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2009 Cadillac STS Platinum AWD, 42,750 Kms. Fully loaded like new. 2 sets of rims & tires. $35,000 403 348 3762
2007 MERCEDES BENZ B 200 5 speed, $8,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
Trucks
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2008 Ford F150 4X4 Supercrew XLT 143,600 km $14,900 obo. tow pkg. , backup camera, exc. cond. 358-9646
Fifth Wheels
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2010 DENALI 5TH WHEEL 27’ 1/2 ton towable. Lrg. slide, electric awning, a/c, satellite, sleeps 6. $24,000. 403-741-6994
1999 35’ DUTCHMEN pulled 600 kms., a.t., heat & air, full bath w/tub in main bdrm, 1/2 bath w/dbl. bunks at rear, 14’ pushout kitchen/living, sleeps 8, exc. cond., n/s, no pets, clean, lots of storage, 2007 HONDA Ridgeline EX-L. stove and fridge, $9500 Exc. cond. loaded, 96,000 km, 403-227-6442 304-5894 $18,900. 403-318-5747
Holiday Trailers
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OLDER tandem axle, 15’ trailer. $1200. 403-597-1122 2006 HONDA Civic Coupe LX Exc cond. Loaded, 84,000 km $12,000, 403-318-5747
2004 CADILLAC Escalade AWD, lthr., DVD, $14,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
Vans Buses
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2005 PORSCHE Cayenne S AWD, leather, Lexani wheels, $23,888 348-8788 Sport & Import
2002 29’ BOBCAT hardwall, a/c, awning, sleeps 9 $11,500 obo 403-346-1569 2005 BUICK MINIVAN. Loaded, excellent cond. 166,000 kms. $6,700 obo 403-343-7437.
2005 PORSCHE Boxster 5 speed $26,888 348-8788 Sport & Import
2005 BMW 745LI, heated leather, sunroof, $19,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
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Motorcycles
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2010 KAWASAKI Nomad $9950 403-352-3003
2008 YAMAHA YZ85 great shape $2200 obo. Son grew out of it, 403-845-0442 2003 SUZUKI Intruder 800cc, 8000 kms., exc. s h a p e . $ 4 5 0 0 . 403-597-1122
ATV's
2001 KAWASAKI Vulcan Classic 800 $4400 exc. cond., 11,265 kms, windshield. Call Leo 403-391-8949
Fifth Wheels
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2004 ARTIC CAT 650 c/w winch, good shape. $2800. 403-596-8794
Boats & Marine
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Sea Doo Wake 430 Boat 430 H.P. twin Rotax motors & jet pumps, low hours, like new. Priced to sell $26,500 O.B.O. 403-350-1007 782-3617
Auto Wreckers
at www.garymoe.com
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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519
Vehicles Wanted To Buy
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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
Locally owned and family operated
SUV's
2006 TRAVELAIR. As new cond. Used very little. Immaculate. Sleeps 4. New generator incl. $7900. obo. SOLD
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2000 JAYCO Quest 23’ 3 pce. bath, air, sleeps 6. Exc. shape $6000. obo 403-885-5608, 352-0740
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WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629 We change daily to serve you better.
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INVITATION TO TENDERERS Town of Blackfalds Sealed Tenders clearly marked “Town of Blackfalds, All Star Park Site Servicing”
2010 BMW X3 AWD, panoroof, 25821 kms., $36,888 348-8788 Sport & Import
DELIVERED OR MAILED TO Attention: Brad Vander Heyden, P. Eng. Stantec Consulting Ltd. 1100 - 4900 50 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7 will be received until Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Tenderer(s) without consideration. Tender Documents or Tender Amendments received via Facsimile machine will not be accepted.
2005 INFINITI FX 35 AWD sunroof, leather, $18,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import 2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o. 403-348-1634
Trucks
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The Work comprises of, but is not limited to, approximately 350m of 150mm diameter water main, 300m of 200mm diameter sanitary sewer, and general site work. Copies of the Tender Documents may be obtained by General Contractors from Stantec Consulting Ltd. upon payment of a $50 non-refundable fee, made payable to Stantec Consulting Ltd. Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at Stantec Consulting Ltd. and at the Red Deer Construction Association. Tenders will be ready for pickup on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to:
2010 FORD Expedition Eddie Bauer 4X4, htd./cool lthr., $29888 7652 50 Ave. 348-8788 Sport & Import 1995 FORD F150. 310,000 km. Runs great. Body rust. $800. 403-986-1905 1992 DODGE Dakota needs trans, sell for parts or as is 403-318-7625
Brad Vander Heyden, P.Eng. Stantec Consulting Ltd. 1100, 4900 50 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7 Ph (403) 341-3320 Brad.vanderheyden@stantec.com
Suicide car bombing kills 15 in Afghan capital including 2 children BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of the Afghan capital. U.S. soldiers rushed to help, some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armour. A Muslim militant group claimed responsibility for the morning rush hour attack, saying it was carried out by a new suicide unit formed in response to reports that the U.S. plans to keep bases and troops in Afghanistan even after the 2014 deadline for the end of the foreign combat mission. The group, Hizb-e-Islami, said its fighters had stalked the Americans for a week to learn their routine before striking — a claim which raises questions about U.S. security procedures. Two children were among nine Afghan civilians killed in the attack. “I can’t find my children. They’re gone. They’re gone,” their father screamed before collapsing to the ground as neighbours swarmed around to comfort him. Two American soldiers were killed, as were four American civilian contractors with DynCorp International. DynCorp, a U.S. defence contractor based in Falls Church, Va., said its employees were working with U.S. forces training the Afghan military when the blast occurred. It was the deadliest attack to rock Kabul in more than two months and followed a series of other assaults on Americans, even as U.S.-led forces are focusing more on training while leaving the fighting militants to their Afghan counterparts. Thursday’s bombing pushed the monthly toll for the U.S.-led coalition to 18, making May the deadliest month so far this year. By comparison, 44 international troops were killed in the same period last year. The overall number of coalition deaths has dropped as Afghan forces increasingly take the lead. The suicide bomber detonated his explosivesladen car at about 8 a.m. and set nearby buildings on fire. The blast left body parts scattered on the street along with the mangled wreckage of one of the U.S. vehicles. Kabul Deputy Police Chief Daud Amin said it was difficult to count the dead. “We saw two dead bodies of children on the ground,” Amin said. “But the rest of the bodies were scattered around.” Thirty-five Afghans were wounded, according to the Health Ministry. Kabul had been enjoying a relative lull in attacks in recent weeks. The last major assault was March 9, when suicide bombers struck near the Afghan Defence Ministry while U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel was visiting. President Hamid Karzai condemned Thurs-
Authorities say criminal activity not ruled out in Texas plant blast BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST, Texas — Investigators have completed their scene investigation but not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 15 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town, officials said Thursday. The April 17 blast at West Fertilizer injured 200 and levelled part of the tiny town of West. Officials have spent one month combing through debris and speaking to hundreds of witnesses. “At this time, the state fire marshal’s office and ATF are ruling the cause of this fire is undetermined,” State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said at a news conference Thursday. A criminal investigation continues. Possible causes of the fire that triggered two explosions have been narrowed to a 120-volt electrical system at the plant, a golf cart or an intentionally set fire, officials said. The golf cart was parked in the seed room and had been recalled by its manufacturer. All that was found of it were a brake pad and an axle. “There’s a history of golf carts actually starting fires,” said Brian Hoback, national response team supervisor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The batteries hold a charge and
when they fail they can ignite the materials around them. Kelly Kistner, assistant state fire marshal, said investigators estimated that between 28 and 34 tons of ammonium nitrate on the site exploded. But there were about 150 tons of the chemical on the site at the time, including 100 tons in a rail car that did not explode. The chemical that exploded was stored in wooden bins. Kistner said the ammonium nitrate was the equivalent of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of dynamite. Investigators had ruled out other possible causes, including smoking or a weather-related fire. Officials have determined that ammonium nitrate exploded, but they do not know what started the initial fire. The fire created the conditions for an initial smaller explosion, which Kistner said was only “milliseconds” before the larger explosion. Bryce Reed, a paramedic who responded to the blast, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials, but authorities have stressed they have nothing linking Reed to the blast. Federal investigators allege Reed had materials for a pipe bomb that he gave to someone else. The dead included 10 first responders and two volunteers trying to fight the initial fire, which was reported 18 minutes
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before the blast. Rachel Moreno, a spokeswoman for the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office, said the death toll had officially reached 15 with the determination by a local justice of the peace that an elderly man who died after being evacuated from the nursing home had been an explosion-related death. The nursing home’s medical director previously had said the man died of his pre-existing ailments. Two months before the explosion, the plant reported it had the capacity to store as much as 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, though how much was actually on site when the blast occurred is unknown. Ammonium nitrate is a chemical used as a fertilizer that also can be used as a cheap alternative to dynamite. It was the chemical used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The fire marshal’s office had previously ruled out several possible causes for the initial fire, including another fertilizer stored on site, anhydrous ammonia; a rail car on the site that was carrying ammonium nitrate; and a fire within a storage bin of ammonium nitrate. Daniel Keeney, a spokesman for Adair Grain Co., which owned and operated West Fertilizer, has said the company is co-operating with authorities, but declined to comment further.
U.S. man gets prison, treatment for gruesome beating death of Idaho zoo Patas monkey BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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day’s attack, saying it was the work of “terrorists and enemies of Afghanistan’s peace.” A spokesman for the Hizb-e-Islami militant group, Haroon Zarghoon, told The Associated Press that one of its operatives carried out the attack on two vehicles of U.S. advisers. Zarghoon says the organization has formed a new cell to stage suicide attacks on U.S. and other coalition troops. “The cell had been monitoring the movement and timing of the American convoy for a week and implemented the plan Thursday morning,” Zarghoon said. He said the cell was established in response to reports that the U.S. plans to keep permanent bases and troops in Afghanistan even after the NATO withdrawal. The U.S. has said it wants no permanent bases in Afghanistan after 2014, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised eyebrows last week when he announced he had agreed to an American request to keep nine bases. A small American force is expected to remain in the country to assist Afghans in keeping security, but the exact number or mission has not yet been decided. Hizb-e-Islami is headed by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a 65-year-old former Afghan prime minister and onetime U.S. ally. The militia has thousands of fighters and followers in the country’s north and east. The U.S. heavily financed Hekmatyar’s government during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. In recent years, Afghan and NATO troops have been trying to hunt him down. In 2010, U.S. bombs targeted his military chief, Kashmir Khan, in Kunar province; Khan was wounded but survived. However, Hekmatyar’s son-in-law has held peace talks with Karzai and American officials. Hizb-e-Islami has a political arm with a significant number of seats in parliament, though it has tried to distance itself from Hekmatyar and violence. Several of Karzai’s senior aids in the past have been affiliated with Hekmatyar. In a further sign of the complexities of the Afghan insurgency, Hizb-e-Islami is also a rival to the Taliban insurgency, even though both movements share the goal of driving out foreign troops and establishing a state that would follow a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Hekmatyar and the Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Omar, are said to be bitter personal enemies. Thursday’s attack was the second in eight months claimed by Hizb-e-Islami, the last one in September when a female suicide car bomber killed least 12 people in Kabul. At the time, Hizbe-Islami said the attack was revenge for the film “Innocence of Muslims,” which was made by an Egyptian-born American citizen and infuriated Muslims for its negative depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.
BOISE, Idaho — A man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo last fall and brutally beating to death one of two Patas monkeys has been ordered to spend up to a year in a treatment program at a state prison. Michael Watkins, 22, was sentenced Thursday for his role in the Nov. 17 crime that caused shock and outrage in Idaho’s capitol city and beyond. Watkins pleaded guilty in March to felony attempted grand theft for illegally entering the zoo, built in a city park a few blocks from the downtown, and animal cruelty, a misdemeanour under state law. Fourth District Judge Lynn G. Norton rejected defence attorney requests that Watkins deserved probation and would be punished enough by the shame of being “forever known as the man who killed the monkey at Zoo Boise.” Instead, Norton said she wanted a punishment that fits the crime but allows the young father of a seven-month-old son to turn his life around. Prosecutors say Watkins, fueled by a night of excessive drinking at downtown bars with a
friend, broke into the zoo with a plan to capture one of the monkeys. Once inside, he manipulated a lock to get into the primate enclosure and removed the Patas monkey by wrapping it in his jacket and tried throwing it over a fence, according to court records. But the monkey resisted, tried running away and a chase through a small section of the zoo ensued. Ultimately, Watkins lost control of the situation and resorted to violence, kicking the monkey and clubbing it multiple times in the head and upper body and leaving it to die from those injuries, Ada County Deputy Attorney Shawna Dunn said in court Thursday. The monkey’s death stirred shock and outrage in the community, but also traumatized zoo employees who tended to the Patas pair, zoo officials said. It also caused concern about the welfare of the survivor because Patas monkeys are extremely social and the prospect of having it live alone prompted zoo administrators to find a new home or others to adopt. Ultimately, the Rosamund Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, donated two companions in December.