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Widow Colleen Klein waves to the crowd after receiving a City of Calgary flag during the public memorial services for former premier, and Calgary mayor, Ralph Klein at City Hall in Calgary on Friday,

Solemnity turns to tears and laughter at Ralph Klein memorial in Calgary MORE COVERAGE ON PAGE A2

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CALGARY — Many politicians, past and present, attended a memorial for former Alberta premier Ralph Klein in Calgary on Friday. Here’s what some of them had to say: “He was a good premier, and when we were in tough corners, he was sensible and he was responsible and he was agreeable, too. That’s why I came to pay my respects. He was a good premier for his province and a very good Canadian. I had fun working with him and he was fun to be with.” — former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien ★★★ “I got to know Mr. Klein several years ago when we were both ministers of the environment together and became friends. He was candid and spontaneous and very much Alberta. If there’s anyone who represented Alberta well and the people of Alberta, Mr. Klein did.” — former Quebec Liberal premier and one-time federal Conservative leader Jean Charest ★★★ “It never pays to be too cocky.

It never pays to be arrogant. It pays to speak honestly and directly to the people and, man, I wish I had a quarter of his capacity to do so.” — former Saskatchewan NDP premier Roy Romanow on Klein’s advice after a golf game ★★★ “Klein was almost the king of the politically incorrect statement and he was able to say some politically incorrect things — some controversial — but it didn’t impact his ability to get re-elected, maintain the popularity and support of the people.” — Alberta Wildrose Opposition Leader Danielle Smith ★★★ “He was truly a man of the people, a man people were more comfortable calling ’Ralph’ than ’premier.’ I found that interesting. I found it difficult to call him Ralph. He was ’boss’ or ’premier.”’ — Shirley McClellan, Klein cabinet minister and his one-time deputy premier ★★★ “He was unpredictable. He was irreverent. He was irascible and he was inimitable. One of a kind, kind of guy ... Nobody gave a better quote than Ralph Klein.”

— former Ontario Liberal premier Dalton McGinty ★★★ “Premier Klein was a very strong leader who made decisions that he believed were in the best interest for the long term of the province. And I think they proved to be that. He made decisions for a time in Alberta that were fundamental to the future of what Alberta looked like.” — Alberta Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford

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Smiles, laughter and good memories the hallmarks of Klein memorial

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Ralph would have wanted it this way.

A public memorial honouring former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein began Friday with the skirl of bagpipes, solemn faces and a white hearse, but soon morphed into smiles, laughter and memories about a man who wore his heart — and his province — on his sleeve.

“To Albertans he was King Ralph ... but we said it in a way that we never meant it,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said to laughs from Klein’s friends, colleagues and constituents at the Jack Singer Concert Hall.

“He was King Ralph only in the sense of being a king-sized character.

But in personality and demeanour he was really, to us, Citizen Ralph,” Harper continued to applause.

“He said what he would do and then he did what he said. I admire that. We all admire that.”

Klein died March 29 at age 70 after a battle with dementia and lung disease.

He was premier from 1992 to 2006.

While in office he wiped out Alberta’s $23-billion debt and was seen as the national standard bearer for fiscal prudence and living within one’s means.

“He was one of those few individuals you meet in life who don’t need to be referred to by (anything other) than their first name, like Elvis or Tiger,” former Ontario premier Mike Harris told the crowd.

“You said Ralph (and) everybody knew who you were talking about anywhere in Canada.

“He was ahead of us for sure — and Ottawa — in balancing the books, paying down debt (and) living within your means.

“He had a compass that guided him.

It was simple for Ralph: this is what needs to be done; now get out of my way so I can do it.”

But Harris said he most remembers Klein as a fishing buddy, a card player and a very trying golfer. He recalled that Klein on the links was willing but not always able, so was prone to taking a lot of second shots.

“The first term (Klein) learned was the word ’mulligan.’ And he took lots of them,” said Harris to laughter.

“He never cheated. He just took them.”

He said one day he gave Klein an over-sized driver that Klein labelled “Big Mike” and then he bragged about “hitting Big Mike all day long.”

Harris recalled one fishing trip with Klein, who was trying to quit drinking.

He said Klein was tested because Harris beat him at cards and then beat him at the fishing derby.

“Ralph didn’t like that,” he said.

“As steamed as he was ... Ralph never had a real drink. He did, however, drink this half per cent near-beer.

About 27 or 28 of them.”

Shirley McClellan, Klein’s former cabinet colleague and at one point his deputy premier, said the man she knew as “Boss” had a mischievous side.

Klein was an avid fan of the Calgary Flames and Calgary Stampeders, said McClellan.

She was not.

Nevertheless when the Stampeders went to the Grey Cup, Klein ordered

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A picture of the late Ralph Klein sits by a memorial table during a Celebration of Life for former Alberta premier Ralph Klein in Calgary, Alberta on Friday. her to go fly the flag for the province in support of the team.

She told Klein she didn’t own any Stampeder gear.

“Buy some,” she recalled him telling her.

“I went (to the game), we won, and it was great.”

Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, in his tribute, recalled one premiers meeting that turned into “a political equivalent of a full hockey brawl” over medicare funding.

Eventually, said Romanow, they came to a Klein-brokered agreement.

Klein then sent out for Chinese food and demanded “that we enjoy it together as friends and Canadians from sea to sea to sea bound by this great country. That was Ralph Klein.”

Alberta Premier Alison Redford said Klein worked tirelessly to earn the honorific “people’s premier.”

She recounted a day when Klein, during a northern tour of the province, stopped on the spur of the moment to meet and have coffee with people at a hockey rink in Vermilion.

“What struck me about that wasn’t only that he did it, but I didn’t hear about that story in Vermilion. I heard about it in Pincher Creek (in southern

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Alberta), because somebody who was at the arena in Vermilion called their aunt in Pincher Creek and told them they just sat and had coffee with the premier. And that was Ralph Klein.”

Earlier Friday, before the memorial, Klein made one last symbolic trip to the buildings that bore witness to his greatest achievements.

His ashes were with his widow, Colleen, as she accepted a provincial flag at McDougall Centre, the southern office Klein called home when he ran the province. The flag was flying over the legislature when Klein died in a Calgary care home.

After the stop at McDougall, the procession stopped at Municipal Plaza across from city hall, where Mayor Naheed Nenshi proclaimed Friday to be Ralph Klein Day to honour Klein’s time as mayor from 1980 to 1989.

At the concert hall, people began lining up at 7 a.m. to secure one of the 1,100 seats available for the general public. There were an additional 500 seats for invited guests.

Sally Black, a member of the Siksika Nation near Calgary, was crying as she stood in line. She said Klein was a pallbearer for her mother and father and she considers him a brother.

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Man charged in fatal collision 3 years ago back in custody

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man facing criminal charges from a fatal collision almost three years ago is in the Red Deer Remand Centre after skipping court on new charges.

An arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday for Rodney Ross Arens after he missed court to answer charges related to breaching bail conditions and a set of traffic tickets.

Arens, 35, turned himself in to Ponoka RCMP on Thursday afternoon.

He entered the Red Deer Courthouse on Friday morning through the front door, escorted by an RCMP officer and wearing handcuffs and leg irons.

Arens was initially arrested on July 1, 2010, after a two-vehicle collision in which a 13-year-old boy was killed and his older brother and sister suffered serious injuries. He pleaded not guilty to charges of impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing injury, dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing injury.

He had been scheduled for an eight-week jury trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, starting on March 25. However, the trial was postponed late in January, when Arens advised the court that he had fired his lawyer.

He told Judge Bart Rosborough in Red Deer provincial court on Friday that he now has a new lawyer, Chris Paterson of Ponoka.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

Fire investigators are still determining the cause of a fire that caused an estimated $300,000 damage to a condo in North Red Deer. On Friday, fire crews responded to a call of a structure fire on Jamieson Avenue at 5:15 a.m. There was no one home at the time of the fire. The crews fought the blaze for nearly five hours before turning it over to fire investigators. The fire was contained to the one unit. Fire prevention officer Josh Mah said investigators have not determined the cause. The investigation is ongoing.

Four men arrested in connection with allegations of kidnapping and extortion remain in custody awaiting bail hearings.

Thomas Larkin, 33, Gregory Roberts, 26, Scott Hebert, 32, and Logan Mitchell, 18, face numerous charges laid by Red Deer City RCMP following reports that a man was kidnapped in Sylvan Lake on March 4. Police allege that the man was held captive in Red Deer until the next afternoon, when he managed to escape.

Larkin is from Nova Scotia while the other three are from Red Deer.

All four appeared in Red Deer provincial court together on Friday via closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre.

Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker told the court that he still plans to join them as co-accused on the charges they have in common, which include kidnapping, forcible confinement and extortion. Additional charges facing some of the accused include assault with a weapon, robbery, and possession of illegal drugs.

Silliker said he has two banker boxes of information relating to each of the accused men and needs more time to analyze details before he proceeds with joining their charges together.

Bail hearings have been scheduled on Wednesday for Mitchell and Roberts. All four are due back in court on Friday, when defence lawyers are expected to enter pleas on the various charges they face.

Desharnais preliminary hearing to go just before Christmas A preliminary hearing will go just before Christmas for the Red Deer man accused of killing a Calgary woman and then dumping her body in a recycling bin.

The body of Talia Meguinis, 27, was found on Feb. 22, 2012, in a bin that was being unloaded at a recycling facility in Red Deer’s Riverside light industrial park.

Nathan Desharnais, 24, was arrested on Sept. 14 and charged with second-degree murder and interfering with human remains.

Members of Meguinis’s family watched from the gallery as Desharnais was brought into the courtroom prisoner’s box from the Red Deer Remand Centre on Friday morning, his head and moustache shaved clean with a thick goatee sprouting from his chin.

Desharnais’ looks have radically changed from his earlier court appearances, when he had a wispy moustache and beard and his eyes were hidden behind a mop of thick, curly hair.

He stood tall and silent as defence counsel Arnold Piragoff asked that his case go before a judge for a preliminary hearing to formally examine the Crown’s case and determine whether the charges should proceed to trial.

The hearing has been set for Dec. 16, 18 and 19 in Red Deer provincial court.

Desharnais remains in custody pending the outcome of the hearing.

Bail hearing set for Delburne man facing child pornography charges A bail hearing has been scheduled in mid-April for a Delburne man facing a variety of child pornography and sexual luring charges.

Charles Lawrence Ross, who is still on probation for earlier offences, is accused of using a telecommunication device to lure an underage person for sex and to contact an underage person for sex. Ross, 31, is also charged with printing or publishing child pornography and breaching conditions of his probation.

Defence counsel Will Willms asked in Red Deer provincial court on Friday that his client’s case be

Edmonton rub parlour appeal cuffed when police lay prostitution charges EDMONTON — A hearing in Edmonton into a proposed body rub parlour came to a quick halt when a man acting as the parlour owner’s translator was arrested at the scene on prostitution-related charges.

A city committee was to hear an appeal Thursday from the owner, who wants to open an erotic massage parlour near a youth centre.

The centre was to present a 12,000-name petition against the business, but a detective approached Simon Shum just before the proceedings began and took him to a police car.

Police say the 55-year-old man is charged with living off the avails of prostitution as part of a separate human trafficking investigation.

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Two people charged after drug raid Police have charged two people in connection with a drug raid at a house in the downtown area of Red Deer late last month.

Ryan Karol, 20 and Jessica Fedyk, 25, both of Red Deer, are in custody on charges arising from the search of a residence at 4611 50th St. on March 27.

Police allege that a search of the house produced 21.6 grams of cocaine powder, 48.1 grams of methamphetamine, 91 grams of crack cocaine, 600 ml of GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate, also known as the date-rape drug), more than $10,000 in cash, a set of brass knuckles and several imitation firearms.

Karol is charged with possession of drugs for trafficking, possession of a prohibited weapon and breaching conditions of a recognizance.

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Fedyk is charged with possession of a controlled substance and breaching a recognizance.

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adjourned to April 17 to enter his pleas.

Willms told the court he and special prosecutor Jennifer Rees, a Calgary-based specialist in technology and Internet crime, are negotiating a plea agreement and anticipate that they will be ready to present a resolution in court on that day.

A bail hearing will go ahead if they are unable to reach an agreement.

Ross was sentenced on July 15, 2009, to 18 months in jail, followed by 36 months on probation after pleading guilty to distributing and possession child pornography. He was placed on the Canadian Sexual Offender Registry for a period of 20 years at that time.

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Censoring abortion speech despicable HARPER’S GOON TACTICS RUN THROUGH THE TORY CAUCUS IN DENYING FELLOW MP A ONE-MINUTE TALK Our federal government cannot spare a single minute to talk about abortion.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper won’t let it happen because it would be a political distraction and might cost him votes somewhere down the road.

Canada has no abortion law. Most Canadians prefer that stance and embrace Harper’s pledge never to introduce one.

Most Canadians believe women who lack the capacity and supports to raise a baby should not be obliged to carry one to term.

Unwanted children, we agree, are unreasonable burdens to impose on incapable mothers, on their families, on JOE Canadian society.

MCLAUGHLIN We prefer not to look too hard at how other societies with far fewer resources deal with unwanted pregnancies.

China, the world’s largest nation with a population of 1.3 billion people, has a one-child policy.

In rural China, where the birth rate is highest, some girls are killed at birth, because families need sons to continue their family line and to sustain their peasant lives.

Across China, 15 abortions are performed every minute.

It’s obvious to any demographer that this growing cohort of young men, with little chance of courting and marrying a woman, is destined to create social chaos in China down the road.

In India, the world’s largest democracy, family practice rather than government policy is having a similar, albeit smaller effect.

The ratio of sons to daughters born in Indian households is much higher and enduring than statistical variance would dictate.

That pattern has been growing in India for two generations.

It’s abundantly clear that female Indian fetuses are aborted in large numbers because parents prefer sons.

That, too, seems shameful to us, thousands of kilometres and a culture away.

But it brings us uncomfortably back to Canada, where the government forbids discussion of gender selection in the House of Commons.

It does not matter where you sit on the abortion debate to know Harper’s stance on this issue is shameful.

Under parliamentary rules, MPs are allocated time to raise issues of their own choosing.

Their short speeches are a longstanding parliamentary and democratic feature.

They are scheduled at slack times that do not intrude on priority government business, and are limited in length.

Last week, Mark Warawa, a Conservative MP from suburban Vancouver, sought and was denied permission by a Commons committee including one Tory and two opposition MPs to speak on sex-selected abortions in Canada.

This happened despite a clear ruling by a parliamentary expert that there was no procedural impediment to allowing a vote.

This week, Warawa was denied the right to speak

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for 60 seconds about how he was denied that privilege.

Its impact turned a parliamentary minute that would have passed with scant public notice into a national issue.

In the hierarchy of the Harper government, however, speaking publicly about abortion in any fashion is not permissible.

The “threat” — perceived but purely nonsensical — is that opponents of the government would use a TV clip of a Tory speaking about abortion in the House of Commons to further brand the Harper Tories as hapless, helplessly retrograde and clearly not worthy of re-election.

There are plenty of reasons to want a government better than the one we have now, but it’s far from clear that any federal opposition parties are positioned to provide it today, or after Justin Trudeau is crowned Liberal leader next Sunday.

Liberal MPs who voted with Tories to deny Warawa the right to speak did themselves and their incoming leader no favour this week.

It’s unclear whether the decision to deny MP Warawa his speech made it up to the Harper himself.

That seems highly unlikely, given the vast range and number of issues he must deal with on a daily

basis. But it was made by senior Tories who know him well and have fully embraced his control-freak mentality.

To their credit, some Conservative MPs publicly have supported Warawa’s right to speak.

Alberta MPs Leon Benoit and Brent Rathgeber were courageous and cogent in defence of their Tory mate.

You don’t have to agree with a colleague — or even a parliamentary opposition MP — to support their ability to present views and represent their constituents, making them instantly and irrevocably ineligible from ever being a Harper cabinet minister.

When Pierre Trudeau was prime minister he infamously slagged all MPs, not just opposition members, pronouncing that “when they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.”

Harper seems determined to go Trudeau one worse.

He’s making Conservative colleagues who have minds of their own and constituents to represent nobodies inside the Commons.

Joe McLaughlin is a retired former managing editor of the Red Deer Advocate.

Genetic engineering: golden rice took too long ting it out to the farmers?

It was created by Peter Beyer, professor for cell biology at Freiburg University in Germany, and Ingo Potrykus Fourteen years ago, scientists devel- of the Institute of Plant Sciences in oped a genetically engineered version Switzerland in the late 1990s, and was of rice that would promote ready for field trials by the production of vitamin 2000.

A to counter blindness and But the first field triother diseases in children als were delayed for sevin developing countries. In en years by protests from a few months, the PhilipGreenpeace and other enpines will become the first vironmental groups, and country to start giving “goldcrossing various regulatory en rice” out to its farmers. hurdles took another six.

Bangladesh and IndoBoth the protests and the nesia will follow suit soon, regulatory hurdles were and India is seriously conbased on the notion that gesidering it. netically engineered plants Good, but 14 years is are “unnatural,” which auGWYNNE rather a long time, isn’t it? tomatically raises the quesThe number of children DYER tion: which human food in developing countries who crops are actually “natuwent blind from vitamin A ral,” in the sense that you deficiency during that time will find them growing wild (half of whom died within in nature.

12 months of losing their sight) runs Answer: none. into the low millions.

That’s why ecologist Stewart Brand (The World Health Organization has proposed the phrase “genetically estimates that between a quarter- engineered” (GE) in lieu of the more million and a half-million children common “genetically modified” (GM) a year go blind from vitamin A-defi- on the grounds that all domesticated ciency.) plants have been genetically modified, “Golden rice” contains beta-caro- by cross-breeding or by blasting seeds tene, an orange-coloured pigment that with radiation. is a key precursor chemical used by None of them would survive in the the body to make vitamin A. wild.

Sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach and Gene-splicing is just a more effibutternut squash are naturally rich in cient and neater way of achieving the beta-carotene, but ordinary white rice same goals. contains almost none.

Much of the early opposition to GE And rice is the most important food was no more than a superstitious fear in the diet of about half the world’s of the unknown, and there was also people. genuine concern that it might pose So what caused such a delay in get- health risks to consumers.

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The way that GE crops were first introduced was bound to arouse opposition.

In 1996 Monsanto, the world’s leading biotech company, began to market GE versions of corn, soybean, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa that had been engineered to tolerate glyphosate, a very effective herbicide that the company had been selling with great success as Roundup since 1974.

The patent on Roundup was expiring in 2000, allowing glyphosate to be made by rival companies.

But in practise, Monsanto’s patents on the new GE seeds extended its monopoly for decades more: farmers could buy glyphosate wherever they wanted, but to use it to best effect they had to buy Monsanto’s herbicide-resistant seeds (called, of course, Roundup Ready).

Then Monsanto used relentless lobbying to get its GE seeds through the approval process and out onto the market.

It succeeded in North America and most other major grain-growing areas, but not in Europe — and its strong-arm tactics created deep resentment and suspicion in many quarters.

A decade and a half later, that still lingers.

But it’s now clear that GE crops pose no health risk.

North Americans have been eating them for 15 years, whereas Europeans scarcely eat them at all, but there is no significant difference in disease and death rates that can be linked to GE food.

Meanwhile, crop yields have risen dramatically, herbicide and pesticide use has declined, and no-till farming

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that cuts carbon dioxide emissions due to plowing has become far more common.

The opposition to GE crops never came from farmers, and it’s now in steep decline in the general public as well.

There are seven billion of us now, and there will be at least 8.5 billion before the human population of this planet stops growing. Moreover, as living standards rise in most formerly poor countries, diet is changing too and much more meat is consumed. To meet that demand, even more grain is needed.

We are using 40 per cent of the land surface of the planet to grow our food.

That is already too much, because replacing the complex natural ecology with our monocrop agriculture removes vital elements from the chemical and biological cycles that keep our climate stable.

As environmentalist Jim Lovelock, the author of the Gaia hypothesis, put it: “We cannot have both our crops and a steady comfortable climate.”

But perhaps we could have it both ways if we cut back to, say, 30 per cent of the planet’s land surface devoted to agriculture.

Or 25 per cent.

The point is that we must reduce the area we are farming, not increase it.

The only way to do that is to raise crop yields dramatically. Genetically engineered crops may be able to meet that demand.

There are no other proposed solutions on the table.

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Cut subsides, tax carbon to help climate In a strongly worded report, the International Monetary Fund has entered the climate change debate, calling on nations to curb their subsidies to the oil, gas and coal industries and to tax carbon, moves that it says would free up funds for cash-strapped governments to meet other societal needs while encouraging a needed cut in greenhouse gas emissions.

The report comes at a time when the Harper government is facing growing pressure to explain how it plans to meet its 2020 commitment to bring greenhouse gas emissions to a level 17 per cent below the 2005 level.

A new study by the independent Pembina Institute DAVID contends that without signifiCRANE cant new curbs on oil and gas emissions, the Harper government will fall far short.

David Lipton, the IMF’s first deputy managing director, says subsidy reform worldwide would play a “significant” role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with “substantial benefits of using fiscal instruments to achieve climate change objectives.” So “the time has come for subsidy reform and carbon taxation.”

Curbing subsidies would be the first step. Last year, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development found that Finance Canada was unable to provide a full financial accounting of federal subsidies for the fossil fuels industry (coal, oil and natural gas).

But for the fiscal year, 2007-08 to 2011-12, the com-

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missioner estimated that direct spending in support of the industry amounted to $508 million while tax incentives cost the federal government another $1.47 billion.

The accelerated capital cost allowance for oilsands, a tax incentive which is being phased out, is worth about $300 million a year to oilsands producers.

The report added that “for some tax expenditures, Finance Canada is able to estimate the cost attributable to a group of sectors, including mining, oil and gas and clean energy, in which fossil fuels represent a majority of revenue.

The cost of these tax expenditures amounted to an additional $2 billion for the fiscal years 2006-07 to 2010-11.”

Moreover, the report said, this amount does not include the cost of other tax incentives, such as the Canadian Exploration expense.

But adopting fiscal instruments to deal with climate change, as the IMF urges, will require more than curbing subsidies and incentives.

It will also mean pricing carbon — greenhouse gas emissions — and dealing with what economists call externalities. As the U.S. Economic Report of the President states, an externality exists if one person’s action imposes costs on another person, without those costs being paid by the person taking the action.

In the case of climate change, for example, the costs “are borne by others, including future generations, and these costs are not reflected in the price of greenhouse gas emissions.”

This market failure, the report says, “clarifies the need for government to protect future generations that will be affected by today’s emissions.’

The Pembina Institute warns that to meet its 2020

target, Canada must cut total emissions to 607 million tonnes, compared to 740 million tonnes in 2005.

But current projections show that emissions will be 720 million tonnes in 2020, or about 113 million tonnes above the target.

After estimating possible emissions reductions in other sectors of the economy, the Pembina Institute calculates that the oil and gas industry would have to reduce emissions by a whopping 86 million tonnes to 118 million tonnes in 2020, compared to 154 million tonnes in 2010 and projected growth, with oilsands expansion, to 204 million tonnes in 2020.

According to the Pembina Institute, emissions from the oilsands are projected to increase from 48 million tonnes in 2010 to 104 million tonnes in 2020, making the oilsands Canada’s fastest growing source of emissions.

Hence, “the level of contribution reflected in the federal government’s oil and gas regulations will be the determining factor in whether Canada achieves its 2020 target,” the Pembina Institute warns, arguing this will require a carbon price of at least $100 a tonne of greenhouse gas emissions, and preferably $150 a tonne, by 2020.

Alberta’s current price in its climate policy is a token $15 a tonne, too low to have any meaningful impact.

Failure to deal with oil and gas emissions by pricing carbon at a level sufficient to deliver real change will mean the Harper government is breaking its 2020 pledge on climate change, reinforcing Canada’s image as a climate change outlier.

Much is at stake in the promised new oil and gas rules.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Being clumsy and stupid at the same time So, what did you do last weekend? holding onto the TV set and trying to The one before Easter weekend, I find a place to land. mean. It was good, eh, but not as good I remember plunking the TV in a as the Easter weekend on account of snow bank and then falling face-first the Easter weekend was a beside it. I was whimpering holiday weekend? I hear ya. away and grunting such bad Me? Oh, nothing much. words through clenched Just, you know, fell down. teeth that it nearly turned Broke my ankle. Five stitchthe snow blue. es in my hand. Went out for To make a short story supper. The usual stupidity long, I somehow got the for Mr. Clumsypants, here.

TV in the back seat of the It’s so much fun being both old ’67 Mercedes that I still stupid and clumsy at the have parked in pieces out at same time. my sister’s farm, and someSo I’m in Calgary with how manage to drive the my friends Ron and Paul standard stick shift to Edfrom our old (very old) band monton.

HARLEY called SAM, and we had a Ended up at emergenHAY lovely day in Richard’s recy (back in the days when cording studio thrashing the wait was only several away trying to remember hours or so) with torn ligahow to play some tunes ments, 14 pounds of thick from the 1960s, whereupon it was time white tape from my toes to my knee, to head for home. and crutches.

It was a day of Pepsi and stale sandThe GF and I meet our good friend wiches from the convenience store, who shall remain nameless on account nothing more, I swear, and we are of he’s a member of the legal profeschatting away, well that is — I’m chat- sion, and he (Kirk) makes me stump ting away as usual and we are walking along on a surprisingly excruciating along Richard’s backyard patio to our ankle, the crutches already a royal car and I didn’t see that there was a pain in the armpits and hands, all the small step or two at the end of the pa- way across the U of A campus, needtio and so I miss the step and so I fall lessly and solely for his own amusedown. ment, as I limped and grunted like a Stepped on the old (very old) ankle, three-legged dog. rolled it over and went down like a So that dumb ankle has been weak sack of hammers more or less into a and waiting all these years like a little small fence that Richard has around time bomb for me to do the old fallsome garbage cans at the side of the down-the-steps routine again. garage.

And I’ve done it several, well, many It wasn’t all that graceful a move I times since then, but never like my can tell you, and it was more than a tad swan dive off of Richard’s patio. embarrassing.

So the other day I manage to get Laying there for a moment, the guys back up and I notice there’s a rip in asking me if I was OK, me thinking: the palm of my hand deep enough to “Oh, this isn’t very good.” Certain parts allow me to see the inner anatomiof my life flashing before my eyes. cal workings that I don’t want to see, Like the last time I really hurt my and I’m hopping along to Ron’s vehicle ankle. Flashback to many moons ago, blaming it all on him on account of he when my Better Half was still only my made me carry his guitar stand, which girlfriend (GF), and she was living in is a little folded up thing that obviously Edmonton taking classes with Alberta threw off my balance and caused me to Ballet, and I’m heading up to bring her crash like a doofus. back home for the weekend.

I get Ron back by bleeding all over For some reason, I’m carrying a TV, the back seat of his truck, but by the a medium-sized countertop television time we make it down the QE2 it’s all set, and yes, I step off the back step good and we decide to go for supper and turn my ankle and fall — hopping where some good food, good company down the sidewalk in blinding pain and good beverages seem to help a

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great deal.

The BH picks me up on her way home from working late, shaking her head at me because she knows me too well. Only this time she’s driving and Kirk isn’t there to make me limp around for an hour or two.

So the next morning is Sunday, of course, it’s always Sunday when you need a doctor, and we find a walk-in clinic that’s actually open.

“It’s X-ray for the foot and stitches for the hand,” the good doctor says with a very distinctive British/Dutch/ German hybrid accent that clearly comes from South Africa.

“So,” I say, wincing away, trying to make lame conversation. “You’re not from around here, are you.”

“No,” he says in Afrikaans English.

“I’m from Manitoba.”

And we laugh, which causes me to go “Oww!” Turns out he moved to South Africa from Canada as a child, and we had a very interesting chat as he poked various sharp instruments into the palm of my hand.

So for three days I hobble around with a large sock on my bass drum foot and a large bandage on my cymbal hand, and I finally get a phone call from the lady at the clinic.

“You have several small avulsion

fractures,” she says and I say what does that mean and she says she doesn’t know and I say how do you spell it and I’ll look it up.

“The doctor says to keep on wearing the air cast boot that he recommended,” she says, and I make a note to go get an air cast boot thingie.

So after visiting my regular good Dr. M., who confirms a lateral malleolus fracture, which I have to go home and look up, here I am clomping around with a Star Wars Storm Trouper ski boot thingie that cost me 160 bucks, and a bandage on my hand and I’m steadfastly avoiding patios and steps of any kind.

And wouldn’t you know it, a bunch of us from the old (very, very old) Gaetz Ave. Dance Band are rehearsing this weekend. I figure I still should be able to make enough noise on the drums to keep up, but I’m not carrying any guitar stands.

Or TV sets either.

At least not until next time I decide to get clumsy and stupid at the same time.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Budget cuts hitting society’s most vulnerable Grant cut surprises child-care advocates — Red Deer Advocate, March 27, 2013 Axe hitting non-profits — Red Deer Advocate, March 14, 2013 Michener closing — Red Deer Advocate, March 12, 2013 I could bore you all day with the different cuts that the provincial government is making, but as part of a department that works with the under-privileged, the addicted, the working poor and the mentally challenged in Red Deer. But this ever-increasing number of budget cuts is starting to worry me.

Although Potter’s Hands CHRIS does not receive any funding SALOMONS whatsoever from any government agency, the trickle-down effect of all the budget cuts will in time place a heavier than normal demand on our services. This is true not only at Potter’s Hands, but also at Loaves and Fishes and any other organization that operates without assistance.

At a time when everything including food is becoming more expensive, you can begin to understand where my apprehension is coming from.

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For about five years, the three levels of government (federal, provincial and civic) funded grants and assistance in the eliminating homelessness initiative, by providing low-income housing that has proven to be very effective. But that also is now dried up.

As a result of the budget cuts, especially to nonprofits, a lot of essential services are under threat of severe reduction or, at the worst, elimination.

Once these services are then eliminated, those seeking the help will go to the remaining agencies for help. That includes churches, food banks and organizations like ours.

With the closing of Michener Centre, we are being told that the remaining clients will be distributed to other facilities and also seniors homes.

I wonder which of the four beds that remained after the closure of Red Deer Nursing Home and Valley Park Manor they will occupy, and what training will the already-overworked caregivers be given to deal with mentally challenged clients— and who will fund that training?

Also, by putting more of these people in group homes, they will now have the freedom to wander the streets where they are susceptible to the drug and criminal element.

Taking a $7,500 service enhancement grant away from a daycare is a real money saver as well, don’t you know. If I was interested in a child-care vocation, I would look carefully at the fact that I would be required to invest two years and about $11,000 just

to earn $20 per hour in an industry under attack by government financial hacks, because they probably won’t stop at just the $7,500 cut.

I really hate to be cynical, but every time I read another article dealing with a government that takes a few dollars from children so that they can pay the bill for someone attending non-existent meetings, it sticks in my craw.

I have been involved in corporations that when tough times hit, they require a pay reduction to make ends meet. To me, that makes a certain amount of sense. No one likes it, but if I share in the success of a company, I should also share in the downturn.

It stands to reason then, that if the government is broke, shouldn’t they cut back on their wages and perks and expenses? Sorry unions, you’re on your own on this one.

There have in the last few months been many articles of the abuse of the perks and privileges enjoyed by our government officials; not so much at the civic level, but provincially and federally. If we really want integrity and not just discovered abuse apologies, I feel that we better become more informed about who we vote into office.

Even a thief off the street who comes to eat at the kitchen has a difficult time when a person in a position of trust (i.e. politician) is paid to defend his abuse of the perks system. But then I guess there has to be a reason for budget cuts, doesn’t there?

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Alberta Transportation stands by cable barrier on Hwy 2 NEARLY 40 PER CENT FEWER SERIOUS INJURY OR FATAL COLLISIONS SINCE THEIR INSTALLATION

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta Transportation is defending the Hwy 2 cable barrier system after concerns were raised following the death of a motorcyclist.

The 133-km cable barrier was installed along Hwy 2 between Red Deer and Airdrie in June 2010 as part of the province’s $8.2 million barrier project.

The 21-year-old Red Deer man died after his motorcycle hit the centre median cable barrier system on Hwy 2, south of the Hwy 11 overpass on Wednesday afternoon.

The cause of the collision, or the man’s identity, have not been released. Police said speed or alcohol were not factors.

Alberta Transportation is sticking behind statistics, saying the barrier is making Alberta highways safer.

“This is a very, very unfortunate incident,” Alberta Transportation spokesperson Nancy Beasley Hosker said Friday. “We will be looking at the police report to clarify the cause.”

Beasley Hosker said before the installation along the corridor there was an average of 106 collisions every year involving vehicles losing control and travelling through the median.

There were 15 fatals in the five years before the installation.

“That’s what we are trying to prevent,” she said. “We are trying to save lives. We all want to save lives and minimize injuries.”

Beasley Hosker said there have been no fatal crossover collisions and a nearly 40-percent reduction in serious injury or fatal collisions since the system has been in place.

While the province has information on fourwheeled vehicles in relation to the cable barrier, currently it does not have any specific research on motorcyclists in relation to collisions with the barriers.

“We do have anecdotal stories that have indicated that motorists have seen motorcyclists strike the barrier, get back on their motorcycle and drive away,” said Beasley Hosker.

She said they have not been reported as injury free or fatal collisions because the motorcyclists have walked away. She said the barriers have significantly reduced the severity of injuries in collisions compared to steel or concrete.

The cable barrier was installed after extensive research on the type of barriers that are available, including the traditional concrete and steel and the cable barriers.

The barrier was first introduced on a 10-km stretch on the north end of Deerfoot Trail in Calgary in 2007. The cable barriers have been used in North America over the last 10 or 15 years.

Alberta was the first province in Canada to use the safety feature, which is regularly used in jurisdictions across the country. The province won a national safety award for the project. Beasley Hosker said the barriers have been one of the province’s most effective highway safety features.

The system acts similar to a spider web, catching a vehicle leaving the road in the barrier and preventing it from crossing the median and going into ongoing traffic, says a report from the Office of Traffic Safety.

“These barriers are flexible as opposed to a motorist hitting a cement wall,” she said.

“There is no give there.”

Still a Red Deer County mother was brought to tears when she heard about Red Deer man’s death on Monday.

Barb Cross said when she heard the story she felt she had to come forward.

Cross and her husband wrote to Alberta Transportation about the concerns over the cables a few years ago after their daughter was in a collision on Hwy 2 near Gasoline Alley. Her then 19-year-old daughter was driving a car on Hwy 2 near Gasoline Alley when her car hit a patch of black ice and smashed into the cable, which propelled her car into traffic. Cross said her daughter was fortunate that there was no traffic because she may not have survived.

“When I saw this (Thursday), I was furious because this was not a necessary death,” said Cross. “It should have been dealt with beforehand. These cables are dangerous to cars. They are dangerous to motorcyclists. They are dangerous to people. They are dangerous to people who are in cars.”

Cross said this should not have happened.

“I thought, you know, a lot of us who have had these experiences need to combine together,” said Cross. “We need to support this young man’s family. I am devastated that this happened to someone else. This didn’t need to happen.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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ARENS: Back in court Wednesday Arens attempted to tell the judge that the reason he missed court on Wednesday was because of a mis-

CANADA - E.U. TRADE AGREEMENT

Canada and Europe hash out resolution for auto trade

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Leaked European documents on the freetrade talks with Canada suggest the two sides have the bare bones for an agreement in the troublesome field of autos.

The Canadian Press has obtained a European list of outstanding issues on rules of origin, which have long been a barrier to a final Canada-EU free trade agreement.

The list, dated Feb. 5, is included in a memo from the European Commission’s directorgeneral for trade, addressed to the trade policy committee.

Included in the list is a proposal for a two-step solution to the problematic auto sector — a sector that has proven difficult for negotiators to handle because Canada’s auto production is so deeply intertwined with the U.S. market, making it nearly impossible to define what a “Canadian” car actually is.

The first step involves setting up a quota — an approach used frequently by Canadian and European negotiators to deal with contentious issues — while the second step involves negotiating arrangements with the United States.

The short-term quota “should be reasonable and based on current investment plans and export possibilities,” the document states. “It is also linked to any growth clause.”

That kind of quota design is unusual, since quotas are often based on historical production patterns and don’t anticipate future changes.

However, the document does not say where the quota should be set. Canada proposes 100,000 passenger cars per year, but there is no indica-

communication with his lawyer.

Rosborough told him to save it for next Wednesday, when he and his lawyer can address the new charges and seek his release. The new charges include three counts of breaching bail conditions, alongside traffic tickets for driving an unregistered vehicle, driving an uninsured vehicle and driving without having a valid driver’s licence.

Arens is also scheduled for Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday to set a new date for his trial on the charges arising from the 2010 collision.

Police allege that he was at the wheel of a heavy-

tion that the EU would agree to that level.

Nor does the document say how Canada would divvy up the quota among auto manufacturers in Canada.

The quota — which the EU calls “derogation” — would eventually be removed after Canada, the EU and the United States reach an understanding of how to account for North American content in cars being shipped from Canada. Instead, it would be replaced with a stipulation that Canadian passenger vehicles should have no more than 40 per cent non-North American content.

“Derogation to cease, and maximum foreign content to be brought down to 40 per cent if and when there is an agreement with the U.S. providing for cumulation with Canada,” the document states.

The “cumulation with Canada” part is key because it signals that the European Union is ready to recognize and deal with the deep integration of the Canada and U.S. markets.

“The reality of a Canadian-made car is that it crosses the border and contains parts that are intermingled with the American sector, and that’s just the reality of the Canadian auto industry,” said the NDP’s trade critic, Don Davies.

“What we need in (the Canada-EU free trade agreement) is a deal that recognizes that, and sets the numbers at a reasonable number, so that a Canadian-made car that contains a certain amount of American content can in fact be exported into the European market at zero tariff or preferential tariff rates as a Canadian-made vehicle.”

The documents suggest that’s exactly where the deal is heading, said Laura Dawson, an Ottawa-based trade consultant.

duty pickup truck that struck a small car carrying members of the Chanminaraj family.

Stephanie Chanminaraj, 20 at the time, was driving her younger brothers, Jamie Chanminaraj, 18, and Anouluck “Jeffrey” Chanminaraj, 13, to Bower Ponds for the Canada Day fireworks.

Jeffrey was killed in the impact. Jamie was transferred by STARS air ambulance to Calgary and Stephanie was taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

RALLY TO KEEP MICHENER OPEN Join residents, family, staff and supporters at a rally to keep Michener Centre open.

In 2008, the government promised it would not evict Michener residents from their home at Michener Centre. It was a lie.

Wednesday, April 10 3:30 p.m.

Red Deer City Hall Park 4914 48 Avenue

On March 11, the Redford government announced it was closing Michener Centre. It was done without consulting residents, family or staff.

Now, vulnerable Michener residents, who rely on the quality, professional services Michener provides them, are being forced from their home. It’s wrong and it’s cruel.

www.keepmicheneropen.com

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BY CAROL PATTERSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Thirty-three years ago, Greg Kaufman, founder of Hawaii’s Pacific Whale Foundation, climbed the ocean-side cliffs of Maui to look for whales. When he spotted a humpback, he would climb back down, jump into a boat and approach the whale for his research. Now, travellers have only to climb the steps of Greg’s whale-watching boats to see many whales.

In the 1960s, scientists estimated there were less than 1,000 humpback whales left in the northern Pacific. Fortunately for the whales and the people who love them, whaling was significantly reduced, and in 1992, U.S. Congress established the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.

From December to April, whales like Maui as much as the tourists, but for different reasons. At 100 metres deep, the water is relatively shallow, and warm; perfect conditions for mating and giving birth. Orcas, the main predator of humpback babies, seldom visit.

Whale populations have grown about seven per cent a year and now, scientists estimate that around 10,000 whales visit the Hawaiian Islands each year.

The less-scientific description of the whale numbers visiting, was articulated by our guide, Jackson, who said, “It’s like whale soup out here today!”

On a single two-hour tour, we counted over 60 whales, some in the distance, others close enough that you could see the barnacles on their skin or feel the boat rock as they swam by.

Regulations prevent tour companies from approaching a whale within 100 yards (90 metres), but whales do not read, and will often come much closer, sometimes at great speed as they compete for a mate.

Over several days, we watched whales breach singly, in groups, and as moms taught babies how to jump.

We saw pectoral slaps, tail slaps and peduncle throws (when the whale snaps their tail like a whip).

We saw groups of males called competition pods push each other out of the water or race under the boat to gain a female’s favour. If a whale does something, they do it in Hawaii!

If you get seasick, you can whale watch on a large boat or from shore.

Whales can be seen from Maui’s southern beaches from sunrise to sunset, and moms with new babies swim surprisingly close to shore.

If you hear a funny noise while snorkeling, chances are it is the whales singing. The song of every male is identical and if one whale sings, the other males join in, singing an identical song. Scientists cannot explain the cetacean karaoke, but some think it makes females more receptive to breeding.

The breeding and conservation are working. As whales have become more numerous, more people enjoy whale watching. Over 300,000 people took tours with Pacific Whale Foundation last year and experts estimate that more money has been generated by whale watching worldwide than was ever made from whaling!

Greg Kaufman probably did not foresee that economic success in his early gazes over the ocean, but winter visitors to Maui now find their vacation significantly enhanced by this conservation success story.

The whales of Maui

If you go: ● Look for whales from the beaches near Kihei or Kaanapali.

The viewpoint at McGregor Point provides a panoramic view of the Hawaii Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. ● Get a membership with the Pacific Whale Foundation. You save 20 per cent on tours, board first for the best seats, and help conservation projects (www.pacificwhale.org). ● To see what you might encounter, watch my video at http://youtu. be/ZLj-qHL3ldE Carol Patterson helps businesses and people reinvent themselves through adventure. When she isn’t travelling for work, Carol is travelling for fun. More of her adventures can be found at www.naturetravelgal.com.

Photos by CAROL PATTERSON/freelance

Top: Whale watching boats must stay 100 yards (90 metres) from whales.

Middle: Travellers can see humpback whales from shore.

Bottom: Scientists think whales may slap and breach to remove barnacles.

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From civil rights to Selena CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS OFFERS A LOOK AT MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For most residents from bigger Texas cities, the South Texas city of Corpus Christi has always been a day-trip destination for a quick beach getaway. But often overlooked are the coastal city’s deep roots in Mexican-American history, some of it wrapped up in the civil rights movement.

And while Corpus Christi doesn’t have a huge number of museums or landmarks connected to Latino history, visitors can find plenty of interesting things to see, from an exhibit about a physician and civil rights leader to a statue of the late Tejano star Selena.

Corpus Christi was formally founded in 1839 as a trading post, but it’s likely that shipwrecked Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca explored the city’s shores in the 1500s with African slave Estevanico.

The shipwrecked travellers became famed healers among American Indians, visiting the sick in villages throughout what is now Texas, which historians later characterized as an early example of a multiracial effort.

Little physical evidence of that voyage exists in the city today, but the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History offers an exhibit of artifacts from another excavated Spanish shipwreck which includes a section of the ship’s wooden keel and verso guns.

In more recent times, Corpus Christi served as the launching pad for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), once the largest Latino civil rights group in the nation.

Founded in 1929 by World War I veterans, the group served as a key player in some of the most dramatic moments in the Mexican-American civil rights movement.

The group helped raise money for a legal team led by San Antonio lawyer Gus Garcia and Houston attorney John J. Herrera to successfully take a case to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 challenging a ban on Mexican-Americans serving on juries in some parts of Texas.

But there’s no tangible tribute to LULAC’s history in the city, other than an education centre and apartment complexes bearing the name.

“It really bothers me,” said Nick Adame, current president of LULAC Council No. 1, who is working to build a South Texas Civil Right Museum in Corpus Christi. “There are museums for everything else. We need to change that because this city was so important to the movement.”

There does exist, however, a nice exhibit to the late Dr. Hector P. Garcia at Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi.

The physician and civil rights leader founded the G.I. Forum and helped bring national attention to a funeral home in Three Rivers, Texas, that reportedly refused to offer chapel services for a Mexican-American World War II soldier killed in battle.

(A graduate student later argued that the funeral home owner didn’t want his chapel used not out of racism but because of a dispute between the widow and the soldier’s father-in-law, a story that at least three historians said has been proven false).

Garcia also played a role in organizing MexicanAmerican World War II veterans who raised money to pay for poll taxes and later led the Viva Kennedy Clubs in Texas to help elect John F. Kennedy to the presidency. Garcia also provided health care to thousands of poor Mexican-Americans, sometimes at his own expense.

The exhibit housed at the school’s Mary and Jeff Bell Library displays Viva Kennedy memorabilia, letters from various presidents and photos from the Mexican- American civil rights movement.

Also kept at the library are Garcia’s papers, which are popular among historians writing about the civil rights movement in Texas.

“Dr. Garcia kept everything,” said Grace Charles of the library’s Special Collections & Archives. “He left a trail that tells us a story of his time.”

In addition, every year in January on Garcia’s birthday, dozens of Latino veterans come to Seaside Memorial Park, where he is buried, to pay their respects.

But by far the most visited place in Seaside Memorial Park — and possibly all of Corpus Christi — is the resting place of slain Tejano singer Selena.

Born Selena Quintanilla Perez, the rising Mexican-American star was killed in March 1995 by a distraught fan. Her death at age 23 was mourned all over Texas and has brought thousands of visitors to her resting place, where many leave money, lipstick and flowers in her honour. Her slaying came just as the Tejano star was attempting to crossover into mainstream music with hopes of becoming the most popular Mexican-American singer of all time.

Not far from Selena’s resting place is a museum dedicated to the star. Operated by her family, the museum displays some of Selena’s dresses, her Porsche, and music memorabilia.

There’s also a Selena statue at the seawall where fans leave notes and take pictures. It’s as if they’re saying, “At least you will not be forgotten.”

File photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Old Viva Kennedy! campaign buttons of civil rights leader and G.I. Forum founder Dr. Hector P. Garcia, lower left, are shown at the Garcia exhibit at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas. The costal Texas city’s deep roots in Mexican American history is often overlooked as visitors mainly come here for a quick beach getaway.

Tourists take photos in front of the resting place of the late Tejano singer, Selena at the Seaside Memorial Park in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

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

DAVEY JOHNSON

JOHNSON HONOURED CINCINNATI, Ohio — Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson is being honoured for something he did in Cincinnati 18 years ago.

Johnson led the Reds to a division title in 1995 and the NL championship series, where they were swept by Atlanta.

Former owner Marge Schott decided to replace Johnson with Ray Knight after the season.

The Reds wouldn’t win another division title until 2010, when they won the first of their two NL Central championships under Dusty Baker.

The Reds will honour Johnson with a gift on the field before their game Saturday at Great American Ball Park.

TODAY

● Gymnastics: Southern zones and trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics, Collicutt Centre. ● Senior hockey: Provincial AA/A championships at Innisfail.

J ● unior B hockey: Provincial championship at Wainwright — Red Deer Vipers vs.

Wetakiwin Ice Kings, 9:30 a.m.; semifinals at 8 and 8:30 p.m.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Hitmen 2 Rebels 1 CALGARY — The effort was better.

Unfortunately for the Red Deer Rebels, the result was the same.

The Rebels gave up a late second-period goal and fell 2-1 to the Calgary Hitmen before 7,481 fans Friday at the Saddledome. Red Deer, 4-2 losers the night before, trails the best-of-seven WHL Eastern Conference semifinal 2-0 with Games 3 and 4 scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at the Centrium.

“Our effort was good, I thought we competed harder tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who expressed opposite emotions following Game 1.

“But it’s still not enough. We have to do more.”

A sore point and an ongoing problem was the Rebels’ inability to cash in on the power play.

Red Deer’s penalty kill was a flawless five-forfive, but the man advantage units were zero-for six.

“We had power play opportunities but didn’t get the job done like we have to,” said Sutter.

“Again, the power play is a reflection of your top players.”

What really bothered the Rebels bench boss

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was the manner in which his club surrendered the winning goal. When Cory Millette misplayed the puck at the Red Deer blueline late in the second period, Victor Rask corralled the disc and scored on a breakaway.

The goal came roughly four minutes after the Rebels had killed off a five-minute kneeing penalty to Matt Bellerive, a major infraction — accompanied by a game misconduct — that was tempered somewhat by an interference minor to Calgary.

“That’s a tough goal to

give up. You kill a fiveminute major and you’re doing certain things well,” said Sutter. “A goal like that is just terrible. It’s a soft play, you have to be 100 per cent certain on a play like that.

“But they took advantage of it and that was the difference in the game.”

There was originally no call on the play that resulted in the Bellerive major. But after a meeting of the linesmen and referees Matt Kirk and Tyler Adair , Bellerive was penalized for the hit

on Pavlo Padakin, who left the game with an apparent knee injury and did not return.

Sutter was incensed by the call.

“That’s not a five-minute major. He (Bellerive) skates three feet and delivers a bodycheck,” said Sutter.

“It’s a hockey hit, but I’ll let the league deal with their own officials on that one.”

The Hitmen struck just 47 seconds into the game when Elliott Petersen out-raced Rebels defenceman Brady Gaudet to the puck on a

dump-in and beat netminder Patrik Bartosak to the far side.

The Rebels answered late in the opening frame as Jordan DePape fired a rebound past Hitmen goaltender Chris Driedger just seconds after a Calgary penalty had expired.

But that was it for the visitors, who are now faced with the task of winning four of the next five games — in the event the series goes the distance — to advance to the conference final.

See REBELS on Page B5

Red Sox dump Blue Jays 6-4 THE CANADIAN PRESS

● Gymnastics: Southern zones and trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics, Collicutt Centre. ● Junior B hockey: Red Deer Vipers at provincial championship at Wainwright — Thirdplace game at 10:30 a.m., championship game at 2 p.m. ● Senior hockey: Provincial AA/A championships at Innisfail.

Photo by BRYCE FORBES/Freelance

The Rebels gave up a late second-period goal and fell 2-1 to the Calgary Hitmen before 7,481 fans Friday at the Saddledome.

Boston 6 Toronto 4 TORONTO — Boston first baseman Mike Napoli homered and drove in three runs to help make manager John Farrell a winner in his return to Toronto as the Red Sox defeated the Blue Jays 6-4 in American League play Friday night.

The Red Sox (3-1) scored single runs in the eighth and ninth to put Toronto (1-3) away.

Farrell, who abandoned the Jays for Boston this season, was greeted by boos as he was introduced by the Rogers Centre PA announcer. The Boston manager heard it even more from the pumpedup crowd of 45,328 when he walked out to home plate to hand in his lineup card along with Toronto’s John Gibbons.

There was more of the same in the sixth when he walked to the mound to order a pitching change.

Having made their point at the start of the game, the fan booing seemed slightly boorish as the evening wore on. Crude chants in the ninth didn’t add to the evening’s class.

Farrell, who asked to be let out of his contract after two seasons at the Jays’ helm, was eventually traded to Boston in October along with pitcher David Carpenter for shortstop Mike Aviles, who was subsequently sent to Cleveland for relief pitcher Esmil Rogers.

Rogers (0-1) played his part in the game, coming on in relief with one out in the eighth and the score tied 4-4. He soon found himself in trouble after walking pinch-hitter Jonny Gomes and giv-

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Boston Red Sox first baseman Mike Napoli, right, celebrates his two run homerun with teammate Dustin Pedroia, left, while playing against the Toronto Blue Jays during fifth inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Friday. ing up a double to Dustin Pedroia. Napoli then grounded out, driving in Gomes for his third RBI of the night and a 5-4 Boston lead.

The Jays had Rajai Davis on third with two out in the eighth but couldn’t bring him home.

Boston added an in-

surance run in the ninth via a Will Middlebrooks home run off a shaky Jeremy Jeffress. It’s a wonder only one run was scored in an ugly inning that featured two walks, an error and three stolen bases — and ended with the bases loaded.

Closer Joel Hanra-

han, hitting 99 miles per hour, gave up a walk but dispatched the top of the Toronto order to get his second save. Reliever Junichi Tazawa (1-0) earned the win.

Both teams finished with 12 hits.

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VICTORIA — Brad Jacobs did not have time to smell the cherry blossoms, go whale watching or visit some of Victoria’s other scenic sites Friday.

Instead, he and his Northern Ontario rinkmates went to their hotel spa in a bid to relax prior to Saturday’s do-ordie playoff game against Denmark at the world men’s curling championships.

“We’re still alive in this thing, and I think what’s huge for us is having the whole day off to just rest the body and rest the mind,” said Jacobs.

Canada was relegated to fourth place after closing the round-robin segment with two losses, to Sweden’s Niklas Edin and Denmark’s Rasmus Stjerne, on Thursday. As

CURLING a result, Jacobs missed out on a chance at two cracks at qualifying for Sunday’s final.

The winner of the three-four playoff game will face two-time world champion David Murdoch and his first-place rink from Scotland, which was upset 6-5 by Sweden in Friday’s Page 1 playoff game. Sweden advanced to the final.

Jacobs’ Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., rink, which includes third Ryan Fry and the front-end brother act of E.J. and Ryan Harnden and alternate Matt Dumontelle, is hoping to pull off feats similar to its accomplishments while winning the Brier in Edmonton in early March. The Jacobs fought through the threefour game en route to the triumph.

“We’ve never done things the easy way, our team,” said Jacobs.

“We’ve been in this position before. We know what we have to do if we want to win this thing.”

Jacobs and company have lost two in a row and four of their past six games. But, according to Fry, the Canadians are not feeling overly anxious about their skid.

“It’s upsetting that we weren’t able to win one of our last two games to secure first place, but we’re all going to take it for what it is,” he said.

“No one’s to blame but ourselves for not winning those games. And, all the credit goes to the teams that we played as well. We came up against some very hot skips and hot teams.”

INNISFAIL — Once the Innisfail Eagles found their legs the Devon Barons were no match for the homestanding Eagles in their opening game of the provincial senior AA/A hockey championships Friday.

The Eagles broke open a 1-1 tie late in the opening period and went on to a 7-2 victory in the AA quarter-finals.

Innisfail’s Ryan Kallis scored at 9:38 and Devon’s Landon Way at 14:13 before Tyler Helfrich and Cody Cartier connected at 16:50 and 19:18 respectively to put Innisfail up for good.

Adam McPherson, Helfrich and Tylor Keller scored in the middle stanza for the Eagles with Innisfail’s Mathew Ponto and Devon’s Daryl Blais exchanging third period markers.

Keller added three

assists and Cartier had two.

Jason Kipling finished with 22 saves in goal for the Eagles while Tyler Day made 33 stops for the Barons.

The Eagles will face the Tofield Satellites today at 8 p.m. in the AA semifinals. Tofield advanced with a 7-1 win over the Lomond Lakers while on the other side the Daysland Northstars beat the Edson Ice 5-2 and the Spirit River Rangers downed the Nanton Palominos 6-4. The Daysland-Spirit River semifinal goes at 2 p.m.

Meanwhile the losing teams drop in the senior A semifinals. Edson and Nanton clash at 11 a.m. and Lomond and Devon at 5 p.m.

The A final goes Sunday at 1 p.m. with the AA final at 4 p.m.

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WHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Edmonton leads series 1-0) Friday’s result Edmonton 4 Medicine Hat 1 Sunday’s game Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 9 Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 10 Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 12 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 14 x-Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 17 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

d-Pittsburgh 39 d-Montreal 37 d-Washington37 Boston 36 Toronto 37 Ottawa 37 N.Y. Rangers37 N.Y. Islanders38 New Jersey 37 Winnipeg 39 Philadelphia 37 Buffalo 38 Carolina 36 Tampa Bay 36 Florida 37

29 24 18 24 20 19 18 18 15 18 17 15 16 16 12

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0 5 2 4 4 6 4 4 9 2 3 6 2 2 6

58 53 38 52 44 44 40 40 39 38 37 36 34 34 30

127 118 109 101 115 93 89 109 89 94 105 102 96 117 91

95 90 105 77 105 83 89 117 101 119 114 116 111 106 127

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF 36 27 5 4 58 122 38 25 8 5 55 117 6 46 98 37 20 11 37 20 11 6 46 94 37 21 13 3 45 107 37 21 14 2 44 100 38 19 14 5 43 99 36 20 14 2 42 105 37 16 14 7 39 99 38 16 15 7 39 91 37 16 15 6 38 101 38 15 15 8 38 93 37 17 17 3 37 99 36 13 19 4 30 97 37 12 20 5 29 89

GA 80 95 93 89 91 97 100 98 102 101 104 103 113 128 117

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

Calgary (3) vs. Red Deer (4) (Calgary leads series 2-0) Friday’s result Calgary 2 Red Deer 1 Thursday’s result Calgary 4 Red Deer 2 Monday, Apr. 8 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 9 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 11 x-Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 13 x-Calgary at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 16 x-Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader

WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Spokane (4) Friday’s result Spokane at Portland (Memorial Coliseum) Saturday’s game Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 9 Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 10 Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 13 x-Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 15 x-Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 17 x-Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum)

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, SO Buffalo 4, Ottawa 2 St. Louis 3, Columbus 1 Detroit 3, Colorado 2, OT Dallas 3, Anaheim 1 San Jose 2, Calgary 1 Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 1 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Toronto at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

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

Washington at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES

Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) Saturday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 9 Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 10 Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 12 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 14 x-Kelowna at Kamloops, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 16 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. x — If necessary.

Blues 3, Blue Jackets 1 First Period No Scoring.

Second Period 1. St. Louis, Stewart 16 (Pietrangelo, Bouwmeester) 15:58 (pp) 2. Columbus, Anisimov 10 (Gaborik, Prospal) 18:36 3. St. Louis, Backes 5 (Steen) 18:45 Third Period 4. St. Louis, Berglund 15 (Bouwmeester) 19:59 (en-sh) Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (L,13-9-6); St. Louis: Allen (W,9-3-0).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Penguins 2, Rangers 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

No Scoring.

Third Period 1. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 7 (Kunitz, Pa.Dupuis) 0:30 2. N.Y. Rangers, Nash 14 (Stepan) 15:11 Overtime No Scoring Shootout Pittsburgh wins 1-0 N.Y. Rangers (0) — Nash, miss; Zuccarello, miss; Callahan, miss. Pittsburgh (1) — Jokinen, goal; Malkin, miss; Pa.Dupuis, miss.

Goal — N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (SOL,16-13-3); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W,19-6-0).

Sabres 4, Senators 2 First Period 1. Buffalo, Adam 1 (Pardy, Weber) 6:21 2. Ottawa, Methot 2 (Silfverberg, Zibanejad) 12:29 Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 3. Ottawa, Gryba 2 (Zibanejad, Neil) 1:41 4. Buffalo, Ott 7 (Pysyk, Pardy) 3:15 5. Buffalo, Flynn 4 (Hecht, Weber) 14:37 6. Buffalo, Hecht 3 (Myers, Porter) 14:49 Goal — Ottawa: Lehner (L,3-3-4); Buffalo: Miller (W,13-15-5).

Red Wings 3, Avalanche 2 (OT) First Period 1. Detroit, Datsyuk 12 (Franzen, Zetterberg) 8:27 (pp) 2. Colorado, Olver 4 (van der Gulik, Palushaj) 11:36 3. Detroit, Nyquist 2, 11:49 Second Period No Scoring Third Period 4. Colorado, Parenteau 15 (McGinn, Duchene) 6:29 Overtime 5. Detroit, Datsyuk 13 (Zetterberg, Kronwall) 4:44 Goal — Detroit: Howard (W,16-11-4); Colorado: Giguere (OTL,2-3-2).

Stars 3 at Ducks 1 First Period 1. Dallas, MacDermid 2 (Roussel, Garbutt) 9:03 2. Anaheim, Cogliano 12 (Steckel, Allen) 9:21 3. Dallas, Nystrom 5 (Fiddler, Daley) 13:54 (sh) 4. Dallas, Chiasson 1 (Fiddler, Dillon) 19:12 Second Period No Scoring Third Period No Scoring Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W,13-11-2); Anaheim: Fasth (L,13-4-1).

Sharks 2, Flames 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Backlund 6 (Cammalleri) 17:55 (pp) Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 2. San Jose, Boyle 7 (Couture, Tennyson) 2:40 3. San Jose, Pavelski 12 (Burns, Galiardi) 17:54 Goal — Calgary: Kiprusoff (L,6-11-2); San Jose: Niemi (W,19-8-5).

Second Period

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Friday’s Games Detroit 8, N.Y. Yankees 3 Texas 3, L.A. Angels 2 Baltimore 9, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 13, Philadelphia 4 Boston 6, Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0 Oakland 8, Houston 3 Seattle 8, Chicago White Sox 7, 10 innings Today’s Games Boston (Lackey 0-0) at Toronto (Happ 0-0), 11:07 a.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Hanson 0-0) at Texas (M.Harrison 0-1), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Hughes 0-0) at Detroit (Scherzer 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Mendoza 0-0) at Philadelphia (Lannan 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Worley 0-1) at Baltimore (Tillman 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Colon 0-0) at Houston (B.Norris 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

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Sv—Nathan (1). HRs—Los Angeles, Iannetta (2).

Texas, Beltre (1).

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Hendriks, Pressly (5), Duensing (6), Fien (7), T.Robertson (8) and Doumit; Arrieta, Patton (6), Ayala (7), Strop (9) and Wieters. W—Ayala 1-0. L— Fien 0-1. HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (4).

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2 7

1 0

McAllister, Shaw (7) and C.Santana; M.Moore, McGee (7), B.Gomes (8), Jo.Peralta (9) and Lobaton.

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Straily, Neshek (7), Resop (7), Scribner (8) and Jaso; Peacock, X.Cedeno (5), R.Cruz (5), W.Wright (7), Ambriz (8), Veras (9) and J.Castro. W—Straily 1-0. L—Peacock 0-1. HRs—Oakland, Crisp (1).

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K. City Phil.

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W.Davis, B.Chen (5), J.Gutierrez (6), Collins (7), Hochevar (9) and S.Perez; K.Kendrick, Horst (6), Durbin (7), Valdes (8) and Kratz. W—B.Chen 1-0.

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Hanrahan (9) and Saltalamacchia; Jo.Johnson, Cecil (7), E.Rogers (8), Jeffress (9) and Arencibia.

W—Tazawa 1-0. L—E.Rogers 0-1. Sv—Hanrahan (2). HRs—Boston, Napoli (1), Middlebrooks (1).

Toronto, DeRosa (1), Reyes (1).

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Chicago, Hairston (1). Atlanta, J.Upton (3).

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J.Sanchez, J.Gomez (6) and R.Martin; Greinke, P.Rodriguez (7), Jansen (8), League (9) and A.Ellis.

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Atlanta Washington New York Miami Philadelphia

Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee Pittsburgh St. Louis

Arizona Colorado San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 3 1 .750 3 1 .750 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 1 3 .250

GB — — 1 2 2

Central Division W L Pct 3 1 .750 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 1 3 .250 1 3 .250

GB — 1 2 2 2

West Division W L 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 2 1 3

Friday’s Games Kansas City 13, Philadelphia 4 Colorado 5, San Diego 2 San Francisco 1, St. Louis 0 Miami 7, N.Y. Mets 5 Cincinnati 15, Washington 0 Atlanta 4, Chicago Cubs 1 Arizona 3, Milwaukee 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, Pittsburgh 0 Today’s Games Miami (Nolasco 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 1-0), 11:10 a.m.

Washington (Detwiler 0-0) at Cincinnati (Leake 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

St. Louis (Miller 0-0) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Mendoza 0-0) at Philadelphia (Lannan 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 0-0) at Milwaukee (Fiers 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Villanueva 0-0) at Atlanta (Teheran 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 0-0) at Colorado (Garland 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (A.Burnett 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct 56 20 .737 56 20 .737 52 24 .684 50 26 .658 51 24 .680 43 32 .573 42 33 .560 39 36 .520 40 37 .519 37 39 .487 33 42 .440 28 47 .373 27 49 .355 26 50 .342 23 52 .307

GB — — 4 6 4.5 12.5 13.5 16.5 16.5 19 22.5 27.5 29 30 32.5

x-Oklahoma City x-San Antonio x-Denver x-L.A. Clippers x-Memphis Golden State Houston L.A. Lakers Utah Dallas Portland Minnesota Sacramento New Orleans Phoenix

x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference Friday’s Games Cleveland 97, Boston 91 New York 101, Milwaukee 83 Philadelphia 101, Atlanta 90 Chicago 87, Orlando 86 Toronto 95, Minnesota 93 Miami 89, Charlotte 79 Oklahoma City 97, Indiana 75 Utah 95, New Orleans 83 Dallas 117, Sacramento 108 Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

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

Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Indiana at Washington, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

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

Toronto at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games New York at Oklahoma City, 11 a.m.

L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 4 p.m.

Washington at Boston, 4 p.m.

Orlando at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at Golden State, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 7 p.m.

Curling 2013 WORLD MEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORIA — Final standings and playoff match-ups at the 2013 World Men’s Curling Championship, to be held through Sunday at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre: Round Robin Country (Skip) W L x-Scotland (Murdoch) 8 3 x-Sweden (Edin) 7 4 x-Denmark (Stjerne) 7 4 x-Canada (Jacobs) 7 4 Norway (Ulsrud) 6 5 China (Rui) 6 5 Switzerland (Michel) 6 5 Czech Republic (Snitil) 6 5 U.S. (Clark) 5 6 Russia (Drozdov) 3 8 Japan (Morozumi) 3 8 Finland (Kauste) 2 9

Friday’s game Page Playoffs One vs. Two Scotland 5 vs. Sweden 6 Saturday’s games Page Playoffs Three vs. Four Denmark (Stjerne) vs. Canada (Jacobs), 12 p.m.

Semifinal Scotland-Sweden loser vs. Denmark-Canada winner, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s games Bronze Medal Game Semifinal losers, 12 p.m.

Gold Medal Game Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

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Baseball American League East Division W L Pct 3 1 .750 3 1 .750 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 1 3 .250

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct z-Miami 59 16 .787 x-New York 49 26 .653 x-Indiana 48 28 .632 x-Brooklyn 43 32 .573 x-Chicago 42 33 .560 x-Atlanta 42 35 .545 x-Boston 39 37 .513 Milwaukee 36 39 .480 Philadelphia 31 44 .413 Toronto 29 47 .382 Washington 28 47 .373 Detroit 25 51 .329 Cleveland 23 52 .307 Orlando 19 58 .247 Charlotte 18 58 .237

GB — — — 1 2

TEXAS OPEN At JW Marriott, TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,522; Par: 72 Second Round Billy Horschel 68-68 — 136 Daniel Summerhays 69-69 — 138 Charley Hoffman 71-67 — 138 Steven Bowditch 69-69 — 138 Brendon de Jonge 70-69 — 139 Jim Furyk 69-70 — 139 K.J. Choi 72-67 — 139 Retief Goosen 70-69 — 139 Ben Kohles 69-70 — 139 Rory McIlroy 72-67 — 139 Lee Janzen 70-69 — 139 Matt Bettencourt 67-73 — 140 Peter Tomasulo 67-73 — 140 Jason Gore 69-71 — 140 D.J. Trahan 70-71 — 141 Brian Gay 71-70 — 141 Joe Durant 70-71 — 141 Nathan Green 69-72 — 141 Jeff Overton 69-72 — 141 Brian Harman 72-69 — 141 Alistair Presnell 69-72 — 141 Peter Hanson 70-71 — 141 Padraig Harrington 68-73 — 141 Martin Laird 70-71 — 141 Brian Davis 69-72 — 141 Bob Estes 72-69 — 141 Ken Duke 73-68 — 141 Steve LeBrun 72-69 — 141 David Lynn 72-70 — 142 Bryce Molder 68-74 — 142 Bud Cauley 71-71 — 142 Shane Lowry 70-72 — 142 Ryan Palmer 71-71 — 142 Wes Short, Jr. 71-71 — 142 Jason Kokrak 74-68 — 142 William McGirt 70-72 — 142 Harris English 68-75 — 143 Greg Chalmers 72-71 — 143 Scott Langley 73-70 — 143 Cameron Percy 72-71 — 143 Scott Stallings 73-70 — 143 Justin Leonard 72-71 — 143 John Huh 74-69 — 143 Martin Flores 71-72 — 143 Paul Haley II 73-70 — 143 Brad Fritsch 70-73 — 143 Marcel Siem 76-67 — 143 Nicholas Thompson 71-73 — 144 Kevin Chappell 75-69 — 144 Jeff Gove 71-73 — 144 Freddie Jacobson 70-74 — 144 Aaron Baddeley 74-70 — 144 Stuart Appleby 75-69 — 144 Luke List 73-71 — 144 Jimmy Walker 71-73 — 144 Chris DiMarco 75-69 — 144 Seung-Yul Noh 73-71 — 144 Richard H. Lee 74-70 — 144

Matt Kuchar Kyle Stanley Brendan Steele Johnson Wagner Joey Snyder III Troy Matteson Charlie Beljan Ian Poulter Charl Schwartzel D.A. Points John Merrick Neal Lancaster John Mallinger Matt Every Joe Ogilvie Andres Romero Brendon Todd John Peterson Ben Curtis Gary Woodland Russell Knox Henrik Norlander Todd Baek Justin Bolli

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Failed To Qualify Chez Reavie Chris Stroud Tim Herron Rod Pampling John Daly Nick O’Hern Cameron Tringale Chad Campbell Michael Letzig Will Claxton Robert Karlsson Aaron Watkins Donald Constable J.J. Henry Robert Allenby Jonathan Byrd Zack Fischer Tom Gillis Tim Petrovic Jordan Spieth Jerry Kelly James Hahn Jin Park Lee Williams Justin Hicks Colt Knost Jamie Donaldson D.H. Lee Scott Gardiner David Lingmerth Brandt Jobe Duffy Waldorf Patrick Reed Andres Gonzales Morgan Hoffmann Gary Christian Tommy Gainey Billy Mayfair

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BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Suspended Cincinnati RHP Vaughn Covington (Arizona League Reds) and Los Angeles Angels C Carlos Ramirez (Arkansas-Texas) 50 games each after second violations for drugs of abuse under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed 2B Brian Roberts on the 15day DL. Recalled INF Yamaico Navarro from Norfolk (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS—Designated RHP Edgar Gonzalez for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Acquired C Stephen Vogt from Tampa Bay for a player to be named or cash considerations and optioned Vogt to Sacramento (PCL). Designated RHP Dan Otero for assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Placed RHP Jeff Niemann on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 28. Recalled RHP Brandon Gomes from Durham (IL).

National League MIAMI MARLINS—Placed 1B Casey Kotchman on the 15-day DL. Recalled C Kyle Skipworth from New Orleans (PCL).

Carolina League WINSTON-SALEM DASH—Announced INF Jeremy Farrell was added to the roster.

American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Signed LHP Matt Bywater.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS—Signed LHP Dontrelle Willis, C Ralph Henriquez and INF Gabe Suarez.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Signed RHP Chad Rose.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Released INF Cole Kraft and RHP Will Hassett.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Released C Brett Chamberlain and C Brent Walters.

JOLIET SLAMMERS—Signed RHP Evan Anundsen.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS—Signed RHP Travis Bradshaw and SS Tyler Stubblefield. Placed LHP Daniel Calhoun, LHP Shawn Gilblair, SS Jake Kaase, and OF Chad Maddox on the retired list.

FOOTBALL National Football League JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Agreed to terms with WR Mohamed Massaquoi on a two-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Waived LB Rolando McClain.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed OT Anthony Davis to a five-year contract extension through the 2019 season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS—Signed F Matthew Lindblad to an entrylevel contract.

CAROLINA HURRICANES—Recalled D Brett Bellemore from Charlotte (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Recalled D Cody Goloubef from Springfield (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Recalled C Jacob Josefson from Albany (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Signed D Scott Mayfield to an entry level contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Recalled D Matt Taormina from Syracuse (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Assigned F Nicklas Jensen to Chicago (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Signed D Patrick Wey to a twoyear, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League CONNECTICUT WHALE—Signed F Andrew Carroll and loaned him to Idaho (ECHL).

HERSHEY BEARS—Announced D Julien Brouillette was signed to a one-year contract by Washington (NHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Announced Columbus (NHL) assigned D Cody Goloubef to the team.

WORCESTER SHARKS—Signed F Riley Brace to an amateur tryout agreement.

COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA STATE—Named Wes Moore women’s basketball coach.

NORTHWESTERN—Named Tavaras Hardy men’s assistant basketball coach.

OHIO STATE—Announced junior F Deshaun Thomas will enter the NBA draft.

OLD WESTBURY—Named Brittany Ranaldo athletics facility manager and Dean Sussman assistant softball coach.

RUTGERS—Announced the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti.

TULANE—Announced freshman G Ricky Tarrant, junior F Josh Davis, junior G Ben Cherry, sophomore F-C Lotanna Nwogbo, freshman G RaAnthony Sanders and freshman F Marc Eddy Norelia are transferring from the basketball team.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 6, 2013 B5

Story lines set as Final Four set for tip off

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Louisville already had the bigger names, the better team and some unfinished business after coming up short in last year’s Final Four.

All Wichita State had was the cute-and-cuddly underdog angle. Now the Shockers don’t even have that.

Kevin Ware is everybody’s favourite player since he broke his leg in gruesome fashion last weekend yet summoned the strength to encourage his teammates, and having him at the Final Four has given the top-seeded Cardinals (33-5) added motivation to claim the title that eluded them last year.

“We really want it, especially since we’re back here for a second year,” Louisville forward Wayne Blackshear said Friday. “With Kevin going down, especially the way he did, it’s just making us play harder.”

Louisville plays Wichita State (30-8) in the first national semifinal Saturday night.

The Cardinals are 10 ½-point favourites.

Wichita State has one player (Carl Hall) who salvaged his career after working in a light bulb factory and two more (Ron Baker and Malcolm Armstead) who paid their way to come to school and started on the team as walk-ons. Its coach has invited fans into the locker room after big wins. Yes, this is a school with all the makings of a team the entire country could get behind.

Problem is, in this case, Louisville and Ware are already tugging on America’s heart strings.

“I’m just glad to know Kevin Ware now even more because he’s probably the most famous person I know,” Peyton Siva cracked. “You know, when you have Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama call you, it’s pretty good to say you know that person.”

Louisville’s trip to last year’s Final Four was something of a surprise, coming after the Cardinals skidded into the Big East tournament just two games over .500. So when they got to the NCAA tour-

ney and finally got bounced by archrival and top-ranked Kentucky in the national semifinals, it wasn’t a shock. Or a huge disappointment.

This year, however, the Cardinals — and everyone else — expect Louisville to win it all.

“I think that’s the one difference from last year to this year,” Chane Behanan said.

“Last year, I don’t want to say it was a fluke because we were a great basketball team. This year is just totally different.

We have the No. 1 seed. It’s a lot of pressure with everyone expecting us to win.”

Until Ware got hurt, the Cardinals seemed immune to the pressure and the expectations, to say nothing of letdowns.

They won their first four NCAA tournament games by an average of almost 22 points.

They limited opponents to 59 points and 42 per cent shooting while harrassing them into almost 18 turnovers. Oregon was the only team to get within single-digits of Louisville at the buzzer. The Cardinals blew out mighty Duke by 22 points.

Raonic defeats Fognini to even Davis Cup quarter final

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Milos Raonic put Canada back on even terms with Italy at their Davis Cup quarter-final tie.

Raonic defeated Fabio Fognini 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 on Friday night after Canada’s Vasek Pospisil dropped the opening match to Andreas Seppi.

Since he joined the Davis Cup team in 2010, the big-serving Raonic has been Canada’s ace in the hole. The Thornhill, Ont., native has now claimed six straight singles victories for Canada. His overall Davis Cup record is now 11-4, 9-3 in singles.

Raonic — ranked No. 16 in the world — wasted little time gaining the upper hand on No. 31 Fabio Fognini. He won the first set fairly routinely, but was forced to a tie-breaker before claiming the second.

The players traded early breaks in the third set, but Fognini serving at 5-6 Raonic broke again on his fifth match point to seal the victory.

Canada will look to take a 2-1 lead in

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Academic honours for RDC athletes Six RDC athletes have been named Canadian Colleges Athletic Association academic All-Canadians Two members of the Queens volleyball team — Brooke Sutter and Kirsten Sorensen — are joined by cross-country runner Kieran McDonald, soccer’s Logan Grenier and Amber Regnier and Sam Brisbane of the Kings volleyball squad.

Overall 130 student-athletes from across Canada were honoured. RDC and SAIT led Alberta with six recipients each.

Recipients must attain academic honours at their institution in addition to obtaining one of the following athletic achievements — a member of either the first or second all-star team, a gold or silver winner at the league badminton championships, a top seven finisher in the provincial cross-country championships or finish in the top three women or top five men at the provincial golf finals.

Early lead for Carstar in basketball final Carstar grabbed a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association A-side final with a 100-94 win over the Grandview All-Stars Thursday.

Nathan Dixon led the winners with 35 points while Darryl Hemstreet added 29. Adam Bowie had 27 points and Chris Girvan 16 in a losing effort.

The second game of the series goes Sunday at 2:45 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber with a third game, if necessary, Thursday

Saturday’s doubles, when Pospisil and veteran Daniel Nestor are scheduled to face Daniele Braciali and Paolo Lorenzi.

In the opening match, Seppi rallied from two sets down to beat Pospisil 5-7, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

Canada was hoping Pospisil might be able to pull a huge upset similar to the one Frank Dancevic managed in the previous tie in February when he upset a player ranked 132 places ahead of him in World Group first-round action against Spain.

Seppi is Italy’s top singles player and ranked No. 18 in the world to No. 140 for Pospisil — who was filling in for the injured Dancevic.

It was looking very promising for a while as the 22-year-old native of Vernon, B.C., thrilled the crowd by taking the first two sets. But Seppi showed his fighting spirit by digging in to claim the final three sets and the victory.

Pospisil had a battle with mononucleosis just three months ago which sapped his strength but said his fitness level wasn’t a factor. assists each.

Baylee Schulhauser made 19 saves in goal while her teammates had 33 shots on Calgary’s Anna Free.

Dreger had four goals, Morrison three goals and two assists, Shae-Lyn Baxter two goals and Kelta Kanngiesser a goal and two helpers against the Hot Shots. Lalor had three assists while Schulhauser made 21 saves.

The Sting will meet the Guelph Predators in the bronze medal game this morning. Guelph lost 2-0 to LMRL of B.C. in the semifinals.

Vipers beat host Wainwright Bisons WAINWRIGHT — The Red Deer Vipers could have made things easy on themselves with a victory at the provincial junior B hockey championships Friday.

But a 5-4 loss to the Cold Lake Ice forced them into winning today’s 9:30 a.m. meeting with the Wetaskiwin Icemen if they hope to make the playoffs.

The Vipers are tied for second in their pool with the Grande Prairie Kings at 1-1. The Ice sit first with a 2-0 record and meet Grande Prairie today.

Wetaskiwin is 0-2 after losing 7-2 to the Ice and 6-2 to Grande Prairie.

The top two teams in each pool advance to tonight’s semifinals.

Chris Robertson, Nathan Dennis, Nick Glackin and Cole DeGraaf scored for the Vipers, who trailed 2-1 and 4-2 by periods. They did lead 3-2 early in the second period and appeared to tie the game late in the third, but the goal was called off as the officials said it was hit by a high stick, something the Vipers didn’t agree with.

Goaltender Brenden Mandrusiak was named the Red Deer player of the game.

The Okotoks Bisons led the other pool with a 1-0-1 record after tying Wainwright 2-2 and beating Sherwood Park 6-2. Sherwood Park defeated the Calgary Rangers 7-2 while Calgary and Wainwright tied 1-1.

The final goes at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Sting go for bronze

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REBELS: Must win at home “We have to make sure that we come out hot (Monday),” said Rebels captain Turner Elson. “We can’t just gradually pick it up and then get better in the third period.

“We have to make sure we got lots of pucks and bodies to the net. Their goalie is still seeing too many shots.”

The Rebels will also need some production from their power play units, which might be easier said than done considering the prowess of the Calgary penalty killers, including Calder Brooks.

“Our PK was outstanding tonight.

There was a lot of power plays and penalty kills, it was a hard-fought game by both teams,” said Brooks.

“It was a tight game from the get-go.

Both teams were working hard.”

Both goaltenders came up with a series of outstanding stops, with Bartosak finishing with 40 saves and Driedger blocking 29 shots. ° The Rebels dressed the same lineup as in Game 1 of the series, scratching forwards Scott Feser, Christian Stockl, Hunter Smith and Adam Musil, defencemen Kevin Pochuk and Riley Boomgaarden and goaltender Taz Burman . . . The Rebels are 3-1 versus the Hitmen in WHL playoff history, winning 4-2 in 2001, 4-1 in 2004 and 4-3 in 2004, and losing 4-0 in 1999 . . . The three stars Friday were (1) Rask, (2) Bartosak and (3) Driedger. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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The loss wasted a fine effort by Toronto’ Jose Reyes, who was a triple away from hitting for the cycle.

Down 4-3 in the seventh, the Jays shortstop hit a solo homer to right field off Tazawa to pull the Jays even. Reyes went 4-for-5 on the night with a single, two doubles and a homer.

The opposition scored first for the fourth game in a row at Rogers Centre and Napoli put the Red Sox ahead 4-1 in the fifth with a two-run homer off starter Josh Johnson.

Mark DeRosa homered for the Jays, his first home run since April 5, 2010.

Johnson struggled through six innings in the second straight loose performance by one of Toronto’s marquee pitching additions. Mark Buehrle also had an off night Thursday but the Jays bats did enough for a 10-8 win over Cleveland.

The six-foot-seven, 250-pound Johnson, who wasn’t helped by his fielders at times, bent but didn’t break in several innings. Second baseman Emilio Bonifacio had three errors on the night, but punched out Jackie Bradley Jr. at home in the ninth to deny Boston another run.

Gibbons didn’t have many options Friday, having used six pitchers in each of the previous two nights — one of which was an 11-inning game.

Boston offered a global pitching approach, with two Japanese and two American right-handers following Venezuelan starter Felix Doubront.

Johnson came into the game on the heels of a stellar spring. He went 5-0 with a 2.80 earned-run average, striking out 23 while walking just three in 20 innings. But the big man, who is in the last year of a contract that pays him US$13.75 million this year, opened by giving up a walk and single before registering a fly out and two strikeouts to end the inning.

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FREDERICTON, N.B. — The Central Alberta Sting will play for bronze at the Canadian U16 ringette championships.

The Sting dropped a 6-4 decision to Alberta champion Calgary Strive in the semifinals Friday after beating the New Brunswick Hot Shots 10-2 in the quarter-finals.

Gillian Dreger had three goals and Breanna Parent one against Calgary, who they defeated in the round-robin.

Kelsey Lalor and Ashlynn Morrison added two

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Syracuse players and staff pose for a photo before practice for their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Michigan, Friday, April 5, 2013, in Atlanta. Wichita State plays Louisville in a semifinal game on Saturday.

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 6, 2013

Canada blanks Finland, pours in the goals in 8 - 0 rout

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A pair of Canadian forwards breathed sighs of relief in Canada’s 8-0 win over Finland at the women’s world hockey championship Friday.

Bailey Bram scored her long-awaited first goal with Canada’s national team. Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Canada’s the top goalscorer at the 2010 Olympics, scored her first, second and third goals of the world championship in Canada’s final preliminary-round game.

“Playing in the world championships, it’s always a battle” Agosta-Marciano said. “Doesn’t matter who you’re playing against. To get that first goal of the tournament is always a good feeling.”

The Ruthven, Ont., forward smacked her stick on the ice in triumph after scoring the first goal of her hat trick.

“It’s always hard to get that first goal, but once you get it, you gain that momentum,” she said. “For me, it really helped.”

Canada finished first in Pool A with eight points ahead of the U.S. with seven. Both countries secured berths in Monday’s semifinals.

Russia, Finland, Switzerland and Germany will play in Saturday’s quarter-finals. The Czech Republic and Sweden will play a best-of-three relegation round.

Bram scored her first goal and Canada’s first of the game in her 15th appearance with the national team. She was held scoreless in her world championship debut in 2012.

But it was worth the wait for the 22-year-old from Ste. Anne, Man. The announced crowd of 18,013 at SBP Arena set a single-game record for attendance at a female hockey game, according to Hockey Canada.

“To see it go in and get the monkey

off my back was very exciting,” an elated Bram said. “The fans were going nuts so it was great.

“I was hoping to get it playing Switzerland. Thirteen goals and I didn’t get one and I was like ’oh, it’s never going to come.’ To start it off today was great.”

Brianne Jenner contributed a pair of goals with Jennifer Wakefield and Sarah Vaillancourt also scoring for the defending champions.

Marie-Philip Poulin, Catherine Ward and Haley Irwin each had two assists. Shannon Szabados earned the shutout with 16 saves.

Finnish goaltender Noora Raty made 30 saves on 36 shots before she was replaced by Meeri Raisanen in the third period. Raisanen allowed two goals on seven shots.

In what is the second year for this tournament format, the top four countries in the world are grouped in Pool A and the fifth to eighth are in Pool B. Canada and the United States move onto Monday’s semifinals as the top two teams in their group. Finland was third with three points and Switzerland fourth with zero in Pool A. Russia went undefeated to top Pool B and Germany was second with four points. Russia faces the Swiss and the Finns take on Germany in Saturday’s quarter-finals.

The Canadians meet the winner between Russia and Switzerland in their semifinal. The Americans await the winner between the Finns and Germans.

The U.S. shut out Switzerland 5-0 on Friday. Russia blanked Sweden 4-0 and the Germans doubled the Czech Republic 6-3.

Canada was without captain Hayley Wickenheiser for a second straight game. Canada’s all-time leading scorer suffered an upper-body injury in a 3-2 shootout win over the U.S. to open the

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Team Canada’s Jennifer Wakefield tries to put the puck past Team Finland goalie Noora Raty during first period action at the IIHF Women’s World Ice Hockey championships in Ottawa, Friday April 5, 2013. tournament Tuesday.

She left that game in the second period and did not play in her team’s 13-0 win over the Swiss the following night.

“We’re encouraged. She’s improving,” head coach Dan Church said earlier Friday. “I would expect her to target Monday. We feel pretty good about that. Still day to day, but she’s progressing.”

Finland has never beaten Canada, although there have been some closer games in recent years. Raty plays for the NCAA champion Minnesota Golden Gophers and was a finalist for the award that goes to the NCAA’s top player this season.

The Canadians pounded Raty with 50 shots at the world championships two years ago in Zurich, Switzerland, yet won by a score of just 2-0.

But Finland’s goaltender and defence did not hold up under Canada’s onslaught Friday.

“Our defensive play wasn’t good today,” Finnish captain Jenni Hiirikoski said. “We couldn’t handle (them) for 60 minutes and that’s the biggest thing I think.”

Trailing 3-0 in the second period, Finland’s best chance to get into the game was Venla Hovi’s back-to-back scoring chances and a two-man advantage for a minute 50 seconds.

Gay scores 23, DeRozan 25 to lead Rebels Raptors over Timberwolves Chiefs lose in overtime

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McIlory within three shots of lead at Texas Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — Rory McIlroy didn’t anticipate an encounter with the native plant life when he signed up for the Texas Open.

Despite just such a happening on Friday, the world’s No. 2 golfer matched the low round of the day with a 5-under par 67 and moved within three shots of leader Billy Horschel, continuing his last-minute preparations for next week’s Masters.

McIlroy, who decided to play in the tournament late last week, had seven birdies — including his final three holes — and overcame a bogey on No. 9 after driving into the rough and catching his left shin on a nearby cactus.

The misstep dropped McIlroy to 1 under, but he rebounded with key putts on the final three holes for birdies and pulled well within reach of the leaders entering the weekend.

“It was a good way to finish,” McIlroy said. “It will definitely make dinner taste a little nicer tonight and give me a couple of more hours in bed tomorrow morning.”

The 23-year-old twotime major winner is three shots back of Horschel, who birdied his last two holes to post his second straight 4-under 68.

A group of three players — Daniel Summerhays, Charley Hoffman and Steven Bowditch — are two shots back at 6 under, while McIlroy is tied with six others at 5 under.

Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch followed his opening round 70 with a 73, and is 1-under.

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross, right, dunks as Minnesota Timberwolves’ Dante Cunningham looks on in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, April 5, 2013, in Minneapolis. The Raptors won 95-93. with a 13-0 run in the middle of the third quarter. Kirilenko’s 3-pointer gave them a 61-50 lead, and the Raptors appeared to be content to let another road game go by the wayside.

But Kyle Lowry started to show more determination, and his teammates followed. DeRozan got back to sinking jumpers against Ridnour, Valanciunas attacked the glass and Toronto responded with a 17-5 run. Gay opened the fourth quarter with two straight jumpers for a 75-73 lead.

It was an encouraging sign for Raptors coach Dwane Casey, who previously coached the Timberwolves and has watched his Raptors slog to the finish of another disappointing season.

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Giants 4 Rebels 3 (OT) VANCOUVER — It only took one shot but that was enough as the Vancouver Northwest Giants downed the Red deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs 4-3 in overtime in the opening game of the best-of-three Pacific Region midget AAA hockey championship Friday.

The Giants scored on their only shot late in the 10-minute overtime against Red Deer’s Matt Zentner who would like to have that one back.

But Rebels head coach Doug Quinn wasn’t about to throw in the towel after the loss.

“Overall I was happy with our effort,” he said.

“We had a couple of bad breaks and we didn’t capitalize on some of our chances, but we never gave up all season and we’re not about to now.

“For me it’s not winning or losing it’s competing and we did that tonight,” added Quinn. “We’ll regroup and be ready for tomorrow.”

Jordie Lawson, Gabe Bast and Chris Gerrie scored for the Rebels, who led 3-2 late in the third period before the Giants tied it with 52 seconds left in regulation time.

The defending national champion Rebels outshot the Giants close to 40-21 and Bast came within a whisker of winning the game in overtime, hitting the post.

The Rebels are without defenceman Colton Bobyk (appendix) and forward Garrett Engert (shoulder).

The second game goes today with the third, if necessary, Sunday. All in Vancouver.

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Charl Schwartzel, of South Africa, reacts to missing a birdie putt on the sixth hole during the second round of the Texas Open golf tournament, Friday, April 5, 2013, in San Antonio.

MINNEAPOLIS — Rudy Gay had 26 points and five rebounds to lead the Toronto Raptors to a rare road victory in the West 95-93 over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night.

DeMar DeRozan had 25 points and Kyle Lowry added 11 points and seven assists for the Raptors, who beat the Timberwolves for the 16th time in 17 games and prevented Minnesota coach Rick Adelman from recording his 1,000th win.

Nikola Pekovic had 24 points and eight rebounds and Andrei Kirilenko added 20 points and six rebounds for the Timberwolves, who led by as many as 11 in the second half. But they missed 10 free throws, including one from Ricky Rubio with 1.7 seconds to go that would have tied the game.

Rubio, who finished with 13 points and 12 assists, held his head in his hands after missing the last free throw, clearly disappointed he couldn’t help his coach reach a milestone.

Jonas Valanciunas had 12 points and four rebounds and Terrence Ross threw down a soaring, 360-windmill jam that would have won him the dunk contest to help the Raptors win for just the third time in 38 games in which they trailed entering the fourth quarter. They are 3-12 on the road against the West.

The Raptors size at shooting guard with DeRozan, Ross and Landry Fields was too much for the 6-foot-2 Luke Ridnour and the rookie Valanciunas more than held his own against one of the best offensive rebounders in the league in Pekovic.

Looking like the scoring machine they thought they were getting in the trade from Memphis, Gay made a tough baseline drive and DeRozan converted a three-point play for a 92-90 lead with two minutes to go. Gay then made a turnaround jumper on the baseline and Valanciunas stuffed Pekovic on the other end to help seal an inspired victory.

Adelman won’t have to wait long for another shot at becoming the eighth coach in league history to win 1,000 games. The Timberwolves host the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night.

The Wolves looked to be taking control

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Soroptimist President Dolly Berg speaks at the luncheon on March 8.

Photos contributed Soroptimist International of Central Alberta held its International Women’s Day luncheon held on March 8 at the Black Knight Inn. The event honoured annual award winners and guests were treated to a talk from guest speaker Patricia Rokosh, who is dean of Trades and Manufacturing Technology at Red Deer College.

The 2013 award winners are: ● Heather Hood, Women’s Opportunity Award: Heather is a single mom studying horticulture. This is an award granted to a woman head of household to further her education. ● Rebecca Epp, Violet Richardson Award: The Violet Richardson Award is for a young girl volunteer between the ages of 14 and 17 to honour volunteer work. Rebecca volunteers for A Better World Canada. ● Dagmar Hargreaves, Ruby Award: The Ruby Award goes to women helping women.

Dagmar co-founded and is the president of Dress for Success in Red Deer. She received the Ruby Award for being an inspiration to women and for the work she does to improve the lives of women and girls in the community.

An award-winning luncheon Violet Richardson award winner Rebecca Epp, with Eric Rajah from A Better World Canada.

Women’s Opportunity Award winner Heather Hood.

President Dolly Berg presenting a cheque for $2,000 from Soroptimist International of Central Alberta to Barb Barber from the Women’s Outreach.

Soroptimist member Joanne Bucklee and Patricia Rokosh, dean of Trades and Manufacturing Technology at Red Deer College.

Dagmar Hargreaves, Ruby Award winner.

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Andrew Nikiforuk will be in Rimbey on Friday.

AUTHOR TO SPEAK Award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk gives insight into his latest book about the oil and gas industry at the Rimbey Provincial Building on Friday. The Calgarybased writer has been writing about the oil and gas industry for 20 years. His most recent book is The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude. He makes the argument that the way we use and abuse cheap oil is equivalent to the practice of slaveholding. Like slaveholders, Nikiforuk believes “we have morally and ethically compromised ourselves in our pursuit of an opulent lifestyle.” The talk gets underway at 7 p.m.

RDC SCIENCE CONFERENCE See the year-end work of Red Deer College science and engineering students today. The eighth annual Student Science and Engineering Conference allows students to present their work as either 10-minute talks or as posters to an audience of peers faculty and community members in a conference-like setting. The free event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Guest speaker and RDC alumnus Sarah Pederson will talk about the transition from RDC to the University of Calgary’s Veterinary Medicine school from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Details of the event can be found online at www. rdc.ab.ca/academic_ departments/ sciences/Pages/ RDCStudentScience Conference.aspx.

GET OUTDOORS WEEKEND Using the extensive Bower Ponds community trail system, Red Deer College is organizing the Red Deer event for Alberta’s Get Outdoors Weekend.

From 1 to 4 p.m. on April 13, a family amazing race will take place throughout Bower Ponds, 4707 64th Ave., and trails, promoting the outdoors, nature, sports clubs and active living. The event is a part of the Be Fit for Life network, which promotes healthy active living every day. The Get Outdoors weekend is to remind Albertans getting active outside has profound positive effects on health and well-being. For more information, call 403357-3612.

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We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. We are happy to correct any errors.

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Prostate research supported by ride The fifth annual Ride For Dad will take place on June 22, with hundreds of bikers taking to Central Alberta roads in support of the fight against prostate cancer.

This year’s edition will feature two routes — one taking riders from Red Deer to Rocky Mountain House, then south to Olds and Didsbury; the other going from Olds to Drumheller and back. Riders will pass through 27 communities along the routes, stopping for poker runs and to drum up support.

Country singer Clayton Bellamy will serve as the celebrity ride captain.

The ride started in Ottawa in 2000 and now is held in more than 30 cities across Canada, with over $10 million raised in its history.

The Rural Alberta chapter itself has raised over $500,000 in five years; this year’s goal is to bring in $200,000.

Money raised this year will go toward the research of Dr. John Lewis at Edmonton’s Cross Cancer Institute.

Organizer Dean Harper said more sponsors are being sought for the event.

“The more sponsors we get, the more money we have, the more awareness we get, the more men’s lives we effectively are saving,” he said.

As part of the end of the day ceremonies to be held in Didsbury, the mobile Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) testing Man Van will be present for any men wishing to be screened free of charge. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to affect Canadian men — one in seven will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime.

As part of this year’s ride, organizers have a Bring the Buddy or Bring the Bucks contest. Any past rider who brings someone new to the ride or anyone who raises $600 for the cause will be entered to win a weekend in Banff and Jasper.

Registration for the ride is $30.

For more information, contact Harper at 403-556-8050 or ruralalbertamrfd@gmail.com. To learn more about the initiative, visit www.ridefordad. ca.

POWER LINE REPAIRS

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

A City of Red Deer Electric, Light and Power Department crew hoists a transformer for placement after repairing a fire-damaged power pole on 60th Street in Riverside Meadows on Friday.

Veterans appreciation event planned in Sylvan A Sylvan Lake man who has made it his mission to get veterans to tell their stories is hoping people will take advantage of a chance to come hear such stories firsthand.

Allan Cameron runs Veterans Voices of Canada, through which he interviews veterans on video to preserve their wartime memories. On May 11, he is hosting Veteran Appreciation Day to allow Central Albertans to sit down and talk to veterans from conflicts recent and long past.

The event will take place at the Sylvan Lake Community Centre from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In one of the day’s unique features, Cameron will make up hockey card-like prints of the veterans in uniform that visitors

can get autographed by the veterans themselves.

Master Cpl. Paul Franklin from Edmonton will speak about his experiences serving in Afghanistan at the event. Franklin survived a 2006 roadside explosion that killed a Canadian diplomat, but lost both of his legs in the blast.

He has since set up the Franklin — Northern Alberta Amputee Program in association with the University of Alberta to improve amputees’ quality of life.

There will also be another surprise speaker.

A number of veteran and military support organizations will be in attendance, with displays and some military vehicles on hand. The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band will

provide some music.

Cameron held the event for the first time last year, but he did so on the May long weekend and faced low attendance. He is hoping the better-chosen date this year will bring more people out to connect with veterans. “We’re trying to make Remembrance Day every day,” explained Cameron, “Our veterans need to be appreciated more than that one day.”

A silent auction and barbecue at the event will raise funds for Cameron’s work.

“We’ve got a lot of veterans who are waiting to be interviewed by our organization right now and we just can’t get to them because of the cost,” he said.

There will also be a food bank collection point at the event.

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The outages, which occurred at midnight and 3:20 a.m., were caused by a combination of light rain, high humidity and fog that created issues on three main feeder lines.

Protection equipment activated properly and service was restored to an estimated 5,000 customers before 4 a.m.

“Crews responded quickly and initiated troubleshooting procedures to isolate problems and restore power as safely and quickly as possible,” said Jim Jorgensen, department manager. “During troubleshooting exercises, a faulty piece of equipment was identified inside one of the City’s three main substations that connect the city to the provincial grid. The system was reconfigured, power was restored and crews will make additional repairs over the next few days.”

There are no further interruptions expected but with the changing weather, issues can develop.

During a power outage, the city advises residents to turn off appliances and unplug all sensitive electronic equipment. Keep one light switch turned on so you know when the power comes back on.

Do not bring your gas or charcoal barbecue indoors. Be careful with candles.

You should also consider food safety during a power outage.

“We do understand this affects some children who are already potty-trained, but we believe it will result in fewer pool closures and a healthier swimming environment for everybody to enjoy.”

When fecal matter enters city pools, it disrupts services to all swimmers because staff is required to clear the pool and follow specific procedures to treat the water.

The process may take up to an hour. It may also result in cancellation of scheduled swim lessons, lane swims and special events.

Parents can purchase swim diapers or plastic swim pants at city pools or from other retailers. The plastic swim pants sold at city pools are reusable, washable, and feature cloth waistbands and soft elastic.

They are available in a variety of sizes and cost $2 each.

For more information, visit www.reddeer.ca/rpc.

BRIEFS City street cleaning starts today Red Deer city crews will begin cleaning city streets starting today, working from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., weather permitting.

Some partial residential sweeping will go on at the same time as arterial and collector sweeping.

Full residential sweeping will still occur by the end of the sweeping operation, which will take 40 days.

“During spring, city crews need to get out and clean the streets from the sand and debris that has collected over winter,” said Jim Chase, roads superintendent.

Drivers are reminded to take precautions around street sweeping equipment.

The city recommends motorists leave at least three car lengths between their vehicle and a sweeper.

When necessary, street signs indicating that crews will be arriving are placed in neighbourhoods a minimum of 12 hours in advance. Residents are asked not to park on the street when the signs are present.

The city encourages residents to remove litter and debris from boulevards attached to their residential or commercial properties.

Spring cleaning for main arterial roads will start April 14. Further notice will be provided on scheduled street cleaning in subdivisions.

Power outages tied to weather Electric Light and Power Department crews responded to two related power outages in north Red Deer early this morning.

Plastic pants needed in pools Swimmers with babies are reminded that starting on Monday, children under three must now wear plastic swim pants over swim diapers when swimming at pools in Red Deer.

The city announced the change in midMarch to comply with Alberta Health and Wellness Pool Standards.

“Pool goers have generally been understanding, with some parents already using swim pants for their little ones,” said Tammy Greba, program co-ordinator for the Collicutt Centre.

Breakfast to discuss suicide Teen suicide will be a topic at the Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday morning in Red Deer.

Guest speaker Rev. Ron Mainse will address the teen suicide issue in Red Deer that has prompted local teens and adults to band together to raise money for suicide awareness.

Everyone who attends the breakfast will be given a book about suicide prevention and will be asked to give it to a teenager.

Mainse is co-host of the 100 Huntley Street, a Christian television show, and is also youngest son of Rev. David Mainse, founder of Crossroads Christian Communications, which publishes the book.

The breakfast starts promptly at 7 a.m. at Westerner Park’s Parkland Pavilion.

Tickets for the event are $25 per person or $185 for a table of eight. For tickets or details, call 403-396-5206 or email mayorprayer@gmail.com.

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It’s time to save ourselves MORE LIVES LOST TO SUICIDE THAN HOMICIDE Since the Newtown, Conn., massacre three months ago public attention has focused on reducing deaths by firearms.

Last year 18,361 Americans lost their lives through homicide.

We need to expand our attention to include the greater number of lives lost each year through suicide — 34,598 according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

In addition, more than 395,000 persons with self-inflicted injuries are treated every year by hospital emergency rooms, representing unsuccessful attempts at killing themselves.

Hospitals estimate that 100 DAVID to 200 tries are made for each YOUNT suicide completed.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Americans 15 to 24 years of age. Women attempt suicide two to three times as often as men, but men are four times more likely to succeed.

A majority of males opt for guns to end their lives, whereas two out of five women choose poison, including overdoes of prescription and over-thecounter drugs.

In the New York Times on March 8, Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote, “restrictions on guns will not be as effective in reducing suicides as they may be in curtailing murder.

“Gun suicides are often committed by people whose history doesn’t suggest a serious (mental) problem,” but who have easy access to weapons.

In Britain in the 1990s the government banned the

FAITH

‘GUN SUICIDES ARE OFTEN COMMITTED BY PEOPLE WHOSE HISTORY DOESN’T SUGGEST A SERIOUS (MENTAL) PROBLEM, BUT WHO HAVE EASY ACCESS TO WEAPONS.’ — ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

OF THE NEW YORK TIMES sale of large bottles of a popular generic pain reliever, thereby successfully reducing its use by would-be suicides.

“In the U.S. one of the most straightforward things to do is to make firearms less accessible,” Dr. David Gunnell, a suicide epidemiologist at the University of Bristol in England, was quoted in the Times.

Potential suicides seldom suffer from long-term clinical depression.

As many as one-half of those who attempt suicide make the decision to act within minutes and typically remain ambivalent until the moment they act.

The great religious faiths are consistent in condemning suicide as self-inflicted murder — the destruction of life that only God can give.

Nevertheless, the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church allows that “we should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide for salutary repentance.

“The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.”

As a young man in Chicago I volunteered for a suicide prevention hotline, talking to call-ins who were seriously considering ending their lives. From my experience: 1. All the callers were not just seeking attention,

but were seriously considering ending their lives.

2. None of the conditions under which they presently lived, including illness, was permanently intolerable.

3. No one they knew would be happy if they died.

Suicide is preventable. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is open 24 hours every day: 1-800273-8255. You can call for yourself or someone you care about.

David Yount is the author of 14 books on faith, spirituality, and confident living, including Breaking Through God’s Silence (Simon & Schuster). He answers readers at P.O. Box 2758, Woodbridge, VA 22193 and dyount31(at)verizon.net.)

Editor’s note: This is the final David Yount column. It is being discontinued.

LOCAL EVENTS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Elnora Drop-in Centre, next on April 10 and 24. Call 403-749-2047 or 403773-3600.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Mary Rice Hopkins Live in Concert will be presented

by Noah’s Ark Playschool ministry of First Christian Reform Church at the church as part of their tenth anniversary celebration on April 13, 6:30 p.m. Darcie Maze of Puppets with a Heart will be special guest performer. Search Facebook for Mary Rice Hopkins in Red Deer for details. General Admission tickets cost $5. Children under two years free. Call 403346-5659 to reserve tickets.

Join us this Sunday, April 7 at 9:00am, 11:00am or 6:30pm Jesus: Friend of Sinners #1 - God is Friendly CrossRoads Kids (Infant to Gr. 6)

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BAHÁ'í Faith “O SON OF MAN! Thou dost wish for gold and I desire thy freedom from it. Thou thinkest thyself rich in its possession, and I recognize thy wealth in thy sanctity therefrom. By My life! This is My knowledge, and that is thy fancy; how can My way accord with thine?” “ Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants.” Bahá’u’lláh HAPPY NAW-RUZ and may your year be prosperous and joyful. For spiritual discussion groups, call 343-0091 www.ca.bahai.org

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SUNDAY MORNING 8:00 A.M. CKMX AM Radio 1060

For information call 403-346-0811

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service www.firstbaptistrd.ca

Balmoral Bible Chapel 403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 10:30 am Worship Service Guest Speaker: Peter Enns “Abraham passes, Esau and Jacob are born to Issac” Genesis 25 Childrens Sunday School 2 1/2 - Grade 5 www.balmoralchapel.ca

SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. WED. MEETING. 8:00 P.M., 2ND WED. EACH MONTH. Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

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“Doubting Thomas” 10:30 am Worship Service

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SUNDAY WORSHIP 11:00 a.m.

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road) Sundays 10:00 a.m.

Message by Fred Lane Sunday Services Services Sunday 8:30a.m., 10:30a.m.

9:00a.m. & 11:00a.m. & 12:30p.m.

Wednesday Wednesday Ministries Ministries

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11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Judy Andersen www.cslreddeer.org

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WORSHIP SUNDAY 10:30 AM with Holy Communion

The Anglican Church of Canada Sunday, April 7

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages”

Everyone Welcome

43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

Saved by grace - called to serve

www.stleonardsonthehill.org Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

MOUNT CALVARY (LC-C)

Saturday, April 6 5:00 p.m. “The Gathering” Contemporary Eucharist Sunday, April 7 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist Sunday School/Nursery

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk DIVINE SERVICE 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m.

Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

ST. LUKE’S

"Old Church Blessing a New World"

Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402

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Celebrant Noel Wygiera 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Family Friendly Worship with Eucharist Sunday School & Refreshments Thurs. 2:00 p.m. Eucharist

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Passion for God, Compassion for People.

2020 40th Ave, Red Deer www.livingstones.ab.ca 403.347.7311

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

"Gambling On God?"

Loving God . . . Loving People

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH

“When Doubt Comes” 10:15 am Worship Service

10:30 a.m. – Worship Service “He’s Back!”

2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer 403.343.1511

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Red hot love still burns CENTRAL ALBERTA THEATRE BRINGING NEIL SIMON’S PLAY TO LIFE

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF After 23 years of marriage to his high school sweetheart, Barney Cashman figures he is owed a one-night stand — or as he prefers to think of it, “a one-time beautiful thing.”

The sexual revolution was in full swing when Neil Simon’s comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers hit Broadway in 1969.

While the revolution might well have petered out, or at least gone underground in these post-AIDS-epidemic years, Simon’s comedy about Barney’s would-be wild afternoon of abandon has continued to make audiences laugh for more than four decades.

At age 30, Albertus Koett admits he can’t really relate to Barney’s feelings of mid-life desperation — yet.

But Koett wanted to direct Central Alberta Theatre’s production of Simon’s play because the script rang true for him.

“Neil Simon has a way of writing that’s close to real life. His plays are about real-life situations.”

Whether an audience thinks it’s funny or is moved by it, Koett believes people will be able to identify with Barney’s predicament when the comedy opens on Thursday, April 11, at the Nickle Studio, upstairs at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

It’s not that the adultery-minded protagonist of Simon’s play doesn’t love his wife, Thelma. He does, said Koett.

But he sees death looming and “comes to the realization that his entire life has been nice — or average.

And for once, he wants to do something for himself,” the director added.

In his attempt to add sparkle to his existence, Barney sets up a rendezvous with a woman he met at his restaurant.

He’s meeting Elaine at his mother’s house when he knows his mom will be away.

Conversation ensues because Barney wants to get to know the person he’s planning to sleep with. But it’s through this chit-chat that Barney’s plans begin to unravel.

Koett said, “It becomes a problem because Barney wants this one-day affair to be a one-time beautiful thing, but it’s very difficult to get that from a one-time moment.”

When things don’t go swimmingly with Elaine, Barney tries to have onetime flings with two other women at his mother’s house.

Koett believes that Barney, played

by Curtis Closson, is guilty of what we

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Bobbi Michelle, played by Sarah Hemphill (left), speaks with Barney Cashman, played by Curtis Closson (right), in rehearsal for a scene from the play Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Closson plays the main character, who is a middle-aged man looking to join the sexual revolution before it passes him by. have all been culpable of at some point in our lives, whether our discontent is over our family, friends, possessions or careers.

“Barney is not content with what he has.

“He won’t take the opportunity to appreciate or be grateful for what’s been in front of him all along.”

That happens, said Koett, when we take important things for granted.

Unlike a lot of farces and lightweight comedies, he believes Last of the Red Hot Lovers offers more than just fluffy entertainment.

“I think there’s some depth there,” so if audience members identify with

LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Who: Central Alberta Theatre presents Neil Simon’s comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers When: 7:30 p.m., April 11 to 27

Where: Nickle Studio, upstairs at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre Tickets: $28.70 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre

Barney’s crisis, Koett hopes some tricky conversations with spouses will ensue.

“It may not be the most comfortable topic of conversation . . . but maybe it would be therapeutic.”

If some theatregoers end up not liking Barney very much, despite Simon’s

witty and sympathetic script, well, that’s fine too, said Koett.

“Audiences can take away from it what they want. We’re aiming to create real moments between characters and that means it is what it is. ...” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Evil Dead is the lesser of two Evils REMAKE ARRIVES 32 YEARS LATER, AND THE SOCIAL GULF BETWEEN THE TWO COULDN’T BE WIDER Evil Dead Two stars (out of four) Rated: 18A The really scary thing about Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead is its failure to shock. Are we all now completely desensitized to movie horror?

Arriving 32 years after Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead shotgunned cabin terror into indie legend, the social gulf between the two films couldn’t be wider.

The 1981 original parlayed geek savvy, imPETER provised grossHOWELL out effects and inspired camera work (that swooping evil POV) into a splatterfest that appalled and delighted its Reagan-era audience.

It was novel because it was so eager to go for broke, and its two sequels added humour to its pulpy mix.

The remake Evil Dead misfires because it’s content to play it safe, in the process losing more than just the “The” from the title. Granted, it has all the mutilation, decapitation, dismemberment, sawing, shooting, roasting, nailing, puking, burying, buzz-sawing and screaming you’d expect from an Evil Dead movie — and consider this fair warning for anyone not already versed in franchise lore.

This may be enough for some people, and God love them for it. But it’s precisely because you expect all these

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This film image released by Sony-TriStar Pictures shows Shiloh Fernandez, centre, in a scene from Evil Dead. things that Evil Dead inspires more tedium than terror, at least for anyone who actually watches a lot of these kinds of movies.

To startle a horror-savvy 2013 audience, one used to the atrocities of the Saw and Hostel series and also the genre send-ups of Cabin in the Woods and the Scream franchise, newcomer Alvarez would have had to considerably up the ante.

He’d have had to push the material in ways that would have denied it the R rating it has stateside, such as making it more sexually explicit.

That’s something the fully corporatized Raimi, producer of the remake, likely wouldn’t have countenanced.

The infamous “tree rape” scene of The Evil Dead, for example, is reproduced in Evil Dead, but it doesn’t inspire the shock, awe and loathing of the original. We know it’s coming — the trailer teases it — and when it does it just feels like a box that Alvarez has checked off on a long list of homages his film pays to its forebear. He’s gone so far as to eschew the use of modern CGI for his gore, opting to stick with the messy physical effects of old.

You can understand his dilemma.

He doesn’t want to earn the ire of fans

or Raimi by diverting too much from the sacred text. Alvarez’s screenplay, co-written with Rodo Sayagues along with unspecified input from Diablo Cody, doesn’t stray much from the essential demonic cabin bloodbath scenario.

You can also applaud what few changes Alvarez has attempted, some of which work — including Aaron Morton’s moody lensing and a score by Roque Banos that uses sirens to nerverattling effect. But most simply fail.

The cabin retreat is now a coldturkey drug detoxing session rather than a horny kids-gone-wild weekend.

Heavily addicted Mia (Jane Levy) is going to quit junk or die trying. Along for rehab assist are her brother David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) and Mia’s friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci).

A prologue provides some history for the evil presence that haunts the cabin and also for a certain skin-covered plot device (which in this film should be called The Annotated Necronomicon). We further learn that strungout Mia and low-key David are on the outs because David has been absent for much of her life. None of these new

plot elements amount to much.

Instead, as per convention, the evil is carelessly unleashed — will kids never learn? It starts turning the cabin occupants, one by one, into zombified mutilators, murderers and name-callers.

What’s missing in all the mud, blood and gore is stoic antihero Ash, played so well by Bruce Campbell in the original series. He acts the way Jughead might if he’d witnessed Archie, Veronica, Betty and Reggie being reduced to dog chow.

Alvarez opted not to have an obvious Ash character in Evil Dead because he judged it impossible to replace him.

The nearest equivalent is Fernandez’s terminally vacant David, who acts for most of the movie as if he’s been ingesting more drugs than his sister.

Maybe Alvarez should have tried anyway, since it’s impossible to imagine the expected Evil Dead sequels without having someone around to make an Ash of himself.

Do stick around past the credits, though, if only for the masochistic satisfaction of confirming what Evil Dead is lacking.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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The Andantes, from left, Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow-Tate and Louvain Demps posing during a visit to Motown Historical Museum in Detroit. In their 70s, the unsung backing group who sang on thousands of Motown songs is finally getting acclaim for its contributions to the ground-breaking, chart-topping music made in Detroit in the 1960s and early ‘70s before the label moved to Los Angeles.

Motown’s unsung female trio gets belated attention THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — More than 40 years have passed since the recording of Marvin Gaye’s Save the Children, but a replay of the song in the studio where it was recorded compressed time and brought tears to the eyes of Louvain Demps.

Demps was no mere fan visiting what’s now the Motown Historical Museum. She was one of the women singing the angelic, high harmonies on the recording — and hearing it in Hitsville USA’s Studio A was too much.

“It’s my heart, it’s my heart,” she said.

For Demps and her fellow Andantes, Jackie Hicks and Marlene Barrow-Tate, moments like these have been private, since the wider world knew only their voices, not their faces.

But now in their 70s, the unsung backing group who sang on thousands of Motown songs is finally getting acclaim for its contributions to the groundbreaking, chart-topping music made in Detroit in the 1960s and early ’70s before the label moved to Los Angeles.

The trio gathered recently to see the exhibit, Motown Girl Groups: The Grit, the Glamour, the Glory, which will run through the summer. The Andantes are featured — with equal billing — alongside the Supremes, Vandellas, Marvelettes and Velvelettes.

The joyous but rare

reunion was made possible by a sad event the day before: the funeral of former Miracles member Bobby Rogers.

For the Andantes, it made their meeting more poignant.

“It is unfortunate that so many are gone and thank God that we are still here — all of us — to be able to see this and see our dream come true,” said Barrow-Tate, who still lives in Detroit, as does Hicks. The two are retired, but Demps, who lives near Atlanta, still sings solo or with others.

The Andantes were the go-to backup singers for most Motown artists, including Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops and the girl groups themselves.

Save the Children came from Gaye’s What’s Going On, one of Motown’s greatest — and last — albums recorded in Detroit.

The Andantes sang backup on many of the record’s cuts — including the title track — and even travelled with Gaye to his hometown of Washington, D.C., in 1972 to perform the disc in its entirety at the Kennedy Center.

Motown Museum officials say the trio, almost always anonymously, sang on more songs than any other group at Motown.

They were the female and vocal equivalent to the Funk Brothers, the label’s house band that itself was largely anonymous in its time but gained acclaim through

the 2002 documentary film, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

The Andantes’ peerless ability to vocally blend — not only with each other but also with stars such as Gaye, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and many others — was one of the factors that kept them in demand behind the scenes.

They were so successful that they were seen as essential backup artists, and that limited them from growing more.

The Andantes don’t exactly sing the same old song now when it comes to how they felt about standing and singing in the shadows.

“We did not mind not having our name on someone else’s record,” Hicks said.

“I did,” said Demps, who had dreamed the Andantes might one day be like the Supremes. “I always minded.”

“Well, I didn’t,” said Hicks, who was seconded

by Barrow-Tate.

Allen Rawls, the museum’s acting chief executive, said Motown Records founder Berry Gordy understood the role everyone played in creating and maintaining Motown’s sound.

“The Andantes ... were so instrumental to the foundation of the Motown sound,” Rawls said.

“Imagine if a song like Standing in the Shadows of Love was out there (without them). The harmonies behind it may not be the same thing. That’s why they were established in that particular

role, helping to create the foundation.”

Gordy called the Andantes “wonderful people” in a recent interview and fondly remembered their contributions: “I recall so many of the sounds from The Four Tops.”

So does Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the group’s lone surviving original member. He recalls the trio’s work on Baby I Need Your Loving, The Four Tops’ first hit.

“They were just as important in their background (part) as The Four Tops,” he said.

“Their voices on that song made that song.”

The Andantes lovingly recall their work with The Four Tops and Gaye, who was fatally shot by his father in 1984 after a violent argument. Demps said the Tops “always gave us a bonus of every hit they had” and “were always fair.”

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NEW YORK — If you’re upset that the Rolling Stones won’t be coming to your city on their upcoming nine-date tour, don’t be too stressed — the rockers say more dates may be added.

“Normally when you announce a tour like this, you announce part of it, you leave it to be, you see what happens, you might do a date here and another date there. You don’t want to be completely hand fast, so you do leave some dates in between,” said Mick Jagger in an interview on Thursday. “So we’ll see what happens.”

The Stones announced this week that they’ll kick off their “50 and Counting” tour in Los Angeles; the date will be announced later. The second show is in Oakland, Calif., on May 5. They’ll also visit Las Vegas, Toronto, Chicago and Boston, and wrap in Philadelphia on June 18. The announcement comes months after the foursome performed a soldout, fivecity stint in New York, New Jersey and London.

Jagger called those shows a test.

“We just said, ‘Let’s do these five shows before Christmas and see how it goes and see if we enjoy it, see if the audience seems to have a good time, and if that works, then we’ll try to see if we’ll do more,’ ” he said. “We still wanted to keep it kind of limited.

We didn’t want to have that yawning (tour) of hundreds of shows lined up for the next 18 months. I just thought it would be good if we booked a small tour and then, you know, if we want to do more, we’ll do more.”

The Stones have at least three days in between tour stops, a sign that more shows may be added. Or the time could be used for rest.

“I think it’s a little bit of both,” Keith Richards said in a separate interview on Thursday. “The band wants to pace themselves, but at the same time ... I guess what’s been announced is the bare-bones and we will play it by ear from there.”

The Stones’ last global tour kicked off in 2005 and wrapped in 2007.

Jagger, 69, said he’s getting older — and performing can be tough.

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Job figures worst since 2009 CANADA SHED 54,500 JOBS IN MARCH

BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s job performance last month was the worst since the global recession as 54,500 workers joined the ranks of the unemployed, all full-time and all in the important private sector.

Economists were left scrambling to lower their assessments of the North American economy following the unexpected reversal of February’s job gains, combined with a Canadian trade report for February that was almost as bad, and soft job creation south of the border.

The loonie fell after the economic reports. It was down almost two-thirds of a cent at 98.15 cents US at noon but had been lower in the morning.

“It doesn’t get much uglier than this,”

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Bank of Montreal chief economist Douglas Porter said in a commentary.

Even taking into account that Canada’s jobs report is essentially a survey and subject to a margin for error, the combination of all three economic releases Friday gives credence to the view that the soft patch seen in the second half of 2012 has continued into 2013.

“Combined with the trade numbers and the sluggish U.S. numbers ... It does suggest the North American economy hit some heavy weather in March,” Porter said.

“Is it going to weaken further? I don’t believe it will. I believe this is a soft patch but we will get out of it later this year.”

Still, Porter estimated the Canadian economy would struggle to grow at a one per cent pace in the first half of 2013, after barely advancing at a 0.7 per cent rate in the last six months of 2012.

“It’s a long road to recovery and the government’s austerity measures are not going to get us there,” agreed NDP finance critic Peggy Nash, who criticized the government for delaying new infrastructure spending when jobs are needed now.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, in an email released by his office, called the March result “disappointing,” but noted the monthly report was merely a “snapshot in time” and not indicative of the overall record.

“If you look at job creation since the depth of the global recession July 2009 employment in Canada has increased by nearly 900,000 and is now more than 465,000 above its pre-recession peak,” he said, adding that the economy as a whole is also above pre-recession levels.

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HIGHER BIKE TARIFFS WILL DRIVE CROSSBORDER SHOPPING MONTREAL — Ottawa’s decision to increase tariffs on hundreds of products will drive increased crossborder shopping, the CEO of bike manufacturer Dorel Industries said Friday. However, Martin Schwartz said he’s not concerned that his company will be hurt because it sells bikes and juvenile products on both sides of the border.

“Like everything else, the increase in tariffs is going to be passed on to the consumers... and I think it’s just going to force more people across the border to shop,” he said.

The Conservative government announced in its March budget that effective Jan. 1, 2015, tariffs will increase on 1,290 product classes from 72 countries, including China, South Korea and India that previously enjoyed general preferential tariff status.

The change is expected to cost consumers $333 million a year, or more than $1 billion through 2018. The move will protect some domestic manufacturers, including bike makers in Quebec, where production recently suffered a blow with Raleigh’s decision to close its plant in the community of Waterloo, east of Montreal.

VISA WANTS SECURE STANDARDS SET FOR MICRO MERCHANTS MONTREAL — Credit card giant Visa says it’s focused on standardizing security standards for “micro merchants” who accept its cards on mobile devices like smartphones.

Although Visa does not have a reader of its own, it has made an investment in credit card reader company Square Inc. San Francisco-based Square provides small business owners — from home renovators to yoga instructors — a small credit card reader that plugs into a headphone jack of an iPhone, iPad or Android device, allowing these merchants to accept credit card payments. Visa cards are then swiped with Square software rather than using chip and PIN technology.

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Memorabilia store relocating to ex-Smuggler’s Inn site

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR SYLVAN LAKE — The former premises of Smuggler’s Inn and Ricardo’s Ristorante will soon return to commercial life, with their new incarnation having a strong sports presence.

Hockey Central Sports Memorabilia Inc. is preparing to relocate to the main floor of the 5000 Lakeshore Dr. building, with the second floor being developed into a sports lounge.

Jason Caldwell, manager of Hockey Central Sports Memorabilia, said the transition is expected to occur in mid to late May. He added that renovations have been ongoing for about a month.

“We’ve gutted it out pretty good.”

Hockey Central Sports Memorabilia, which is owned by Michelle Becker and Darren Field, has operated at nearby Marina Merchants Mall for 4 ½ years. It carries a broad range of sports collectables and other items, including autographed photos, jerseys and equipment.

About 80 to 85 per cent of the store’s trade is hockey-related, said Caldwell, although football, baseball and other professional sports are also represented. He said the shop’s 2,000 square feet of space has become a constraining factor, but it will gain another 1,000 square feet at its new location.

“We should have room to increase the selection.”

It’s also expected that more athletes and celebrities will be brought in to the shop, said Caldwell. Past visitors have included NHL Hall of Famers Marcel Dionne, Glenn Anderson and Grant Fuhr.

The sports lounge will have seating for more than 100, said Caldwell, with team lo-

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The former Smuggler’s Inn in Sylvan Lake is being renovated as the new Hockey Central Sports Memorabilia store. gos embroidered onto chairs, and stadium seating arranged around big-screen TVs. There will also be seating on the balcony, overlooking the lake.

In addition to increased space, Caldwell thinks Hockey Central Sports Memorabilia will benefit from its new location near the intersection of Lakeshore Drive and 50th Street.

“When tourists come to town, that’s where they turn around,” he said. “They don’t come out to where we are, past the waterslides and marina.”

Caldwell also believes the retail shop and sports lounge will complement each other.

“Everybody going up to the lounge or coming down from the lounge is going to have to go through the store.”

Smuggler’s opened at the site in 2005 and occupied both floors for several years.

Eventually, Ricardo’s took over the main level.

The restaurants, which were owned by Bear Development Corp., closed last fall.

Caldwell said Becker and Field purchased the building earlier this year.

“It’ll be pretty exciting,” he said of the changes. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Local jobless rate surges in March The local jobless rate surged 1.5 percentage points in March, according to Statistics Canada’s latest figures.

Unemployment in the Red Deer region was estimated at 5.9 per cent last month, up from 4.4 per cent in February and 5.4 per cent in March 2012. The number was the highest of Alberta’s eight regions, with Calgary next at 5.1 per cent, followed by Lethbridge-Medicine Hat (4.8 per cent), Edmonton (4.4 per cent), Banff-JasperRocky Mountain House (4.3 per cent), Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake and Athabasca-Grande Prairie (tied at 4.1 per cent), and Camrose-

Drumheller (2.8 per cent).

The provincial average for March was 4.8 per cent, up from 4.5 per cent in February but an improvement from 5.2 per cent in March 2012. The unemployment rate for the Red Deer region has been climbing since December, when it was 3.7 per cent.

Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education officials have in the past attributed a rise in local unemployment at this time of the year to seasonal fluctuations in the oil and gas sector. They’ve also pointed out that the surveys upon which Statistics Canada’s numbers are based use a relatively

small sample size and may not be indicative of long-term trends.

The national unemployment rate for March was 7.2 per cent, up 0.2 percentage points from February. Alberta’s figure was the second lowest among the provinces, trailing only Saskatchewan’s 3.9 per cent.

An Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education release noted that Alberta’s labour force decreased by 4,500 people during the month, while employment fell by 11,300 positions. Full-time employment decreased by 3,600 and part-time employment by 7,600.

Personal questions off limits in interviews Dear Working Wise: During a recent job interview, I was asked if I was planning on getting married soon? I told them, “No,” but it seemed like an unnecessary personal question.

Are employers allowed to ask such personal questions?

— Concerned Young Professional Dear Concerned: No, employers are not allowed to ask you if you are planning to get married.

Private information like that is protected under the Alberta CHARLES Human Rights Act STRACHEY for businesses under provincial jurisdic- WORKING WISE tion.

Some employers might not be well-informed about this provincial legislation and may unknowingly ask inappropriate questions. You should prepare for this possibility so you are not caught off guard in an interview.

Generally, any information that could intentionally or inadvertently be used to discriminate against you cannot be asked.

Employers should only be asking you for information that is relevant to your ability to do the job.

Employers cannot ask about your: ● gender, marital status, family status, next of kin, marriage plans or child-care arrangements; ● source of income, unless it concerns your former employment; ● maiden name or name origin; ● age or date of birth, but they can ask if you meet the minimum age requirement for the job, if applicable; ● previous address, unless it meets a business purpose acceptable under the act; ● birthplace or ancestry; ● height or weight; ● sexual orientation; ● membership in organizations unrelated to your work, hobbies or interests that would indicate race, religious beliefs, ancestry or place of origin, etc.; but employers can ask questions regarding membership in professional organizations related to the position (e.g. APEGGA for engineers);

● current or past health problems, Workers’ Compensation Board claims, or any absence due to stress or mental illness; ● citizenship or languages not required for the job; ● religious beliefs, customs and holidays that you observe; or ● military service outside Canada, unless there is an acceptable business-related purpose.

Employers cannot request a photo, which could reveal factors such as race and gender, except in certain circumstances, such as a modeling or entertainment position, where this may be acceptable. If an employer requires a photograph for businessrelated purposes, they can ask for it after an offer of employment has been made.

Employers can ask: ● if you can fulfil work-related requirements, such as working night shifts or lifting heavy items; ● for any previous names you have had if the information is needed to complete reference checks or verify your past employment or education; and

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 97.74 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 90.04 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.20 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.93 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.24 Cdn. National Railway . . 98.35 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 122.82 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 79.00 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.98 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.24 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 30.90 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.30 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.09 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.76 General Motors Co. . . . . 27.52 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.38 Research in Motion. . . . . 14.92 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.14 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 42.54 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 43.43 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.88 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.52 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.92

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.48 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.14 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.57 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.39 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.00 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 27.13 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.80 First Quantum Minerals . 19.29 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 32.33 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.16 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 67.65 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 7.19 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.05 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.65 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.63

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.01 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.60 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.31 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.10 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.15 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.99 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.94 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.30 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 1.110 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.56 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.26 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.82 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.62 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.01 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.80

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 70.72 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.05 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.90 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.40 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.77

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.49 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 39.11 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.70 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.28 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 47.82 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.03 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.05 Canyon Services Group. 10.45 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.35 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.730 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.11 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.10

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 62.11 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.90 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.91 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.87 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 34.53 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.42 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.18 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.84 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.10 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.00 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.34 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 59.62 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 26.52 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.91

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market finished lower for a fifth session Friday as big disappointments from jobs numbers in both Canada and the United States raised fresh worries about the pace of the economic recovery.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed off the worst levels of the session, coming back from a 119-point slide to close down 31.2 points at 12,331.85 after

Statistics Canada reported the economy shed 54,500 jobs — all full time — in March. The unemployment rate also rose by 0.2 per cent to 7.2 per cent.

Generally speaking, economists had expected about 6,500 jobs to have been created last month, although BMO Capital Markets had suggested it might be as high as 18,000.

The Canadian dollar had tumbled more than a cent in the wake of the weak data. By the

end of the day, the currency was down 0.39 of a cent to 98.39 cents US. U.S. markets also fell after the Labour Department reported that the economy only managed to crank out 88,000 jobs last month even as the jobless rate declined 0.1 per cent to 7.6 per cent.

The Dow Jones industrials also came from a triple-digit tumble to close down 40.86 points to 14,565.25, the Nasdaq com-

posite index lost 21.12 points to 3,203.86 and the S&P 500 index shed 6.7 points to 1,553.28.

The TSX Venture Exchange gained 15.13 points to 1,041.85.

“There’s not a lot to get joyful about in this mess,” said Fred Ketchen, manager of equity trading at Scotia Capital.

“You have to say, it’s nice to be optimistic. But you have to get back to the land of reality and at the present time, there’s more negative news than positive news.”

Traders had started the week off expecting that the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report would show that about 190,000 jobs were produced in March following a reading of 220,000 in February.

But that was before the release of data over the past few days showing slower than expected growth in both the manufacturing and service sectors, capped off with a report from payroll firm ADP that the economy created fewer than expected jobs in the private sector.

It has been a tough week on markets, with the TSX losing 3.27 per cent to move into the negative column for the year to date on worries about the pace of the U.S. and Chinese economies.

The resource-based TSX has been particularly under pressure by mining stocks. Base metals are down 17.5 per cent so far this year, reflecting weak commodity prices. The gold sector has fallen 22.2 per cent as gold companies have suffered from bullion costs that haven’t kept pace with growing costs of getting the precious metal out of the ground.

The more broadly based Dow industrials is still up around 11 per cent for the year, having ended the week flat.

Financials led the declines in Toronto on Friday amid concerns that interest rates will stay ultra-low for even longer than expected.

“Those people who have been saying interest rates will stay low until year end, I think they’re probably getting reinforcement of their opinion because I don’t see any reason

why anybody would even think about raising rates in this environment,” Ketchen said.

TD Bank fell $1.09 to $80.91 while Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) gave back 84 cents to $56.90.

Defensive stocks also pushed the TSX lower.

The utilities group was down 0.6 per cent as Atlantic Power (TSX:ATP) shed 11 cents to $4.88.

The consumer discretionary group was down 0.47 per cent after clothing retailer Reitmans (Canada) Ltd. (TSX:RET.A) reported a net loss of $1.1 million or a penny per diluted share in its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter, reversing year-earlier profits of $4.7 million or seven cents per share.

Commodity stocks turned positive after sustaining sharp declines earlier in the week.

The metals and mining sector led advancers, up almost two per cent while May copper on the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped a penny to US$3.34 a pound. First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) gained 68 cents to C$19.29.

The energy sector was up 0.74 per cent while the June crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 56 cents to US$92.70 a barrel. Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) was 36 cents higher at C$30.35.

The gold sector was slightly higher while the weak jobs data pushed bullion prices higher after a string of declines this week, rising $23.50 to US$1,575.90 an ounce.

“Well, it’s a fear indicator — (gold) tends to do well when the world is falling apart,” said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds Inc. “Right now, we’re falling apart.”

Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) gained 38 cents to C$32.33.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,331.85 down 31.20 points TSX Venture Exchange —

1,041.85 up 15.13 points TSX 60 — 705.71 down 5.95 points Dow — 14,565.25 down 40.86 points S&P 500 — 1,553.28 down 21.12 points Nasdaq — 3,203.86 down 21.12 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.39 cents US, down 0.39 of a cent Pound — C$1.5589, up 1.15 cents Euro — C$1.3215, up 1.23 cents Euro — US$1.3002, up 0.69 of a cent Oil futures: US$92.70 per barrel, down 56 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,575.90 per oz., up $23.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $28.748 per oz., up 47.5 cents $924.25 kg., up $15.27 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: May ’13 $0.40 higher $611.20; July ’13 $0.70 higher $597.50; Nov. ’13 0.40 lower $548.70; Jan. ’14 $0.20 lower $549.30; March ’14 $0.20 lower $544.90; May ’14 $0.20 lower $542.80; July ’14 $0.20 lower $540.90; Nov. ’14 $0.20 lower $516.50; Jan ’15 $0.20 lower $516.50; March ’15 $0.20 lower $516.50; May ’15 $0.20 lower $516.50.

Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $244.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $244.00; March ’14 unchanged $244.00; May ’14 unchanged $244.00; July ’14 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $244.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $244.00; March ’15 unchanged $244.00; May ’15 unchanged $244.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 397,860 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 397,860.

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Servus Q1 numbers off to good start Servus Credit Union’s 2013 fiscal year is off to a good start, with the member-owned financial institution reporting first-quarter operating income of $31.1 million, before patronage allocations and taxes. That figure marks a 4.3 per cent improvement over the $29.8 million for the same period in 2012.

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Don Montgomery of Blackfalds’ Don Montgomery Auction Services Ltd. takes bids for the equipment and fixtures at the former Juice Junkeez store in Rimbey. An estimated 100 people packed into the 4806 51st St. premises for the liquidation sale on Friday.

Servus’s assets grew 8.8 per cent, to $12.3 billion from $11.3 billion; loans were up nine per cent, to $10.9 billion from $10 billion; and deposits climbed 6.8 per cent, to $11 billion from $10.3 billion.

“Our strong loan growth has given us a good start to the year and we have delivered for our members income that is higher than the previous year,” said

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March’s jobs loss was the biggest one-month decline since February 2009 and, with a small retreat in the number of people looking for work, helped lift Canada’s unemployment rate 0.2 to 7.2 per cent.

Meanwhile, February recorded the eleventh straight trade deficit for Canada, as exports fell by 0.6 per cent and the deficit widened to $1 billion.

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But the big shock Friday was the Canadian employment report — which was worse than any economist had predicted.

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Lonestar said in a release that the deal will boost its fleet to 50 units, and add US$2.5 million in annual revenues. The purchase price included $900,000 in cash, a $600,000 promissory note and 40,000 common shares valued at $2.50 each.

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Adding a spot of designer magic Necessity, as we oft opine, is the mother of invention.

This proverb, ascribed variously to Plato and to author Richard Franck (who coined it in his 1658 tome Northern Memoirs) describes the state of play that occurs when difficult situations inspire ingenious solutions.

For us, this means adding a flourish of decorative flair — or a spot of designer magic — as and when required.

To put this into context, let’s talk Cityline.

When propositioned, recently, by the show’s production team to look at creative ways of reinventing basic buy furniture items, we were immediately challenged by the opportunity.

COLIN & Addressing the concept in JUSTIN a flourish of positivity, we delivered our glittering plans to Cityline and held our breath.

We’ll come back to the detail in just a moment, but, for now, allow us to describe a typical C&J client.

For they, indeed, are the people who typically appreciate projects like the ones we’re about to describe.

Ah yes. Our people. Real folk. Just like us and just like you.

Beset with huge ambition, however, they often feel stylistically compromised and that’s why they reach out.

And of course we’re happy, nay delighted, to help.

When our imagination is at full tilt, you see, a veritable tsunami of creativity flows and it’s upon this very wave that we surf potential until landing safely on the golden shores of project realization.

Yup, from a gush to a trickle we’re always on board.

Which brings us neatly back to Cityline and their exciting challenge.

Could we pull together beautiful schemes using basic flat-pack furniture and, in doing so, inspire an audience who adore maximum visual return for minimal financial outlay?

Come on guys; what do you think? Of course we could.

Here’s a taster of what lies in store.

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The Malm cabinet from Ikea can be adorned with glistening colours or wood grain finishes. Wall hangings can be created with $20 vessels and a stabilizing ring at the rear (to allow them to sit straight). Hanging is a doddle using a simple picture hook. Six arranged in a grid (with Dollarama white framed mirrors glue-gunned to the centre of each) make a dramatic Miami-esque statement.

Floridian fancy Send us to South Beach, Miami, and you send us to heaven.

We adore those dazzling blue skies, the multi cultural populous and the vertiginous mercury that regularly sails beyond 30C even when Canada is lost to winter.

But it’s the design scene that really raises our temperature.

Hey, we love to wander the chic hotels and decor stores, taking inspiration at every turn.

It was on Florida’s coolest strip, in fact, that we gathered all the inspiration required for the first of today’s transformations.

The six drawer Malm cabinet from Ikea, priced at $199, is a solid piece that’s amply big enough to gobble up a whole load of clothes or whatever you choose to throw in its six greedy drawers. But we saw extra potential.

Guess that’s the measure of what we do; we like to look at things differently.

And so, to enhance the cabinet, we called our buddies at O’verlays www.myoverlays.com and ordered feather-light Greek key sections which attach easily with adhesive; you don’t, after all, need a Master’s degree in interior design to operate a glue gun.

Feeling empowered yet?

To ride the trend for all things metallic, we embellished the overlays with glistening gold aerosol.

But remember; two even coats are better than one gloopy application so apply with care for a shimmering, professional finish.

To further bolster proceedings, we specified a chevron rug from EQ3 www.eq3.com and teamed this with bold graphic wallpaper.

Designed and manufactured in Canada, the paper makes a flamboyant and fresh statement.

Check out Blue Mountain ihdg.com for rolling inspiration.

Our final flourish is an art ‘installation’ using shallow Angenam bowls from Ikea.

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This project couldn’t have been simpler; because the $20 vessels have a built-in stabilizing ring at the rear (to allow them to sit straight), hanging is a doddle using a simple picture hook.

Six arranged in a grid (with Dollarama white framed mirrors gluegunned to the centre of each) make a dramatic Miami-esque statement.

Sweet, huh?

The crisp contrast between white, blue and gold is fresh and invigorating and, it should be reported, as we revealed our magic spell to the Cityline audience, there were breathy gasps and tears of joy.

Even the gorgeous Tracy Moore, adored host of Cityline (who, after 2,000 plus shows, has seen legions of clever ideas) was suitably impressed.

Ranch dressing For this project, we ‘wrapped’ another Malm using sections of Ikea worktop.

The wood tone edging strip makes the perfect kick-off point for self-adhesive panels from Panyl www.panyl.com.

These guys purvey a range of peel and stick finishes in a host of colours, many of which are specifically sized to fit Ikea products.

Dolly Dimple, pure and simple. It really couldn’t be any easier.

We opted for a mix of wood-effect finishes and, to create extra dimension, added slick D handles in a brushed steel finish. For us, each project is about carefully assembling every piece in the design jigsaw.

Each element is important and depends upon its associates to conglomerate the final pic-

strate enough designer drama to satisfy even the hungriest appetite.

And if you think our Malms are magic, just wait till you see our Dollarama Diva room set.

Dollarama? Yes, you read that correctly.

Let’s just say we ‘captured’ enough butterflies to send Mariah Carey into entomological meltdown.

All this, and more, will be revealed shortly!

terned blocks at your hardware store and adhere them with glue.

Primer and the base coat will unify the new with the old.

Choose your base colour — black or red will produce an elegant Asian piece, pastels such as cream and palest green for a more traditional style.

There are metallic paints available in gold, silver and bronze for faux gilding.

Brush a thin coat of gold metallic paint over the surface and then sand along the edges and gently over the top to reveal some of the base coat.

If using the gold for details, draw in gold patterns freehand over the basecoat, or use a stencil.

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BY MELISSA RAYWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Warm weather and the first buds of spring have been slow to arrive in much of the country.

But even if your garden has yet to grow, you can add beauty, fragrance and a sense of springtime to your home by decorating with lush plants and potted trees.

Decorating with plants “kind of fell out of vogue” for a time, says California-based interior designer Molly Luetkemeyer.

“It was such a ’70s thing, or I think people associated it with the ’70s,” but it’s become popular again in recent years.

Today, “designer spaces pretty much always include some element of life,” says interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn, founder of decordemon. com.

“While that can be anything from coral to tortoise shells, pressed leaves or even a tiny bowl with a goldfish, the most common way to add life is with potted plants and trees.”

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ture. In this regard the wood-effect wallpaper (again by Blue Mountain) is as important as the cowhide rug and as important as the sunburst mirror.

Ah yes, the mirror.

Consider, if you will, its rustic form, then fret about the darned cost. $200? $400? $600? It is, after all, a massive fellow.

Why on earth did we include such an expensive piece in our cashconscious project?

Hmm? Hold it. Calm down to a frenzy.

Take that final figure ($600) and knock off the last zero.

We made the mirror, you see, from a $2.97 pack wood shims we found in Home Depot.

OK, we needed 15 packs, but go figure.

And what, precisely, are shims?

Well, essentially, they’re skinny lumber wedges used in the construction industry to level doors and windows. So now you know.

And how, if you’ll excuse the poetic diversion, did we add such decorative vim to a wooden shim?

Simple: we positioned seven wedges together to form a stepped art deco shape and bonded each sliver to the next using a glue gun.

This done, we repeated the process 43 times (yup, it takes patience but look at the results), glued all 44 sections to form a ring atop an MDF disc and stained the whole shebang rustic oak.

And our finishing detail? Are you ready for this? A white plate with a dollar store mirror glued at the centre.

Oh, for the love of God. Gorgeous!

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to the cracks and imperfections in the wood.

Wood walls can also be brightened with colourful textiles and artwork.

White lace at the windows, bright colourful upholstery and area carpets will complement the wood and bring warmth and your personal style to the cottage.

Question: We have a rather plain wooden coffee table that I would like to gold-leaf so as to give it an antique look.

Is there a paint technique that mimics the effect of gold-leafing but without the expense and effort?

Thanks.

Answer: Refinishing your table is a great project.

There are so many options.

Gold leaf or gilding is utilized more for highlighting furniture details or creating sections of pattern where none exist.

Decide on the look you are after.

Do you want raised edges, detail on the legs, a pattern on the top, or a sleek flat surface with an all-over gold patina?

You can find furniture trim and detailed or pat-

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Question: We have a cot- a time, let dry for a few mintage finished with pine utes and then rub off the exboards throughout and I find cess with a cloth. it a little boring and would I treated the old cottage like to add colour to some of walls shown here with a the walls. weathered paint technique I have heard you can do to add some colour. a white wash with The boards paint. had layers of What do you sugwhite paint gest? built up over Answer: You can the years. create a good whiteI prepared wash effect with brown and paint or plaster. sage green A skim coat of coloured glazplaster troweled es, each one over the pine boards part waterwill brighten the based glazing room and last for a liquid to four good long time. parts acrylic It doesn’t require paint. perfect coverage, The brown DEBBIE and sanding back to glaze was apTRAVIS reveal some wood plied with a produces an attracdry brush over tive weathered finthe white base ish. coat so that For whitewashyou could see ing with paint, clean brush lines and lightly sand the boards, and some white peeking then cover the knots in the through. wood with shellac — otherOnce dry, the sage green wise they will bleed through glaze was applied sparingly and ruin your finish. to two or three boards at a Water down acrylic paint time, then rubbed back with three parts paint to one part a cloth, leaving a soft patina water. behind.

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FLOWERS: Choose right

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Drywalling isn’t always fun, but specific materials can make the job easier and more durable.

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The difference is remarkable. You’ll certainly appreciate it if you do the work yourself, but a cleaner house is worth it even if you hire a contractor. Ask about having dust control compound used on your job and you’ll spend a whole lot less time vacuuming white dust out of your cutlery drawer.

Big Box Drywall Delivery The biggest hassle of installing drywall yourself is getting the sheets into your house, and this is where drywall delivery is helpful.

Ask about drywall delivery programs where you live and you might be surprised at how easily it happens.

The best programs promise next-day delivery with orders placed before 2 p.m., with sheets delivered anywhere you need them in the house.

There’s usually a minimum order size for free delivery, but this figure typically includes joint compound, tape, insulation, corner beads and

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A serrated bread knife is the tool of choice for trimming this stuff.

You can easily cut measurements down to ¼-in. increments, for a gap-free fit within wall frames.

Fiberglass Mat Drywall Combine moisture and organic matter and mold is the result.

That’s why special drywall is made for potentially damp locations.

Green drywall is one common, mold-resistant type, but it’s not entirely mold proof. To achieve that valuable outcome, you should look at fiberglass drywall.

Also called glass-mat drywall, it’s king when it comes to resisting mold growth completely.

These products do cost more than paperbased drywall, but the size of most moistureprone areas are small enough that the benefits win out.

Don’t Forget the Tape There’s no point in putting up mold-proof drywall if the tape you use for joints goes moldy when it gets damp.

Regular paper drywall

tape is just as much a food source for microbes as the paper on conventional drywall, and that’s why it makes sense to tape with something different in high-moisture areas.

Fibatape Mold X-10 is one tape I know of that resisted mold growth completely over a four week period sealed in a test chamber with 95% relative humidity at a temperature of more than 30 C. It simply works. The building business tends to be cautious about adopting new technology because contractors don’t want to be burned.

Even still, it’s a mistake to ignore advances in building systems just because they’re new.

If faster, reliable, cleaner and more durable methods for drywalling are available, might as well use them.

Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988.

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We’ve asked Flynn, Luetkemeyer and Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design in Los Angeles for advice on choosing the right plants, potting them perfectly and keeping them blooming with minimal effort.

“Talking to someone at a nursery is a really good idea,” says Burnham, because employees at garden stores and plant nurseries are usually glad to answer questions about choosing and caring for plants.

You can choose plants based on the spot in your home where you’d like to keep them (sundrenched windowsills, shady corners or in-between spaces that get a mix of sun and shade). Or you can select a plant you love and then ask for advice on where to place it.

If you have pets or small children, ask whether a plant you’re considering is poisonous. And if you want plants that need very little attention, don’t be shy about saying so.

“While I’m a fan of making a big statement with greenery,” Flynn says, “I’m only interested in plants and trees that are low-maintenance. Give me something that requires daily care and/or delicate grooming, and it’s most likely to go from green to brown or black in less than 72 hours.”

FABULOUS FERNS All three designers like ferns, such as the maidenhair. “They’re so delicate and soft,” says Luetkemeyer. “They’re fresh, and they’re that pale green that’s the beginning green of spring.”

Maidenhairs are fairly easy to care for: “They need to be watered,” she says, “but if you water them, they hang around.”

Consider grouping several together in small pots or buying just one large fern.

“They can ground a space grouped together in odd numbers in pots of varied heights on the floor,” Flynn says. Or “you can use them to add life high up in a room with hanging basket planters. And then they also look excellent potted and placed on a pedestal, coffee table or console table.”

If you want something larger and bolder than the delicate maidenhair, Flynn suggests the staghorn fern. Just remember that all ferns do best in shade rather than direct sunlight.

“I love plants that flower in the spring,” says Luetkemeyer, who recommends daffodils, narcissus and hyacinth.

She also loves gardenia plants for their heady fragrance and shiny leaves. But they do require a bit of effort.

“Any plant that’s a woody plant, with a wood that’s exposed, is going to be a little bit trickier,” she says.

Consider researching gardenias online to learn how much water and how much light your plant will need.

And with all potted plants, Luetkemeyer suggests placing a dish underneath the pot to catch and maintain the water, then placing a coaster underneath the dish to protect the furniture or floor.

“A statement tree,” says Burnham, “adds height to your room, and plays with the light at a window.”

Her clients in southern California often opt for the colour and fragrance of small citrus trees in their homes or at the entrance to a patio or yard.

“They require light and require water,” Burnham says, “but they have fabulous floral blooms in addition to the colour of the fruit.

Flynn also suggests fig trees: “Fiddle leaf fig trees are, hands down, my favourite,” he says. “They’re super architectural and almost kind of minimalist.

Since these grow straight upwards, they’re perfect for corners or flanking a fireplace or focal point without growing out and over it.”

“I also use fiddle leaf fig trees in unexpected places,” he says, “just to add a big burst of life into an otherwise utilitarian space such as a bathroom or even offices.

“The key to using them successfully is ensuring they don’t come into contact with direct light, and that they’re not exposed to dry heat.”

“This might be a great time to put some herbs in your kitchen,” Luetkemeyer says.

Many grocery stores and nurseries sell herb plants such as mint or basil that are already blooming in small plastic pots. You can re-pot them into more attractive containers, then cluster several together on a countertop.

“What you plant something in makes just as much of a statement as the tree or plant itself,” says Burnham.

Take time shopping for exactly what you want.

“Add a little extra effort,” she says, “and you get a really chic little addition to your room.”

One simple approach is to “put the plant into a fabulous low basket and cover it with reindeer moss,” Burnham says.

“You don’t see the soil, and don’t see the plastic container inside.”

Luetkemeyer agrees that it’s worth taking time to choose the right pots: “You can take the same plant and pot it four different ways and it creates four different vibes,” she says. A pot is “sort of like the frame on the piece of art. It sets the tone.”

If you don’t wish to commit to even a low-maintenance plant, Flynn suggests you “work in fruits in decorative ways.”

“Oranges, clementines, apples and limes ... look excellent grouped in vessels,” he says.

“The key to getting it right is to separate them, and not have different types of fruit within the same grouping. My favourite way to use fruit decoratively is by placing them in apothecary jars in different heights and sizes.”

Whatever kind you choose, Flynn is sure you’ll be happier if you add some kind of greenery to your home.

“Whether you’ve got all the time in the world to care for something or just want to be able to squirt a water bottle on your way out the door,” he says, “there’s definitely something out there for you.”

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about when I talk to them is how they have thousands of better-looking, stronger college dudes they can be with instead of me.

And this really hits me hard, and I end up not being as conversational as I would like to be.

The girls I have met a few times (enough times to remember a face) never acknowledge me when they see me around campus.

Also, I rarely approach random girls for the sheer thought of being labeled as a “creep.” How do I get over this irrational fear and start talking to them like a normal person?

Answer: The other day I was watching a show about the mating habits of baboons (I was up very late).

The show documented that while the alpha male is strong and dominant, the other beta males get plenty of ladies.

See, when the alpha male is out hunting and fighting, the less dominant baboons are left alone with the females.

That’s when they get busy. Besides, the alpha male is under enormous stress to fight to stay on top.

Let this be a lesson. The better-looking, dominant men don’t have a better life.

Millions of women want a man who can make them laugh, listen and feel loved.

It’s in their DNA. It’s part of being a mammal. Meet women doing things you love to do.

Talk to them. Listen to them.

Give other men permission to be better-looking and stronger.

But use your strengths to be funnier, more interesting and a better listener and lover. Until you believe it, they will never believe it.

Start believing.

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Question: My boyfriend goes to school in Florida and I only see him during long breaks. I haven’t seen him since before Christmas.

My problem is that he told me that he is going to the military ball with a girl who he says he is just friends with, but I know that she gave him oral sex on the tennis court before we started dating. I want to trust him, but should I be concerned?

Answer: How did you hear about the oral sex on the tennis court?

Was that part of the game?

That’s not how I play tennis.

There are two issues that need to be addressed.

The first is respect. He doesn’t have much for you or this relationship.

A boyfriend who respects HARLAN you wouldn’t go the ball with COHEN a girl with whom he played Xrated tennis.

Taking a friend with a sexual history is unacceptable, unreasonable and plain wrong.

The second issue is, Why don’t you see this? For some reason, you think this is OK. Why? You must not have a lot of men in your life, because any woman who would put up with this is not in a place of power.

You must not see that you have options. If you did, you would see this very clearly.

No, it’s not OK for him to take this girl. And yes, you should be concerned.

I wouldn’t trust him.

Question: I’m shorter and skinnier than most guys (5’8”, 125 lbs). I have been told by a lot of people that I am very good at first impressions and can hold a conversation with just about anybody.

However, I just can’t with girls. All I can think

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Facebook Home aims to put network front and centre of Android devices

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MENLO PARK, Calif. — With its new “Home” on Android gadgets, Facebook aims make its social network the hub of people’s mobile experiences. The question, now, is whether people want all their Facebook content greeting them every time they look at their phones.

If users download Facebook’s Home software starting on April 12, Facebook will become the centre of their Android smartphones.

Switch on your phone and you’ll see friends’ photos, overlaid by status updates, links and eventually, advertisements. If a friend sends you a message, their Facebook photo will pop up as a notification.

Done with Facebook? Swipe your finger to get to a screen with your regular Android apps to listen to music, watch videos or send email.

At first, Home will only work on some Android devices, including HTC Corp.’s One X and One X Plus and Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note 2. A phone from HTC that comes pre-loaded with Home will be available starting April 12, with AT&T Inc. as the carrier.

The idea behind the software is to bring Facebook content right to users’ home screens, rather than requiring them to check various apps to see what their friends are up to, or to chat. Down the line, Facebook will integrate its existing camera app and other features. Though cameras and calls weren’t part of Thursday’s presentation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised the Home software will be updated at least once a month to add more features and fix bugs.

“Home” comes amid rapid growth in the number of people who access Facebook from phones and tablet computers. Of the social network’s 1.06 billion monthly users, 680 million log in using a mobile gadget. As a result, the money Facebook makes from mobile advertising is also growing.

With Home, Facebook wants to design smartphone software around people rather than apps, Zuckerberg said during the service’s unveiling at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.

“Why do we need to go into all the apps in the first place to see what is going on with the people we care about,” he asked.

“We think this is the best version of Facebook there is,” he said.

Zuckerberg said users can have an experience on Android phones that they can’t have on other platforms. That’s because Google makes the software available on an open-source basis, allowing phone manufacturers and software developers to adapt it to their needs.

Recognizing that text messaging is one of the most important tasks on a mobile phone, Facebook showed off a Home feature called “chat heads.” This lets users communicate with their friends directly from their home screens — without opening a separate app.

“What Facebook wants is to put itself at the front of the Android user experience for as many Facebook users as possible and make Facebook more elemental to their customers’ experience,” said Forrester analyst Charles Golvin.

While that makes sense for Facebook, the analyst thinks the company is overestimating “the extent to which this is something their users want.”

“I’m sure there are people out there whose lives revolve around their social network and for them it makes sense to have it front and centre,” Golvin said. “But this doesn’t describe the majority of consumers.”

The new Home software won’t be available for Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices. Apple’s iOS and Mac operating systems include features that integrate Facebook’s services, but Zuckerberg said doing something like Home would require a closer partnership.

Apple had no immediate comment.

For Google, the announcement isn’t great news. The company gives away its Android software for free, in the hope that it will steer phone users to ads Google sells. With Home, Facebook is inserting itself between users and Google, diverting them to its own ads and services. It’s not the first time a big Internet company has co-opted Android: Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire tablets run a version of Android that strips out all Google services, replacing them with Amazon’s equivalents.

The deeper mobile integration will help Facebook to attract more mobile advertisers. Though mobile ads were a big concern for Facebook’s investors even before the company’s initial public offering last May, some of the worry is subsiding as the company muscles its way into the market.

Last year, Facebook began showing ads to its mobile audience by shoehorning corporatesponsored content into users’ news feeds, which also include updates from friends and brands they follow.

Facebook now faces the challenge of showing people mobile ads without annoying or alienating them.

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The Society is searching an enthusiastic, creative youth between the ages of 18 and 30, who enjoy working with the public. Your responsibilities include planning and presenting curriculum-based school programs, day camp programs in July and August, weekend programs for the general public, and assisting with our major events including Spring on the Farm and Pioneer Days.

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Cellphones with the a new Facebook interface are shown to journalists at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The company says it is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a new experience for Android phones. The idea behind the new Home service is to bring content right to you, rather than require people to check apps on the device.

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DIY therapy offered in U.K. for some problems LONDON — After crocheting a colorful blanket, Joan Ferguson snuggled up under it one night and proudly thought: “This is one groovy blanket.

I’m brilliant.”

Ferguson, 53, who struggles with low self-esteem, said it was the first time she had ever praised herself. She attributed the breakthrough in part to free self-help classes on mental health run by Britain’s government-funded medical system.

With a long wait to see a psychologist, the British government is turning to the classroom to treat people with mild-to-moderate mental health problems with a mix of PowerPoint presentations and group exercises.

Ferguson’s class of about 10 people, which meets once a week in east London, is led by two “psychological wellbeing practitioners.”

The instructors are trained for a year on how to help people change their behaviour or thinking but they aren’t fully fledged psychologists.

While some dismiss the approach as do-it-yourself therapy, experts say there is convincing evidence that people with conditions like depression and anxiety can be successfully treated without ever seeing a psychologist or a psychiatrist.

The strategy was adopted after Britain’s independent health watchdog ruled that classes and self-help books are cost-effective.

Treating people with mental health problems this way could get them back to work quicker and save the U.K. an estimated 700 million pounds in lost tax revenue over four years, a previous study found.

The government is aiming to use the classes to treat least 15 per cent of the

SELF-HELP CLASSES ON MENTAL HEALTH more than 6 million who need treatment for anxiety or depression.

In 2011, only about 5 per cent got some kind of therapy; about half were treated in classes or settings such as telephone sessions or computer therapy.

Those with more serious problems, like schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress disorder, are usually offered traditional psychotherapy.

The self-help classes have a recovery rate of about 46 per cent, slightly lower than the 50 to 60 per cent recovery rates for those who get personal psychological counselling, according to statistics from the department of health.

The British Psychological Society, a professional group, helped design the training received by the class instructors.

The society’s David Murphy, however, said the classes might not be a fit for everyone.

“Some people are wary about going to a class instead of seeing a psychologist,” said Murphy, who isn’t involved with the program.

The classes often require more effort by the individual than working with a psychologist, he said.

“For the (self-help) classes to be effective, the onus is on the patient to change what they’re doing in between sessions,” Murphy said.

Some American experts weren’t sure the approach would work in the United States.

“The expectations of treatment are very different in the U.S.,” said Michael Otto, a professor of psychology at Boston University who has studied self-help approaches.

“People think, ’if I’m going to be

paying for care, I want to get the treatment I want and that’s often personal therapy.”

Otto said the downside to such selfhelp programs is that people who don’t get better might just give up. Instructor Nabila El-Zanaty said the classes aren’t meant to be like group therapy.

“It’s more like psychological education,” she said, after leading a session that taught participants how to spot negative thoughts about themselves.

She said patients must be monitored closely in case they need more intensive help. At the start of every class, they fill in a survey about their recent behaviour, including whether they have hurt themselves or had sui-

cidal thoughts.

El-Zanaty said she’s been surprised by how much the participants are willing to share in class.

She said one woman who cried during every session and talked about suicide attempts was referred to personalized therapy.

Most courses run about eight to 12 weeks. El-Zanaty said they check in with participants a month after the classes end. After three months, they can apply to do another course if they still need help.

Ferguson and her classmates in ElZanaty’s course realize it’s up to them to make sure the classes work.

“They only give us the tools,” she said. “I know if I don’t practice the techniques, it will be back to square one.”

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It is preferred that applicants possess a Masters degree in a health related Àeld, health administration, or business administration supplemented by 5 to 10 years experience at a management level. Other education will be considered. Position will be based in either Olds or Sundre.

This position offers executive level compensation based on experience.

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Precision is the second largest land drilling company in North America and has more than a half century of operating history. Our rentals division is a leading provider of specialty oilfield rental equipment in Canada with more than 15,000 pieces of equipment available from operating centres and stock points across Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

We are currently seeking an experienced:

OPERATIONS MANAGER – SOLIDS CONTROL Based out of Red Deer, the Operations Manager provides direction and business support to solids control & power generation product lines. Responsibilities include budget planning, policies, procedures, regulations & growth oriented business planning.

Candidates must have 8-10 years oilfield experience, specific to solids control equipment.

At Precision, our Down to Earth core values are rooted in an enduring commitment to have the Best People, the Best Equipment and a company culture that is dedicated to a safe workplace.

For further information about Precision or to apply online please go to:

www.precisiondrilling.com

The Red Deer Primary Care Network offers exciting opportunities to deliver innovative patient care We are seeking a qualified individual who can combine their expertise with exceptional communications skills and a commitment to collaborative services to compliment our progressive team.

The Red Deer Primary Care Network (PCN) aims to improve access to primary care, provide coordinated care, increase emphasis on health promotion and disease and injury prevention, and improve coordination and integration of care utilizing the strengths of a multidisciplinary team.

The person who thrives in the Red Deer PCN is excited about being part of primary care reform and embraces a patient self-management philosophy.

Mental Health Counsellor: We require a full-time registered psychologist or Master’s level social worker with an interest in health and well-being. You should practice using any or all of the following frameworks: CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, or Positive Psychology and be willing to conduct psycho-educational groups in health and wellness promotion.

The Mental Health Counsellor will: • Practice in partnership with the patients and their PCN family physician(s), other health care professionals and community agencies.

• Work independently and see up to five patients a day on clinic days.

• Have transportation and valid driver’s license.

Please submit your curriculum vitae, along with: 1) names of three references, 2) description of your professional interests and 3) practice model for working with depression, anxiety, and other health-related conditions to: hr@rdpcn.com or by fax: 403.342.9502.

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Precision offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package.

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Different Build a career with one of Canada’s top employers Thrive in an inclusive culture of teamwork, strong leadership and respect.

Here, diverse people pull together to achieve goals that are challenging and rewarding. You can learn and grow in an environment of acceptance and accountability.

Come meet FCC.

Agriculture lending expertise rewarded Senior Relationship Manager, Olds or Calgary (file 385-12/13) Focus on key relationships with large, complex primary producers and plan sales strategies and tactics that appeal to both customers and prospects. You’ll tailor financing packages that fulfil your customers’ needs, including both lending and non-lending products, and help them build success. You have at least four years of experience in agriculture finance or sales and a degree in agriculture, business or commerce (or equivalent).

A professional agrologist designation is an asset. Closes April 16, 2013.

About us We’re a federal Crown corporation and Canada’s leading agriculture lender. Our healthy portfolio, passion for the industry and reputation as one of Canada’s top employers help us attract professionals in agriculture, lending and just about everything in between. We offer financing, insurance, software, learning programs, and other business services to producers, agribusiness owners and agri-food entrepreneurs across the country.

Does this sound like the workplace you’re looking for? Visit www.fcc.ca/careers to apply.

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Thank you for applying with the Red Deer Primary Care Network.

To learn more about the Red Deer PCN please visit our website www.reddeerpcn.com.

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403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Office/Phone Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri Fax: 403-341-4772 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300 DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

Saturday, April 6, 2013

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I AM a 56 yr. old widower/ farmer who is looking for attractive, unattached WHAT’S HAPPENING an farm girl, 48 - 62 yr. old CLASSIFICATIONS lady to come live with me on the farm and help with 50-70 all things, e.g. driving small grain trucks, raking hay Making a Difference etc. Must have clean driver’s Coming licence, like cattle, and The Central Alberta AIDS small dogs. You should be Events Network Society is the h a p p y, g o o d s e n s e o f local charity that offers PARKINSON ALBERTA humor and have a positive support to individuals who attitude, n/s, and very light are infected or affected by RED DEER drinker as I do not drink. HIV and provides prevenEDUCATION DAY Please provide picture & tion and education Wed. April 17, 2013 phone number. Reply to throughout Central Alberta.

Professional speakers, Box 1037, c/o R. D. Advoeducational displays. cate, 2950 Bremner Ave., CAANS is looking for p/t $10/person incl. lunch.

Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 front line worker interested Information: 403-346-4463 in Harm Reduction and mherron@parkinsonalberta.ca HIV Prevention . for more information, Buying or Selling Personals www.caans.org your home?

Check out Homes for Sale ALCOHOLICS P/T Accounts in Classifieds ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 Receivable Position One regular day per week QUILTERS! Central COCAINE ANONYMOUS plus additional days during Alberta Quilters Guild 403-304-1207 (Pager) busy times and to cover for presents the 22nd Annual vacations. Hours and days Quilt Show at the Parkland may be somewhat flexible.

Pavilion Westerner Park, Accuracy and attention to Red Deer on Friday, April detail a must. Large 5, 10:00AM to 7:00PM and amount of invoicing and Saturday, April 6, 10:00AM data entry. Working knowlto 5:00PM. Over 200 quilts edge of Sage 50/Simply displayed, Large Merchant Accounting, Excel & MS an Mall, Demos and Door asset. Email: Prizes. Special guest CLASSIFICATIONS janeaustin103@gmail.com display by Buggy Barn.

Contact Lynne at 700-920 RECEPTIONIST 403-783-5808 Needed for an Automobile Dealership in Red Deer.

Full-time position.

Clerical Experience operating a Lost multi-line switchboard and greeting customers in a BOOKKEEPER/ REWARD OFFERED cheerful manner.

DATA ENTRY LADIES watch silver with Manage an organized Local industrial supply diamonds lost at Parkland reception area. company is looking for a Mall. 403-843-2031 Work in the Sales area and bookkeeper. Please fax redirect calls for Service resume to 403-342-0233 Looking for a place and Parts and Body Shop. to live?

Office duties such as fax, FULL-TIME REAL Take a tour through the photocopy and printer.

ESTATE CLASSIFIEDS Familiar with e-mail.

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We cry because he’s been taken away We smile because he lived, They say there is a reason, They say time will heal, But neither time nor reason Will change the way we feel, No one knows the heartache That lies behind our smile The times we break down and cry.

We cherish the memories you left behind Your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake.

God has you in His keeping We have you in our heart.

You’re so wonderful to think of So very hard to be without.

Forever loved and missed by your family and friends

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FOUND: Tire tools along the side of the road.

Please call 403-318-6061 to identify.

“In Your Time of Need....

We Keep it Simple” #3, 4664 Riverside Dr., Red Deer

403.342.1444

www.simplycremations.com

Red Deer

JOE SCHREINER In loving memory of a dear son and brother who passed away suddenly April 7, 1988.

Funeral Home & Crematorium

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

SET OF KEYS, silver found on trail between 32 St. & Spruce Dr. Call 403-358-3820 to claim.

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CONVEYANCING POSITION

Are you looking for a change and have a minimum of 5 years office administration experience.

Knowledge and comfort working with numbers and accurate data entry a huge asset. Please forward resume via mail in confidence to: Patrick Galesloot, Century 21 Advantage, #905, 4747 - 67 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 6H3 or via e-mail at patrick.galesloot@ century21.ca OFFICE manager req’d for Clive area trucking company.

Knowledge of trucking industry and general knowledge of maintenance an asset but willing to train.

Exc. wages/benefits. Fax resume to 403-784-2330 or call toll free 1-877-787-2501

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Funeral Home & Crematorium

Announcements Daily Classifieds 309-3300

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F/T DENTAL RECEPTIONIST With dental experience.

For office in Lacombe.

Fax resume to 403-782-6326

EQUS, Canada’s largest member-owned utility, requires a Member Services Administrator in its Central Area Office – Innisfail, to be responsible for all aspects of member services including utility billing, and receiving and recording payments. You will be the main contact for our Members. We require strong communications and customer service skills. You must be familiar with WORD, EXCEL, and DATABASES. Experience in the utility industry would be an asset. This is a temporary assignment to April 2014 with possibility of extension.

Apply to bbassett@equs.ca by April 15.

Required for busy office. This is a permanent part time to three quarter time position with occasional full time hours. The successful candidate will be skilled in accounts payable, payroll, balancing the bank, GST and Excel. Other duties to include general reception, answering phones, and filing.

Please submit resumes and references to:

KFC/Peacock Inn #1, 4971 Phelan Street Red Deer, AB T4P 3Z4 Fax: 403.341.3820 Email: kfcgals@shawbiz.ca

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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

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Office Assistant

for our RIMBEY, Alberta location: • • • • •

Competitive Salary Excellent Benefits Package Pension and Employee Share Program Training in a Safety Conscious Work Environment Growth and Development Opportunities For Details and to Apply on-line, please visit: www.gibsons.com

Inquiries and Resumes: Email: amy.berning@gibsons.com Fax: 403-206-4175

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS COMPETITIVE WAGES

Immediate Positions Available Experienced Day Supervisors Night Supervisors Must be able to provide truck

website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

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DISPATCHER/ DATA ANALYST

Please send resume to 403-340-0886 or email: pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com

requires stylist, commission & chair rental.

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Duties will include some Secretarial and knowledge of Word and Excel programs.

Competitive pay and group plan benefits.

E-mail resume with references to: darcya442@gmail.com.

URBAN IMAGE HAIR CO.

403-347-3319

by Arbor Memorial Bill was born on February Arbor Memorial Inc. 12th, 1929 in Calgary and passed away suddenly in Lowest Price Guaranteed!

Innisfail on April 2nd, 2013 at the age of 84 years. He moved to Innisfail from Over 2,000,000 Alsask, Saskatchewan in hours 1935 and graduated from Innisfail High School in 1947.

St. John Ambulance From then on he worked in volunteers provide the construction business, Canadians with more first with his father and later ~Sadly missed and always on his own. Bill leaves to loved and remembered by than 2 million hours mourn, his loving family: Wife your Dad and Mom, sister of community service D o r e e n ; d a u g h t e r Ly n n Tracy (Darren) and nephews each year.

(Chuck) Stevens of Duff, Jeff and Joseph and Saskatchewan; daughter sister Kim (Mike), niece Lois Peters of Innisfail; Abbey, nephew Michael Jr. grand-daughter Nicole Perry of Baltimore, Maryland; sister Lorna (Bill) Miller of Victoria, BC; two sisters-in-law, Helen Anniversaries Kutscher of Findlay, Ohio and Caroline Olson of Calgary. He was predeceased by his parents, Bill and Ella Peters, as well as three brothers-in-law; Dr. Andy Kutscher, Ken Olson, and Eric Olson. In respect of Bill’s wishes there will be no memorial service. If friends desire, memorial donations in Bills’s name can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Cancer Society.

Arrangements entrusted to HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICE Innisfail. Phone: 403-227-0006.

LEISCHNER www.heartlandfuneralservices.com Happy 50th anniversary Marvin and Bev. Love from all your family.

SAWYER A memorial tea in honour of Marlene Sawyer will be held at the Haynes Hall on April 8, 2013 at 1 p.m.

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Love Linda, Rae, Bud and Dot

Twenty-five long and lonely years have passed since our great sorrow fell. The shock we received that day, is still remembered well. The parting was so sudden, we often wonder why, and to us the hardest part of all, was you never said goodbye. Our hearts still ache with sadness, and silent tears still flow, for what it meant to lose you Joe, no one will ever know.

To hear your voice, to see your smile, to sit and talk with you awhile. To be together in the same old way, would be our dearest wish today.

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1 year ago today, Tyson was taken from us by an impaired driver.

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In memory of Tyson Blake Vanderzwaag April 3, 1994 - April 6, 2012

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Frank Holman - Architect ROY Dec. 11, 1924 - April 1, 2013 Joseph “Steven” Lee Frank Thompson Holman, 88, Steven Roy passed away was born, raised and died in suddenly in Penticton BC on Calgary. Predeceased by his March 30, 2013 at the age of five siblings; his wife Freda 28 years. Steven will be ( D i e t i k e r 1 9 7 7 ) a n d s o n missed by all his family and Bruce (2004). Survived and friends, who would describe missed by his son Lorne; Steven as a free bird with daughter-in-law Tara McCullough sand in his shoes. A Memorial and grandson Stephen. Also S e r v i c e w i l l b e h e l d o n survived by his ex-companion Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Helen Conley who moved to at 11:00 a.m. at Eventide Ottawa in 2012. Frank was a Funeral Chapel, 4820-48 WWII pilot, married Freda Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In Sept 3/47 and worked as an lieu of flowers, donations architect in Ottawa and Red may be made to the charity Deer. He was a long time of your choice which best Rotarian, glider pilot and reflects who Steven was.

GREAT dad. MANY thanks Condolences may be forwarded to Lawrence and Myrna Jensen, t o t h e f a m i l y b y v i s i t i n g Rich Ritchie, Cindy Huber, www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Dr. Raymond Hulyk and others.

EVENTIDE FUNERAL Tribute service, Tuesday, April CHAPEL 9th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Gaetz United Church, 4758 Phone (403) 347-2222 Ross St., Red Deer. Internet video tribute to follow. Please Google “Frank Thompson Holman Tribute 2013”. In lieu of flowers, please donate to any Rotary Club. Messages of condolence may be forward to the family at www.piersons.ca.

Cremation and arrangements are in care of PIERSON’S FUNERAL SERVICE, CALGARY In Memoriam Telephone 403-235-3602

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a DRILLER. 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

SERVICE RIG

Legal Assistants Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP t/a Altalaw

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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

Requires the services of an experienced Corp/Comm Legal Assistant as well as a Real Estate Conveyancer.

Part-timers for summer and vacation relief welcome to apply. Please email resume to ssimmons@altalaw.ca or fax to the attention of Office Manager on 403.343.0891.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Out of Town

WASKASOO ESTATES 115 ENGLAND WAY

ESTATE SALE

SUN. APR. 7, 10 am. - 2 pm.

Furniture, electronics, art, pictures, beds, statues, golf clubs, computer electronics, full bdrm. suite, luggage and lots more.

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

Lafarge is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in Canada and the United States. We have been providing Central Alberta quality construction products for over 25 years with locations in Red Deer, Sylvan Lake, Innisfail and Lacombe County. We take pride in our commitment to safety, quality and consistency.

FRONT DESK ADMINISTRATOR

• Excellent verbal & written communication – organizational & interpersonal skills • Able to multi-task and operate switchboard.

• High proficiency of Microsoft Word, Excel and computer skills.

• Accounting background to support Accounts Receivable and Payables Please email or fax a resume Attn: Annie.pitcher@lafarge-na.com 403 347 8060

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Has Opening for all positions!

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

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*HIRING ALL POSITIONS (ESPECIALLY COOKS!)* Meadowlands Golf Club in Sylvan Lake is hiring!

- COOKS - Proshop - Maintenance - Backshop - Marshals - Food and Beverage E-mail your resume to info@ meadowlandssylvanlake. com and state preferred position. Look forward to hearing from you!

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WELL established 250 seat bar and grill in Red Deer now looking for a chef or kitchen manager. possibilities for sweat equity options. Great opportunity for enthusiastic applicants.

Please send resume to Box 1040, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

Experienced P/T CORK’D Taphouse and Cocktails Servers & Grill now hiring p/t dishDoor Security washers and prep cooks.

We will train. Please apply Apply in person after 3 pm. within.

Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

LOOKING for exp’d waitress with liquor license, p/t or f/t 403-342-5555

* Downhole Tool Supervisors * Coil Tubing Rig Managers * Crane Truck Operators * Nitrogen Pump Operators * Fluid Pump Operators * Mechanics

LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour.

4217 - 50 Ave. Competitive wages and 6721 - 50 Ave. benefits. Priority given to 7111 - 50 Ave. applicants with relevant timhire@telus.net experience, Class 1 Drivers license and valid oilfield tickets.

Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to quality and safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

Please forward all resumes to: jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046

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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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CUSTOM MUFFLER

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Looking for apprentice or journeyman mechanic.

Pipe bending skills would be a great asset. Wages depend on exp. Going concern shop. Fax resume to:403-346-9909 or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. Phone 403-346-7911

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9 INDUSTRIAL maintenance painters req’d, F/T year round work $17-$21/per hr. min. 3 yrs exp. with sandblasting and spray painting.

Duties: sandblasting, sanding, painting, coating and hydo-blasting.

Apply at Hall Industrial Contracting, BURBANK INDUSTRIAL PARK, Site 9, Box 147, Blackfalds, AB or email: wayne@ hallindustrialcontracting.com or fax 403-885-8886 CRIBBER & LABORERS wanted. Start Tuesday April 9. 4 - 5 wks work in Red Deer. Wage negotiable. Contact Kristian @ 403-588-1581 Eagle Builders is expanding its facility to double production. We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

* Concrete Finishers * General Labourers Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403 885 5516 or e-mail: HR@eaglebuilders.ca.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD.

Dozer Operator Class 1 & 3 Drivers Tractor Operators Loader Operator Labourers Flag People Fax resume: 403-885-5137 Email resume: office@ccal.com

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

RESIDENTIAL SUPERVISORS

Requires

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HEAVY Duty Mechanic:

Required : Apprentices will be considered. Experience in all make and models of diesel engine is required for this full time position.

Knowledge of air compressors, generator units and pumps would be an asset.

The successful applicant must have excellent communication skills, both oral & written. The position requires a person who has a strong work ethic and be able to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced work environment.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest.

Only those considered will be contacted.

Forward Resume: Fax (403)343-2199 E-Mail: true@hertz.com Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816

PARTSOURCE

REQUIRES P/T DELIVERY DRIVER to work 2 days per week within the city.

Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403 309 0354 or email: ps791@cantire.ca PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is currently accepting resumes for SERVICE ADVISOR POSITION. Must have good communication skills and have the ability to work independently or with a group..

Excellent company benefits.

Please submit resume in person along with wage expectations to Joey.

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Parkland CLASS is currently seeking Residential Supervisors to manage the overall program delivery for 3 individuals with developmental disabilities living in a residential home. Responsibilities include: providing direct care, participating in the development & implementation of personalized plans, training, supervising a team of approximately 5-12 employees & budget management.

Hours of work are 40 hrs. /wk., primarily days, Mon-Fri; however, you will be required to work some evenings and weekends.

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! LOOKING for Experience.

Carpenter with farm & metal bldgs. 403-318-6406

Quali¿cations: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services, Social work or a related ¿eld. Preferably, you will have 3–5 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as, excellent interpersonal, team building and leadership skills. Experience responding to behaviours of concern, assisting with personal care and/or working with medically fragile individuals would be ideal.

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SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

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TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net DO you want regular home times, dedicated truck, a company that cares, benefits, exc. wages, safety bonus, year round steady work? We are looking for CLASS 1 drivers for flat deck work. Must know your cargo securement, be hard working and enjoy driving as you visit the 4 western provinces. Please contact 1-877-787-2501 or fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

850

Salary: $3466.80 - $3518.80 A valid class 5 driver’s license and your own transportation are required.

We will be hiring permanent and temporary Residential Supervisors. To be discussed further at interview. Questions can be directed to Claudia Roy at 403 347-3333.

www.parklandclass.org

The ideal candidate will have the following:

www.parklandclass.org Sales & Distributors

830

Dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience Excellent interpersonal skills Strong focus on customer satisfaction Team player Long term employment Commissioning and maintenance experience required.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Please note: This job posting closes on April 8 2013

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Journeymen Instrumentation Mechanic Experience with Maintenance and/or plant facility work CSTS A team player Excellent communication skills

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Please Note: This job posting closes on April 21st, 2013

April 10, 7 p.m.

Best Western Plus Hotel

TESOL Certificate Register for 5 day In-Class Course June 19 - 23 1-888-270-2941 www.GlobalTesol.com

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave. Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl. Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Timberlands Area Talson Place, Thomas Place Trimble Place, Traptow Place Timberstone Way $152/mo.

Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

Carriers Needed

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Currently seeking Newspaper carrier for morning delivery 6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday) in the town of Olds Earn $500+ for hour and a half per day.

Must have own vehicle.

18+ Needed ASAP Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@ reddeer advocate.com

EXECUTIVE AUTO GLASS Experienced Glass Installer, Possible Management Position, Wage Negotiable.

Available Immediately.

Drop Resume @ #2, 7859 Gaetz Ave or Fax 403-347-7744

880 BEN

SERVICE WRITER

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: • Must have a valid driver’s license (Class 3 Preferable but not mandatory) • Previous Industrial Spray Foam Application Required • Pride in their work and generate high quality workmanship • Willingness to work evenings & weekends • Willingness to work out of town for short period of times.

ENVIRONMENTAL & PHYSICAL CONDITION REQUIREMENTS: • Outdoors • Standing for extended • Heights periods of time • Confined Spaces • Bending, crouching, • Noisy, Dusty, Hot, kneeling Cold, Wet/Damp • Handling heavy loads • Manual Dexterity • Physically demanding • Attention to detail & repetitive tasks Hall Industrial Contracting offers competitive wage and benefit packages, we provide training as required.

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Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

FREE INFORMATION SEMINAR

FULL TIME SPRAY FOAM APPLICATOR

The ideal candidate will have the following:

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Leanne Colby Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: lcolby@studon.com “People Pride & Service”

ADVENTURE! Teach English Overseas Job Guaranteed!

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

’S

(Red Deer Area)

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

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JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION MECHANIC

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Experience is an asset, but not a requirement.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

UNC

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

880

Carriers Needed

Good for adult with small car.

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Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

We are currently hiring for the position of:

FULL TIME SALES POSITION

Deerpark Area 3 blks of Duston St. Denmark Crsc & West half of Donnelly Crsc. $94/mo.

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Human Resources Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: hr@studon.com “People Pride & Service”

Clearview Ridge Clearview Dr. & Crossley St. area $202.00/mo.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Fly directly to site from Edmonton or Calgary

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BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

7 day on/7 day off schedule

Parkland CLASS provides a specialized Foster Care service for children with developmental disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of a quadriplegic female teenager. As a Part Time (Relief) Provider you will offer support and care 1-2 weekends per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child in your regular family life.

Experience with youth with developmental disabilities and Cerebral Palsy would be ideal. Knowledge of Aboriginal Culture and some related post-secondary education would be an asset. The individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. The home must be able to accommodate lifts and have wheelchair access within the home. Community outings are not required, however outside access, driver’s license and wheelchair transportation would be an asset.

Part time Foster Care Providers receive a (tax free) remuneration paid per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Foster Care Providers are required to take.

We look forward in hearing from you; please forward your resume quoting competition #4546FCCV to: Parkland CLASS, Human Resources 6010-45th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: (403) 342-2677 e-mail:hr@pclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition will remain open until a suitable applicant is found.

Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

INSTRUMENTATION & COMMISSIONING TECHNICIANS • • • • • •

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

Good for adult with small car.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

RELIEF FOSTER CARE PROVIDER NEEDED

880

Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Street. $236/monthly

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

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We look forward to hearing from you; please forward your resume quoting competition # 4534SUP to: Parkland CLASS, Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: 403 342-2677 • Email: hr@pclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Competition will remain open until all positions are ¿lled.

860

SEMI RETIRED? SPRING BREAK UP? Seasonal drivers req’d. for local fertilizer dellivery.

Clean Class 3 license req’d., AG exp. an asset.

Call 403-588-0956.

EMAIL: benaltoag@ benaltoag.com

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With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

Truckers/ Drivers

Truckers/ Drivers

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TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Restaurant/ Hotel

Wages is based on experience, skills and level of training.

Please send resumes to either info@hallindustrialcontracting.com Or fax 403-885-8886 We thank all applicants, but only successful candidates will be called for an interview.

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Oilfield

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 6, 2013 E3

880

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Auctions

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Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

1570

Cameras & Accessories

For afternoon delivery once per week

SONY handicam, exc. cond. $200 obo 403-307-1586

In the towns of:

BOWER AREA Baile Close Boyce St./ Byer Close Barrett Dr/ Beatty Crsc..

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St INGLEWOOD AREA

Illingworth Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Crsc VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 F/T SYNIK CLOTHING, Gasoline Alley. Exc. hours.

Exc. pay, based on exp.

Apply w/resume in person.

FULL TIME MAINTENANCE AND LABOUR PERSON REQUIRED ASAP. Knowledge of Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Painting.

Must have own tools, own vehicle an asset with valid drivers license.

Monday - Friday 8 - 5.

Come and join our team.

Please fax resume 403-346-1086 GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Children's Items

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook 1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com OVERRUN w/Mule Deer E. of R. D. First Nations persons call 403-391-8246

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offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Looking For Short Term Work?

We need a number of people to assist with spring yard clean up for 3 wks. Must be able to pull a rake and bag debris, Must have own transportation and be reliable. Wage is $15/hr.

Call 403-505-5760 THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

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CORONA Bar stools (2), chrome, $60. pr.; light brown recliner, like new, $60; tiger torch & hose, $30; Black & Decker 7 1/4” skill saw, $10.; (2) 2 ton hydralic jack, $10. ea.

403-887-4981 HUSKY BRAID NAILER, new in box, $25.; 2000 lb. remote control winch, $65; New air compressor, 100 psi; $65; New Woods outdoor 24/hr timer; $10; New sz. 11 black leather, zippered boots, $25; 20’ tow ropes (2) $10. ea.

403-887-4981

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers' Market

1650

ALBERTA LAMB! Fresh, frozen. Locally grown.

Locally butchered.

Phone 403-782-4095

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

1680

1780

COME LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR AT RDC. Educated, experienced, and enthusiastic instructor Shannon Frizzell has openings on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students of all ages & abilities welcome.

For registration and information†email us at: continuingeducation @rdc.ab.ca or contact Adriana at 403-356-4900

1840

Dogs

F1 LABRA DOODLES, F1B GOLDEN DOODLES puppies. Visit www.furfettishfarm.ca text 306-521-1371 or call 403-919-1370

Sporting Goods

1860

AB DOER & Power Assistance Attachments.

Paid $300, asking $200.

403-342-1752

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Career Planning

920

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water Main floor of house 2 bdrms, incld., Oriole Park.

1 bath, 4 appls. No pets.

403-350-1620 Gloria N/S. Shared laundry.

BSMT. bachelor suite with $1295 INCL UTIL; SD walkout, fully furnished, $1295; Avail NOW. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 RENTED or 403-396-9554 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. INNISFAIL older 3 bdrm.

SUITES. 25+, adults only house, lrg. lot. $975/mo. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 403-886-5342 or 357-7817

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

3030

Condos/ Townhouses

Household Appliances

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 FREE working clothes dryer to give away.

403-347-4100

Household Furnishings

1720

3 SEAT SOFA W/WOOD TRIM 83”L X 33” D w/matching armchair, very well kept $170 403-314-2026 KITCHEN TABLE WITH 4 Chairs. Padded, back & front. Exc. cond. Bought at Sim’s. $150. 403-343-1112 LARGE oak china cabinet, exc. cond., $150, computer desk, $40 403-506-3071 MOVING SALE: fridge $40; large recliner $20; hide a bed $40; bed & mattress $75; dresser $10; end tables, lamps etc. $5-$10 403-348-2396 RECORD player/radio w/2 matching speakers.

Asking $100.

403-341-4650 Call between 9 am - 12 p.m. or call Cell after 1 pm.

403-307-3043 SOFA HIDE-A-BED Blue, double. $60. 403-346-3844

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

PS2 w/6 games. $80 obo.

XBOX w/6 games. $80 obo. 403-782-3847 SONY STEREO w/surround sound. $180 obo. 403-782-3847

880

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Livestock

2100

GOOD ANGUS BASE CROSS BRED COWS

available for Shares Great investment opportunity

Highway 21 Feeders Ltd.

Acme, AB Please contact Ed Miller 403-546-2278 Ext. 3 Email: EdMiller@ Highway21Group.com

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Horse Boarding

2150

YEAR-AROUND boarding close to Red Deer. Riding rings, box-stalls, paddocks.

Phone 403-342-0475

Pasture/Land Wanted

We are seeking outstanding professionals for the following positions: Competition #3357 - Coordinator of Grounds - Closing April 9, 2013 Competition #3353 - Manager of Supply Management - Closing April 12, 2013 To learn more about this job opportunity and the application process, please visit our website at www.rockyview.ab.ca or go directly to www.applytoeducation.com under Management and Professional.

Resumes can also be emailed to careers@rockyview.ca

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 FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

Pinnacle Estates

*********************** 97 Eastpoint Dr. 2 bdrm. 2 bath. $297,900.

Inclds. all fees, sod & appls.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

THE NORDIC

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4030 4040

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

3140

Clean 3 bdrms,1.5 bath, In-suite laundry. Yard & unfinished bsm’t. No pets.

N/S $1275 & UTIL; SD $1275; Avail NOW! Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

WESTPARK

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000.

Avail. May 1, 403-304-7576, 347-7545

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Mauricia 403-340-0225

3050

4860 sq. ft., new, bright, two 14’ O.H. doors, heated, fans, can be divided into 2 bays. Call 403- 318-4848 to view

3190

Lot

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

Resorts & Cottages

3370

WANTED: SYLVAN LAKE COTTAGE or HOUSE for first week of July.

Lakefront preferred.

Price negotiable.

Please contact 604-982-0554

3060

1 BDRM. apt. across from hospital, 3rd flr. balcony, Avail. Now. $780./mo.

403-877-3323

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

4020

MASON MARTIN HOMES New 2 Storey 1500 sq.ft 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, $399,900. Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. immed.

Incl. most utils, no pets.

Call 403-886-5288

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

1 BDRM. bsmt. suite 4223 42 Ave in Grandview. $350/mo for 1 person. All utils incl, except phone & cable. No pets, no drugs. RENTED

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage. $409,900.

403-588-2550

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

4050

ACREAGE IN THE CITY

29 Ward Cres. Substantially reno’d home, facing huge green space. Huge pie shaped lot. Newer 30x22 shop. Front RV parking, room for 6 vehicles. $619,900.

Dustin Henfrey, Remax Real Estate Central AB 403-343-3020 ACREAGES FOR SALE BY OWNER, 5+/- ACRES EACH: 1 mile west of Clearwater Trading Store, Caroline.

Treed w/pine, poplar & spruce, offering scenic views of the Clearwater valley & Rocky Mountains. $175,000. Natural gas & power on property, Telus on property lines. One acreage incl. a rustic 2 storey log cabin & water well for $250,000. For more info call 403-722-4076.

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

3 bdrms,1.5 baths, 4 appls. Houses No pets. N/S. In-suite For Sale laundry. $1095 & Gas & ELECT; SD $1095; FREE Weekly list of Avail MAY 1st. properties for sale w/details, Hearthstone 403-314-0099 prices, address, owner’s or 403-396-9554 phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

Suites

Acreages

WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE

WELL KEPT TOWNHOUSE on 71 St. Mobile

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bungalow 1350 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

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Automotive Services

5010

2010 MAZDA 3 GT sunroof 33986 kms., $15888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

1977 Lincoln Continental mint, new cond, only 7000 orig. miles. “You won’t believe your eyes” $25,500 Call Keith 403-350-5346

5030

Cars

4100

NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550

2005 BMW 745 LI $21888 Sport & Import 348 8788

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Tour These Fine Homes East Red Deer

4250

MICHENER HILL For sale by Owner - $269,000 4113 - 51A Street 1:00 -4:00 p.m.

Lovely 4 bdrm character home on quiet street.

See youtube video @ http://tinyurl.com/d6x25wt or contact Patty @ 403-598-5701 for more info

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Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3010

5 BDRM. house acreage, 10 min. S. of Pine Lake & 40 min. SE of Red Deer. $1650, $800 d.d. utils. incl., 1 month last month rent, 1 yr. leasing, references & record of employment. No house pets. Avail. June 1 403-442-2631 or 357-9909

Houses/ Duplexes

Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885

*This weekend only!* BLACKFALDS: 89 Eastpoint Dr. 2 storey, 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath, upgrades, a must see! $376,500

4160

Lots For Sale

CLASSIFICATIONS

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail.

403-346-5885

Rocky View Schools (RVS) is the fifth largest jurisdiction in Alberta serving almost 20,000 students in both rural and urban schools. As a 21st Century student-centric learning organization, RVS is committed to engaging, enriching and empowering all learners through meaningful and challenging experiences that prepare them to understand, adapt and successfully contribute to our changing global community.

4020

SYLVAN LAKE HURRY!! CALL TODAY Only 1 large building lot left for sale in Lakeway 2 BDRM. well cared for Landing. Quiet close condo, North of river. Uplocation in New Lakeway graded w/ hardwood floors, Landing Subdivision 4 appl. Avail. April 1 $975 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, Sylvan Lake. Ready for rent & s.d. RENTED N/S. No pets. immediate construction 403-596-2444 EXCLUSIVE CONDO Call Keith Bickerton @ 403-350-5346 IN INGLEWOOD! ************************** 3 bdrm, 2 full baths.

Rooms Mara Lake, B.C. w/ balcony. 5 appls, For Rent We have for sale a beautiIn-suite laundry. Family Houses ful view lot in Mara View friendly. NO PETS, Avail 1 BDRM. bsmt, shared Estates. Located in very May 1st. $1535 INCL Wanted kitchen, prefer employed or private 15 lot Close and UTIL., SD $1535 student. Avail. immed ready for you to construct Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-342-7789, 396-7941 YOUNG couple wants 3 your new home. Asking or 403-396-9554 bdrm. house in BLACK$175,000. For info call ROOM in Westpark, n/s, FALDS fenced, garage, KITSON CLOSE no pets. Furnished. TV & approx. $300,000 783-4873 Keith 403-350-5346 today! newer exec. 3 bdrm. utils incl. 403-304-6436 bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, ROOMS FOR RENT, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced close to uptown. Employed Condos/ in rear, front/rear parking, gentleman Rent $350/mo, Townhouses no dogs, rent $1395 s.d. $250, 403-350-4712 SD $1000. n/s MASON MARTIN HOMES VANIER WOODS 1 avail. immed.

New condo, 1000 sq.ft. bdrm. $490/mo. + DD 403-304-7576 / 347-7545 2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., 403-588-6268 after 6 pm. $189,800. 403-588-2550 CLASSIFICATIONS LARGE 2 bdrm. plus den in 6 plex w/5 appls, close 5000-5300 to shopping, avail. now Warehouse 403-341-9974 Space

PASTURE needed for 50 cow/calf pairs in central Alberta area. 403-347-0127

Acreages/ Farms

Houses For Sale

MOVE IN READY SPRING INTO A RISER HOME.

GREAT SUITE IN LANCASTER FOR MATURE ADULTS

GREAT FAMILY 4-Plex in Oriole Park

GARDEN SHEDS Most sizes, delivery avail.

403-314-1870 http://willowrun constructionltd.webs.com

3060

Suites

DUPLEX Michener Hill 3 bdrm., Avail. Immed., $1350/mo./dd utils. incld.

403-392-7044

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. May. 1 403-304-5337

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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GATINEAU, Que. — Terror-stricken parents and caregivers scrambled to retrieve their children from a Quebec daycare Friday after a brazen daylight shooting that left two adults dead — violence police say was likely witnessed by some of the kids.

Police in the city of Gatineau, Que., across the river from Parliament Hill, say they safely evacuated 53 children — five of them infants — from the Montessori daycare after responding to a report of shots being been fired.

Two people were found dead at the scene — a man who worked at the daycare and the suspected gunman himself. Gatineau police Chief Mario Harel said it’s likely at least some of the kids witnessed the violence.

Omar Eltalawi rushed to the scene from his nearby home as soon as he heard about the shooting, fearful for his three-year-old daughter, Zain.

“It was horrible,” Eltalawi said as he described the fear of not knowing what was going on inside the two sideby-side homes that house the Racines De Vie Montessori daycare.

“You see these things on the news and you don’t expect it to happen to you.”

A chilling scene played out in the aftermath of the shooting as visibly shaken parents sobbed and hugged while they waited for investigators to hand over their children.

“Just as you’d expect, it’s scary, terrifying,” said one parent who refused to give his name as he picked up his little girl, wrapping her in a yellow blanket.

“It’s terrifying to hear that a gunman goes into a daycare, it’s always

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A child is hugged after police release the children to family at the scene of a shooting in Gatineau on Friday April 5, 2013. terrifying. Every parent’s worst nightmare.”

Once inside one of the homes, they found the body of a man lying next to what appeared to be a shotgun.

A short time later, the other victim, whose name has not been released, was located in the second house, police said. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital directly across the street.

The children were sheltered at a nearby home as anxious parents flocked to the scene on a suburban

street in this small city on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River.

“It’s a small area, it’s a close space,” said Harel, the Gatineau police chief.

“For sure, they should have been witness (to) the event.”

Police said they believe the violence may have been sparked by the recent separation of a local couple.

It was not clear whether the daycare worker who was killed was known to the gunman or if he was involved in the separation.

Federal court tells Ottawa to reimburse First Nation for disabled child’s costs Band paying $8,200 a month to support 18-year-old

by THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Federal Court has ordered Ottawa to reimburse a First Nations band for the cost of taking care of a severely disabled teenager living at home — a ruling that could have widespread implications for federal social services on reserves.

“It sets an important precedent to ensure all First Nations children across Canada are given equal access to essential government services,” said Paul Champ, the lawyer for the boy’s mother.

The case centres around 18-yearold Jeremy Meawasige, who has hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, spinal curvature and autism, is self-abusive and can only communicate with his mother, Maurina Beadle.

His mother took care of Jeremy full time at their home on the Pictou Landing reserve in Nova Scotia until she had a massive stroke in 2010.

Since then, the band has been footing the bill for the home care and experts required to keep Jeremy at home. But the bill has been overwhelming for the community of 600, eating up 80 per cent of the band’s home care budget.

Justice Leonard Mandamin ruled Friday that the federal government was wrong to only cover a fraction of those costs. Ottawa has been contributing $2,200 a month for his care, but the band council was paying out about $8,200 a month, and could no longer afford to keep paying.

“The only other option for Jeremy would be institutionalization and separation from his mother and his community,” Mandamin writes.

“His mother is the only person who, at times, is able to understand and communicate with him. Jeremy would be disconnected from his community

and his culture.”

The ruling says Ottawa is obliged to uphold “Jordan’s principle” — an agreement that First Nations children should get the public help they need, regardless of jurisdictional disputes between governments about who should pay.

It is named for Jordan River Anderson, who died in hospital in Manitoba in 2005 while governments bickered about payment of home care services.

Parliamentarians voted unanimously in favour of adopting the principle.

While no legislation accompanied the motion, government departments publicly declared they would uphold it in their policies, the ruling notes.

In Jeremy’s case, federal officials had argued that they were already providing funding in line with provincial programs. But they didn’t take into account provincial provisions for special circumstances, the ruling points out.

“Jordan’s principle is not to be narrowly interpreted,” Mandamin warned.

He did not say exactly how much the federal government should be paying to the Pictou Landing band council, but indicated that it should be a lot more than the $2,200 it is already paying. Champ said he believes the ruling gives Beadle and the band council grounds to expect a full reimbursement.

The implications for Jeremy’s family are enormous, said his 23-year-old brother Jonavan Meawasige. He has had to take on much of the home care over the past two years, while also trying to fish for a living.

“I’ve been working my ass off,” he said in an interview from the family home. “I’m just glad that everybody’s going to get help.”

He was outside working on his traps when his mother received a call

from Champ telling her of the court victory.

“He said the case went through today, and all the kids in Canada on First Nations reserves have this help from the Jordan’s principle case, to help kids on reserves that have disabilities,” Meawasige said.

He added he was very proud of his mother for taking on the legal challenge and relieved to know help is on the way for his little brother.

“I believe (Jeremy) will be able to stay here.”

His mother, meanwhile, was sleeping Friday afternoon after spending much of the night wide awake with jubilation.

The implications for First Nations children are also profound, said Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.

She is fighting a separate case on First Nations child welfare in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, arguing that First Nations children have the right to welfare services on par with what provincial governments offer off-reserve children.

The Pictou Landing case, along with other recent court decisions, will eventually force Ottawa to improve welfare and health services for First Nations children.

“It’s not lawful for the government of Canada to deny children services because of their race,” Blackstock said in an interview.

“I think we can look forward to more judgments of this nature coming forward as Canadian courts say a child should be treated a child. You shouldn’t be denying them services because of any kind of adult government issue, red tape.”

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt did not immediately respond to the ruling.

Mom who drowned boys in Alberta to stay in immigration custody over weekend

by THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An Australian woman who has finished her jail term in Alberta for drowning her two children has been ordered to remain in custody over the weekend and is expected to be removed to her native country on Monday.

But that won’t stop the provincial government from appealing both the conviction and sentence of Allyson McConnell.

“This is not over,” said Justice Minister Jonathan Denis, who said the province will proceed with the appeals with or without McConnell’s presence.

“The appeal will continue even if she is not in the province. If our appeal is successful, I fully intend to leave no stone unturned to ensure that she comes back here and answers for her crimes.”

The decision to hold McConnell over the weekend came during a brief hearing conducted by teleconference on Friday after McConnell earned early release Thursday. She had served two-thirds of a 15-month sentence for manslaughter.

Denis had asked Ottawa to grant a stay of that release and keep the

woman in the province pending the outcome of the Crown appeal.

But he said he was advised by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney there was no legal way to do so.

“He’s advised there’s virtually nothing that can be done when someone’s out of prison if they have a valid passport,” Denis said.

Although it was made clear during McConnell’s trial that she wanted to head back to Australia as soon as she could, Denis said his office wasn’t informed of those plans until this week.

“That wasn’t the information I received,” he said. “This came on my desk on Tuesday morning.”

A Justice spokesman noted that, even if the minister’s office had known of her plans earlier, nothing could have been done to keep her in Alberta.

If Alberta wants McConnell back, it will have to depend on the timeconsuming and expensive extradition process.

During the Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, which took less than 10 minutes, both McConnell’s lawyer and a Canadian Border Services Agency hearing officer agreed the woman should remain in the psychiatric hospital in Edmonton where she served her sentence until she is

removed from the country.

McConnell is both a danger to public safety and to herself, conceded Peter Royal, who has represented McConnell since she was first arrested.

“She is anxious to return to Australia,” said Royal.

During her trial, court heard that McConnell was depressed and suicidal when she drowned her two young boys in the bathtub in the family home south of Edmonton in 2010.

She later drove to the city, jumped off a busy overpass and was rushed to hospital.

A judge ordered that McConnell, under suicide watch, serve her sentence at an Edmonton psychiatric hospital.

Curtis McConnell gave a statement to Global TV on Thursday, saying he hadn’t been told when his spouse was being released or about the deportation.

“As the father of the two murdered children, I think I deserve a phone call explaining what’s going on. To this day I am still waiting for that call.

“It is a shame that victims of crime must struggle to obtain information like this.”

The immigration board issued a removal order against the woman last fall.

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children. Here’s my perspective: In our extended family, we have one grandparent who is an active alcoholic and hoarder (so we can’t visit), two who smoke multiple packs a day (so we limit our time), two who think the best entertainment is mocking us (so we limit our children’s exposure) and one who believes the Earth revolves around her.

When we had our first child, all six of these grandparents descended on our house at once, stayed for many hours, offered no assistance whatsoever, expected to be waited on hand and foot, and mocked our parenting decisions.

These parents ignore whatever boundaries we set. They aren’t abusive, and there are no insurmountable differences. But they don’t respect that my spouse and I work long hours and value the limited time we have together. We don’t want to be manipulated, ignored or berated.

If any one of these parents treated us respectfully, we would gladly open our home to them more often. They say how selfish my generation is, but frankly, we have great-grandparents with whom we have wonderful relationships because they show respect and understanding.

We go out of our way to make sure they spend time with their greatgrandchildren. — Fed Up with Grandparents 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.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Matters at home may be a bit elusive or even hard to pin down. One of your parents, most likely a mother figure may be a bit too demanding at this time. Your presence may be needed more than usually.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Leave the concrete world for another day and try to be more sensitive to the needs of others. It is possible that one of your relatives may act a bit too needy or evasive. A good heart-to-heart talk may lead you to certain awaiting answers.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You question your values and your origins. This would be a good time to keep a close eye on your belongings as you may be forgetful or lose a personal item that is dear to your heart. Try not to overspend.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A degree of vulnerability and hyper sensitivity can be noticed on your mannerism and attitude. Do not absorb other people’s problems and make them into your own. Learn to detach yourself emotionally from them.

Saturday, April 6 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Zach Braff, 38; Paul Rudd, 44; Michael Rooker, 58 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: We will fall into a dreamy state of mind as the Moon glides into intuitive Pisces today.

Art, movies, cinema and music have a greater appeal to our senses. Spiritual pursuits, soul-searching techniques and water-related activities may be on our agendas for today. Dive into the karmic world of unity and sacrifice.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this will be an extremely spiritual year for you where you will seek to tap deep into your subconscious mind and where you will find many hidden clues as to what really makes the foundations of your life.

You will transcend into the depths of enigmatic waters that will both sooth you and make you much more empathetic towards others.

Sunday, April 7 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Confusion and CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Rusfogginess may reign your day. A heavy cloud sell Crowe, 49; Jackie Chan 59; Francis Ford of questions or pressing matters may suddenly Coppola, 74 block your vision or mask the truth of certain reTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: Embrace today’s alities. Take the day off and unwind in your own celestial energy which stimulates us to act darprivate cocoon. ingly within all our pursuits. Passions rise high TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are in the ASTRO and desires overflow. An ardent appetite stirs in mood to go out and enjoy the day in the town. A DOYNA us the aspiration to connect with our heart’s decloudy romantic matter may make you uneasy. sire. Love can blossom suddenly and fervently.

You dislike this state of puzzlement which you Adventurous affairs appeal to us much more are in right now. Which direction should you be than serious, tedious ones. Enjoy the exhilaration heading to? that comes with this fiery force and live in the moGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Whatever you do right now will be more apparent to others. Try to put your best foot forward ment, but don’t expect anything permanent.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the forthas you may appear a bit elusive in your behaviour today which may make others wonder about what’s truly lying behind the coming year will be both a year of a concluding cycle and one which promises you a loving and an affectionate time. You smokescreen.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This can prove to be a won- will get the sudden desire to commit yourself to someone or derful day spent around the water such as an exotic island or, to seek more receptivity and understanding from others. As if you do not have the means to travel right now, opt for swim- much as you might crave more solo time, be open to a new ming or a swim in the pool. Such a watery experience can love. Keep your eyes open if you do not want to miss on this amazing opportunity. prove not only exhilarating but therapeutic too.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your popularity increases and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may feel that certain domestic circumstances are not allowing you to fully express your- you become of great interest to others. Your general outlook self. You find that you need to make certain adjustments or is more charming and welcoming. Others feel more eager and even sacrifices in order to live up to your standards. Do not let willing to be in your surroundings. Any new changes within your physique will radiate your magnetic side. this state limit you in any way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A behind-the-scenes blendVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Demands and societal pressures may weigh heavily on your relationships. You may ing appeals to you at this time. You may be tempted to take disagree on how others perceive a healthy romantic blending romance to other surreal dimensions or you will simply seek and you will not shy away from stepping up and voicing your more intimate moments with your sweetie somewhere away from the public eye. own opinion on the issue.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Within any social gatherings LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Certain routine tasks may not be completely clear in your everyday life. In your marital state or activity, a team member may strike your curiosity. You may you will often wonder who should do the dishes or the laundry. suddenly find yourself wanting to get to know more about that Or, you will question the ability of the other when it comes to person. You may realize that there’s much more to that person than meets the eye. meeting the mundane obligations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your fame and status within SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take the week off by indulging yourself into guilt-free activities such as seeing a movie, the external world will achieve new heights. You will indulge going to a concert or by spending some quality time with a in the recognition you get at this time and you will want to new love interest. Children can easily provide you with the fun be well-known. Everyone seems to admire your go-getter attitude. you need.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS A newly released poll suggests Canadians overwhelmingly believe their private information is more at risk today than it was a decade ago and that the federal government and corporations don’t take the issue very seriously.

The poll commissioned by the office of the federal privacy commissioner found about 70 per cent of Canadians believed there’s less privacy protection today than there was 10 years ago.

A similar number believed protecting personal information will be one of the most important issues in the next decade. Many acknowledged they have a role to play in better protecting their privacy. While 66 per cent said they were very concerned about privacy rights, almost half admitted their knowledge of privacy rights was poor or very poor.

When asked if they knew enough about how new technologies might affect their privacy, 40 per cent weren’t confident. Very few felt personal information was being safeguarded as much as it could be. Only 21 per cent of those polled felt the federal government took its responsibility to protect private information seriously, about 64 per cent responded “somewhat seriously,” and 12 per cent chose “not seriously.”

Nearly everyone surveyed, 97 per cent of the 1,513 Canadians polled, said they’d want to be notified if their personal information was compromised.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may be enjoying a trip somewhere overseas or may be talking about taking one in some exotic lands. A journey in the unknown can prove very rewarding and fun. You are willing to take a leap of faith when it comes to matters of the heart.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Someone in your close proximity may be asking for a loan today and you may find yourself obliged in a way in help out this person. You find yourself in sound agreement with one another so reassurance won’t be an issue.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Equality and partnership give you a sense of acknowledgement and acceptance. Domestic power struggles can be nullified by equal share of tasks and a clear division of labour. Your partner may prove more initiative than ever.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may be prone towards exaggerated feelings when it comes to your partner. Distractions may prevail today, but sweetness can be spotted at your local fitness centre, grocery store or even at your office.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Once you uncover your inner child you’ll be in the mood for some loving gestures and adoration. Your calling resides at home but your desires are sidetracked by socializing and passionate times.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are not particularly fond of going out today as much as indulging yourself at home. You may be tempted to redecorate your living space or think of ways to improve certain aspects of your home.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Chance meetings are likely at this time. You may bump into someone randomly that will captivate your curiosity. This can happen when you least expect it while running your usual errands around the neighbourhood. Keep your antennas high.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A sudden urge will push you into perhaps spur-of-the-moment shopping. You may be tempted to acquire an object or an item for the value it brings to your being. Luxurious items highly appeal to you now.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer/ columnist.

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Dear Annie: I’ve always had a prob- busy refereeing? — Brokenhearted lem with my mother and sister.

Dear Brokenhearted: Our condoWhen I was a child, I often stayed lences on the loss of your grandfather. with my grandfather. I loved this man Please don’t focus on how genuine fiercely. your sister’s grief is.

He died recently, and If she is behaving for the last 10 years of his life the sake of drama, so be were terrible. My mother it. And the executor of an and aunts rescinded his estate does not have the DNR and disregarded his legal right to withhold a wishes about life support, bequest. forcing him to remain in a You can talk to your partially vegetative state grandfather’s lawyer for years. about that. We know how My sister, “Alice,” inupsetting this is for you, serted herself into this but you would be better drama at every opporserved by staying out of tunity. She had to be rethe family fights with as moved from his bedside much diplomatic neutraliwhen she became hysterity and distance as you can MITCHELL cal and lashed out at the muster. nurses.

Dear Annie: I hope & SUGAR Alice submitted the you will print my “pubdeath notice to the local lic service” letter for all paper without checking contractors and building with anyone. She left out managers: many family members, who are furiPlease place the toilet paper holdous and are taking it out on me. er in the restrooms high enough that My aunt (the executor of the will) one does not have to bend over to get has made it clear that I won’t get the the toilet paper out. This is particusmall tokens my grandfather left me larly important in handicapped stalls unless I pick sides. where the paper dispenser tends to be I doubt Alice’s grief is genuine. below the handrail. Someone with a When I moved away, my aunts paid back problem will have a great deal of her to stay with Grandpa, and she told difficulty reaching down to six inches me she was only doing it for the mon- from the floor to get the paper. ey.

Thank you. — An Iowa Back Patient My mother and aunts won’t set a Dear Iowa: Ideally, the toilet paper date for a memorial because they’re holder should be placed so that the all so busy trying to hurt each oth- paper (not necessarily the holder) is er. Every family function becomes a at elbow height when one is seated. three-ring circus.

Dear Annie: You print lots of letters How can I grieve for a grandparent from grandparents who say their kids who meant the world to me when I’m keep them isolated from their grand-

People feel privacy not respected

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