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HOW TO SAVE A LIFE Dogged determination helped Kiara Annable save a neglected Siberian husky — and herself

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Kiara Annable of Red Deer walks with Merlot, a Siberian husky she rescued and nursed back to health, and Sabie, her husky cross.

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‘I’m a fairly spiritual person and I came across his picture and I felt Meeko beside me and the feeling in my stomach and my head said,

I have to get this dog.’

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

In the midst of grieving the loss of her husky, Meeko, Kiara Annable came across jarring online photos of Merlot, left, an unwanted year-old red husky near death due to malnourishment, dehydration and mange.

She contacted Husky Camp, the rescue agency outside Hesperia, Calif., where Merlot was under care, to adopt him. Sabie, right, is a daughter of Meeko.

Husky has bright future thanks to Red Deer woman’s compassion peria, Calif., where Merlot was under care, to adopt him.

“She said no because I was from Canada,” Annable explained, saying the refusal was based on a prior case of an outof-state client who gave up her adopted dog inside a week.

After two weeks of thought, Annable obstinately decided not to take no for an answer.

Through two months of patient yet persistent email, she overcame the non-profit agency’s doubts, even altering her backyard kennel and run based on their standards.

Annable and a friend made the 25-hour drive to the San Bernadino area to get Merlot last May. Volunteers who cared for him believe his terrible condition arose from the pup growing up in a too-small kennel amidst his own urine and feces.

“His feet were all infected from standing in his own pee and poop. They had to wait for his nails to grow back in before they could start treating them,” she said.

Once in Red Deer, he showed his “true funky colours.

“The playful essence of a husky came out. He let loose. He’s got a zest for life.”

So, too, did Annable, the trip

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Dogged determination helped Kiara Annable save a neglected Siberian husky – and herself.

The 24-year-old Red Deer canine trainer was desolate after her husky Meeko was struck by a car and killed near Penhold two years ago.

“I went into depression for eight months,” she recounted, adding that as a 12-year-old she’d saved $600 to buy Meeko as a puppy and the two grew up together. Although the pain was eased through Sabie, one of Meeko’s female puppies Annable kept to raise, it didn’t erase it.

“I loved Meeko with all my heart. She was the kind of dog that people who don’t like dogs liked.”

In the midst of melancholy, she came across jarring online photos of Merlot, an unwanted male year-old red husky near death due to malnourishment, dehydration and mange.

“I’m a fairly spiritual person and I came across his picture and I felt Meeko beside me and the feeling in my stomach and my head said, I have to get this dog.”

She contacted Husky Camp, the rescue agency outside Hes-

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and negotiations replacing her despondency with new purpose.

“Once I got him home, I wasn’t depressed anymore. Everything seemed to get better.”

She continued the drug treatment for mange and put him on a high-quality dog food to ensure he’d gain weight.

“He’s about 52 pounds (23 kg) now compared to the 40 (18 kg) when I got him,” she said, adding his coat has grown out to be glossy, soft and red on top.

She also had to work on his eating and drinking.

“He’d scarf all his food and drink a large bowl of water at a time,” she recalled, blaming the behaviour on the lack of food and water from his previously neglectful owner.

Most importantly, Merlot’s personality has fully emerged, revealing a talkative, playful pet.

“He sounds like Chewbacca from Star Wars. He loves everybody and is so friendly. He’s definitely come a long way.”

Merlot and Annable will travel to Ohio this summer so Annable can receive a trick dog trainer’s certification and Merlot can become a trick dog. She’s also working on a curriculum to use Merlot and Sabie to work with at-risk youth. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fasting fundraiser aims for $16K

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

30-HOUR FAMINE

Nearly 90 students at a Lacombe school hope to raise $16,000 for World Vision while going on a 30-hour fast.

Lacombe Christian School signed up for its 15th year to participate in the 30 Hour Famine for World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

“It’s kids helping kids,” says organizer and teacher Kevin Debree. “Kids can go on mission trips or bigger things like that, but this is a nice, tangible way for kids to see what it’s like to go hungry and to help others around the world.”

After supper on Thursday night, students were only allowed juice or water. After school and a number of organized games, TV and other activities, the students broke their fast with a big meal at 11 p.m. on Friday.

Sydney Gait, a Grade 8 student, said the famine wasn’t easy.

“It’s like a habit to eat, so it’s kind of weird,” said Gait.

“To go without food that long ...” said Colsen Bajema, also in Grade 8.

World Vision Canada said that Lacombe Christian School was the only one in the area doing the famine this year.

Debree said it’s a commitment at Lacombe Christian. In 2011, the school raised a record $18,000.

The largest youth fundraiser in the world, the 30 Hour Famine, started in Canada more than 40 years ago and many students see it as a significant way for them to engage in global issues.

Now global, this year hundreds of thousands of youth will take part in their own famine events in places like Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States.

Over the years, the 30 Hour Famine has allowed students to help fund thousands of development and emergency response projects to improve the lives of children facing poverty. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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The City of Red Deer has extended the application deadline for title sponsorship at Red Deer’s centennial spray and skate parks.

“This is a great opportunity for sponsors to connect their businesses or organizations to Red Deer’s exciting new parks,” said Barb McKee, Recreation, Parks and Culture business supervisor. “By extending the application deadline to April 30, we’ll help to ensure that interested sponsors can get involved in the process.”

City council recently approved the names for each place — Glendale Skate Park and Central Spray and Play.

Successful sponsors will have the opportunity for exclusive naming at each facility, along with company branding and prominent logo positioning. “With these expressions of interest, sponsors have an opportunity to get creative,” said Shelley Gagnon, Recreation, Parks and Culture manager.

Gagnon said that interested sponsors can propose a wide number of things such as participating in grand openings.

For further information, call Barb McKee at barb.mckee@reddeer.ca or at 403-342-8291.

BRIEFS Green Deer cleanup campaign starts Monday The City of Red Deer’s Green Deer litter cleanup campaign starts on Monday.

However, the forecast of snow has postponed the kickoff barbecue to April 22 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Parkland Mall parking lot.

The 11th annual program, which ends June 16, encourages Red Deerians to band together to pick up garbage left exposed after winter snow melts.

There are numerous ways to register: ● at the barbecue on April 22 ● by calling 403-309-8411 ● online through the website looknbook.reddeer.ca using course code #60645 ● in person at the Recreation, G.H. Dawe Community or Collicutt Centres, where garbage bags will be available free.

About 5,000 volunteers took part last year, said Suzanne Jubb, the city’s community and program facilitator.

“I’m hoping we’ll attract even more this year. It’s catching on. Some groups were larger and cleaning more last year.”

Every group registered is entered into a draw to win a barbecue and barbecue event. A Green Deer toolkit is also available on the City’s website www.reddeer.ca/greendeer for groups wishing to issue cleanup challenges to other community groups.

The Cigarette Butt Awareness program will be repeated, including the giveaway of 1,000 pocket ashtrays throughout the campaign.

Arrangements to pick up large amounts of garbage can be made by calling Jubb at 403-309-8411. Green Deer garbage bags can also be put out with household garbage without charge.

Other events that are part of the Greed Deer campaign are the Red Deer River Cleanup on June 9 and the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup on Sept. 8.

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From the left, Nicole Ubels, Ava Funkhouser, Tizita Hill and Caitlin Debree hangout together after school Friday during the first day of their 30 Hour Famine at Lacombe Christian School. 95 grade 7-9 students were taking part in the event which is a fundraiser for World Vision projects around the world.

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Sylvan Lake trims projected tax increase Sylvan Lake taxpayers got some good news this week.

Since assessments came in higher than expected, council was able to trim a projected 2.4 per cent tax increase to 1.9 per cent. Council approved first reading of a tax rate bylaw on Monday. It will come back to council in two weeks for second and third readings.

For a sample home in Fox Run valued at $350,780, the tax bill this year will be $2,889.72 — a $3.24 increase over last year.

The owner of a Hewett Park home worth $250,700 will face a tax bill of $2,065.26 — up $50.63 over 2012.

Tax notices will be sent out on May 31 and taxes are due by July 31.

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Charges were withdrawn this week against a man who was supposed to be tried in Coronation on Friday.

Dylan Lee Spencer Ryan, 20, was charged early last October after an incident with Coronation RCMP in Consort. A trial on charges including resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer had been scheduled for Coronation provincial court. However, charges were withdrawn on Wednesday.

EDMONTON — Water released from a pipeline spill at an oilsands facility in northern Alberta was toxic to fish, a provincial investigation has concluded.

Alberta Environment says undiluted samples from the March 25 spill from a pipe at the Suncor plant near Fort McMurray killed rainbow trout fingerlings exposed to it. But the department says toxins were diluted by the time they reached the Athabasca River and the spill did not threaten humans.

“There is no concern to human health,” said the report.

A company spokeswoman said at the time that a pipe about four metres long and 10 centimetres wide froze and burst, sending processaffected water into a partially frozen outfall pond containing treated water.

The leak lasted for at least a few hours. It did not affect the plant’s operations.

Alberta Environment said it is examining possible effects of the diluted water on the river.

“We are currently reviewing the effects of dilution of the processaffected water by both treated water in the combined outfall pipe and the river water. This will help determine what potential environmental impacts may have occurred.”

Although it was originally unclear whether the water contained any oil, the investigation concluded the rainbow trout in the test were probably killed by naphthenic acids, chemicals that occur naturally in bitumen.

The undiluted samples were also found to contain levels of salts and ammonia that were above provincial guidelines. Metals including selenium, boron and arsenic were found at twice the recommended levels for long-term exposure.

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Feds powerless to rein in banks CANADIAN BANK WORKERS FORCED TO TRAIN FOREIGN WORKERS WHO WILL SOON TAKE THEIR JOBS In their latest financial reporting period, Canada’s big five banks logged profits of $7.4 billion.

All earned at least $1 billion except one (the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, with a measly $895-million profit).

The fattest share went to the biggest bank, and the one in the crosshairs of opposition politicians and citizens these days: the Royal Bank of Canada, at $2.07 billion.

That fat profit was up 11.5 per cent from the same reporting period last year.

But these are not annual profits; it’s what the banks earned in just three months.

With massive piles of cash flowing into their coffers, you might not think it vital to save a few dollars more by bringing foreigners here to learn tasks that Canadians now perform; send them home and take those jobs from the very CanaJOE dians who are training them MCLAUGHLIN and ultimately earn the bank even more money by reducing its wage costs marginally.

But you would be wrong in thinking that.

Our big five banks have long ceased to be just Canadian enterprises.

They are global players in highly competitive markets.

Their prime responsibilities are not to their homeland, its citizens, or their employees but to the global investors who own them.

In the past five years, Canada’s six biggest banks spent $38 billion buying new assets in Canada and abroad, Bloomberg Markets reported last summer.

The magazine ranked our Big Five the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and 22nd strongest banks in the world.

Globally, our big banks don’t exactly hide their Canadian roots, but neither do they promote them.

TD Bank, which Canadians know as Toronto-Dominion Bank, now has more branch offices in the United States than all but five huge American banks.

It’s doubtful that more than a tiny fraction of Americans who deal with the bank know or care that the “T” in the name stands for Toronto.

This bank made its U.S. inroads primarily under the leadership of Ed Clark, who announced his retirement last week as president and chief executive officer of TD Bank Group.

When he worked in Calgary heading Petro-Canada barely a generation ago, Clark was considered a socialist by many locals.

His workplace was labelled Red Square — the same moniker as the Russian Communist Party headquarters in Moscow — by oilpatch types who were properly furious at his Liberal Party masters for imposing the devastating National Energy Program in October 1980.

Clark’s business career clearly shows he was no commie and no dummy either.

Generally, bankers are certainly not stupid, nor are the vast majority of them corrupt.

In the main, they play by the rules.

But in Canada — and other nations as well — big banks have been very successful in getting govern-

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ments to create rules that work in their favour, and not so much for average working citizens.

We witnessed that most starkly in the past decade, when the biggest American banks were saved by massive government-engineered bailouts.

Meanwhile, top bank executives continued getting their multimillion-dollar salaries and perks while sustaining high-risk banking practices.

Those banks were judged too big to fail and the bankers too politically powerful to be reined in, while millions of hard-working Americans lost jobs and homes in collateral damage from bankster hubris.

The plight of the Canadian bank employees training foreign workers who will ultimately take their jobs to Asia pales by comparison to what Americans and millions of others have endured when a banking crisis circled the globe.

But the role the federal government has played in this program is disappointing.

The foreign-worker training program was created to fill vacant job slots where no Canadian workers are available.

For the 45 Royal Bank workers — and many oth-

ers, critics say — that was emphatically not the case.

Federal rules also let employers to pay temporary foreign workers 15 per cent less than the market scale, driving down wages for Canadian workers.

Both the Royal Bank and the Canadian government are now trying to distance themselves from this boondoggle.

They note that it wasn’t the Royal Bank but a second enterprise named iGate, which was hired to have the soon-to-be unemployed Canadian workers teach their foreign successors.

The Royal Bank routinely subcontracts iGate for back-office work in India.

“The rules are very clear,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenny said this week. “You cannot displace Canadians to hire people from abroad.”

But iGate is training workers here for new jobs in India, not laying any Canadians off.

That’s what the Royal Bank is doing, and bankers today do what bank shareholders want.

Kenny’s government seems too feckless to talk them down or rein them in.

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

Failed state Somalia finally normalizing SOMALIA HAS BEEN ALMOST LAWLESS FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, BUT NOW THERE IS HOPE There have been no elections in SoFully a quarter of the “national budmalia since 1967 and there won’t be get” was being absorbed by the offices any this year either. of the president, the viceBut the country has a new president and the speaker parliament (appointed on of parliament. the advice of clan elders) The fact that after all who have elected a new that the transitional govpresident, and the new government still only conernment actually now controlled about one square trols a significant part of the km (less than one square country. mile) of Mogadishu, the The world’s only fully capital, while the rest of “failed state” may finally be the shattered city was run starting to return to normalby the Islamist al-Shabaab ity. militia, an affiliate of alA failed state is a horQaida, also contributed to GWYNNE rendous thing: no governthe international disilluDYER ment, no army, no police, no sionment. courts, no law, just bands of That tiny patch of armed men taking what they ground, moreover, was bewant. ing defended not by SomaSomalia has been like that for more li troops but by thousands of Ugandan than 20 years, but now there is hope. and Burundian soldiers of the African So much hope that last month the Union Mission in Somalia (Unisom).

United Nations Security Council parMore than 500 of them had lost their tially lifted its embargo on arms sales lives defending the useless transitionto Somalia in order to let the new So- al government, and the foreign donors mali government buy arms, and last were losing faith in the mission. week the U.S. government followed But the Unisom soldiers did achieve suit. one major thing: they fought al-ShaThe new government replaces the baab to a standstill in Mogadishu.

Transitional Federal Government, In August 2011 the Islamist militia another unelected body that had en- pulled its troops out of the capital. joyed the support of the UN and the That created an opening, and the inAfrican Union for eight pointless ternational community seized it. ] years.

It ruthlessly initiated a process deThen last year, a World Bank re- signed to push the transitional governport demonstrated the sheer scale of ment aside: its corruption: seven out of every 10 Somali clan elders were asked to dollars of foreign aid vanished into nominate members for a new 250-seat the pockets of transitional govern- parliament, which was then asked to ment officials before reaching the vote for a new president and governstate’s coffers. ment.

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It was obviously impossible to hold a free election in a country much of which was still under al-Shabaab’s control, but this process also had the advantage that it allowed the foreigners to shape the result.

The corrupt officials who had run the old transitional government all reapplied for their old jobs, but none of them succeeded.

The new president who emerged from this process, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, is a former academic and human rights worker who only entered politics in 2011.

No whiff of corruption clings to him, and he has worked tirelessly to bring about national reconciliation.

And he has the wind at his back: just after he was chosen last September, a Kenyan force evicted al-Shebaab from Somalia’s second city, Kismayo.

That still leaves about 95 per cent of the country’s territory and threequarters of its population beyond the government’s direct control.

Al-Shabaab still rules in most rural parts of the country, and Ethiopian troops and their militia allies control much of the western border areas.

Pirates with a lot of guns and money effectively dominate much of the north.

One whole chunk of the country, calling itself Somaliland, has declared its independence (and runs its affairs much more peacefully and efficiently than any other part of Somalia).

No other country recognizes its independence at the moment, but it used to be a British colony, quite separate from Italian-ruled Somalia,

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and in principle it can make exactly the same case for independence as Eritrea did when it broke away from Ethiopia.

The worst problem facing Mohamud is the venal and cunning politicians who have exploited the clan loyalties that pervade every aspect of Somali life to carve out their own little empires.

Some are frankly and unashamedly warlords; others, including all the senior officials in the defunct transitional government, masquerade as national politicians but work for their own interests.

They have not gone away, nor have the clan rivalries that kept the fighting going for 21 years.

Drawing up the rules and sharing out the power for a new federal Somalia (none of which has yet been decided) will give them plenty of opportunities to make trouble for the new president and regain their former power.

Mohamud definitely has his work cut out for him.

Nevertheless, he has strong UN and African Union support, and he now has a chance to create a spreading zone of peace in the country and start rebuilding national institutions.

So last week the United States declared that it was now willing to provide military aid, including arms exports, to Somalia.

Weirdly, that actually means that thing are looking up in the world’s only failed state.

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Time right to address skill shortage The 2013 federal budget makes skills training a centrepiece. It’s not hard to see why.

There are literally several hundred thousand unfilled jobs in Canada because employers cannot find workers with the needed skill sets. At the same time, large numbers of Canadians are unemployed because they lack the needed skills.

Moreover, with the coming retirements of large numbers of workers as baby boomers age, there will be a need for many incoming workers with the necessary skills.

Yet there is much uncertainty surrounding the ‘skills gap.’ As TD Economics noted DAVID in a recent report on skills in CRANE Canada, “the fact that some of the most highly demanded occupations in the job market — chief among them trades, technicians and many professional groups — have not recorded above-average wage increases is at odds with the perception that there is a large-scale skills mismatch in Canada’s labour market.”

For example, even though the auto industry will need more highly-skilled workers, pay contracts are delivering lower pay scales and benefits for new, more highly educated workers than less highly educated workers would have earned at entry level in the past.

At the same time that industry calls for better skilled workers, it is lowering entry-level wages.

So markets are not solving the challenge. Instead, business seems to be relying on the federal govern-

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ment to design immigration policies to fill skills needs from other countries.

Moreover, business is under-investing in training its employees to upgrade their skills, is failing to provide needed spaces for apprenticeships and is doing a poor job of outlining future skills needs.

While business complains about the lack of skilled workers, it is underperforming on skills and training.

Business, as well as government, has to play a bigger role.

The budget’s $500 million a year Canada Job Grant is unlikely to solve the challenge. There is no new federal money.

Rather, the federal government is taking back the $500 million it transferred to the provinces in a program running to 2014, then expecting the provincial governments and employers together to contribute close to $1 billion a year in new money to make the initiative work.

The job grant would provide up to $15,000 to an unemployed or underemployed worker, with $5,000 coming each from the federal government, provincial government and employer.

There are signs the provinces will not sign on to the plan — negotiations have yet to take place — and it will be interesting to see how many employers are actually willing to join in.

As the Caledon Institute of Social Policy warns, “outside of a few booming sectors, employers in Canada have shown little willingness to pay for training.

Canadian employers have among the lowest expenditures on in-employment training of any developed country.”

So “employers may or may not pay lip service to this proposal, but it would be astonishing to see them come up with real money to pay one-third of training costs when they have until now shown not the least

interest in such training.”

Moreover, a serious approach to skills will have to be much more comprehensive than the budget plan.

For example, according to the TD Economics report, over the past decade, the highest growth in employment has occurred in jobs requiring a high level of numeracy and an understanding of science.

They include computer and IT jobs, engineering, skilled trades, health care and technicians. Yet Canada’s school system, especially at the critical elementary school level, is doing poorly in science and math education.

We are also doing a poor job in school-to-workplace transition while a growing number of U.S. states are working with the German vocational training system, which allows 15- and 16-year-olds to start skills-based learning (school) and training (industry) programs.

In Canada, the median age for apprentices is 25, which means that half of the Canadians who undertake an apprenticeship program are over the age of 25, which is late and helps account for the high dropout rate. There is little support from business for a German-type approach.

So while business is entitled to complain about what happens in the classroom, and especially the poor teaching of science and math, it has an obligation to do much more to help students make the transition from the classroom to the workplace and to ensure that its existing employees have the opportunity for ongoing skills upgrading as workplace requirements change.

Business can’t continue to shift the blame for skills shortages to others.

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

It’s a rock & roll reunion at the rink The cat’s out of the bag. The game skirts possible. An era when cars had is up. The jig (or better yet — the gig) chrome instead of plastic, and the road is also up. The worst kept secret that boats were cool and groovy and didn’t never really was a secret is intention- look like every other car on the road. ally out. Yes, it’s true: Dance hall days A time when you’d pull into the are coming back!

A&W and a cute girl in brown and orYou see, a handful of us ange uniform would hang local ex, former, old and a tray of hamburgers and current musician-types have chips and thick glass root been meeting local expert beer mugs that weighed 15 museum-types weekly for pounds each on the halfover a year now. And in adopen driver’s window of dition to scarfing Timbits, said road boat. we have been actually planA time when infamous ning something special.

Red Deer bands like The Even if you are too young Drifters, Easy Street, SAM, to have rocked out back in Bedford Page, Six Pak and the dance hall days, it the Gaetz Avenue Dance Band best time you never had. drove around lugging UUs lucky ones basked in Hauls or driving converted HARLEY the glow of the red, blue and band buses and played the HAY yellow stage lights reflectmusic that people loved ing back onto the packed and listened to in the Comp wooden dance floors; we parking lot before class on surfed on 100-decibel waves car radios tuned to the CJcoming from Fender guitars and Lud- CA Hit Parade, or 630 CHED with epiwig drums, and we lifted our girl- sodes of The Chicken Man. friends on our shoulders and danced Well, “here they come again” as the with unembarrassed abandon when- Dave Clarke Five used to sing. ever the band played the classic Jackie You may have noticed, and if you Wilson song Higher and Higher. haven’t perhaps you should check your Well, some of us height-and- pulse, that this year is the 100th year strength-challenged guys didn’t do the anniversary of the incorporation of lift, but a lot of the braver guys and Dead Rear as a city. And as such, many girls did, that’s for sure. interesting and celebratory type events See, this was back in the Stone Age are taking place throughout 2013. This when you had to be 21-years-old to get is wherein of I speak, so to speak. into adult beverage establishments, It’s called the Rock & Roll Reunion which was not a bad thing on account at the Rink, and as we used to say: “Be of it meant that places like the vener- there or be square!” Well, I’ve never able Varsity Hall at Sylvan Lake and actually said that, and you probably the funky Moose Hall in Innisfail and haven’t either, but somebody must a bunch of cool, far out places in our have said it sometime because it’s right own fair town could exist. there on the poster.

Places with names like the Chat It’s a real actual “arena gig” — kind Noir, The Happening, The Strobe of like the Crawdaddy Rock Festival Light, the Junior Activities Build- that was held at the Red Deer Areing (later known as the Creative Arts na somewhere in the late 1960s when Building), and the 100 Foot Hall (which many of us were just little children, was officially the I.O.O.F. Hall that re- only this time it’s at the newly renovatally was about 100 feet long and about ed curling rink, and it’s even better.

20 feet wide and had a coffin with a The idea is this: How about getting skeleton hidden under the stage. Not a bunch of the original members of kidding.). original bands that originally played And although many teenaged dance in Red Deer during the formative muhall devotees made their own pre-par- sical years of 1960 to 1975. ties with various beverages, etc., in How about they practise up some friend’s basements, nearby fields, and of those timeless popular tunes from parked cars before the dance, it was those years and throw a big dance hall the hall and the music and the bands arena dance to celebrate the centenand many attractive members of the nial of our fair town. opposite gender that really made the How about the Red Deer Museum Friday night, Saturday night or Sunday and Art Gallery sponsor the big event, Midnight Frolic dances something spe- and the bands all donate all the procial and something that really defined ceeds back to a great cause like the the era. museum.

An era where the guys’ job was to So after 12 or 14 months of plangrow their hair as long as possible, and ning, several thousand Timbits and the girls’ job was to wear the shortest several thousand decisions, the Rock

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& Roll Reunion at the Rink is officially rockin’.

The RRRR kicks off the Red Deer Centennial Homecoming Weekend on the Friday night of the July long weekend.

Weren’t Fridays your favourite days, and weren’t long weekends your favourite weekends? Well this is going to be some long weekend — full of events and food and lights on the river and rockin’ at the rink.

Why am I telling you all this now — when spring hasn’t even sprung like it’s supposed to and summer seems several thousand light years away?

Because the July long is a busy time and people are making plans already, and tickets are already going fast, and I personally wouldn’t want you to miss

the dance hall days revival reunion whether you were actually there in the day or you missed it on account of you were born at the wrong time.

I will give you all the gory details down the long and winding road, but meantime, tickets are on sale at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery and on their website, reddeermuseum.com.

And this gives you enough time to practise the Higher and Higher girl-onthe-guy’s-shoulders manoeuvre with your BH. We’ll make sure we play it for you.

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.

Somehow, everyone wants to ‘belong’ He swaggers into the kitchen — it’s obvious that he’s a newbie to Red Deer. He comes from Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto or Vancouver.

There’s a girl with him or he is alone, or he’s with a buddy. Whoever he is, he wants everyone to know that there is somebody significant in the room!

She approaches me at the kitchen, backpack and extra clothing all askew. With a look of consternation on her face, she motions me aside to speak with me, and it has to do with volunteering.

She has done this a couple of times before, and when she does follow through with the CHRIS volunteering part, she works SALOMONS for maybe an hour before she develops all kinds of maladies that prevent her from actual work.

Mundane duties do nothing to bolster her image to herself or anyone else, so in no time, she is back with her companions on the street.

Three young Canadian men join forces with a

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militant Islamic group and get involved in blowing up a gas plant in Algeria. Was this just to gain some significance or recognition?

People join all different kinds of groups and organizations hoping in some way to contribute that will give them some standing or prominence.

If we are honest with ourselves, there is a bit of that in each one of us. We don’t speak of it often, but we constantly leave little clues that in some way might bolster our image within the society that we present ourselves. Nobody wants to be left out or left behind in a society that makes an art of practising indifference; my indifference to your standing in a group might make my image stand out more or in a better light.

When all attempts to find that niche fail or the effort is just too much, all there is left is the drop out segment of society. Drugs, alcohol, sex, and even crime will find a home for the people who can’t find significance elsewhere. I seriously wonder sometimes if suicide is not partly a result of the feeling of insignificance.

For most, significance gives us a feeling of selfworth and when we have self-worth, life seems to take on meaning and purpose. If that is not present in our lives and we have no purpose, then we fall victim to all kinds of influences.

Those influences are what we observe at the kitchen — dealers, users, alcoholics, what have you, we see them all, and when we take the time to listen to their stories, we begin to see that they have lost their self-worth and in some cases all hope. Many get to feeling that they do not deserve self-worth.

How do you reinstate worth in a young girl whose father alienates or even abuses her? The loss of honest fatherly love is probably the most devastating rejection that anyone can face, but we see it and its results every day on the street.

What do you say to a young man who finds more value in walking about aimlessly than in a productive lifestyle? Some are no longer young, much of their life having been spent on the street. Will they ever be able to find value in their lives?

In Red Deer, we have many agencies, service groups, and churches that desire to help those who have no hope and worth to find it, and I feel that we who have a more balanced set of values have a certain moral responsibility to help those who do not.

It definitely is not easy, but when we see just what a little care and affection can do to bring significance to someone’s life, then it is time and resources well spent.

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

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Fourth man connected to London, Ont., group sought

by Mounties A fourth name has emerged in the tangled web of young Canadians sought for possible extremist connections in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack in Algeria.

Independent sources in Canadian security and government tell The Canadian Press that Mujahid Enderi, a Libyan-Canadian from southwestern Ontario, is under investigation and being sought by police.

All the sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the hunt for Enderi, who goes by the anglicized name of Ryan Enderi.

Enderi dropped off the radar last year and is believed to have travelled overseas around the same time as three other young men from the same community — two of whom died during the siege at Tiguentourine Gas Plant, 1,600 kilometres southeast of Algiers.

Enderi attended the same London, Ont., high school as Ali Medlej, Xristos Katsiroubas and Aaron Yoon, but was several grades behind them.

The Jan. 16 attack and four-day siege on a gas facility in southern Algeria ended with the deaths of 37 hostages and 29 terrorists.

Medlej and Katsiroubas took part in and were killed in the attack.

MONTREAL — A judge has ordered accused killer Luka Rocco Magnotta to stand trial on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Chinese student Jun Lin. Quebec court Judge Lori-Renee Weitzman concluded on Friday there was enough evidence to send Magnotta to trial on the charge of premeditated murder.

In the event Weitzman ordered a trial, Magnotta’s legal team wanted the charge to be lessened to second-degree murder.

Crown prosecutor Louis Bouthillier said he was more than satisfied with Weitzman’s ruling. ”We’re more than happy with the commital to trial on all the charges that were laid against Mr. Magnotta,” Bouthillier said right after the decision was rendered.

The decision to send Magnotta to trial came after a lengthy preliminary hearing that featured 32 Crown witnesses but no defence witnesses.

Magnotta was arrested in Berlin last summer and eventually charged in the killing and dismemberment of Lin in Montreal last May. Magnotta is facing four other charges related to the case: committing an indignity to a body; publishing obscene material; criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; and mailing obscene and indecent material.

Magnotta previously pleaded not guilty to all the charges and opted for trial by judge and jury.

The trial will be held in Quebec Superior Court.

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“We’re certainly encouraged by this,” he said. “It is good news because police will definitely look at that information to see where it will lead them.”

He wouldn’t say if the person who came forward is a witness nor provide any further details about the source.

But MacRae said the information did not come from an online source.

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A replica of Michelangelo’s statue of David sits in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy. It is in the exact spot where the original was placed. The original was moved inside the Accademia Gallery in 1910 and that is where you have to go to see it.

Michelangelo was just 26 years old when he was commissioned by the Cathedral Works committee to sculpt David in 1501. They gave the young sculptor a leftover block of marble that had been ruined 40 years earlier by two other sculptors. Michelangelo’s success with the block was so dramatic that the city showered him with honours, and the Opera del Duomo voted to build him a house and a studio in which to live and work.

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GREAT MUSEUMS Sometimes, seeing is believing.

I never really appreciated Picasso’s famous art works until I visited the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain, a few years ago. Located in five adjoining medieval palaces in the Gothic section of the city, the museum does not contain very many of his most important works, but rather an extensive collection of his early works that were completed while he lived in Barcelona DEBBIE during his formative years.

OLSEN When you see the paintings he created as a youth, it’s easy to recognize the genius of Picasso as an emerging artist.

Likewise, I never fully appreciated Michelangelo’s statue of David until I sat in Florence’s Gal-

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leria dell’Accademia and spent time really looking at it. And though I had seen reproductions in books of his Sistine Chapel, words can’t quite describe the sense of awe I felt as I gazed up at the work that took four years to complete and almost cost Michelangelo his sight.

A museum can be a destination in itself — a place to learn about the world and ponder ones place in it. Some people claim to find museums boring. But if you love learning, it’s hard not to enjoy a visit to a great museum.

Choosing the top five art museums in Europe is something akin to selecting the top five hockey players of all time. It’s an issue that is definitely debatable. Some of the top museums with the most artistically rich collections in the world can be found in Europe, so there is a plethora of possibilities.

Here are my picks for Europe’s top five art museums. If you haven’t visited some of these institutions, you may want to put them on your bucket list.

If you feel there is a museum that ought to be on the list, make a comment on the Advocate website

CHOOSING THE TOP FIVE ART MUSEUMS IN EUROPE IS SOMETHING AKIN TO SELECTING THE TOP FIVE HOCKEY PLAYERS OF ALL TIME. IT’S AN ISSUE THAT IS DEFINITELY DEBATABLE. HERE ARE DEBBIE’S PICKS. WHICH MUSEUMS WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

or send us an email to let us know which art museums are on your top five list.

Louvre — Paris, France Perhaps the world’s greatest art museum, the Louvre was a royal palace until the French Revolution, when it became home to the republic’s art collection.

With 675,000 square feet of works, it is easy to get lost in the Louvre.

The Big Three pieces that should not be missed are Mona Lisa, Winged Victory and Venus de Milo. Beyond that, it is best to focus on whatever interests you most.

You could spend days exploring the Louvre, but a 90-minute guided tour or the new Nintendo audio/video guides can help you get more out of it. (www.louvre.fr/en)

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The building housing a museum can be as fascinating as the works inside it. Such is the case with the Vatican Museums, which are housed in the Vatican Palace, the official residence of the popes since 1377. The walls and ceilings of the 1,400 rooms are covered with stunning murals that are almost as incredible as the art collection.

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MUSEUMS: Two great ones in Florence The Vatican Museums — Rome, Italy When in Rome, a visit to the Vatican Museums is a must — regardless of your religious affiliations.

The museums are part of the Vatican Palace, the official residence of the popes since 1377 and the palace consists of some 1,400 rooms, chapels and galleries.

Besides Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, visitors should not miss the Raphael Rooms, the great antique sculptures and the Old Master paintings such as da Vinci’s St. Jerome.

Of the subsidiary museums, the Egyptian museum is a personal favourite.

If you book your visit in advance online, you can skip the huge lineup to get inside (http://mv.vatican. va).

Galleria dell’Accademia & Galleria degli Uffizi — Florence, Italy In choosing two museums in the same city, I realize that I have cheated a wee bit in my top five list, but both of these museums are a must-see for any visitor to Florence and they share the same official website.

The Accademia has a fine collection of Florentine paintings dating from the 13th to the 18th centuries, but Michelangelo’s statues are the real highlight of this museum. The statue of David is the most famous piece in the museum and worth the price of admission, but another personal favourite is an unfinished statue Michelangelo called Slaves.

The Uffizi Gallery houses an incredible collection of art by great masters such as Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael and many others in its 79 rooms.

Lineups are notoriously long at both museums, so do yourself a favour and reserve your tickets in advance to avoid the lineup (www.uffizi.com).

Museo del Prado — Madrid, Spain Housing an amazing collection of art gathered by the Spanish Royal family, The Prado’s real jewels are its Spanish masterpieces.

The works of Goya, Velázquez, and El Greco should not be missed, but the museum also holds masterpieces by Flemish, Dutch, German, French and Italian artists. Two of El Greco’s greatest paintings, The Resurrection and The Adoration of the Shepherds are must-see pieces in this museum. Goya’s “black paintings” are dark, disturbing works that he created later in life when he was experiencing great inner turmoil. Though they are somewhat disturbing, they should not be missed either.

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Admission to the museum is free after 5 p.m. each day. Don’t be intimidated by the lineup for free admission, it moves quickly (www.museodelprado.es/ en/) .

The National Gallery — London, England Situated on the north side of Trafalgar Square, London’s National Gallery is home to one of the world’s great art collections and the best part is a visit to the gallery is free.

There are more than 2,300 masterpieces on display, including works from great masters such as van Gogh, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Rubens, Bellini, Turner and many more. From medieval masters to French impressionists, a visit to the museum will allow you to view an incredible collection of works.

Consider taking in a free lunchtime lecture highlighting the story behind one of the museum’s key pieces or if you are visiting with children, take in Family Sunday, when the museum puts on special programs for young visitors and their families (www. nationalgallery.org.uk).

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story who we might interview, please email: DOGO@telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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Items from JFK’s assassination to be shown for first time 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION COMMEMORATED

BY BRETT ZONGKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Some never-before-seen artifacts from the minutes and hours following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination went on display Friday, along with an extensive collection of photographs of the young president’s family.

The Newseum, a museum devoted to journalism and the First Amendment, is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination with a yearlong commemoration including two new exhibitions and a new film about Kennedy.

One exhibit, entitled Three Shots Were Fired, follows the events and news coverage that unfolded after Kennedy was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. It will be on view until January, along with an extensive exhibition of photographs by Kennedy’s personal photographer, titled Creating Camelot.

For the first time, the museum is showing items from assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of his arrest.

The display includes Oswald’s clothing, a jacket that police believe he discarded, his wallet, and the wallet’s contents, including a card with the address of the Soviet embassy.

There’s also a blanket that was used to hide Oswald’s rifle in a friend’s garage. The objects are on loan from the National Archives.

“For me, objects always are tangible items that help people come into a story,” said Carrie Christoffersen, the Newseum’s collections director.

Many of the items are paired with news photographs from the time, including just after Oswald’s arrest, showing the interworking of the press and the Kennedy White House.

“We’re really telling this story through the lens of the journalists and how they covered it and then how the public experienced it,” Christoffersen said.

Three Shots, unfolds chronologically from the first bulletin from United Press International that broke the news that “Three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade today in downtown Dallas.”

It includes more than 100 rarely seen objects, including the 8 mm movie camera used by Abraham Zapruder, who was the only eyewitness to capture the entire assassination on film. There

are also items from reporters who covered the tragedy, including notebooks, cameras and a typewriter from UPI Correspondent Merriman Smith.

Curators said the assassination set off four days of nonstop television coverage, something that wasn’t repeated again until the 9-11 attacks. It was a turning point in media when TV became a primary source of news for most people, Christoffersen said.

The photography exhibition, Creating Camelot, features 70 images that were nearly lost in the 9-11 attacks.

Kennedy’s personal photographer, Jacques Lowe, kept the negatives of more than 40,000 Kennedy photographs in a bank vault at the World

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo provided by the Newseum, and the estate of Jacques Lowe, shows John F. Kennedy at a news conference in Omaha, Neb., in 1959. The Newseum in Washington, a museum devoted to journalism and the First Amendment, is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination with a year-long commemoration, including two new exhibitions and a new film about Kennedy.

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While the negatives were lost in the attack, the Newseum worked with Lowe’s estate to

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This Nov. 22, 1963, photo shows President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy upon their arrival at Dallas Airport, in Dallas, shortly before President Kennedy was assassinated. The TLC network is making a movie about some of the 800,000 condolence letters that were sent to the widow Kennedy after his 1963 assassination. Letters to Jackie will air this fall, as the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s killing approaches on Nov. 22.

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Trio of Rebels bid farewell CARLOS CARRASCO

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

CARRASCO SUSPENED CLEVELAND — Another dangerous pitch has Carlos Carrasco in trouble again. The Cleveland Indians pitcher was suspended for eight games by Major League Baseball on Friday for “intentionally throwing” at New York’s Kevin Youkilis, the righthander’s second penalty in two years for aiming at a hitter. Carrasco had just completed serving a fivegame suspension for a fastball thrown at Kansas City’s Billy Butler in 2011 when he drilled Youkilis with a high-and-too-tight fastball in the fourth inning of the Yankees’ 14-1 win on Tuesday, moments after giving up a two-run homer to Robinson Cano — MLB officials appeared to take Carrasco’s history into account with the punishment, which included a $3,000 fine.

After drilling Youkilis, Carrasco was ejected from his first major league appearance since Aug. 3, 2011. The 26-year-old missed all of last season following elbow ligamentreplacement surgery.

After the game, an emotional Carrasco apologized and said he slipped on the pitch that nailed Youkilis on the left shoulder.

Indians manager Terry Francona said he believed his pitcher but also acknowledged “it didn’t look good” and understood that the Yankees were upset.

New York manager Joe Girardi wouldn’t say if he accepted Carrasco’s excuse. “There’s not much you can do about that now,” Girardi said Thursday before the Yankees and Indians had their game postponed by rain for the second straight day. “It’s unfortunate one of our players got hit. Only he truly knows what he did in his heart. So for me to play psychologist or predict doesn’t make a lot of sense.” Cleveland was forced to make several roster moves because of Carrasco’s ejection.

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He came to the Red Deer Rebels as a listed prospect and left the organization as a captain with a pro contract.

Turner Elson said his good-byes Friday after a four-year stay with the Rebels. The outgoing team captain kept his emotions in check while discussing his WHL career.

“Jesse (former Rebels head coach Wallin) gave me a good opportunity here and I thank him for that,” said Elson, who was over the moon with excitement when he cracked the roster in the fall of 2009.

“I battled hard for it, I worked hard for that spot and I’ve enjoyed my four years here. We’ve had a lot of success, a lot of peaks and valleys, but it’s been good. I’ve loved every minute of it. This is just an awesome place to play. I’m going to miss this place.”

Turner Elson

Brandon Underwood

Elson came along nicely over the course of his career, starting as an energy player and evolving into a solid two-way performer. He was clearly the Rebels’ playoff MVP this spring with five goals and nine points and a plus-3 rating in nine games.

“I felt I progressed as a player in terms of skill and all that. I still played a dynamic game this season, but also a defensive game,” he said. “I played a lot of PK (penalty kill) and a lot of different roles, which I think helped prepared me for next year in pro.”

Elson praised his teammates for their abil-

ity to climb up the standings over the last few months of the regular season.

“We were in eighth spot (in the Eastern Conference) and came back to finish fourth, and that’s a credit to the guys and the coaching staff,” said the native of St. Albert. “We battled hard, we worked hard every day. I’m proud of the guys and what they’ve done.

“I’ve been treated well here and it’s tough to leave, but it’s my time.

I feel like this is my home now, I would rather be here than in St. Albert. The people and the fans here are so great

Jordan DePape and the organization is first class.”

The return of Brent Sutter as GM/head coach in November sparked the players to dig deeper and helped Elson become a more intense competitor, the feisty winger suggested.

“He (Sutter) makes sure you’re accountable and battling every night. That’s something he takes pride in for himself and everyone in the room. He doesn’t let you slip,” said Elson.

“That’s the biggest thing with him and that’s what made us come so far.

We all knew we couldn’t slip or we would be in the stands. He’s created

a good culture here and it’s going to be an awesome few years here moving forward.

“The Rebels are going to be a great team next year. If they get Patrik (goaltender Bartosak) and maybe (Mathew Dumba) back . . . that will be a dynamic duo and will be great for the organization.”

Elson, who joined defenceman Brandon Underwood and forward Jordan DePape as the Rebels who played their final WHL game in Thursday’s 5-1 playoff loss to the Calgary Hitmen, will join the Calgary Flames AHL affiliate — the Abbotsford Heat — in short order.

“It’s going to be a new experience and hopefully I’ll keep progressing as a player,” he said of officially turning pro.

“I will have to start from scratch again, I’ll be on the fourth line and fighting to stay in the lineup.

But I’ll do whatever it takes to climb the ladder.”

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Day leads at the Masters 14-YEAR-OLD GUAN BECOMES YOUNGEST TO MAKE CUT DESPITE PENALTY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jason Day is out front midway through the Masters.

Fortunately for Guan Tianlang, the leader didn’t sink one last putt Friday.

Guan, a 14-year-old from China, became the youngest player to make the cut in PGA Tour history, despite taking a one-stroke penalty on the 17th hole for slow play.

Apparently the first ruling of its kind in the Masters’ 77-year history, it gave the eighth-grader no margin for error if he wanted to play on the weekend.

Day charged to the lead and was in position to knock out Guan — and everyone else at 4 over, including defending champ Bubba Watson — when he stood over a 12-foot putt at the 17th hole. When the ball slid by the right side of the hole, Guan could breathe a little easier.

Then, when Day’s approach at the 18th rolled back toward the front of the green, it was clear Guan would reach another milestone — two more rounds in the first major of the year. He already was the youngest player in Masters history.

Day, an Australian, shot a 4-under 68 that gave him a 6-under 138 total, good enough for a one-stroke lead over Fred Couples and firstround co-leader Marc Leishman.

Tiger Woods had a share of the top spot until a tough finish knocked him back. He struck the flagstick at No. 15, sending the ball careening back into the water. Only a brilliant little pitch on the do-over allowed him to save bogey at a hole

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Padraig Harrington, left, of Ireland, and Jason Day, of Australia, walk up the 16th fairway during the second round of the Masters golf tournament Friday in Augusta, Ga. where he should have had a good chance for a birdie. Then, on 18, Woods misjudged the distance just a bit on the approach, wound up on the back tier of the green and three-putted for another bogey.

He finished at 71 and three shots back at 141, a score that easily could have been two or three shots lower.

“I really played well,” Woods said. “The score is not indicative of quite how well I played.”

Everyone within 10 shots of the lead will be back on Saturday.

That includes a youngster who’s on quite a

field trip.

Guan just needs to speed things up a bit.

Fred Ridley, the club’s competition committee chairman, said Guan’s threesome was first warned for being too far behind the group ahead of them at the 10th hole. The teenager went on the clock two holes later — an official imposes a 40-second time limit to play a stroke — and gave Guan his first warning at No. 13.

“In keeping with the applicable rules, he was penalized following his second shot on the 17th hole when he again exceeded the 40-second

time limit by a considerable margin,” Ridley said in a statement.

That turned what would have been a par into a bogey. Guan finished at 75 and 148 overall.

“I respect the decision,” Guan said. “This is what they can do.”

The last player to be penalized for slow play at a major was Gregory Bourdy at the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. No one could find a record of anyone getting penalized in such a way at Augusta National.

“I know the rules pretty good,” Guan said.

“But I think my routine was pretty good, too. Just the wind changed. The weather, it was not a good day.”

Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., the 2003 champion, followed up an even-par 72 on Thursday with a disappointing 79 and missed the cut.

A rainy morning turned into a sunny, blustery afternoon, which sent scores much higher than they were in the opening round. Guan said it took him longer to judge distances and pick clubs because of the wind.

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Thistles making third straight Allan Cup appearance

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF The Kenora Thistles have a long and glorious history, that includes winning the Stanley Cup. The Thistles were formed in the late 1880s by a group of older professional men when the town was called Rat Portage. In the early 1890s a group of younger boys, most between the ages of nine and 11, formed a junior team by the same name and went on to beat the senior squad in exhibition play. Among the younger players were future Hockey Hall of Famers Tommy Phillips, Tom Hooper, Billy McGinsie and Silas Griffis. By the early 1900s most of the younger players had moved onto the senior

team and they challenged Ottawa for the Stanley Cup in 1903 and 1905, losing both.

In 1907 the town of 4,000 changed it’s name to Kenora and challenged the Montreal Wanderers and became the smallest town to ever capture the Cup after winning 4-2 and 8-6. Two months later the Wanderers challenged the Thistles in a rematch and won the Cup back.

Since then the Thistles have been an integral part of Kenora’s hockey history and they hope to make their mark at the Allan Cup when it opens Monday at the Red Deer Arena.

The Thistles are making their third straight appearance at the championship, which they hosted in 2011.

Last year they didn’t win a game, but that’s something head coach John Tresoor hopes to change.

“They were all close games, but we have a lot of guys back from last year and I figure we’ve improved,” he said. “I know myself that was my first year as coach and I learned a lot.”

The main problem the Thistles is that they’re isolated and don’t have a league to play in.

“The closest team to us is the South East Prairie (in Manitoba) and they’re two hours away,” explained Tresoor. “We played them four times in exhibition play and go to the States to play some college teams, but other than that there’s no one close, so we’re at a disadvantage. Our guys do play in a beer league three times a week so that’s not the same calibre, but at the same time they’re all in shape.”

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Portland wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Portland 5 Spokane 0 Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) (Kamloops wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Kamloops 4 Kelowna 3 (OT) THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Calgary (3) Thursday, Apr. 18 Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 19 Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 23 Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 26 x-Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 28 x-Edmonton at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 x-Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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RED DEER REBELS PLAYOFF SCORING GP G A Pts 9 5 4 9 9 4 4 8 9 2 6 8 9 0 5 5 9 2 2 4 9 2 1 3 9 2 1 3 9 2 0 2 6 0 2 2 9 0 2 2 9 0 2 2 9 1 0 1 7 0 1 1 9 0 1 1 9 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 Goaltenders MP GA SO GAA 548 18 1 1.97

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GA 101

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121 96 113 125

Shots on goal by 10 10 8 1 11 7 10 0

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GA 95 87 112 89 127

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts 41 22 17 2 46 42 21 19 2 44 40 17 21 2 36 40 16 22 2 34 40 13 21 6 32

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GA 113 123 122 129 139

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF y-Chicago 40 31 5 4 66 132 St. Louis 40 23 15 2 48 110 Detroit 41 19 15 7 45 103 Columbus 41 18 16 7 43 99 Nashville 42 15 19 8 38 98

GA 85 102 107 105 115

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts Vancouver 40 23 11 6 52 Minnesota 40 22 16 2 46 Edmonton 40 16 17 7 39 Calgary 40 15 21 4 34 Colorado 41 13 22 6 32

GF 109 103 102 106 96

GA 96 100 111 140 128

Pacific Division W L OT Pts 27 9 5 59 23 14 4 50 21 12 7 49 20 17 3 43 18 16 7 43

GF 124 118 101 114 110

GA 103 103 100 120 110

GP x-Anaheim 41 Los Angeles 41 San Jose 40 Dallas 40 Phoenix 41

WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Kamloops (3) Friday, Apr. 19 Kamloops at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Saturday, Apr. 20 Kamloops at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Tuesday, Apr. 23 Portland at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 Portland at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 26 x-Kamloops at Portland, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 28 x-Portland at Kamloops, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 x-Kamloops at Portland, 7 p.m. x — If necessary.

16 16 16 20

Northeast Division W L OT Pts 26 9 5 57 26 10 4 56 22 13 5 49 21 14 6 48 16 19 6 38

GP x-Montreal 40 Boston 40 Toronto 40 Ottawa 41 Buffalo 41

Washington Winnipeg Tampa Bay Carolina Florida

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Stars 5 at Predators 2 First Period 1. Dallas, Cole 8 (Fiddler, Larsen) 6:04 2. Dallas, Whitney 10 (Goligoski, Fiddler) 8:40 (pp) 3. Nashville, Beck 3 (Josi, Hornqvist) 18:42 (pp) Penalties — C.Smith Nash (tripping) 6:59, Spaling Nash (delay of game) 10:55, Roussel Dal (fighting, major), Clune Nash (fighting, major) 16:05, Dillon Dal (interference) 17:54.

Second Period 4. Dallas, Wandell 1 (Garbutt, Roussel) 2:28 5. Dallas, Chiasson 4 (Whitney, Daley) 11:12 Penalties — Nystrom Dal (hooking) 7:11, Robidas Dal (holding) 15:37.

Third Period 6. Dallas, Chiasson 5, 7:03 7. Nashville, Butler 2 (Bang, Bartley) 12:12 Penalty — Kostitsyn Nash (boarding, major) 16:31.

Shots on goal by Dallas 5 6 7 — 18 Nashville 6 9 13 — 28

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Friday’s Games Chicago 3, Detroit 2, SO Ottawa 2, New Jersey 0 Columbus 4, St. Louis 1 Dallas 5, Nashville 2 Calgary 3, Phoenix 2, OT Today’s Games Philadelphia at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago at St. Louis, 10:30 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Detroit at Nashville, 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Red Wings 2 at Blackhawks 3 (SO) First Period No Scoring Penalties — Quincey Det (interference) 2:20, Cleary Det (goaltender interference) 9:04, Handzus Chi (high-sticking) 9:33, Handzus Chi (tripping) 12:08, Kane Chi (high-sticking) 17:18.

Second Period 1. Chicago, Stalberg 8 (Keith, Bickell) 6:11 2. Detroit, Franzen 8 (Colaiacovo, Kindl) 15:40 (pp) 3. Detroit, Emmerton 4 (Miller, Tootoo) 17:39 Penalty — Stalberg Chi (holding) 14:01, Chicago bench (too many men, served by Shaw) 18:29.

Third Period 4. Chicago, Toews 20 (Oduya, Frolik) 17:03 Penalty — Kindl Det (hooking) 13:43.

Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Chicago wins 2-1 Detroit (1) — Datsyuk, miss; Zetterberg, goal; Brunner, miss; Nyquist, miss; Franzen, miss.

Chicago (2) — Toews, miss; Kane, miss; Hossa, goal; Rozsival, miss; Saad, goal.

Blues 1 at Blue Jackets 4 First Period 1. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 4 (McDonald, Sobotka) 1:26 2. Columbus, Atkinson 6 (Calvert, Aucoin) 14:32 Penalties — Boll Clb (roughing) 1:48, Prout Clb (hooking) 15:09.

Second Period 3. Columbus, Anisimov 11 (Dubinsky, Atkinson) 14:20 4. Columbus, Johansen 4 (Foligno, Wisniewski) 18:36 Penalty — Prospal Clb (delay of game) 4:40.

Third Period 5. Columbus, Gaborik 12 (Letestu, Prospal) 1:21 Penalties — Shattenkirk StL (unsportsmanlike conduct, roughing) 17:03, Foligno Clb (tripping) 18:08, Calvert Clb (roughing) 19:06.

Shots on goal by St. Louis 12 11 9 — 32 Columbus 6 10 3 — 19

Boston New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto

GB — — 1/2 1 1

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 6 4 .600 5 4 .556 4 5 .444 4 6 .400 4 6 .400

GB — 1/2 1 2 2

Oakland Texas Seattle Houston Los Angeles

West Division W L Pct 8 2 .800 7 4 .636 5 7 .417 3 6 .333 2 7 .222

GB — 1 4 4 5

Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee

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Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 1, Chicago White Sox 0 Tampa Bay at Boston, ppd., rain N.Y. Mets 16, Minnesota 5 Toronto 8, Kansas City 4 Detroit at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Seattle 3, Texas 1 Today’s Games Tampa Bay (Price 0-1) at Boston (Lester 2-0), 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore (Hammel 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 0-1), 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 1-0) at Cleveland (McAllister 0-1), 2:05 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 1-1) at Oakland (Anderson 1-1), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 2-0) at Minnesota (Diamond 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 0-2) at Kansas City (Shields 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (Harrell 0-2) at L.A. Angels (Richards 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (Ogando 2-0) at Seattle (J.Saunders 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami

St. Louis Cincinnati

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 9 1 .900 7 3 .700 6 4 .600 5 5 .500 1 9 .100

GB — 2 3 4 8

Central Division W L Pct 6 4 .600 5 5 .500

GB — 1

4 4 2

Arizona San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego

6 6 7

West Division W L 7 3 7 4 6 4 5 4 2 7

.400 .400 .222

2 2 3.5

Pct .700 .636 .600 .556 .222

GB — 1/2 1 1.5 4.5

Goal — St. Louis: Allen (L,9-4-0); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W,15-10-6).

Senators 2 at Devils 0 First Period No Scoring Penalties — Methot Ott (holding) 10:30, Condra Ott (high-sticking) 11:06, Gonchar Ott (hooking) 13:20.

Second Period 1. Ottawa, Pageau 1 (Greening, Condra) 3:08 2. Ottawa, Michalek 3 (Alfredsson) 6:52 Penalties — Smith Ott (fighting, major), Clarkson NJ (fighting, major), Henrique NJ (cross-checking) 9:25, Gryba Ott (hooking) 13:33.

Third Period No Scoring Penalty — Harrold NJ (hooking) 14:05.

Shots on goal by Ottawa 3 6 2 — 11 New Jersey 9 14 10 — 33 Goal — Ottawa: C.Anderson (W,9-6-2); New Jersey: Brodeur (L,10-7-7).

Coyotes 2 at Flames 3 (OT) First Period 1. Phoenix, Vermette 10 (Conner, Boedker) 1:29 2. Calgary, Hudler 8 (Backlund, Wideman) 19:04 Penalty — Tanguay Cal (hooking) 14:03.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Stempniak 8 (Brodie, Giordano) 18:52 (pp) Penalties — Hudler Cal (holding the stick) 4:22, Yandle Pho (tripping) 17:18.

Third Period 4. Phoenix, Yandle 9 (Morris,Vrbata) 14:56 Penalties — None Overtime 5. Calgary, Giordano 4 (Glencross, Backlund) 4:36 Penalties — None Shots on goal by Phoenix 8 10 11 2 — 31 Calgary 9 11 2 3 — 25 Goal — Phoenix: Smith (L,13-11-4); Calgary: MacDonald (W,6-6-1).

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 4, San Francisco 3 Atlanta 6, Washington 4, 10 innings Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5 Philadelphia 3, Miami 1, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 16, Minnesota 5 St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 0 Arizona 3, L.A. Dodgers 0 Colorado at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Atlanta (Hudson 1-0) at Washington (Strasburg 1-1), 11:05 a.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 1-1), 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 2-0) at Minnesota (Diamond 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 0-0) at St. Louis (Wainwright 1-1), 2:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 0-2) at Miami (Fernandez 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 1-1) at Arizona (Kennedy 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 1-0) at San Diego (Volquez 0-2), 6:40 p.m.

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1 1

Mig.Gonzalez, Patton (7), Strop (7), Tom.Hunter (8) and Wieters; Sabathia, Rivera (9) and Cervelli. W— Sabathia 2-1. L—Mig.Gonzalez 1-1. Sv—Rivera (2).

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Quintana, Thornton (8), Crain (9) and Gimenez; Masterson and Y.Gomes. W—Masterson 3-0. L— Crain 0-1.

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Happ, S.Santos (6), Loup (7) and Arencibia; Mendoza, Hochevar (6), J.Gutierrez (9) and S.Perez.

W—Happ 2-0. L—Mendoza 0-1. Sv—Loup (1).

INTERLEAGUE LINSCORES New York 550 000 402 — 16 15 Minnesota 200 030 000 — 5 6

1 2

Niese, Atchison (6), Burke (8), Laffey (9) and Buck; Worley, P.Hernandez (2), Pressly (6), Duensing (8), Perkins (9) and Mauer. W—Niese 2-0. L—Worley 0-2. HRs—New York, Buck (6).

NATIONAL LEAGUE LINESCORES San Fran. 000 000 003 — 3 7 Chicago 001 010 002 — 4 10

0 0

M.Cain, Kontos (8), Romo (9) and Posey; Villanueva, Russell (8), Fujikawa (9) and Castillo. W—Fujikawa 1-0. L—Romo 0-1. HRs—Chicago, DeJesus (1), S.Castro (1), D.Navarro (1).

Cincinnati 010 Pittsburgh 140

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200 10x

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5 8 6 12

0 0

Leake, Hoover (7), M.Parra (7), Ondrusek (7) and Mesoraco; A.J.Burnett, Watson (7), Melancon (8), Grilli (9) and R.Martin. W—Watson 1-0. L—Hoover 0-3. Sv—Grilli (4). HRs—Cincinnati, Phillips 2 (4).

Pittsburgh, McCutchen (2).

Atlanta Wash.

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(10 innings) Teheran, Ayala (7), Walden (8), O’Flaherty (9), Kimbrel (10) and Laird, Gattis; Detwiler, Clippard (8), Storen (8), Stammen (10) and K.Suzuki. W— O’Flaherty 2-0. L—Stammen 2-1. Sv—Kimbrel (5).

HRs—Atlanta, C.Johnson (1), R.Pena (1). Washington, Harper (5).

Phil.

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310 0 1 4 1

(10 innings) Lannan, Bastardo (7), Mi.Adams (8), Aumont (9), Papelbon (10) and Kratz; Nolasco, A.Ramos (7), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9), Rauch (10) and Brantly.

W—Aumont 1-0. L—Rauch 0-1. Sv—Papelbon (2).

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0 2

2 6

0 0

Lohse, Gorzelanny (8) and Lucroy; S.Miller, Rosenthal (8), Boggs (9) and Y.Molina. W—S.Miller 2-0.

L—Lohse 0-1. Sv—Boggs (2). HRs—St. Louis, Y.Molina (2).

LAD Arizona

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Kershaw, Tolleson (8), Howell (8) and A.Ellis; Corbin, Ziegler (7), D.Hernandez (8), Putz (9) and M.Montero. W—Corbin 2-0. L—Kershaw 2-1. Sv— Putz (2).

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Suspended Cleveland RHP Carlos Carrasco eight games for “intentionally throwing” at New York’s Kevin Youkilis during an April 9 game.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Claimed RHP Alex Burnett off waivers from Toronto and optioned him to Rochester (IL). Transferred INF Wilson Betemit from the 15- to the 60-day DL. BOSTON RED SOX—Named Rick Wakefield a special assignment instructor in baseball operations.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Placed 2B Gordon Beckham on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 10.

Recalled RHP Deunte Heath from Charlotte (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Recalled LHP Nick Hagadone from Columbus (IL). Activated INF-DH Jason Giambi from the 15-day DL. Placed RHP Matt Albers on the paternity list. Optioned RHP Corey Kluber to Columbus.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Sent RHP Edgar Gonzalez outright to Buffalo (IL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Placed RHP Zack Greinke on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Shawn Tolleson from Albuquerque (PCL).

PITTSBURG PIRATES—Recalled RHP Bryan Morris from Indianapolis (IL). Designated RHP Chris Leroux for assignment.

American Association AMARILLO SOX—Released RHP Celson Polanco.

EL PASO DIABLOS—Released RHP Justin Harper and INF Aritz Garcia.

LAREDO LEMURS—Signed LHP Fabian Williamson.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Signed RHP Ben Henry and Dustin Williams. Released RHP Ryan Sheldon and RHP Wade Mackey.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES—Signed 1B Jared Clark, OF Nate Baumann and RHP Jordan Whatcott.

ST. PAUL SAINTS—Signed RHP Mark Hamburger.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed LHP Matt Zielinski to a contract extension.

JOLIET SLAMMERS—Signed INF Goose Kallunki and LHP Chuck Lofgren.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS—Signed 1B Chase Burch to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Fined Oklahoma City F Kevin Durant $25,000 for making a menacing gesture during an April 11 game at Golden State.

NEW YORK KNICKS—Waived F-C Kurt Thomas. Signed F/C Solomon Jones for the remainder of the season.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS—Waived F Stephen Jackson.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS—Claimed LB Marcus Dowtin off waivers from Philadelphia.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Claimed LB Ryan Rau off waivers from Philadelphia.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Signed LB Zac Diles.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS—Signed F Curtis McKenzie to a two-year entry-level contract, beginning in the 2013-14 season.

MINNESOTA WILD—Recalled F Jason Zucker from Houston (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Reassigned F Brett Connolly and F Tyler Johnson to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN—Signed F Nick Larson and D Drew Olson to amateur tryout contracts.

COLLEGE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE—Named Tiffany Daniels associate commissioner and senior woman administrator.

ARKANSAS—Suspended RHP Thomas Altimont indefinitely, following the pitcher’s arrest on kidnapping and assault allegations.

BROWN—Announced the retirement wrestling coach Dave Amato.

IONA—Named Rick Cole, Jr. director of WITH athletics.

LOYOLA (MD.)— THE Promoted G.G. Smith to men’s basketball coach.

MISSISSIPPI— Extended the contract of Andy Kennedy men’s basketball coach through the 2017 season.

PITTSBURGH— Named Suzie McConnellSerio women’s basketball coach.

SAINT LOUIS— Named Jim Crews men’s basketball coach.

TIRE SAN DIEGO STORAGE STATE—Announced AVAILABLE junior G Jamaal Franklin will enter the NBA draft.

SIU-EDWARDSVILLE—Announced wrestling coach David Ray will give up his coaching duties and move to an administrative position for the remainder of his contract.

TEXAS—Announced sophomore G Myck Kabongo will enter the NBA draft.

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct 58 21 .734 58 21 .734 54 25 .684 53 26 .671 54 25 .684 45 34 .570 44 35 .557 42 37 .532 42 38 .525 39 40 .494 33 45 .423 29 50 .367 28 51 .354 27 53 .338

GB — — 4 5 4 13 14 16 16.5 19 24.5 29 30 31.5

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x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Friday’s Games Toronto 97, Chicago 88 Brooklyn 117, Indiana 109 Philadelphia 97, Washington 86 New York 101, Cleveland 91 Atlanta 109, Milwaukee 104 Detroit 113, Charlotte 93 Miami 109, Boston 101 Memphis 82, Houston 78 L.A. Clippers 96, New Orleans 93 Dallas 108, Denver 105, OT San Antonio 108, Sacramento 101 Utah 107, Minnesota 100 Oklahoma City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Milwaukee at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Boston at Orlando, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago at Miami, 11 a.m.

Indiana at New York, 1:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 1:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Toronto, 1:30 p.m.

Portland at Denver, 3 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 4 p.m.

Sacramento at Houston, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Golf

Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 5 4 .556 5 4 .556 5 5 .500 4 5 .444 4 6 .400

GB — 11 14 16 19.5 20 23 26 31 32 34.5 35.5 39 43 45

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

Goal — Dallas: Bachman (W,5-3-0); Nashville: Mason (L,1-5-1).

Phoenix

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct z-Miami 63 16 .797 y-New York 52 27 .658 y-Indiana 49 30 .620 x-Brooklyn 47 32 .595 x-Atlanta 44 36 .550 x-Chicago 43 36 .544 x-Boston 40 39 .506 x-Milwaukee 37 42 .468 Philadelphia 32 47 .405 Toronto 31 48 .392 Washington 29 51 .363 Detroit 28 52 .350 Cleveland 24 55 .304 Orlando 20 59 .253 Charlotte 18 61 .228

MASTERS At Augusta, Ga. Augusta National Golf Club Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Second Round (a—amateur) Jason Day 70-68 Fred Couples 68-71 Marc Leishman 66-73 Angel Cabrera 71-69 Jim Furyk 69-71 Brandt Snedeker 70-70 K.J. Choi 70-71 Jason Dufner 72-69 David Lynn 68-73 Justin Rose 70-71 Adam Scott 69-72 Lee Westwood 70-71 Tiger Woods 70-71 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano68-74 Sergio Garcia 66-76 Bernhard Langer 71-71 Rory McIlroy 72-70 Charl Schwartzel 71-71 John Senden 72-70 Luke Donald 71-72 Bill Haas 71-72 Trevor Immelman 68-75 Dustin Johnson 67-76 Matt Kuchar 68-75 Ryan Moore 71-72 Steve Stricker 73-70 Rickie Fowler 68-76 Scott Piercy 75-69 David Toms 70-74 Michael Thompson 73-71 Ernie Els 71-74 Freddie Jacobson 72-73 Zach Johnson 69-76 Sandy Lyle 73-72 Bo Van Pelt 71-74 Richard Sterne 73-72 Thomas Bjorn 73-73 Keegan Bradley 73-73 Stewart Cink 75-71 Tim Clark 70-76 Brian Gay 72-74 Paul Lawrie 76-70 Kevin Na 70-76 Jose Maria Olazabal 74-72 Carl Pettersson 76-70 Vijay Singh 72-74 Henrik Stenson 75-71 Robert Garrigus 76-71 Peter Hanson 72-75 John Huh 70-77 Martin Kaymer 72-75 Phil Mickelson 71-76 D.A. Points 72-75 Nick Watney 78-69 Lucas Glover 74-74 Branden Grace 78-70 Ryo Ishikawa 71-77 Thorbjorn Olesen 78-70 John Peterson 71-77 a-Guan Tianlang 73-75 Bubba Watson 75-73

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Failed to Qualify George Coetzee Jamie Donaldson Martin Laird Matteo Manassero Graeme McDowell Larry Mize Ted Potter, Jr. Webb Simpson Y.E. Yang Louis Oosthuizen Nicolas Colsaerts Ben Curtis John Merrick Mark O’Meara Ian Poulter Mike Weir a-T.J. Vogel a-Michael Weaver Thaworn Wiratchant Padraig Harrington Russell Henley Kevin Streelman Francesco Molinari a-Nathan Smith Tom Watson a-Steven Fox Craig Stadler Hunter Mahan Ian Woosnam a-Alan Dunbar Ben Crenshaw Hiroyuki Fujita

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WNB GOLF CLASSIC At Midland Country Club Midland, Texas Purse: $600,000 Yardage: 7,380; Par: 72 Second Round Reid Edstrom 68-66 — Danny Lee 68-66 — Whee Kim 69-66 — Rod Pampling 68-67 — Brian Duncan 67-68 — Brice Garnett 70-65 — Daniel Chopra 66-69 — Clodomiro Carranza 68-67 — Nick Flanagan 68-68 — Josh Broadaway 67-69 — James Nitties 69-68 — David Lipsky 69-68 — Camilo Benedetti 73-64 — Todd Hamilton 66-71 — Jeff Klauk 67-70 — Joseph Bramlett 67-71 — Mathew Goggin 70-68 — Tim Wilkinson 71-67 — Edward Loar 71-67 — Joe Durant 67-71 — Guy Boros 71-67 — D.J. Brigman 70-69 — Ben Martin 71-68 — Miguel Angel Carballo 70-69 — Paul Haley II 72-67 — Will MacKenzie 70-69 — Byron Smith 71-68 — Woody Austin 70-69 — Martin Piller 71-68 — Brendon Todd 69-70 —

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Alex Cejka Russell Knox Sung Kang Skip Kendall Bhavik Patel Nick O’Hern Alex Aragon Garrett Willis Roland Thatcher Philip Pettitt, Jr. Lee Bedford Tyrone Van Aswegen Joe Affrunti Andrew Loupe Shane Bertsch Adam Hadwin Oscar Fraustro Nate Smith Todd Baek Aron Price Morgan Hoffmann Kyle Reifers Gavin Coles Chad Collins Rob Oppenheim Troy Merritt Bio Kim Franklin Corpening Scott Gutschewski Ariel Canete Wes Short, Jr. B.J. Staten Steve Wheatcroft Andrew D. Putnam Scott Harrington Will Wilcox Stephan Jaeger Brooks Koepka Chris Wilson Dawie van der Walt Richard S. Johnson Rafael Echenique Patrick Cantlay Adam Crawford Mathias Gronberg Tom Hoge Corey Nagy

66-73 71-68 69-71 69-71 72-68 69-71 71-69 69-71 70-70 71-69 69-71 72-68 71-69 71-69 68-72 70-70 72-68 73-67 72-68 72-69 71-70 71-70 72-69 72-69 70-71 73-68 71-70 70-71 73-69 72-70 74-68 73-69 72-70 72-70 72-70 72-70 74-68 74-68 71-71 73-69 72-70 70-72 72-70 71-71 72-70 74-68 69-73

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Failed to qualify Billy Hurley III Mark Anderson Frank Lickliter II Alexandre Rocha Chesson Hadley Sam Saunders Matt Weibring Richard Scott Randall Hutchison Brenden Pappas Aaron Goldberg Hudson Swafford Roger Sloan Jim Renner Danny Ellis Scott Sterling Mitch Krywulycz Brian Prouty Heath Slocum Kevin Kisner Lee Williams Kent Jones Matt Davidson Dae-Hyun Kim Odair De Lima D.J. Trahan Vaughn Taylor Patrick Sheehan Ron Whittaker Bronson La’Cassie Andy Pope Chris Tidland Peter Tomasulo Wes Roach Brandon Harkins Cliff Kresge Dusty Fielding Billy Mayfair Andres Gonzales Randy Lowry Si-woo Kim Vince Covello Tim Petrovic Kevin Foley Derek Fathauer Lee Janzen Philippe Gasnier Lee Rhind Michael Putnam Jonathan Hodge Paul Claxton Cameron Beckman Andrew Svoboda Scott Dunlap John Hurley Kevin Kim Peter Lonard J.J. Killeen Stuart Deane Phillip Mollica Steven Alker Peter S. Campbell Donald Constable Aaron Watkins Matias O’Curry Brett Stegmaier Kyle Thompson Scott Parel Ashley Hall Bobby Massa Jeff Rein Michael Martin Tain Lee Len Mattiace Kevin Tway Linus Gillgren

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Minor hockey closes book on season Dwayne Patchett of the midget A Kings Energy Chiefs was named the coach of the year at the Red Deer Minor Hockey end of the year bash Thursday.

Rob Ferguson of the midget A Quality Inn Chiefs was the manager of the year and manager Larry Corbett of the Red Deer Junior B Vipers was named the builder of the year.

Meanwhile 31 players were honoured.

One player from all teams in the organization, from five year-olds to midget AAA, were nominated by their coaches to receive recognition and selection panel picked the final group.

Those honoured were: Taylor Hall, Kyle Kapalka, Connor Einhorn, Bryce Abell, Ty Elliott, Andrea Anderson, Austin Thorne, Justin Travis, Sarah Koopmans, Kyler Jay, Connor Guttridge, Kyle Budvarson, Zachary Campbell, Anne Marie Purdy, Tyler Properzi, Brian Baskier, Kaeden Boorman, Callie Cocke, Nolan Jackson, Jake Boettcher, Jager Humphrey, Ben House, Dominic Skjonsberg, Tyler Mackenzie, Avery Wlasichuk, Meryssa Woodridge, Westland Williams, Maddox Mason, Dylan Spackman, Megan Robinson and Josh Tettmar.

Former NHL forward Trent Hunter, who plays with the Bentley Generals this season, was thebguest speaker.

Well’s Furniture wins title Well’s Furniture captured the B division championship in the Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association.

Wells downed the Dream Team 76-58 Thursday to win the best-of-three final 2-1 after losing the opening game of the series.

Dave McComish led the winners with 27 points while Jon McComish added 15. Zaki Boule had 11 for the Dream Team.

STORIES FROM B4

REBELS: Last call Underwood joined the Rebels in September in a trade with the Regina Pats. He played three seasons in Kamloops before joining the Pats for the 2011-12 campaign.

“I’ve had a lengthy WHL career, for sure, but it went by real quick,” said the six-foot-three, 220-pound defenceman. “I can remember my first game when I was 16 and last night was my last game. It all went by quickly, but it was quite a journey.”

Underwood and Elson were the last Red Deer players to exit the ice surface at the Saddledome Thursday.

“We definitely had a moment there at the end, we both had some teary eyes and hugged each other,” said Underwood. “That was a serious ‘bro’ moment there. We just kind of looked around and took it all in before we left the ice.

“My time in Red Deer was awesome.

It was the best year of my career, for sure. I’m proud to be a Rebel and I’ll remember it the rest of my life.”

Underwood was acquired from the Pats in an attempt to stabilize the Rebels’ back end as well as serve as a mentor to promising rookie Haydn Fleury.

“When I came in the first thing I was told is that I’d be playing with Haydn Fleury, a top prospect,” said Underwood. “We played together all year.

He’s a really good player and I enjoyed playing with him. I think we complemented each other pretty well.”

Underwood, who celebrated his 21st birthday in February, will head home to San Marcos, Calif., this weekend to contemplate his future.

“As far as playing next year, I have some stuff on the table,” he said. “I’ve been talking to some schools and pro scouts, but during the playoffs you just try and push all that stuff aside. Now it’s time to think about it.”

DePape joined the Rebels in early February, but due to the fact he underwent shoulder surgery in November — his second such procedure in the space of a year — didn’t get into his first game until the final weekend of the regular season. The Winnipeg native appeared in 11 games, including nine playoff contests.

“My time here was short and sweet.

It was pretty amazing considering that four to five months ago I was told I would never play another junior game,” said the six-foot, 194-pound forward, who turned 21 in March.

DePape suffered a shoulder injury last fall while with the Kamloops Blazers. He returned home with the notion that his WHL career was done, but underwent surgery a week later, which gave him the opportunity to return to the ice before the season was over.

Sutter called DePape at the WHL trade deadline to ask if he’d be interested in joining the Rebels as a free agent. The answer was affirmative.

“I always had the thought in the back of my mind that maybe I could make a comeback,” said DePape. “At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror and have no regrets. I’m proud of myself for coming back even

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Jiri Hudler and Lee Stempniak also scored for Calgary (15-21-4). The Flames, who had lost six of their last seven, snap a three-game losing streak at the Scotiabank Saddle-

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In the overall standings, Calgary pulls even with the reeling Carolina Hurricanes, two points ahead of the Florida Panthers and Colorado Avalanche, who are tied for last.

Antoine Vermette and Keith Yandle scored for Phoenix (18-16-7).

The Coyotes pick up three out of six points on their three-game road trip.

It was a costly loss for Phoenix which now finds itself in a three-way tie for ninth in the Western Conference, joined by Dallas and Columbus who both won on Friday. They are two points behind the Detroit Red Wings, who occupy the eighth and final playoff spot.

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Senior curlers shoot for international title

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rob Armitage knows he and his rinkmates aren’t getting any younger.

Therefore, the Red Deer skip and his supporting cast will take their best shot at winning a global title during the world senior men’s curling championship starting today at Fredericton, N.B. “This could be our last chance to even compete in something like this,” Armitage said earlier this week. “We’re getting up there in age and at least a couple of us have had knee problems.”

That being said, the 2012 Canadian champs are likely among the favourites in the 20-team field.

“The calibre is play is going to be

if I just played a few games here.”

DePape scored two goals as a member of the Rebels and is confident that he contributed to the team in other areas.

“I wasn’t in 100 per cent game shape, but I brought a lot of leadership and experience,” he said. “I wasn’t played in a few roles here I was put in at Kamloops and before I had the shoulder injuries I played a more physical game.

“But I thought I still played all right here. I wasn’t a liability. I added some depth and hopefully taught some stuff to the younger guys.”

DePape will attend the University of Manitoba next year to play for the Bisons and pursue a degree in criminology with the hopes of becoming a police officer.

He’ll always treasure his time in Red Deer, as brief as it was. He’s also convinced the Rebels will be a contender in short order.

“I’m leaving here with a lot of memories. I’m just so happy I had the chance to come here and meet so many great people,” said DePape.

“This team is going to be real good in the future, starting with next year.

Their young guys are phenomenal, guys like Fleury and (Conner) Bleackley are some of the best rookies I’ve played with in my career. They’re going to be ranked high for the (2014 NHL) draft.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

pretty good,” said Armitage. “For example, David Hay is here.”

Armitage was referring to the twotime world men’s champion from Scotland. Also represented in the senior men’s worlds are teams from Latvia, Germany, Norway, Russia, the United States, Switzerland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Japan, Australia, France, Italy, England, Finland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland and Finland.

Armitage and his crew of third Keith Glover, second Randy Ponich and lead Wilf Edgar were unable to defend their Alberta title this year and advance to a second straight Canadian championship. They stayed somewhat busy during the winter by competing in bonspiels and a Red Deer Curling Centre men’s league.

The Red Deer foursome opened

the world championship this morning against Klaus Unterstab of Germany. The Canadian representatives will take on Kari Keranen of Finland this afternoon.

The men’s competition is running in conjunction with the world senior women’s and senior mixed doubles championships and is expected to be the biggest curling event ever staged in terms of the number of athletes (roughly 350) and countries represented (29).

Cathy King’s Edmonton rink is the Canadian representative in the senior women’s category. The Quebec duo of Robert Desjardins and Isabelle Neron are the Canadian mixed doubles champs.

All three championships will conclude April 20.

sists in 14 games.

“I think offence is one area we’ve improved upon since last year,” he said. “We had one line that did most of our scoring while this year we feel we have three lines and a fourth line that contributes and adds to our depth.”

Last year the Thistles struggled staying out of the penalty box.

“Last year I believe we were step slow,” Tresoor added. “And when you’re a step behind you get caught chasing and hooking and holding. I think we’re quicker this year.”

The Thistles, who are driving to Red Deer, open the six-team tournament Tuesday at 8 p.m. against the Bentley Generals. They face the Rosetown Redwings Wednesday at 8 p.m.

“It’s a tough pool, but I don’t mind it and I’m glad to face Bentley right off the bat. They’ll give us a good indication to where we need to be.”

• The Fort St. John Flyers, Stony Plain Eagles and Clarenville Caribous are in the other pool . . . The Flyers and Eagles meet at 4 p.m. and the Generals and Redwings at 8 p.m. Monday . . . The top team in each pool advances to Friday’s semifinals while the other two teams meet in the cross-over quarter-finals omn Thursday . . . The final is Saturday on TSN with the time yet to be announced. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

said Cabrera, the 2009 Masters champion. “Never, ever easy. The big difference was that on the back nine, I was hitting very well off the tee, leaving my second shots close, and I was able to make some birdies.”

THISTLES: Kenora consistency The players are also not in the same area, so they don’t get to practice together either.

“They’re scattered all over and our first practice (to prepare) was Monday,” Tresoor said.

Still they’re more than capable as they posted a 10-4 record and beat the Brantford Blast 4-1 and 5-1 in the Ontario championship.

“We stress good defence, that wins games, plus we have solid goaltending,” said Tresoor, who has Tyler Gordan and Ryan Person in net.

Jeff Richards, a cousin to Mike Richards of the Los Angeles Kings, led the offence with 12 goals and 10 assists in 13 games. Jon Johnson, who had nine goals and 13 helpers, also had 22 points in 13 starts and Ryan Pearson had 20 points on nine goals and 11 as-

MASTERS: Tiger in the hunt Leishman, a 29-year-old Australian with only one PGA Tour victory, kept up his solid play in the tough conditions, while others skidded down the board.

They included Sergio Garcia, who was tied with Leishman at the end of the first round after both shot 6-under 66. The Spaniard soared to a 76 that knocked him back, but not out. He was four strokes off the lead.

Dustin Johnson surged to 7 under and the top spot on the board, before a dismal finish ruined his day. He laid up at the par-5 15th hole, then dunked his third shot in the water, leading to a double-bogey. He bogeyed the 17th and took another double-bogey at the final hole to finish with 76.

Instead of leading, he was five shots back at 1-under 143.

Some former champions fared better.

Couples, playing in his favourite tournament at age 53, birdied the final hole for a 71. Angel Cabrera birdied five of the last six holes, signed for a 69 and was another shot back at 140.

“It’s a hard course out there,” Couples said. “I felt very good about what I shot. I had a couple of little hiccups out there and did some other good things to shoot my score. But the golf course is winning today.”

Cabrera actually posted a better score in the tougher conditions than he did Thursday, when he shot 71. He was joined at 4 under by Jim Furyk (71) and Brandt Snedeker (70).

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Court delays protested ACCUSED COULD SPEND MONTHS IN JAIL AND THEN HAVE CHARGES DROPPED, LAWYER SAYS

MOM, GIRL TEA CANCELLED The Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society’s Mother Daughter Tea slated for April 20 has been cancelled. There is no word on whether the event at the Cronquist House will be rescheduled. The event was to feature a children’s activity centre and a display of some of the Margaret Soley doll collection.

COUNCIL TALKS AT MALL

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Serious backlogs in Red Deer courtrooms became an issue on Friday for four men arrested in March on charges including kidnapping, extortion and assault.

Thomas Larkin, 33, Gregory Roberts, 26, Scott Hebert, 32, and Logan Mitchell, 18, remain in custody on charges laid by Red Deer City RCMP following reports to Sylvan Lake RCMP that a man was kidnapped in Red Deer on March 4.

Police allege that the man was held captive until the next afternoon, when he managed to escape.

All four of the accused men appeared before Judge Harry Gaede in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to address the charges facing them, both individually and as co-accused.

Bail was previously denied for Mitchell.

Bail has not yet been addressed for the other three.

Speaking to proceedings against Larkin,

Red Deer lawyer Luke Kurata said his client will eventually need a new lawyer because he plans to retire before the earliest possible date available for a preliminary hearing.

Preliminary hearings are generally scheduled to determine the strength of the Crown’s case.

Kurata said the earliest date offered for the hearing is not until mid-January, 2014, with additional dates offered in March and April of that year.

That means those who may be denied bail will remain in pre-trial custody for up to a year, perhaps longer, even though some or all of the charges against them may ultimately be either stayed or withdrawn.

To stay in jail for that long while awaiting a preliminary hearing is simply unacceptable, said Kurata.

Gaede also stated that he finds the lengthy wait unacceptable, ordering that the Crown meet with the courtroom co-ordinator and attempt to find an earlier date for the hearing, estimated to last three days.

The judge’s order comes just days be-

fore a meeting in Edmonton next Thursday, when Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling is to discuss courthouse expansion with Justice Minister Jonathan Denis and Red Deer MLAs Mary Anne Jablonski and Cal Dallas, minister of Intergovernmental and International Relations.

Flewwelling has been part of a committee formed last summer to take action on the issues arising from courthouse crowding in Red Deer, especially considering the impact on children whose parents are involved in family court.

Also on the committee are retired Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Jim Foster, who is also a former Red Deer MLA and Attorney General, and Red Deer lawyer Brent Handel, president of the Central Alberta Bar Association. The three have put forward a proposal, supported by the city, to swap the existing courthouse for the site of the former RCMP detachment, which is now vacant.

The four men accused in the alleged kidnapping are due back in court on April 19. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Join Red Deer city council at the next installment of Let’s Talk at the Bower Place Shopping Centre on April 20. Councillors and city staff from 30 departments will be on hand to answer questions about city programs, projects and services. Displays will be set up throughout the mall and in the northwest parking lot from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. More information is available at www. reddeer.ca/letstalk.

CREATING ART FROM RED DEER’S PAST Photo by JEFF STOKOE /Advocate staff

Red Deer artist Alysse Bowd talks with West Park Middle School Grade 6 student Kayla Robicheau as they work on an art project in the school this week. The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Awards Gala Legacy Artwork project titled Where We Would Have Lived is a Red Deer Centennial piece that will be unveiled on June 14 and hang at City Hall. The work of art is comprised of two eightby-10-foot quilted fabric maps that show where each of 300 Red Deer Grade 6 students would have resided in 1913 Red Deer.

FOODGRAINS CATTLE SALE Cattle are set to hit the ring in Ponoka, to be auctioned off in support of Canadian Foodgrains Bank. The 12th annual Beef and Dairy Fundraising Sale will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Vold, Jones & Vold Auction in Ponoka, with all money raised supporting the partnership of 15 churches and churchbased organizations that provides food assistance to the hungry in developing countries.

Organizers are still accepting donations such as dairy and beef animals, or round and square hay bales. Last year’s auction raised $55,000 for the cause, with 46 tonnes of barley also donated.

For more information, or to arrange trucking for a donated animal, contact Terence Barg at 780-621-6767, Andre Visscher at 403-818-2315 or Larry Henderson at 403-7825218.

FOOD BANK GETS HELP Fred Scaife, Red Deer Food Bank executive director, said the most recent food and fundraising drive at the Red Deer North and East Hill Save on Foods locations was a good effort. A total of $350 and 135 kg (300 pounds) of food was raised for the food bank at the Sunday barbecues at the grocery stores.

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CANADA DAY FATALITY CASE Trout pond opened in wake of oil spill Accused granted bail, again,

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Dickson Trout Pond has been given the all-clear for fishing, but elsewhere catch-and-release restrictions put in place after last June’s Red Deer River oil spill remain.

Fisheries experts from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development sampled fish from the pond and Alberta Health Services evaluated the results before determining there was “no risk for human consumption of the stocked trout in the pond,” says an emailed update from Alberta Environment’s acting issues manager Nikki Booth.

The pond was reopened at the beginning of the month and will be restocked this spring.

Meanwhile, work is underway to determine whether fish populations in the Red Deer River and Glennifer Reservoir are healthy enough to sustain harvest and whether contaminant levels pose a risk for human consumption.

It is expected to take until fall or early winter to pull together testing results so catch-and-release restrictions on the Red Deer River upstream of the Dickson Dam will remain for this year’s fishing season.

Restrictions were imposed last August, two months after a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline ruptured under the Red Deer River, about one km north of Sundre, spewing up to 375,000 litres of light sour crude.

Cleanup took months and was expected to cost more than $50 million.

The oil company continues to monitor the river and has put measures in place to allow government experts to study mountain whitefish eggs to see what they were exposed to over the winter.

Detailed fish population studies will begin this spring with further contaminant sampling. The results of similar sampling reviewed by Alberta Health last December determined contaminants were at “levels below concern for human consumption,” says Booth.

“Fish habitat status evaluations are planned to be undertaken following the high water period in early summer.”

In its latest update, Plains Midstream said it has provided Alberta Environment with a long-term monitoring proposal and awaits feedback. Water quality monitoring devices were placed in the river in February and results are under review.

Plains Midstream and provincial regulators will return to cleanup sites this summer to evaluate last year’s work.

Compensation for landowners is “92 per cent complete” as of the end of March, says the company.

“All outstanding claims within the current process will be given written notice by mid-April regarding a 30-day resolution period to finalize the claims.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

with strict new conditions

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Bail and a new set of release conditions have been granted for a former Red Deer man who is awaiting trial in connection with a fatal collision near a Bower Ponds on Canada Day 2010.

New charges, including breaching release conditions and a series of traffic violations, were laid late in March against Rodney Ross Arens, 35, a building contractor now living in Sylvan Lake.

Arens is awaiting trial in connection with the fatal collision in which a 13-year-old boy was killed and his older brother and sister were injured.

Arens turned himself in to RCMP in Ponoka on April 4 after learning that a warrant was issued for his arrest when he missed a court date on the new charges in Red Deer the previous day.

He was held at the Red Deer Remand Centre awaiting a bail hearing, which went before Judge Bert Skinner in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday.

After reviewing submissions from Crown prosecutor Jason Snider, Skinner revoked a cash deposit of $650 that Arens had posted for his earlier release.

Skinner then ordered that Arens be released under a strict set of conditions once he is able to produce a $1,500 cash deposit along with a surety of $10,000. A surety is a type of guar-

antee, in which another person agrees to be held responsible for an accused person’s actions during the period of release.

Conditions imposed on Thursday include a curfew from 10:30 p.m. to 6 a.m., abstinence from all alcoholic beverages and non-prescription drugs and weekly reporting, in person, to the RCMP in Sylvan Lake. Arens is also prohibited from occupying any motor vehicle, excluding public transportation, unless the vehicle’s registered owner or a company representative is also present.

Arens is still awaiting trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on charges of impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing injury, dangerous driving causing injury, refusing to provide police with a sample of his breath and breaching conditions of his release on older charges.

The eight-week jury trial was supposed to start on March 25, but was postponed when he fired his lawyer.

A new trial date is to be set in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday, May 6. Arens is to return to provincial court the next day to address the new charges, which include three counts of breaching release conditions, plus Traffic Safety Act violations including driving an unregistered vehicle, driving an uninsured vehicle and driving without holding a valid operator’s licence. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe plans community cleanup Lacombe residents are invited to pitch in as part of a 20-minute community make-over on April 25.

The cleanup effort has been staged as part of the 46th annual Pitch-In Canada Week running April 21-27.

City residents are encouraged to clean up around their homes, schools, businesses and workplaces for 20 minutes from 2 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.

Community groups are invited to register with the city before they head out to clean parks, trails or other green

spaces.

Participating groups will be entered into a draw for a pool party at the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre with food supplied by Lacombe Sobeys. School classes taking part can enter a draw to win a healthy school lunch provided by the city.

A limited supply of Pitch-In bags are available at city hall for residents.

To register, call Sonya Beauclair at 403-782-1267 or email sbeauclair@ lacombe.ca.

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Learning about the past as a precaution NEW YORK — I remember sitting with my back to the window. This was mostly because the Wi-Fi in the Leipzig, Germany, apartment I was renting wasn’t great and I needed to use the Ethernet cable, which forced me to sit that way.

But whenever I took a break, I would go to look out the window.

The blinds were broken, but I would peek through to check on the 140 empty chairs on a raised platform six floors below.

The chairs represent the 14,000 Jews who once prayed in this spot.

On Nov. 9, 1938, their synagogue was destroyed and in the following years the community was rounded up and decimated by the Nazis.

Like many Jews of my generation, my relationship to the Holocaust is one of remembering, one of learning about the past as a precaution.

Though I’m too far removed to have experienced anything firsthand, or even secondhand, as many children of survivors have, I’ve been told about the Holocaust so many times — through school plays, camp activities, heritage trips to Poland, some of my favorite YA novels — that I’ve internalized it; it’s come to feel like a

shared memory even though I was spared the trauma.

The title story in Nathan Englander’s latest collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, captures the culture of this transferred memory, describing a curiously popular game in which Jews try to figure out which of their neighbors would hide them should the Nazis threaten us again.

In one sense, the game plays on Jewish paranoia, but it also taps into this idea of transferred memory. Never having had to hide ourselves, we imagine what it would be like if we did.

I’ve been thinking about that game, and about those chairs, a lot lately.

Monday began the eight-day period designated by the U.S. Congress as Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, which coincides each year with the Israeli day of Holocaust remembrance: Yom HaShoah.

These events prompt Jews and gentiles alike to remember the Holocaust — and to consider the best way for memorializing it, a question made that much more pressing as the last of those who survived it disappear.

Earlier this year, I spent a few months living in Germany, where reminders of the Holocaust are around every corner.

Every time someone asked me

why I was making the trip, I gave a different answer.

My Jewish day-school education had taught me to fear Germany, but I fell in love with what the country has become during a visit in my college years.

To reconcile the two ideas of the place, I boarded a plane.

I kept my job and worked New York hours (4-12 p.m. German time) and spent the days learning the cities I visited — I spent my first six weeks in Berlin — and exploring converted post offices, bunkers and factories all turned into various art spaces.

I ate in more than one vegan restaurant that doubled as a secondhand clothing store.

I went to bookstores to hear experimental jazz and abandoned buildings to see opera scenes from Faust performed before a packed screening of “Mephisto” followed by, of course, a rave.

Each Saturday morning I would go to synagogue services, not always the same one: There was the Synagoge Oranienburger Strasse, a rebuilt dome that is an iconic part of the Berlin skyline; Synagoge Rykestrasse, which was not totally damaged during Kristallnacht and was the only active synagogue during the GDR (East Germany); and the Lauder community in Berlin.

I loved participating in the small but lively Berlin Jew-

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burg Gate. Many people have been highly critical of the design — 2,711 gray concrete stelae — for its lack of specificity (which murdered Jews are being remembered?) and clarity (are these headstones?

Sarcophagi?).

But I think the ambiguity, which really isn’t ambiguous at all, is what makes the memorial so successful. I understand that assuming everyone knows something is the path to everyone forgetting it, but I don’t think the main purpose of a Holocaust memorial is to educate the viewer. I was drawn to the memorial more for what it left unsaid.

Nothing can replace education about what happened to this congregation, and nothing should.

But memorials can have more emotional resonance than a textbook.

They capture your attention, force you to think. And the best ones — to me, at least — force you to relate to them without instruction, because instructing isn’t their job. The 140 chairs outside my apartment were beautiful, which makes them all the more powerful. They’re something I will never forget.

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ish community. It felt like an assertion of power and pride — the ability to be a Jew doing Jewish things in a country where that had been impossible only a few decades earlier.

But I wasn’t really going out of my way to do Jewish things in Berlin — I always pray on Saturday morning. Nor was I going out of my way to do Holocaust things — they were impossible to avoid, even if I wanted to.

The streets are lined with the Stolperstein — the everpresent Gunter Demnig-designed cobblestone-sized memorials on the ground in front of the homes of every Jew who was deported. The only thing I did steer clear of was the Jewish Museum.

On my previous visit to Berlin, I had made the trip to the museum, already a bit skeptical.

I have a conflicted relationship with Jewish museums that display the “history” of the Jews; they remind me of the Museum for the Extinct Race that Hitler had proposed (this feeling was solidified on a visit to Prague, which made me feel like my traditions and customs were for a vestige of an extinct race). I didn’t go back.

I did begin to frequent the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, though — it was unavoidable, purposely so, right near the Branden-

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Love is in the air “Life has gone out of its way to ig- up steam. And much credit goes to nore me,” says sad-sack Barney Cash- Sarah Hemphill’s brilliant portrayal man in Central Alberta Theatre’s en- of Bobbi Michele, the second woman gaging production of Last of the Red Hot Barney tries to have an affair with at Lovers. his mother’s house.

Saddled with three kids, Bobbi is an unemployed a devoted but “not vivanightclub singer who’s cious” wife named Thelma, prone to bursting into song and a fish restaurant, Barand telling paranoid stories ney thinks a spot of adultery about being stalked and might jolt his average life having her lhasa apso dogout of the doldrums. napped by a mysterious Mr. Of course, Barney, played H.

by Curtis Closson, gets more Hemphill’s subtle body than he bargained for in this language and superb comic well-done version of Neil Sitiming makes her outlandmon’s classic 1969 comedy, ish Bobbi completely bewhich opened Thursday at lievable. And Closson’s beLANA the Nickle Studio, upstairs wildered reactions to this MICHELIN at Red Deer’s Memorial bizarreness turn Barney Centre. into a more dimensional And we’re not talking character. about sex here.

A scene in which Bobbi The first woman who Barney tries lights up a joint and convinces the conto get into the sack — or rather onto servative restaurateur to inhale marithe couch at his mom’s house while juana smoke is a highlight. his mother’s away volunteering — is “I don’t feel my tongue,” says a wooElaine Navazio, hilariously played by zy Barney, who soon comes to the panNicole Orr. icky realization that Bobbi — who reElaine, a brassy blonde who’s a re- portedly sleeps between leather sheets peat customer at Barney’s seafood res- with a “Nazi” vocal coach — might actaurant, has clearly been around the tually be more crazy than kooky. block a few times. When Barney deThe problem with Barney’s third lays cutting to the chase and instead female visitor, Jeanette Fisher, is of a tries to engage Elaine in conversation, less volatile and more morose nature. she smells his inexperience (as well as Jeanette, who’s a friend of Barney’s the lingering odour of oysters on his wife, Thelma, turns off her come-hithhands) and her eye rolling begins. er charm the minute she crosses the Barney is soon overpowered by threshold of Barney’s mom’s place. She Elaine’s cynical personality — and the begins asking such romance-killing same can be said for Closson, who ini- questions as, “You don’t think there tially comes close to being steamroll- are worse things than death?” and ered by Orr’s strong performance.

“What gives you the strength to go on?”

Fortunately, Closson becomes surer Barney spends what should be his of his lines as the play progresses, and whoopee time trying to talk Jeanette his Barney becomes more reactive and (who’s well played by Rachelle Mcless emotionally flat.

Comb) out of her disappointment in By the second act, the comedy di- the human race, starting with her husrected by Albertus Koett really picks band, Mel.

CAT OFFERS UP A HUMOUROUS AND POIGNANT STAGING OF NEIL SIMON’S CLASSIC LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS

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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. The CAT production continues at the Memorial Centre’s Nickle Studio until April 27.

The thing that’s made Neil Simon’s sexual revolution comedy stand up over the past four decades is the playwright’s sharp insight into the human condition. Barney’s sense of the years passing him by is relatable to many people, and so is Jeanette’s disappointment in where life has taken her.

While most of the witty dialogue

in Last of the Red Hot Lovers is geared to providing audience members with a good laugh, Simon also manages to squeeze some poignancy into this play before it’s over.

Both are great reasons to catch this entertaining CAT production before it winds up on April 27. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

A home run THE STORY OF BASEBALL LEGEND JACKIE ROBINSON’S EARLY CAREER IN THE MAJORS IS A STIRRING, INSPIRING FILM

BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE 42 Three stars (out of four) Rated: PG

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Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in a scene from 42. The movie, about Robinson’s life, is bringing his inspiring story to a new generation.

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There are a lot of films about baseball, a few of them great — Bull Durham and The Natural come to mind. There’s an even greater number of films about downtrodden heroes rising and prevailing over adversity, far too many to name.

So writer/director Brian Helgeland has a dinger of a challenge in bringing the story of baseball legend Jackie Robinson — the first black man to break the colour barrier in Major League Baseball — to the silver screen.

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Marianas Trench broadens its reach POP BAND’S AUDIENCE GROWING AS HITS PILE UP

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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As Canadian pop band Marianas Trench prepares for the fishbowl experience of performing live on MuchMusic, giggling young fans are gathering in the adjacent TV studio.

“We’re standing in the makeup room, and I hear people on the other side of the door,” said lead guitarist Matt Webb, who had just wrapped a sound check in Toronto before doing a recent phone interview with the Advocate. “It’s pretty close proximity here,” a chuckling Webb added. “But we enjoy these small, intimate shows. It becomes a real interactive experience.”

Marianas Trench may not have so many cozy concert opportunities in future.

The Vancouver-based group that performs with Down With Webster and Anami Vice on Wednesday at Red Deer’s Centrium, has been playing to bigger and bigger crowds since its last album, Ever After, produced a string of radio hits. Haven’t Had Enough, Fallout, Desperate Measures and now Stutter have all had tons of profile-raising airplay.

As a result, Webb said Marianas Trench has been performing for as many as 50,000 people at some festivals. And starting last year, the group has also been headlining tours through Canada, Asia and Australia.

“I don’t think things have changed that much for us. We’re still having fun touring and working hard,” Webb added. “The only difference is that maybe we are getting known more in-

Who: Marianas Trench with special guests Down With Webster and Anami Vice When: 7 p.m., Wednesday Where: Red Deer’s Centrium Tickets: $39.75, $58 from Ticketmaster ternationally.”

The musicians are next planning a tour of the U.S., where some Marianas Trench singles have done pretty well.

“There’s been a lot going on,” said Webb, who’s glad the group’s last concept album has been so well received.

Ever After is constructed around a storyline about a heartless queen and an imprisoned princess, conceived by lead singer, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Josh Ramsay. He decided not to put pauses between the tracks as a way of encouraging fans to experience the whole album instead of just buying random singles off iTunes.

Webb doubts if this effort will have much effect on shoring up overall CD sales, which “are dying, that’s for sure.” But he’s glad that the theatrical aspects and storyline of Ever After appear to have sparked fan interest.

“I find it refreshing that a lot of people are digitally downloading the whole album, as opposed to just individual singles.”

Webb revealed his favourite song on the album is the title track, which has not been released as a single because

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Marianas Trench, the Vancouver-based band that appears at the Centrium on Wednesday. They are playing larger venues, including festivals with 50,000 fans. it doesn’t really fit radio format. “It’s a little more out-of-the-box and challenging to play live. And creatively, it’s more cool than just a three-chord song.”

He hopes his band’s next album will feature more tunes that break the format.

Marianas Trench was formed in 2001 by Ramsay, who recruited his high school friend, Webb, as lead guitarist.

They found drummer Ian Casselman through a want ad in the Georgia Strait, and through him discovered bassist Mike Ayley. The band best known for the tune Celebrity Status off the Masterpiece Theatre release, is signed to 604 Records, which is co-owned by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback.

After so many tours together, Webb is glad to report all the group members still get along. “We respect everyone’s personal space and we’ve learned to recognize when someone needs some alone time. It’s just like any relationship, except it’s with four people.”

While a lot of young bands have gone off the rails the moment success strikes, Webb believes his still-single bandmates are too well grounded for bad behaviour.

“We’re careful, in terms of our lifestyle, staying healthy and exercising.

And we stay away from adult beverages. . . .

“Priority-wise, our families are at the top.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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The world according to Weird Al HIS WORK MAKES FOR A PRETTY GOOD HISTORY OF POP MUSIC, IN PARODY the channel on the map, but Yankovic’s scene-for-scene parody, Eat It, might have done just as much.

Many music artists consider it an honour to be parodied by Yankovic.

Alpocalypse, Yankovic’s latest album, parodies Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, T.I., Miley Cyrus and other artists, and addresses the recent CIA scandal, celebrity-gossip TV, tattoos, Craigslist and other cultural touchstones.

Creating parodies, he says, has become a little more difficult.

“I love YouTube, and I think it’s wonderful that people are able to express themselves freely and get their stuff out there, but it makes it harder for me to compete. I’m going to only be one of 1,000 people doing a parody of any given song.”

Of course, he also occasionally mines an older song. He’s now in the position of audiences hearing his parodies before they actually hear the songs he’s making fun of.

“In 1999, I did a parody of Don McLean’s American Pie called The Saga Begins (the story of Star Wars in song), and a lot of kids were not familiar with the original.

“After I did my parody, Madonna did a version of American Pie and these kids are going, ‘Why’s Madonna doing this unfunny version of a Weird Al song?’ ” Yankovic says his original songs written to sound like other artists’ songs are more difficult to create.

“Not only do I have to come up with a melody and words, but I have to study an artist’s body of work, really dissect their oeuvre ... and sort of put on their skin and try to write a song like they would -- except more sick and twisted.”

Sick and twisted as he might be, Yankovic says the Napster era sometimes gave people the wrong idea about his music.

“I got the credit or the blame for 90 per cent of the parody songs in existence. People started saying, ‘Oh, Al did this song! Boy, he sure used a lot of foul language on it!’ No, that wasn’t me. My shows are family-friendly. You don’t have to worry that I’m gonna use the F-word.”

Music isn’t the only thing in Yankovic’s resume. He’s done extensive TV, made a feature film, directed videos

BY WAYNE BLEDSOE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES If you took a notion to listen to Weird Al Yankovic’s music chronologically, you’d have a pretty good history of pop culture.

From 1980’s Another One Rides the Bus (a parody of Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust) to 2011’s Perform This Way (a parody of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way), he has poked fun at popular music and current events.

Yankovic laughs at the idea that maybe he’s an unintentional historian.

“I don’t think I’d ever describe myself as such,” says Yankovic in a phone call, “but sometimes fans who are not so much into pop culture use me as CliffsNotes for pop culture.

“You can see what was happening in any era by seeing what I was making fun of at the time.”

He says it’s a little like when he was a young teen reading Mad magazine.

“I would read about movies that I was too young to see, world history and politics that I wasn’t really following at the time, but I was learning about it through the lens of Mad magazine. For certain people, I supply that role.”

Raised in Lynwood, Calif., Yankovic began gaining attention for his parody songs (accompanied on his own accordion) while he was a high-school student and landed a song on the Dr. Demento radio show.

The American syndicated show featured new and vintage novelty songs.

When Yankovic moved on to study architecture in college, he continued to send tapes to the program.

“Dr. Demento was decades before YouTube existed, and thank God he was there,” says Yankovic.

“That was the only way I could get my stuff out there. He gave me airplay back when it mattered.”

My Bologna, Yankovic’s parody of the Knack’s My Sharona, earned the approval of the Knack, who encouraged Capitol Records to release it as a single in 1979.

Two years later, Yankovic released his first album. It didn’t hurt that MTV was in its infancy and Yankovic’s parodies were perfect video vehicles.

Michael Jackson’s Beat It might have been one of the videos that put

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MOVIES: Well-paced, often riveting story It’s a relief to report that the result of his efforts — 42, the number Robinson wore in his decade-long career with the Brooklyn Dodgers — is well-paced and often riveting, and manages to inspire while remaining true to the sport and to the player who changed it and all of professional sport forever.

Helgeland is more experienced as a screenwriter than as a director, having won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for L.A. Confidential. It shows in the meticulous reconstruction of the events leading to Robinson’s elevation from the Negro League’s Kansas City Monarchs to the Dodgers’ farm club, the Montreal Royals, and his first year on the legendary team.

The film opens with a newsreel snapshot of the U.S.A. in 1945, a time when “America’s greatest generation” was coming home from the Second World War and players like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio were coming back to the game.

But the Jim Crow laws throughout much of the U.S. that enforced segregation between blacks and whites remained stubbornly in place.

“We’re not in Pasadena anymore,” Robinson’s new bride Rachel (Nicole Beharie) notes ruefully as she spots a “Whites Only” sign above the ladies’ room in the Florida town where Robinson has been sent for spring training.

But Dodgers owner Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) is determined to shake things up. He’s got reasons that go deeper than the argument he makes to shocked aides — that “dollars aren’t

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enced director would have wrung better performances (and greater emotional depth) from the cast.

That said, 42 is very solid entertainment, inspirational without pontificating. While not quite a grand slam, it’s definitely a winner that will get the fans on their feet.

Bruce DeMara is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

“A wild essay on the marvels and messiness of Love.

The show hits one comic high after another”.

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“I’m amazed every day that I get to do this for a living, because I remember the resistance that I got from record labels in the early ’80s when I was trying to get a record deal.

“They were like, ‘Oh, ha ha. Novelty music. You’ll be around for two weeks!’

Well, I guess I’m a novelty dinosaur at this point!”

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and, more recently, written children’s books.

His first, When I Grow Up, was a New York Times best seller in 2011, and his follow-up, My New Teacher and Me, will be released in June.

Still, most people know Yankovic when they hear him skewer a popular song and, at this point, he’s the most successful parodist of the modern age.

black and white, they’re green” — and the team needs to add more fans from Brooklyn’s large black community.

Ford anchors the film, dominating every scene in his portrayal of Rickey, gruff and gravelly voiced but with a strong moral core and an amusing interest in etymology.

Relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman has the presence to carry the title role, with a smoky voice, soulful eyes and an easy smile. His performance is, if anything, nicely understated.

There’s also some great supporting work from the cast, including Christopher Meloni in an all-too-brief turn as manager Leo Durocher, Lucas Black as team captain Pee Wee Reese and T.R. Knight as Rickey’s mousy assistant Harold.

There’s an absolutely loathsome (as in very good) performance by Alan Tudyk as Ben Chapman, team manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, whose racist tirade aimed at rattling Robinson at the plate results in his fellow Dodgers rallying around him.

To his credit, Helgeland’s script does not shy away from using the truly ugly language at the time. He also presents racism in its varied forms, both overt and insidious, and reminds us that those who sit on the fence too long share culpability with those who wear their black hearts on their sleeves.

Helgeland and his team have a fine eye for detail, recreating authentic costumes and settings, and loading scenes with the vintage cars of the time.

If the director falters at all, it is in small ways, allowing scenes to drag on too long. At more than two hours, some filmgoers may feel the need for a seventh-inning stretch.

He also fails to capitalize on a few critical scenes, where a more experi-

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DOLLARAMA EYES BARGAIN SHOP LOCATIONS MONTREAL — Dollarama could pounce on the misfortunes of The Bargain Shop as it looks to expand its national reach by adding about 80 stores again this year.

Dollarama CEO Larry Rossy said Friday that the discount chain is eyeing some of the locations currently held by the small-town retailer which is reportedly closing 64 stores as it restructures under creditor protection.

“There are locations that they have that we may want,” Rossy said during a conference call.

The comments came as Dollarama (TSX:DOL) raised its quarterly dividend to 14 cents per share, up from 11 cents after reporting a big increase in fourthquarter earnings that beat analyst estimates. The Montreal-based discount chain reported a profit of $77.1 million or $1.04 per diluted share for the quarter ended Feb. 3. That compared with a profit of $63.6 million or 84 cents per diluted share in the same quarter last year.

Sales, helped by the additional week, as well as new stores, totalled $561.9 million, up from $468.7 million a year ago.

U.S. RETAIL SALES FALL 0.4% IN MARCH WASHINGTON — Sales at U.S. retailers fell in March from February, indicating that higher taxes and weak hiring likely made some consumers more cautious about spending.

Retail sales declined a seasonally adjusted 0.4 per cent last month, the Commerce Department said Friday. That followed a 1 per cent gain in February and a 0.1 per cent decline in January.

Both February and January figures were revised lower. Consumers cut back across a wide range of categories last month.

Sales at auto dealers dropped 0.6 per cent. Gas station sales dropped 2.2 per cent, partly reflecting lower prices. The retail figures aren’t adjusted for price changes. Excluding the volatile categories of autos, gas and building materials, core sales dropped 0.2 per cent in March. That followed a gain of 0.3 per cent in February.

— Advocate news services

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Pipeline conditions released

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The panel weighing the future of the proposed Northern Gateway project released a long list of conditions Friday that the company would need to meet should the project receive approval, including almost $1 billion in liability coverage in the event of a catastrophic oil spill.

The joint federal review panel stressed that the release of draft conditions does not mean a decision has been made.

“The panel has not made any decisions on whether or not to recommend approval of the proposed project,” said a letter pro-

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“The publication of potential conditions is a standard step in the hearing process that is mandated by the courts.”

The parties involved have until the end of May to comment or propose additional conditions. Among the 199 conditions proposed by the panel, Northern Gateway Pipelines, a subsidiary of Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (TSX:ENB), must have total coverage of $950 million for clean-up, remediation and any other damage that might result from the project.

That would include unfettered access

to at least $100 million within 10 business days of a large spill to cover immediate costs while insurance claims are processed.

The company would also have to undertake a research program on the behaviour of heavy oils such as diluted bitumen, a molasses-like petroleum product that will course through one of two pipelines linking Bruderheim, just outside of Edmonton, to a tanker port in Kitimat, B.C. The second pipeline would carry natural gas condensate, used to dilute bitumen, east.

Northern Gateway would need to submit environmental and marine monitoring plans and track aboriginal, local and regional employment for monitoring by the National Energy Board.

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Social media, money, healthy eating among topics

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR What do social media networking, money management and healthy eating habits have in common?

All three topics — and others — will be discussed at the Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association’s conference in Red Deer on April 26 and 27.

Although organized for professional human ecologists and home economists, portions of the conference will be open to members of the public.

These include a presentation by Jeff Mulligan, the mayor of Lloydminster and a longtime businessman. He will share his insights into how social media can be used to make a positive impact in life, business and even politics.

Also speaking will be Lesley Scorgie, a financial consultant and the author of the bestselling book Rich by Thirty: A Young Adult’s Guide To Financial Success, and more recently Rich by Forty. Scorgie will describe how you can develop sound money management skills and a financial acumen, and build your net worth.

Dietitian Lee Finell, who works for Alberta Milk, will discuss how many people lose touch with their hunger awareness, and eat for social, emotional, habitual or comfort reasons.

The Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association represents professional human ecologists and home economists. Its members are trained in a diverse range of areas, including money management, consumer education, food and nutrition, housing, clothing, textiles, family behavior and human development. They work in a variety of vocations and professions.

Association president Kathleen Johnston said human ecologists and home economists are similar, with their names reflecting different terminology.

“It’s the same kind of focus on individuals and their near environment,” she said of their mandate, which includes improving the quality of life of individuals and families by helping them make the best use of their resources.

The Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association has 266 members, said Johnston, with 165 of these registered professionals with university degrees and who have satisfied the requirements for their professional human ecologist or professional home economist (PHEc) designation. The remainder are associate, related, affiliate or student members.

Association branches are located in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton, with the annual conference rotating among these cities.

Please see CONFERENCE on Page C8

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A Bettenson’s Sand & Gravel worker hoses debris to keep dust down as a fellow worker in a trackhoe knocks down the former MGM Ford Lincoln building Friday. Built in 1973, the building has been replaced by a new building at 3010 Gaetz Ave. The new premises on the same lot has more than 50,000 square feet over two levels. In addition to an expanded showroom and customer area, and a separate area for the dealership’s Lincoln brand, it boasts 32 service bays, with five designated for quick maintenance customers, eight for heavy duty trucks and four for detailing and cleaning work.

Home builder finalists announced

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Members of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Central Alberta will discard their coveralls and toolbelts in favour of formal attire on May 4.

That’s when the association will present its 2013 Awards of Excellence, with trophies to be presented in a range of categories.

Finalists were announced this week, with Falcon Homes, Platinum Homes, Sorento Custom Homes and True-Line Homes each with eight entries in the running, and Laebon Homes having seven finalists.

The awards categories and finalists are: • Best New Home up to $224,999: Laebon Homes, Sorento Custom Homes, Platinum Homes and Falcon Homes Ltd.;

● Best New Home, $225,000 to $259,999: Abbey Master Builder, Laebon Homes (two entries) and True-Line Homes; ● Best New Home, $260,000 to $299,999: True-Line Homes, Laebon Homes, Falcon Homes Ltd. and Abbey Master Builder; ● Best New Home, $300,000 to $374,999: True-Line Homes (two entries), Falcon Homes Ltd. and Ammonite Custom Homes; ● Best New Home, $375,000 to $449,999: Landmark Homes Red Deer, Mason Martin Homes, True-Line Homes and Sorento Custom Homes; ● Best New Home, $450,000 to $524,999: Laebon Homes, Larkaun Homes Ltd., Falcon Homes Ltd. and McGonigal Signature Homes;

Please see FINALISTS on Page C8

Rocky to host market access seminar

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House is one of 10 Alberta communities where seminars on accessing global markets will be held over the next few weeks.

The information sessions will be led by Alberta International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas, with attendees able to learn about key markets and opportunities, and the trade development services available to them.

“Many Alberta businesses are already successfully selling their goods and ser-

vices globally,” said Dallas in a release.

“These information sessions will provide invaluable information to other companies looking to enter the international market.”

Rocky will be the site of one of the first seminars, this Monday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Details can be obtained by contacting the Rocky Chamber of Commerce at 403-8455450 or rmhcofc@rockychamber.org.

“Alberta has a world reputation as a reliable, responsible trading partner,” said Dallas. “But in a global economy, continuing to promote Alberta’s competitiveness internationally is critical to our future prosperity.”

Finding out which careers will be in demand a great idea Dear Working Wise: I keep hearing about a shortage of workers in Alberta. I am just about to graduate from high school and want to know which careers will be in demand in the future. — Eager for a career Dear Eager: Alberta is expected to have a shortage of approximately 114,000 workers within the decade, according to Alberta’s 2011-21 Occupational Demand and Supply Outlook. But many of these occupations require specialized skills and training.

CHARLES Finding out which STRACHEY careers will be in demand and what WORKING WISE training you will need is a great idea.

It doesn’t make sense to invest years and thousands of dollars into the wrong postsecondary program.

You might find the recently released Alberta Labour Market Outlook 2013 helpful. The publication covers global trends

that are affecting Alberta’s economy, the outlook for our major industries, and a list of occupations that will be in high demand in the near term. The outlook is available at http://eae.alberta.ca/lmi.

Current high-demand jobs include: ● Software engineers; ● Restaurant and food service managers; ● Construction managers; ● Residential home builders and renovators; ● Geologists, geochemists and geophysicists; ● Civil engineers; ● Civil engineering technologists and technicians; ● Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics; ● Computer network technicians; ● Specialist physicians; ● General practitioners and family physicians; ● Pharmacists; ● Chefs; ● Cement finishers; ● Heavy-duty equipment mechanics; ● Automotive service technicians; ● Truck and bus mechanics/repairers; ● Motor vehicle body repairers; ● Delivery drivers; and ● Supervisors in petroleum, gas and

chemical processing and utilities.

For a longer-term outlook on Alberta’s labour market, check out the 2011-21 Occupational Demand and Supply Outlook under forecasts at http://eae.alberta.ca/lmi.

The report forecasts what the demand will be nearly 10 years from now for nearly 130 occupations.

Once you have narrowed down your career options, you can use the occupational information (OCCinfo) database of more than 500 different careers to find out more about the jobs that interest you most.

The OCCinfo (http://alis.alberta.ca/occinfo) occupational profiles include key information, including typical duties, working conditions, salaries, required educational qualifications, appropriate training programs, common employers, employment advancement and desired personal characteristics.

If you would like any more help planning your career, try out CareerInsite, a free online career-planning tool, at https:// careerinsite.alberta.ca.

Good luck!

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. Strachey can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov.ab.ca.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 94.59 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.40 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.86 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.02 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.46 Cdn. National Railway . . 99.11 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 125.61 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 79.51 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.36 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.10 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.75 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.23 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.53 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.72 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.62 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.79 Research in Motion. . . . . 13.85 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.48 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.49 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 44.30 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.20 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.48 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.51

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.52 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.10 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.74 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.56 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.81 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.94 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.18 First Quantum Minerals . 17.99 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.07 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.12 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.41 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.95 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.68 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.14

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 70.80 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.15 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.93 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.49 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.61

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 27.19 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 41.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.00 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.69 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.38 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.28 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.02 Canyon Services Group. 10.23 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.43 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.740 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.77 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.14 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.99

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market sold off Friday as concerns about the strength of the world’s biggest economy raised demand worries and helped send oil and metal prices tumbling.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 143.79 points to 12,337.59.

Falling commodities helped push the Canadian dollar down 0.3 of a cent to 98.64 cents US. U.S. indexes recouped most of earlier losses resulting from earnings disappointments from banks and a reading on March retail sales that missed expectations.

The Dow Jones industrials dipped 0.08 of a point to 14,865.06 as U.S. retail sales for March were down 0.4 per cent.

Economists had expected a flat reading following a 1.1 per cent rise in February.

The weak showing indicated that higher taxes and weak hiring have made consumers more cautious about spending.

An increase in Social Security taxes, which kicked in on Jan. 1, has lowered take-home pay this year for nearly all workers.

Someone earning $50,000 has about $1,000 less to spend in 2013.

“I had been a little puzzled as to why the markets haven’t

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CONFERENCE: Open to public The 2013 conference will be held at the Holiday Inn & Suites on Gasoline Alley, with Mulligan presenting from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on April 26, and Finell from 1 to 2 p.m. on April 27, and Scorgie from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on April 27.

Members of the public can register to hear Mulligan for $25, or Finell and Scorgie together for $25, by going to the Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association website at www.ahea.ab.ca and clicking on “Events & Meetings” and then “Apr 26 AHEA Annual Conference.”

Association members and others who are interested in attending the entire conference, which will include additional industry-specific presentations, can do so at the same site. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

FINALISTS: Many categories

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.86 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.32 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.73 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.09 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.08 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.06 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 1.080 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.59 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 28.82 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.98 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.83 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.15 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 49.98 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 63.21 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.71 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.16 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.76 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 35.29 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.41 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.99 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.78 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.33 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.48 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.40 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 61.60 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.64 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.45 been paying more attention to this story because it’s a very big dollar item,” said Robert Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse.

“Increased payroll taxes (are) coming off the bottom line for most people, and they’re having to make choices and so, things... that you can defer are being deferred.”

The Nasdaq composite index declined 5.21 points to 3,294.95 while the S&P 500 index was down 4.52 points to 1,588.85.

Gains this week have pushed the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 index further into record territory. However, traders wonder if the rally, which has gone on

non-stop all year, is looking a bit stretched.

The TSX is now back in negative territory for the year, down flat for the week and with a decline of 0.77 per cent for the year so far.

The Dow industrials finished the week up 2.05 per cent, or about 13 per cent year to date and the S&P is ahead about 11 per cent so far in 2013.

But analysts think the TSX faces greater challenges since it is so weighted in favour of energy and mining companies.

Those sectors put in a weak showing Friday as prices for commodities further declined in the wake of the weak U.S. retail data.

The gold sector led decliners, down about six per cent as June bullion fell $63.50 to US$1,501.40 an ounce.

Gold has fallen this week by almost five per cent after Goldman Sachs dropped its forecast for 2013 to US$1,545 an ounce, down from a prior forecast of $1,610. Also, minutes of the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed members were at odds about when to stop quantitative easing.

The program, involving printing more money to buy bonds, has had a depressive effect on the U.S. dollar in the past and helped hike gold prices since bullion is seen as an inflation hedge.

“Without an immediate crisis and with risk of a financial meltdown fading, the haven component of gold pricing continues to erode, while a slow global economy and falling commodity prices reduce the need for an inflation hedge,” said Colin Cieszynski, market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.

Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) gave back $1.44 to C$30.77.

Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) faded $2.06 or 8.24 per cent

$199,999: Falcon Homes (two entries) and Laebon Homes; ● Best New Multi Family Home over $200,000: Sorento Custom Homes and Larkaun Homes; ● Best Renovation Up to $99,999: Platinum Homes and True-Line Homes; ● Best Renovation over $100,000: Sorento Custom Homes, Bowood Homes, True-Line Homes and Platinum Homes; ● Excellence in Interior Design: Platinum Homes, Carpet Colour Centre, Falcon Homes Ltd. and Laebon Homes; ● Safety Leadership Award: Landmark Homes Red Deer, Bruin’s Plumbing and Heating Ltd., Gilmar Construction Ltd. and Falcon Homes Ltd. The association will announce the finalists for its Partner Awards during the week of April 22.

The Canadian Home Builders’ Association represents more than 8,000 member companies across Canada, including home builders, renovators, developers, trade contractors, building material manufacturers and suppliers, and lenders active in the housing industry.

to $22.94. Barrick shares have been under particularly selling pressure this week, tumbling nine per cent on Wednesday after a Chilean court suspended its Pascua-Lama mine after indigenous communities complained that the project is threatening their water supply and polluting glaciers.

The energy sector fell 1.95 per cent as May crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped $2.22 to US$91.29 a barrel.

Oil continued to lose traction after the International Energy Agency lowered its forecast for global oil demand in 2013 by 45,000 barrels to 90.6 million barrels a day. Its predictions were similar to those made earlier this week by OPEC and the U.S. Energy Department. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) shed $1.21 to C$31.28 while Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) fell 51 cents to $30.43.

May copper stepped back eight cents to US$3.33 a pound and the base metals sector declined 2.92 per cent. Rio Alto Mining (TSX:RIO) was down 27 cents at C$4.33 and Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) dropped 56 cents to $28.14.

Weakness spread across all TSX sectors with the tech sector down one per cent as CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) down 95 cents to $26.19.

Shares in BlackBerry (TSX:BB) edged three cents higher to $13.85 after the smartphone maker said it will file a formal complaint with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators about a “false and misleading” analyst report that the BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen devices are being returned in unusually high numbers. The Canadian company and U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless are disputing the report.

Traders also got their first look at earnings from American banks in the first quarter.

Shares in JPMorgan Chase were down 30 cents to US$49.01 as the bank made US$6.1 billion in the quarter, after stripping out payments to preferred shareholders. That was up 34 per cent from a year ago and amounted to $1.59 per share, 20 cents better than forecast.

Revenue was down three per cent from a year ago to $25.8 billion, after stripping out the effect of an accounting charge. That beat analysts’ estimates of $25.7 billion.

The TSX Venture Exchange lost 25.92 points to 1,022.61.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: May ’13 $0.10 higher $625.40; July ’13 $0.20 higher $612.70; Nov. ’13 $0.50 lower $560.50; Jan. ’14 $0.60 lower $559.50; March ’14 $1.00 lower $552.60; May ’14 $1.00 lower $550.50; July ’14 $1.00 lower $548.60; Nov. ’14 $1.00 lower $524.20; Jan ’15 $1.00 lower $524.20; March ’15 $1.00 lower $524.20; May ’15 $1.00 lower $524.20.

Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 $10.00 lower $234.00; Dec ’13 $9.00 lower $235.00; March ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; May ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; July ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; Oct. ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; Dec. ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; March ’15 $9.00 lower $235.00; May ’15 $9.00 lower $235.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 415,980 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 415,980.

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The Automobile Insurance Rate Board will be holding a consultation meeting to review insurance premiums for basic coverage for private passenger vehicles.

The Board’s mandate is to determine whether premiums for basic automobile insurance coverage should be uniformly adjusted based on the industry-wide experience in the past year and what is expected to happen in the future.

The Board’s focus for the meeting this year is centered on loss trends and the impact of the economic climate on claim costs.

3 ways to participate in the annual adjustment meeting:

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Design chic, save a bundle DESIGN THAT REQUIRES EVEN TINIER SPENDING Does high impact design tableaux in lobbies and public have to cost a fortune? areas, so, too, can interesting Can the modern home ex- talking points be constructed ude chic, contempoin the domestic setrary style when dolting. lar spend is strictly Under our limited? watch, though, Guess it depends these needn’t cost who’s in charge of any more than a your project. Allow round of drinks in us to explain. one of the aforeAs demonstrated mentioned outlast week, we’re posts. all about real deAnd we’re talksign for real people ing literally; a fat and, consequently, glass of spend the majorArgentine red at COLIN & ity of our schedule your local ShangriJUSTIN transforming ordiLa, for example, nary houses into excould easily skin tra ordinary homes. you 15 bucks, so do While similarly the math and dicontent toiling at the pricier vert spend from vino collapso end of client instruction — to fashionably feathering your when relevant projects ar- nest. rive — we’re much more challenged when purse strings constrict like a boa laying claim to terrified prey.

When assembling a feature Today, as a follow-up to last week’s column — where we wall project, it’s often fun to re-visioned Ikea cabinets — add extra framework.

This in mind, set decorawe’re thrilled to showcase design that requires even tinier tor Steve from Cityline used Frog Tape (this stuff is epic, spend.

While potentially hard to great adhesion and built-in believe, all the wall hang- paint bleed deterrent make ings, floral artistry and ac- for sharp crisp lines) to map cessories shown (short of two out lines and we specified yelcandle sticks plucked from low latex for one and black for our own condo) were plun- the other.

Yellow, from a design perdered from the shelves of Dollarama (dollarama.ca) for spective (especially when inclusion on one of our Cit- played with white), is fresh and spring-like, while black yline segments.

So what are the lessons to lends a dramatic note that further anchors the project. be learned?

Well, for us, exciting projects often depend upon looking at things with a degree of vim and vigour.

The white sofa bench was Dashing round the aisles, perfectly acceptable as we however, should be less about found it but, with a cute C&J snatch and grab and more twist, it became so much more. about cherry picking key piecAnd the trick? es for optimal reinvention.

Vision.

Could that jauntily toned That much is free. We embowl, for example, be wall bellished the furniture staple hung as an ‘art’ piece? by masking off sections and Could that glossy melamine applying two even coats of ebtray transmogrify into a mirony-toned paint and primer in ror when filled with reflective one. glass?

The result is eye catching Could those faux florals but the transformative effort twist into chic arrangements required is minimal. worthy of Elton John’s dressing room?

In creative hands, yes. Anything is possible.

To put all this into perspecPut the kettle on, you’re tive, consider, if you will, to- gonna be busy. day’s yellow and black framed You’ll need sixteen $1.25 vignette. black frames.

Our spell, it should be reOne $2 roll of peel and stick ported, cost less than the Ikea self adhesive butterflies. console ($89.99, ikea.ca) and Four $2 packs of 3D way less than the beautiful chromed butterflies and a Snag rug from EQ3 ($299.99, sheet of $1 yellow artists’ card. eq3.com) upon which our masOh, and you’ll need a little terpiece floats. patience as you build the DolThis, as we see it, exempli- larama goodies into our affies the measure of competent fordable vision. design; save a bit here, spend First, disassemble the a bit there. frames, remove half the As much about financial white mats and replace with balance as it is ‘having an eye,’ the yellow card cut carefully it’s how we tackle our projects to size. both on and off screen. ComNext, peel off and stick two mon sense, n’est pas? butterflies into each aperture In the same way that luxuri- and reassemble the frames. ous hotels create commanding

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Finally, using the sticky pad that lies to the bottom of each 3D butterfly, affix it to the glass as if floating in air.

For extra drama, we arranged our entomological swarm in a neat grid.

Doing so established strong graphic presence that allowed our project to fly. Almost literally.

$3.50.

To make it, we glue-gunned small plastic beakers to the top of candlesticks and popped round LED spot lights ($1.50) inside.

Shades were formed by inverting small plastic bowls and positioning these on top to crown each base.

Could this be any easier?

Floral fantasy

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Using $3 faux crystal bowls stuffed with floristry foam, we set to work.

Each stem cost $1.25 but is much more individual when bent and twisted into a ‘weeping’ formation rather than left tall and skinny.

A finishing flourish is the addition of faux pussy willow; this immediately adds an architectural twist.

FLOS inspired lights OK, so original Flos lights cost a fortune.

Our interpretation of the iconic piece, however, just

A week after making these we still get goose bumps.

Unbelievably cute, perfectly rigid and so of the moment, their light reflecting nature would add sparkle to even the dullest room.

But have you guessed what they are yet?

Or rather what they were, in their original incarnation?

Plastic faux crystal trays, no less, which cost just $2 a pop.

To construct, glue-gun two trays, lip to lip, then repeat the process.

These form the middle sections.

Attach one set to the other

and affix another two trays (double walled for extra rigidity) to form the top and bottom surfaces.

Job done!

A 10-minute project utilizing eight trays at a total cost of $16. Go figure!

Funky, huh?

And perhaps the least expensive vignette we’ve ever mastered.

Guess it’s fair to observe that today’s article is as much about achieving maximum visual return as it is shelling out, frugally, in the first instance.

As we’ve counselled before; it’s not what you buy but how you use it that makes the biggest difference.

And imagination, of course, is utterly free.

Now go find that glue gun.

And get crafty!

Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are the hosts of HGTV’s Colin & Justin’s Home Heist and the authors of Colin & Justin’s Home Heist Style Guide, published by Penguin Group (Canada). Catch them every Monday on Cityline (9 a.m. on City). Follow them on Twitter @colinjustin or on Facebook (ColinandJustin).

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You can send them a personal design choice too. www.wetstyle.ca.

Old-fashioned claw foot tubs are available, made with lighter materials, as well as modern soakers with all the nozzles and dials for a spa water massage.

One small tip since you are in personal spa mode — go for a heated floor. Nothing like it.

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Question: We are in the process of designing a large spa bath (after many years jamming into a small bathroom with 2 kids).

We’ve done some research and find that showers seem to be taking over.

Would it make sense to splurge on a bathtub instead, which I totally enjoy? Or do we go with the times? Thanks.

Answer: Go with the times only if you love the trend. This is your spa, design it to suit your lifestyle and preferences.

Never mind what is popular. Yes, multipurpose showers are a big trend, but so are soaker tubs. And there are some amazing options out there that will make you feel like a princess.

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FLOOR: ‘Flaky’ idea Epoxy paint is thick enough to fill small cracks, so don’t worry about filling them.

The best looking formulations I’ve seen include coloured flakes that come as part of the kit.

Roll the epoxy paint onto an area you can reach across, then sprinkle the flakes on while it’s wet.

They make the floor look great, hiding any small flaws so they’re less noticeable.

Getting rid of mould Question: How can kill mould that appears and reappears in a corner of our bedroom ceiling?

It’s the place where the ceiling meets an outside wall. I scrub the stains off each spring, but it returns the following winter.

Answer: Although this situation seems strange, the explanation is pretty simple.

A lack of attic insulation directly above the area that gets mouldy allows the ceiling surface to become cold during winter.

The cold drywall encourages condensation, and this moisture fosters mould growth.

I’ve seen this situation before and it’s especially pronounced in corners because air circulation is often slow there.

Your first step to get rid of mould begins in the attic.

This will probably be challenging because there won’t be much room to work.

As the roof frame tapers down towards the edge of your house space becomes short.

That’s why this may be a job for spray foam insulation.

Polyurethane formulations are closed cell, so they don’t allow internal condensation.

You can remove existing insulation,

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To deal with the mouldy ceiling area, you first need to kill mould.

This used to involved bleach, but this method isn’t as safe nor as effective as more modern options.

The best mould-killing product I know about is called Concrobium Mould Control (www.concrobium.com).

It’s a non-toxic liquid that you spray on the surface. As it dries it kills mould and mould spores by mechanical action, crushing them physically.

Concrobium also offers residual anti-mould action, that prevents regrowth if the area ever does get damp again. Concrobium also offers the most effective mould stain removal product I know about.

It’s called Mould Stain Eraser. Mix the power with water, then apply it with a sprayer. Mould stains disappear without scrubbing.

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BATHROOM: Metallic paint Question: I would like to have an iridescent finish on the walls of my small ensuite bathroom.

I’m replacing peeling wallpaper.

Is metallic paint a suitable medium for a bathroom?

Thanks for your input.

Answer: Yes, you can apply metallic acrylic paint in your bathroom.

Remove the paper and any

glue residue, clean the walls and prime with a good water-based primer and you are ready to go.

Metallics are very popular right now, but in the soft, pastel shades, which are perfect for a bathroom. Why not extend the paint to the ceiling?

This will give a modern glow to your bathroom, with a bit of sparkle.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www. twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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Help stop drunk driving college student Dear readers: I’m disturbed. I was recently visiting a college campus when something happened that’s never happened before.

Before my event, I like to have dinner with students. It was during a lighthearted dinner conversation when a student casually revealed that he often drives drunk.

His tone was so casual; he could have been asking to pass the ketchup.

Hiding my horror, I casually asked him why drives drunk.

He didn’t like to leave his car in strange places, hated walking and didn’t like to depend on people to drive him home.

As a guest on campus, I have to maintain a certain level of professionalism, but I wanted to throw something at him.

HARLAN I was deeply disturbed.

COHEN See, after this particular event, I had a two-hour drive ahead of me.

I hate driving. Too many people I know, and love, have died while driving.

I imagined this dangerous drunk hitting me or someone I love.

My stomach lurched. I gently tried to explain that what he’s doing is selfish.

I offered alternatives.

Still, it didn’t register.

He tempered his story by telling me he only drives buzzed.

Another student chimed in, “Buzzed driving is drunk driving.” I was grateful for the support. I explained that he could go to jail, get his license suspended, ruin his future or kill someone.

Walking would be his smallest concern. Still, nothing. The impact of his selfish, ignorant and dangerous behavior didn’t hit him.

And that’s why I’m writing to you. I need your help. I want to help him. I want to turn my disgust into something positive. I want to keep him from killing someone or himself. I don’t want him to kill you or someone you love.

Here’s what I’m asking you to do: Write him a letter. Begin it with: “Dear Drunk Driving College Student, Before driving drunk again, PLEASE read this letter.” Email it, write it by hand or record it via video. Be bold. Be candid. Be real. Use whatever language feels comfortable. Share how your life has been impacted by driving under the influence.

Here’s how to send me your letter: Write me through my website www.HelpMeHarlan.com. Email me your letters to Harlan@helpmeharlan. com. Send videos to: Harlan@ helpmeharlan.com (keep them under a minute). Send handwritten letters to: Help Me, Harlan! 3501 N. Southport Ave 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

Question: I’ve been talking to a girl who interests me. The problem is that she has pictures of all her exes framed on her desk. What does this mean? Is that a red flag that she still hasn’t let go of the past? I find it a little strange. What’s your take?

Answer: It’s better than half-burned pictures of her exes. Her love for the past could be an unhealthy obsession, or a sign that she’s kind, genuine and not a monster who hates all the men she’s dated.

Date her. If she shows up with a picture frame and snaps a photo for her collection, it’s a bad sign.

If she spends all her time focused on you, her exes won’t matter. Not all people hate their exes. See if it’s strange or sweet. If you’re not secure enough to date a woman who respects here exes, she’s the wrong woman for you.

Find a woman who hates men.

Question: I’m not sure I am ready to have a boyfriend. There is someone I’m interested in getting to know better, but I’ve never dated anyone.

I am worried about moving too fast. I don’t know what’s it like to have a boyfriend. I don’t know if I’m ready. I don’t know how to know if I’m ready. Any advice?

Answer: Can you say “no” to men? Yes? No? Maybe? If the answer is NO, you’re not ready to have a boyfriend. IF the answer is yes, you’re ready.

Having a boyfriend means that your boyfriend will want things. Until you can say no and mean it, you’ll be too afraid to lose him.

A lot of people end up in relationships who can’t say no. People who don’t think they’re good enough to date have a hard time saying no.

People who don’t think they have a lot of options have a difficult time saying no. It’s hard to say no when someone says he loves you and you don’t know how you found love.

Dating someone who loves you more than you love yourself can be too much to handle. It becomes very hard to say what you think and do what you feel is right. That’s why the “no” test is the best test.

The secret to being able to say no is to love yourself and surround yourself with people who love you.

It’s knowing that you live in a world where lots of boys will want to date you.

Once you know it, dating becomes less about being wanted and more about what you want. That’s when you stop fearing rejection. That’s when you can speak freely. It’s when you can say no. It’s when you can demand and command respect. Once you can say NO to a man you’re ready to say YES — and start dating.

Question: I’ve been seeing a girl for a few months, but she doesn’t want to be in a real relationship.

She says it’s because her last boyfriend was a jerk to her. I’m a known “nice guy” and have always been good to my girlfriends. Everyone has told her this.

Should I give up, or keep trying to convince her that I’m worth her time?

Answer: How do get to be a “known nice guy”? Is there an online certification program? Do you get letters of recommendation? However you earned your nice-guy badge, there is trouble ahead. You are about to NOT be a nice guy. Here’s my prediction - you are going to continue to date her, be nice and prove that you’re a nice guy.

After a few more months of trying to get her to open up, you’re going to get tired trying to prove your niceness. Resentment will build. You’ll start to lose your nice nature.

And then guess what will happen next? You’ll break up with her. Then, you’ll be another jerk. So save yourself the trouble. Ask her what you can say or do to gain her trust.

Explain what you fear will happen. Encourage her to get some counseling and help. Unless she can trust you, trust that her self-fulfilling prophesy will come true. If she’s not comfortable dating nice guy, find a nice girl who isn’t afraid to be loved and respected by you.

Question: I’m newly single and back on the market. I’m really kinky, and I like bondage, humiliation, etc. I’m terrified that because of this that I’ll never

find a good man who treats me with respect and does that sexual piece for me too. Or they’ll think I’m weird. How do I bring it up to nice guys without scaring them away?

Answer: Good men like kink. But it helps to know that the good man calling you names, spanking you and humiliating you respects and cares about you.

Before whipping out the whips, handcuffs and leather, start the relationship by establishing a foundation of respect.

This will take some time. You need to know that the man you’re dating respects your boundaries and likes spending time with you.

Once you know a man doesn’t have any outstanding warrants, has a life outside of you and treats you the way you deserve to be treated (during daylight hours while sober), bring up your bedroom kinks.

Start with a conversation at lunch or dinner. Bring up one or two small kinks. Introduce him to something more familiar and less extreme.

Ask him what he’s into. See how he responds. He might be open to learning.

You can even start out an intimate relationship without bringing up the kinks. Don’t make this a terrible kinky secret, make it one small part of you.

The better you know a man, the more comfortable it will be to open up. The more he enjoys spending time with you, the more open he’ll be to new experiences. And as a rule, it’s safest to talk about sex while fully clothed outside the bedroom. This way, no one feels threatened or embarrassed.

Naked and surprised can be a dangerous combo.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

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Fuel Energy Canada, a Service & Fabrication Company for the Oil & Gas Industry, is looking for the following positions for our Red Deer Facility We are currently looking for Journeyman and Apprentices for all the below disciplines:

Olds College has a contract opportunity available for an American Sign Language Interpreter(s) to work with a hearing impaired potential student applying for an Exercise Rider/Jockey training program. The term of the contract will be for May 3, 4, and 5, 2013 with an additional 3 hours of meeting time to prepare for this 3 day assessment. The Interpreter will be responsible for assessing the translation of instruction in the classroom and lab, as well as identifying the safety risks associated for the student and the Interpreter in this environment.

Please forward a resume quoting competition #13056C by April 18, 2013.

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Reporting to the District Manager North, Sobeys Spirits *Wine*Cold Beer, you will be responsible for running your own multi-million dollar business.

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• Above average communication skills (oral and written)

The Conference Services Department has opportunities for two (2) Conference Services Assistants to perform a hospitality role in providing customer service to our clients. This is an excellent opportunity to work closely with a diverse range of clients. The anticipated term of employment is approximately from April 2013 to the end of August 2013.

• Full knowledge of retail operations • Proficient in use of Microsoft office suite • Relevant liquor knowledge is considered an asset • Knowledge of company programs, products, and standards is an asset

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• Proserve Certification is an asset • Working knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety legislation is considered an asset

Annual Salary: $37,060.26 to $40,803.77 Olds College has an opportunity for a regular full-time Heavy Duty Caretaker.

The successful candidate may be required to work a variety of shifts including evenings and some weekends.

Please submit resume by: e-mail: swcbjobs@sobeys.com fax: 1-780-447-2960

As a Caretaker II, you will be responsible for performing routine heavy duty manual labour, such as the cleaning and maintenance of college buildings, setting up and dismantling facilities for Conference Services’ functions, and performing minor maintenance.

Please quote reference number WVM-04042013-Y in the subject line.

Posting Date: April 4, 2013 Closing Date: April 25, 2013

Please forward a resume quoting the appropriate competition number by the closing dates indicated on our website.

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Teen driver needs a lesson Brain activity can predict Dear Annie: My 17-year-old son has be turning inside out. I heard myself his beginner’s driver permit and thinks scream. he knows it all. If I mention something Suddenly, I awakened. It was very he did wrong behind the wheel, I’m be- quiet. A police officer was standing ing “mean.” I can’t seem to get through over me. I saw a doctor. My body was to him the dangers that can mangled. I was saturated happen in a split second. with blood. Pieces of jagCan you please run the esged glass were sticking say Please, God, I’m Only 17’ out all over. Strange that I again? Maybe it will open couldn’t feel anything. Hey, his eyes. — Worried Dad in don’t pull that sheet over Kentucky my head. I can’t be dead.

Dear Dad: At least once I’m only 17. I’ve got a date a year, we get a request to tonight. I’m supposed to reprint this moving essay have a wonderful life ahead for the new crop of teenage of me. I haven’t lived yet. I drivers. We hope all parents can’t be dead. will place it where the kids Later I was placed in a will see it. (We also recomdrawer. My folks came to MITCHELL mend, Dad, that you pepper identify me. Why did they & SUGAR your criticism with praise have to see me like this? for all the things your son Why did I have to look at does correctly. He’ll be Mom’s eyes when she faced more likely to listen to you.) the most terrible ordeal of “Dead at Seventeen” her life? Dad suddenly looked very

by John Berrio old. He told the man in charge, “Yes, Agony claws my mind. I am a sta- he’s our son.” tistic. When I first got here I felt very The funeral was weird. I saw all my much alone. I was overwhelmed by relatives and friends walk toward the grief, and I expected to find sympathy. casket. They looked at me with the sadI found no sympathy. dest eyes I’ve ever seen.

I saw only thousands of others Some of my buddies were crying. whose bodies were as badly mangled A few of the girls touched my hand as mine. I was given a number and and sobbed as they walked by. Please, placed in a category. The category was somebody — wake me up! Get me out called “Traffic Fatalities.” of here. I can’t bear to see Mom and The day I died was an ordinary Dad in such pain. My grandparents school day. How I wish I had taken the are so weak from grief they can barely bus! But I was too cool for the bus. I re- walk. My brother and sister are like member how I wheedled the car out of zombies. They move like robots. In a Mom. “Special favor,” I pleaded. daze. Everybody. No one can believe “All the kids drive.” When the 2:50 this. I can’t believe it, either. p.m. bell rang, I threw my books in the Please, don’t bury me! I’m not dead! locker ... free until tomorrow morning! I have a lot of living to do! I want to I ran to the parking lot, excited at the laugh and run again. I want to sing and thought of driving a car and being my dance. own boss.

Please don’t put me in the ground!

It doesn’t matter how the accident I promise if you give me just one more happened. I was goofing off — going chance, God, I’ll be the most careful too fast, taking crazy chances. But I driver in the whole world. All I want was enjoying my freedom and having is one more chance. Please, God, I’m fun. only 17.

The last thing I remember was passing an old lady who seemed to be goPlease email your questions to anniesing awfully slow. I heard a crash and mailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s felt a terrific jolt. Glass and steel flew Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd everywhere. My whole body seemed to Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Signals from a specific region of the brain can help scientists predict what music people are tempted to buy and how much money they’re willing to spend on it, a new study suggested.

Research slated for publication Friday in the journal Science identified the particular area that becomes active when people hear a song for the very first time.

Measuring activity in that area — known as the Nucleus Accumbens — allows scientists to accurately assess the degree to which people are enjoying the sounds they’re hearing.

“This is the part of the brain that’s responsible for forming expectations over time,” lead researcher Valorie Salimpoor said in a telephone interview.

“This plays a big role in music because, as music is unfolding, we’re forming a lot of expectations.”

Salimpoor and her colleagues at the McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital conducted their research by creating a mock music store resembling iTunes.

Study participants browsed through 60 songs they had never heard before and were encouraged to use their own money to acquire the ones they wanted.

Participants underwent MRI scans as they perused the music selection

and specified how much they were willing to spend on each song. Music was available for free, 99 cents, $1.29 or $2.

Salimpoor said the amount of neural activity originating in the nucleus accumbens was a very accurate predictor of how much the subjects were enjoying each individual song and what price they were willing to pay to obtain it.

The pleasure people took from the new material was different from the anticipation of hearing a familiar song, she said, adding reactions to muchloved sounds originate in a related but different part of the brain.

Salimpoor said the study also reinforced exactly how subjective the enjoyment of music truly is.

Researchers noted a direct interplay between the nucleus accumbens and the superior temporal cortex, the part of the brain that’s been shaped by all the sounds people have been exposed to throughout their lives, she said.

People develop different notions of how music ought to sound based on the music they’ve listened to over time, she said, adding everyone’s superior temporal cortex evolves differently based on their exposure to different styles.

Salimpoor said the research was a further extension of a previous study that suggested the enjoyment of music had connections to some of the basic building blocks of human genetics.

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announcements In Memoriam In Loving Memory of Ernie Johnson Dec. 30, 1918 - April 13, 2010

CALNAN 1961 - 2013 Michael Shawn “Mike” Calnan of Red Deer passed away on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at the age of 52 years. Funeral arrangements for Mike will be announced at a later date.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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KUPSCH Leonard Albert 1928 - 2013 Len passed away peacefully on Monday, April 1, 2013 at the age of 85 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 54 years, Noreen; daughters, Lori, Elaine and Charlene (Rick); grandchildren, Jeremy, Christie, Carrie, Aaron and Dylan. Len also leaves brother, Gerhard; sisters, Elsie and Aileen (Noel). He was predeceased by his brothers, Richard, Helmut and Ernest; and sister, Eleanor. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the MS Society of Canada, Central Alberta C h a p t e r, 1 0 5 , 4 8 0 7 - 5 0 Ave., Red Deer, AB, T4N 4A5, in Memory of Len Kupsch. A Memorial Service will be held at Cornerstone Church, 5911 - 63 Street, Red Deer, AB on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 2:00 pm.

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GARRY KLEPPER 1936 - 2006 It’s lonesome here without you Dear, I miss you more each day.

Somehow life does not seem the same since you have gone away.

My heart still aches with sadness, my eyes shed many a tear. Only God knows how much I miss you as this ends another year.

From your loving wife, Jean

Births MARTIN Kory and Heather Martin would like to introduce their beloved daughter Isabel Maryan Martin who arrived a bit early April 5, 2013 at 12:10 pm. weighing 5 lbs. 7 ozs. Overjoyed grandparents are Johnny and Shari Bampfield and Kenny & Barb Martin

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Memorial Service For ROSIE H. NELSON (wife of the late Ronald E. Nelson of Bentley) on Sunday, April 21, 2013 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the rural Rainy Creek Hall.

No flowers please. If desired, memorial tributes can be made in her name to HEARTLAND MANOR, Box 85, Site 5, R.R. 4, Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4 or to WESTVIEW APARTMENTS, c/o Bentley Senior Citizen’s Housing Society, Box 870, Bentley, AB T0C 0J0 or to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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MARCINO Donna Mae (nee McLean) July 9, 1939 - April 9, 2013 Donna Mae Marcino beloved wife of Edmund “Moon” of C a l g a r y, p a s s e d a w a y peacefully with her family by her side on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at the age of 73 years.

Donna was born in Olds, Alberta. She will be remembered as a loving, caring and compassionate wife, mother, g r a n d m o t h e r, s i s t e r a n d friend. Besides her loving husband Moon, whom she has lovingly devoted the last four and a half years caring for, Donna is survived by three cherished daughters, Debra (Scott) Hamilton, Terri (Barry) Stuber and Shelly (Darrell) Chahley; five adored grandchildren, Ashley, Holly, Ryan, Colby and Shelby; two brothers James (Darlene) McLean and Larry (Glenda) McLean; five sisters, Elaine (Gordon) Fagan, Phyllis Rosenthal, Yvonne (Merl) Brown, Betty (Ron) Askeland, Diane McLeaghn; as well as by numerous nieces and nephews. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends and will be in our hearts and souls forever.

Never to be forgotten. A Celebration of Donna’s Life will be held at a later date.

Forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com In living memory of Donna Marcino, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES Fish Creek Chapel, 14441 BANNISTER ROAD S.E. CALGARY, AB Telephone: 1-800-661-1599

LOST: GERMAN SHEPHERD, mostly black with some tan. Approx 40-42 kg (90-95 lbs), slim build with a slight limp on his rear left leg. 2 1/2 year old neutered male wearing a dark grey collar with Pathways Animal Clinic rabies tag #1 and has a tattoo in one ear (YPW 31).

He went missing from his farm yard north of Markerville April 11. He is a bit shy of unfamiliar males, but is generally friendly.

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KUNDERT The family of the late Grace Kundert would like to thank friends and family for the comforting messages, flowers and cards sent during this sad time. Thank you to the staff at Harmony Home and Westpark Lodge for their affection and tender care of Mom over the years.

Thank you to Dr.Tillier for his compassionate care of Mom and to Dr. Odendaal for his continued care. Also, thank you to Steve Bacovsky and National Motor Coach of Calgary. Your generous nature has touched the family deeply and will always be remembered.

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BRUCE Karen (Enghoj) 1942 - 2013 The family of Karen is incredibly sad to announce that she passed away quietly at home in Red Deer on April 11, 2013. Marvin and Karen had just returned from an 8 day trip to the Mayan Riviera, Mexico where they had joined their children and grandchildren to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

The family is overjoyed now to have the many pleasant memories of this remarkable holiday. She, Babe, grew up in Killam, Alberta, the daughter of Chris and Karen Enghoj, and married Marvin Bruce on April 13, 1963 in Killam. They have three daughters Sonja, Marilyn and Gail, and three grandchildren of whom she was immensely proud. Karen loved sports, having played fastball when she was young.

She was also an accomplished figure skater, a figure skating instructor, and a curler. As an avid fan of curling, one of her favorite things to do was to sit with her coffee and watch a bonspiel on TV. Karen loved her family, gardening, sewing, playing cards, making everyone’s favorite foods, and making ‘home’ such a special place. She had a close circle of good friends she enjoyed meeting for coffee or lunch, or chatting on the phone with. She will be greatly missed by her loving husband Marvin; daughter Sonja Smith and grandson Andrew; daughter Marilyn and Terry Ablett, and granddaughters Megan and Erin; daughter Gail and Darren Smith; sister Norma and John Hancar; brother Bernie and Connie Enghoj; and brother Gordie Enghoj. She was predeceased by her parents, Chris and Karen Enghoj, and sister Kathleen Karbonik. A memorial service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the Red Deer Hospice Society or Gaetz Memorial United Church.

Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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It’s three years since you’ve been gone But our great memories and love lives on You’re the breeze in treetops, The flowers in the spring The rippling waters in the rivers And birds as they sing The beautiful sunshine And showers of rain Our love has never weakened Or our memories never dimmed.

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F/T SERVER ALSO contact the Division Office Fax: (403) 258-3197 or himalayancanada@gmail.com F/T BARTENDER. at 403-783-3473.

Mail to: Suite 5309, Wise is a leading oilfield Must have experience!

333-96 Ave. NE services provider that is Apply within: 2079-50 Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 WESCLEAN - Red Deer committed to quality and Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. F/T sales position in well safety excellence.

By emFax 403-347-1161 Phone Looking for a new pet?

Trades established territory Check out Classifieds to powering positive attitudes, calls WILL NOT be accepted. Base salary, commission, beliefs, perceptions and find the purrfect pet. and car allowance ARROW ARC WELDING values, our employees Celebrate your life E-mail resume to: is looking for care for the success of one with a Classified mdoll@wesclean.com or TREELINE WELDING APPRENTICE another.

ANNOUNCEMENT fax to 403-347-8803 LOCATED BY Gull Lake.

WELL SERVICES Please forward all resumes Phone Brian 318-6760 Has Opening for all to: jobs@wiseisi.com or by positions! fax to 403-340-1046 Eagle Builders is expandImmediately. All applicants ing its facility to double Professionals must have current H2S, production. We are curClass 5 with Q Endorserently seeking the following Professionals ment, First Aid to join our team in We offer competitive Blackfalds for all shifts: wages & excellent bene* Concrete Finishers fits. Please include 2 work Al-Terra Engineering (Red Deer) Ltd. reference names and * General Labourers SEEKING numbers Top Wages paid based on TRANSPORTATION Please fax resume to : experience. Full Benefits DESIGN ENGINEER 403-264-6725 and Uniform Package & TECHNOLOGIST. Or email to: included. Visit our website Above industry standard tannis@treelinewell.com for more detailed job wages, benefits plan, vehicle No phone calls please. descriptions at www. allowance, profit sharing.

Parkland Youth Homes is a non-profit, eaglebuilders.ca. AppliTOO MUCH STUFF? Experience a diverse cants are able to apply dynamic, learning organization that is variety of projects in Let Classifieds online or fax resumes to Red Deer & all over Alberta. passionate about providing quality service to help you sell it.

Human Resources P.Eng., E.I.T, or C.E.T 403 885 5516 or e-mail: youth and families in the Red Deer area. We designation with a minimum CELEBRATIONS HR@eaglebuilders.ca. are seeking qualified, motivated individuals to of 2-5 years experience.

HAPPEN EVERY DAY Please email resumes to: EMPLOYMENT fill the following positions: IN CLASSIFIEDS Tyler Broks, R.E.T OPPORTUNITIES tbroks@al-terra-rd.com CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD. Central Alberta’s Largest or fax 403-340-3038.

Car Lot in Classifieds Or visit website: Class 1 & 3 Drivers www.al-terra-rd.com Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

830

850

810

810

PARKLAND YOUTH HOMES SOCIETY Red Deer, Alberta

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Water management company looking to hire a qualified

Foreman/Supervisor

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB.

Experience preferred but willing to train the right candidate. Must be able to organize crews and get things done in a timely matter. The right candidate will start out at $100,000.00+/year, with company truck, benefits Wolf Creek Public Schools and bonuses. Work is in invites applications for the the Edson, Fox Creek, following position: Whitecourt area. Hiring immediately. Please Principal, forward resumes for reWolf Creek view to hrmng@hotmail.ca

Academy Lacombe, AB

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

For further specifics on the above positions, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

780

Opening soon.

Looking for registered massage therapists.

403-348-5650

LEGAL ASSISTANT

Restaurant/ Hotel

Johnston Ming Manning LLP has a full time Legal Assistant position available in our Real Estate Department.

This position requires someone who displays a team player outlook, effective communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a law firm, and a minimum of 3 years experience working as a Legal Assistant in residential real estate.

We offer an excellent working environment, a great benefit package, and the opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Please respond in confidence with a cover letter and resume to:

JOHNSTON MING MANNING LLP

Interested applicants please contact:

Catholic Social Services at 403 347-8844 ext. 2917

800

ZEN MASSAGE CLINIC

The individual will pay Room & Board.

Part of the hiring process demands proof of a current Criminal Record check prior to starting.

Catholic Social Services will facilitate an orientation session to the Approved Home Program and on-going monthly training is offered as well.

Oilfield

3rd Floor, 4943 50th St., Red Deer, AB.,T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

800

- PROGRAM SUPERVISOR (FULL TIME) - YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELLORS (FULL TIME) - YOUTH COUNSELLOR (.4 FTE) - YOUTH COUNSELLOR - RESIDENTIAL (WEEKENDS/OVERNIGHTS) - COMMUNITY YOUTH WORKERS (.4 FTE MON.-THURS. EVENINGS) - YOUTH COUNSELLORS (RELIEF)

Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

f f f

Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

www.parklandyouthhomes.ca for more information.

Applicants are sincerely thanked in advance for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition closes when positions are filled.

Resumes can be emailed to: HR@parklandyouthhomes.ca Faxed to: 403-346-3225 or forwarded to: Human Resources Parkland Youth Homes Society 4920 54 St., Red Deer, AB, T4N 2G8

Sales & Distributors

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

IMMEDIATE OPENING

ARMOR INC

is looking for licensed diesel & suspension mechanic for light duty automotive performance shop.

Diesel and transmission exp. preferred.

Top wages offered.

Bring resume to: 106 -6439 67 St. RD Phone 403-346-9188 or email donavan@armorinc.ca

830

FULL TIME SALES POSITION

Wages $12./hr.

Apply in Person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St. Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118

LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour.

4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Experience is an asset, but not a requirement.

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

800

A job at

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Nitrogen—Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Frac—Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Apprentice Heavy Equipment Technician

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

F/T & P/T KITCHEN HELPERS

Oilfield

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Fax resume: 403-885-5137 Email resume: office@ccal.com

Please visit our website

820

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

Tractor Operators Loader Operator Labourers Flag People

294290D16

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

770

vs. the other guys Peace of mind knowing work is steady and secure

A girlfriend/wife who is happy and thinks you rock!

Worry about not being able to pay your bills

Envy for the other guy’s happy girlfriend

Really cool stuff you can afford to buy

A thin wallet and stretched bank account

Where would you rather be working?

A full wallet and healthy bank account

Eagle operates the newest fleet of rigs, has safe operations, and offers steady work – that means more cash in your pocket, and a whole lot more!

Brochure for really cool stuff that you can’t afford to buy

Phone: (403) 346-7789, Fax: (403) 346-9770, Email: eaglejobs@iroccorp.com

NOW HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS www.eaglerigjobs.com

29020626

DAY DENTAL, Innisfail, requires a F/T RDA for a maternity leave, with the possibility of a permanent position. Please email resumes to admin@ daydental.ca

Janitorial

295766D13,14

740

295652D12-21

Dental

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 13, 2013 E3

LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816 OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT WTIH TJ PAVING. Looking for Exp`d Class 1 Driver to move equipment and haul material. Exp`d Asphalt Roller Operator. Exp`d Skid Steer Operator. Comp.

Wages. Great working atmosphere. FAX Resume to 403-346-8404 or email tjpaving@hotmail.com

PERMOLEX is looking for a

850

Ability to work safely in a team environment with other Trades people, Operators, Contractors and Apprentices.

Able to recommend changes for improvements and provide input for projects.

Must be a pro-active individual with a sense of ownership to all the duties with Safety as the priority.

Must have a strong work ethic, with a solid troubleshooting ability on a wide variety of systems.

Successful applicant will need a strong desire to continually learn about the position, and apply yourself to the improvement of all areas of the plant on daily basis.

Must be able to work in a fast paced environment where decisions must be made, and actions must be taken in a timely, safe and professional manner

880

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Morning Advocates Mon. through Fri. before 6:30 a.m. and Sat. by 8:00 a.m. in East Rosedale area $643/mo.

Reliable vehicle needed !!

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

We are currently seeking full time

Site Managers.

Responsibilities include; supervision and coordination of all site activities.

Maintaining schedules, multiple site personnel and trades, enforce safety policy and ensure the project is completed within contract specifications and scope. The successful candidate will have exceptional communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. They will be able to handle a fast paced work environment and be a team player.

Applicants must have a min. of 3-5 yrs. exp. and Journeyperson Certificate.

Email your cover letter and resume to info@tcdi.ca Application deadline: April 24th, 2013.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Timberstone Area Timothy Drive Towers Close Turner Crsc.

Tobin Gt. $110/mo.

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Truckers/ Drivers

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 Strong organizational program. Grain and super abilities with planning work B exp. an asset but not tasks on a daily, monthly necessary. If you have a and annual basis. clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to Ideal candidate will be a start making good money. journeyman electrician with fax or email resume and plant, emergency system, comm.abstract to plc and/or instrumentation 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net experience.

DO you want regular home Please fax your resume to times, dedicated truck, a company that cares, benePermolex at fax number (403) 346-2662 attention fits, exc. wages, safety bonus, year round steady Ray or email work? We are looking for rweleschuk@ CLASS 1 drivers for flat permolex.com deck work. Must know your PIKE WHEATON cargo securement, be hard CHEVROLET working and enjoy driving is currently accepting as you visit the 4 western resumes for provinces. Please contact SERVICE ADVISOR 1-877-787-2501 or fax rePOSITION. sume to 1-855-784-2330 Must have good communication skills and have the P/T CLASS 1 Truck Driver ability to work indepenreq’d to haul feed with dently or with a group..

B-Train Tanker to our farm Excellent company benefits. in Ponoka. 1-2 days per Please submit resume in wk, or 3-4 days every other person along with wage week, approx. 8-10 hrs. expectations to Joey. per day, flexible hrs. Must have clean driving record RELIABLE, competent Fax resume (403)784-2726 person required for or Phone 403-704-0257 deliveries, inventory, and stock control. Must have clean drivers abstract, be Misc. physically fit, and be able to operate a forklift.

Help Non-smokers preferred.

Please fax resume to 403-309-8302 or email brad@ comfortecheating.com

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Street. $236/monthly Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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

Trades

WE OFFER:

Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5.

No Phone Calls Please.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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.

F/T Customer Service Representative. Must be avail. weekdays and Sat’s. Some outside work req’d. Computer skills an asset. Fax resume to 403-347-0788

850

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.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION MECHANIC

Misc.

Help

880

880

Misc.

Help

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

CARRIERS NEEDED

Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

reddeer advocate.com

ANDERS AREA

F/T SYNIK CLOTHING, Gasoline Alley. Exc. hours.

Exc. pay, based on exp.

Apply w/resume in person.

Adams Close/ Adair Ave. 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 Dr SUNNYBROOK AREA

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

For afternoon delivery once per week

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In the towns of:

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Dietary Aid/ Housekeeping

positions available. Must be able to work in a team environment. Mandatory criminal record check required. Salary according to union scale. Please apply in writing to Lisa Manning-Eaton, Lodge Manager, 4277 46A Ave. or by fax to: 403-343-1728 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

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Firewood

1660

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

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.

Garden Supplies

1680

60 TOPPING onion sets, also called winter onions,potted, ready to plant 2/$1, lawn sprinkler $5; box of assorted flower pots $8 403-314-2026

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

FREE

for all Albertans

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stuff

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

1520

ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE One day only. Sat. Apr. 13, 9:30-4. Olds Legion, Admission $3.

Info. 403-227-6622

SERVICE WRITER

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

1570

Cameras & Accessories

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

SONY handicam, exc. cond. $200 obo 403-307-1586

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1930

WANTED: Farm Crest electric welder 403-746-5746

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Livestock

2100

available for Shares Great investment opportunity

GARDEN SHEDS Most sizes, delivery avail.

403-314-1870 http://willowrun constructionltd.webs.com

Household Appliances

920

Career Planning

ROLLER Skates ladies size 7, inclds. helmet, elbow/knee pads $10 403-340-1120

GOOD ANGUS BASE CROSS BRED COWS

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.

1860

AFFORDABLE

SAFETY COURSES

403.341.4544

Please contact QUITCY

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Industries #1 Choice!

1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

1840

1650

“Low Cost” Quality Training

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

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

1640

OILFIELD TICKETS

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

1780

1810

(across from Totem)

Alberta is Booming and so are We.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Journeymen Instrumentation Mechanic Experience with Maintenance and/or plant facility work CSTS A team player Excellent communication skills

Canada wide search.

Apply now

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Auto Service Advisors Parts Assistants Auto Technicians

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Sales Representative

Please Note: This job posting closes on April 21st, 2013

(Journeyman, Apprentices) (Computer experience)

Great Benefits & Wages

TARRABAIN MOTORS 295053D14

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Leanne Colby Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: lcolby@studon.com “People Pride & Service”

1630

SAFETY

880

Misc.

Help

1620

TRAINING CENTRE

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

CASUAL POSITIONS

Music Lessons

The Innovative Snack Food Company is looking for EquipmentWeekend Merchandisers!

We are looking for people Misc. who enjoy a fast paced FORK LIFT, Komatsu. 2000 lb. and friendly environment. rating $3500. 403-347-6455 This position is Saturday and Sunday only with 8 to 16 hours per weekend.

EquipmentA dependable vehicle is Heavy required. We offer a competitive hourly wage of TRAILERS for sale or rent Pets & $15.00 per hour, and Job site, office, well site or mileage for traveling in Supplies storage. Skidded or your own vehicle. wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Interested candidates LARGE bird cage on stand please forward your incl. accessories, $45 obo resume to Old Dutch 403-347-0293 Foods Ltd, 7863-49 Ave Tools Red Deer T4P-2B5, fax to 347-9155 or email harvey.rue@ CRAFTSMAN 10” table Dogs olddutchfoods.com saw with stand $100 403-347-1637 F1 LABRA DOODLES, THE BURNT LAKE F1B GOLDEN DOODLES GENERAL STORE puppies. Visit is looking for F/T Customer Farmers' www.furfettishfarm.ca Service person for shift Market text 306-521-1371 work. Please apply in or call 403-919-1370 person, Hwy. 11 West.

ALBERTA LAMB! Fresh, No phone calls please. frozen. Locally grown.

Sporting Locally butchered.

Phone 403-782-4095 Goods

GREENHOUSE WORKERS BLACKFALDS Central AB Greenhouses THE TASTY BAKERY We have some seasonal GENERAL HELP positions available comP/T OPPORTUNITY mencing immediately and No early mornings, ending June 1, 2013.

No late nights Duties include planting No Sundays, seedlings, watering plants, Apply in person at: moving plants from one area to another, loading Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters) plants onto carts and loading trucks. This position i s l a b o r i n t e n s i v e a n d Employment includes working weekends Training and some evenings (approx.

65 hrs./wk.). Must have own transportatin. We will train. Wage is $11.50/hr.

Fax resume to OILFIELD SERVICES INC. 403-885-4146 or email to: offers a variety of ar-cag@telus.net.

Please note that only those to be interviewed will to meet your needs. be contacted.

Standard First Aid , Confined

VANIER AREA

1590

NEW ladies Power Walk runners size 9 $20 403-340-1120

900

LANCASTER AREA

Clothing

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 FREE working clothes dryer to give away.

GONE

Household Furnishings

1720

KITCHEN TABLE WITH 4 Chairs. Padded, back & front. Exc. cond. Bought at Sim’s. $150. 403-343-1112 SOFA HIDE-A-BED Blue, double. $60. 403-346-3844

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

2000 LB. remote control winch, $65; New Woods outdoor 24/hr timer; $10; New sz. 11 black leather, zippered boots, $25; 20’ tow ropes (2) $10. ea. leather brown recilner $60 403-887-4981 4 GLASS goblets diamond pattern on pedestals 4/$16; oval bowl, mother of pearl antique, $45; Chinese evergreen $4; X-mas cactus, $10; 8 pc. sets cup/saucer bone china rose pattern all/$16; 12 ramekin dishes, clear glass diamond cut all/$9; 8 water glasses diamond cut all $6; 6 tall sherry style glasses all/$4/50 403-314-2026 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. beige coffee and end table $60, 403-887-4981 TIM Horton Bunn coffee maker $25; large cockatiel cage with stand $25; newer plastic canary cage $50; small bird cage $5 403-340-1120

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

Pasture/Land Wanted

2180

PASTURE needed for 50 cow/calf pairs in central Alberta area. 403-347-0127

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

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 EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail.

403-346-5885

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 DUPLEX Michener Hill 3 bdrm., Avail. Immed., $1350/mo./dd utils. incld.

403-392-7044 INNISFAIL older 3 bdrm. house, lrg. lot. $975/mo.

403-886-5342 or 357-7817

NOW HIRING

(Red Deer Area)

• • • • •

Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

* SANDBLASTER *GENERAL LABORER * Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages

Carriers Needed

Sherwood Crsc

880

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 WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

880

Misc.

Help

OLD DUTCH FOODS LTD,

Journeyman Electrician

You have: Plant Maintenance experience with Allen Bradley PLC, Motor diagnosis, VFD and Soft starters and Scale systems.

Misc.

Help

LacLaBiche, AB Apply by Email: tarrt@telus.net ATTN: Tammy Tarrabain

290586D18

LOOKING for Experienced Framers for framing and metal farm commercial buildings. 403-318-6406 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Trades

278950A5

850

296202D19

Trades

Daily The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 13, 2013

MORRISROE MANOR

LACOMBE, 2 bdrm. house with garage, $800/mo. $800 d.d., fridge, stove incl avail,.

May 1 , 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

403-348-9059 leave msg.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

3030

Condos/ Townhouses

2 BDRM., 2 bath Lancaster condo. $1150 incl. all utils.

N/S, No pets. Text or call 780-885-7351

CLEAN & BRIGHT TOWNHOUSE IN SUNNYBROOK

Open concept 3 bdrms,1.5 bath, In-suite laundry.

Unfinished bsm’t. No pets.

N/S. $1245 & UTIL; SD $1245; Avail May 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

KITSON CLOSE

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s avail. May 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545 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

NOW RENTING 1& 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

Houses For Sale

4020

MOVE IN READY *This weekend only!* BLACKFALDS: 89 Eastpoint Dr. 2 storey, 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath, upgrades $376,500 Riser Homes Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

You can save thousands!

Helping sellers sell for a low set fee. No advance fee.

Money back guarantee.

3090

1 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed 403-342-7789, 396-7941 ROOMS FOR RENT, close to uptown. Employed gentleman Rent $350/mo, NEW 3 BDRM. 2 baths s.d. $250, 403-350-4712 townhouse in Sylvan lake, avail May 1, 5 appls., fenced yard, n/s, $1450, Warehouse d.d., $1450, 403-848-3641 Space

Great for retirement. 2 bdrm., 2 Bath 1/2 duplex in Olds.

Attached garage. $242,500. 403-507-0028

3140

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Mauricia 403-340-0225

PARTLY furn. 2 bdrm.. mobile home, $950/mo. incld. utils. no pets, no children, n/s. 403-887-5731

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

8-PLEX In Highland Green

2 bdrms,1 bath, 5 appls.

No pets. N/S. In-suite laundry. $950 & Gas & ELECT; SD $950; Avail MAY 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

3060

Suites

4860 sq. ft., new, bright, two 14’ O.H. doors, heated, fans, can be divided into 2 bays. Call 403- 318-4848 to view

Mobile Lot

3190

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

CLASSIFICATIONS

2 bdrm, 1 bath. w/ balcony.

Coin-op laundry, Family friendly. NO PETS. May 1st $895 & Power, SD $895 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com INGLEWOOD. 1042 sq.ft. modified bi-level 3 bdrm , 2 bath, fully finished, n/s, no pets, fenced, $329,900 No agents. Serious inquiries 403-347-1713 evenings MASON MARTIN HOMES New 2 Storey 1500 sq.ft 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, $399,900. Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

Completely furn. 1, 2, & 3 bdrm. apts, condos, & townhouses. Immed., a/c, cable, internet & phone.

Short or long term. No pets. $1595 - $2995/mo.

403-347-7791 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MODERN SUITE FOR MATURE ADULTS Lower walk-out suite 2 bdrms, 1 bath, 6 appls. No pets.

N/S. In-suite laundry. $1150 & UTIL; SD $1150; Avail May 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

4050

Acreages

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.

in Stettler, Alberta.

URGENT SALE as owner leaving country soon. Annual sale of about $150,000. Please contact Mahinder Dhillon at (780) 655 5038 or (403) 742 4558

Lots For Sale

4160

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

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

Acreage with art studio awaiting your imagination.

3.09 acres of lush trees and 2 homes. $549,900

SYLVAN LAKE HURRY!! CALL TODAY Only 1 large building lot left for sale in Lakeway Landing. Quiet close location in New Lakeway Landing Subdivision Sylvan Lake. Ready for immediate construction Call Keith Bickerton @ 403-350-5346 ************************** Mara Lake, B.C. We have for sale a beautiful view lot in Mara View Estates. Located in very private 15 lot Close and ready for you to construct your new home. Asking $175,000. For info call Keith 403-350-5346 today!

Pine Lake acreage! 4 bdrm., 3 bath, attached garage.

Lake view. $369,900.

403-318-4448

4020

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage. $409,900.

403-588-2550 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bungalow 1350 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

OPEN HOUSE

MASON MARTIN HOMES 1-5 Sat. 13th & Sun. 14th 639 Oak St. Springbrook 403-588-2231

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

5000-5300 Family oriented acreages w/rolling hills, pristine ponds and poplar woodlands. $150,000-$160,000

Automotive Services

5010

Buffalo Lake.3/4 acre with lake views, 4 bdrm, 3 bath. $355,000. 403-741-6190

4 bdrm., 3 bath with a warm, welcoming open floorplan. $349,900 Executive acreage just north of Olds. 3750 sq ft.

6.84 acres. 30x40 shop. $789,000

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

Quaint 3 Bdrm doll house with oversized single garage. $169,800.

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Mauricia 403-340-0225 Blackfalds bi-level. 5 bdrm, 2 bath walkout. Kitchenette down. $314,900

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

4100

Income Property

NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550

2010 MAZDA 3 GT sunroof 33986 kms., $15888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Caregivers

1060

NEED CHILD CARE? Space avail. for child over 3 yrs. NW Red Deer dayhome.

Safe, loving environment, healthy meals, stories, crafts, playing, learning.

Phone 403-506-1767 NORTH Day Home space for 3 over 3.

Phone 403-506-1767

Cleaning

1070

ANN’S Cleaning Services - Weekly & bi-weekly.

Homes & Offices 302-0488

Contractors

1100

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

CUSTOM HOMES

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

FENCE N THINGS,now booking for 2013 season, wood, chainlink and vinyl fencing. Ask about our spring sale offer.Check us out on facebook. We accept major credit cards.

Free quotes. FULLY LICENSED AND INSURED FOR YOUR PIECE OF MIND. Put 18 yrs of experience to work on your project.

CALL ART 403-304-0727.

RENO’S, painting, countertops, etc. 403-346-9477

Escorts

1165

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

The Ultimate Playmates.

Never rushed. Come in and get the attention you have been missing in your life. #1 body rub in Red Deer. 403-986-SEXY (7399)

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Spring & summer bookings.

Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

2007 TOYOTA Camry LE sunroof, $9888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

Locally owned and family operated

5040

SUV's

2003 ACURA MDX. Silver loaded $7500 403-343-1849

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CHECK US OUT CALL 309-3300

2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o.

403-348-1634 2007 MERCEDES BENZ GL320 4matic, lthr., nav., sunroof, $31888.

348-8788 Sport & Import TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices 1996 GMC Jimmy, red, new trans. $2500 obo 596-0391

Motorcycles

5080

2005 MINI COOPER lthr., 5 spd, 77596 kms., $17888.

348-8788 Sport & Import 2005 FORD Focus 4 dr, 101,900 kms $4900 403-886-5199

Motorhomes

5100

1 9 8 6 F O R D 2 7 ’ VA N GUARD 460 exc. shape $8500 403-885-5839

CAR DOLLY. Never used.

403-347-6455

Tires, Parts

5180

2005 CHRYSLER Crossfire Acces.

80,954 kms, $12,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import 1966 MERCURY Comet 289 motor and C6 trans, accessories 403-704-3714 2000 PONTIAC Grand Am 2 dr. Clean 403-318-3040

Tenders

Notice To Creditors And Others Sean Desmond Carrigan, deceased, late of 2565 Jeanine Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, V9B 4X8 NOTICE IF HEREBY GIVEN THAT all persons having claims against the Estate of the abovenamed deceased are required to send them to the undersigned Executor,

c/o Mullin DeMeo at 1626 Garnet Road, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 3C8,

5140

Utility Trailers

6010

Re: The Estate of

2008 YAMAHA V STAR To u r i n g 1 3 0 0 c c 9 0 0 0 kms.$8000; 403-885-5839

Handyman Services

1200

Misc.

Services

1290

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

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403-986-6686 New South location 5003A -50 St. 348-5650

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship - in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghandshomesupport.com for information.

Yard Care

1430

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. SPRING LAWN CLEANUP 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca Call 403-304-0678

1999 FORD Crown Victoria LX. 206,000 km.

Exc. Cond. 403-309-2410

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before the 9th day of May, 2013, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which they then have notice.

6020

East Red Deer

4250

MICHENER HILL For sale by Owner - $269,000 4113 - 51A Street Sat. 13th, 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

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

West Red Deer

4260

Sunday April 14, 2-4 p.m.

49 Otterbury Ave. $309,000. Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

SE Red Deer

4280

Sunday April 14, 2-4 p.m.

71 Inglewood Drive $349,900. Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

Out Of Red Deer

Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. is preparing to construct system upgrades and new gas services to Applicants during the upcoming 2013 construction season. The work consists mainly of the installation of polyethylene gas lines between 26mm and 114mm throughout the Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. franchise area.

Also 48mm to 88mm Aluminum etc. is used on some projects.

Tender packages which include all specifications and typical drawing are available at Crossroad’s office at 36060 Range Road 282, Innisfail. The mailing address is:

Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. PO Box 6319, Innisfail, AB T4G 1T1 Phone: 403.227.4861

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Cars

5030

Penhold new home! 2 bdrm., 1 bath, 6 appls, upgrades galore. $267,900

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Freshly reno’d fabulous 4 bdrm. w/dbl garage on a quiet Ave. $309,000.

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5020

1977 Lincoln Continental mint, new cond, only 7000 orig. miles. “You won’t believe your eyes” $25,500 Call Keith 403-350-5346

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Houses 47A AVE, For Sale close to downtown

FURN. EXECUTIVE SUITES

104x353 lot in the heart of Sylvan Lake. Excellent location for future development. $499,900.

4140

FAST GROWING firewood business. Incl. most equipment needed. $125,000.

403-887-2428 Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

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4000-4190

ELNORA, reno’d, 3 bdrm. bsmt., $895/mo. incl. all utils, immed. 348-6594

4 bdrm 1/2 duplex in a great family neighbourhood in Sylvan Lake. $239,800

Businesses For Sale

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550

WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE

1 BDRM. $740; N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed. 1-403-200-8175

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

403-350-1620 Gloria

4040

Sierras on Taylor! 2 bdrm, 2 bath, sunroom & great amenities! $264,900.

Help-U-Sell RD 403-342-7355

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Condos/ Townhouses

4310

13 WINSTONE PLACE BLACKFALDS Sun. Apr. 14th, 2 - 4 Priced at just $207,900.

Comfortable & cozy 6 yr. old.

Affordable condo living.

KELLY MCCULLOUGH, Coldwell Banker OnTrack 403-343-3344 OPEN HOUSE 67 HAYTER ST. PENHOLD Sat. & Sun. 2-4 1400 sq.ft., full dev., needs some work, $189,900.

John @ Century 21 Advantage.

403-348-3339

Sealed Tender Bids will be received until 4:30 PM (MDT) on May 7, 2013 and must be clearly marked “SEALED TENDERS FOR 2013 CONSTRUCTION, CROSSROADS GAS COOP LTD.” Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. reserves the right to refuse any Tender.

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CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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Red Deaer & Are G 2013 ING RIN PR S SP The Red Deer Advocate is once again publishing a guide on the multiple dining choices in Red Deer and area. Watch for this high-end product boasting full colour layout on all advertisements and pictures.

In addition to the Advocate distribution; there will be 2400 copies that will be distributed to the hotels of Red Deer now, and again in November.

Take advantage of this excellent advertising opportunity and contact your Advocate representative today, or call our SALES LINE at 403-314-4343.

Publication Date: Saturday, April 27 Advertising Deadline: Monday, April 15

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are not at your best self and you will tend towards opting some solitude moments. Focus is not your forte point right now. Take

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