from music as well as shots of him playing the accordion and fiddle.

Edwards says the venue will have a capacity of roughly 3,800 for the event and he’s expecting a packed house. He said the outpouring of tributes from fans was so significant it brought Con-

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“As a matter of fact, a number of people who are there were by Tom’s request.”

A private memorial for Connors will be held Tuesday, Edwards confirmed, but it was important to Connors that a public event follow to give fans and other well-wishers the chance to say goodbye.

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nors’ website down again and again after his death, and he’s anticipating that thousands will want to say goodbye in person.

“What’s amazing is the people ... the fans have come through just strong as ever,” he said.

“That’s the whole point of his career and always was, the fanbase. It certainly wasn’t based on the fact that he had too many hit records on the radio.

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The Red Deer Renegades U14 Tier 2 girls team won gold in the recent Saskatchewan United Soccer Club indoor tournament at Saskatoon.

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Wife worried of husbands’ ‘poking’ on Facebook Dear Annie: My husband, “Clark,” and I have been big deal. married for 47 years. We both have Facebook acClark has even commented that he would like to counts. meet Toni, with me, just to see what she looks like A year ago, Clark became friends with “Toni,” now. an ex-girlfriend from his late-teen years.

Toni is not the only female who reguI am my husband’s third wife. Toni has larly pokes Clark on Facebook. I have told been married at least twice, maybe three him that liking and sharing posts is less times. I’ve lost track. personal than pokes, chatting and mesThe problem is, Clark and Toni were sages. chatting and “poking” each other reguNow he is talking about creating a Twitlarly until his sister told him it was not ter account. Am I overreacting, or should fair to me. Clark claimed that he stopped Clark be more considerate of my feelings? chatting. However, the poking has contin— Torn ued.

Dear Torn: This boils down to trust.

A few months ago, I sent Toni a friend Something about Toni is ringing a lot of request. All of Clark’s friends from his bells in your head, and Clark should rehometown have friended me right off, but spect this by limiting contact.

Toni didn’t respond. Clark then asked her However, he doesn’t seem to have done MITCHELL to do it as a favor to him. anything untoward, so he objects to your & SUGAR She then sent me a friend request, with reaction. Try calmly explaining why Toni no mention of being sorry for ignoring bothers you and why it is important that my previous one. I agreed so as not to be his behavior reassure, rather than alarm, rude. you. He needs to know this is moving into When Toni’s birthday came, I wished her a “happy risky territory. birthday.” Our birthdays are in the same month. She Dear Annie: I’m 19 years old and work at least 60 ignored mine. hours a week. I recently found out that I am pregLast week, I taught Clark how to delete a poke, nant. and he did. But this week, they are doing it again.

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SUN SIGNS headstrong in the pursuit of your destiny. Now it’s your time to prove of your leadership abilities. Show them what you got.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You are embarking into a phase of self-expression that will let you prove of your more creative side. You long for fun and some thrilling experiences. Whether it’s a recreational activity or your heart’s desire, you’ll go after them with a daring attitude.

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You are also more active in your domestic environment proving of your authoritative qualities. You are the chief of the house.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be vigilant over your spending tendencies. It will be hard for you to resist or to be self-disciplined when it comes to money. At this time, you may identify with what you own. Do not mistake your values with your acquired possessions. You are worth so much more.

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Tuesday, March 12 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jaimie Alexander, 28; Aaron Eckhart, 45; Liza Minnelli, 67 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The warrior planet, Mars enters Aries today. Mars is extremely comfortable in the sign of Aries where it excels.

We act with more confidence and we initiate things rather fast and in a non-hesitant manner. We are pioneers in various areas of our lives and we will leave our mark with bold moves and straightforward fashion.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the year ahead will bring you closer to a mind, body and spirit connection. You are at ease when it comes to merging with your deeper side, and this year will make it so much more prominent for you. This will be a year to remember as many positive occurrences are in store for you.

Do not say that you were not warned.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): At last, you have your ruler Mars in your own sign!

You are radiating and you are ready to start something new. Motivation is kicking in and you see no reason that would stop you from doing that. It’s great to feel empowered all over again!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are in a more introverted predisposition today, preferring your own company to others. You long for some peace and quiet moments that are necessary for your rejuvenation. Do some intense soul-searching.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You want to pursue your dreams at any cost. You have tremendous confidence and stamina in following your dreams at a faster pace. You have been quite patient so far, but now, it’s time to act upon those wishes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your pioneering attitude and your bossiness may make certain appreciate your initiative side and intimidate the more quiet types. You go

ter all, the desire to feel free and to know that you are not dependable on anyone’s account just sounds so appealing to you right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): You are more prepared to collaborate with your partner and to act according to his or her set of values. You long for financial security and at the same time, you might want to help your partner throughout their harsh times.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You identify with your partner and you may feel lonely without his or her presence.

Try to avoid co-dependency.

At this time, your charm and charisma can win the favour of certain colleagues or influential individuals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are highly motivated to run some necessary errands around the house and around the office. It’s as if

be based on his income.

“Support” is more than money. It can include taking care of the child and being emotionally supportive of the mother. Unless the father is a drug addict, alcoholic or abuser, your child’s relationship with him is necessary and beneficial.

But the father should be actively looking for work so he can pay child support, and you should hold him responsible for it. In the meantime, please don’t deny either of them the positive aspects of this relationship.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” who complained about out-of-state relatives who try to take over caregiving duties.

Here’s our family wisdom when visiting or offering to help a primary caregiver: Think of yourself as the “assistant caregiver,” and simply ask the primary caregiver what, when, where and how. Do your best to do what they would do. Don’t make suggestions or change routines. Just give them the peace of mind of knowing that they can leave for a while and everything will be done exactly as they would have done it. This attitude is helpful and comforting to the primary caregiver, who certainly doesn’t need any additional stress. — Been There, Too Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Obituaries MCCREIGHT Jean Elizabeth “Betty” April 5, 1923 - March 9, 2013

Heaven has been blessed with another angel.

Left to cherish David’s memory are his father Gordon Gross, brother Doug Mosier, sisters Wendy Mosier and Debbie (Mark) Berlinguette, as well as nieces, nephews and Gordon Mosier. David was predeceased by his mother, Brenda Gross and grandparents Doris and David Rodger. In honor of David, a memorial service will take place at Potter’s Hands Ministries, 5202 - 53 Ave. Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. Memorial donations may be made directly to The Schizophrenia Society or Potter’s Hands Ministries.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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WILLMEK Kenneth George Mar. 22, 1939 - Mar. 7, 2013 Ken Willmek, of Calgary, passed away on March 7, 2013 at the age of 73 years.

Ken was born in Tuberose, SK and grew up on a farm southwest of Elrose, SK. He worked as an accountant for Correctional Service Canada until his retirement in 2000.

Ken had a passion for classic cars, and he spent much of his spare time restoring them and attending car shows.

Ken is survived by his son, Jeremy Willmek; daughter and son-in-law, Kimberley and Andre Drouillard; two grandsons, Damian and Mathew; three brothers, Leslie (Bridget), Raymond (Henriette) and John; a sister, Eileen; a brother-inlaw, Charlie; and numerous nephews and nieces - too many to list! Ken was predeceased by his wife, Mary Willmek (nee Nenzel); parents, Michael and Mary Willmek; brothers, Frank, Mike and Martin; and sisters, Mary McComish and Ellen Fontaine. Funeral Services will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church (400 Edmonton Trail NE, Calgary, AB) on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.

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JAMES Irene 1923 - 2013 It is with sadness that we, the family of Irene, announce her peaceful passing at the age of 89 years of age on March 10, 2013. Irene is survived by her two sons; David of Lacombe and Edmund of Red Deer, and one daughter; Kathleen of Red Deer and their significant others; Sharon, Patty and Murray; also her friend and companion for many years; Ralph Pettibone. Irene was predeceased by her husband and dearest friend Alfred on September 5, 2006, after a long and adventurous marriage of sixty-three years. Irene was involved with many organizations in small communities as well as experiencing four years of farming for a city-girl transplanted to a small farm seven miles west of Carstairs, after she arrived with son David as a war-bride in January 1946. In 1941, in England, she joined the Auxillary Te r r i t o r i a l S e r v i c e ( t h e A.T.S-Women’s Army Corps.) where she served for three years during the 1939-1945 War, earning the Queen’s Veteran’s medal, the Defense of Britain medal and the Volunteer medal. While serving in South Wales she met her husband-to-be (Canadian Army) when he was visiting his Welsh relatives. Irene was proud of her British heritage and proud to be called a Canadian citizen. She served many long years as Secretary of the Parkland Branch of the Alberta War Brides Association.

She obtained her driver’s license when she was fifty years of age and worked in Red Deer as a Legal Secretary, moving to Red Deer in 1967. She volunteered at the Red Deer Hospital, received her Life membership in the Red Deer and District Kennel Club, where she showed her beloved Cairn Terriers and learned so much about the Canine World. Her many thanks and love to children and grandchildren; Steven (Janice), Cheryl (Ron), Kara (Chris), Shane (Erin), Adelle, Trina, Dustin and Cody (Sara), as well as her great-grandchildren; Kira, Maren, Quinn, Ethan, Reid, Ethan, Aidan, Lucy and Ellie. In honor of Mum’s wishes, a formal service will not take place. A service of remembrance to celebrate Irene’s beautiful life will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions in Irene’s name made directly to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6, would be greatly appreciated.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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McCreight - Jean Elizabeth “Betty” passed away at the Foothills Hospital on March 9, 2013 at the age of 89 years. She will be sadly missed by her daughter Joan (Tim) Dunne of Calgary and her son Bob McCreight (Carolyn Slater) of Sexsmith, Alberta. She will also be missed by her grandchildren, Shannon (Jesse) Hardage, Ashley Rusk, Emma Dunne, William McCreight and Colin McCreight. She was predeceased by her husband, Stan McCreight in 1986 and granddaughter, Victoria Rusk in 1990. Betty was born in Lacombe, Alberta on April 5, 1923, moving to Edmonton in 1941, then to Calgary in 1954. In 1958, Betty married Stan, and moved to Eckville, Alberta where they farmed.

In 1973 they retired, and m o v e d b a c k t o C a l g a r y, where she resided until her passing. Betty dedicated her life to her family and helping others. She sang in church choirs in Lacombe, Edmonton and Eckville, served on church boards, committees and community associations.

She was very active at the Kerby Centre in many volunteer capacities. In recognition, she was awarded a lifetime Kerby Centre membership in 2004.

In 2005, Betty was awarded an Alberta Centennial Medal which honoured the achievements of outstanding Albertans. Funeral services will be held in the Chapel of Mountain View Funeral H o m e , o n W e d n e s d a y, March 13, 2013 at 10:00 am, interment to follow at Mountain View Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, Memorial Donations in Betty’s name may be made directly to the Kerby Centre (1133 7th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 1B2). To forward condolences, please visit our website: www.mountainviewmemorial.ca Arrangements entrusted to MOUNTAIN VIEW MEMORIAL GARDENS, Funeral Home and Crematorium, 1605-100 Street SE, Calgary, AB Tel: (403) 272-5555.

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Card Of Thanks JUDSON Derrick, I miss you so much.

Sorry I could not help you more. Love you always. You are at peace now and thank you to all my families. Myles, Brandi and Patrick, Lindsey, Dalyce, and Emerson, Neil and Lorrie, Kory, Jeanine, Sydney, Brody, Bailey and the boys, Shawn, Lana, Kaden and Karsen, Wes, Tina, Matthew, Marc and Nicolette. Thank you for standing by my side, could not have done it without you.

Also thank you to all of my extended families and friends for standing by me too.

Thank you to Parkland Funeral Home for handling everything so well and thank you to Pastor Jeffrey Rock for officiating. Again, thanks everyone.

Edna Judson WALTER I would like to thank everyone for their kindness in this time of grief. Your support was very much appreciated. ~Joyce Jackson

In Memoriam

WHAT’S HAPPENING

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Class Registrations

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Cheney Karate Studios, Red Deer’s most trusted name in Martial Arts is now accepting registration for all adult & children’s programs starting April, 2013.

Enrollment is limited.

(403)347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com

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Coming Events

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB Life, one day a wk. in Rimbey & Sylvan Lake ALSO Adult Carriers needed in Sylvan Lake & Bentley

RUSCAN MEALS

is now serving breakfast from 6 a.m. - 11 a.m. #110, 100 Kent Street

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Lost

STEVEN PEIGAN Sept. 28, 1962 - Mar. 12, 2003 Loved and missed by your mom, sisters, son, and by all who knew him.

Love, your family

LOST/STOLEN Nikon D3100 SLR Camera!

Was in a black camera bag with a strap, included a charger, an 8GB, 4GB and one smaller memory card.

Have lost precious photos.

Please contact us if you have seen it or know of its where abouts!!!

403-304-4061 TAKEN from red Cherokee jeep, garbage bag full of clothes, hangers and curtains, box of bathroom items & box of kitchen items, Sunday night March 10, Lower Fairview area, behind Canadian Tire, any info call 403-986-4463

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Announcements

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Classifieds 309-3300

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CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

Oilfield

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants 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.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Branch Manager (Fox Creek)

Alstar Oilfield is looking for a highly motivated individual to lead our Fox Creek operation. Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

If you have…..

5 + years Managing in Oilfield Construction Strong Computer Skills Excellent People Skills Working Knowledge of Pipefitting and Welding Procedures The Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please email your resume to hr@alstaroilfield.com

Please Quote Job # 72252 on Resume FOUND in Poplar Ridge, small grey F tabby cat with white socks and beige For detailed job description and pay range, please tinges, 403-347-0435 email hr@alstaroilfield.com or visit our Career Section at www.alstaroilfield.com

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

If tomorrow starts without me, and I’m not here to see, If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me; I wish so much you wouldn’t cry, the way you did today, While thinking of the many things, we didn’t get to say.

I know how much you love me, as much as I love you, And each time that you think of me I know you’ll miss me too.

When tomorrow starts without me, don’t think we’re far apart, For everytime you think of me, I’m right there in your heart.

Janitorial

LOST gold chain and crucifix, HUGE sentimental value 403-347-7476

Personals

July 1, 1969 - March 12, 2009

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Experienced RDA II required at House Dental Centre for maternity leave position. Some evenings required. Please fax resume to (403) 340-2971 or email to info@ housedental.ca.

ZEN KARATE & KICK BOXING

Please call Debbie for details 314-4307

In Memoriam

Mom, Dad, Tari, Tim, Tracy, Sherrie, Ashlee & Melissa

“In Your Time of Need....

We Keep it Simple”

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GROSS David Gordon 1970 - 2013 The family of David Gordon Gross of Red Deer is sad to announce his passing on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at the age of 42 years. David was a very caring, talented, artistic person with a great appreciation for music. His witty sense of humor and contagious laugh were cause for many happy family times.

We hold onto our memories and are comforted knowing you have found peace.

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CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday, March 12, 2013

A Classified Wedding Announcement Does it Best!

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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

All applicants are welcome only those considered will be contacted.

Please forward resume to mlajeunesse@ tartancontrols.com

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GROUP home in Lacombe needs full & part time workers, 2 yr. diploma in rehab/nursing care.

403-782-7156 357-7465 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 403-505-7846

Clerical

NOW HIRING!

Tartan Completions Services is currently accepting resumes for experienced horizontal completions field technicians, drilling motor experience would be an asset. We offer comprehensive benefits, competitive salary’s and field (day) bonuses.

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IMMED. F/T Administrative Assistant, Req’d for busy Lacombe based Business.

This position supports the accounting dept. with general accounting duties, as well as general administrative duties.

Familiarity with ACCPAC, Simply Accounting, Word & Excel an asset. Fax resume to 403-342-7447 Reservations and Office work for Northwestern Air at Red Deer Airport. 32 hrs a week 6 days. fax or email resume accounting @nwal.ca or 867-872-2214

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, March 12, 2013

RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS COMPETITIVE WAGES

Immediate Positions Available Experienced Day Supervisors Night Supervisors Must be able to provide truck Please send resume to 403-340-0886 or email: pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

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Professionals

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION requires

F/T Safety Officer

to help implement & maintain safety programs.

Fax resume to: 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca

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PROCOM INSURANCE

A Great place to work… is looking for a personal / commercial lines

BROKER

to help grow and manage an existing book of clients.

With a minimum 2 years of Broker experience, you will be responsible to quote and sell policies to existing and new clients.

Knowledge of Power Broker, Compu Quote & Company Portal’s is considered an asset. While excellent organization skills with the ability to multi-task is a must.

Please apply to dan@procominsurance.ca or fax 403-340-3972

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Restaurant/ Hotel

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Parkland Mall FOOD ATTENDANT F.T. SHIFT WORK, $11.00/hr.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

LINE COOKS NEEDED. Must be willing to work varying shifts. Exc. wages and benefits. Must have reliable transportation.

Apply in person to Sandy at Glenn’s Restaurant on Gasoline Alley or phone for an app’t. 403-346-5448.

POST-TIME LOUNGE is now accepting resumes for cooks. Days, evenings wknds and holidays $14.70/hr. 40 hrs. per wk. .

Email hr att’n: arni_una@yahoo.ca RED STAR IS NOW accepting applications for kitchen helper, days, evenings, wknds and holidays. $11.41 per hr.

40 hrs. per wk.

Email hr att’n arni_una@yahoo.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

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RUSCAN Meals Restaurant (Russian/Canadian homestyle cuisine) is seeking a Cook.

Tues-Thurs, 4 p.m. -10 p.m. & Fri-Sun 4 p.m.-11 p.m. $13/hr, up to $18/hr increase. Apply in person with references, #110 100 Kent St. Phone 403-350-3635. www.ruscanmeals.com

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a LINE COOK and HOSTESS Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales & Distributors

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CUSTOM Energized Air is a leader in compressed air technology and requires an

Outside Sales Rep

for our solutions driven sales team. Experience in air compressors and pneumatics a definite asset, but will train the right candidate. Base + commission + mileage + benefits. For Red Deer & area. Apply: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com

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Trades

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Trades

LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION POSITION Residential & commercial work. Physically demanding. Own transportation.

Regular hours & hourly rate negotiable. Exp. an asset.

Apprenticeship avail.

Resumes confidential.

Fax 403-341-3042 LICENSED mechanic for truck maintenance on 20 truck fleet. Reply to Box 1036, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

A job at

* QC INSPECTOR * ELEC TECH * MECH ENGINEER * ELEC. ENGINEER†

F/T bricklayers and Laborers.

Must have own transportation. Fax resume to 403-340-0762 or email resume to tom@westernmasonry.com

Truckers/ Drivers

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Business Opportunities

870

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

Clearview Ridge Carrington Drive & Crossley St. area $202.00/mo.

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Lancaster Drive & Lawson Close area $81/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

Eagle operates the newest fleet of rigs, has safe operations, and offers steady work – that means more cash in your pocket, and a whole lot more!

GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. per day WESTLAKE 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. /day Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Phone: (403) 346-7789, Fax: (403) 346-9770, Email: eaglejobs@iroccorp.com 29020626

NOW HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS www.eaglerigjobs.com

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Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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.

DENTOOM’S Send resume by fax to Greenhouses 403-346-0295 is hiring F/T seasonal staff for planting production line to start today.

Celebrate your life Please apply in person with a Classified w/resume. corner of Hwy 2 ANNOUNCEMENT & 11 A

Rosedale Approx. 2 blks of Reichley St. & Reighley Close $68/mo.

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Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Street. $236/monthly Good for adult with small car.

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APPRENTICE RV MECHANIC Duties include: • All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction • Experience preferred and must be able to work independently Attributes: • Organized & Reliable • Outgoing • Physically fit • Mechanically inclined • Permanent position • Tool allowance • Training allowance • Company benefits

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

Carriers Needed GLENDALE Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

We offer excellent benefit packages and on-going training.

Please drop off resume to: Uncle Ben’s RV & Auto

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Hwy 2 South, Gasoline Alley Red Deer Attn: Bill Taylor or Fax: (403) 346-1055 email: info@unclebensrv.com

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

requires

SCRAPER OPERATORS Earthworks Division

We require individuals with push pull experience, grade knowledge & able to work well with others for work in the Central AB area.

Top wages paid based on knowledge & experience Career advancement opportunities Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

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 JNM CONSTRUCTION Home Improvements, Framing, roofing, siding & finishing work! 30 yrs. Exp. Free Est. 403-505-2248 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

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EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight

Escorts

1165

BUSTY hot blonde duo avail. 587-377-1898 Adrianna 19 yr. old EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car St. Patty Day specials and contest. mydiamondgirls. org 403-550-0732

Massage Therapy

1280

ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St. 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

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels.

403-986-6686

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445 LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE

COUPLES SPECIAL

2nd person is 1/2 price.

Open daily 9 am-9 pm.

403-986-1550 #3 4820-47 Ave

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

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

PAINTING, Handyman Plus , mud/ tape, doors, trim, flooring.

Call 403-358-9099 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl.

DETAILING DEPARTMENT

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY

Brochure for really cool stuff that you can’t afford to buy

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Please send resume to:

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

A full wallet and healthy bank account

4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.

daveturnbull@ garymoe.com Locally Owned and Operated

A thin wallet and stretched bank account

Carriers Needed

We are looking for individuals who are neat in appearance, reliable and work well with others to fill open positions in our

We require a process driven person for this position.

Envy for the other guy’s happy girlfriend

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Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

880

Really cool stuff you can afford to buy

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Western Masonry Structures

SERVICE ADVISORS

Worry about not being able to pay your bills

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Peace of mind knowing work is steady and secure

Where would you rather be working?

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Applicants please forward See Help Wanted resume to:† † keri.lee@ Buying or Selling sparteksystems.com your home?

AU TO G R O U P GRAPHIC Arts Technician or fax to† 403-887-4050 Check out Homes for Sale req’d. for sign industry Please state which position in Classifieds F.T. position you are applying for in your Min. 4 yrs. exp. in graphic Looking for a place design. Must know Corel STAIR MANUFACTURER to live?

Draw. Fax resume to: Req’s F/T workers to build Take a tour through the 403-341-4014 stairs in Red Deer shop.

Required Immediately CLASSIFIEDS MUST HAVE basic carMECHANICAL FOREMAN pentry skills. Salary based Competitive plus NEEDED FOR SHOP on skill level. Benefits Misc.

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1580

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1590

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EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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900

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FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

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Price depends on location.

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1710

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1720

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SIAMESE ALSO BELINESE ( 4) KITTENS FOR SALE $50 each obo.

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1840

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BEAUTIFUL Pom Poos born Dec. 10, ready to go $300 403-864-0031 Sylvan

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3030

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Horses

2140

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3080

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Clean 3 bdrms., 1.5 bath, IN-suite laundry. Yard & unfinished bsmt. No pets.

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3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000.

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Ph: 403-341-4627

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2012 HONDA Civic Hybrid Navi sedan auto, brand new, was $28,568 sale priced @ 27,000 + taxes and fees. Please contact Amy 403-357-0388 HRDS

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2007 MAZDA 6 GT sport, fully loaded, leather, heated seats, new front windshield, new brakes, command start, winter & 5326 47 AVE. summer tires, very clean, 2007 GMC Sierra 2500 Unit #306 - 2 bdrm. condo, must sell, moving out of SLE Turbo diesel $25,888 w/solid hardwood flooring, c o u n t r y, $ 1 2 , 0 0 0 o b o 348-8788 Sport & Import downtown R.D. Under403-346-9214 2005 CHEV 3/4 TON ground parking. Needs diesel 107,000 kms, bathroom updated & $25,000 403-227-6794 painting. Price range between $160,000 2004 DURAMAX, loaded. $170,000. 403-815-0429 Has been an RV truck. or 540-6066 to view.

403-391-6485

4050

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ACREAGE, LAKE KOOCANUSSA, $79,900 403-227-5132

2006 PONTIAC Grand Prix FWD, 65611 kms, $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

4090

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2006 HONDA Civic LX FWD, $10,888 348-8788

4100

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4160

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

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5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

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2005 NISSAN Altima SER $12,888 348-8788 AS & I

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5210

2000 PONTIAC Grand Am 2 dr. clean 403-318-3040

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5240

TRUCK bumpers, front and back off 2004 Dodge, 5th wheel hitch, receiver, 8’ truck box, 9000 lb. winch in working order 403-358-6579

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take notice Livery Stables Keeper’s Act has been activated as of March 1, 2013, for bay Standard bred gelding.

Total amount owing as of March 1, 2013. $576.

2004 BMW X3 AWD, pano r o o f , l t h r . , $ 1 4 8 8 8 Accruing daily fee of $7.50. Horse to be sold at 348-8788 Sport & Import Public Auction in 2 wks.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:00 AM

PICKER TRUCK, PICKUP SERVICE TRUCKS 2005 GMC C5500 S/A Dually 4x4 Duramax Diesel Truck w/General PM 6522 Series 6 Knuckle Boom Picker w/Outriggers, 10 Ft Steel Deck – Only 18968 KM, 2009 Chev Silverado LT 2500HD w/Gas Eng, AT, LB, 4 Dr Ext. Cab -119,267 KM w/Nortruck T-Canopy 8 FT Service Cap, 2-2005 Chev LS 2500HD w/ Gas Eng, AT, LB, 4 Dr. Ext Cab TRENCHER Case 60 Walk-Behind Trenching Machine w/60” Stringer & Auger w/S/A Trailer SHOP & CONSTRUCTION TOOLS, SPECIALTY & INSTRUMENTATION TOOLS, DOMESTIC & INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL INVENTORY (NEW), OILFIELD INSTRUMENTION INVENTORY (NEW) & MUCH MORE AUCTIONEEERS NOTE: This is a complete dispersal of equipment and inventory for Delta Controls. The building is sold and after 36 years of business the owners are pursuing other interests. Your patronage and support will be appreciated. See more info and pictures @ www.montgomeryauctions.com 10% BUYERS FEE SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS VIEWING: Monday, March 18 9AM-4PM REMOVAL: By Friday March 22 @3PM TERMS: Cash/C/Card/ Company Cheques w/Letter of Credit

3190

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820

2011 MITSUBISHI Outlander silver 45,000 kms, 10 yr. 160,000 warranty, LS, V6 auto 4wd, 1 owner, lease return, was $22,995 reduced to $20,995 Call Amy 403-357-0388 HRDS

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

FURN. ROOM, use of full house, utils. & internet. all incl. $475. 403-506-1907

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Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

ELNORA, reno’d, 3 bdrm. bsmt., $950/mo. incl. all utils, March 15 348-6594

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1530

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112 ACRES of bare land, located in Burnt Lake area structure plan, great investment property with future subdivision potential. Asking 1.2M 403-304-5555

Manufactured FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Homes WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile

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NOW RENTING 1 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

3 BDRM. condo in Red SUNNYBROOK Deer $1200/mo. $1200 DD no pets, near park and 2 bdrm. apt. avail. April 1, Water & heat incld, clean schools 403-396-2106 and quiet, great location, 3 BDRM. TOWNHOUSE. no pets. 403-346-6686 Att. garage, 1-1/2 bath, 5 appls., #23 6300 Orr Dr. Roommates N/S, avail. Apr. 1, $1350/mo., Hearthstone Wanted Property Management 403-314-0099 or Lucie F. preferred for 3 bdrm.

403-396-9554 renovated home, includes all utils, $450/mo.

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3060

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GREAT FAMILY HOME on 56 ST.

1760

2 bdrms., 1 bath, 2 appls.

No pets, No smoking.

Shared laundry. $925 & 2 WOODEN KITCHEN Power, SD $925; Avail CHAIRS, $15/each, dryer, NOW. Hearthstone $100, 403-986-2615 403-314-3399 or 396-9554

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2 COLOUR TV’S In working cond.

HALMAN Heights Sony Trinitron 33”, $100 3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse Sanyo, 27” $75 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, Will take offers. no pets, n/s, rent $1395 403-341-3099 SD $1000 avail. March 15 COLOUR TV 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 In working cond.

Kelloway Cres.

Citizen 21”, $50 ANSWERING MACHINE, Lovely 3 level exec. $25.

3 bdrm. townhouse Will take offers.

5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, 403-341-3099 concrete patio, blinds, HOUSE stereo, dual cas- front/rear parking, no dogs, s e t t e d e c k , 5 d i s c C D n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. April 15, player, audio/video receiver w/speakers $120 obo 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 403-782-3847 KITSON CLOSE newer exec. 3 bdrm.

RCA audio video receiver bi-level townhouse 1447 w/5 speakers $80 obo sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, 403-782-3847 blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, Misc. for no dogs, rent $1395 Sale SD $1000. n/s April 1st.

403-304-7576 / 347-7545 COLEMAN PROPANE CAMP STOVE. SOUTHWOOD PARK 2 burner, 2 wind flaps, 3110-47TH Avenue, never used. $50.

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, 403-227-2653 generously sized, 1 1/2 TIRE Pump (foot), $10; baths, fenced yards, 2 tow ropes, 10’ long, $10. full bsmts. 403-347-7473, ea.; Tap and die set, 40 Sorry no pets. pce, $20; Drift wood, $45; www.greatapartments.ca Box of asst’d flower pots, $ 8 ; p a t c h w o r k q u i l t , Riverfront Estates 72”x56”, $20; 1 blanket, Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, white/floral dble. $5; oscil- bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, l a t i n g s p r i n k l e r, $ 5 ; 2 no pets, n/s, $1195 spider plants, $7. ea.; 4 dessert goblets (pedestal or $1225 along the river.

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1660

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1720

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For afternoon delivery once per week

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Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013

Cardinals hold final debates TRYING TO DECIDE OVER MANAGERIAL OR PASTORAL POPE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel today to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades: There’s no front-runner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fix the many problems.

On the eve of the vote, cardinals offered wildly different assessments of what they’re looking for in the next pontiff and how close they are to a decision. It was evidence that Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation has continued to destabilize the church leadership and that his final appeal for unity may go unheeded, at least in the early rounds of voting.

Cardinals held their final closed-door debate Monday over whether the church needs more of a manager to clean up the Vatican’s bureaucratic mess or a pastor to inspire the 1.2 billion faithful in times of crisis. The fact that not everyone got a chance to speak was a clear sign that there’s still unfinished business on the eve of the conclave.

“This time around, there are many different candidates, so it’s normal that it’s going to take longer than the last time,” Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz of Chile told The Associated Press.

“There are no groups, no compromises, no alliances, just each one with his conscience voting for the person he thinks is best, which is why I don’t think it will be over quickly.”

None of that has prevented a storm of chatter over who’s ahead.

The buzz in the papal stakes swirled around Cardinal Angelo Scola, an Italian seen as favoured by cardinals hoping to shake up the powerful Vatican bureaucracy, and Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer, a favourite of Vatican-based insiders intent on preserving the status quo.

Scola is affable and Italian, but not from the Italian-centric Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia.

That gives him clout with those seeking to reform the nerve centre of the church that has been discredited by revelations of leaks and complaints from cardinals in the field that Rome is inefficient and unresponsive to their needs.

Scherer seems to be favoured by Latin Americans and the Curia. He has a solid handle on the Vatican’s finances, sitting on the governing commission of the Vatican bank, as well as the Holy See’s main budget committee.

As a non-Italian, the archbishop of Sao Paolo would be expected to name an Italian as secretary of state — the Vatican No. 2 who runs day-to-day affairs — another plus for Vatican-based cardinals who would want one of their own running the shop.

The pastoral camp seems to be focusing on two Americans, New York archbishop Timothy Dolan and Boston archbishop Sean O’Malley. Neither has Vatican experience.

Dolan has acknowledged his Italian isn’t strong — seen as a handicap for a job in which the lingua franca of day-to-day work is Italian.

Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet is well-respected, stemming from his job at the important Vatican office that vets bishop appointments. Less well known is that he has a lovely singing voice and can

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Police officers are seen outside St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Monday. Cardinals have gathered for their final day of talks before the conclave to elect the next pope amid debate over whether the Catholic Church needs a manager pope to clean up the Vatican’s messy bureaucracy or a pastoral pope who can inspire the faithful and make Catholicism relevant again. be heard belting out French folk songs on occasion.

If the leading names fail to reach the 77 votes required for victory in the first few rounds of balloting, any number of surprise candidates could come to the fore as alternatives.

It all starts Tuesday with the cardinals checking into the Santa Marta residence on the edge of the Vatican gardens. The rooms are simple and impersonal, but a step up from the cramped conditions the cardinals faced before the hotel was put to use in 2005, when long lines would form at the Apostolic Palace for using bathrooms.

At 10 a.m., the dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, will lead the celebration of the “Pro eligendo Pontificie” Mass — the Mass for the election of a pope — inside St. Peter’s Basilica, joined by the 115 cardinals who will vote.

This is followed at 4:30 p.m. with a procession into the Sistine Chapel, with the cardinals intoning the Litany of Saints, the hypnotic Gregorian chant imploring the saints to help guide their voting. After another chant calling on the Holy Spirit to intervene, the cardinals take the oath of secrecy, followed by a meditation delivered by elderly Maltese Cardinal

Prosper Grech.

Then the master of papal liturgical ceremonies gives the order “Extra omnes” — “Everyone out” — and all but those taking part in the conclave leave the chapel’s frescoed walls.

During the voting that ensues, each cardinal writes his choice on a rectangular piece of paper inscribed with the words “Eligo in summen pontificem” — Latin for “I elect as Supreme Pontiff.”

Holding the folded ballot up in the air, each approaches the altar and places it on a saucer, before tipping it into an oval urn, as he intones these words: “I call as my witness, Christ the Lord, who will be my judge that my vote is given to the one who, before God, I think should be elected.”

After the votes are counted, and the outcomes announced, the papers are bound together with a needle and thread, each ballot pierced through the word “Eligo.” The ballots are then placed in a castiron stove and burned with a special chemical.

That’s when all eyes will turn to the 6-foot-high copper chimney erected atop the Sistine Chapel to pipe out puffs of smoke to tell the world if there’s a new pope.

Encouragement of citizen arrests Queen marks Commonwealth Day sets off new political storm in Egypt in first appearance since illness tention centres outside the palace gates.

Later, videos posted on social networks showed the president’s supporters hitting and stripping the protesters.

“That, it is clear now, was not unrelated to the plan designed to divide the country as a prelude to the rule of the militias,” the opposition front said.

Former lawmaker Mustafa el-Nagar, a liberal opposition supporter, said the statement by the attorney general’s office would cause more divisions in the country and empower anyone to make a citizen arrest under false pretenses.

“Under our present circumstances, we cannot open the door for such action because it will open the door to civil war,” he said.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II attended a London reception to celebrate Commonwealth Day on Monday, her first public appearance since she was briefly hospitalized for a stomach illness.

The monarch appeared in good spirits, although earlier in the day she had to pull out of a service at Westminster Abbey.

Buckingham Palace officials said the 86-year-old queen was still getting over a bout of gastroenteritis that led to her first hospitalization in a decade last week.

Wearing a mint and silver ensemble, Elizabeth made a brief speech at the ceremony held at Marlborough House in central London. After that she signed a new charter setting out the Commonwealth’s values and commitment to equal rights.

The document, agreed upon by the group’s 54 member states, commits them to upholding principles, including democracy, rule of law and gender

equality.

Earlier Monday, Prince Philip, the queen’s 91-year-old husband, attended the service at the abbey, where he was joined by 2,000 guests, including Commonwealth ambassadors.

A prerecorded annual address by the queen, who heads the association of countries, was played in the abbey.

The queen had to cancel several engagements, including a visit to Rome, last week because of her stomach bug.

The one-day hospitalization raised concerns about the general health of the queen, who has rarely taken time off her duties due to illness.

But the palace says she remains in robust health.

“The queen hopes to undertake some of her official engagements planned for the rest of the week,” the palace said.

Elizabeth carried out more than 400 official engagements in 2012 — ranging from weekly meetings with the prime minister to ceremonial gatherings such as the reception on Monday.

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CAIRO, Egypt — An official statement encouraging Egyptian civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police has set off a new political storm in a country already mired in crisis.

A senior leader of a hard-line Islamist faction loyal to President Mohammed Morsi said his group was preparing lists of volunteers ready to take over police duties if needed.

The main opposition coalition saw the statement on citizen arrests by the attorney general’s office as a prelude to the substitution of the police by militias belonging to Morsi’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood group and allied Islamist groups who swept to power after Egypt’s uprising two years ago.

“It is now clear why the regime insists on pitting the police against the people and relying on security measures to tackle problems that need social, economic and political solutions,” the opposition National Salvation Front said.

Egypt has been embroiled in wave after wave of political protests since the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime.

The unrest has been fueled by the entire range of social ills from tenuous security to an unraveling economy and the leadership of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood controls parliament as well as the presidency and has won every election since Mubarak’s ouster. Morsi’s government says the recent wave of protests sweeping many parts of the country is a conspiracy involving

both Mubarak loyalists and the mostly liberal and secular opposition to undermine the authority of a democratically elected president.

The president said in a TV interview aired last month that he would like see more regular Egyptians take the initiative in dealing with protesters such as those who block roads. He has repeatedly warned that while peaceful protests are a given in today’s Egypt, those who disrupt normal life hurt the economy and scare investors away.

The opposition statement recalled the events of Dec. 5 when Morsi supporters set upon opposition protesters camped outside the presidential palace and later arrested and interrogated dozens of them in makeshift de-

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Hand-picked Chavez successor registers VENEZUELA THOUSANDS THRONG MADURO AS HE REGISTERS FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; BLOCK CAPRILES FROM REGISTERING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez’s handpicked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace the dead leader, while forcing the main opposition candidate to delay his entry into the race.

The massive crowd thronged acting President Nicolas Maduro and blocked opposition candidate Henrique Capriles from registering for the April 14 vote by the 2 p.m. deadline.

The Capriles campaign told The Associated Press that an aide registered for the candidate at the election commission later Monday afternoon.

Maduro also announced a change in Chavez’s final resting place Monday, and the information ministry later said that officials had not decided what will happen to the late president’s body.

Last week, Maduro had said the body would be embalmed and perpetually displayed in the country’s military museum.

Thousands applauded from a plaza outside the National Election Commission, waving banners and holding up posters of Chavez as Maduro registered.

Many wore the red shirts and baseball caps of Chavez’s ruling Socialist Party, letting out a loud cheer when acting President Nicolas Maduro arrived to sign his election papers.

Some cried as Maduro saluted them from the building’s balcony, eulogizing Chavez once again as Venezuela’s “father redeemer” and asking God to give him “the wisdom to allow me to carry out the orders he gave us.”

Later, he launched into a speech of more than two hours in the plaza outside the building, introducing his longtime partner, Attorney General Cilia Flores, and their children and

grandchildren to the crowd.

“I am not Chavez, but I am his son, and all of us together, the people, we are Chavez,” he said.

Opposition supporters denounced the carefully stage-managed event as an affront to basic electoral fairness.

The electoral commission is meant to play an impartial role ensuring the vote is fair and free.

Campaigning doesn’t officially start until April 2, but already the two sides are at each other’s throats.

Capriles announced his candidacy Sunday, while blasting Chavez’s top lieutenants for trying to use the president’s death to stoke passions and tilt the election.

“You are playing politics with the president’s body,” he said, adding that he wasn’t convinced the government had been honest about when Chavez died, and had lied to the people during his long illness by insisting he would get better. The government says Chavez succumbed to cancer on Tuesday after a nearly two-year battle. It has offered almost no clinical information.

Capriles previously called Maduro a shameless liar and referred to him condescendingly as “boy.”

Maduro appeared right after Capriles on state TV on Sunday, accusing “the losing, miserable candidate” of defaming Chavez and his family. He called Capriles a “fascist” who was trying to provoke violence by insulting the “crystalline, pure image of Commander Chavez.”

During his speech, Maduro said Chavez’s body would remain until Thursday at the military academy where it has lain in state. On Friday, it will be moved to the military museum Chavez employed as his headquarters during the failed 1992 coup, Maduro said.

He said the National Assembly would approve a constitutional amendment later this week to allow Chavez to

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Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro waves a Venezuelan flag over supporters after registering his candidacy for president to replace late President Hugo Chavez at the national electoral council in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday.

Elections were announced to take place on April 14, after the death of Chavez on March 5. be moved permanently to the National Pantheon, where the remains of early 19th century liberator Simon Bolivar are held.

By law, such a change to the constitution would have to be approved by voters.

Asked if the government still plans to permanently preserve and display Chavez’s body, the Information Ministry said officials had not yet decided.

Analysts have voiced increasing concern about the angry rhetoric in a country that has become deeply divided during Chavez’s 14 years in office, though most Caracas residents say such exchanges have been common.

Meanwhile, the administration of President Barack Obama on Monday expelled two Venezuelan diplomats in retaliation for Venezuela’s expulsion of two American military attaches after Chavez died last week. U.S. of-

ficials say junior diplomats Orlando Jose Montanez Olivares and Victor Camacaro Mata were told to return home over the weekend and left the U.S. on Sunday.

Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

Washington wants to repair ties with Venezuela but has made little headway so far.

Beyond the diplomatic tit for tat, Venezuelan officials have accused the U.S. of being responsible for Chavez’s cancer and sought to rally anti-U.S. sentiment ahead of an April election for a new leader.

And in Cuba, revolutionary icon Fidel Castro broke his silence over the death of his protege and uber-ally, saying in an editorial published by Communist Party newspaper Granma that the island had lost its “best friend.”

Gun lobby buses hundreds to Connecticut capitol

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. — The powerful National Rifle Association helped bus hundreds of supporters to the Connecticut Capitol on Monday, the latest sign of its stepped-up presence in a state where an elementary school massacre of 20 children jolted a fierce national debate over gun control.

The NRA decided a week ago to help organize a lobby day after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy released his package of gun control proposals and a bipartisan legislative panel unveiled competing gun violence recommendations from Democrats and Republicans, said John Hohenwarter, an NRA state liaison.

Legislative leaders are considering those recommendations and others as they try to draft a bipartisan bill for the full General Assembly to consider, likely later this month. The leaders met behind closed doors Monday as the gun rights supporters descended on the Capitol.

While states like New York have rushed to toughen gun laws, others in the country’s conservative heartland, where guns are seen as part of the solution to gun violence, have loosed their gun laws.

Tougher gun laws are far from a sure thing in Connecticut, a small liberal-leaning northeastern state with plenty of gun owners in its small towns.

Since the shooting, which left 20 first-graders and

six educators dead, the NRA had not been particularly visible in Connecticut until Monday. Hohenwarter said the group has hired two lobbyists for this year’s legislative session but has followed the debate from behind the scenes, working with lawmakers and keeping a low public profile.

Dom Basile, a firearms instructor from Watertown, said he attended Monday’s lobby day to make sure what he called onerous and constitutionally questionable legislation does not become law. He opposes proposals to require guns owners to register annually, an expanded assault weapons ban and a ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines.

Basile said he worries lawmakers feel pressured to pass such legislation because the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, carried out by a lone gunman, happened in Connecticut.

“Connecticut’s a small state. Sandy Hook is right in our backyard. So everybody in the nation is looking upon Connecticut to do something,” he said. “The bottom line is, if all of these bills, all 110 of them, were the law of the land on Dec. 13, still none of them would have prevented Adam Lanza from doing what he did the following day.”

Hohenwarter said he would prefer to see Connecticut emerge from the shooting by taking a leadership role in improving school security and mental health, two areas that task forces created by the legislature and the governor are looking at.

Monday’s “lobby day” was co-sponsored the Connecticut Coalition of Sportsmen, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Connecticut Citizens Defence League.

Robert Crook, executive director of the Connecticut Coalition of Sportsmen, noted the NRA’s involvement marked its first big political event in Connecticut in a long time.

He said gun control bills that have come up in the General Assembly over the past 10 or 15 years have been defeated without major NRA support. Crook, an NRA member, has often been the lone lobbyist fighting gun control legislation.

“But this year, they’ve thrown everything in the barrel,” Crook said of the legislature. “And they’re concerned, they’re really concerned.”

Crook said the NRA helped to pay for buses to bring the gun rights activists to the state capitol from Cabela’s in East Hartford, a large store that sells hunting and fishing equipment. The NRA also handed out stickers and signs that read “NRA: Stand and Fight.”

Gun control advocates are ramping up their lobbying efforts, as well. The Newtown Action Alliance is organizing its own “lobby day” on Wednesday to demand changes to gun laws. The group Connecticut Against Gun Violence has plans to soon release an ad campaign that will include online, print and radio ads.

U.S. worried about NKorea war threats; imposes more sanctions

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration expressed heightened concern Monday over threats of war from nuclear-armed North Korea and issued new sanctions against the communist nation’s primary exchange bank and several senior government officials.

In the last three months, Pyongyang, under its enigmatic young leader Kim Jong Un, has defied the United States and other world powers by testing an intercontinental ballistic missile and testing a third nuclear bomb.

Its latest salvo: a declaration carried through state media that it was cancelling the 60-year armistice that maintains peace on the Korean peninsula.

Washington is walking a tight line.

It is trying not to overplay the danger from an attention-seeking regime infamous for its bluster but has to take the North’s threats of possible military action seriously. The U.S. also is treaty-bound to provide support for South Korea or Japan in the event of any aggression.

“We are certainly concerned by North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday. “The threats that they have been making follow a pattern designed to raise tension and intimidate others. The DPRK will achieve nothing by threats or provocation, which will only further isolate North Korea and undermine international efforts to ensure peace and stability in northeast Asia.”

In an effort to combat North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, the Obama administration issued a series of sanctions Monday.

The Treasury Department designated North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank as a WMD proliferator and imposed similar punitive measures against Paek Se-Bong, the chairman of North

Korea’s Second Economic Committee, which oversees production of North Korea’s ballistic missiles. The designation freezes any assets in the U.S. and bans Americans from doing business with the bank or Paek.

And the State Department placed similar restrictions on three other senior officials: Pak To-Chun, chief of North Korea’s weapons production and arms exports department; Chu Kyu-Chang, a munitions industry director; and O Kuk-Ryol, who controls the North’s nuclear research and development organization.

But on the immediate threat of an end to the Korean War’s armistice agreement, the administration took a more cautious approach.

Speaking at a meeting of the Asia Society in New York, Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, said the claims may be “hyperbolic.”

He said the U.S. will protect its allies in any case.

“There should be no doubt: we will draw upon the full range of our capabilities to protect against, and to respond to, the threat posed to us and to our allies by North Korea,” Donilon said in remarks prepared for delivery distributed by the White House.

“This includes not only any North Korean use of weapons of mass destruction but also, as the president made clear, their transfer of nuclear weapons or nuclear materials to other states or non-state entities,” he said.

“Such actions would be considered a grave threat to the United States and our allies and we will hold North Korea fully accountable for the consequences.”

Donilon also said Obama will meet with newly inaugurated South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the White House in May. The South has tried to boost public confidence of by issuing stern warnings of its own. Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said last

week that North Korea’s government would “evaporate from the face of the Earth” if it ever used a nuclear weapon.

Despite North Korea’s threat of nuclear strikes on Washington, experts believe Pyongyang still lacks the technology to create a miniaturized warhead to place on a ballistic missile.

But with the South Korean capital of Seoul just 40 miles south of the border

and the North’s million-man army, the risks for the South are more acute.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Monday would only characterize North Korea’s statement on pulling out of the Korean War armistice as dangerous rhetoric, and not action. She called the statement concerning but said its impact was unclear.

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