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Baumgartner jailed for life ARMOURED CAR GUARD NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE FOR AT LEAST 40 YEARS

BY CHRIS PURDY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An armoured car guard who gunned down four crewmates on the job has been handed the toughest sentence in Canada since the country’s last execution, but it’s not enough for some family members of his victims.

An Edmonton judge agreed Wednesday to a plea deal that gives 22-year-old Travis Baumgartner a life sentence with no chance of parole for 40 years.

It’s a first under a new federal law allowing con-

secutive parole ineligibilty periods in mass murder cases. Before, offenders faced a maximum 25 years before getting a crack at more freedom.

“Call it justice — sure. My way of justice is back in the old days — hang him,” Joseph Rejano, brother of murdered guard Eddie Rejano, 39, told reporters outside court while running his hand through his fatherless nephew’s hair.

“That’s justice for what he did.”

Victor Shegelski, whose new bride Michelle Shegelski, 26, was the most senior guard on the crew, said he understands 40 years was the best the courts could do in the case, considering the death penalty

was repealed back in 1962.

“I think he should just be taken out behind the shed and put down, personally,” Shegelski said before leaving the courthouse. “My wife is still dead.”

Janet Stosky, aunt of murdered guard Brian Ilesic, 35, said her family believes the Crown prosecutor’s office worked hard on the case and the 40-year wait for a parole opportunity honours the victims.

“I am not sure, when you are going through this level of pain, if you can ever feel satisfied with the justice that is available,” she said.

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Structural review greeted with optimism, caution

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF An optimistic but cautious reaction has followed the latest shakeup at Alberta Health Services.

Gerald Ingeveld, chairman of the David Thompson Health Advisory Council, said the council is encouraged by the talk of more public and community involvement, and site-based decision making.

On Tuesday, Alberta Health and Wellness released the AHS organization and structure review that was ordered following the firing of the AHS board in June.

A number of changes were recommended. They are geared to giving better support health-care providers, including moving from 80 senior executives to 10 across the province.

Among the highlights, the report found the system top-heavy, not the best model to support front-line staff and confusing to navigate.

Former David Thompson Health Region board member Michael Dawe is hopeful the latest shuffle works. But he said, based on past performances, he isn’t convinced. Dawe said there have been many changes and restructuring that resulted in more chaos, more disconnect from the communities and dysfunctional decisions.

He said the old structure with local boards had its shortcomings but they were rooted in communities.

Dawe said he would like the pendulum shifted back to where there’s genuine community input.

“This whole idea of everybody having to be responsible either directly or almost directly to the minister as opposed to the public we serve, I think we have to re-insert public accountability,” said Dawe.

“The best way we do this is that you are selected from your communities. That focuses your mind on what the people in your community want. If you answer to the minister, then your primary concern is what the minister thinks,” Dawe said.

Dr. Chris Eagle, CEO of AHS, said the report was only released yesterday so it will take time to turn the report into action of bringing greater focus to front-line services.

Eagle said there will be a review of titles, organization layers and compensation over the next few months. He said the report highlighted the concerns in clear messages that made it easy to identify the themes and start the hard work of moving forward.

“You cannot run a service like Alberta Health Services without having very, very strong public engagement and community engagement,” said Eagle.

“One of the weaknesses has been that AHS has been a large organization and people were not making those connections. I think this underscores very, very strongly that we need to have our zone leads, service leads very much seeking public involvement in how their services are changed and how they are delivered.”

Ingeveld said Alberta is a big province and some of the decision-making needs to be moved from the centre of the province and brought out to the regions.

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With the sun beaming down Wednesday, those who could get away from work and enjoy the cool water at Sylvan Lake found plenty of room to move around. With temperatures expected to soar to 31 C today and remain in the high 20s through the weekend, the beach at Sylvan Lake will continue to be a popular destination for people looking to beat the late summer heat.

Group seeking judicial review of Michener Centre closure HOPES TO LEARN HOW, WHY AND WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Foiled through FOIP, the group fighting the closure edict for Michener Centre is taking another route to learn more about the planned shuttering.

Efforts in June to acquire government documents from the period leading up to the March announcement of the centre’s closure through a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) request resulted in roughly 80 per cent of the 130 pages of documents received blacked out.

Now, the Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Centre has filed a request for a judicial review to get some answers.

“We are asking the legal side of the government the hows, whys, and whens of when this decision was made and under what authority (government) has broken its promise and replaced it with a policy,” said society president Bill Lough.

“What I’m trying to get to is when is a policy a promise and when is a promise a policy?”

The government’s own How We Move Ahead report from 2008 stated that “nobody will be forced to leave Michener.” But, in March, without any discussion with parents and guardians of Michener residents, the province announced that 125 residents would be relocated starting in September.

The documents obtained through FOIP did show that the government was cognizant of the prom-

ises past ministers and premiers had made about Michener staying open as long as current residents wanted it to remain their home, information detailed in emails from shortly before the announcement was made. Lough chalks the closure up to an ideology that is dictating government policy.

“That’s the biggest difference compared with any other government. We’ve always had at least our voice at the table and governments have always respected the right of choice. “I don’t think anyone would disagree that when you’re promised something, it’s wrong to pull it away from you without at least talking to you first,” he said.

While not expecting the judicial review to result in the government backing away from its decision on closure, Lough said he hopes it can provide an open forum where the government will have to explain how it came to its decision after years of assuring guardians and families that their loved ones would remain housed at Michener.

The application for a judicial review was filed last week with support from the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. It has been received by the Ministry of Human Services, and the matter is now in the hands of both sides’ lawyers.

“Our lawyers will be reviewing it and completing necessary actions and respond through the judicial process,” said Craig Loewen, press secretary for Human Services Minister Dave Hancock.

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Key players were moving on two diplomatic fronts Wednesday to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control.

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From the left, Julian Price, Bill Taylor, Shari Rabin and her sister Lori Krause work to install sod around the perimeter of a new playground in Sylvan Lake on Wednesday. The playground, located behind the Lighthouse Christian Academy in the Beacon Hill subdivision, was built with funding received by the academy and church from a Community Facility Enhancement Project lotteries grant and matching funding from the Town of Sylvan Lake. The church raised $40,000, and the town matched it. Church member Abigail Schimke was pleased with the arrangement, saying the school, church and town benefit from the partnership.

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JUSTICE: Lone survivor has brain injury The lone survivor from the crew, Matthew Schuman, now 26, is still recovering from a brain injury and did not attend court for fear of being retraumatized.

Justice John Rooke had the option of imposing a parole wait of up to 75 years but told a packed courtroom that experienced Crown and defence lawyers had done their homework on the case. He ruled it would be contrary to public interest to change the deal.

Rooke said he had to make sure that Baumgartner never hurts anyone again, but also give him some hope for freedom to ensure good behaviour behind bars.

Baumgartner sat slumped in prisoner’s box with his arms crossing his chest. The judge described him as a greedy coward and cold-blooded killer who basically executed the co-workers he had sworn to protect.

“Why didn’t he just take the money and run?” the judge asked. “What was he possibly thinking?

“It’s difficult to describe the revulsion of society and this court and the public.”

Baumgartner was a new employee with security company G4S and was struggling with debt. He owed friends money and argued with his mother about paying her rent hours before the shooting on June 15, 2012.

He had come up with a plan to rob his employer during a routine night shift reloading ATMs across the city. Somewhere along the line, the scheme turned deadly.

He shot three of his fellow guards in their heads after they turned their backs on him to fill a cash machine at the University of Alberta. He then rushed out to their parked armoured truck, reloading his gun along the way, and ambushed the fourth crew member waiting there.

He drove off with about $400,000 in cash, left some on the kitchen table for his mom and made a run in his pickup truck the U.S. border. Officials caught their prime suspect the next day in British Columbia.

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It hadn’t been much of a plan. The judge called it unsophisticated.

At the start of his trial this week, Baumgartner pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and a charge of attempted murder. He had originally faced three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths.

Crown prosecutor Steve Bilodeau told court that while Baumgartner had planned the robbery, there was doubt about whether he had planned beforehand to kill the guards as they were reloading the ATM. Evidence proved, though, that he intended to kill the guard waiting in the truck.

The judge called the killings executions “by surprise, shock and ambush.”

Rooke said the pleas prevented the survivor and the families of the dead guards of having to endure a lengthy trial, but their lives are forever ruined.

Schuman wrote in a victim impact statement that the bullet to his head created vision and memory loss and he has had to learn to read and write again.

His disabilities have also cost him his relationship with his fiancee and his career as a firefighter in the military — the security gig was a second job.

John Ernst, an uncle of Shegelski, said everyone in his family has a hole in their heart that will never be filled. The young woman hadn’t even gone through her wedding photos before she was killed.

“Michelle’s death made all of us into victims,” he said.

“Not having to think about the possibility of parole for Travis Baumgartner for 40 years takes away a burden that no one should have to bear.”

AHS: Wait to see the results Ingeveld said he is “a little concerned that this is the next shake up of AHS. And they have had a lot. It always takes time for the frontline people to adjust to change.

“However, if it works out that it ends up being more personal involvement on the ground, then it will be a change for the better.”

The province’s Health Advisory Councils are expected to meet with Health Minister Fred Horne in the next week couple of weeks. Ingeveld said hopefully they will hash out some details and determine a clear understanding of the council’s roles.

“The hinting has been we will be more involved,” said Ingeveld. “That really excites us because that’s why we volunteered. We want to be involved so we

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CALGARY — One of Canada’s energy giants will make military veterans a priority when hiring new employees.

Federal Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino took part in an announcement Wednesday that Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) has joined a program which was announced last fall as part of a government veterans transition plan.

“Cenovus Energy is giving veterans new and interesting opportunities to make a successful transition from military to civilian life,” said Fantino.

“The type of training that veterans receive, it’s regimented, it’s geared in many different areas ... and things are very well structured,” he said.

“Very often transitioning into a different kind of environment in civilian life can be challenging.”

Jim Grecco spent 27 years in the Canadian Air Force before retiring in 2000. He’s now the military liaison manager with Cenovus.

“When you get outside the military and you come into industry, you find that there are a lot of things that the military has taught you: communications, problem-solving, leadership,” Grecco said.

“Those things are applicable anywhere in this country — whether in uniform or out of uniform — and a lot of military people don’t recognize that.”

Cenovus plans to inform veteran affairs groups of job opportunities, so those looking for work are aware of openings. are encouraged by that.”

Brenda Corney, chairperson of Friends of Medicare Red Deer chapter, said she hopes the province reaches the goal of supporting frontline staff. She said re-organization of the structure was necessary because it was top-heavy with administration.

Five senior positions were eliminated on Tuesday and the majority of the senior positions will be realigned.

“I hope the things that happen in the next little while will show that goal is attainable,” said Corney.

“I think it’s important. It’s a good thing to say. It’s a good thing to do. But we will have to wait to see the results.”

Changes to the overall structure include dividing the province into north and south zones, with each portion led by a vice-president, a chief operating officer and a medical director.

The former organization was divided into north, south, central, and Calgary and Edmonton zones. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

MICHENER: No one has been relocated yet Lough said the submission will be presented before a judge and a hearing date for sometime in the fall will be set.

According to a transition update posted to the Human Services ministry website on Aug. 22, 123 individuals living at Michener will be moving into community group homes and seniors care facilities, but none had moved out yet. The report said 22 transition plans have been completed, with 46 in progress and five not yet started.

Correspondence sent to guardians of Michener residents in June suggested the first person to leave the facility could have been gone by the end of that month.

Lough said he is heartened by the fact that no one has yet been relocated and the fact that guardians have told him they wish to keep up the fight.

He said the group will have good opportunities to have its voice heard in the coming months, with the legislature reconvening in October and Premier Alison Redford’s leadership review at the Progressive Conservative party convention in Red Deer in November. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Oilpatch partners with high schools GRADUATES VIEWED AS KEY TO OVERCOMING SKILLED LABOUR SHORTAGE

The president of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors says his industry needs to look to high schools for its next generation of workers.

Mark Scholz, who was in Red Deer on Wednesday for the CAODC’s fall conference, said his trade association is looking to partner with the Northern Lights School Division to promote work on the rigs as an attractive career option for young people. It would be part of a pilot project that introduces students to the trades.

“Before, it was very difficult to have that opportunity with high school students where they’re in that position to start to think about, ‘Ok, I’m going to be graduating soon; what are the opportunities out there for me?’”

Scholz said the oilpatch offers a safe, secure and lucrative option for young people, including those who aspire to corporate boardrooms. CAODC’s own board consists of CEOs, presidents and other senior executives from major companies, both private and publicly traded.

“I would say 99 per cent of those people on my

Group stands by claim that mice nibbled on patient

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A health-care advocacy group is standing by its claim that a disabled woman in a long-term care home in southern Alberta was bitten by mice.

The allegation made public earlier this week by Friends of Medicare is being refuted by the organization which runs the St. Therese Villa facility in Lethbridge.

Covenant Health has said that while a mouse was seen in the patient’s room, there is no medical evidence that the woman was bitten by rodents. It also said that staff did not document anything.

“We stand by what was written in the press release,” Shannon Phillips, a Friends of Medicare spokeswoman, said Wednesday from Lethbridge.

“Our press release contained accurate information. It came from reliable sources who work in the facility.”

Friends of Medicare said that on Sept. 1, staff saw mice on the face of a woman who has dementia and whose disabilities would have prevented her from removing the rodents.

A nest of mice was later found in her closet.

The group said the woman was given medication to prevent infection and was suffering emotionally.

The allegations have prompted Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne to call an investigation under the Protection for Persons in Care Act, along with a review into whether health standards were breached at the St. Therese Villa.

Dr. Jeff Robinson, chief medical officer for Covenant Health, said officials with the corporation spoke with care staff at the long-term care home, reviewed documentation and consulted a doctor.

The doctor concluded the patient’s wounds were not caused by an animal bite, but were from a viral condition, Robinson said.

“We have no one who has witnessed this woman being bitten by a mouse. We have no evidence that the mouse was on her bed clothes,” Robinson said.

“When we had a physician examine the lady, he couldn’t see any indication that there were animal bites, and, in fact, it had characteristics that were consistent with a viral rash that had started a week to 10 days before.”

Phillips said there have been complaints about mice and bedbugs at St. Therese for more than a year. She said staff spoke to Friends of Medicare about the mice biting the patient instead of reporting it to managers because the workers feared losing their jobs.

“We do not have confidence in an investigation that Covenant Health turned around in 24 hours — a statement made by a doctor on the payroll of Covenant Health,” she said.

“What we do have confidence in is the investigation that minister Fred Horne announced.”

Radio station tunes out Neil Young

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — Neil Young can keep on talking in the free world, but Fort McMurray won’t be listening.

A local rock radio station stopped playing the Canuck singer’s music for a day after he compared the northern Alberta oilsands city to Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.

On-air personality Chris Byrne at Rock 97.9 then asked his listeners if the ban should be extended indefinitely.

Neil supporters were in the majority, but when station staff looked at their email addresses, most came from out of town. So with local opinion firmly against him, Young has been pulled from the station’s playlist.

“We’re going to continue with our ban,” said Byrne, who said he used to play two or three Young tunes a day.

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board have had some sort of rig experience, and these guys are running multimillion-dollar drilling rig corporations. They worked their way right up from a floor hand level, to driller to maybe a rig manager, and then worked their way up the corporate ladder.”

Scholz said it’s critical that young people be encouraged to consider employment with drilling and service rig companies if the industry is to overcome a worsening skilled labour shortage.

“It’s a huge issue because we have members that were in a position where they had to set aside equipment — not because they didn’t have work, but because they didn’t have crews.

“It’s a multi-million dollar operation with the various rig components, but unless you have competent and quality crews working on those rigs . . . you’re not going to be successful.”

Scholz doesn’t think temporary foreign workers can help, because they only bring short-term relief.

“There isn’t a real clear understanding of how to fix this,” he said, “but it involves a lot of building relationships with the federal government and getting them to understand the concerns of where the gaps lie.”

In the meantime, he thinks it’s important that the energy sector be presented to young people as a good career alternative.

“There is a really interesting and engaging type of career that is available through our business, and that’s what we’re trying is to introduce into the high school curriculum.

“If we can make it work and we can export that into other school districts, I think you’re going to see some really neat things coming out of it.”

Scholz said he’s pleased the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo, which opened on Wednesday and continues today, has attracted interest. It’s important that area residents have the opportunity to learn about the industry, especially since it plays such a prominent role in the local economy, he said.

“Having these types of shows and bringing the public in so they can actually touch, see and feel the industry and what it’s all about is so important.”

Scholz spoke at the Oil & Gas Expo on Wednesday afternoon, providing an overview of the CAODC and the role it plays. Despite being based in Calgary, as are most of Canada’s oil and gas companies, the association recognizes the importance of cities like Red Deer — as is illustrated by the fact CAODC conducts monthly service rig executive meetings here.

“Generally, the leaders and the senior management of service rig companies are here in Red Deer.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Mounties throw spotlight on Yellowbird death

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Two years after Chelsea Yellowbird was gunned down outside a Hobbema home tips continue to trickle in to RCMP. Mounties held a news conference in the community on Wednesday to draw renewed attention to the crime and assure the public that they continue to work hard to solve the 23-year-old’s murder on Sept.

5, 2011.

The event was also used to showcase a small unmanned aerial vehicle, a helicopter-like unit armed with cameras and global positioning technology to generate accurate birds-eye view images of crime scenes or vehicle accidents.

Units like this were not available to police at the time of Yellowbird’s death, but it took to the sky on Wednesday to get an overview of the crime scene.

Even at this late date, images may help provide investigators with a clearer picture of what might have occurred and provide additional evidence, said Hobbema RCMP Const. Pernell Cardinal.

“We’re hoping that it will just be able to provide a more accurate and detailed overview of all physical evidence whatever that may be.”

Sgt. Doug Wattie, of the RCMP’s Major Crimes

Unit says in a statement issued Wednesday that “new technology, advances in science and investigative techniques are providing us with the ability to re-examine previously collected evidence and see previously unknown pieces to our puzzle.”

Yellowbird was shot and killed about 3 a.m. outside a Samson Cree townsite home. It was next door to where five-year-old Ethan Yellowbird died from a gunshot as he slept in his bed two months earlier.

Chelsea was a distant aunt to Ethan.

Three teens pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Ethan’s death and were sentenced last May to the maximum amount allowed under the Youth Criminal Justice act — three years of supervision, including varying periods of closed and open custody.

The young boy’s death shocked the community and has changed attitudes towards co-operating with police.

“From the Ethan Yellowbird homicide forthwith we’ve had a lot more co-operation from witnesses,” he said. “We still get tips coming in.”

Police are encouraging anyone with information to come forward.

Those with information can call Hobbema RCMP at 780-585-3893 or those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or go to www.tipsubmit.com pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Key union backs Quebec charter

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois’ controversial charter of values has received the staunch support of an influential backer: a union representing the province’s civil servants.

The SFPQ union, which has 42,000 members, applauds the government for “finally” tabling a policy that would ensure the religious neutrality of government offices.

The PQ plan would forbid Quebec’s public employees from wearing more visible religious symbols — including hijabs, turbans, yarmulkes and largerthan-average crucifixes.

“We’re obliged to keep our political opinions to ourselves,” union president Lucie Martineau said Wednesday.

“We want that extended to our religious opinions.”

Other unions have said they plan to consult members before taking a public position.

Martineau said that even if some employees wear the religious symbols, for now, she doesn’t expect anyone to be fired eventually. There hasn’t been a single complaint from an employee in the six years since the union began voicing its opinion on the topic, she said.

The plan would be the most sweeping of its kind in North America and its critics call it a bureaucratic mess, unconstitutional or, even worse, xenophobic. Its supporters insist it can work, in law and in practice, and be fair to Quebecers.

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What middle class?

The buzz around the mythical water coolers of the nation (has anyone actually ever gathered to talk around a water cooler?) is about to grow over Statistics Canada’s latest report on household income.

There’s absolutely nothing in the report that everyone doesn’t already know, but the numbers will give our waterGREG drinking debatNEIMAN ers a good conversation opener.

The upshot?

The rich are getting richer, the poor are doing slightly better — and the middle class is stalled and slipping backward.

Looking out our own windows, it may be harder to see the negative changes in the way incomes were distributed over the last 20 years or so.

Outside of Toronto, Alberta has the highest proportion of wealthy people in the nation. We’re doing great in Alberta, so people tend ignore news that doesn’t fit their daily experience.

But in the wider view, Canadians who are not earning above $135,000 a

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year (average income of the top 10 per cent of wage earners) or $381,000 (average income for the top one per cent) are feeling the pinch.

When all the incomes of all Canadians are ranked in some federal statistician’s algorithm, the middle of the middle of middle class is an income of $50,000 a year, before taxes. How do you rank there, fellow water-drinker?

But if you take the one-percenters out of the equation, half of Canadian workers earn more than $28,000 a year.

Half earn less. This is taken from the StasCan National Household Survey, using numbers from 2010 (latest figures available), in a study that the federal agency itself warns we should take with a grain of salt.

Their survey was voluntary, they say, and there could be gaps in the data. Big gaps. As in: people on the lowest income levels and immigrants tended not to participate.

This tells us that inequalities in income distribution may be even greater than reported, because we don’t have all the data from the bottom percentiles.

But as we stand, glass of water in hand, people will ask: what’s the problem? In terms of our total economy — especially from Saskatchewan west — there is no problem.

In fact, this and other studies show that fewer Canadians today qualify for low-income cutoff supports than at any

time since 1996. So, if we’re doing a better job supporting the bottom, does it really matter how rich the rich get?

For a full answer, you’d have to ask the middle. Average real, inflation-adjusted, after-tax incomes for the middle group dropped from $42,000 a year in 1976 to $36,000 in 1996, rising just two per cent from 1996 to 2010. That’s a whole lot of disposable cash lost.

But even that is not the full picture — or the full problem. Canadians earn what Canadians earn, and individually, the vast majority of us find a way to cope.

The problem is for government.

Government spending always rises.

Revenues from taxes does not. The majority will always demand we tax the rich — but we forget we already do. And there is a limit to how much we can tax these guys (they’re mostly males) without hurting the economy.

We can do our best to support the bottom — and we do as well as anyone at that. So well, in fact, that there are disincentives for people to graduate from lower incomes to middle class.

That’s because when you pass a certain point, you lose government supports for the poor. If you get a good raise in income, income tax, plus the loss of supports results in higher deductions than the one-percenters would pay, if they got a similar raise.

That’s why the wealth of a healthy nation needs to be held more in the

middle. A dynamic middle, with lots of people moving in and moving up, provides governments with the revenue they need for their sacred spending programs.

But we already know the middle class is becoming a hollow shell.

This week, class-conscious Britain actually began a national debate on a new definition of what constitutes “middle class.” So many Britons think they are middle-class (and act as if they were, but can’t afford it) that the self-delusion is driving up housing prices and with it, personal debt.

The British majority is no longer middle class; they are “working class,” which should represent a step down in expectations of lifestyle. Working Britons do not save their money (interest rates on savings are a farce), and they spend everything trying to look more prosperous than they really are.

Does that look familiar to us in Canada? Mass delusion is not the basis of a healthy economy. Neither, I would suggest, is an extreme disparity of income, relative to value of labour.

Our society hasn’t the first clue on how to change the trend of growing disparity of income. Perhaps the survival strategy for us water-drinkers is to simply downgrade our expectations.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

United in condemnation FEDERAL PARTIES REFUSE TO TIPTOE AROUND PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS VALUES CHARTER As he unveiled his government’s odious charter of Quebec values, the provincial minister for democratic institutions, Bernard Drainville, declared Tuesday a “beautiful day for Quebec.”

On balance, it was a much better day for Canada.

In fact, it was that rarest of days in this country — a day in which all three federal parties ignored data on what the Quebec initiative might or might not do to their own aspirations, turned a blind eye to polling numbers in the province, and refused to tiptoe around the separatist TIM Parti Quebecois government.

They took a stand.

HARPER While none could really remain on the sidelines, the equations were different in all three camps.

Speaking for the federal Conservatives, Employment Minister Jason Kenney acknowledged that Pauline Marois would like nothing better than a fight with Ottawa on any issue, at any time.

So, he gave her one, in a shift in tone from his boss, Stephen Harper, who had appeared reluctant to take the gloves off. Kenney served notice that if this charter becomes law, the government would be prepared to “vigorously” challenge the constitutionality of that law in court.

“We are very concerned about any proposal that would discriminate unfairly against people based on their religion, based on their deepest convictions,” Kenney said.

The Conservative government is something of an anomaly in the history of this country, a majority government that is not really a player in Quebec.

But the party is a major player in multicultural Canada and Kenney, the former immigration minister once dubbed “the minister of curry in a hurry,” likely spent more time with voters wearing turbans, hijabs, kippas and veils than any other politician in the country.

That constituency, in the sprawling greater Toronto area suburbs, the Lower Mainland in British Columbia and, yes, Montreal, will again be key to Conservative hopes in 2015.

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Urban cycling in Red Deer Over the past year, there has been some heated debate about the whole bike lane pilot project and its relevance for Red Deer, as if Red Deer is somehow relegated to act differently than other places.

I will go through some arguments against a few points of interest: ● One can only cycle for four to six months of the

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This is a government that may polarize and appear mean-spirited, but it has been largely consistent on human rights abroad, so it could hardly dance around such a situation in its own backyard.

It established an Office of Religious Freedom promised in a 2011 throne speech with the vow that it was needed “to help protect religious minorities and to promote the pluralism that is essential to the development of free and democratic societies.”

Conservatives also know that there may be many among their base, far from urban areas, who would back a Marois move in their own province. The PQ move hearkens back to politics in this country of a generation ago when the founders of the Reform Party, the predecessor of today’s Conservatives, voted to ban turbans in the RCMP. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau had been the one federal leader who bit on the PQ plan before it was officially unveiled and while campaigning in Montreal on Tuesday, he said Marois does not speak for all Quebecers and does not reflect the values of Quebec.

“It’s important to defend people’s freedoms, not restrict them,’’ said Trudeau, who, in leading the third party, likely has the least to lose among the three federal parties in condemning the move.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, with his huge Quebec

caucus — including MPs in regions where the Marois initiative proves popular — had the most to lose in repudiating the PQ plan. So it is to his credit that he delivered the strongest indictment of the day.

Despite his strength in Quebec, Mulcair must build outside that province and he had to play to the discomfort this is causing in the rest of Canada.

He rightly said that polls based on carefully choreographed leaks may change now that the details have been unveiled, but even if they don’t change, his views will not, Mulcair said.

Mulcair had to deal with the fact that the values charter is winning some support from organized labour in Quebec. He has also in the past fended off allegations that he and the PQ shared the same pool of support and he would have to pull his punches with the separatists. Instead, Mulcair branded the Marois initiative “unbelievable ... and untenable,” an example of “state-sanctioned discrimination.”

It is a sure bet that one of the three federal parties will ultimately pay an electoral price in Quebec for this speedy repudiation of the charter.

It is to the credit of all three of them that they looked beyond that inconvenience and chose human rights over political timidity.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

year. Many Scandinavian countries have higher rates of cycling with comparable seasons. Additionally, not seeing the lines during the winter months is not a problem. How have cars driven on a four-lane road during the winter months without seeing the lines for all these years? ● Very few people use the bike lanes. If we take a look at how many people rode on the street prior to the implementation of the lanes, then we would see an increase in riders today. Based off my limited experience, I saw maybe three riders using the road to cycle whereas after the bike lanes came into effect I saw a minimum of 15 people using them. That is a 400

per cent increase. I would say the bicycle lanes are creating more cyclists, and in time can create more. ● Bike lanes cause too much congestion. Many say that taking away a lane in each direction has contributed to the congestion, especially before and after school. The bicycle lanes act as a traffic calming measure. One can also notice there were no bike lanes implemented on major roadways, only roads that go 50 km/h or less.

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The bottom 90 per cent of Canadians earned an average of $28,000. � Men accounted for 79.5 per cent of the top one per cent earners, and 62 per cent were between 45 and 64 years of age. More than two-thirds of Canada’s top one per cent have a university degree. � Sixty-nine per cent of households in Canada — 9.2 million out of 13.3 million — owned their dwelling in 2011, a marginal increase from 2006 compared with the more dramatic spikes in ownership of the previous 15 years. � 4.8 million Canadians, or 14.9 per cent, lived in lowincome households in 2010. � About half a million tenant households lived in subsidized housing, with 37 per cent of them spending 30 per cent or more of total income on shelter costs. � Four out of five households that purchased a home between 2006 and 2011 had a mortgage; one in five bought a condominium. � In 2010, more than 95 per cent of Canadians aged 15 and older collected some form of income with a median total of $29,900; 70 per cent received some government transfers — Canada Pension Plan, employment insurance, or old age security benefits, for example. � Of those receiving government transfers, 13 per cent reported it as their sole source of income. � Employment income accounted for 87.8 per cent of total income in the Northwest Territories, the highest in the country.

At the other end of the spectrum was Prince Edward Island at 68.6 per cent of total income. â—? Government transfers comprised 41 per cent of total income for Canadians aged 65 and older, the bulk of it through pension income, old-age security benefits and guaranteed income supplement payments. â—? The 10 per cent of Canadians with the highest family after-tax incomes paid 25 per cent of their income in income taxes. â—? Single-parent males with kids under six earned 81.5 per cent of their income through employment; for female single parents, it was just 54.9 per cent.

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the NHS data was collected in a OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For all the growing diversity the 2011 census and related surveys have portrayed in Cana- voluntary survey that likely has a bias in favour of da, Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final release reveals a contrasting higher income respondents, while the 2006 census constant: the richest of the rich in Canada are mar- was a mandatory survey with fewer biases. Tables buried in a technical document ried, middle-aged white men. show some measures of poverty The rest of us are up to our eyeclimbing over the past five years, balls in mortgage debt.

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALMOST while another set of tables shows Statistics Canada has published it falling. the final batch of data from its IMPOSSIBLE, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In here, we start with the new and controversial National HOWEVER, TO FIGURE premise weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing trends,â&#x20AC;?

Household Survey â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the survey said Brian Murphy, a special OUT FROM THE DATA meant to stand in for the long-form adviser on income for Statistics census scrapped by the ConservaWHETHER INCOME Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The NHS, to me, is one tives in 2010. The release was deINEQUALITY HAS piece of the puzzle.â&#x20AC;? layed for a month due to a glitch Norris crunched some of the in the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formulae.

INCREASED SINCE THE numbers himself and adjusted It shows that the median famLAST CENSUS IN 2006. for inflation, finding that median ily income in Canada is $76,000 THE GOVERNMENT family income climbed by about â&#x20AC;&#x201D; generally higher in the West six per cent nationally between than the East â&#x20AC;&#x201D; while the median AGENCY REFUSES TO the last census and now. The bigindividual income is just $27,600.

DISCUSS HISTORY, AND gest leap was in the Fort McMurThat means just as many individuTHE DATA RELEASED ray, where median family income als earn less than $27,600 as earn jumped 33 per cent. Families in more.

ON WEDNESDAY St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saw their median inThe richest 10 per cent of inWERE LACED WITH comes rise 18 per cent over the dividuals are making more than LARGE BOXES OF five years. $80,400. And the very rich â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Statcan does, however, ven272,600 individuals that make up WARNINGS NOT TO ture to make some basic historithe top one per cent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are all UNDERTAKE AMATEUR cal comparisons when it comes to making more than $191,100.

COMPARISONS. mortgage debt and home ownerThose people are making an avship. erage of $381,300 each, 10 times The NHS shows that 69 per the average Canadian income of cent of households in Canada own $38,700. The large discrepancy between the median and the average suggests there is a their home, up only slightly from the 2006 census after a long, historical climb in home ownership. very small percentage of the super-rich.

Canadians have paid a price for their tendency to The portrait of the rich differs starkly from the portrait of Canada in general that has been exposed buy instead of rent. More than 25.2 per cent of housein previous releases of the census and NHS. Data up holds are spending more than 30 per cent of their till now have shown an increasingly diverse popula- income on shelter, surpassing the standard measure tion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; aging, but also multi-racial, open to uncon- for having an affordable home. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up slightly ventional family structures, with women making from 24.9 per cent in 2006.

Of those living in an unaffordable home, 83 per huge strides in the workplace.

The rich, on the other hand, are a throwback to cent of them were saddled with a mortgage.

Overall, 58.6 per cent of homeowners were still the olden days: overwhelmingly male, between the ages of 45 and 54, almost always married or living in paying off their mortgages according to the 2011 survey. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up from 57.9 per cent in 2006 and 55.2 in a common-law relationship.

Education clearly pays. Despite recent question- 2001. In 1991, it was 51.5 per cent. ing of the value of university degrees, more than two thirds of the top one per cent had a university degree, compared to 20.9 per cent of the total popuNOTICE OF NOMINATION DAY lation. And almost a quarter of those who had a uniLocal Authorities Election Act versity degree had found a way to work themselves (Section 26) into the top 10 per cent of income earners.

LOCAL JURISDICTION: WOLF CREEK SCHOOL DIVISION â&#x20AC;&#x153;The high income is really reflective of the old NO. 72, PROVINCE OF ALBERTA Canada, which is much less diverse,â&#x20AC;? said Doug NorNotice is hereby given that Nomination Day is September ris, chief demographer at Environics Analytics.

23, 2013 and that nominations for the election of candidates But as immigrant populations become more estabfor the following offices will be received at the location of the lished and as women gain ground in the workplace, local jurisdiction office set out below between the hours of the income data will slowly start to reflect the broad10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Nomination Day. er diversity of the population, he predicted.

Number of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over time, I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see that diversity creepOffices Vacancies Ward Number ing in.â&#x20AC;?

School Board Trustee (1) One One Already, the NHS shows that second-generation immigrants are making far more money than the School Board Trustee (1) One Two national median. And ethnic groups that are wellSchool Board Trustee (1) One Three established in Canada, such as Japanese immigrants, School Board Trustee (1) One Four are also well above the median.

School Board Trustee (2) Two Five As for the other end of the spectrum, the bottom Location (Address) of Local Jurisdiction Office: 10 per cent of income earners tend to live in cities, especially Montreal. Low-income neighbourhoods Wolf Creek School Division No. 72 Administration Office are known for their high proportions of visible mi6000 Highway 2A norities and recent immigrants, and a preponderPonoka, Alberta ance of single parents.

Dated at the Town of Ponoka, in the Province of Alberta this While the national median annual income for a 3rd day of September, 2013. full-time worker is $50,699, the median for a visibleJoe Henderson, CGA, CSBO minority worker is just $45,128. For a First Nations Returning Officer full-time worker, the median income is $41,684.

The highest income in Canada is found in the The Nomination Form must be delivered to the jurisdiction office. Fax or other reproductions will not be accepted. area around Fort McMurray in the Alberta oilsands, where median family income is $186,782.

Nomination Forms may be accessed at any school within the Wolf Creek School Division No. 72, at the jurisdiction Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible, however, to figure out from office indicated above and on the Wolf Creek Public Schools the data whether income inequality has increased website www.wolfcreek.ab.ca. since the last census in 2006. The government agency

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9-11 FAMILIES, FRIENDS MARK 12TH ANNIVERSARY WITH SOMBRE TRIBUTES TO VICTIMS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day on Wednesday as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while families wept for loved ones who perished in the terror attacks 12 years ago.

For the families, the memories of that day are still vivid, the pain still acute. Some who read the names of a beloved big brother or a cherished daughter could hardly speak through their tears.

“Has it really been 12 years? Or 12 days? Sometimes it feels the same,” said Michael Fox, speaking aloud to his brother, Jeffrey, who perished in the south tower. “Sometimes I reach for the phone so I can call you, and we can talk about our kids like we used to do every day.”

On the memorial plaza overlooking two reflecting pools in the imprint of the twin towers, relatives recited the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died when hijacked jets crashed into the towers, the Pentagon and in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. They also recognized the victims of the 1993 trade centre bombing.

Bells tolled to mark the planes hitting the towers and the moments when the skyscrapers fell.

In Washington, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden walked out to the White House’s South Lawn for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — the time the first plane struck the south tower in New York. Another jetliner struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.

“Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been,” Obama said.

A moment of silence was also held at the U.S. Capitol.

In New York, loved ones milled around the memorial site, making rubbings of names, putting flowers by the names of victims and weeping, arm-in-arm. Former Gov. George Pataki, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others were in attendance. As with last year, no politicians spoke.

The anniversary arrived amid changes at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, where construction started Tuesday on a new visitor centre. On Wednesday, the families of the passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 recalled their loved ones as heroes for their unselfish and quick actions. The plane was hijacked with the likely goal of crashing it into the White House or Capitol, but passengers tried to overwhelm the attackers and the plane crashed into the field.

All aboard died.

“In a period of 22 minutes, our loved ones made history,” said Gordon Felt, president of the Families of Flight 93, whose brother, Edward, was a passenger.

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition forces feel let down and more divided than ever because of President Barack Obama’s decision to seek a diplomatic path to disarming Damascus of its chemical weapons.

Many rebels who had held out hopes that U.S.-led strikes on President Bashar Assad’s government would help tip the scales as the two sides faced a deadly stalemate said America has indirectly given the embattled leader a second wind as a statesman negotiating with world powers.

“We’re on our own,” Mohammad Joud, an opposition fighter in the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo, said via Skype. “I always knew that, but thanks to Obama’s shameful conduct, others are waking up to this reality as well.”

Rebels who have been fighting for 2 ½ years to topple Assad say the U.S. has repeatedly reneged on promises to assist their rebellion, offering only rhetoric. In June, Obama announced he would provide lethal aid to the rebels, but so far none of that assistance has gotten to the opposition and the Syrian leader’s forces have gained the advantage.

Violence continued Wednesday when government warplanes hit a field hospital in the town of al-Bab near Aleppo, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The group, which relies on reports from activists on the ground, said a Yemeni doc-

tor was among those killed in the airstrike.

After a feverish campaign to win over Congress and the American people to support military strikes against Syria, Obama said Tuesday he would give diplomacy more time to rid the country of its chemical weapons arsenal that Washington says was used to gas and kill more than 1,400 people on Aug. 21 in rebel-held parts of the Ghouta area outside Damascus.

The death toll has not been confirmed, but even conservative estimates from international organizations put it as at least several hundred.

The president did not say how long he would wait.

Although Obama had said the attacks would be limited in time and scope with no intention of dislodging Assad, rebel commanders had planned to try to exploit them to shift the momentum in their favour after months of being on the defensive in what has become a war of attrition.

Several rebels said they were opposed “in principle” to U.S. intervention but saw it as a necessity to change the situation on the ground.

However, Assad, who has denied his forces were responsible for the attack and instead blamed rebels, fended off the threat of military action, at least for now, by agreeing to relinquish his chemical weapon stocks under a plan initiated by Russia.

“Assad’s regime is going to be stronger because while they’ve agreed to give up their chemical weapons, they get to keep everything else to fight the opposition that has lost territory in the past year and

has now suffered a big blow,” said Ayham Kamel, a Middle East analyst at the Eurasia Group in London.

“The opposition will struggle with morale and sense of purpose.”

Moreover, the opposition has been hobbled by increasing infighting between alQaida-affiliated militants and more moderate rebels as well as between militants and ethnic Kurds in the country’s northeast.

An influx of more sophisticated weapons from Saudi Arabia earlier this year does not appear to have made a significant mark on the ground, where Assad’s forces are on the offensive.

Underscoring the government’s resiliency, hundreds of people drove through streets in the capital, Damascus, honking their car horns to celebrate Assad’s birthday on Wednesday.

The Syrian leader, who turned 48, still retains popularity among some segments of Syrian society, particularly members of his Alawite sect and other minorities, including Christians.

“People were hoping for America to strike to bring about some kind of solution, but we also expected that nothing would happen because nobody has a solution for Syria,” said Bissan, a resident of Damascus, who spoke to The Associated Press during her visit to Beirut Wednesday.

She insisted her full name not be used for fear of reprisals.

“We are all tired of bombs and we don’t care about Assad and the opposition army (rebels), if they go or stay, because they are all responsible for crimes,” she added.

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Bomb strikes past site of U.S. consulate

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRIPOLI, Libya — A powerful car bomb exploded Wednesday near Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, exactly one year after the Sept. 11 attack there that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

The early morning blast on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the U.S. caused no serious casualties though several passersby were slightly wounded, authorities said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault. However, the bombing targeted a building that once housed the U.S. Consulate during the rule of King Idris, who former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi overthrew in a bloodless coup in 1969.

The bomb blew out a side wall of the building, leaving desks, filing cabinets and computers strewn among the concrete rubble. It also damaged the Benghazi branch of the Libyan Central Bank along a major thoroughfare in the city.

The Foreign Ministry used the building to provide government services to Libyans and foreigners in the eastern region, which is hundreds of kilometres (miles) away from the capital, Tripoli.

The explosion came a day after authorities found and defused another bomb next to the Foreign Ministry building in Tripoli, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan said.

Speaking to journalists hours after the explosion, Zidan pledged the government would track down those responsible. “There is a force that wants no state and to turn Libya to a battlefield of terrorism and explosions,” he said.

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People gather to look at the site of a car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday.

Deputy Interior Minister Sadik Abdel-Karim said the country’s security situation was “deteriorating.”

“The message has been delivered to every Libyan — especially in Benghazi,” he said.

Libya has no interior minister since the last one resigned over a conflict with Zidan weeks ago.

Gadhafi was killed after an eight-

month uprising that descended into a civil war in 2011. Since then, successive Libyan interim governments have failed to impose law and order. The country remains held hostage by unruly militia forces initially formed to fight Gadhafi. The militias, which have huge stockpiles of sophisticated weaponry, now threaten Libya’s nascent democracy.

Colorado recall elections show risk of supporting gun control restrictions

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The removal of two Colorado state senators who voted for tighter gun control serves as an example of what can happen to lawmakers who support gun restrictions, even in a state that has suffered two of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

The well-organized activists who sought to recall Colorado Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron got the backing of gun-rights groups such as the pro-gun National Rifle Association. It turned out they didn’t need much assistance because voters were already so incensed by passage of the gun-control package.

The effect of the recalls on other states isn’t yet clear. Only 10 other states allow state lawmakers to be recalled for any reason, but social media and email lists have made it easier to build support among angry voters.

Democrats, who maintain control of the Legislature in Colorado — where 12 students and one teacher were killed in the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School and where 12 people were killed in the 2012 shooting at an

Aurora movie theatre — said the recall was purely symbolic.

But they could be a sign of things to come in 2014, both in Colorado’s governor’s race and in scores of other political contests around the country.

After last year’s mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Colorado was the only state beyond Democratic strongholds New York, California and Connecticut to pass gun-control legislation. Gun-control measures died in Congress, as well as Minnesota, Oregon, Washington and Delaware.

Despite being outspent by about 5-to-1, recall supporters cited a big anti-recall donation from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to make one of their main points — that Democrats controlling the state Legislature were more interested in listening to the White House and outside interests than their own constituents.

Political analyst Floyd Ciruli said voters seem to have been upset about what they saw as government overreach not just on guns but on other parts of the Democratic agenda. Polling showed individual gun laws, such as limiting ammunition magazines to 15 rounds, had some support, but the

size and speed of the gun package and other Democratic bills may contributed to the senators’ fate, he said.

About 40 per cent of voters turned out in Pueblo, an impressive figure given that there were no mail ballots.

Bloomberg downplayed the vote as a low-turnout, off-year election and said the NRA would not go unchallenged in future recalls.

“We’re committed to backing elected officials across the country who are willing to face these attacks because they agree with Americans about the need for better background checks,” he said in a statement.

Republicans hope to build on their victories next year, when Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper will be up for re-election. The governor initially shied away from pushing for gun-control measures after the Aurora theatre shooting, which happened in the middle of the 2012 presidential campaign.

But he later reversed course just before the Newtown massacre.

A poll last month by Quinnipiac University showed that Hickenlooper’s position on guns and his decision to halt the execution of a death row inmate were unpopular with voters.

Zidan acknowledged the challenge Wednesday, saying that “the security situation is tough.” Former Interior Minister Ashour Shwayl said that as long as the military and police are not in place, the turmoil will continue.

“To sum it up, there is no solution but for the police, military and judiciary are built up,” Shwayl said. “Chaos otherwise will remain.”

Car bombs and drive-by shootings since the end the civil war also routinely kill security officials in Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising.

“Even with so many officials assassinated, no one is held accountable,” said Tawfiq Breik, a lawmaker with the liberal-leaning National Forces Alliance. “No one is arrested. The state is disabled.”

The car bombing comes exactly one year after al-Qaida-linked militants stormed the U.S. mission in Benghazi and a nearby U.S. building, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

“We can’t ignore the date and timing. We can’t forget,” Zidan said, suggesting that the car bombing was meant to be a reminder.

The attack sparked a wave of criticism toward President Barack Obama and his administration for its handling of the attack and its aftermath. The administration closed 19 diplomatic posts across the Muslim world for almost a week last month out of caution over a possible al-Qaida strike — likely in response to the Benghazi criticism.

On Aug. 9, Obama told reporters that the U.S. was still committed to capturing those who carried out the deadly consulate assault. Obama said his government has a sealed indictment naming some suspected of involvement.

Officials said earlier that the Justice Department had filed under seal the first criminal charges as part of its investigation of the attack.

Humberto first hurricane of the Atlantic season THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAMILTON, Bermuda — Humberto grew to hurricane force far out in the Atlantic on Wednesday, becoming the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, while Bermuda shook off a drenching

by Tropical Storm Gabrielle.

Humberto’s maximum sustained winds were near 140 km/h and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could gain more strength by Thursday morning, but a gradual weakening would begin at that time.

The storm was centred about 575 kilometres west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands and was moving north at 19 km/h into the open Atlantic.

In Bermuda, Gabrielle caused several power outages overnight, but no major damage.

The government announced that all public schools were reopening and there would be sporadic ferry service.

The island’s meteorology service warned that strong winds and rain would continue to pelt Bermuda as the storm headed north.

Fueling a Cure for Breast Cancer Research The Ralph J. Bruinsma family of Lo-Cost Propane is proud to announce the return of the “Fueling a Cure” campaign. The Bruinsma family have already donated 10,000 litres of propane this year.

Another 10,000 litres of propane has been donated and will be sold at 6709 Golden West Avenue, in Red Deer on September 12, and 13.

All propane purchasers can have their bottles filled for $ 1.00 per litre, with all proceeds from the sale going to Canadian cancer research. All costs associated with the sale and transport of the propane, are being covered by the Triangle Group of Companies.

Please join the Bruinsma family in supporting this important cause on September 12 and 13. There will be a barbeque on site September 12 and 13, selling hotdogs, pop, and chips for $2.00 and hamburgers, pop, and chips for $3.00 from 10 am to 2 pm. All of the proceeds are going to Canadian cancer research.

2013 CAMPAIGN WINDUP! Bring your propane bottles to the Pink Truck this Thursday and Friday.

So far this year over $16,240 has been raised for breast cancer research. The “Fueling a Cure” campaign will be in Red Deer this week supported by the Lo-Cost Propane office in Red Deer. After that the campaign returns to the head office location in Lethbridge.

Look for the pink propane trucks throughout central and southern Alberta for the rest of the year. In future, most Lo-Cost vehicles will be identified with the “Fueling a Cure” slogan throughout southeastern British Columbia and southern Saskatchewan.

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Small (No. 16) Stimulator easy to see and effective at dusk; Tiny blue-winged olives like “banker’s” hours — dark days and dusks; Rainbow trout are the major catch in the Crowsnest River — even at the “moosewallow” at the top end; Releasing a big, broad-daylight Crowsnest rainbow; Tiny (No. 18) No-Hackle Blue-winged olive imitation.

Dreams of ‘that bend’ and its dusk risers What do you do with a secret outdoors hot spot you can’t walk or wade to anymore? I make a living bequest to my son, John, and a special friend or two, the latest of whom checked out my favourite stretch of the Crowsnest River one evening recently.

“The river was alive with rising fish, but they were all those six-inch rainbows. I did see some rises of what I thought were a little bigger fish along the banks on the way down to that bend, but couldn’t get them to take anything … a 13-inch brown that jumped over my fly was the biggest fish I saw in there.”

Here is my reply and No. 1 in an occasional series: secret spots I’ll never see again.

BOB That short stretch of water SCAMMELL from where you start, down to “that bend,” is probably the one I miss most for the amazing experiences it has given me, despite the fact that it is the most ordinary, unproductive-looking water you, or the hundreds of anglers who wade by it, will ever see.

John and I have spent hours there on July, August and September evenings, debating whether a tiny, repeated rise-form is only an entire tiddler flipping at flies, or just the neb (nose) of a huge “banker” rainbow barely breaking the surface to sip something miniscule.

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more than a foot from either bank, in a dozen fishfavoured spots, it is generally a big rainbow. This is hunting, more than fishing, and many anglers will splash on by, heading downstream to beat you to the “good pools” while you sit and watch.

These big bankers are seldom there in broad daylight, unless there is a major hatch on, such as golden stoneflies, or pale morning dun, or blue winged olive mayflies. Where the big fish suddenly come from at dusk remains a mystery.

When I have decided that the small rises are really a big trout and wade over, upstream of it, I can often see the whole fish in the dim light, and maybe even see the tiny insect it is taking. My best results have come with a white-winged No. 18 Elk Hair Caddis, Stimulator, or a parachute Pale Evening Dun or BWO imitation, occasionally a Griffiths Gnat in the same size, cast downstream and across on a slack line.

The top spot over the years has been “that bend,” where the current collides with the high bank, bends sharply and glides left along it. On a very bright, hot day, only once, I took a big rainbow hiding in the shade there, on a hopper. Otherwise, a big trout or two will suddenly appear there and start rising two inches from the bank, just as the sun is setting behind Turtle Mountain and Frank Slide.

Of course, I am just assuming this play still goes on, but I am confident the stage, “that bend,” is the same or similar, despite the recent flood; after all, it endured the 2000 and 2005 floods.

There were two risers down there one evening and I hooked the downstream one first, and landed the 50-cm rainbow in the pool downstream, then

went back up and took the other 61-cm rising rainbow.

John hooked a big riser there one late evening that took us down below the little island before we landed a 71-cm rainbow. I doubted my tape, until I read a story in The Pass Promoter from a couple of weeks earlier about a 71-cm rainbow taken in the Crow.

John helped me wade down there five or six years ago, and I took my final trout in that spot, a 66-cm rainbow that hooked me deeply in the left index finger as I released it. Fortunately, by that time I had quit tying flies smaller than No. 16 and this was a fly shop No. 20 parachute pattern tied on a barbless hook. It slid easily out and spared John, who was already ashen at the mere thought of performing, at my instructions, the monofilament, push down-then-jerk barbed hook operation on the old man’s finger.

Then John helped me on my last, long, hard wade back upstream in the dark. The shortcut through the woods became no longer an option the day a grizzly sow and her two yearling cubs came out of those woods behind us, not 15 metres from where John and I were lunch-eating bumps on a log.

Back when I was able to fish as many as 100 times a year, I never had dreams of fishing; now I frequently do. One dream is of being levitated by Buck Rogers Jet Pack, or “beamed” up by Scotty, something, one last time to “that bend,” to see again the big risers at dusk, make a few casts, maybe even hook a brown trout, a new species in this old secret spot of mine.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Cover plants to prolong the growing season A few gardens felt the sting of the first frost in August. In this climate, a killer frost is not far away but the season can be prolonged by covering or bringing plants inside on nights that get cold.

The same polyspun cover that was placed on plants in the spring to speed up their growth can be used in the fall to keep them warm at night.

This white cloth comes in long, wide sheets that will cover a large area. Drape the cloth over the plants and anchor it tight to the ground to keep the cold air out.

Polyspun material is usually rated to about five degrees below freezing but there are LINDA heavier varieties available so TOMLINSON check the label.

Plants will grow well under the polyspun cloth and it can be left in place until a killer frost finishes the plants. It should be removed daily if insects need to pollinate the flowers as the insects will not have access to the flowers under the cover.

Sheets, blankets and newspapers work similarly to polyspun cloth. Each material will protect plants

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to a certain temperature. Sunlight does not penetrate these frost covers, which means it is best if they are removed when the air warms and put back when necessary.

Plastic is an old standby that also works well if it is placed on a frame over the plants. Leaves that touch the plastic will freeze. Placing cloth underneath the plastic can eliminate the problem.

Plastic can be removed and used only when necessary or ends can be opened, providing ventilation preventing the plants from overheating on hot days.

Container gardens, pots and baskets can be covered or taken inside on cold nights. Doing this can add colour to the garden into October.

Take time to collect all plants that are to overwinter in the house and bring them inside now. Before doing so, inspect the leaves and stems carefully to insure that they are not hosting any insects.

Aphids are either translucent or black oval bumps that are easy to see. More importantly, the plants will be sticky from aphid honeydew or excretions.

White flies are less common except in greenhouses. They live on the bottom sides of leaves and will fly when the plant is disturbed.

Spidermites are very small and are best seen with a magnifying glass. These insects live on the undersides of leaves and weave spider webs around the tips of plants or in areas where leaves and stems

join.

Ants will make their home in potted plants and are capable living there for years without disturbing the plant. The nest is only noticeable when the ants head out to forage for food.

Usually all insect eggs are laid on the underside of leaves close to the veins in an attempt to camouflage them. The eggs will hatch at a later date and infect plants.

It is the gardener’s choice whether to take infected plants inside. If the insects and eggs are not destroyed, chances are that they will spread to other plants.

Placing the plants brought inside in a room separate from other house plants is a precaution that should be taken. An isolation period of two weeks, in a warm area, will encourage any hidden eggs to hatch. A daily check on the plants will ensure that insects can be found before it becomes a huge problem.

Being proactive and getting the plants ready to be brought indoors results in healthier plants and less hurried decisions as temperatures dip below freezing.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

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Best medicine is the simplest There is one truth that I frequently return to when working in with clients it is: keep it simple.

I have found again and again the best medicine is often the simplest. The simplest medicine is a deep breath.

Here are a few ways the breath nourishes and heals the body.

1. Deep breathing improves lymphatic drainage.

Lymph, containing metabolic toxins, flows uphill in the body and drains into the circulatory system through two ducts at the base of the neck. This is a tricky feat for the lymph, as unlike the circulatory system that has a pump, lymph is reliant on the movement of muscles to flow.

ABRAH Particularly important are ARNESON expansion and contraction chest muscles and the dia- HERBS FOR LIFE phragm: the muscles used for deep breathing. Deep breathing enhances lymphatic drainage. Back in circulation, lymph flows into liver and kidneys where toxins are processed for elimination.

2. Deep breathing stimulates the parasympathetic system.

During deep breathing the rise and fall of the diaphragm massages the wandering vagus nerve.

Stimulation of the vagus nerve turns off the stress response relaxing the heart, stomach, liver and kidneys, and intestines.

Massaging the vagus nerve releases acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter that relaxes the body and mind.

This calming neurotransmitter is associated with increase in attention, focus and memory. Low levels of acetylcholine are linked with depression.

Consider this: In a study of several depressed patients on a psychiatric ward, 45 adults were assigned to three groups.

The first group was given only SKY (a yogic deep breathing technique) breathing training and no medication.

The second group was given 150 mg/day of an antidepressant, imipranine.

The third group was treated three times a week with unipolar electroshock therapy.

At the end of four weeks, the patients were retested, using the Hamilton Depression Scale and the Depression Inventory.

The group given SKY breath training showed as much improvement in their depression scores as the group given impramine. SKY and impramine groups did almost as well as the electroshock group.

(Source: How to Use Herbs, Nutrients and Yoga in Mental Health Care, Richard Brown MD, Patricia Gerbarg MD, Philip Muskin MD) 3. Deep breathing increases the release of carbon dioxide.

Stress is oxygen hungry. To supply stress’s increased demand of oxygen, chest breathing is stimulated. Chest breathing creates short, shallow breaths that gulp oxygen and limit the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Chronic chest breathing leads to high blood levels of carbon dioxide.

Here are just a few symptoms of moderately high blood levels of carbon dioxide: headache, dimming of eye sight, blue fingers, swollen ankles, difficulty hearing, increase heart rate and blood pressure, flushing, confusion, drowsiness, muscle tremours and — if the CO2 level are really high — death.

Deep breathing enhances the elimination of carbon dioxide.

In my practice, I use two herbs to open airways and deepen the breath. Both herbs act on the mind, easing anxiety.

Hyssops (byssopus officinalis): Hyssops is an easy plant to grow in the garden. It enjoys the sun and is not too fussy about water. I have grown it in dripping wet summers and summers stricken by drought. Hyssop’s medicine is made up of volatile oils. During dry summer days, hyssops concentrates its volatile oils. Rain dilutes hyssop’s volatile oils, weakening its medicine. I frequently recommend hyssops tea to make breathing easier for those struggling with asthma, bronchitis or congestive heart failure.

Lobelia (lobelia inflata): The second herb that I commonly use to open up airways and deepen the breath is lobelia. Lobelia has a complex chemistry made up of at least 14 alkaloids with conflicting actions in the body. Some of the alkaloid stimulate the central nervous system while others relax it.

Because of its complex chemistry, it has been difficult to discern the exact mechanisms of lobelia’s effect on the body.

Lobelia’s alkaloids have an acrid taste. This unpleasant sensation on the back of the throat triggers the gag reflex, inducing vomiting. Lobelia is such potent emetic that it’s common name is “puke weed.”

In high doses, lobelia is guaranteed to induce vomiting.

In lower doses, lobelia eases spasms in the bronchial pathways. It is a traditional remedy for asthma.

I also use it to open up the breath for those struggling with congestive heart failure.

Lobelia relaxes skeletal muscles. I find it releases tension in the muscles that open and lift the rib cage.

This deepens the breath.

So take a little simple medicine daily. Sit back and breathe.

Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. com.

Hidden sugar crisis sweeping the continent Say ‘yes’ to flavour, ‘no’ to the food felons One of the most powerful ways to increase the health power of food is to give your diet a taste of the old one-two: Knock out refined flour and added sugars and syrups, and then fill in the gaps with naturally tasty stuff such as spices and seasonal fruit.

It’s a great time for blueberries, blackberries and peaches. And indulge in the harvest of veggies like sun-ripened tomatoes and green beans. For good measure, add flavourful, fibre- and nutrient-filled whole grains like quinoa and quick-cooking barley.

What’s so bad about sugars and refined carbohydrates?

Another powerful new report spotlights the connection: In countries where people consume more sugary foods, diabetes rates are higher. For every extra 150 calories’ worth of sweetener (the amount in a 12-ounce soda) consumed daily, diabetes prevalence jumped by one per cent. Turns out these empty calories increase your diabetes risk even if you don’t overeat, by firing up inflammation and insulin resistance so that your body can’t easily use blood sugar.

Simple, but it’s true: More beef on your plate equals more diabetes risk. Eating an extra three to four servings of red meat per week boosts your risk for developing diabetes by about 50 per cent.

A big, new study uncovered the connection by tracking the diets and health of 149,000 women and men for four years.

The good news? Less beef equals less diabetes.

Those who cut back even a little reduced their risk by 14 per cent.

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Think you don’t have time for a daily walk? Turns out that fitting in a short stroll (about 15 minutes) soon after you eat keeps blood sugar levels low and steady for the next three hours. The movement encourages your muscles to use more sugar from your bloodstream. Try taking your partner, kids and/or pooch out for some foot-powered fun after dinner.

Plenty of traditional cultures go for a walk after eating — like the Italian passeggiata. Get out there, and start livin’ the real dolce vita!

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There’s a hidden sugar crisis that’s sweeping the continent, and we’re not talking about what’s lurking in the nearest vending machine (although it does contribute to the problem).

We’re talking about the 80 million North Americans with prediabetes; a condition that is characterized by higher-than-normal blood sugar levels.

Prediabetes is a risky condition: It doesn’t just put you in line for diabetes and all of its complications (which, of course, it does), but even before you develop full-blown diabetes, having slightly elevated blood glucose levels puts you at increased risk for heart disease and stroke, leg pain due to circulation problems, reduced kidney function and blood-vessel changes that can lead to vision loss and neuropathy (nerve damage), as well as sexual dysfunction and depression.

Unfortunately, only one in 10 people with prediabetes even knows they have it.

And just a quarter of those folks are taking advantage of their big opportunity (knock, knock) to launch their own health rescue initiative before it’s too late.

Scary statistic: Once you’ve got prediabetes (find out by asking your doctor for a fasting blood sugar test or the A1c test that measures average glucose levels over a three-month period), odds are you’ll develop full-blown diabetes within nine to 10 years.

Amazing fact: While more than 65 per cent of North Americans have genes that predispose them to type 2 diabetes, it’s almost 100 per cent preventable at the prediabetes stage and doesn’t have to happen.

Here’s how to move your blood sugar back into the healthy zone and sidestep the health risks of prediabetes:

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Chef Peter Lao prepares meals and desserts in the small kitchen at the Cronquist House. The Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society has announced that the Cronquist House Tea House, located at Bower Ponds, is now open for breakfast, lunch and tea from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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Friday ● M&M Meat Shops’ National Family Dinner Night encourages families to eat supper together.

From Sept. 13 to Oct. 11 Canadians can submit their recipes on M&M Meat Shops Facebook page to be entered to win one of three prizes of $100 gift card. See www.mmmeatshops.com. ● Health Equipment Loan Program (HELP) sponsored by the Canadian Red Cross lends health equipment to the public. As well, volunteer opportunities are available for individuals providing customer service, assisting with data entry, organization and inventory control. Donations are also welcome.

Call Yvonne at 403-346-1241 or email yvonne. bauer@redcross.ca, if you wish to volunteer, or to inquire about donations, or use equipment. ● Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra will perform at Red Deer College Arts Centre Main Stage on Sept. 13. Tickets, $39, are available at Black Knight Ticket Centre, 403-755-6626 or online at bkticketcentre.ca ● Alzheimer Society National Coffee Break Campaign is in full swing. The society invites everyone in Central Alberta to host or take part in a Coffee Break event to raise awareness and funds for education and support programs. The campaign runs through September and includes World Alzheimer Day on Sept. 21. Ways to make a difference are by hosting a Coffee Break or donate directly to www.alzheimercoffeebreak.ca, purchase a Coffee Break decal at any Bulk Barn until Sept.

21. Bulk Barn will match donations. See www. bulkbarn.ca. ● Team Dancing is a great way to have fun, stay fit and meet people. Join a team dancing group in Innisfail on Sept. 13 and 20 or in Rimbey on Sept. 14 and 21 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. In Red Deer team dancing goes on Sept. 16, 23 and 27.

Cost per night is $5. Call 403-782-6771 or email teamdance123@gmail.com for venues and information.

Saturday ● Red Deer Central Lions Club and Lacombe Lions Club celebrate their 75 Anniversary on Sept. 14 at Red Deer Festival Hall. Guest speaker will be Judge Brian Stevenson of Calgary, the Lions’ past international president. The opening reception will feature displays covering Lions’ Club activities, projects, and persons over the years.

There will be entertainment supplied by Lacombe Lions Flat Iron Jazz Band, and a luncheon at noon.

To find out more, contact Larry at 403-346-5265. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Sept. 14 session is called Print! Printed!

Printing! with artist Carlene La Rue. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405.

Free with admission. ● Red Deer Ringette Come and Try It Night will be offered on Sept. 14 at Dawe Arena from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. with check in at 1 p.m. Free event open to anyone. Skates, mitts, and helmets required. No bike helmets. Sticks and instruction will be provided. Contact Wendy at wendy@challengerresources.ca. ● Horseback fundraiser for the Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada in memory of Jeffrey Varney, will be held on Sept. 14 at Rolyn Hills Guest Ranch, east of Red Deer on Hwy 595. The event includes a poker rally on horseback, followed by barbecue and optional camping. For more information email ridestrong@yahoo.ca or call Sarah at 403-392-4844. ● Schizophrenia Society of Alberta Open Minds Walk/Run on Sept. 14 at McKenzie Trail Recreation Area. Participants who collect pledges are eligible for incentive prizes including a trip to Puerto Vallarta. Volunteers are also needed. Log on to www.schizophrenia.ab.ca for registration and pledge forms or call Jenaveve at 403-342-5760 for ore information. ● Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School 40 Reunion will be celebrated

on Sept. 14 at Toad and Turtle Pub upstairs patio, meeting at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to pattidalsin@ gmail.com. ● DIY Saturdays will be offered at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Sept. 14 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. for all ages. Learn how to turn a simple ball of yarn into something exciting like a necklace, an animal, a work of art, or an ornament.

Phone 403-341-3822. ● Annual Community Yard Sale at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Sylvan Lake will be held in the church parking lot on Sept. 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sept. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will also be a bake sale, hot dog and drink sale, raffle, silent auction, and live music. Phone 403-887-2245. ● Shoppers Drug Mart Tree of Life Campaign will be on from Sept. 14 to Oct. 11 with all proceeds donated to local women’s health organizations. Customers may purchase and personalize a leaf for $1, a butterfly for $5, an acorn for $10, and a cardinal for $50 to decorate the Tree of Life at each participating store. ● Ponoka Senior Drop-In Centre jam sessions are held Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. and will be held Sept. 14, 21, and 28. Please bring a donation to the food bank on Sept. 14. Admission includes refreshments and snack. For more information phone Linda at 403-783-8461. ● Red Deer Runners meet at the Red Deer Recreation Centre every Saturday at 9 a.m. for a fun run. Novice to advanced runners who want to meet new people and enjoy the social atmosphere of a group are invited to participate touring around the city on sidewalks and city trails, and learn more about the trails. Once a month the group hosts a fun event. See www.reddeerrunners.org, or phone 403-347-0430. ● Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre We Care We Ride for Life motorcycle rally takes place on Sept. 14 and leaves from Bethany Baptist Church in Red Deer beginning at 9:30 a.m. There will stops at Century Park in Olds from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and at Bauer’s BrandSource Home Furnishing at Rocky Mountain House from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., finishing at CrossRoads Church in Red Deer County at about 4:30 p.m. Contact www.pregnancycare.ca, michelle@pregnancycare.ca, or phone 403-343-1611. ● Innisfail Weekend of Wheels features Show and Shine on Main St., Mini-Trade Show at Innisfail Legion, both from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, and 100 foot Shoot Out on Sunday with tech from 8:30 a.m. to noon and racing to follow until 6 p.m.

Show and Shine participants cost $10 per car, and spectators free. Shoot Out participants cost $25 per driver, must have own helmet, spectators $5 for adults, and free for 12 years and under. Phone 403-865-3215.

Sunday ● Waskasoo Optimists will hold a Family fun Scavenger Hunt and Spudz and Splitz Supper on Sept. 15 from 12:30 to 5 p.m. at the Deer Park Activity Centre. Cost is $10 per person for the scavenger hunt, children under 12 are free. Teams must have four members. Supper is $5 for a baked potato with trimmings and $5 for a banana split.

Register teams by calling Susan at 403-357-8847 or Lynne at 403-343-2201. ● A Friend to All: A Celebration of Girl Guides in Central Alberta will be open at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery from Sept. 14 to Nov. 11. The opening reception and tea will be Sept. 15 starting at 2 p.m. Partnering with current and former Girl Guides and Guiders, this exhibition features archival photographs and memorabilia highlighting the guiding experience in the region and celebrates 100 years in Alberta. Phone 403309-8405. ● Gospel concerts at Ponoka Drop-In Centre are held the third Sunday of each month at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door and includes light snack. Contact Leo at 403-783-6704. Enjoy the music on Sept. 15. ● Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel

preaching. Phone 403-347-6706. ● The Terry Fox Run will be held at Heritage Ranch on Sept. 15. Registration starts at 10:30 a.m.; run begins at noon. Join this family friendly 10 km run, walk, bike or roller blade on Red Deer’s beautiful trails for cancer research. No entry fee. No minimum pledge. Door prizes, and barbecue to follow run. Pledge forms are available on-line at www. terryfox.org or contact Loretta at 403-346-4005 for more information.

Monday ● The Golden Circle is offering a bus trip to Camrose on Sept. 16 and 17. This overnight trip will include shopping, walking, Bailey Museum Tour, Railway Museum and more. Price is based on double occupancy. Cost is $100 for member or $125 for non-members. For more information, call Diane at 403-343-6074, ext. 108. Book early. ● Cover 2 Cover Adult Book Club will meet on Sept. 16 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. The theme will be Guilty Pleasures. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre card games are played on the following days: Canasta Mondays at 1 p.m., $1; Cribbage — Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., $2; Singles Bridge — Wednesdays at 1 p.m., $2; Partner Bridge — second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., $3; Mixed cards — first and third Friday of each month, $1; Whist — second and fourth Friday of each month, $2 . For more information on cards please call Diane at 403-343-6074. ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 year round events: carpet bowling on Mondays at 9:30 a.m., and on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; Singles Bridge on Thursdays at 1 p.m. (all levels welcome, including beginners); Cribbage on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.; Texas Hold ‘Em on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and meat draws on Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 4 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Bargain Treasures Thrift Store welcomes gently used items, except furniture, computers and monitors, infant car seats or cribs. Please bring items inside the back door at 5217 Gaetz Ave. during business hours from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone 403-347-9711.

Tuesday ● Auditions for Central Alberta Theatre’s presentation of The Oldest Profession will be held on Sept. 17 and 18 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Members Lounge at CAT Studio, next door to Red Deer Memorial Centre. The five characters are elderly 70 year old women, but females aged 40 years plus would be suitable actors. See oldestprofession. shawwebspace.ca. Show dates are Feb. 20 to March 8, 2014. Rehearsals begin in Dec. ● Annual Walk For Wellness And Suicide Prevention follow up information night will be on Sept. 17, 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the North County Room of Lacombe Memorial Centre. ● Lacombe Seventh Day Adventist Food Bank and Thrift Store welcomes gently used items at 5025 53 St. in Lacombe. Hours of operation are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. Contact Millie at 403-782-6777. ● Lacombe and District Garden Club monthly meeting and perennial exchange will be on the third Tuesday of each month — Sept. 17 — at 7 p.m. at Lacombe Memorial Centre. Meet in the County Room with any divisions, cuttings, or seeds to share, or pick up something new. Refreshments provided. Phone Pamela at 403-782-5061 or email pamela.d.neumann@gmail.com. ● Celiac Support Group meets in the coffee lounge at the south location of Sobeys Inc. on the third Tuesday of every month starting at 7 p.m. The next meeting will be on Sept. 17. Those sensitive and allergic to gluten are invited to come out and find out more about celiac disease, gluten free diets and products, support, fellowship, coffee and goodies. See www.celiac.ca, or contact Fay at 403-347-3248, or Clarice at 403-341-4351 or email Red Deer Celiacs @yahoo.ca. ● ReThink Red Deer Centennial Design Charrette — A Heritage Farmstead Revival will celebrate Red Deer’s Centennial over the next two of the four special evenings, as residents of Red Deer come together to create a plan that revives the J.J. Gaetz Heritage site into a productive community urban farm. No cost to attend the first three sessions. The fourth will be a fall harvest supper featuring local food and chefs and a presentation

on the proposed concept plan. Dates and locations are : Sept. 17: Michener Recreation Centre Theatre (PAST), Sept. 19: RDC Cenovus Learning Common (PAST), Sept. 30: Festival Hall (Red Deer Memorial Centre), Oct. 2: Heritage Ranch. Please see http://www.rethinkreddeer.ca/events/2013/09/17.

Wednesday ● Sort the Clutter and Ease Your Mind, a presentation by Lynne Ring, will be offered at Deer Park Alliance Church women’s event, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7 and include refreshments. Pick up tickets at the church office, 2960 39 St. ● Fireside Readers Adult Book Club will meet on Sept. 18 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch, Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room. For discussion will be Indian Horses by Richard Wagamese. Phone 403-3462100. ● Alberta Conservation Association saskatoon seedling planting will be held on Sept. 18 at Schroeder Conservation Site, and on Sept. 19 at Link Conservation Site. Volunteers are asked to meet on Sept. 18 and organize to carpool at 9 a.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre and meet with Red Deer Fish and Game Association and Red Deer River Naturalists. On Sept. 19 volunteers are asked to meet at Stettler Auction Mart at 9 a.m. to plant with Lacombe Fish and Game Association and Buffalo Lake Naturalists. Car pools will return at 3:30 p.m. each day. Refreshments will be provided at noon both days. Volunteers are asked to register or for information contact Andy at 403-340-7692, or andy.murphy@ab-conservation.com or see www. albertadiscoverguide.com and enter Schroeder or Link. ● Sit and Be Fit exercise program is held on Wednesdays starting at 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. A $2 dropin fee applies. Phone 403-343-6074. ● Downtown Market will be held on Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m. until Oct. 9 on Gaetz Ave. from the corner of Ross St. right to 48 St. (Alexander Way). Phone 403-340-8696. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Badlanders II is on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403342-0035. ● A 1913 Evening in the Arlington Hotel will be presented by Central Alberta Historical Society on Sept. 18 at Pioneer Lodge. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m., Annual General Meeting at 7 p.m., and program to follow. Tickets may be purchased from Red Deer Centennial Office, 403-340-2013, Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a cost of $30 for Historical Society members, or $35 for non members, or contact Iris at 403-340-2588. ● Stettler Art Group — Church Mice — meet every Wednesday at Stettler United Church Christian Education Wing at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting Sept. 18. Artists are asked to bring their own art supplies and lunch. Coffee supplied. The cost is $2 per session. Contact Donna Lea at 403-742-5690. ● Red Deer Bridge Club will be offering beginner and advanced beginner lessons on Wednesdays from 1 to 3:30 p.m., or 7 to 9:30 p.m. if registration warrants, at Bay 16 5579 47 St. in Cronquist Business Park. Ten lessons cost $30. Contact Barb at 403-346-8545, or Pat at 403-343-3765. See www.reddeerbridgeclub.com for the regular games schedule, or Bridge Club at 403-347-7300.

Thursday ● Central Alberta Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing will hold its Annual General Meeting on Sept. 19, 4:30 p.m. at Fort Normandeau. Refreshments served. To RSVP call 403347-0181 or email reception@safeharboursociety. org. ● Stettler Social Society supper and dance is held on the third Thursday of every month from Sept. to June at Stettler Legion Hall. Live bands each time. On Sept. 19 dance to Yesteryear. Dance from 5 to 6 p.m. Hot supper from 6 to 7 p.m. Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets at the door cost $17.50 per person, or $10 for dance only. Phone 403-7425640. All ages welcome. ● Red Deer TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets Thursday nights at the Elks Lodge, 6315 Horn Street. Weekly weigh in from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. with program to follow at 7. Low membership and weekly fees. Drop in for a free session or call Jo-Anne at 403-347-3939.

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REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Tools for Schools Africa Foundation’s Shine Accessories Sale will be held on Sept. 26 at Festival Hall starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 each or $150 for a table of five. Enjoy wine, desserts and more while browsing tables of jewelry, scarves, and handbags. Donations of jewelry, purses and scarves sought. Please drop off donations at Artistry in Gold during business hours. Funds raised will put Ghanian girls through high school.

Go to www.tfs-africa.org or call Lyn at 403-3144911, or Wendy at 403-347-7285. ● Red Deer Watershed Alliance (RDRWA) will host Blayne West, Environmental Coordinator for Lacombe County, on Sept. 20 at the Ambassador Breakfast. Event goes from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Quality Inn North Hill. Cost is $15. RSVP to info@rdwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 before Sept. 18. ● Alberta Bicycle Commuter Conference takes place Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sept. 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will be hosted

by Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Find out about advocacy, infrastructure, and education. Space is limited. Registration is required by Sept. 9 at edmontonbikes.ca/ab-conf-reg. Forward questions to ABconference@edmontonbikes.ca. ● Scott School Community’s Chain Lakes Poker Rally will be held on Sept. 29. A pancake breakfast will be offered from 9 to 11 a.m. The ride takes place from 10 a.m. to noon. All riders must register. Phone 403-783-6858. ● Our Hearts Remember is a short walk and gathering of bereaved families remembering special babies who have died during pregnancy loss, miscarriage, stillbirth or early neonatal death. The walk takes place on Sept. 22, 12:30 to 4 p.m. at the Kiwanis Picnic Shelter. For more information or to register, contact the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at www.rdrhfoundation.com or call 403343-4773. ● Arthritis 101, a free program sponsored by the Red Deer Public Library and the Arthritis Society, will be held on Sept. 25 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dawe Branch of the Red Deer Public Library. Pre-register online at www.arthritis.ca or call 1-800-321-1433. ● Lending Cupboard Society of Alberta is seeking volunteers to commit to one, three hour shift per week. Hours of operation are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Duties vary from cleaning equipment, customer service, repair shop, drivers and warehouse.

For more information drop in to 5406C 43 St., call Audrey at 403356-1678, or visit the website at

www.lendingcupboard.ca ● Rock and Roll Dance Party sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary, will take over the Red Deer Legion on Sept. 20, 8:30 p.m. Cost is $15 and includes food, fun and prizes. Wear your best rock and roll clothes. Tickets available only at Legion reception. ● Canadian Cancer Society Jail ‘N’ Bail will go on Oct. 24 at Parkland Mall. The roundup begins to turn in prospective “jailbirds,” volunteers, and sponsors for a good cause and raise funds to fight cancer. See cancer.ca/ab/jailnbail or call 403-309-5429, or trish.king@cancer.ab.ca. ● Operation Food Lift 2013 will be held on Sept. 22 in support of Red Deer Food Bank Society at Hangar 13 at Springbrook with the help of Skywings Aviation Academy Ltd. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For a minimum $25 cash or non-perishable food donation, participants may take a flight over Red Deer. Flying Flee Market will be available for participants to shop and browse while they wait, and the Food Bank will hold a barbecue on site. Table rentals are available for $10 per table in advance, or $20 on the day of the market. To reserve a table, call 403-342-5344. ● Scrabble Benefit, hosted by GrammaLinkAfrica and supported by the Golden Circle, will run Sept. 20, with registration at 1:00 and play starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Golden Circle Seniors Centre.

All proceeds donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to support African grandmothers raising their orphaned grandchildren. Register for pledge forms by contacting Merla at wmwgib@ gmail.com or call 403-342-5670. This is a non competitive, fun benefit with silent auction and complimentary coffee and cookies. Tax receipt issued for donations or pledges over $20. For more information contact Faye at 403-343-1881 or email bev.hughes@shaw.ca or call 403-3431881. ● Free-Up Financial Living Workshop will be offered by Shalom Counselling Centre on Oct. 19, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn how to develop a personal spending plan, prioritize financial goals and reduce debt. See www.shalomcounselling.com or phone 403-342-0339. Registration deadline is Oct. 4. ● Art of Friendship is a program for those who feel lonely or isolated, or have lost friends, or who have experienced difficult experiences and need

to brush up on their friendship skills. The course is offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association for eight weeks. One session is offered on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. from Oct. 9 to Nov. 27 at CMHA office, and another session is offered on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from Oct. 24 to Dec. 12.

Cost is $25 for either session. Scholarships may be available. For information visit www.reddeer.cmha. ab.ca. Participants must speak with staff prior to enrollment at 403-342-2266. ● The Associated Canadian Travelers, United Commercial Travelers Red Deer Council 1021 (ACT/UCT) are holding an Open House on Oct. 4 at Elks Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. The group is looking for those who have a couple of hours to space each month to share in fun and fellowship and help people with special needs. Contact Marg at 403-342-4211. ● Sweetheart Gala in support of Ronald McDonald House — Central Alberta will be held on Feb. 15, 2014 in Heartland Room, Harvest Centre, Westerner Park. Tickets cost $25 until Jan. 1, 2014, and then $30 afterwards. There will be a dance, silent auction, midnight lunch. Contact ccmalone08@ hotmail.com to get involved. ● Our Lady of Peace Fall Turkey Supper will be held at Royal Canadian Legion in Innisfail on Sept. 25 from 5 to 7 p.m. Adults cost $10, and children aged 11 years and under cost $5. Phone 403-227-4021. ● Memorial Society of Red Deer and District Annual General Meeting is coming up on Oct. 3 at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre starting with lunch at noon for a cost of $15. Please confirm attendance for lunch by Sept. 30 by calling 403340-3898, 403-340-9183, 403-347-2088. The AGM starts at 1 p.m. and is free to attend, and features guest speaker Leigh Baker of Canadian Red Cross who will talk about senior abuse prevention. Open to the public. Non-members are welcome. A silent auction will be held. Donated items appreciated.

Go to www.memorialsocietyrd.ca, or email to info@ memorialsocietyrd.ca. ● Confluence Heritage Society presents Fright Night at the Site, Oct. 18, 19, 25, 26 at Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site. PG13. Volunteers are needed. Pre-sale tickets $15 each from RMH Historic Site, AJ Pets, Caine’s Jewellers, Walking Eagle Inn, Sprinkles, Tea Rocks and many others. Contact 403-845-6680, fright_ nightchs@yahoo.ca. ● Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre is seeking youth volunteers who have an interest in health care or medical careers. The time commitment is two to three hours per week for a minimum of one semester (six months). Youth must be 13 to 17 years of age. Contact Darci at 403-343-04715, ext. 3 or darci.shave@albertahealthservices.ca.

Deadline for fall applications is Oct. 15.

● Homework Helpers Hangout @RDC will be starting in Oct. at Red Deer College Library from 4 to 5 p.m. with dates to be announced. The program will pair education student tutors in math, science, or English with youth ages 12 to 18 years. See www.rdpl.org, or phone 403-755-1146. ● Reading Tails, a program to inspire confidence and encourage reluctant readers, runs year round at the Red Deer Public Library Downtown.

Children ages six to 12 can practice their reading skills by reading to a canine buddy in this six week program for 30 minutes each week. For more information or to register for fall programs, contact Laural at 403-346-4688, lgrimes@rdpl.org. ● Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary Rock and Roll Dance Party is on Sept. 20, 8:30 p.m. at the Legion. Cost is $15 per person, and tickets are available from the Legion. Phone 403342-0035. ● German-Canadian Club of Red Deer presents Oktoberfest on Sept. 21 at Festival Hall.

Beer garden opens at 6 p.m., dinner and dance to follow with music by The Braebec Brothers.

Tickets cost $45, children under 13 pay half price.

For tickets call 403-342-1073. Visit Facebook, or www.reddeergerman-canadianclub.com for more information. ● Central Alberta Theatre presents Butterflies Are Free, a romantic comedy set in 1960s, which will be shown at Nickle Studio upstairs at Red Deer Memorial Centre, Thursdays to Saturdays, Sept. 26 to Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. with a matinee Sept. 29 at 2 p.m. Tickets on sale at Black Knight Tickets, 403-755-6626. ● Lacombe Dance Lessons for social and choreographed ballroom dancing, including traditional two-step, cha cha, jive, start in Oct. Contact Cliff art 403-782-4094. Presented by Lacombe Round Dance Club. ● Turkey Supper will be offered at Blackfalds United Church on Sept. 30 with two sittings at 5 and 6 p.m. Advance tickets only, $15 for adults, $7 for children, and free for under five, are available by calling Holly at 403-391-2310. See Blackfaldsunitedchurch.com ● Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is in need of volunteers and coordinators to pick up refuse in Waskasoo Creek and other local areas.

Cleanup of Waskasoo Creek, Sylvan Lake, Three Mile Bend, Gull Lake, Cranna Lake, etc., may be cleaned from Sept. 21 to 29. Volunteers may register at http://ShorelineCleanup.ca. ● Fred Penner, renowned children’s entertainer, will be performing on Sept. 26, 6:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe. Tickets are $16 and are available at the church office, 403782-3148, or the Flatiron Museum, 403-755-6935.

Profits from this concert go to Caring for Children fund in Lacombe.

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● Red Deer and District Garden Club plant exchange for members will be on Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Memberships are available at the door. Please label all perennial plants. At 7 p.m. guest speaker Jane Reksten, manager of Botanic Gardens and Treatment Wetlands, will speak on inspirations from the field. More information at www.reddeergardenclub.ca. For more information call Noreen at 403-346-7728, or 403-357-4071. ● Red Deer Art Club has ongoing painting sessions every Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Everyone is welcome.

These sessions are free time and offer opportunity to meet artists in the community. For more information call Elise at 403-3465645. ● Central Alberta Prostate Awareness and Support Group meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in the parlour. The next meeting is Sept. 19. This group has experience and information to share.

Knowing about the prostate, symptoms of prostate cancer, and other prostate diseases can save your life. Men and spouses are welcome. Phone 403-3505511. ● Speaker Series — Faith and Politics with Mayor Morris Flewwelling — will be held on Sept. 19, 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. Contact Linda at 403-347-6073. ● Innisfail Farmers Market is held at the Innisfail Arena from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday until Sept. 19. The market is all indoor with live entertainment, and a coffee area to sit and visit.

Lots of fresh vegetables when in season, baking, pottery, crafts, bedding plants, etc. Contact Christine at 403-896-5451. ● Randi Boulton Singers perform every Thursday at The Hub from 4 to 5:30 p.m. New singers welcome. Phone 403340-4869. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on Sept. 19 at the north side of the Red Deer Curling Club parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for an eight km hike at Ponoka/Battle River. Note there are no washrooms at this location. Hike will be cancelled if weather unsuitable. Bring lunch.

Phone Art at 403-347-5778, or Mavis at 403-343-0091 or Sharon at 403-340-2497. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Sept. 19, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Country Express Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170. ● Thursday Theatre New Release Movie Night will present The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey McGuire on Sept. 19, 6 to 8 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Rated PG-13. Teens aged 13 years and up and adults invited. Phone 403-755-1146. ● That Tween Thing is a new program just for tweens that will be offered at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. Youth ages nine to 12 years are welcome to enjoy fun, food, prizes, games, crafts and more. On Sept. 19 the theme is Minute to Win It, and Mystery Madness will be held on Oct. 10. See www.rdpl.org or phone 403-346-04688. ● After School Club is offered on Thursdays at 3:30 to 5 p.m. for teens and tweens to take part in games, movies, music and more at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch. Come and have fun on Sept. 19. Phone 403-341-3822.

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SPORTS

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 2013

Sutter adds rugged forward

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR One day after releasing a defenceman whom he originally hoped would provide a physical edge to his team, Brent Sutter added a rugged forward from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Wednesday.

The Red Deer Rebels general manager/head coach, who on Tuesday released six-footfour rearguard Spencer Morse, placed 18-year-old Kailum Gervais on the club roster.

The six-foot, 200-pound left winger/centre played the past two seasons with the Yorkton Terriers, scoring 16 goals, re- Kailum Gervais cording 48 points and racking up 126 minutes in penalties in 85 regular-season games.

“He’s a big, strong kid . . . a hard-nosed, tough kid,” said Sutter. “He played junior A as a 16-year-old and put up some OK numbers his first two years there as a 16- and 17-year-old. He came in today and skated with us for the first time.

RED DEER REBELS He’s been recovering from a knee injury and hasn’t been on the ice much this summer and fall.

“But he’s back now and he needs to get into shape.

We’re going to give him a shot and watch him and see how he does in the next couple of weeks. We’ll see how his conditioning goes and take it from there.”

Gervais attended the Brandon Wheat Kings camp last year and played in a pair of exhibition games before being sent back to the Terriers, whom he helped win the SJHL title last season while contributing 38 points — including 13 goals — in 51 regular-season outings and four goals and eight points in 16 playoff games.

He also picked up a pair of assists in three games at the Western Canada Cup at Nanaimo, B.C., where the Terriers fell 1-0 to the eventual Royal Bank Cup (Canadian junior A) champion Brooks Bandits in the final.

“He didn’t go back to Brandon’s camp this fall so they deleted him,” said Sutter. “Randy (Rebels director of scouting/player development Peterson) contacted him and he was willing to come here. He’s a big kid, he just has to get into shape so we can get a better feel for him.”

Gervais, a friend of Rebels rookie defenceman Kirk Bear, turned down the Wheat Kings training camp invitation this year because he felt they were mostly interested in him as a fighter.

He told Chase Ruttig of the Yorkton News Review that the Rebels offered him a more attractive role.

“When the Wheat Kings touched base with me they let me know they wanted me to mostly fight,” said Gervais. “I feel that I can bring more to the table than just fighting and Red Deer seems to feel that way as well, so I am excited for a new opportunity in a new environment.”

The Kamsack, Sask., native could become an effective power forward with the Rebels if he continues to develop. He could also ride shotgun for the team’s smaller forwards.

Sutter wouldn’t confirm that Gervais will play in one or both of the Rebels’ final two preseason games, Friday at Lacombe versus the Edmonton Oil Kings and Saturday in Stettler against the Medicine Hat Tigers.

“I’m not sure. We’ll have to see where his conditioning is at by the weekend,” said the Rebels boss.

The Rebels open their Western Hockey League regular season Sept. 20 against the Kootenay Ice at Cranbrook. The two teams will meet again the following night at the Centrium. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

No heir apparent for goalie at Flames’ camp COMPETITION FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS AFTER KIPRUSOFF RETIREMENT of longtime captain Jarome Iginla last season and the departure of Kiprusoff marks a new era for the hockey club.

MacDonald was Kiprusoff’s backup CALGARY — The Calgary Flames after the Flames plucked him off waivhave competition in goal at training ers in February. The 33-year-old is the most experienced goalie at camp with camp for the first time in years.

The retirement of workhorse Mi- 122 NHL games split between Calgary, ikka Kiprusoff left a void in net as the Detroit, Toronto, New York Islanders and Boston Flames preBruins. pare for the MacDon2013-14 NHL ald’s record season. in the lockoutKiprusoff shortened seawas Calgary’s son was 8-9-1 undisputed with a goalsNo. 1 after against averbackstopping the Flames — PROSPECTIVE FLAMES GOALIE JOEY MACDONALD age of 2.87 and a save percentto the 2004 age of .902.

Stanley Cup “Most years final. The softspoken Finn played seven seasons coming to camp, most teams have their of 70-plus games during his tenure in clear-cut number one,” MacDonald Calgary and was considered the back- said. “Being in Detroit for so long, you always had an old guy there that you bone of the team.

There isn’t an obvious frontrunner had to battle. This year, it’s going to be to replace Kiprusoff. The battle to be exciting. The opportunity is there and the Flames starter is expected to be it’s going to be an exciting team.”

He started three of Calgary’s last between Joey MacDonald of Pictou, N.S., Karri Ramo of Finland and Swiss four games of the season and signed a one-year contract in April that will pay native Reto Berra.

Laurent Broissoit of Port Alberni, him $925,000 this season.

Ramo, 27, played 48 games for the B.C., and another Finnish product, Joni Ortio, round out the five goalies at Tampa Bay Lightning between 2006 training camp, but lack the pro experi- and 2009 and also has American Hockey League experience. He’s spent the ence of the other three.

Calgary’s camp opened Wednesday last four years in Russia in the KHL. “Tampa’s testing was two days and with physical testing at the University of Calgary kinesiology lab. The first ex- now it’s one day so I guess the rules hibition game is Saturday at the Sad- have changed a little bit,” Ramo obdledome against the Edmonton Oilers. served. “Now it’s about showing what Alberta’s NHL clubs will split their you can do.”

The Flames picked up Ramo’s rights squads and host games in each city.

The Flames open the regular season from the Montreal Canadiens in 2012 on the road Oct. 3 against the Washing- in the same deal that returned forward ton Capitals. Their home opener is Oct. Mike Cammalleri to Calgary.

Current Flames general manager 6 versus the Vancouver Canucks.

The Flames haven’t reached the Jay Feaster was the GM in Tampa Bay playoffs in four seasons. The trading when the Lightning drafted Ramo in

BY DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘MOST YEARS COMING TO CAMP, MOST TEAMS HAVE THEIR CLEAR-CUT NUMBER ONE.’

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Calgary Flames’ goalie Reto Berra, from the Czech Republic, speaks to the media following a training camp fitness test in Calgary on Wednesday. the sixth round in 2004. Feaster signed Ramo to a US$5.5-million, two-year contract in July.

Kiprusoff is Ramo’s goaltending hero, although the Finns’ paths haven’t crossed much. Ramo has met him, but doesn’t know if he’ll have a chance to ask Kiprusoff’s advice about playing in Calgary.

“I really looked up to him when I was younger,” Ramo said.

“He was one of the biggest idols for me. It would be really nice to play with him, but there’s not that chance anymore.”

Berra, 26, fills the net at six foot four and 194 pounds. Calgary gained his rights in the deal that sent defenceman Jay Bouwmeester to St. Louis in April. The Flames then signed Berra to a one-year contract with a base salary of $765,000.

All of Berra’s pro hockey experience has been in the Swiss leagues, so he travelled to the Flames’ summer development camp in July and returned to North America two weeks ago to learn the smaller ice.

Please see FLAMES on Page B6

Quarterbacks on top of defenders’ hit lists There has been a high body count scrimmage and bringing more people on the quarterback front this year in than the O-lines can handle. the CFL. The result was quarterbacks under Future Hall of Fame quarterbacks heavy fire in almost every game this Ricky Ray and Anthony Calvillo are past weekend and only two quartertwo of the most notable casualties this backs were able to handle the heat. year, but Calgary’s Kevin Hamilton quarterback Glenn and Drew Tate are Henry Burris was one of also on the limp. Tate’s inthose guys. jury is the only one not reBurris is a veteran who lated to violent impact, but used his experience and mothe 2013 season has been a bility (even at 38 years old) war zone for quarterbacks. to exploit the pressure from The main reason is the the BC Lion defence. inability of the quarterHe was able to find his backs and their offensive open receivers in the unlines to handle pressure covered seams left when too defences. many guys are chasing the The name of the game is quarterback. pure speed in modern CFL He threw four TD passes JIM defences and most teams in a Ticat victory.

SUTHERLAND run with lighter, faster The rookie quarterback outside linebackers who battle in Montreal saw both are also no strangers to the pivots get sacked five times secondary because they are in the game and only one halfbacks and cornerbacks in many of them was able to handle the prescases. sure — Argonaut quarterback Zach The offensive lines are typically Collaros.

Canadian, with the exception of the He took a beating in the first half left tackle in most cases and the right and managed to get only five points tackle in many cases. along the way, but Collaros added 32 This year many defensive coordimore points in the second half when nators are loading up on the line of he started to exploit the Montreal blitz

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packages. His Montreal counterpart Tanner Marsh folded under the pressure and was picked three times in the Alouette loss.

The Banjo Bowl was a rude awakening for the Saskatchewan Roughriders because they were unable to establish a solid run game against a stiff Winnipeg defence.

Plan B for the Riders was more reliance on their quarterback Darian Durant and this plan showcased his career deficiencies in the passing game.

Durant has enjoyed a great 2013 season because he has been able to rely upon an incredible running performance from tailback Kory Sheets.

Sheets has a good shot at a single season 2,000 yards-plus rushing record and he has made Durant’s job easier this year.

Durant has lived up to his end of the bargain by using his opportunities wisely and well under ideal conditions.

However, the conditions were less than ideal against Winnipeg.

Sheets was not as effective and the O-line was forced into pass protection against a Bomber defence that sent an angry mob on almost every play.

It was a recipe for disaster because Durant became the focus of the Rider

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-44363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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offensive scheme and the Bombers knew exactly where to find him on every play.

Durant was not afforded the same kind of protection provided by his Oline for much of this season thus far.

This is the point where Durant had to elevate his own game and exploit the pass rush like Burris and Collaros did by moving the pocket and using the short game.

It is fair to say the Rider O-line was part of the problem against Winnipeg, but it is completely ridiculous for Durant to once again be exempt from criticism for his role in the loss.

He had another battle with accuracy and quick decision reads against the Bomber defence with a predictable result.

Durant uses his shoulder more than his wrist in a sidearm passing motion that sacrifices both accuracy and distance when he is in motion.

Pressure defences can exploit these flaws even more (see Winnipeg for details).

Tough weekend ahead for predictions but here are my winner picks: Hamilton, Edmonton, Toronto and BC. (Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer)

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SCOREBOARD Baseball

Hockey 4-4. Sv—M.Rivera (43). HRs—New York, Granderson (5), A.Rodriguez (6), Cano (27).

Texas Tampa Bay New York Baltimore Cleveland Kansas City

WILD CARD GLANCE AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct 81 64 .559 78 66 .542 78 68 .534 77 68 .531 77 68 .531 77 69 .527

WCGB — — 1 1 1/2 1 1/2 2

Pittsburgh Cincinnati Washington

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct 84 61 .579 83 64 .565 76 69 .524

WCGB — — 6

AMERICAN LEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Kansas City 6, Cleveland 2 Pittsburgh 7, Texas 5 N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 4 Boston 7, Tampa Bay 3, 10 innings Houston at Seattle late Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 0 Pittsburgh 7, Texas 5 San Francisco 4, Colorado 3 Washington 3, N.Y. Mets 0 Thursday’s Games Washington at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division Boston Tampa Bay New York Baltimore Toronto Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston

W L Pct 89 58 .605 78 66 .542 78 68 .534 77 68 .531 67 78 .462 Central Division W L Pct 84 62 .575 77 68 .531 77 69 .527 63 81 .438 58 87 .400 West Division W L Pct 84 61 .579 81 64 .559 69 76 .476 65 80 .448 49 96 .338

GB — 9 1/2 10 1/2 11 21 GB — 6 1/2 7 20 25 1/2 GB — 2 1/2 14 1/2 18 1/2 34 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Kansas City 6, Cleveland 2 Pittsburgh 7, Texas 5 N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 4 L.A. Angels 5, Toronto 4 Boston 7, Tampa Bay 3, 10 innings Detroit 1, Chicago White Sox 0 Minnesota 4, Oakland 3 Houston at Seattle, late Today’s Games Oakland (Griffin 13-9) at Minnesota (Diamond 5-10), 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-13) at Baltimore (W.Chen 7-7), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 6-6) at Toronto (Happ 4-5), 5:07 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 11-5) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 11-8), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 8-5) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 4-12), 6:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado San Francisco

W L Pct 87 58 .600 76 69 .524 67 78 .462 64 80 .444 54 90 .375 Central Division W L 85 60 84 61 83 64 62 82 62 83 West Division W L 85 59 72 72 66 78 67 80 66 80

Pct .586 .579 .565 .431 .428 Pct .590 .500 .458 .456 .452

GB — 11 20 22 1/2 32 1/2

Los Angeles 020 110 010 — 5 8 2 Toronto 300 100 000 — 4 4 0 C.Wilson, D.De La Rosa (8), Frieri (9) and Conger, Iannetta; Dickey, Loup (6), McGowan (7), Delabar (8), Oliver (9) and Thole, Arencibia. W—C.Wilson 16-6. L—Delabar 5-3. Sv—Frieri (32). HRs—Los Angeles, Trumbo (33).

Boston 003 000 000 4 — 7 9 0 Tampa Bay 001 000 110 0 — 3 6 0 (10 innings) Dempster, F.Morales (6), Workman (7), Uehara (9), Tazawa (10) and D.Ross; Cobb, W.Wright (6), J.Wright (7), McGee (7), Al.Torres (8), Rodney (9), Jo.Peralta (10), Ro.Hernandez (10) and Lobaton.

W—Uehara 4-0. L—Jo.Peralta 2-7. HRs—Boston, Carp (9). Tampa Bay, Loney (12).

Detroit 000 000 010 — 1 10 0 Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 5 1 Ani.Sanchez, Veras (8), Smyly (8), Benoit (9) and Avila; Quintana, Lindstrom (8), Veal (8), Petricka (9) and Phegley. W—Ani.Sanchez 14-7. L—Lindstrom 2-4. Sv—Benoit (18).

Oakland 012 (10)30 002 — 18 22 0 Minn 001 011 000 — 3 5 1 Grey, Milone (6), Figueroa (7), Neshek (8), Scribner (9) and Vogt; Pelfrey, Roenicke (4), Pressly (4), De Vries (5), Martis (8), Tonkin (9) and C.Herrmann, Fryer. W—Gray 3-3. L—Pelfrey 5-12. HRs—Oakland, Crisp (19), Vogt (4), Lowrie (12). Minnesota, Fryer (1).

INTERLEAGUE Pittsburgh 001 210 210 — 7 12 0 Texas 000 002 300 — 5 9 0 A.J.Burnett, J.Gomez (7), Morris (7), Mazzaro (8), Farnsworth (9) and R.Martin; Garza, J.Ortiz (5), Frasor (7), Cotts (7), Scheppers (8), R.Ross (9) and Pierzynski. W—A.J.Burnett 8-10. L—Garza 3-4.

Sv—Farnsworth (1). HRs—Pittsburgh, Barmes (5).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 6 0 Cincinnati 020 103 00x — 6 8 0 Samardzija, Raley (6), Al.Cabrera (7), Rosscup (8) and Castillo; Leake, Hoover (6), Simon (7), M.Parra (8), LeCure (9) and Mesoraco. W—Leake 13-6. L— Samardzija 8-12. HRs—Cincinnati, Mesoraco (9), Hannahan (1).

Colorado 000 102 000 — 3 9 0 San Fran 001 000 12x — 4 9 0 Nicasio, Bettis (6), Outman (7), Ottavino (7), Belisle (8) and Pacheco; Petit, Kontos (6), Moscoso (7), S.Casilla (9) and H.Sanchez. W—Moscoso 2-2. L— Belisle 5-7. Sv—S.Casilla (2).

San Diego 000 011 000 — 2 5 0 Phila 000 011 11x — 4 8 0 Stults, Vincent (7), Boxberger (8) and Hundley; Cl.Lee, Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W—Cl.Lee 13-6.

L—Vincent 4-3. Sv—Papelbon (26). HRs—San Diego, Medica (1), Gyorko (18). Philadelphia, Galvis (6), Rollins (6).

Atlanta 000 001 001 — 2 7 1 Miami 100 121 00x — 5 13 0 Minor, Varvaro (7) and McCann; Fernandez, M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and K.Hill. W—Fernandez 12-6. L—Minor 13-7. HRs—Atlanta, Gattis (19).

Miami, Stanton (20), Fernandez (1).

Washington 000 001 020 — 3 11 0 New York 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Haren, X.Cedeno (7), Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos; Z.Wheeler, Black (8), Hawkins (9) and T.d’Arnaud. W—Haren 9-13. L—Z. Wheeler 7-5. Sv—R.Soriano (41). HRs—Washington, Zimmerman (22).

Milwaukee 010 000 000 — 1 6 1 St. Louis 000 000 14x — 5 6 1 Estrada, Kintzler (7), Mic.Gonzalez (8) and Lucroy; Lynn, Choate (7), Rosenthal (8), Axford (9) and T.Cruz. W—Rosenthal 2-3. L—Kintzler 3-2. HRs— St. Louis, Ma.Adams (12).

AMERICAN LEAGUE

GB — 1 3 22 1/2 23 GB — 13 19 19 1/2 20

Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 0 Pittsburgh 7, Texas 5 San Francisco 4, Colorado 3 Philadelphia 4, San Diego 2 Miami 5, Atlanta 2 Washington 3, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers late Today’s Games Atlanta (F.Garcia 0-1) at Miami (Eovaldi 3-6), 10:40 a.m.

Washington (Roark 5-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harang 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Rusin 2-3) at Pittsburgh (Locke 9-5), 5:05 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 3-7) at Philadelphia (Halladay 3-4), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Thornburg 1-1) at St. Louis (J.Kelly 8-3), 6:15 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 8-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 14-3), 8:10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 300 010 110 — 6 11 2 Cleveland 200 000 000 — 2 4 2 Shields, G.Holland (9) and S.Perez; Kazmir, Shaw (5), R.Hill (7), M.Albers (7), Rapada (9) and Y.Gomes. W—Shields 11-9. L—Kazmir 8-8. Sv—G. Holland (42). HRs—Kansas City, A.Gordon (19).

New York 100 011 002 — 5 6 0 Baltimore 002 100 001 — 4 13 0 Pettitte, Kelley (7), D.Robertson (8), M.Rivera (9) and C.Stewart; Feldman, Tom.Hunter (8), Patton (9) and Wieters. W—D.Robertson 5-1. L—Tom.Hunter

MiCabrera Det Trout LAA Mauer Min ABeltre Tex Cano NYY DOrtiz Bos Loney TB Hosmer KC HKendrick LAA Nava Bos

G 134 141 113 143 145 123 139 144 108 120

AB 505 536 445 563 547 465 478 560 419 403

R 97 101 62 80 78 71 48 78 48 67

H 176 180 144 179 169 143 146 170 126 121

Pct. .349 .336 .324 .318 .309 .308 .305 .304 .301 .300

Home RunsCDavis, Baltimore, 49; MiCabrera, Detroit, 43; Encarnacion, Toronto, 36; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 33; ADunn, Chicago, 31; AJones, Baltimore, 31; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 29.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 133; CDavis, Baltimore, 128; Encarnacion, Toronto, 104; AJones, Baltimore, 102; Cano, New York, 100; Fielder, Detroit, 99; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 93.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 19-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 16-5; CWilson, Los Angeles, 16-6; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 15-3; Colon, Oakland, 15-6; AniSanchez, Detroit, 14-7; Guthrie, Kansas City, 14-10.

NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. Cuddyer Col 120 449 70 150 .334 CJohnson Atl 127 458 49 150 .328 Werth Was 113 410 74 134 .327 McCutchen Pit 141 530 88 173 .326 YMolina StL 120 447 59 142 .318 MCarpenter StL 140 558 114 177 .317 Craig StL 134 508 71 160 .315 Posey SF 134 472 56 147 .311 DWright NYM 105 408 60 126 .309 Beltran StL 130 498 75 153 .307 Home Runs PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 32; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 31; Bruce, Cincinnati, 29; DBrown, Philadelphia, 27; CGonzalez, Colorado, 26; JUpton, Atlanta, 24; Beltran, St. Louis, 23; Werth, Washington, 23.

Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 107; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 101; Craig, St. Louis, 97; FFreeman, Atlanta, 96; Bruce, Cincinnati, 93; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 89; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 89.

Pitching Zimmermann, Washington, 17-8; JDe La Rosa, Colorado, 16-6; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 16-7; Wainwright, St. Louis, 16-9; Greinke, Los Angeles, 14-3; Latos, Cincinnati, 14-5; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 14-8.

Kings prepared for tough season, with maybe best team ever: coach

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

Football CFL WEST DIVISION W 8 8 6 1

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg

W 6 5 4 2

L 2 2 4 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pts 16 16 12 2

PF 325 320 265 234

PA 227 246 266 294

PF 290 266 245 217

PA 259 277 285 308

EAST DIVISION L 4 5 6 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pts 12 10 8 4

Friday, Sept. 13 Hamilton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 14 Winnipeg at Edmonton, 4:30 p.m.

Toronto at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 15 Montreal at B.C., 2:30 p.m.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East New England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo

W 1 1 1 0

L 0 0 0 1

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

W 1 1 1 0

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

Kansas City Denver San Diego Oakland

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000

PF 23 23 18 21

PA 21 10 17 23

L 0 0 0 1

South T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .000

PF 21 16 31 2

PA 17 9 28 28

W 0 0 0 0

L 1 1 1 1

North T 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 21 9 27 10

PA 24 16 49 23

W 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1

West T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000

PF 28 49 28 17

PA 2 27 31 21

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Philadelphia Dallas Washington N.Y. Giants

W 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1

New Orleans Tampa Bay Carolina Atlanta

W 1 0 0 0

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

W 1 1 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000

PF 33 36 27 31

PA 27 31 33 36

L 0 1 1 1

South T Pct 0 1.000 0 .000 0 .000 0 .000

PF 23 17 7 17

PA 17 18 12 23

L 0 0 1 1

North T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .000 0 .000

PF 34 24 28 24

PA 24 21 34 34

PF 27 34 12 24

PA 24 28 7 27

West W L St. Louis 1 0 San Francisco 1 0 Seattle 1 0 Arizona 0 1

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000

Today’s game N.Y. Jets at New England, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 15 Dallas at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

Washington at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Miami at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 2:05 p.m.

Jacksonville at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 16 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.

Transactions WEDNESDAY’S SPORTS TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed SS Derek Jeter on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sept. 8.

California League HIGH DESERT MAVERICKS — Named Ryan Cook general manager.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Acquired RHP Josh Strawn from Grand Prairie (AA). Signed RHP Josh Strawn. Placed RHP Pete Budkevics on the inactive list.

SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Added LHP Jason Lane, OF Ryan Langerhans, OF Steve Moss and RHP Michael Nix to the roster. Signed OF Brian Burgamy.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Signed F Michael Beasley.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed G Chris Smith and G Toure’ Murry.

SACRAMENTO KINGS—Named Robert Schaefer director of athletic performance.

Women’s National Basketball Association

WNBA — Suspended Phoenix G Diana Taurasi one game for an accumulation of technical fouls.

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Re-signed DT Sione Fua. Placed G Garry Williams on injured reserve.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Named Jason Cohen general counsel.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed DB Robert Steeples to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed LB Emmanuel Acho to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed TE Kellen Davis. Released LB Allen Bradford. Signed G Ryan Seymour and LB to the practice squad. Released G-C Jared Smith and DT Michael Brooks from the practice squad.

Canadian Football League CFL — Fined Hamilton DB Dee Webb an undisclosed amount for a dangerous hit to the head of BC WR Marco Iannuzzi in a Sept. 7 game. Fined Saskatchewan C Dominic Picard an undisclosed amount for throwing a punch during a Sept. 8 game Winnipeg.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

STORY FROM PG B5

FLAMES: Camp feels different for veterans “For sure, it’s a big difference, the ice in Europe and the ice here, but now I think I’m good to go,” Berra said.

“For a goalie it’s nice because you probably get more shots.

“Everything is close to the net and maybe they try to shoot more than anything. I like to have a lot of shots.”

Berra’s 29-save shutout lifted Switzerland to a 3-0 win over the United States in the semifi-

THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 2013 COLLEGE BASKETBALL

WHL All Times Pacific Wednesday’s results Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 2 Tri-City at Spokane Tuesday’s result Regina 4 Saskatoon 3 (OT) Sunday’s results Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 4 Vancouver 5 Kamloops 1 Friday’s games Regina at Brandon, 5:30 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Vancouver at Victoria, 1:35 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 3 p.m.

Lethbridge at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Calgary at Kootenay, 1 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 2 p.m.

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CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Signed vicepresident and general manager Stan Bowman to a two-year contract extension through 2017-18.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with D Radek Martinek and F Justin Johnson on professional tryout contracts.

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Re-signed D Nick Petrecki to a one-year contract.

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed F Vinny Saponari, F Barry Almeida, D Theo Ruth and G Scott Darling.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Ryan Kavanagh.

COLLEGE GRAMBLING STATE — Fired football coach Doug Williams. Named George Ragsdale interim coach.

HOLY CROSS — Named Shayne Toporowski men’s assistant ice hockey coach.

LIMESTONE — Named Tony Iliano equipment manager.

UTSA — Named Nicole Dunson women’s assistant basketball coach.

nal of this year’s world championship in Stockholm.

“It was pretty big. It was really a good game for me,” he recalled.

Switzerland went with former NHL veteran Martin Gerber in the final against the host Swedes, who won the gold.

Calgary’s unsettled goaltending situation will make training camp feel different for the veteran Flames.

“That will be an adjustment,” Cammalleri admitted. “That’s the first thing that comes to my mind with Miikka. Not many goaltenders have backstopped a franchise that consistently for that long.

“I guess it adds to the whole idea of turning the page and new opportunities for different guys. As a team we want to be great defensively and our goaltender is going to be part of that so it’ll be some healthy competition back there.”

RDC Kings basketball head coach Clayton Pottinger knows what it’s like to have a bullseye on his back.

That was the case last season as the Kings went into the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League regular season as the defending ACAC silver medallists and the top-ranked team in the province.

This year it will be the case once again for the defending league champions.

“We do know what it’s like and this year may be our best team ever,” said Pottinger, who is in his third season with the program. “But this year will be even tougher to win as looking at the rosters there are a lot of strong teams.

But it’s a welcome challenge. The stronger the league the more prepared teams will be once they get to the nationals.

“There’s two teams going from our Clayton Pottinger league and we certainly hope we’re up to be one of those two.”

The Kings will also host the ACAC championships Feb. 28-March 2.

“We’re really looking forward to that,” said Pottinger.

“We get an automatic berth into the championships, but we’re not even talking about that. We want to be one of the top teams, earn our way into it and be seeded as high as we can.”

The Kings have a solid nucleus returning and it will get even better after Christmas when Rob Pierce returns.

Pierce is one of the premier scorers and rebounders in college basketball in the country, but his program doesn’t start until the second semester.

As well the Kings may not be able to add six-foot-10 Daniel Berndt from Germany until after Christmas.

Berndt was to be on hand to start the season but after a strike held up his visa application he may not be arrive until later in the year.

“He had everything ready to go, then the strike, so we’re not looking for him to be available,” said Pottinger. “Although there’s still a chance he’ll be here if his visa comes through this week.”

As it is guards Lloyd Strickland, Matt Johnson, Ashaunti Hogan and Jacob Cusumano are all back along with swing man Mari Peoples-Wong and forward Brian Prenoslo.

Strickland is in his fifth season and comes in as the MVP of the ACAC playoffs.

Strickland averaged 10.7 points, 3.2 assists and 2.3 steals per game during the regular season and upped his total to 15.7 points per game in the playoffs.

Johnson backed up Strickland at point guard last season, while Hogan averaged 13.8 points per game during the season and 10.7 in the playoffs.

Peoples-Wong, who joined the team at Christmas last year, averaged 15.1 points during the season and 13.7 in the playoffs.

The Kings added experience with the addition of guard Jason Burke, who played during the 2008-09 season for Concordia College University in Edmonton where he averaged 14.4 points per game.

“He’s a proven talent and gives us depth,” said Pottinger, who has three recruits out of high school in six-foot-seven Jordan Britton of Drumheller and Dallas Hancox of Sylvan Lake and Hunting Hills High School and guard JP Leblanc of Sturgeon.

“They’ve been impressive,” Pottinger said. “They all came in in excellent condition and ready to play. They’ve all impressed.”

Six-foot-eight Craig Johnson of Maryland and six-foot-five Clay Crellin of Vancouver round out the roster.

Johnson attended Leslie University in the States, a Division III school, while Crellin is listed as a guard, but is a versatile athlete, who Pottinger feels can be one of the best players in the nation.

“I like our roster, which should get even better at Christmas,” said Pottinger, whose team has a tough opening schedule as they play at The Kings University College Oct. 19 then visit Keyano College in Fort McMurray Oct. 25 and NAIT Oct. 26.

They don’t open at home until Nov. 1 against Olds.

“It’s a tough start, especially with all the games on the road and all three teams expected to be strong,” he said.

The Kings will play in the Gold tournament in Edmonton, Oct., 3-5, facing the University of Alberta and UNBC. They host their own tournament, Oct. 12-14. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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Halpen fired a second round 66 for a 134 total and shared the lead with Bryn Parry of North Vancouver, who had a even-par 72 Wednesday.

Scott Anderson of River Bend had a two-under par 70 and is tied for 21st at 143 while Roy Hide of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club (RDGCC) is tied for 48th at 148 following a 72.

Ryan Tofani of Calgary, who is formerly from Red Deer, had a 73 and missed the cut at 153. Aaron Pakylak of the RDGCC also missed at cut at 154 following a second straight 77.

Peterman starts with 41- record Jocelyn Peterman’s Red Deer foursome opened the curling season with a 4-1 record in the recent Calgary Curling Club Good Times ‘spiel.

The Peterman crew fell 6-4 to 2010 Olympic silver medalist Cheryl Bernard in the final.

Earlier, the Red Deer rink defeated Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge 7-5 and downed Bernard 8-6, then defeated Amy Nixon of Calgary 6-3 in a quarter-final and posted a 9-5 semifinal win over Teryn Hamilton of Lethbridge, setting up the rematch with Bernard.

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Oilers arrive with higher expectations, new head coach

BY JOHN KOROBANIK THE CANADIAN PRESS

TRAINING CAMPS

EDMONTON — Dallas Eakins brings an emphasis on fitness, accountability and frankness to his new job as head coach of the Edmonton Oilers.

His arrival also creates a new beginning for a team that has missed the playoffs seven straight years. Forward Jordan Eberle said it’s time the Oilers forgot about their potential and started proving their ability.

“It’s a new slate, new coach, new mandate,” Eberle said Wednesday. “There’s a point, probably a couple years ago, when you get sick and tired of hearing how good you’re going to be and just want to get to that point.”

Fellow veteran forward Sam Gagner said the expectation for the team has to be nothing less than the playoffs.

“We’ve been through a lot of losing,” he said after the team’s camp opened with medicals and fitness testing. “It helps you grow as a person but it’s never fun. Our core is pretty much intact and we have a lot to prove.

“It’s important for us to realize that the time is now to turn things around.”

To that end Eakins, hired in the off-season to replace the fired Ralph Krueger, made it clear to the players it’s time to shed the “young team” label and show they belong in the NHL. “It’s a cop-out to be labelled young,” said Gagner, who’s heading into his seventh season with the Oilers. “It allows you to go through some growing periods but that’s done now. We’ve been through a lot as a core and it’s time for us to move forward.

“We have a mix of veterans, young guys and everything in between and it’s important for us to reach that next level.”

They’ll try to do that without veteran captain Shawn Horcoff (traded to Dallas), minus an established backup to goaltender Devan Dubnyk and with No. 1 centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — the first pick in the 2011 draft — on the sidelines.

Nugent-Hopkins underwent off-sea-

son shoulder surgery and is expected to miss the first few weeks of the regular season.

Eakins, who was hired last June after will experiment with winger Taylor Hall, the team’s leading scorer last season, moving into the vacant centre spot.

“Don’t make too much of that,” Eakins cautioned. “It’s not like I’ve asked this guy to go play right defence. He’s played centre before. It may be an option for us a I want as many options as I can.

“This is my experiment. If it works, great, if it doesn’t I was crazy and we’ll move him back to left — JORDAN EBERLE wing where he’s a pretty good player.”

For his part, Eakins said one of his immediate tasks is to learn the personalities of each of his players.

“It’s absolutely No. 1 for me,” he said. “I don’t know how you motivate a guy or push him in the right direction if you don’t know what makes him tick.

I just don’t know how to do it. You really have to get to know the individuals.”

The former Toronto Marlies coach assured his players there would be no surprises. He’ll be frank and upfront with them on all issues.

“It’s common sense to me,” he said.

“I don’t like surprises a and I don’t think players need surprises either.

They’ll know exactly where they stand with me.”

In return he expects full accountability from his players, and that, said Gagner and Eberle, is how it should be.

“He demands a lot of us, which is great,” said Eberle. “Accountability is one of the most important things in the dressing room and with Dallas, if there’s a problem he’s going to address it. That’s how a team should function.

If a guy’s not working hard someone should say something.”

The Oilers have 62 players in camp.

They will open the pre-season Saturday with split-squad games against the Flames in Edmonton and Calgary.

‘IT’S A NEW SLATE, NEW COACH, NEW MANDATE. THERE’S A POINT, PROBABLY A COUPLE YEARS AGO, WHEN YOU GET SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING HOW GOOD YOU’RE GOING TO BE AND JUST WANT TO GET TO THAT POINT.’

Absences of unsigned players, others stick out As players arrived for the start of NHL training camps, the bigger focus was on those who didn’t report.

In St. Louis it was defenceman Alex Pietrangelo, in Toronto defenceman Cody Franson, in Ottawa defenceman Jared Cowen, in New York centre Derek Stepan and in Buffalo centre Cody Hodgson, all restricted free agents without contracts.

Those players aren’t holdouts but nevertheless their absences were noticeable.

“Talks between the Blues and Alex’s camp have broken off for now and Alex will not be reporting for our camp today,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said in a team statement Wednesday morning.

The Maple Leafs got a last-minute deal done with RFA centre Nazem Kadri, but they couldn’t sign Franson in time for the start of camp.

“At this point there’s nothing to report,” To-

ronto general manager Dave Nonis said. “We’ve made him an offer that we want him to take. He’s declined to take it.”

Sometimes the situation isn’t that simple.

The Philadelphia Flyers expect Dan Cleary to report to training camp Thursday after agreeing to a professional tryout contract, despite a report that the left-winger would not be signing.

In Carolina, the absence of Joni Pitkanen was more troubling. The defenceman who suffered a broken heel bone during an icing play in March will miss the entire season, and the fear is that his career could be over.

“Any time someone has an injury like that, especially what Joni did with a broken heel, it can be never mind starting the season, it can be career-threatening,” captain Eric Staal said last week.

The Senators were dealing with more than just Cowen not reporting. They were dealing with life after the departure of longtime captain

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Daniel Alfredsson, who signed with the Detroit Red Wings after 17 seasons in Ottawa.

“It’s been talked about so much and I know I’ve talked about it so much that it doesn’t really seem like today has any impact on him not being here,” centre Jason Spezza said. “It will be different a little bit, but in hockey you’re used to guys moving on and having lots of change.”

In other places, arrivals were the cause for conversation, like Montreal, where the Canadiens welcomed Daniel Briere.

“I’m really happy he’s here,” forward Brendan Gallagher said.

“It is hard to find a guy in the NHL that’s scored more clutch goals at bigger times than him right now. So any time you can add a piece like that that will show up in big moments, you’ll take that any time.”

The Winnipeg Jets’ focus was at least in part on prospects Jacob Trouba and Mark Scheifele, both of whom are expected to make the team.

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Dickey reaches 200, but Jays lose THE CANADIAN PRESS Los Angeles 5 Toronto 4 TORONTO — As a season to forget begins to wind down, R.A. Dickey achieved a small victory Wednesday.

The Blue Jays knuckleballer tossed 5 1-3 innings in Toronto’s 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels to reach 200 innings for the third straight year.

“In the AL East you probably won’t find five or six guys who are able to top 200 innings,” said Dickey, who didn’t figure in the decision. “But it’s only a silver lining for a year that for the most part has been a struggle.”

C.J. Wilson (16-6) won his eighth straight decision and Kole Calhoun drove in two runs on sacrifice flies, including the deciding RBI in the eighth, as Los Angeles took it’s second straight against the Blue Jays.

Mark Trumbo also hit a two-run home run for the Angels (69-76) a night after going 5-for-5 with four extra-hits and five runs scored in Tuesday’s 12-6 series-opening victory. Moises Sierra had two doubles and a triple with an RBI for the Blue Jays (67-78), who had just four hits.

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Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ryan Goins, left, forces out Los Angeles Angels catcher Hank Conger, right, then turns the double play over to first base to out Angels second baseman Grant Green during second inning action in Toronto on Wednesday. four hits, four walks and four runs (three earned) while striking out six over seven innings to improve to 12-1 in 17 starts since June 14.

“Of all the things we’ve talked about this year that haven’t worked out, C.J. is on the other side of that ledger,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said of his left-hander. “He’s having just a terrific season, pitching

deep into games. He’s going to (throw) 200-plus innings again. Every stat you look at is terrific for him.”

Dickey, meanwhile, allowed seven hits, two walks and four runs, but failed to pitch at least six innings for the first time in 15 starts.

“We took two leads and coughed both those up,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “I

thought they were starting to lock up on him a little bit. I thought that his first inning was pretty good and they started to chip away and I thought it was enough.”

Dickey didn’t seem to agree with Gibbons’ though process.

“The manger’s decision is the manager’s decision,” said the righthander. “You have to ask him why he does or doesn’t leave guys in or takes them out.

“I definitely felt I had more left in the tank for sure.”

The game was out of Dickey’s hands when reliever Steve Delabar (5-3) walked Mike Trout with one out in the eighth and Josh Hamilton moved him to third with a double to right.

Trumbo was intentionally walked to load the bases and Calhoun hit a sacrifice fly to left to put the Angels up 5-4.

Ernesto Frieri induced three pop flies in the ninth for his 32nd save.

Dickey has thrown 202 1-3 innings this season with a record of 1212 and an earned-run average of 4.36. Toronto left-hander Mark Buehrle has pitched 189 1-3 innings this season and is closing in on his 13th consecutive season with 200 or more innings.

Jeter ends injury-riddled season

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE — New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter will miss the rest of the season with an ankle injury, the team announced Wednesday.

Jeter last played Saturday against Boston. He was removed for a pinch runner after hurting his left ankle, and although a CT scan was negative, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said the shortstop will be shut down for the remainder of the year.

“This entire season has been a nightmare for me physically,” Jeter said.

“It’s a fitting end.”

Jeter started the year on the disabled list after breaking his left ankle in the 2012 playoffs. He returned to the DL twice more and played in only 17 games, batting .190 with one homer and seven RBIs. His departure comes with New York in the thick of the AL wild-card hunt.

“It’s very disappointing not to be able to play, especially at this time of year,” Jeter said. “This is when I want to play the most.”

Asked if the 39-year-old Jeter might have reached the end of his career, Cashman replied, “No, I do not believe that. I really don’t believe that. I have not thought I have watched his last game. Not one time.”

It’s been a rough season for Jeter, New York’s career hits leader with 3,316.

He made his season debut on July 11 but hurt himself in that game and returned to the disabled list on July 19 (retroactive to July 12) with a right quad strain.

After being activated on July 28, he returned to the DL on Aug. 5 with a strained right calf.

Jeter was a regular in the lineup after his return on Aug. 26, but now he’s done for good.

Brendan Ryan, obtained in a trade with Seattle on Tuesday, was in the starting lineup at shortstop on Wednesday.

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FRONT SESSION ABOUT A BETTER WORLD People who want to learn about international volunteerism and travel have a chance later this month. A Better World, a Lacombe-based humanitarian organization, will host its annual information session on Sept. 22 at the Black Knight Inn, at 2929 50th Ave., from 2 to 5 p.m.

People can hear about the organization’s work and learn how to get involved.

Anyone who is interested is asked to contact Cindy Wright by Sunday by emailing cwright@ abwcanada.org. For more information, visit www.abetter-world.ca.

EVENING AT THE ARLINGTON Step back in time to A 1913 Evening in the Arlington Hotel at the Pioneer Hotel on Sept. 18.

The event is presented by the Central Alberta Historical Society. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with the dinner being served at 6 p.m. The annual general meeting will follow at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Tickets are available at the Centennial Office (4816 50th Ave. in Red Deer). The office is open Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Call 403-340-2013 or Iris at 403-340-2588 for more information.

PLANT EXCHANGE Red Deer and District Garden Club members have the chance to do some plant swapping on Sept. 19 at the group’s plant exchange. The event will be held at 6:30 and at 7 p.m., Jane Reksten, manager of botanic gardens and treatment wetlands at Olds College, will speak on the topic of Inspirations from the Field.

Members are reminded to label their perennial plants. Memberships will be available at the door.

For more information, call Noreen at 403-3467728 or visit www. reddeergardenclub.ca.

TELUS GIVING SCHOOL BACKPACKS TO STUDENTS A total of 120 local students will get backpacks fill of school supplies thanks to Telus community ambassadors in Red Deer. The Kits for Kids include pencils, notebooks, loose-leaf sheets and rulers. Telus community ambassadors are Telus workers or retirees who volunteer for their communities. A total of 10,500 students across Canada received the Kits for Kids.

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Lions keep building SERVICE CLUB’S BENEFICIARIES OVER 75 YEARS IN RED DEER, LACOMBE INCLUDE SPORTS, CAMPGROUNDS, REHABILITATION FACILITIES

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Gasoline, diesel fuel, even a propane torch — Dick McElroy used whatever it took to make sure the infield at the old Lions Ball Park in Lacombe would be dry enough for a weekend of high-calibre baseball.

With major league scouts in town to watch teams coming in from across Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C., and others from as far away as Florida and Alaska — not to mention up to 10,000 fans for a weekend of ball — the Lacombe Lions Baseball Tournament, touted as the biggest and richest in Western Canada, had to go on, no matter what Mother Nature had to say.

In charge of the grounds, McElroy would start fires on the shale infield if it was too wet, and within an hour the players could take the field for first pitch.

From 1950 to 1988, the tournament ran for one glorious week every summer, putting Lacombe on the map and drawings thousands of spectators.

The inaugural tournament saw 135 kg (300 pounds) of tomatoes and 1,000 pies used to feed the attending throng and featured an RCAF air show as well.

The 1960 iteration was hailed as the most covered event in the Alberta sporting landscape, with five daily newspapers, three TV stations, nine radio stations, and six weeklies reporting on the action.

And the players were good, too.

Former Expos star Tim Wallach played one year, and longtime organizer Bill Douglas once estimated as many as 40 men who played in the tournament made it to the ‘Big Time.’

“They were very good players. Extremely good, actually.

We always had a good number of people who came up from the National and American Leagues every year to watch the players,” explained McElroy.

When the diamond was torn down in 1988 to make way for a new school, so went the tournament.

But while the tournament may have long been the most recognizable thing with the Lacombe Lions name attached to it, it is far from the only thing the service club brought to the city.

In its first year of existence alone, the club provided for the construction of new tennis courts, sweaters for two hockey teams, milk distribution to school children and improvements to a playground.

And since 1938, the projects have continued through the work of more than 350 members past and present.

The service club provided a community bus for Lacombe for years, has held its annual Child Identification Day since the 1990s, and the Lions Community Band has been keeping toes a-tappin’ since 1968.

Current president Sharon Reiter joined the club in 1991 after the local Lioness Club folded and women were allowed to enlist in the previously fraternal organization.

She said the list of contributions the Lions Club has made to the community is long.

The $10,000 the club gave to the Lacombe Hospital for its

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Lucas Duffield leads other national speedskating team members during outdoor training at the Golden Circle oval in January. The Red Deer Central Lions have sponsored the Red Deer Central Lions Speedskating Club for over 50 years. pain management program last year, she said, makes her most proud.

The Red Deer Central Lions Club has grown up alongside its Lacombe cousin.

It too started in 1938, when 25 men came together to provide the growing community with volunteer services.

All those who have come after those founders have done so in spades.

And alongside that volunteerism, the club has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars as it has helped to build the city.

From its beginning, the club has been involved in facilitating Camp Woods west of Sylvan Lake for the Scouts movement.

It has been one of the main benefactors for speedskating locally, and in the late 1960s opened what is now one of five Lions campgrounds in Central Alberta.

Mid-1990s renovations to the Red Deer Public Library benefited from a $100,000 donation from the Lions, and the club was a main contributor to the construction of a hydrotherapy pool at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre in the 1980s, and then again in 2005 when rehabilitation facilities were relocated.

Larry Johnstone joined the club in 1981 after transferring from Regina, where he joined the Lions movement because they were unique, delivering Sears catalogues as part of fundraising efforts.

“I’ve always enjoyed Lionism.

You’re doing a lot of projects every year to raise money, but you also develop lots of friends.

Two or three of the families we met here, we’re still very close friends.

Socially, it was very good,” said Johnstone, who remains a member of the club.

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Orest Schur is lowered into the hydrotherapy pool at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, where a Lions Club logo is tiled into the floor (below), to mark the club’s donation to the facility. Physical therapy assistant in the photo is Shelley Parsons.

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Buchanan has unfinished business

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER CITY COUNCIL

Strengthening partnerships and building for growth are key for a Red Deer city council incumbent making a run for a third term.

Coun. Buck Buchanan said he has a lot of unfinished business that he would like to settle over the next four years. The second-term councillor said he wants to make more headway in safety, poverty reduction and transportation Buck Buchanan needs in the city.

Buchanan, 55, said the world is changing and the younger generation is choosing places to live for the amenities and not solely for a job.

“If we need a 50-metre pool, another recreation centre or whatever, then let’s get it,” said Buchanan.

“Let’s move in that direction. Let’s make that happen so that we have the facilities so our own people have the benefits to use and it’s attractive to people to come to the community to live.”

Buchanan said he brings a balanced and logical perspective to the table. Buchanan is a former RCMP officer of 29 years. He worked in Central Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories as a police officer.

He is the owner of X-Cops Inc., a security company.

The father of three said the partnerships with Westerner Park and Red Deer College, Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre, Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) and other community groups will only make Red Deer stronger.

“The partnerships are what make us what we are,” said Buchanan. “We pull together to do stuff. That’s what all the part-

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nerships are about.”

Buchanan said relationships with other Alberta municipalities, urban or rural, are important because everyone is in it together.

If re-elected, Buchanan will run for a position on the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association to further the needs of Red Deerians. He would also push for a joint conference with the rural and urban municipalities.

Newcomers Jerry Anderson, Dan McKenna, Terry Balgobin, Dawna Morey, Victor Mobley, Jonathan Wieler, Janella Spearing, Ken Johnston, David Helm, Serge Gingras, Tanya Handley, Troy Wavrecan, Darren Young, Lawrence Lee, Calvin Goulet-Jones, Bob Bevins and Matt Chapin are also in the running. Incumbents Paul Harris, Dianne Wyntjes, Lynne Mulder and Frank Wong are seeking another term.

Councillors Cindy Jefferies and Tara Veer and William Horn and Chad Mason are vying for mayor. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Charges withdrawn Two men who were arrested in Red Deer in relation to an alleged Edmonton kidnapping have had their Red Deer charges withdrawn.

Harsumeet Brar, 19, and Gursumeet Brar, 20, still face a litany of charges in Edmonton court.

On Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court, Crown counsel Murray McPherson asked Judge John Holmes to withdraw charges for both individuals. Harsumeet had three counts of breaching release conditions withdrawn while Gursumeet had two counts of failing to stop for police and two counts of breaching a recognizance withdrawn.

In Edmonton, Harsumeet faces charges that include aggravated assault, assault, unlawful harassment, uttering threats, extortion and mischief.

Gursumeet faces five counts of assault with a weapon as well as charges of theft, mischief, extortion and unlawful harassment.

They are due in Edmonton provincial court on Sept. 18.

Lending cupboard has new director The Lending Cupboard is looking a little more full with a new executive director.

Wendy Madden was announced as the Lending Cupboard Society of Alberta’s new executive director on Monday.

Board chair Gerry Winia said Madden has an extensive background in communications, public relations and fund development.

“The board is very excited and looking forward to working with Wendy as we start to develop some new marketing and fundraising strategies,” said Winia.

Established in 2006, the Lending Cupboard provides medical equipment to residents of Central Alberta free of charge with no qualifying and for as long as it’s needed.

There are four categories of available equipment, including bath aids, walkers, wheelchairs, crutches and hospital beds; equipment for hip and knee surgery; a range of equipment for children and youth; and barometric equipment.

Case stayed against Mountie Proceedings have been stayed against a Mountie accused of assault and uttering threats while stationed in Rimbey.

Const. Jesse Charles Lambright, 53, was scheduled for trial in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench, starting on Tuesday, on charges laid in connection with incidents alleged to have occurred in connection with a personal relationship.

However, the trial was cancelled after the Crown announced on June 13 that proceedings had been stayed.

Crown prosecutors are not required to give reasons for a stay of proceedings.

The stay means that the case remains in limbo for up to one year and

is dismissed if no action is taken within that year.

Man faces charges after break-in A Red Deer man faces numerous charges, including assault with a weapon, after allegedly breaking into a house and attacking a woman with a knife.

Justin Holt, 28, is alleged to have broken into a Red Deer apartment on Aug. 31, contrary to a peace bond. Police say he assaulted a woman with a knife. The peace bond required Holt to stay at least 200 metres away from the alleged victim.

He faces charges including assault, assault with a weapon, break and enter and two counts of breach of a court order.

Police said Holt has a history of domestic violence and was wanted on numerous warrants. He was arrested on Sept. 6.

He appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday. Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson added the second count of breach of a court order to his latest set of charges. His matter has been adjourned to Sept. 17 and he remains in custody.

He also faces charges of uttering threats and breaching court orders stemming from separate incidents.

Decision expected in stabbing case A decision is expected this morning in the trial of a Coronation man accused of stabbing a person after he declined an invitation for a beer.

Daniel Malcolm Holland is charged with assault, aggravated assault and using a knife for a criminal purpose in relation to the incident, which took place at Steven Polege’s Coronation home on Dec. 1, 2010.

Holland took the stand in his defence and closing arguments were heard from Crown attorney Tony Hell and defence counsel Molly McVey in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Wednesday. Justice Monica Bast is expected to render a decision today.

On Tuesday, police witnesses testified that both men received treatment at the Consort Hospital.

Crown attorney Tony Bell told court that the focus of the trial is not whether the incident happened, but whether there is a case for self-defence.

Bast is expected to give her decision this afternoon.

Benefit auction planned A benefit auction and concert featuring The Boom Chucka Boys, to raise money for a young Sylvan Lake woman, takes place at the Gospel Chapel on Sept. 29.

Mikeala Davidson, 18, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in her right leg in June 2012. She had surgery on her leg and went through nearly a year of chemotherapy. In May 2013, doctors found spots on her lungs and they operated in June to remove three tumours.

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With only a few more days to enjoy the new spray park in Red Deer, people who want to get soaked one more time should get to the park before it closes for the season this Sunday. The Blue Grass Sod Farm Central Spray and Play park is open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For the last week of operation, the weather will be very summer-like as highs for the next few days are expected to be 31 C today and in the high 20s through the weekend.

Her mother Pam Davidson said there may be more tumours and the only thing the doctors can do for her daughter in Canada is to remove the tumours.

The family is now pursuing a costly alternative treatment that does genetic testing on the tumours to determine what the chemotherapy can help, if any, in Arizona.

The fundraising event gets underway at 4:30 p.m. with a live and silent auction and beef on a bun. The concert starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 by donation per person.

For more information, call Pam at 403-352-2972 or 403-346-2973.

Wedding gifts stolen A bride and groom’s wedding day bliss was disrupted by the theft of about $5,000 in cash and cheques from

their reception.

Innisfail RCMP are looking for suspects who stole the money from the Penhold Community Hall sometime between 3 and 11 a.m. on Sept. 1.

The incident is believed to have occurred after the reception ended in the early morning hours of Sept. 1, and the couple and some of their guests left.

When the group returned in the morning, they noticed the money had been stolen.

Innisfail RCMP said there were some concerns that the hall had been left unlocked and with the nature of the party there were many people coming and going. There was no sign of forced entry into the hall.

The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information about the crime is asked to contact the Innisfail RCMP at 403-227-3342 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Fright Night at the Site coming to Rocky Zombies may not have been central players in the fur trade, but they will be trudging around the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site four nights next month.

And if you long to lurch among the ranks of the undead, Fright Night at the Site is your chance.

The event is being presented for the first time by the Confluence Heritage Society, which runs events throughout the year at the historic site. On Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 26, visitors can come to the site to experience the macabre side of the fur trade.

Throughout the course of each eve-

ning, visitors will be able to go on guided 45-minute “fright walks” around the site that will be both educational and downright scary.

The events will help to raise money for the heritage society so it can continue to promote the region’s history, said organizer Melissa Gray-Barry.

The group is still looking for people to serve as zombies for the event, she said, no experience as the walking dead necessary.

“If they don’t want to say anything they can just jump out and run, or if they’re feeling a bit adventurous and want to say a few lines, there’s stuff for them,” said Gray-Berry.

She added that with increased volunteer support, the offering can be expanded.

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LIONS: Clubs seek new members “When people come to the (Westerner Days) fair, a lot of them will come to our booth to buy our draw tickets.

They tell you right away, ‘Over the years you have helped us in some way or another, and that’s the reason I’m buying these tickets, because you do so well for the community.’ ” But, like other service clubs, Lions groups are struggling to attract new members — Lacombe has 21 members at present, while Red Deer has about 35. Johnstone said Lions clubs internationally are moving towards getting full families involved, children included.

“When I think of the

Lacombe club, a lot of them are man and wife.

It’s certainly worked for them ... I think ladies have invigorated the whole movement,” he said.

The two local clubs are coming together on Saturday to jointly celebrate their 75th anniversaries. Judge Brian Stevenson of Calgary, a past international president of Lions clubs, will address the revellers.

The Lions movement, started in Chicago in 1917, represents the largest service organization in the world, with more than 1.3 million members. Internationally, it focuses its efforts on working with the blind and improving peoples’ vision, and disaster relief.

The Red Deer club meets the second Monday of each month. To join, contact Ed Lasiuta at 403-314-0350.

The Lacombe Lions

Club convenes on the first and third Mondays of every month. To join, contact Reiter at 403-7825179 or sdreiter1@gmail. com. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

“Right now it’s rated PG-13 because it is a bit scary. We don’t have enough volunteers yet to have a child version.

Hopefully next year more of the parents will get involved.”

Help will also be needed for set-up and take-down after the event, and volunteers are invited to create scary art and props to spook visitors.

Tickets ($15) must be bought in advance and are available at the site and a number of businesses in Rocky. Trail walks start at 7 p.m. each evening with live entertainment going on through-

out the night.

In advance of the event, the Frightful Flee — a three-km fun run at the site — will be held on Friday at 4 p.m.

Runners will have to deal with obstacles, and a few zombies too. Registrations can be made at Genesis Fitness or at the historic site.

To volunteer, contact Mehl at 403844-0463 or Melissa at 403-844-1628.

Alternatively, email frightnitevolunteer@yahoo.ca. Information can also be found on the group’s Facebook page. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 2013

NEW TV ADS AIMED AT STOPPING THE PIPELINE

BY LEE-ANNE GOODMAN THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — American billionaire Tom Steyer’s mission to stop the Keystone XL pipeline has gone into overdrive with the launch of an anti-pipeline TV advertising campaign that will feature an ad this weekend from the site of a devastating oilsands pipeline spill.

The next chapter in the four-part campaign, dubbed “Bringing Down TransCanada’s House of Cards: The

Keystone Chronicles,” shows the Democratic mega-donor in Mayflower, Ark., where an underground ExxonMobil oil pipeline burst in March.

In the ad set to air during this weekend’s U.S. Sunday morning political talk shows, Steyer makes the case that pipelines pose a real and present danger to anyone living near them.

Residents of the lakeside Arkansas community say they’re still suffering health effects after an estimated 5,000 barrels of oilsands crude seeped from the pipeline and

through a residential neighbourhood. One of the Mayflower home-owners who lives down-wind from the spill appears in the commercial.

“He was quite moved by what happened to these people,” Mike Casey, spokesman for Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action, said in an interview Thursday.

“The people who got it the worst in Mayflower weren’t the ones whose basements were flooded; they were they people who lived down-wind and were exposed to air-borne toxins.”

State and federal officials have filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil seeking penalties under the Clean Water Act. In response, ExxonMobil has said Arkansas hasn’t proven that waste from the spill and cleanup is hazardous.

“We know from Mayflower that these pipelines burst at the worst times in the leastprepared places, rural communities with little to no spill management infrastructure,” Casey said.

“If the oil industry is so certain that it’s not going to create more Mayflowers, why

don’t they sign a legally binding document that exposes them to criminal liability, or forces them to cover cleanup costs, when their pipelines rupture?”

Steyer, a former hedge fund manager who quit his life’s work to become a climate activist, is an emerging nemesis to Calgary-based TransCanada and the oil industry as the U.S. State Department continues to assess Keystone XL’s merits.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s ultimate decision on the pipeline isn’t expected until early 2014.

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Dragon’s Den mogul, author to share insights Bestselling author and Dragon’s Den business mogul David Chilton will share his insights in Red Deer on Oct. 9.

Chilton, who wrote The Wealthy Barber and is a regular on CBC’s Dragon’s Den, will be the second presenter in the Donald School of Business’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Jim Harris, another bestselling business writer, led off the series on March 5.

Darcy Mykytyshyn, dean of the Donald School of Business, said Chilton is well known from his writing and television appearances.

But he’s also demonstrated a skill when it comes to taking ideas to market, which other business people could learn from.

“The Distinguished Speaker Series is kind of targeting small-to-medium-sized businesses, and we like to bring in folks that have good practical experience that can leave some tangible messages with the audience that they can take back into their business and apply the next day,” said Mykytyshyn. “We think that David has all of that.”

In The Wealthy Barber, Chilton was able to communicate concepts of personal financial management in an easily understandable way, said Mykytyshyn.

He expects him to do the same with other business lessons.

“I’ve heard David speak, and he does a fantastic job.”

Chilton’s presentation will take place at Red Deer College’s City Centre Stage downtown at 5:30 p.m.

Networking and refreshments will precede him from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Cost is $75, or $35 for students, with these prices including a copy of Chilton’s newest book, The Wealthy Barber Returns. Tickets can be purchased at the Black Knight Ticket Centre, including online at www.bkticketcentre.ca or by phone at 403-755-6626.

The Wealthy Barber has sold two million copies in Canada, and The Wealthy Barber Returns is also a Canadian bestseller.

BlackBerry to lobby on takeover rules

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Blackberry is planning on lobbying Ottawa over foreign takeover rules, amid unconfirmed reports that a takeover by major Canadian pension plans is unlikely.

The troubled smartphone maker (TSX:BB) registered with the federal lobbyist registry on Sept. 6 to discuss the Investment Canada Act with lawmakers, records show. The Investment Canada Act governs large foreign investments in Canada and makes it mandatory for Ottawa to review all direct investments over $344 million.

Shares of Blackberry surged nearly six per cent on Monday amid unconfirmed reports that Fairfax Financial Holdings (TSX:FFH) chairman Prem Watsa was closing in on a rescue deal for the troubled smartphone maker.

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Red Flame Industries president Jared Sayers with one of two new mobile shops that Red Flame has developed for work in the field. One is on display at the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo today at Westerner Park.

Red Flame puts shop on wheels DEVELOPS TRAILER WITH EVERYTHING NEEDED FOR ON-SITE INDUSTRIAL BOLTING AND MACHINING

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Among the equipment on display at the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo is a 53-foot trailer with everything needed for on-site industrial bolting and machining.

Jared Sayers, president of Red Flame Industries Inc., thinks the unit —and another just like it — will help carry his company through an aggressive diversification of its services and markets.

Red Deer-based Red Flame and Bolttech Mannings Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa. struck a deal in May that made Red Flame a division of Bolttech Mannings — a specialty industrial bolting and thermal technologies giant.

They described the acquisition as a “strategic alliance,” with Red Flame’s services to be expanded from hot-tapping — the process of installing fittings onto oil and gas lines that are still operating — and non-destructive testing, to include bolting, torquing, tension-

ing, heat treatment and field machining.

Much of this work is expected to be done using the two trailers, which have been specially designed for that purpose.

“They have all the torquing equipment, plus they can do the actual on-site calibration of equipment,” said Sayers.

vided by this acquisition is 10-fold to what we could do on our own,” said Sayers.

“This was just a rapid way for us to get there.”

He expects Red Flame’s payroll, which previously stood at about 75, to grow by 40.

“It expanded our product line immensely,” he said, noting that Red Flame and Bolttech Mannings both served the oil and gas, and petrochemical sectors, but Bolttech Mannings is also active in the power generation industry.

“There are a lot of unique fits and a — JARED SAYERS, PRESIDENT lot of new opportuOF RED FLAME INDUSTRIES INC nities for us in the power gen side that we haven’t even touched in Canada “They’re really set up like a yet.” mobile shop.”

Sayers, who founded Red Meanwhile, Red Flame’s hot- Flame in 1996, is responsible for tapping and non-destructive the combined entity’s Canadian testing services will be offered operations, as well as its plant and through Bolttech Mannings’ net- pipeline services — primarily hot work of U.S. offices, under the tapping and non-destructive testRed Flame brand. ing — in the United States.

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‘THEY HAVE ALL THE TORQUING EQUIPMENT, PLUS THEY CAN DO THE ACTUAL ON-SITE CALIBRATION OF EQUIPMENT. THEY’RE REALLY SET UP LIKE A MOBILE SHOP.’

Ottawa, Ontario sell shares in General Motors TO END ‘TEMPORARY’ INVESTMENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal and Ontario governments have sold a block of 30 million shares in General Motors valued in the neighbourhood of $1.1 billion.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in an email that the shares were sold at Tuesday’s closing price of US$37 on the

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Both Ottawa and the Ontario government acquired millions of shares in GM in 2009 after having provided the ailing automaker with some $10.6 billion in aid during the Great Recession.

The federal government’s investment was held on behalf of the two governments

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“In the worst of the global recession, we took the necessary action to protect Canadian jobs and communities with a co-ordinated investment in GM and Chrysler, along with the Ontario and U.S. governments,” the statement issued

by Flaherty’s office said.

“The financial support was crucial in protecting jobs and positioning Canada’s auto industry for future success.”

“As we said from the start, our investment in GM was always meant to be temporary as we worked to maximize the return to Canadian taxpayers,” Flaherty said.

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The finance minister added that Ottawa was committed to exiting selling its remaining ownership of GM “as quickly as feasible.”

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa also said the province was “committed to exiting from its remaining interest in the GM shares, while maximizing the value of the government’s interest for the people of Ontario.”

With completion of the sale, Canada GEN will continue to hold more than 119 million GM commons share and 16.1 million GM series A preferred stock.

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The U.S. government is also getting closer to selling all of its General Motors stock.

The Treasury Department said in its August report to the U.S. Congress that it sold $811 million worth of GM common stock last month.

The report dated Tuesday said the government has recovered about $35.4 billion of the $49.5 billion bailout it gave the Detroit automaker.

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MARKETS

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 90.95 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.55 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.81 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.74 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.06 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.46 Cdn. National Railway . 100.73 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 126.59 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.53 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.55 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.68 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 39.85 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 42.42 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.32 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.32 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.35 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.24 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.98 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.33 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 51.98 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.47 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.56 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.75 Consumer Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.86 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 91.95 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.42 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.04 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.65 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended the trading day flat Wednesday as worries surrounding the Syrian crisis eased and there was little news on the economic calendar.

The S&P/TSX composite index recovered from negative territory in the final minutes to post a small gain of 0.97 of a point at 12,825.42.

The Canadian dollar jumped 0.31 of a cent to 96.95 cents US. The financial markets settled down somewhat after President Barack Obama said in a television address Tuesday night that the United States would refrain from a military strike on Syria after the Middle Eastern country agreed to a Russian proposal to hand over its chemical weapons.

The development followed weeks of tensions after the U.S. threatened military action against Syria for an alleged sarin gas attack on Aug. 21 that killed 1,429 people in a Damascus suburb. The Syrian government has denied it was responsible.

With Damascus indicating its support for the Russian plan, investors have largely breathed a sigh of relief that a military strike with all the possible regional repercussions may be averted. Geopolitical uncertainties, particularly when related to the oilrich Middle East, are rarely conducive to risk-taking in the investing community.

U.S. indexes were mixed as the Dow Jones industrial index registered a solid three-digit gain of 135.54 points to 15,326.60, while the S&P 500 climbed 5.14 points to 1,689.13.

The Nasdaq was down 4.01 points to 3,725.01, a day after Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL) announced two new models of its popular iPhone — including a lower-priced version aimed at emerging markets. It seems investors may have been disappointed by the announcement, as Apple shares closed down more than five per cent at US$467.83.

Analysts don’t expect much big movement on Wall Street until next week’s two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve, when the central bank may decide when it will begin rolling

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.24 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.48 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 58.20 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.05 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.50 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.20 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.90 First Quantum Minerals . 19.00 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 28.60 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.15 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.55 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.98 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.98 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 29.47 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.48 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 61.68 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 50.14 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.03 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.00 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.76 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.21 Canyon Services Group. 12.09 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.94 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.790 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.93 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.70 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.84 back its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases.

About half of the sectors on the Toronto Stock Exchange were down with small losses. The telcom sector was the leading decliner at 0.57 per cent as shares in Bell Aliant (TSX:BA) fell 1.85 per cent, or 49 cents, to $25.96.

The info tech sector saw the second-largest drop, 0.51 per cent, as BlackBerry shares fell more than five per cent, or 59 cents, to $10.74.

The stock has been turbulent over the last week following rumours of a possible sale of the troubled smartphone maker.

Meanwhile, consumer staples was the leading advancer, up 0.64 per cent, boosted by a surge in shares of Dollarama (TSX:DOL). The discount retail chain beat analyst expectations as its second-quarter profit climbed 20 per cent to $59.8 million despite slightly lower margins as a result of expansion.

The Montreal-based retailer, which has more than 800 stores focused on items sold for between $1 and $3 each, earned 82 cents per share for the period ended Aug. 4, up from 66 cents per diluted share a year ago. Sales increased 16 per cent to $511.3 million.

Commodities were somewhat flat, as December gold bullion fell 20 cents to US$1,363.80 an ounce and December copper was unchanged at US$3.26 a pound. The October crude contract was up 17 cents to US$107.56 a barrel.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Wednesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,825.42 up 0.94 point TSX Venture Exchange — 944.23 up 1.39 points TSX 60 — 737.18 down 0.46 point Dow — 15,326.60 up 135.54 points S&P 500 — 1,689.13 up 5.14 points Nasdaq — 3,725.01 down 4.01 points

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 50.19 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.69 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.23 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 44.51 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.06 Penn West Energy . . . . . 12.04 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.380 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.68 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.68 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.40 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.20 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.16 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.41 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 67.13 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.96 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.80 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.80 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.26 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.33 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 49.06 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 61.83 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.00 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 84.00 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.90 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 66.20 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 33.53 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.79 Currencies at close: Cdn — 96.95 cents US, up 0.31 of a cent Pound — C$1.6325, up 0.46 of a cent Euro — C$1.3729, unchanged Euro — US$1.3310, up 0.43 of a cent Oil futures: US$107.56 per barrel, up 17 cents (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,363.80 per oz., down 20 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.885 per oz., up 12.2 cents $800.05 per kg., up $3.90 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 944.23, up 1.39 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 159.11 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $0.70 higher $496.90; Jan. ’14 $0.40 higher $504.20; March ’14 $0.30 higher $510.60; May ’14 $0.40 higher $515.10; July ’14 $1.00 higher $518.30; Nov. ’14 $2.50 higher $504.80; Jan ’15 $2.50 higher $504.90; March ’15 $2.50 higher $504.90; May ’15 $2.50 higher $504.90; July ’15 $2.50 higher $504.90; Nov. ’15 $2.50 higher $504.90.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’13 unchanged $189.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $194.00; March ’14 unchanged $194.00; May ’14 unchanged $194.00; July ’14 unchanged $194.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $194.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $194.00; March ’15 unchanged $194.00; May ’15 unchanged $194.00; July ’15 unchanged $194.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $194.00.

Wednesday‘s estimated volume of trade: 484,560 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 484,560.

Canadian housing market will lose buoyancy as demand wanes, supply grows: bank

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rising interest rates and slowing job growth will temper Canadian home sales this year and into 2014, while a new supply of condos coming onto the market over the next two years will depress prices in that segment, Scotiabank says.

“Canadian housing activity remains buoyant, though the underlying fundamentals for continued gains are becoming less favourable,” according to the bank’s Global Real Estate Trends report, published Wednesday.

It estimates that Canada’s average inflation-adjusted home price was up 2.5 per cent in the April-June period, compared with the second quarter of 2012 — about the middle of a 23-country ranking published by Scotiabank on Wednesday.

“Low borrowing costs and balanced market conditions continue to attract buyers, though slowing job growth and the recent uptick in fixed mortgage rates will likely cool activity later in the year and into 2014. Affordability also is challenged in some of Canada’s largest urban centres, primarily for single-family homes.”

Housing construction will slow as a result, with starts expected to fall to about 170,000 units next year, Scotiabank says in its Global Real Estate

Trends report.

The Scotiabank report, which is consistent with other industry data, also raises concerns about an oversupply of condominiums.

For example, in Toronto, purchases of new units has fallen sharply over the past year, as expectations of lower returns have made condos less attractive investments.

However, the report notes that condo resales — a market that is dominated by buyers who want to live in the unit they’re purchasing — have been holding up in Toronto.

Despite the slowdown in construction, Scotiabank says a record number of new condo units will come onto the Toronto market over the next two years. The supply is expected to exceed demand and to reduce condo prices The report notes that imbalances are also beginning to appear in the Montreal and Vancouver condo markets, and that builders are responding by slowing down the pace of new construction of multiple-dwelling units.

Canada’s increase in the second quarter lagged the United States, which is recovering from a much deeper and longer downturn that began in 2007. Scotiabank says U.S. home prices increased by about eight per cent in the second quarter, after adjusting for inflation.

Challenges just starting for Canada’s most populous have-not province

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Two years after graduating from college with an accounting degree, Amanda Coombes expected to be working full-time in her field.

Instead, she’s living with her mom and working at McDonald’s.

These days, in hard-hit Ontario, a job is a job.

“It’s hard for us,” Coombes, 23, said of the challenges she and her fellow graduates face in their search for work in their chosen field. Older applicants, some laid off after 25 years in the business, offer life and work experience that make them formidable rivals.

“We’re competing with people who have been trying to find work and have three times the amount of experience as we do.”

Coombes is among the casualties of Ontario’s precipitous decline from the country’s economic engine to its most populous have-not province.

National Household Survey data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada shows that Ontario had two of the three urban centres with the lowest share of employment income as a percentage of total income — Peterborough and St. Catharines, at 67 per cent and 66.6 per cent, respectively.

StatsCan has already reported that the unemployment rate for 15- to 24-year-olds has reached 16.4 per cent, compared to Ontario’s overall rate of 7.5 per cent.

It’s hardest for young people in high school, who have to compete with older workers — particularly for retail jobs, said Derek Burleton, deputy chief economist at TD Bank.

Although Ontario has fared better than expected since the economic downturn, some of its growth can be attributed to temporary factors that may not be there in the long run, Burleton said.

The province’s once-thriving manufacturing sector has been in relative decline for a decade, but it’s been masked over the last five years by a strong housing market and low interest rates, which account for a lot of the province’s growth, he said.

“So this is where I think to some extent you could argue that the challenges are just beginning for the Ontario economy,” Burleton said.

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SAYERS: Not going anywhere He also acquired an equity interest in Bolttech Mannings as part of the sale.

“I think that reassured a lot of people that I wasn’t going anywhere,” said Sayers, stressing the importance of continuing to grow Red Flame as a Red Deer business.

“Red Deer’s still my home, and I take a great amount of pride in that.”

On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, he was tickled to see Red Flame’s name displayed prominently at Bolttech Mannings’ premises. That joint branding will also be seen at the company’s other offices.

“It’s allowed us to expand our geographic footprint into the U.S.,” said Sayers.

He expects existing Red Flame employees to benefit from opportunities associated with work for a large multinational corporation.

Red Flame’s information technology manager is already looking after IT for the merged company, and data management software devel-

Oil mislabelled, Canada says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Canadian transportation safety officials have told U.S. officials that the oil carried by the train that derailed in Quebec in July was misclassified as a less dangerous type of crude.

The board’s chief investigator, Donald Ross, said Wednesday the train’s shipment of North Dakota crude oil was mislabeled as “Group 3” conventional crude, when it should have been given a more explosive “Group 2” classification.

The unattended train carrying oil from the Bakken region rolled away and derailed, with several of its oil tankers exploding in the middle of the LacMegantic, near the Maine border. The explosions and fire killed 47 people.

Youth unemployment in particular has raised fears among the governing Liberals that young people will move out of the province to find jobs.

They’ve promised to make it a top priority, recently announcing a $195-million program that would pay employers to train and hire young people, as well as help youth pay for costs like tools and transportation.

“There’s a lot of young people who have a lot of talent and they just haven’t had the opportunity to grow,” said Finance Minister Charles Sousa.

“And we want them to be able ... to do some of those initiatives right here in Ontario as opposed to finding themselves having to go outside Canada to do those things.”

Eisha Alfred, a 21-year-old aspiring physiotherapist, has just started looking for a job after finishing her college education in fitness and lifestyle management in June.

She needs money to pay back student loans, but she’s hoping to avoid a McJob by taking a pre-employment program at Springboard, a non-profit organization, that could connect her to the right employers.

“What I’m trying to do is not just do any monotonous, random job — which I could do because money is money,” said Alfred, who lives in Toronto’s east end.

“But what I’m trying to do is get into a facility or clinic ... so that I could be exposed to it. I’m trying to find someone that’s willing to be somewhat of a mentor. It’s just experience as well.”

Other young people are creating their own jobs by starting businesses straight out of university. Some 2.6 million Canadians, nearly 10 per cent, reported earning some form of selfemployment income in 2010, the NHS numbers released Wednesday show.

Amir Manbachi, a third-year PhD candidate in biomedical engineering, recently founded a company with his advisers at the University of Toronto.

Spinesonics Medical Inc. is developing a sensor that allows surgeons to get a better picture as they’re inserting screws into vertebrae. They’ve received a $50,000 provincial grant to help them commercialize the device.

Manbachi, 28, said he wanted to start his own business because he didn’t see many opportunities in the job market.

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But the stock slid back down nearly six per cent on Tuesday after the Globe and Mail reported that big pension funds have been reluctant to join Fairfax in a buyout consortium.

Shares of BlackBerry continued their descent on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

BlackBerry was down 60 cents, more than five per cent, to $10.73 in afternoon trading.

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Davidson Van Gogh work missing gets gritty for century put on show again in new novel

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‘Sunset at Montmajour’ by Vincent Van Gogh. The 1888 work has been identified as a Van Gogh after extensive research to verify its authenticity and will go on display in Amsterdam Sept. 24. um, described the discovery as “a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

He said that when the museum was again asked for its view on the work, “it intrigued us from the beginning, and we decided to carry out a thorough investigation.”

Two years of research into the style, painting materials and context were conducted, and parallels were found with other Van Gogh works completed in the summer of 1888, he said.

The pigments are similar to those that Van Gogh used during his time in Arles, and include the discolorations that are a feature of his work, he said.

The work under expertise turned out to be “a picture that had been lost from sight for more than 100 years,” he said.

There are two letters by Van Gogh that refer to the painting, according to the museum.

Chastain thrilled by response to Rigby

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — After only a few years in the Hollywood spotlight, Jessica Chastain has two Oscar nominations and a film resume that could put a veteran actor to shame. Her latest trick? Anchoring The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her, a highly ambitious love story that’s really two movies in one.

Written and directed by Ned Benson, the films document two sides of a tragedy involving Chastain (who plays the title character) and her husband Conor (James McAvoy) that has brought the couple to the brink of demise.

Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, the first movie (the “him” half of the title) dissects the relationship from the perspective of Conor, who’s desperately trying to keep Eleanor in his rapidly deteriorating life. The companion film is told from Eleanor’s perspective and sheds further light on the couple’s story. Several scenes are shared

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BRIEFS Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra here Music lovers who want to hear the strains of Ray Charles can listen to a tribute orchestra that performs in Red Deer on Friday.

The Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra and The Donald Raylettes perform at Red Deer College Arts Centre at 8 p.m. The tribute orchestra features the Grammy Award winning singer Donald Ray Johnson

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL between the two films but details differ, given each lover’s subjective memory of their relationship.

The films can be viewed separately and in any order. But during the festival, the ambitious movies are screening back-to-back as one 190-minute journey that probes every nook and cranny of a crumbling relationship.

During an overstuffed festival in which journalists sprint from engagement to engagement and perpetually smartphone-scanning industry types frequently bail on screenings after only a few minutes, persuading anyone to sit still in a theatre for three-plus hours would seem a tall task.

And Chastain concedes she fretted about that, but says the film’s running length has thus far not been a roadblock. and former Ray Charles bassist John Gray.

The 12-piece orchestra and three backup singers called The Donald Raylettes will perform many of the hits of the legendary soul singer who died in 2004. Charles who was blind from the age of seven is considered the pioneer of soul music, combining blues, jazz and gospel music. He was a singer, songwriter, musician and composer.

Charles received many awards for his work including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.

Tickets are $39 for adults and $34 for children and seniors. Tickets are available from the Black Knight Ticket Centre at 403-755-6626 or 1-800-661-8793 or online at www.bkticketcentre.ca.

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TORONTO — When Toronto-based author Craig Davidson showed up for a recent interview with a mild shiner and stitches above his left eyebrow, it seemed a more fitting than frightening sight.

After all, the 37-year-old is known for writing about brutal bouts in books, including the short story collection Rust and Bone, which was made into a 2012 Golden Globe-nominated film starring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, and the novel The Fighter, for which he took steroids as part of his research and participated in a promotional boxing match.

With his new novel, Cataract City, he cast his imagination to the blood and gore of Craig Davidson underground fighting once again as he wrote a compelling and witty coming-of-age tale of two friends who get caught up in the seedy underbelly of Niagara Falls, Ont. Davidson says he has a scrappy past of playground fights and bar brawls, but his most recent facial injuries were due to an elbow that cracked his forehead during a harmless game of pickup basketball.

“It seems to go part and parcel with the book,” he said with a laugh. “So it’s OK to have some stitches bristling up there now.”

Basketball is also the favourite sport of one of two protagonists in Cataract City, a Doubleday Canada publication on sale now.

Owen (Dutch) Stuckey is the dear dribbling friend of Duncan (Dunk) Diggs, with whom he grew up on the same street in the blue-collar city. Both their dads also worked at the local Nabisco factory (a.k.a.

The Bisk), only Owen’s father had a higher position.

The two go through a harrowing experience as kids when their local wrestling idol, Bruiser Mahoney, takes them into the woods for a night of camping.

As they grow older, Owen shows a natural ability to shoot hoops, but a tragedy strips away his dreams of being a basketball star and he becomes a cop.

Duncan, meanwhile, becomes involved in dog racing, underground fighting and cigarette smuggling with the abhorrent Lemmy Drinkwater. After a stint in jail, Duncan returns to the city and gets sucked back into its gritty corners.

Despite the dark content, the sharply written novel is punctuated with much humour, especially at the beginning with the boys’ banter and ’80s lingo/ pop-culture references.

Davidson said the relationship between Duncan and Owen was inspired by a close friendship he developed with a co-worker named Matt during a summer job as a teen at Marineland in Niagara Falls.

Davidson lived in St. Catharines, Ont., but Matt lived in the Niagara Falls community of Chippawa.

“Matt . . . physically, and in a lot of ways that he goes through his life at the time that I knew him, became the Duncan character, and I saw myself most as Owen, who is sort of the more privileged guy from a more middle-class upbringing and didn’t have to strive as hard.”

Davidson describes Duncan’s fighting matches with a great sense of realism.

He said he’s able to do so because he’s had “a lot” of experience exchanging punches.

“I was the guy who would get into a fight with you,” said Davidson. “I’d get upset if you were insulting me or insulting my friend or my brother, or you’re doing something against someone that I care about, and I’d rise to action.”

“But it’s like a man with no weapons going into a fight,” he continued with a laugh, calling himself “a pretty easy target” because he’s not a heavyweight.

His last fight was probably in his late 20s.

“And I lost again, and I thought, ‘Craig, there are better ways to just either let it go or find another way, because you’re just not good at this.”’

Between this novel and his others, one might get a sense that Davidson has been to some dark corners of this world.

But the father of a one-year-old insisted that’s not the case.

“There’s been no voyages in Cambodia where I’m sitting side by side with drug dealers and doing any of that,” he said with a laugh.

“I’ve gotten that a lot, too, especially like, ‘Oh, you’re not who I thought you were.”’

Davidson said some readers have also asked “Why can’t you just write a happy story, a happy book?”’

His answer is that he doesn’t think that’s a fair representation of the world. Besides, in between the bleakness of his books are fleeting moments of hope, grace and nobility, he added.

“If I could be less reserved and dole out great gobs of happiness for all of my characters, I probably would. Probably the (publishers) would be like, ‘Yes, please do that more often, because maybe your books would sell better,”’ said Davidson.

“But it’s like you’ve got the tools that got you into the game and this is what you’ve got and this is the way that you see the world. I’m not saying I won’t change and things won’t change. I might be 70 and sort of losing my mind and then I’ll be putting out the most happy, sunny, wonderful books ever, if I’m still writing.

“But I think some people say that to you and you sort of say, ‘Well, it really is like a leopard changing his or her spots.”’

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LONDON — A painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered after two years of research to determine its authenticity, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said Monday.

Sunset at Montmajour (1888) — painted during the artist’s time in the southern French town of Arles — will be on display from Sept. 24 in the continuing Van Gogh at Work exhibition (ending Jan. 12), the museum said.

It was during the same Arles period that Van Gogh painted his Sunflowers, The Yellow House and The Bedroom.

“A discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred in the history of the Van Gogh Museum,” director Axel Rueger said.

The work is owned by private collectors who have asked not to be identified, the Van Gogh Museum said. They approached the museum to request an expert opinion of the painting.

Sunset at Montmajour was, as of 1890, part of the collection of Van Gogh’s brother, Theo. It was sold in 1901, the Van Gogh Museum said.

Sometime around 1908, a Norwegian industrialist and collector named Christian Nicolai Mustad bought the work, according to three Van Gogh Museum specialists writing in the October issue of Burlington Magazine.

Shortly afterward, Mustad showed the painting to a French diplomat who suggested that it was either a fake or mistakenly attributed to Van Gogh. Mustad immediately put the painting in his attic, away from view.

After Mustad’s death in 1970, when his collection was valued for sale, the painting was labeled a fake, and it repeatedly changed owners, the article said.

When it was presented for appraisal to the Van Gogh Museum in 1991, the museum ruled that it was not a painting by Van Gogh.

Speaking at a news briefing streamed live by the Dutch Internet site www.at5.nl Monday, Louis van Tilborgh, a senior researcher at the Van Gogh Muse-

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1972 — Ottawa helps establish Heritage Canada as a national trust, to preserve historic buildings, scenic landscapes and natural areas.

1974 — Canadian Egg Marketing Agency orders 28 million eggs destroyed; rotted due to improper storage.

1994 — Jacques Parizeau wins Quebec election for Parti Quebecois, defeating Daniel Johnson’s Liberals. The party wins 77 of the 125 seats, up from 33; Liberals drop from 78 to 47 seats.

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COPPOCK Frances Elizabeth Fran passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional H o s p i t a l o n We d n e s d a y, September 4, 2013 at the age of 65 years. She will be lovingly remembered by her dear husband, Dalton; children, Charles and Sarah (Joey); grandchildren, Alyna, Hannah, Charlie, James and Zoe. A Celebration of Fran’s Life will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta.

Memorial donations in Fran’s honor may be made directly to a charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

HECHT Alvin (Stan) Harold May 10, 1932 - Sept. 8, 2013 Mr. Alvin (Stan) Harold Hecht passed away on Sunday, September 8, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre at the age of 81 years. Alvin enjoyed a childhood with seven brothers and sisters near Clive, where he met his beloved wife, Joan. They moved to Alix in 1960 where they farmed, raised four children and started an auto wrecking business. The family moved to Rocky Mountain House in 1974 (Al’s Repairs) and then to Red Deer in 1992, enjoying a happy and productive retirement. Al was a mechanic and businessman, known to be able to fix or build most anything, and a respected person to deal with. Al was predeceased by his wife of nearly 60 years, Joan in 2012, and is survived by his brother, Gerald, sisters, Vel and Mae, children; Duane, John, Orleen and Linda, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Al was very thankful for the many people he had the opportunity to share his life with. A memorial service in honour of Al will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287-67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, on Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at: www.parklandfuneralhome.com

Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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CRUICKSHANK, Myrna Joyce Sept. 3, 1937 - Sept. 9, 2013 Myrna is survived by her husband of 47 years, Donald Cruickshank; their children, Bruce, Karen (Dennis) Mitchell and Joshua Koens, Sharlene (John) Keana, Jordan and Wyatt Fraser; two adopted children, Ryan and Jacky (Dave) Jessica, David, Christopher, Kurtis, Tysen and Melissa Humes; her two sisters, Gayle Dulaney and Sherry (Jim Kasparsons) and many nieces, nephews and friends. She is predeceased by her parents, Mary and Stan Cawley, her brothers-inlaw and sisters-in-law. At Myrna’s request, there will be a private graveside service.

Family and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Tea at the Penhold Senior Centre, 3001 Minto Street, Penhold, Alberta on Friday, September 13, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In honour of Myrna, memorial contributions may be made to STARS or the Alberta Children’s Hospital of Calgary. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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STEWART Darren Anthony Jan. 4,1970 - Sept. 5, 2013 Darren is lovingly survived by his children Noah and Emily, parents Stan and Susan, and siblings Dean (Pam), Nicole (Chris) and Mathew (Jill). A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, September 13, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, 5116-52 Avenue, Ponoka. Donations are gratefully accepted to a trust fund for Noah and Emily Stewart at Servus Credit Union 01569-899-58584958 (Cheques payable to: Stanley Stewart ITF Darren Stewart Family). To express condolences to Darren’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com Arrangements Entrusted To PONOKA FUNERAL HOME ~ A Wombold Family Funeral Home ~ 403.783.3122

Announcements Daily Classifieds 309-3300

Heck (Kenzle) Christina Lynn 1974-2013 Christina Lynn Heck, 39, of Leslieville, AB passed away suddenly on September 7, 2013. Chris was born in Innisfail, AB on April 16, 1974 and was raised in Caroline, AB graduating high school in 1992. Chris graduated from Red Deer College earning her Health Care Aide certificate in 2004. Chris met Michael Heck in 1990 and they started a family together in 1995 with the birth of their son Coltyn in 1995 , followed by their son Jol in 1998.

Chris and Michael settled in various locations throughout central Alberta and ultimately resided in Leslieville, AB. Chris spent her free time on her Harley Davidson Cross Bones motorcycle travelling near and far throughout B.C. and the USA. She enjoyed all outside activities, particularly those involving camping, quadding, and the gathering of friends around a campfire.

Chris leaves to mourn her husband Michael Heck and sons Coltyn and Jol Heck; her mother Linda Wold (friend Carl); her father Gib Kenzle; her brother Blair (Jodi) Kenzle, nephew Kayde and niece Kylee; her brother Cameron (Niki) Kenzle, nephew Cole; her motherand-father in law Maryanne and Dennis Schimpf; brother-in-law Clarance (Sai) Heck, sister-in-law Janeen (Khom) Wong; and sister-in-law Sarah (Tyler)Heck , nephews Drayden and Paxton. Chris was pre-deceased by her maternal grandparents Cyril and Jessie Tose and her paternal grandparents Jack and Frances Kenzle; and stepfather Gary Wold. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. Memorial service arrangements entrusted to Heartland Funeral Services and will be held at the Caroline Complex on Friday, September13th at 2:00.

JOHNSON Brett Curtis Brett Curtis Johnson passed away in his home on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at the age of 44 years. Brett will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by many. A Memorial Service will be held at FOSTER’S GARDEN CHAPEL, 3220 - 4 Street N.W., Calgary (across from Queen’s Park Cemetery) on Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to the family via the website www.fostersgardenchapel.ca FOSTER’S GARDEN CHAPEL FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM Telephone: 403-297-0888 Honoured Provider of Dignity Memorial

LAMOUREUX Rhonda 1964 - 2013 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Rhonda Lamoureux of Red Deer. Rhonda passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday, September 9, 2013 at the young age of 49 years.

Rhonda will be deeply missed by her husband George, daughter Terri-Lee and son Travis (Ashley) all of R e d D e e r, h e r b r o t h e r Ronald (Shauna) Plamondon of Clearwater, BC, as well as numerous friends and relatives. “May you rest in peace and may the Lord be with you through your next journey”. Those wishing to pay their respects are invited to the Parkland Funeral Home on Sunday, September 15, 2013 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 67A Street (Taylor Drive) Red Deer, on Monday, September 16, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. with Deacon Claude Baril officiating.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040

Eventide Funeral Chapel & Crematorium 4820-45 Street Red Deer, AB

403-347-2222 eventidefuneralchapels.com

Funeral Chapel & Crematorium

by Arbor Memorial Arbor Memorial Inc.

Trusted Since 1929

EAST 40TH PUB You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Lost

GOLD chain lost in Jackpot Casino or in south parking lot on Sept. 6.

Sentimental value, reward 403-347-6244 LOST family ring, 5 stones, sentimental 403-352-7795 PRESCRIPTION glasses, womens, lost at the finish of Tour of Alberta. Call Jean 780-298-6422

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Found

MOTORCYCLE HELMET FOUND IN ROSEDALE Owner can identify to claim.

403-309-4464

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

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Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

309-3300

F/T Multi Media and Web Graphic designer wanted to join our growing dynamic team in Red Deer. Benefits and competitive wages. Send resume with portfolio and salary expectation to careers@buyairsoft.ca or fax to 403-346-6717.

Dental

740

P/T Dental Receptionist required, dental experience an asset. Day Dental, Innisfail. Send resume to admin@daydental.ca

Hair Stylists

760

ADAM & EVE UNISEX REQ’S P/T / F/T HAIR CUTTING PERSONNEL. Above average earnings.

Submit resume in person at Parkland Mall.

NEW IMPRESSIONS SALON & SPA Seeking F/T Hair Stylist Drop off resume to 190 Northey Ave.

Janitorial

770

F O U N D AT B F i n a n c i a l Credit card by Parkland Mall. 403-588-9021

jobs

Caregivers/ Aides

710

LIVE IN CAREGIVER FOR memory challenged lady, ideal living conditions 403-346-3179 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-348-5456 or 403-505-7846

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

Legal

780

Legal Assistants Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP t/a Altalaw

Our firm is expanding!

Legal Assistant positions in Litigation, Real Estate, Wills & Estates and Corporate/Commercial are available. Competitive salaries, great benefits in a good working environment is offered. Please email your resume to the Office manager at ssimmons@ altalaw.ca Only candidates on the short list will be contacted for interviews.

Medical

790

A position for an RNor LPN is avail. for one day a week (Wed.) We offer a friendly working environment and staff. Please bring your resume to 215-5201-43rd St. Red Deer or fax to 403- 341-3599

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders Park

Glendale

105 ANDREWS CLOSE Sept. 13 & 14 Fri. 9 - 4, Sat. 9 - 4 Pressure washer, ladder, books, household items.

6 GREGSON CRES. Sept. 13, Fri. 3 - 8 YARD SALE DVD’s, C.D.’s, books, household items etc.

MULTI-FAMILY SALE 15 ANDERS STREET Thursday, Sept. 12, 5-8, Friday, Sept. 13, 10-8 Saturday, Sept. 14, 9-2

TOOLS, camping, household. Fri. Sept.13, 2-8, Sat. 10-3. No early birds please. Unit 1010 7050 Gray Dr.

ASAP STORAGE Garage Sale. Located behind Enmax Centrium 207 Pine St. Petrolia Business Park Household goods, shuffleboard, table, chairs, dbl. mattress set and more.

Thurs. Sept. 12, 10-4.

Deer Park 78 DOBLER Ave. Sept. 12, 4:30-7:30, Sept. 13, 9-4.

Household, kids, outdoor items and clothing and more.

ESTATE sale. Fri. Sept.

13, 3-7, Sat. 9-4. Misc. household, kitchen, furniture, clothing, tools, collectables, new Christmas crafts. 119 Donnelly Cres. SE of Co-Op.

Fairview - Upper Eventide

NOW PLAYING VLT’S AT

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Bower

Funeral Directors & Services

THURSDAY NIGHT’S BBQ NIGHT 6-9 p.m. or while quantities last.

Steak/Ribs, Potato, Salad, Bun & Choice of Drink for $10.50

730

Entry Level IT/Programmer wanted for full time position to join our growing dynamic team in Red Deer. Must be fluent in Windows, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML editing software, Web site creation and management software., CSS. Some knowledge of PHP, Java Script, and MYSQL would be an asset. Benefits available.

Send resume with portfolio and salary expectation to careers@buyairsoft.ca or fax to 403-346-6717.

62 FLAGSTAFF CLOSE Sept. 12, 13 & 14 Thurs. & Fri. 2-7, Sat. 9-2 First time garage Sale!

Something for Everyone!

Lancaster Green

Normandeau 17 NAGEL AVE. Sept. 12, 13 & 14 Thurs. & Fri. 5 - 8, Sat. 9 - 1 MULTI FAMILY Something for Everyone!

Oriole Park 58 ODELL Green Sept. 12 & 13, 10-6. Household items, fridge, toys, camping gear, collectibles, ceramic dolls, Barbie dolls and more.

Sunnybrook 72 LOUGHEED CL. Sept. 12, 5-8, Sept. 13, 10-6, Sept. 14, 10-5.

Household items, books, toys, baby items, etc.

158-3110-47 AVE. Sat. Sept. 14, 9-4.

Tools, new sprayer, lots of misc. items.

West Park Lonsdale BACKYARD moving sale.

Furniture, household, everything subject to offer.

637 Lancaster Dr. Fri. Sept. 13, 3-8, Sat. 8-4, Sun. 8-2

Morrisroe 8 MARTIN CLOSE Fri. Sept. 13, 2 - 7 Sat. Sept. 14, 9 - 4 Coleman Oasis 8 man tent, 16’x10’, Woods bar fride, surfboard 7’, English dishes, 50 gal. aquarium w/stand, 3’x1 1/2’ bird cage w/stand, much more...

RDC GARAGE SALE

Stop by Red Deer College for a special Garage Sale event, Sept. 26, 27 Thurs. & Fri. from 1-6 p.m.

A variety of items will be up for sale. Watch for further details in the Sept.

19 and 25 editions of the Red Deer Advocate!

Penhold 28 DUNDEE CRES. (Back Alley) Sat. Sept. 14, 9-5, Sun. 1-5. Misc. items, and Come see our restored 62’ (Dream)

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

800

Oilfield

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

EXPERIENCED OILFIED HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS. Must have all safety tickets.

Competitive wages.

Fax-403-749-3367

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Night Foremen, Day & Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 Lstouffer@1strateenergy.ca Please specify position when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

COLTER ENERGY SERVICES IS NOW HIRING

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators

(5- 10yrs experience)

Night Supervisors (2-4yrs experience)

TRUCK Operators and Tank Truck Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Competitive Wages, Benefits, Retirement and Saving Plan!

INDUSTRIES LTD

An employee owned company looking for committed individuals to invest in their own future.

Full time Heavy Duty Journeyman Mechanic to manage fleet of 20 + 20 Field Safety Co-ordinator Class 3 Operators-Vacuum & Water trucks to service drilling rigs.

QUALIFICATIONS: • • • • • • •

Please send your resume & current driver’s abstract to Fax: 403-786-9915 • Email: tksindustries@ hotmail.ca •

LANGAN SITE SERVICES LTD.

Must be able to Provide own work truck Leadership and Supervisory skills- mentor and train crew Strong Computer Skills Operate 5000psi 10,000 psi (sweet and Sour wells) Collect Data - pressure, rates, temperatures Assist in Rig in and Rig out of equipment Tr a v e l t o a n d f r o m locations across Western Canada REQUIREMENTS: Va l i d 1 s t A i d , H 2 S , Driver’s License required!

Must be willing to submit pre access fit for duty test, as well as drug and alcohol Travel & be away from home for periods of time 21/7 Ability to work in changing climate conditions

in Ponoka county, supplies • oilfield septic containment & disposal throughout AB. • We require Driver Operators for small vac trucks. Oilfield exp. is an asset. Must have H2S, website: First Aid, TDG, clean www.cathedralenergyservices.com driver’s abstract & Class 5 Methods to Apply: license, drug testing.

HRCanada@ $20/ hr. to start, home cathedralenergyservices.com every night, benefits. pnieman@ Fax resume to Dan cathedralenergyservices.com 403-704-1127 or email: Your application will be dan kept strictly confidential. @langansiteservices.com LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers for areas including Sask. and US. Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all Have current Safety positions! Immediately. certificates including H2S All applicants must have • Be prepared to work in current H2S, Class 5 with remote locations for Q Endorsement, (No GDL extended periods of time licenses) and First Aid. • Must be physically fit We offer competitive • Competitive wages, benefits wages & excellent benefits. and RRSP offered Please include 2 work reference names and Please email resume with numbers. current driver’s abstract to: Please fax resume to: www.colterenergy.ca 403-264-6725 Under Career Opportunities Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com Pressure truck operators No phone calls please. and Class 1 & 3 drivers.

Small company, good TEAM Snubbing Services money, paid benefits. now hiring experienced Looking for responsible, operators Email: safe drivers and operators. janderson@ Phone 403-391-8004 for teamsnubbing.com details. haulinacid.com fax 403-844-2148 •

Oilfield

Day Supervisors

JOIN OUR FAST GROWING TEAM!!

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., • a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes • for the following positions: •

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

PRODUCTION TESTING RENTALS PERSONNEL REQ’D TANKMASTER requires CLASS 1 BED

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

WANTED

EXPERIENCED

CLASS 3

VAC/steamer Truck driver.

Lacombe area, HOME EVERY NIGHT. Fax resume to 403-704-1442

URS FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Tubing Inspection operator, manual lathe operator, and Shop & Yard Laborers. Exp. an asset but will train to suit.

Competitive wages and benefits. Apply w/resume to: 4115 Henry St. (Blindman Industrial Park)

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

$12.25/hr.

To provide Food & Beverage service, handle cashiering, arrange and setup the outlet. maintain cleanliness and hygiene.

Cook

$14.00/HR. To prepare and cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen and maintain hygiene follow recipes, assist in receiving and storing

Kitchen Helper

$11/hr To clean kitchen following safety and hygiene standards. Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery and glassware items.

Clean floors.

Assist in prep.

All positions are Shift Work & Weekends.

Fax resume 780-702-5051

EAST 40TH PUB

Looking for Part/Full Time BARTENDER/SERVER. Apply with resume to 3811 40 Ave, Red Deer FRATTERS Speakeasy Venue is looking for experienced Servers & Prep Cooks. Competitive wages, great atmosphere.

Email info@fratters.com We are on On FaceBook or Call 403-356-0033 Original Joe’s Restaurant & Bar is hiring experienced Line Cooks! We offer competitive wages with tips and a benefit package after 3 months. We also have opportunities to move up quickly! Please apply in person after 2:00 pm.

Pho Thuy Duong Vietnamese Restaurant hiring F/T kitchen help.

Open availability. Evenings & weekends. Please drop resume at Bay #4, 5108 52 St.

800

Is seeking FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $14.00/hr.

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc.

Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety stardands $14.00/hr.

All positions are Shift work & weekends Fax Resume to: 780-702-5051

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests * Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $ 14.00/hr HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms public areas pool etc. * Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards $ 14.00/hr All positions are Shift Work & weekends Fax resume 780 - 702-5051 Start your career!

See Help Wanted MUCHO BURRITO $11.33/Hr - Cust Serv EMAIL -MUCHOREDDEER @HOTMAIL.COM SUNSHINE Family Restaurant - F/T Kitchen Helper. $11.41/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Email: janegosselin@telus.net

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T BARTENDER. GOOD WAGES. Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER F/T COCKTAIL SERVER and DININGROOM SERVER Must have experience!

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Sales & Distributors

Work in the South Pacific.

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Custom T’s Hiring Sales Supervisor-retail at Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB. Experience min 2 years, Good English.

Supervise and co-ordinate sales staff, F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $19.00 hourly E-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

We are expanding internationally with our first steps overseas.

Do you have a hunger for adventure? Enquire about working with DFI — including opportunities in Papua New Guinea.

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www.dfi.ca/careers Visit us at the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo (booths 3 & 7)

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Trades

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AGRICULTURAL MECHANIC - Full Time: experienced Ag mechanic, heavy duty ticket preferred but not required. Valid Drivers license needed. Excellent benefits package, competitive pay, no engine work, wide variety of machines to work on. Apply in person, by fax at 403-347-3740.

Please provide resume & references. Call 403-340-1000 & ask for manager.

ALL SEASON Decking is looking for vinyl and railing installers. Must have own truck. We are also looking for general labourers.

Please email resume to allseasondecking@ hotmail.com ARROW ARC WELDING is looking for WELDING APPRENTICE LOCATED BY Gull Lake.

Phone Brian 403-318-6760 BUSY LOCAL PLUMBING COMPANY has immediate opening for

EXPERIENCED PLUMBER

to do commercial & agricultural service work.

Excellent pay and full benefits. Clean drivers abstract required for company supplied vehicle.

Call Drew at 403-396-7990 DNR Pressure Welding requires B-Pressure Welders/Labourers for various projects in Alberta.

Long term employment.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Ryan. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol program in effect.

DUE TO A LARGE INCREASE IN BUSINESS,

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET

is currently seeking JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS & SERVICE ADVISORS. We offer competitive wages, a great working environment, and a great benefit package.

Please email resume to Joey Huckabone joey@pikewheatonchev.ca EAGLE Builders LP, a concrete Erecting Company based out of Blackfalds requires a hard working, motivated individual to fill a full-time welding position at our company. The successful candidate will be a 2nd or 3rd year apprentice and must be a SMAW CWB qualified welder. There will be on the job training. Must also be able to travel. All meals and hotel expenses are paid when out of town.

Applicant must have reliable transportation to and from work and a valid class 5 driver’s license.

Successful applicant must provide an up to date drivers abstract. Construction experience an asset. Full benefits provided. Starting wages based on experience. Fax resumes to 403 885 5516 or e-mail at HR@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Equipment Operators, Class 1 Drivers, Directional Drillers, Locators and Labourers req’d immed.

Qualified candidates should have a positive work ethic and must possess a valid driver’s license. Email:careers@ minimalimpact.ca or Fax 780-960-2927.We offer competitive wages and are committed to maintaining a positive and safe work environment.

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

850

Trades

H.D. Parts Person & Warehouse Person

www.trican.ca

860

880

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MILLWRIGHTS & WELDERS

Academic Express

for work in Red Deer.

Please fax resume to 1-403-229-4079

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

NEEDED F/T Service Person FALL START for after sales service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Must • Women in Trades have exp. in roofing, siding, • Math and Science in the Trades flooring, drywall, paint etc., • GED preparation Competitive wages and Gov’t of Alberta Funding health plan avail. Apply to may be available.

James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca PAINTER Commercial/Residential Experience required.

Vehicle required.

Contact Drew at CCL ADULT or YOUTH 403-596-1829

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc Req’s a

Maintenance Foreman Responsible for: * Day to day maintenance of oilfield fleet * Monthly maintenance records * Parts inventory * Shop safety Skills and experience needed: * HD Mechanic with fleet experience * Hydraulic and winch expertise * Strong organizational skills We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca SHEET Metal Installer for HVAC Company.

Residential or retro-fit exp. req’d. Great benefit pkg.

ALSO, Shop helper required. E-MAIL resume to: info@comfortecheating. com or fax: 403-309-8302 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

STAINLESS STEEL PIPE WELDERS Required experience with (short circuit Mig) would Be an asset. Local shop work only, Great Rates Please email resume to info@dynamicprojects.ca or Fax: 403-340-3471

800

MOUNTVIEW AREA 44A Ave. & 35 St. Area $237/mo.

ALSO 42 Ave. & 35 St. Area $240/mo.

ALSO Spruce Drive & Springbett Dr. $103/mo.

ALSO 43A Ave. between 37 St. & 39 St. and 43 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. $77/mo.

ALSO 42 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. $116/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Roche St. & 3 Blocks of Roland St. $54/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113.00/mo.

ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Pl., Thomas Pl., Thompson Cl., Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. $200.00/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) DEER PARK AREA Dowler St. & Area 102 Papers $546/mo.

EAST ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres & Close Areas 65 Papers $348/mo.

EASTVIEW AREA 108 Papers $578/mo.

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

MICHENER AREA 134 Papers $793/mo.

...Join our Team!

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

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Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery in

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WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

Required Immediately WATER WELL The largest after market parts distributor in Canada is DRILLERS HELPER seeking a H.D. Parts person with class 3, air. All safety to join our experienced tickets required. team in Red Deer.

Meal and Accommodation This individual would provided when out of town. require basic knowledge of Fax resume with drivers the heavy-duty truck and abstract: 403-748-3015 trailer market with excelWestern Masonry lent knowledge of truck and trailer brake and Structures suspension parts.

F/T bricklayers, Stone Layers The individual would have & laborers. Must have own to be able to work transportation. Fax unsupervised in a fast resume to 403-340-0762 paced environment. They or email resume to should also possess tom@westernmasonry.com customer service skills that would be used daily by phone and for walk in clients. Truckers/ This position offers above Drivers average salary and is a full time position. We offer complete benefit package along with pension plan.

Please forward your resume to: Traction Heavy Duty Class 1 Driver 8045 Edgar Industrial Winch or picker experience Crescent an asset but not necessary.

Red Deer Ab T4P 3R2 Scheduled days off OR FAX 403-342-7377 Benefits after 90 days Email: jwojtaczka@uapinc.com Regular hrs, 12/mo. yr.

JOURNEYMAN H.D. Start immediately MECHANIC req’d immed.

To apply please send your for very busy heavy equip. resume to: sales lot in Innisfail. gerry@oilbossrentals.com Wage range $25. - $35/hr or fax to 1-866-914-7507 depending on exp.

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Preference will be given Minimum Class 5 with air to those with previous and clean abstract. Exp. equipment rental service, preferred. In person to Key lifts and off road Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. construction equipment Red Deer. experience. Fax resume to 403-227-5701 or email: bouvier9@telus.net Misc.

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email ELEMENTS is looking for info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 STUCCO PLASTERERS & 5 retail sales reps. selling LABOURERS. Needed season gift packages and NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Immed. Exp’d but will train. personal care products in Micron Industries is a Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. licensed inspection facility Drivers License pref’d. Lots of work! 403-588-5306 Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + in Red Deer specializing in bonus & comm. FT. No cryogenic tank repairs, exp. req`d. Please email currently seeking a elementsreddeer@gmail.com Mechanic with HD, Hydraulic and Hose FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN crimping experience. Must is looking for 5 SALES have their own tools.

REPS, selling shoes & Weekdays 7:00 to 4:30. apparel, at our Parkland TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Excellent working Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Requires conditions & benefits after Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus 3 months. Fax resume to & comm. F/T Position. No (403) 346-2072 or email QUALIFIED exp. req’d. Email admin@micronindustries.

Flurriesrd@gmail.com JOURNEYMAN ca 2rd and 4th yr.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 MECHANICS req’d for retail sales reps. Selling ELECTRICIANS s o a p & b a t h p r o d u c t s . busy transmission shop. $12.10 hr + bonus & com- Allison Transmissions exp.

With Residential roughin an asset but will train. mission. Ft No exp. req`d. exp. Competitive wages Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Exc. wages and benefits & benefits. available. Fax resume to: Red Deer. email resume to Fax resume to: 403-885-2556 premierjobrd@gmail.com 403-314-5599

Oilfield

850

Trades

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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Misc.

Help

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

WESTPARK AREA

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 51, 52, 53 Ave. & 58A St. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info BUSY lube shop in Camrose, AB. seeking exp’d manager, exc. wages and benefits 780-678-0539

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Abbott Close Allan St. Allan Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Inglis Cres.

Iverson Close LANCASTER AREA Long lose Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Addington Drive SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave. VANIER AREA Visser St. Vanson Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

CASH CASINO is hiring a

F/T CLEANERS

3am - 11am shift.

Need to be physically fit.

Must have reliable transportation.

Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale gtisdale@ cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St. DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 LOOKING FOR A P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REP in a green drycleaning plant.

Must be able to work some evenings until 7 p.m. & some Saturdays.

Call Shannon 403-550-7440 F/T sales and customer service associate, bilingual French/English an asset.

Hourly wage plus benefits. email: careers@buyairsoft.ca GASOLINE ALLEY Petro Canada req’s. 2 f/t or p/t cashiers $11.50/hr. & food supervisor $15/hr. Email resume tiell1004@gmail.com Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Misc.

Help

880

900

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Looking for an experienced Floral Designer. Customer service and flexible hours a must. Email somethingcountry@live.ca or fax 403-358-5086

OILFIELD TICKETS

BELLE FIORE DISHES Huge collection.

Platters, coffee mugs, cups, plates, bowls, etc. $200 obo. 403-343-7489

TRAINING CENTRE Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544 R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Clothing

1590

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

EquipmentHeavy

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

BENJAMIN MOORE, Moore style, int. acrylic latex pearl, medium base paint. 1 can 3.67 L, color HC-1 Castleton Mist. $48.

403-346-7825 CANNING apparatus with cans supplied. $15.

403-346-5246 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino FLORESCENT lights, (2) 48`` complete with hanging chains & tubes, or can be mounted solid. Like new. $40. pr; Panasonic fax machine, complete, $40. 403-309-1737 KENMORE DEHUMIDIFIER. Like new. $50. **SOLD** CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

KEROSUN KEROSEN HEATER Omni 105. Used once. $150. 403-782-6050

1630

PLAZMA 14000 BTU portable air conditioner, very good cond. pd. $600.

Asking $300.

403-347-6466

1640

SHELVING unit, 5 shelves $50; filing cabinet, 4 drawers legal size, $20.

403-347-6466

ACKLAND 225 ARC WELDER. Incl. helmet & stand. $150. 403-782-6050 NEW 18V cordless 3 tool drill, w/charger, light, saw, $80; new in box utility super winch w/remote, 2000 lb. $65 403-887-4981 OLD BEAVER TABLE SAW, $60. 403-782-6050 SCROLL Saw, 16” variable speed. Model #55-6721.

Hardly used. $100.

403-343-2419 SKILL SAW, in case. Light duty; $20; Long metal tool box, 32”x9”x9”, grey; $10; Very nice Catelevered Tool box with sockets, wrenches, etc. $50.

403-358-7678

In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

NEW pair size 10 safety boots with liner $60 403-887-4981

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

For afternoon delivery once per week

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3010

Acreages/ Farms

QUIET farm house, 20 min. to R.D. or Sylvan. No kids, no outdoor pets, ref’s req’d. Oct. 1. 403-347-1526

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

4 BDRM. 2 1/2 bath, 5 appls, garage $1695 mo.

403-782-7156 or 357-7465 4 BDRM. Oriole Park, 2.5 baths, dble. garage, lg. lot, fenced, new flooring, new baths, fireplace, rec. rm, slate pool table. $1650.

403-885-5046, 506-8577 INGLEWOOD, 187B Isherwood Cl. Quite lower unit 1/2 duplex. Upgraded exec. style. $1100 + utils. 2 bdrm. 6 appls. $500 d.d.

Fenced, 2 car off-street parking pad. N/S, no pets.

Ground level enclosed entrance.Oct. 1. Call Laura 403-755-1744 PARTIALLY reno’d beautiful house $650/mo. or rent to own with down payment.

Call Gary 403-884-2411 SYLVAN LAKE private 1 bdrm., light housekeeping, bedding, dishes, cable incld’s all utils. $700./mo.

403-880-0210

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and rapidly expanding company.

General labourers

are needed to do framing, cleaning, reinforcing, pouring and other precast related jobs. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Benefits are paid and lots of overtime.

Own transportation to work is needed. Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

SHOP HELPER required for busy HVAC company.

E-MAIL resume to: info@ comfortecheating.com or fax: 403-309-8302 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

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

Manufactured Homes

3040

SINGLE bed in a bag $10; Newly Reno’d Mobile microfibre sheet set (sin- FREE Shaw Cable + more gle) $10; flannel single $950/month sheet set $5; single mat- Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 tress pad $5; safety wood gate $8 403-505-6612

3050

4 Plexes/

S O N Y s o u n d s u r r o u n d 6 Plexes system, 30” GE self cleaning range, Admiral white NEWLY reno’d 3 bdrm. 4 f r i d g e , K e n m o r e c h e s t plex in Oriole Park. 4 appls. freezer, Sony boom box; fenced yard. Avail. immed.

20” RCA flat screen tv, $950. 403-309-7355 Kenmore microwave, Pioneer component stereo system; birch bookshelf w/6 shelves, 2 dark cherry Suites bookshelves; full size Raven toolbox 403-304-0072 1 & 2 BDRM at 5910-55 Ave., Riverside Meadows in 12 suiter, security cameras, private parking, balcony, Cats laundry on site, no pets, no partiers, to over 35 year SIAMESE (1), Farmers' old quiet tenant. Rent/S.D. (1) Balinese $800 for 1bdrm†& $950 for Market (3) BURMAN kittens.

2 bdrm. Ph: 403-341-4627 $40/ea.

1 BDRM. apt. avail.

CERTIFIED organic lamb, 403-887-3649 Immed. $750 plus power, cut and wrapped, ready for 403-872-3400 freezer, 403-304-0149 Sporting LACOMBE 2 bdrm. $895 FREE range pork, no anti403-782-7156 403-357-7465 biotics, growth hormones Goods or animal bi-products in LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. feed, halves or wholes @ SUITES. 25+, adults only $2.30/lb. + processing n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 costs. Processing Sept. & Oct. To order 780-385-2474 or www. sunrisefarm.ca 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852 Firewood BODY Solid equip. Pd. QUIET LOCATION $1800. Asking $800 obo., 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

Exc. cond. 403-597-3958 AFFORDABLE Heat/water/parking incl.

Cash Only Homestead Firewood Call 403-342-2899 Browning BAR (Belgian) .

Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 300 Win Mag, c/w sling & 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Leupold mount/rings. $750 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, obo 403-340-6865 Poplar. Can deliver 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 GOLF CLUBS, Precision N/S. No pets. $25. 403-347-6466 403-596-2444 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, LADIES set of golf clubs YOU LOOKING? tamarack, poplar.

Slazenger Dynasty Pro 1 & 2 bdrm., clean, quiet.

Price depends on location. model $150 403-598-5576 Heat/water/parking incl.

Lil Mule Logging Call 403-342-2899 403-318-4346 Collectors' Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner Roommates BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Items Wanted del. Lyle 403-783-2275 BELLE FIORE DISHES Huge collection.

STUDENTS or singles Garden Platters, coffee mugs, cups, West Park Apt. 2 bdrms., plates, bowls, etc.

Supplies kitchen, bath & laundry $200 obo. 403-343-7489 shared, $600. ea. bdrm., 403-391-7940 COLORADO BLUE Classifieds...costs so little SPRUCE 6’-20’ , equipSaves you so much! ment for digging, wrapping, basketing, hauling and Travel planting. J/V Tree Farm.

John 403-350-6439.

Packages

3060

1830

THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

MORRISROE MANOR

1660

THE NORDIC

1870

Household Furnishings

1720

B A R S TO O L S , ( 2 ) l i k e new, light brown, swivel. $40. ea. 403-347-7893, or Cell 403-598-3104 BUNK Bed, single & dble. wooden w/mattresses; WEEKEND dispatchers $750; Entertainment unit, req’d. immediately. $300. 403-896-9416 Knowledge of Red Deer CHAIRS, 2 large comfy essential. Will require good chairs with ottomans. verbal and written commuBeige. FREE! nication skills. Fax resume 403-896-9416 to 403-346-0295 COUCH, brown IKEA. Corner model. FREE! 403-896-9416 DOUBLE WIDE MATTRESS & BOXSPRING WITH FRAME $100.

403-346-0674 or 392-5657 ROUND oak kitchen table, single pedestal, 4 chairs, leaf, good cond, $100 SOLD SIM’S Burgundy Leather Reclining Sofa. Exc. cond.

Paid $2500. Asking $700.

403-343-6187

OPERATOR 2 POSITION

WANTED

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt,

3080

1680

1900

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

2 ROOMS furnished Highland Green. 403-342-4604 MOUNTVIEW: Avail fully furn bdrm for rent. $550/$275.† Working/Student M only. †Call 403-396-2468.

3140

Warehouse Space

4020

Houses For Sale

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

MOVE IN TODAY

4 Brand New Homes *1500 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *1400 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *1335 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *1320 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage Call Kyle Lygas 403-588-2550 $10,000 Move-In Allowance MASON MARTIN HOMES

UP to $5000 paid to you 1 LIGHT industrial bay when you buy through us.

1143 sq. ft., one 10 x 12 www.resonecashROC.com overhead door, one man 403-358-9999 door, concrete floor/walls, Residential One located Northland Business Center. $1450/mo.

Call Cathy 403-318-2992

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION Red Deer 6th Annual Fall Finale Westerner Park Indoors Sept 20 & 21 Consign your vehicle today 888-296-0528 ext. 102 EGauctions.com

5030

Cars

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

3190

Mobile Lot

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

WANT some help with mortgage?

Single parents, seniors, first time home owners looking for a house that you can get help with the mortgage or leave to go south for winter? This DEER PARK completely reno’d bungalow with a

4010

downstairs private entrance, separate laundry, 2 car garage, including mostly all newer appls, up and down. Avail. immed. Remember mortgage institutions do consider income from a legal suite. Currently have exc. tenant downstairs that expressed interest in staying. $335,000 403-340-3370

Condos/ Townhouses

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

4020

BIG VALLEY Only $20,000 3 bdrm. on nice large treed lot. Water, sewer, garbage Good terms avail. Owner Dave 780-475-2897

BOWER bi-level fully dev.

3 bdrm., 3 bath. large rec. room, can possibly add an extra bdrm. Desirable upgrades throughout. Corner lot w/det. 15x24 heated workshop. RV parking.

OPEN HOUSE - 94 Boyce St. 1 - 5 pm. Sat./Sun. Sept., 14 & 15. 350-1690 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

www.laebon.com

Acreages

2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

4040

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550 ONE LEFT!

Houses For Sale

2011 VW Diesel Jetta Diesel, 6 spd., highline model. Loaded, new winter X-Ice Tires, 68,000 km, warranty. $22,500. 403-588-6294

legal suite

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3030

Condos/ Townhouses

1860

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

3090

Rooms For Rent

1650

To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS

2006 Jetta TDI 73,699 km $16,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

4050

2001/5 BR/3 Bath/ Ranch style bungalow , ICF Block, att. 28 x 33 heated garage; 40 x 48-2bay heated shop; 30 x 40 barn;X fenced;East Of Lacombe HWY #815/ TWP RD 410 $879,900 Call or Text 403-391-0383/www.

33acreslacombecountyab. com

APPROX. 30 ACRES 20 minutes to Lacombe, 30 minutes to Stettler.

1/2 mile off Hwy 12.

Creek & excellent building site.

Call 403-747-2168

2005 Audi S4 6 spd. Mint, 94,661 km. Sport & Import 7652-50 Ave 403-348-8788 1999 CHEVY MALIBU 4 dr., V6, auto, loaded. Asking $1295. SOLD 1997 LEXUS needs TLC but runs well $2000 obo 403-886-2358 1997 HONDA, 5 spd., 2 dr., very clean. 403-318-3040 1994 FORD T-Bird, 2 dr., loaded. clean. 352-6995

VIEW 4090 ALL OUR PRODUCTS

Manufactured Homes

1997 MODULINE INDUSTRIES 16x80. $49,500. Call for photo’s. 403-358-8933

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

at www.garymoe.com

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Laebon Homes 346-7273

Locally owned and family operated

Open House

5040

SUV's

Directory

Tour These Fine Homes Out Of Red Deer

4310

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Sat. & Sun. Sept. 14 & 15 1 pm - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

Out Of Red Deer

2010 JEEP Grand Cherokee $21,000. 403-598-4131 or 403-358-4131

4310

SERGE’S HOMES Mackenzie Ranch 58 Mackenzie Cres.

LACOMBE Thurs. & Fri. Sept. 12 & 13 2 pm - 5 pm Custom 2 storey 1392 sq. ft. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

2008 SANTA FE. Basically loaded. Set of winter tires, on rims. 161,000 km. $11,500 obo. 403-848-1377

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Livestock

2100

2 LAYING HENS, $15. ea.

403-346-7825 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Poultry

2130

HERITAGE chickens, 1 rooster, 4 hens $50 403-746-3604

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Caregivers

1060

LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT as a caregiver for seniors.

I am exp. 403-885-1880 or Fern at 403-309-3300

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

LOAD-M-UP Trailer Rentals

Cargo & Dump Trailer’s, Daily, Weekly & Monthly Rentals, Delivery & PickUp Avail. Daily Rents starting at $49.95. Call or Text:† 403-391-9329 Email:† loadmup@telus.net

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Seniors’ VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning Pampering at its Stereos Services Cleaning & Repairs.

BEST! Horses TV's, VCRs Reasonable rates. 340-9368 VINYL SIDING CLEANING 403-986-6686 HELPING HANDS Home Eaves Trough Cleaned, PANASONIC, T.V., older Come in and see WANTED: all types of Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Windows Cleaned.

Pckg. model. 35``. Works well. horses. Processing locally Companionship, cleaning, why we are the talk Pricing. 403-506-4822 Escorts FREE! 403-887-1849 in Lacombe weekly. cooking - in home, in facility. of the town.

403-651-5912 We are BETTER for PS1 w/10 games $60; LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* www.viimassage.biz CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777 XBox 360 games $10/ea.;

is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position.

1070

2140

1730

The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties.

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

1372

1165

Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

403-782-3847 SONY stereo $50 obo 403-782-3847 Wii w/accessories and 7 games $160 obo 403-782-3847

Application Closing Date: Sept. 12, 2013.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Misc. for Sale

317698I8

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

BENJAMIN MOORE, deck & siding stain, ext. wood.

Natural color, Alkyd semi transparent. 3 cans, 3.79 L ea. $48. each.

403-346-7825

SWEATERS, (approx. 300) from Peru. All colors, sz. MASTER CHEF ELECTRIC 0 - 8, all unique. wholesale BARBECUE & COVER price $21. ea. Easily sold Very good cond. Asking $75. at $39. ea. 403-845-3501 403-358-7678

INNISFAIL

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403) 747-2660 email: mlyle@rahr.com

1760

8 DOZEN canning jars + accessories $50 403-598-5576

(across from Totem)

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Misc. for Sale

SAFETY

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

BOWER AREA

in GLENDALE Gilbert Cres. & Glendale Blvd.

ALSO Greig Dr. & Gish St. ALSO Grimson & Goodall Ave.

Employment Training

278950A5

880

Misc.

Help

1760

1 BIKE HELMET $20.

NEVER WORN. ****SOLD***

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

HAY, no rain. Orchard Grass, Alfalfa, Brome. $60./bale, negotiable.

403-302-7477, 343-2058 TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 WILL do Custom Baling.

JD round net or string wrap.

403-342-0891 or 340-9111

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BOBCAT & Sodding, Seeding & Landscaping services, 14 Years Exper.

403-588-4503

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or Ron 403-318-3804

INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Window Cleaning

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822

Yard Care Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving central AB. 403-318-4346

1420 1430

SECOND 2 NONE Fall cleanup, eavestrough, cut grass/hedges, odd jobs 403-302-7778

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013

5040

SUV's

2008 BMW X5 4.8i. Pano Roof, Nav, DVD 67,566 km $36,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

2008 BMW X5 3.0 $31,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2008 Acura MDX tech pkg 79,851 km $26,888 AS&I 7652-50 Ave 403-348-8788

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE $25,888 Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave 403-348-8788

Trucks

5050

2010 Toyota Tacoma

4x4 black with grey interior 4 cyl. 4 spd. Clean, great cond. 59,500 kms.

REDUCED $21,500 Call 403-396-5516

Motorhomes

5100

1995 PINNACLE Class A 32’ Blue Ox tow pkg. very good value 403-986-2004

5110

Fifth Wheels

U.S. strike averted?

DIPLOMATS MOVE TO SECURE SYRIA’S CHEMICAL WEAPONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Key international players were moving on two diplomatic fronts Wednesday to try to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, and a fresh effort appeared to be underway to get the government and opposition to peace talks.

The five veto-wielding members of the Security Council, who have been deeply divided over Syria, met late Wednesday to discuss what to include in a new resolution requiring that Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile be secured and dismantled. They later left Russia’s UN mission without commenting.

At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were heading to Geneva with teams of experts for broader-ranging talks Thursday about the nuts and bolts of putting Syria’s chemical weapons under international control and destroying them, diplomats said.

The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, was also heading to Geneva to be available to meet Kerry and Lavrov, whose efforts to start peace talks to end the 2 ½-year Syrian conflict have been stymied by a government offensive and a deadly suspected poison gas attack on Aug. 21.

The diplomatic flurry follows the threat of U.S. strikes against President Bashar Assad’s regime and a surprise offer from Kerry that Syria could avert U.S. military action by turning over “every single bit of his chemi-

cal weapons” to international control within a week. Russia, Syria’s most important ally, and Assad’s government quickly agreed on the broad proposal, but details still need to be worked out.

A senior UN diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because contacts have been private, said Thursday’s meeting between Kerry and Lavrov will be an exploratory session to gauge whether they can embark on “the herculean task” of dismantling Syria’s chemical weapons while the country is at war.

While serious differences have already emerged — especially on whether a UN resolution should be militarily enforceable as the U.S. and its Western allies are demanding — the diplomatic moves represent the first major effort in more than a year to try to get supporters of the Syrian government and opposition on the same page.

Russia and China have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to end the conflict, which has left the UN’s most powerful body paralyzed as the war escalates and the death toll surpasses 100,000. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier this week called the council’s paralysis embarrassing.

“What the secretary-general has been pressing for is the Security Council to come to a united decision,” UN associate spokesman Farhan Haq said Wednesday. “It’s crucially important at this late stage of the war that they come together and take some action that can prevent both the problems regarding the use of chemical weapons and the

wider problem of solving this conflict.”

The White House said Wednesday it is not putting a timeline on a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Syria, though Press Secretary Jay Carney said putting Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, “obviously will take some time.”

France has proposed a draft resolution that demands Syria’s chemical weapons be put under international control and dismantled. It also condemns the Aug. 21 chemical attack the Obama administration says killed 1,400 people and calls for the perpetrators to be sent to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. Submitted under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which makes it enforceable militarily, it warns of “very serious consequences” if Syria does not comply.

Lavrov immediately rejected any resolution under Chapter 7 and proposed a weaker presidential statement instead, a move rejected by the U.S., Britain and France.

A French official close to President Francois Hollande said Russia objected not only to making the resolution militarily enforceable, but also to blaming the alleged chemical attack on the Syrian government and demanding that those responsible be taken before the International Criminal Court, the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal.

Lavrov said Moscow had already handed over to the U.S. its plan for putting Syria’s chemical arsenal under international control, according to comments carried by the Inter-fax news agency. He gave no details, but said he would discuss the proposal with Kerry on Thursday.

Satellite image suggests NKorea nuclear reactor restarting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

2013 Monte Carlo 38’ winterized, queen bed, 2 furnaces, 3 slides, 5 appls. loaded, immac. $43,000.

306-450-0971 in Stettler.

1995 OKANAGAN 22.5’ Asking $7500.00 403-342-0250

Holiday Trailers

5120

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WASHINGTON — A recent satellite image appears to show North Korea is restarting a plutonium reactor, in a move that could raise renewed international alarm over its nuclear weapons program, a U.S. research institute said Wednesday.

The 5 megawatt reactor at the Nyongbyon nuclear facility was shuttered in 2007 under the terms of a disarmament agreement.

Pyongyang announced plans in April to restart it amid a litany of threats toward the U.S. and South Korea after it faced tougher international censure over its latest nuclear and rocket tests.

North Korea has since toned down its rhetoric and stepped up diplomacy with rival South Korea, but Wednesday’s finding by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies is a sign that the regime of Kim Jong Un is pressing ahead with its nuclear program.

Without access to the secretive facility, it is difficult to say with certainty that the reactor has restarted, but the institute says an Aug. 31 commercial satellite image shows white steam rising from a building next to the reactor. The building houses steam turbines and electric generators that are driven by heat generated by the reactor. The colour and volume of the steam is consistent with the electrical generating system being readied to come online, indicating that the reactor is in or nearing operation, the institute says.

The analysis was written by Jeffrey Lewis and Nick Hansen and provided to The Associated Press ahead of publication on the institute’s website, 38 North.

When North Korea announced its plans in April, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that restarting the plutonium reactor would be “extremely alarming” but added: “There’s a long way to go between a stated intention and actually being able to pull it off.”

Department spokesman for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Jason Rebholz, said Wednesday that North Korea’s nuclear program remains a matter of “serious concern.”

Rebholz reiterated the call for Pyongyang to comply with its previous commitments and abandon all nuclear weapons and nuclear programs. He did not directly address the reactor report, saying the department does not comment on intelligence matters.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service also said it could not confirm the reactor report because it involves confidential intelligence.

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A protesting teacher carries a cross with a sign showing the initials of his teacher’s union, the National Education Workers Coordinator (CNTE), during a march against education reform in Mexico City on Wednesday.

Striking teachers decry plan to break union control of education system

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Thousands of striking teachers seized two of Mexico City’s central thoroughfares on a double-pronged march to the president’s residence Wednesday, spawning choking knots of traffic chaos after definitively losing their battle to block new educational reforms less than 24 hours earlier.

The teachers disrupted the centre of one of the world’s largest cities for at least the 14th time in two months, decrying a plan that tries to break union control of Mexico’s dysfunctional education system by requiring regular standardized teacher evaluations.

President Enrique Pena Nieto dashed the teachers’ hopes of blocking the overhaul when he signed the new testing system into law Tuesday. But the protests seem to be morphing into a near-daily feature of life in many Mexican cities, a form of political theatre increasingly independent of the struggle that triggered them in the first place.

The teachers say blocking the reform itself is no longer the point. They say they have launched a new phase of trying to maintain pressure to protect their rights and privileges as the government puts the labour reforms into effect and reduces union control over teacher hiring and assignment.

In the car-addicted capital, the protests have become a regular part of morning traffic reports. The seemingly endless series of disruption is fueling increasing anger from

many Mexico City residents spending hours more than expected on their commutes and work routines.

“This hurts a lot of people. It creates more unemployment and hurts small businesses like us,” said Faustino Gregorio Sotero, who runs an oil-change and car-repair business facing Constituyentes Avenue, one of Mexico City’s main east-west thoroughfares. The avenue was empty of its usual heavy traffic Wednesday morning as thousands of teachers gathered on both sides of the six-lane boulevard to prepare to march to the gates of the park that surrounds the presidential residence, Los Pinos.

Teachers also blocked highways and city centres in at least 15 other Mexican states in response to calls for a national day of protests led by the National Education Workers Coordinating Committee, or CNTE, the smaller of the country’s two main teachers unions. The larger union has supported Pena Nieto’s reform.

The teachers say their tactics aren’t meant to win the sympathy of Mexico City residents.

Because Mexico’s elite control the levers of government power and the media, they say, it would be pointless to appeal to popular opinion through less-disruptive protests.

The powerful will only listen to power, they say, and the teachers’ main power is their ability to shut schools and make life inconvenient in the heart of Mexico’s economic, political and cultural life.

Suicide bombings hit Egyptian military in Sinai border town

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EL-ARISH, Egypt — In near-simultaneous attacks, a pair of suicide bombers rammed their explosives-laden cars into military targets in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing at least nine soldiers and nudging the conflict there closer to a fullblown insurgency.

The bombings in the town of Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip appear to be a deadly response by insurgents to a military crackdown on their north Sinai hideouts that has reportedly left over three dozen dead.

Suicide attacks are a new element in the wave of political violence triggered initially by the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on July 3, and intensified by a violent crackdown on his supporters’ protest camps. They suggest that al-Qaidainspired groups may be developing a new capability to strike at security and other targets, both in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt.

One of the two bombings in the town of Rafah brought down a two-story building housing the local branch of military intelligence. It collapsed the entire structure, two security officials said, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to

talk to the media. They said no bodies were found under the rubbles, but the attack left 10 soldiers and seven civilians, three of them women, wounded.

The second attack targeted an armoured personnel carrier at an army checkpoint not far from the intelligence headquarters, the officials added.

The officials said the remains of the two suicide bombers have been recovered. The officials gave a death toll of nine for both attacks but did not say how many were killed in each.

“The use of car bombs and suicide attacks in a new turn,” military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali told The Associated Press. He said the bombings appear to be revenge for the Sinai offensive, which he said hurt the militants by destroying weapons and ammunition caches.

“This will not stop us, but will increase our determination to confront terrorism,” he said.

The attacks come less than a week after a suicide car bombing targeted the convoy of Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police, shortly after he left his east Cairo home. Ibrahim escaped unharmed but a civilian was killed.

One of the al-Qaida-inspired groups based

in Sinai, Ansar Jerusalem, later claimed responsibility for that bombing. The claim was never verified. If true, it would be the first time a Sinai-based group carried a suicide attack in the heart of Cairo.

These three bombings, plus another one in Sinai last month, are the first in Egypt since the 2011 uprising that overthrew longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

The conflict in the Sinai adds to Egypt’s woes as it struggles to regain political stability and economic viability.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Wednesday’s attacks. Col. Ali said it was still early to determine which group or groups carried it out.

However, Ansar Jerusalem issued a statement Wednesday claiming responsibility for three other recent attacks on the military.

In a statement, the group blasted Egypt’s military for conducting “a dirty war, deputizing all anti-Islam forces in and outside Egypt, especially the Jews.” The group has ties to militants in the Gaza Strip, and has claimed in the past attacks on Israel.

The military offensive came after a series of deadly attacks against troops, notably the Aug. 19 killing of 25 off-duty policemen who were pulled off mini-buses and shot, with their hands tied behind their backs.

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HOROSCOPES Thursday, Sept. 12 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jason Statham, 46; Paul Walker, 40; Emmy Rossum, 27 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today, the Moon continues to be under the Archer’s influence, which will bring enlightening energy to us all. We seek exploring foreign territory and entering into contact with people of various backgrounds and cultures. We are in the quest for truth. We question our existence in this world. The Moon makes a stressful aspect to the Sun, denoting an imbalance between our needs and wants. The outdoors and all types of sports are highly favoured by the sky today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is ASTRO your birthday, you will have either DOYNA the need or desire to relocate elsewhere in a more spacious or more comfortable place. The changes you undertake this year might not necessarily correspond to what you have initially wanted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With a bit of tact and delicacy, you can manage to straighten out a common agreement involving a mate or a child. You are enthusiastic and perhaps too impatient to finally put your strategic plans into action.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Whatever type of alliance you align yourself with now, it has to be trustworthy and reliable.

You won’t settle down for anything less than that. You are in a phase where you both are planning to realize big dreams for your future, perhaps even surreal ones.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A joint venture may not go as you have planned today. There is a sense of strain in the air due to the imbalance of your wills and wishes. You may be forced to go the extra mile in order to make a few sacrifices along the way for the sake of compromise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are experiencing a lack of balance between your personal needs and your selfexpression. Conversations may prove erratic and unreliable.

Pay special attention to your health as digestive upsets may be common during this time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your need for self expression and individuality may suffer as a consequence of a lack of suf-

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the performance.

Afterward, I found the usher and thanked her.

Then I wrote the box office manager and the theater owners and asked that they please stop selling this seat.

I haven’t heard back. — Don’t Stick a Broadway Baby in a Corner Dear Baby: Most theaters have at least one horrible seat, but it’s hard to know that when you purchase at the last minute, especially when those tickets are discounted.

There’s a reason those are the seats that are left.

Good for you for speaking up and finding a kind usher willing (and able) to seat you elsewhere.

Dear Annie: “Still Waiting” complained that few people reciprocate dinner invitations anymore.

Since moving to an active senior community two years ago, my husband and I have hosted about 18 dinners in our home, everything from casual suppers to large parties.

Reciprocation in these friends’ homes has been rare, but we don’t care.

We’ve enjoyed every one of the meals.

We don’t have special cooking skills, and hosting a dinner takes time and effort, but it’s fun and has the added advantage of cozy chats that don’t happen in a noisy restaurant. — W. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ficient funds or wealth. You may believe that your earnings do not do justice to your self-esteem. Don’t let your finances get out of hand today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stress may stem from your family unit or a close relationship with a female relative. Your sense of purpose and intent in life is being challenged by your domestic emotional pressures. Your sense of self may suffer as a result of this.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your attention is fully channelled towards matters pertaining to your household items, your belongings and issues such as safety and security. You want to make long-term investments or even acquire a necessity good for the long haul.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t take opposing views to heart. Others will disagree with your personal objectives in life and that doesn’t means that they have to agree entirely with you. A monetary crisis may give you a few grey hairs.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may need to sacrifice your personal life in order to meet career demands. You don’t tend to lose faith in yourself easily and today should be no exception. Keep your morale high and don’t let yourself get swept away in today’s mayhem.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A clearer picture unveils itself to you once you take deep look inside yourself. There is no roundabout route when it comes to analyzing your potential or your ability to evolve as long a sit is based on the truth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are somewhat worried about your partner’s financial situation as it might not look that pretty. If you normally rely on their help for financial assistance, think again. In your usual crowd of friends, you may feel somewhat of an outsider.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The more you tend to get closer to your sweetheart, the more you realize that you do not share common goals. At your job, you might need to adjust yourself more than before. Some necessary changes won’t be easy to manoeuvre.

WASHINGTON — New research suggests it might be possible to spot early signs of multiple sclerosis in patients’ spinal fluid, findings that offer a new clue about how this mysterious disease forms.

The study released Tuesday was small and must be verified by additional research. But if it pans out, the finding suggests scientists should take a closer look at a different part of the brain than is usually linked to MS. “It really tells us that MS may be affecting more parts of the brain much earlier than we anticipated,” said Timothy Coetzee, chief research officer at the National MS Society. Coetzee wasn’t involved with the new study.

Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that causes varying symptoms — numbness and tingling in one person, impaired walking and vision loss in another — that often wax and wane.

There are treatments but no cure. Doctors don’t know what causes MS, just that it occurs when the protective insulation, called myelin, that coats nerve fibers is gradually destroyed, leaving behind tough scar tissue.

That short-circuits messages from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.

But because brain scans can have trouble spotting early damage, it’s hard to tell whether someone experiencing initial symptoms really is developing MS and thus should start treatment.

The new study used spinal fluid as an alternative window into the brain to examine those first attacks.

Dr. Steven Schutzer of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School analyzed spinal fluid stored from nine patients who had experienced early symptoms that turned out to be MS. Using a special high-powered technology, he uncovered a small cluster of proteins that was unique to those first attacks.

Compared with spinal fluid from healthy people and from a dozen MS patients who’ve had the disease longer, that signature distinguished the early patients, Schutzer reported in the journal PLoS One. If larger studies prove the value of these potential markers, doctors one day might do a quick spinal tap to test for them in people with early symptoms, said Dr. Patricia Coyle of Stony Brook University in New York, an MS specialist who co-authored the study.

Today, doctors occasionally do spinal taps on possible MS patients, but they’re looking for different substances that can signal an autoimmune disease, not specifically MS.

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Dear Annie: My dad’s cousin, bien can come in different colors, “John,” is an internist from an- depending on the dosage. other state.

We assume these are sample During my younger sister’s drugs that John happens to have wedding weekend, Dr. John stayed handy. with us.

The real issue is that your famTwo days before the wedding, ily is eager to take advantage of my sister was stressed John’s ability to proand couldn’t sleep. vide such medication John offered her Amfor free and without bien. needing to see their The pill was blue regular physician. and in a blister pack.

They have the opHe gave her two, even tion not to follow his though the label states advice or take what he you shouldn’t take offers, but they prefer them unless you can the convenience. get six hours of sleep.

Dear Annie: You’ve My sister absolutely printed letters about didn’t have time for theater and concert that. patrons who stand up MITCHELL I have a prescripor squash you in your & SUGAR tion for Ambien, and seat. it’s white.

I have a better one.

I have no idea what I sat in the worst seat John gave my sister. on Broadway. I underAt the hairdresser’s the next stand “obstructed view.” day, she was totally zoned out.

This was NO view.

Isn’t it wrong for physicians to disI was in the front row. pense such medications without a All I could see was a staircase prescription? and the backs of actors who were There have been several inci- seated in chairs on stage. I was dents in the past where John has brokenhearted. given prescription medications to I found an usher at intermismy family members without see- sion and demanded to be seated ing them. elsewhere.

He once sent my dad expired She told me this is what hapointments for a rash that turned pens when you buy discount tickout to be shingles. ets at the last minute.

When my mother had pneumoBut she took me to the last row nia, he told her to take flu medica- of the theater and said, “This way tion. you can see the terrific part with He didn’t examine them, nor the mirror.” I gasped, “There’s a did he write a prescription. mirror?!”

What do you think I should do?

The second act was great, al— Furious and Concerned though I had to ask the people Dear Furious: First of all, Am- next to me to stop texting during

Early signs of MS may float in spinal fluid: study

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