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Fas Gas robbed again THIEVES HIT WEST PARK STATION FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Students, staff and some parents took to the playing field at Oriole Park Elementary School in Red Deer on Wednesday for the annual Terry Fox School Run. With each runner contributing a toonie, physical education teacher Del Lomsnes said the school would bring in about $500 for the campaign. Other schools in Central Alberta are taking part in runs to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society this week, too.

Winter Inn shuttered LACK OF FUNDING BLAMED

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The Winter Inn program in Red Deer that has kept homeless people safe and warm will not operate this winter.

Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing did not get its usual funding from the Community Housing Advisory Board to run Winter Inn. “Winter Inn is not a go,” said Tricia Haggarty-Roberts, assistant executive director with Safe Harbour, on Wednesday.

“However, Safe Harbour is committed to finding solutions that will work within the community, be respectful of the community and respectful of the clientele to make sure they’re safe.”

On Tuesday night, the advisory board made its final decision on the funding.

Safe Harbour Society previously received $110,000 to run the Winter Inn from about November to April.

The money comes from the province but is allocated by the advisory board.

To deal with homelessness, the province is focusing on permanent housing rather than shelters. Safe Harbour agrees with this direction, but recognizes that shelter beds are necessary to serve people in emergency situations and to assist people waiting for permanent housing. Shelters also help to reduce the impact on other services like police, emergency services and hospital, the organization says.

“Our issue at the moment is a lack of permanent affordable housing in the community so our shelters are bogged down,” Haggarty-Roberts said.

Last season, 326 different people used Winter Inn, located on the main floor of Loaves and Fishes, at 6002 54th Ave., in partnership with Safe Harbour.

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Humans to blame for most forest fires

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The main cause of forest fires in the West Country is human activity.

Three of the 90 wildfires so far in the Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management Area were the result of agricultural activity, one from forestry, seven from oil and gas, and seven from the power line industry. Five wildfires were caused by lightning, 34 were the result of recreation, residents caused 13

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Fifteen fires are still under investigation, including a fire near Nordegg.

The number of fires in the wildfire management area was about average at 90 so far this fire season.

With a total of 3,958 acres burned in the area, the amount of land affected was less than usual this season, said Barry Shellian, fire information officer for the management area that stretches east to Rocky Mountain House, west to the national parks, north to Pembina River and south to the Sundre area.

After the third armed robbery of a Fas Gas in two weeks, Parkland Fuel Corporation is taking a look at its security and safety measures for their retail locations.

Late Tuesday night the West Park Fas Gas in Red Deer was the site of another armed robbery after Red Deer RCMP said a man and a woman stole lighters, while the man threatened to kill the clerk.

Police allege the woman stole a couple of lighters, bought another one and then left. The Contributed photo by the RCMP man then entered the store, stole a An image of a suspect lighter and as he captured on the store’s was about to leave, security camera. pulled a baton from his sleeve and threatened to kill the employee. The two then fled the gas station in a silver Pontiac Grand Am. RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen said no money was taken and no one was injured.

This was the second time in two weeks the West Park Fas Gas was the scene of an armed robbery.

The first one, on Sept. 11, left a clerk severely injured.

Police said a man entered the store, produced a sawed-off shotgun and after the clerk handed him money, shot Jaysen Arancon Reyes in the face and hands. Reyes is in Calgary hospital recovering from his injuries.

A third armed robbery at a Fas Gas took place in Okotoks on last Friday where the suspect approached the clerk behind the counter and stabbed the employee.

Tom McMillan, Parkland Fuel Corporation spokesperson, said they are hip deep in the investigation of the shooting incident on top of the other two robberies.

“We’ve gone from pretty much no incidents whatsoever for a very long time to three incidents in two weeks,” said McMillan. “We have our health, safety and environment people very much involved in the investigation.”

He said the safety and security measures Parkland Fuel Corporation have in place follow Canadian industry standards.

“I think it is natural to feel shaken in this. We are going to look at our practices, we are going to look at if we did everything right, did everybody follow procedure,” said McMillan.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Greg Matters and Ryan Seguin met in battle school in 1995, both fresh-faced young soldiers keen to serve their country.

Together they learned the military trade, grew up, became best friends. Matters stood beside Seguin at his wedding as his best man, and he was the godfather of Seguin’s children.

On Wednesday, Warrant Officer Seguin handed Memorial Cross medals to the mother and sister of his comrade-in-arms, who died in a confrontation with RCMP on his rural property near Prince George, B.C., a year ago.

Matters was in treatment at the time for post-traumatic stress disorder, and his death focused attention on the struggles of current and former soldiers who have served in conflict zones overseas.

“We did everything together through our military career,” Seguin said after the ceremony and after meeting his best friends’ family for the first time.

Seguin said he believes Matters really began to struggle after a back injury he suffered in Bosnia prevented him from training to take part in Canada’s combat mission in Afghanistan.

“I never realized it was post-traumatic stress,” Seguin said. “I think that’s when he started having the symptoms but all I could figure at the time was that, I just thought he was embarrassed and ashamed that he wasn’t able to do the training with us and go to Afghanistan with us.”

Matters served in the Canadian Forces for 15 years, and Seguin said he was glad to finally meet his friend’s family.

“Every evening we’ve sat around and I’ve told them some of our funny stories that we experienced together,” he said. “Letting them know what a good friend and fun soldier he was.”

For several years, Matters’s family noticed his struggles but by the time an RCMP emergency response team was sent out to his home last September, he was in treatment for PTSD. The Memorial Cross is awarded for soldiers whose deaths are linked to their military service, and Matters’s sister, Tracey Matters, said the medal is an acknowledgment to the family that PTSD was a major contributing factor in her brother’s death.

“As a family, we are grateful to the Canadian government for recognizing the sacrifice that Greg, and our family, have made,” she said in an email.

She said the family hopes his death may spur changes that will help other soldiers.

“We believe it is time for Canada to recognize its ‘Unknown Fallen,’ the men and women who are injured physically and psychologically by military service, and who, when they are discharged, continue to struggle and suffer,” Tracey Matters said.

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St. Patrick’s School Grade 4 student Rylan Campeau digs a hole as City of Red Deer urban forester Elaine Johnson steadies a tree outside the school on Wednesday. Students from G.H. Dawe School and St. Pat’s spent part of their afternoon planting 14 trees in the school yards as they celebrated National Tree Day. The Red Tatarian Maple trees, purchased with a $2,500 donation from Home Hardware and Tree Canada, will help to shade the school grounds and provide shelter for birds.

National Tree Day takes place annually during National Forest Week, providing the opportunity for all Canadians to appreciate the benefits that trees provide.

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ROBBERY: Two people charged in shooting

FIRES: Flames threatened Nordegg in the spring

Two people have been charged in the shooting.

Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 31, of no fixed address faces attempted murder and robbery with a weapon charges, while Eric Michael Ayotte, 29, of no fixed address is charged with using a sawed-off shotgun to commit a robbery.

Police describe the two suspects from the Tuesday robbery as a female aboriginal between the ages of 25 and 30 with dark hair, wearing a camouflage jacket and thick rimmed glasses, and a male Caucasian between the ages of 20 and 25 wearing a ball cap and dark jacket. He has a thin beard along the jaw line and circular tattoos bordering his face.

If anyone has any information about this incident they are asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-

Flames threatened Nordegg this spring and forced the evacuation of the hamlet. Nordegg residents were evacuated for six days just prior to the May long weekend.

The fire, located 1.5 km from the hamlet, was held at 740 acres.

In July 2006, Nordegg was evacuated for four days when a 311-acre fire, two km southeast of Nordegg, threatened the community.

Shellian said the wildfire hazard is currently high.

“The forecasted weekend weather means there’s going to be strong winds. With the seasonal drying of the forest and the strong winds, folks should know to be especially cautious about wildfire,” Shellian said.

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Last season there were 1,239 wildfires that burned 838,905 acres.

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INN: No money Safe Harbour also runs People’s Place emergency shelter for 23 adults in the basement of Loaves and Fishes, and operates Mats overnight shelter for 20 adults who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol at 5246 53rd Ave. Haggarty-Roberts said the Community Housing Advisory Board has allowed Safe Harbour to keep $22,000 in surplus funds to assist the homeless, but the money cannot be used to recreate another Winter Inn. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘We place today in the hands of tomorrow’ PENNIES, PICTURES, PREDICTIONS AMONG ITEMS SEALED IN ALBERTA 2112 TIME CAPSULE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta legislature Speaker Gene Zwozdesky buried a 100-year time capsule in the corner of the legislature Wednesday in a box that he says is designed to stand the test of time.

“We place today in the hands of tomorrow,” said Zwozdesky in a morning ceremony prior to the rectangular box the size of a foot locker being placed in the northeast corner of the sandstone building.

“The capsule that we’re placing today carries on a symbol and a tradition that our forebears began 100 years ago,” he said.

The capsule is to be opened on Sept.

3, 2112, on the 200th anniversary of the official opening of the legislature.

The box replaces the 103-year-old capsule opened last year by Premier Alison Redford in a ceremony marking the building’s centennial.

Those contents had been placed in a wafer-thin copper box that didn’t keep out water and other elements.

The items — including a pocket Bible, a sheepskin scroll, and newspapers of that era — were found cracked and water stained almost beyond recognition.

That won’t be the case in 2112, said Zwozdesky.

“It is a special shell that has been designed to withstand weather and time,” he said, noting it has a double wall wrapped in stainless steel.

More than 50 items have been placed in the capsule. They are carefully preserved, including items voted on by almost 6,000 Albertans in online and in-person polling.

They include: eight student letters to the future; photos of schoolchildren who recently took part in legislature learning programs; photos of the unearthing of the 1909 time capsule last year; and editions of newspapers from Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and

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Alberta Legislature Speaker Gene Zwozdesky holds up legislature time capsule prior to setting it in the cornerstone of the legislature building in Edmonton, Wednesday. It will be opened on Sept. 3, 2112, to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the legislature building. With Zwozdesky are, from left to right: Raj Sherman, leader of the opposition Liberals, Infrastructure Minister Wayne Drysdale, Zwozdesky, and Kerry Towle of the opposition Wildrose party. In front is five-year-old Louvenson Osterhold, invited to represent the future potential of Alberta.

Medicine Hat covering the centennial celebrations of the legislature.

There’s also a roll of 2012 pennies and other coins of the current era.

There are items to honour aboriginals: moccasins, a Métis sash, and an Inuit soapstone carving of a bear.

There are letters to the future from

Lt.-Gov. Don Ethell, Premier Alison Redford and opposition party leaders Danielle Smith of the Wildrose party, Brian Mason of the NDP, and the Liberals’ Raj Sherman.

Outside the legislature under a cloudless blue sky, Zwozdesky and other dignitaries put the box into the

corner of the building in a trowel ceremony.

With Zwozdesky was Infrastructure Minister Wayne Drysdale, Kerry Towle of the Wildrose party, and Sherman of the Liberals. Centenarian Violet Leier and five-year-old Louvenson Osterhold were on hand representing the province’s heritage and future.

Zwozdesky, when asked by reporters what he thinks Alberta will look like in 100 years, said, “my prediction is for an Alberta that is just as beautiful, just as vibrant with a population that we can only begin to guess will be in the several tens of millions.”

Sherman had a different view.

“In 2113 I see a Liberal government bringing everyone toward the middle and a common cause,” he said, smiling.

The ceremony was not without a little historic irony.

The teen years of Alberta’s current century feature a fight for political supremacy between Redford’s Tories and Smith’s Wildrose.

The rancour between the two rightof-centre rivals has been so, well, rancorous, that Redford will scarcely speak Smith’s name.

Yet, there they are, Smith and Redford, their signatures side by side sealed up in a box for 100 years.

That’s sweet, said Towle.

“It’s pretty interesting isn’t it,” she said. “A new day has dawned.”

Towle also said voters better watch out in 100 years if politicians ever get Star Trekian-type transporter devices.

“We could travel Alberta just by teleporting. Imaging the havoc we could wreak then?” she laughed.

If voting patterns of the last four decades hold, Redford’s party will have reason to smile.

In Sept. 3, 2112, the Tories would be one week shy of 141 consecutive years in power.

That would be halfway to China’s famed Ming dynasty.

But well short of the 503-year-old Roman Empire.

Quebec landlady reflects on her run-in with sovereign citizen CALGARY — A Montreal landlady who says she was assaulted by a selfproclaimed sovereign citizen now at the centre of a rental dispute in Alberta is warning that the man should not be taken lightly and needs to be behind bars.

Jocelyne Malouf told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that she made a mistake when she allowed Mario Antonacci to move into a Montreal apartment in 2007 and housesit for five months.

But she said he and a young woman he was with told her they had nowhere to go, so she took pity on him.

“Finally I gave him the apartment and when the disaster started, it was not long,” she said.

Malouf said Antonacci declared the

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BRIEF Civic election forums planned Mayoral and council candidates will square off in the first two planned forums next week, leading up to the Oct. 21 civic election.

On Wednesday, both council hopefuls and mayoral candidates will be on the hot seat at the Golden Circle (4620 47A Ave.) starting at 6:30 p.m.

The 30 council hopefuls are expected to answer questions until roughly 8 p.m., before the five mayoral candi-

place an “embassy,” paid no rent and when it was time to leave, things went badly.

“He was trying to keep the apartment for him without paying,” she said. “That is exactly his style because he said to me, ‘you can’t put me out of here now.’ At that moment I said, ‘you better stop playing games because I’m going to tell the police and I can’t stand it anymore.’ ” She alleged that’s when he threw her down a flight of stairs, breaking her pelvis, arm, wrist and ankle.

“I went to hospital for two months,” she said. “I can tell you one thing — that man is a very dangerous person.”

Alberta senior Rebekah Caverhill tells a similar story about a rental property she has that she says was also claimed as an embassy. She knows the man in the dispute as Andreas Pirelli, 48, who sources have confirmed is An-

tonacci.

Caverhill has been locked in a twoyear battle with Pirelli, who she said identified himself as a follower of the Freemen-on-the-Land movement, changed the locks on her Calgary rental house, refused to leave and declared it his “embassy.”

Caverhill said she has been billed for renovations the man did inside the home and that he had a lien placed on the property.

A court has ordered Pirelli to leave Caverhill’s home by early Saturday morning.

The courts in Quebec never got a chance to rule on Malouf’s allegations.

Antonacci, who had pleaded not guilty, stopped showing up during his 2010 trial and a warrant was issued for

his arrest.

Lawyer Guillaume Langlois, a Montreal defence attorney, confirmed he’s still the lawyer in a pending file involving Antonacci, but he said he hasn’t spoken to his client since he stopped going to court.

“I’m still in the file, but he’s under a warrant, I think,” Langlois said Wednesday. “It’s been a long time since I’ve spoken to him.”

The warrant should be enough to order Antonacci back to Montreal.

The Criminal Code says a warrant issued for someone who does not appear at trial “may be executed anywhere in Canada.”

The Quebec prosecutor on the file was unavailable on Wednesday.

dates are in the spotlight. The forum runs until 9 p.m.

Starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Red Deerians will hear from the five mayoral candidates in a forum at the Snell Auditorium in the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library. The forum will include platform presentations by each mayoral candidate, followed by a question and answer period.

The forum will be streamed online at http://www.rdpl.org/programs/live.

Voters can tweet questions at @rdpl for the candidates on Twitter before and during the debate.

The library will also be hosting weekly “Twitbates” until Election Day using #RDvote to tag election-related tweets.

The evening wraps up at 9 p.m.

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Red Deer in four years WHAT KIND OF CITY DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN? Three years ago, I was assigned to do a series of columns on that year’s civic election. Agreeing to do it was probably my first mistake but others soon followed.

I kicked off by listing the candidates and listed the occupation of one of them as “housewife.”

Time and our misjudgments do catch up to us, and an apology for that was only one of sevGREG eral I’ve needed NEIMAN to do over my career. Besides, I now happen to be a housewife myself (part-time, which is the best arrangement possible).

But one thing I believe I had right back then is still right today. The issues of the day are not the issues that ought to decide your vote in the civic elections on Oct. 21.

If you think holding a strong position on bike lanes or potholes qualifies anyone to be a city councillor, let me be the first to disabuse you. It doesn’t.

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Being “someone who listens” is an excellent personal trait, but I have news for you — city councillors have to listen whether they like it or not.

Business experience is valuable in many spheres, including being a city councillor, but many a business person on council has quickly learned that working in a service environment requires a much more nuanced skill set.

You can’t do anything by management decree.

You can’t simply raise prices to meet costs and you’re not allowed to close the shop.

If creating a sound business plan and a workable budget for business is an art, doing the same for the city is more like the Sistine Chapel, with the vision of Judgment Day right over the exit door to council chambers.

These admirable qualities, on their own, do not a good councillor make.

What I wrote three years ago holds true today, and is even more important in this election, because of our high number of candidates.

I suggest you screen candidates against your own view of what kind of city you want to live in. Select the ones that best reflect back to you a representation of what you would like Red Deer to be like four years from now.

And then, give up one whole hour of

your next four years and vote.

This is much more difficult than it sounds and gets more complicated the more deeply you think about it. Especially when you think about how our city is growing.

For instance, if you want to avoid increasing traffic congestion in a city that has about 3,000 more people a year using the roads, how can we achieve that?

If you think Red Deer’s capital debt is already too high, how can we build infrastructure that matches our growth without having to borrow, and without falling too far behind?

If you want to live in a city where people can feel safe on our streets, do you really think putting more cops on the streets will achieve that?

I’m writing here as someone who has lived through a horrendous, violent robbery against a family member: what do you mean when you want to feel “safe?” Safe from crime or safe from the fear of it?

Here’s what is most important: what do you like about Red Deer and what do you want to see more of four years from now?

From the outset, this campaign has been pretty negative. If there’s anything you don’t like about Red Deer, you will certainly find a full slate of

candidates who will reflect that back to you.

But I suggest “voting against” won’t get you the kind of city you would want to live in, four years from now.

For my vote, I want to hear something positive about what Red Deer could be like with a population of 110,000 in four years.

I will also want to hear good familiarity with the planning charters we’ve built as our roadmap to a city with 100,000-plus people in it. Failure to do so disqualifies you from being a city councillor on my ballot.

Candidates can say what they please, but I want voters to concentrate on what’s good about their lives now and what city council can do to make them better over the next four years.

There are voters in Red Deer today who were not here three years ago, who if they all voted as a bloc, could elect a complete council slate.

More than 10 per cent of the people who could vote in civic elections four years from now don’t even live here now. What brings them here? What makes them want to stay?

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

When the lovelorn become cyber victims Single and lonely for too long, your heart is pounding with anticipation at a Canadian airport while you stare at the arrival escalator for a young woman to arrive from Russia.

You met her on a dating site. She said she wants to spend the rest of her life with you. And it only cost you $2,000 for her one-way airline ticket, plus the dozen roses you hold in your trembling hands.

But when all passengers disembark, the angel of your dreams isn’t among them.

Surprise! You’ve been conned.

RICK Your dream has turned inZEMANEK to a nightmare, like those of hundreds of other Canadians victimized by the exploding industry of dating scams.

Dating scams are a booming, lucrative business, feeding off the single and lonely, earning a sordid reputation as the most popular fraud target in Canada, according to a recent Canadian Press report.

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CFAC) said Canadians lost $17 million last year to online dating fraud. It said that in the past three years, Canadians have lost more money in the scams than any other kind of fraud.

Authorities warn it’s buyer beware when subscribing to online dating sites, which have mushroomed into a $4-billion industry worldwide.

The cyber-crooks are out to steal more than just hearts. And they prey on the most vulnerable — the lonely who feel isolated without a partner to share there lives.

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Last year, according to the anti-fraud centre, there were 1,460 complaints in Canada of romance fraud, with 1,047 victims identified. One Canadian woman lost $43,000. Another lost $32,000 to the apparent man of her dreams, who had been sending her fake photos for months — and was a real sweet talker. After winning her heart, he requested money, claiming he was having custom difficulties in Europe. She fell for it.

Pursuit Magazine, a leading educational media publisher for professional investigators, says “it doesn’t take a fool to be a victim. We’ve seen attorneys, doctors and, yes, police officers, fall victim to online dating scams.”

The game can also turn deadly, warns one Internet site aimed at identifying scammers. Since 1995, the site claims, there have been more than 400 homicides linked to persons that met the victims online.

In one incident a 47-year-old man posing as a 21-year-old U.S. Marine officer developed a steamy relationship with a 17-year-old girl. Things got ugly when a friend of the fake Marine also started up a chat with the girl. The pal was shot dead in a rage of jealousy. Ironically, the girl was actually a middleaged woman using pictures of her daughter on the dateline.

These websites are growing in popularity because of success stories. A recent survey by the dating site eHarmony shows as many as a third of Americans married since 2005 met online.

But Canadian Press reports criminals out of country have quietly and effectively wormed into the popularity, using false identities and trying to earn the trust of the victims before asking for money. And that makes fraud investigations all the more difficult.

“The computer is a wonderful place for people to hide, so it’s difficult for us to do the investigation if funds are sent out of the country,” said Staff Sgt.

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It’s a highly sophisticated operation, according to Pursuit Magazine, involving groups in Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, Colombia, the U.K., Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. But it rates Russia and the Ukraine as the highest risk countries in the world.

“In these regions,” says Pursuit, “we’re seeing Internet- and tech-savvy Internet criminals working with beautiful women (or their photos) to scam foreigners in Canada, the U.S., Australia and the U.K.” Daniel Williams of the anti-fraud centre in Canada told Canadian Press that the scams are an overwhelming success because organized crime can take on fraud on a massive scale. In 2006, Russian police busted such an operation run out of a dozen rented apartments by over 100 (mostly) young males aged 18 to 35, using about 50 computers and cellphones.

Seized records showed the scammers were communicating with 750 victims and pulling in around $300,000 a month.

One anti-scam Internet site reports scams initially start with a revealing photo of a beautiful young woman or a good-looking man, who are not the actual writers. The photos may be of a model or taken out of a porn magazine. “Or the photos may simply be downloaded from someone’s home website.”

Scammers are now infiltrating “legitimate” dating sites, Twitter and Facebook.

Authorities say the victims are losing millions annually. But it’s tough to determine how much because in many cases those suckered are too embarrassed to report the fraud.

The general rule is if it seems to good to be true, then that’s likely the case.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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Canada takes the lead HARPER, BAIRD PUSH CANADA’S EFFORTS ON MATERNAL, CHILD HEALTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Action trumps rhetoric, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a United Nations panel on maternal and child health Wednesday as he outlined $203 million over five years to help mothers and babies in developing countries.

Harper said Canada would back nine specific projects that will help to pay for more immunizations, provide basic health care and set up community services to ease the dangers of childbirth and pregnancy.

“The world is making significant progress in improving the health of women and children in developing countries and reducing the unacceptable mortality rates faced by these vulnerable populations,” Harper said.

“Canada is at the forefront of these efforts and I am proud that through today’s support, more women and children will benefit from better nutrition, increased food security and access to important, life saving vaccines.”

The money detailed Wednesday is part of Cana-

da’s commitment of nearly $3 billion over five years to the issue of maternal and child health, part of the Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health launched by G8 partners at the Muskoka Summit in 2010.

Before the maternal health panel, Harper met privately with computer billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates. Harper said their international charitable foundation is a great partner for Canada.

Harper also said Canada will host an international meeting next year to ensure program providers are accountable for the money they spend.

Helene Laverdiere, the NDP’s international development critic, was quick to slam the government not only for re-announcing three-year-old funding, but for failing to include support for reproductive health.

“Canada’s Muskoka funding should have included funding for women to access sexual and reproductive health services, including emergency contraception and safe abortion,” Laverdiere said in a statement.

She also assailed the government for rejecting last week’s call from the UN Human Rights Council for a

comprehensive national review of violence against aboriginal women.

“Under Harper, it’s clear that Canada is not a real leader on women’s health and women’s rights.”

Continuing on the theme of protecting women and children, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was also in New York on Wednesday, co-hosting a panel on child, early and forced marriage.

The practice is “an appalling violation of human rights” and Canada is committed to putting a stop to it, Baird told the panel.

Child, early and forced marriage “robs girls of their right to education and jeopardizes their health,” he said.

It’s estimated that millions of girls under 18 years old — some as young as eight — are forced into marriages each year in various parts of the world, including some in Canada.

Complications from pregnancy and giving birth at a young age can result in severe maternal disability or even death. But Baird did not say if Canada would fund groups that provide medically necessary abortions to girls who are forced to marry and become pregnant.

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LANDIS, Sask. — Hazardous material crews were cleaning up oil spilled from a Canadian National train car that derailed close to a small community in western Saskatchewan early Wednesday.

RCMP said 17 rail cars — some carrying flammable petroleum, ethanol and chemicals — came off the tracks after 4 a.m. within 500 to 700 metres of the village of Landis, west of Saskatoon.

“The spill involved a petroleum product that is not considered highly explosive,” Sgt. Grant Rusk said.

“Because of the flammable nature of some of the other rail-car contents, and the proximity to Landis and the school, the decision was made to close the Landis School for the day while the contents of the damaged cars were unloaded.”

No one was injured.

Warren Chandler, a spokesman for CN (TSX:CNR), said it was not clear how much oil spilled, but that the oil was concentrated along the right of way of its the transcontinental rail line.

Chandler said some of the cars were on their sides and CN crews were working to clean up the area.

“One of the derailed cars is leaking lube oil,” he said from Edmonton.

“CN crews immediately began a process using vacuum trucks to contain and reclaim the leaking product.”

The Saskatchewan government said one of the other derailed cars contains ethanol and was on its side, but was not leaking.

Premier Brad Wall said most goods shipped by train move safely across Canada and railways are needed.

But he said the spill is another chance to talk about the benefit of pipelines.

“There is a debate though now that’s precipitated

by Keystone and by (the proposed Northern) Gateway and maybe by the Energy East pipeline, about what is the safest way to move certain products,” Wall said in Regina.

“We think it’s an all-of-the-above proposition. We

are going to be railing more oil out of this province, that’s just the fact of the matter. We’re doing it now and frankly doing it efficiently and safely for the most part, again from a statistical standpoint.

“But we need pipelines. We need them and we need to be unequivocal that pipelines are still certainly the best way.”

RCMP said the cars that went off of the tracks were in the middle of the 560-metre-long freight train and no other vehicle was involved in the derailment.

Fire crews from nearby communities put out a grass fire in a ditch caused by the derailment, but police said none of the rail cars caught fire.

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OTTAWA — The Harper government faced sharp criticism Wednesday for its continued refusal to sign a landmark treaty to regulate the global arms trade.

A group of non-governmental agencies, called the Control Arms Coalition, said it was frustrated and disappointed that the government did not follow the United States and more than 90 other countries in signing the Arms Trade Treaty.

Meanwhile, the federal NDP accused the government of indulging in conspiracy theories because it continues to express concern that the treaty might have an impact on lawful gun owners within Canada.

The criticism was unleashed after Secretary of State John Kerry signed the treaty on behalf of the U.S. on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Kerry called it a “significant step” in keeping the world safe. And he shot back at political opponents, saying that the treaty would have no effect on domestic gun ownership inside the U.S., where there is strong concern that it could violate the cherished rights of Americans to bear arms.

“This treaty will not diminish anyone’s freedom,” Kerry said, adding that the U.S. “would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with . . . the rights of American citizens to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our Constitution.”

Kerry’s view appears to differ sharply from those expressed by the Harper government on the issue.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has said there is a potential link between signing on to the treaty and Canada’s now-abolished long gun registry.

Baird’s spokesman said earlier this week that the government is still doing consultations on whether the treaty would affect lawful recreational firearms owners in Canada.

“It is past time for Canada to get beyond spurious claims that the treaty will affect legal Canadian gunowners and join the states that want to save lives by ending irresponsible arms transfers,” Ken Epps of the group Project Ploughshares said in a statement.

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Canadians need to talk about assisted suicide: Ontario

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It’s time for Canadians and their leaders to talk about the taboo of assisted suicide as part of end-of-life care, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said Wednesday.

But in the end, it’s up to the federal government to decide whether it should be legal, she said.

“I think it’s about the community having the conversation, I think it’s about people having the conversation,” Matthews said.

A prominent doctor’s impassioned, videotaped appeal to legalize assisted suicide just a few days before his death has re-opened the emotionally charged debate.

Dr. Donald Low, who shepherded Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, asked that Canada allow people to die with dignity, eight days before he died from a brain tumour last week at age 68.

Low put a human face on the controversial subject, Matthews said.

“Donald Low’s video was very powerful and many people have personally experienced it,” she said.

“There are strong opinions on this. I think it’s a conversation we need to have.”

Matthews said she’d be surprised if the topic doesn’t come up when provincial, federal and territorial health ministers meet in Toronto on Sept. 27.

But she wouldn’t divulge her own view about assisted suicide.

“Of course, I have strong personal opinions. I think everybody does,” she said. “But I’m not speaking as a person, I’m speaking as health minister for Ontario.”

Right now, her priority is improving end-of-life care in Ontario, including palliative care to hospices, she added.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal in Canada, and the federal government has repeatedly said it has no plans to change those laws.

In the video, Low said he is not in pain but his vision, hearing and strength are waning and he worries what will happen before the end.

It will be a long time before Canada matures to a level where it accepts dying with dignity, he said.

But he pleaded with opponents of assisted suicide to reconsider.

If they lived in his body for 24 hours, they’d change their opinion, he said.

Some oppose legalizing assisted suicide on religious grounds, while others believe that it’s a slippery slope toward euthanasia.

The Quebec government plans to hold public hearings in the fall on its right-to-die legislation, which was tabled earlier this year.

The bill, the first of its kind in Canada, essentially outlines the conditions necessary for someone to get medical assistance to die. The federal government says it will review Quebec’s legislation.

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B.C. Mounties run out of tips in Highway of Tears deaths KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The investigation into several cold-case murders of woman along B.C.’s so-called Highway of Tears appears to have stalled.

Mounties announced a year ago that Bobby Jack Fowler, who died in an Oregon jail in 2006, was responsible for one of the murders along the highway and a suspect in others.

DNA from Fowler was matched to the 1974 death of 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen of Lac La Hache, B.C., and he was suspected of killing Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington in 1973.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Wayne Clary says police have now interviewed all of Fowler’s relatives and ex-wives without furthering the case, and DNA or other forensic evidence likely won’t be the key to solving the murders.

Clary says he believes someone has some information, like a person who Fowler may have spoken to about his crimes, yet hasn’t come forward to police.

The three deaths linked to Fowler are among 18 women who disappeared or were murdered along northern B.C. highways, including Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears.

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Former military medical technician James Wilks (right), a petty officer second class who is now retired, confers with his lawyers during a break at his court martial in Gatineau, Que., on Wednesday. Wilkes is charged with 11 counts of sexual assault and 18 counts of breach of trust under the National Defence Act.

Court martial begins for ex-medic facing sex assault, breach of trust charges “Petty officer Wilks was entrusted with a particular role in an official capacity,” Kerr said. “So we take that quite seriously.”

Maj. David Hodson, the lawyer representing Wilks, cautioned against rushing to judgment.

“Petty officer second class Wilks is entitled to a presumption of innocence, and he will not be convicted until the prosecution presents enough evidence that the judge is satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt to convict him,” Hodson said.

Much of the first day of the court martial was tied up in procedural matters. D’Auteuil granted Kerr’s request for a publication ban on any information that might identify some of the women making the allegations.

Wilks also faces separate civil lawsuits that claim the military didn’t act on reports about his alleged conduct.

Three women filed statements of claim with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice alleging that Wilks sexually assaulted them during physical exams for recruits at various National Defence installations in Ontario.

A fourth woman last year filed a similar civil claim against Wilks. It alleges he touched her breasts and pressed his groin against her during a recruitment medical exam.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GATINEAU, Que. — A former military medical technician pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an array of sexual assault and breach of trust charges on the first day of his court martial.

James Wilks, a petty officer second class who is now retired, was originally charged with 11 counts of sexual assault and 18 counts of breach of trust under the National Defence Act. Three of the charges were withdrawn as the proceedings got underway; Wilks now faces 26 charges involving 16 women over a six-year span.

The charges allege inappropriate medical exams at Ontario military recruitment sites in Thunder Bay and London from 2003 to 2009. None of the allegations have been proven in court.

Wilks said nothing as he walked into the courtroom wearing a dark suit, red tie and sunglasses.

He stood and repeated “Not guilty, your honour” every time military judge Lt.-Col. Louis-Vincent d’Auteuil asked how he pleaded to each of the charges.

Outside the court, military prosecutor Maj. Dylan Kerr underscored the seriousness of the charges. nipeg want the federal government to require rail companies to be more transparent about the goods they carry.

They say local authorities want to know exactly what hazardous materials are being shipped.

Going into the meeting, federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt says she’s open to listening to the concerns of her provincial colleagues, but wouldn’t commit to the idea.

Quebec Transportation Minister Sylvain Gaudreault says Ottawa must act quickly in the wake of the deadly derailment in Lac Megantic.

He says all provinces support tougher rail safety regulations and it’s up to the federal government to respond.

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Premier Brad Wall has sent Loik his condolences.

Loik says she wants federal legislation that outlaws cyber-bullying across the country.

Environmentalists, loggers seek consensus as Boreal Forest Agreement hits reset OTTAWA — A ground-breaking co-operative experiment between environmental groups and the forest industry is hoping to hit the reset button this fall with a series of promised agreements.

The three-year-old Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement appeared to be coming apart at the seams last spring after two major environmental groups quit and negotiations with Resolute Forest Products reached a stalemate.

But executive director Aran O’Carroll says the remaining signatories to the 2010 agreement agreed over the summer to recommit to finding common ground in the development and preservation of Canada’s boreal forest.

An agreement in principle for a vast tract of forest in northeastern Ontario is awaiting implementation by the Ontario government, and O’Carroll says other deals in Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan are in the works.

Saskatchewan mom says teen son killed himself because of bullying NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A Saskatchewan mother says her 15-year-old son killed himself because of bullying.

Kim Loik found her son’s body earlier this month in their home in North Battleford.

The single mom says some students at his high school had been constantly hounding him with insulting Facebook messages and cell phone texts.

She says the taunting had become so bad that she and her son were going to move to Edmonton later

PQ minister responsible for values charter to meet Muslim groups MONTREAL — The Quebec minister responsible for the government’s proposed charter of values will meet privately with representatives of the Muslim community next week as the backlash against the Parti Quebecois plan continues to grow.

That news emerged as a coalition of Muslim groups held a news conference today to speak out against the PQ government’s proposals, which would ban the wearing of prominent religious symbols by public employees.

The group known as Quebec Muslims for Rights and Freedoms claims to represent 50 religious and secular Muslim groups.

A declaration by the coalition states that its members support the right of government employees to adhere to their political or religious beliefs, and don’t believe wearing religious symbols contradicts or affects the neutrality of the state.

They say they are against any ban on religious symbols that would restrict individuals’ freedom of beliefs and limit their employment opportunities.

A Coalition member will be among eight Muslim groups meeting with Drainville next week. A spokesman for the cabinet minister says two Muslim groups already met privately with the minister in August before Drainville publicly released his charter of values plan.

Drainville also met with representatives of the Jewish community at the time. They went public with their opposition to the proposals after details of the plan were leaked to the media.

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PAKISTANI RESCUERS STRUGGLE TO HELP VICTIMS IN REMOTE SOUTHWEST WHERE MASSIVE QUAKE KILLED AT LEAST 285

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALBADI, Pakistan — Rescuers struggled Wednesday to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, while the death toll from the massive temblor there rose to 285.

The earth moved with enough force to create a small island visible off the southern coast when the magnitude 7.7 quake struck in the remote district of Awaran in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province Tuesday.

At least 373 people were also injured in the quake, according to a statement from the National Disaster Management Authority, which also gave the latest death toll.

The quake flattened wide swathes of Awaran.

Most of the victims were killed when their houses collapsed.

In the hard-hit village of Dalbadi, Noor Ahmad said he was working when the quake struck but swiftly rushed home, only to find his house levelled to the ground and his wife and son dead.

He said he pulled their bodies from the rubble and helped other family members who were injured.

“I’m broken. I have lost my family,” he said.

Dalbadi was completely flattened. No one in the village knew exactly how many people the quake had killed there.

Men, women and children were sitting in makeshift shelters. Doctors treated some of the injured, but due to a scarcity of medicine and staff, they were mostly seen comforting the residents.

The remoteness of the area and the lack of infrastructure have hampered the relief efforts.

“We are finding it very difficult to reach the affected remote areas,” said a spokesman for the provincial government, Jan Mohammad Bulaidi. “We need more tents, more medicine and more food.”

He said people who lost limbs in the quake would need to be sent to hospitals in the major cities of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, and Karachi along the Arabian Sea. Associated Press images from the village of Kaich showed the devastation the quake had wrought.

Houses made mostly of mud and handmade bricks had collapsed, walls and roofs caved in and people’s possessions were scattered on the ground. A few goats roamed through the wreckage as men dug through the rubble.

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Injured Pakistani villagers rest on hospital beds to receive treatment at a local hospital in the remote district of Awaran, Baluchistan province, Pakistan, Wednesday. Rescuers struggled Wednesday to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday as the death toll rose to hundreds. was shown supported by two men helping him walk.

He said he was drinking tea when he heard a loud bang: “It shook everything.”

The Pakistani military said it had rushed almost 1,000 troops to the area overnight and was sending helicopters as well. A convoy of 60 Pakistani army trucks left Karachi early Wednesday, carrying supplies for those affected by the quake.

Pakistani forces have evacuated 174 people from various villages around Awaran to the district hospital, the military said in a statement.

Local officials said they were sending doctors, food and 1,000 tents for people who had nowhere to

sleep as strong aftershocks continued to shake the region.

Pakistani officials were investigating a small island that appeared off the coast of Pakistan after the quake, apparently the result of earth and mud pushed to the surface by the quake.

The director of the National Seismic Monitoring Center confirmed that the mass was created by the quake and said scientists were trying to determine how it happened. Zahid Rafi said such masses are sometimes created by the movement of gases locked in the earth under the sea, pushing mud and earth up to the surface in something akin to a mud volcano.

Rebel groups reject Western-backed opposition BEIRUT — More than a dozen key Syrian rebel groups said Wednesday that they reject the authority of the Western-backed opposition coalition, as U.N. inspectors returned to the country to continue their probe into chemical weapons attacks.

In a joint statement, 13 rebel groups including a powerful al-Qaida-linked faction but also more mainstream forces slammed the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition, saying it no longer represents their interests.

The statement reflects the lack of unity between the political opposition, based in exile, and the disparate rebel groups fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria’s civil war, which has killed over 100,000 people so far. It also highlights the growing irrelevance of the Coalition and its military arm headed by Gen. Salim Idris, who heads the Supreme Military Council supported by the West, amid increasing radicalization on the ground in Syria.

The rebel groups’ statement was titled “Communique No. 1,” a term used before in Arab countries following military coups that suggests the creation of a new leadership body.

A video released on the Internet showed Abdel-Aziz Salameh, political chief of the Liwaa alTawheed brigade that is particularly strong in the city of Aleppo, reading the statement.

Syria’s rebel movements vary greatly in their levels of internal organization, and it was not possible to immediately verify whether the other signatories’ leader or fighters on the ground had approved the statement. But there were no immediate reports that any of them had rejected it.

The signatories called on all military and civilian forces “to unite under a clear Islamic

framework based on Shariah law, which should be the sole source of legislation”— an apparent reference to the al-Qaida faction’s aspirations to create an Islamic state in Syria.

It said the rebels do “not recognize” any future government formed outside Syria, insisting that forces fighting on the ground should be represented by “those who suffered and took part in the sacrifices.”

But the rebels themselves are also deeply divided, with many groups blaming jihadis and al-Qaida militants in their ranks for the West’s reluctance to intervene militarily in Syria or give them the advanced weapons they need. There is also growing concern that the dominant role the extremists are playing is discrediting the rebellion.

Yet the jihadis, including members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaida offshoot, have been some of the most effective forces on the battlefield, fighting alongside the Western-backed Free Syrian Army to capture military facilities, strategic installations and key neighbourhoods in cities such as Aleppo and Homs.

Among the signatories are the Islamist-leaning Ahrar al-Sham and Liwaa al-Islam brigades, both powerful rebel factions with large followings on the ground, as well as the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front.

Three of them — the Liwaa al-Tawheed, the Liwaa al-Islam, and the Suqour al-Sham — have until now been part of the Free Syrian Army, considered to be the Coalition’s military wing.

Abdelbaset Sieda, a senior member of the Coalition, said the group learnt about the rebel statement from the media, adding that contacts were under way to determine how to deal with it.

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Foreigners ‘legitimate targets’ in mall attack: al-Shabab

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis Wednesday to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping centre, killing more than 60 people.

A gaping hole in the mall’s roof was caused by Kenyan soldiers who fired rocket-propelled grenades inside, knocking out a support column, a government official said. The official, who insisted he not be identified because he was sharing security information, said the soldiers fired to distract a terrorist sniper so hostages could be evacuated.

The current death toll is 67 and is likely to climb with uncounted bodies remaining in the wreckage of the Nairobi mall. Another 175 people were injured, including more than 60 who remain hospitalized. At least 18 foreigners were among those killed.

Al-Shabab, the Somali Islamic extremist group which carried out the attack, said Wednesday that foreigners were a “legitimate target” and confirmed witness accounts that gunmen separated Muslims from other people and let the Muslims go free. The others were gunned down or taken hostage.

“The Mujahideen carried out a meticulous vetting process at the mall and have taken every possible precaution to separate the Muslims from the Kuffar (disbelievers) before carrying out their attack,” the group said in an email exchange.

Witnesses have told AP and other media that gunmen rounded up people, asked questions about Islam that a Muslim would know and told the Muslims to leave the mall. Still, some Muslims were among the victims.

Also among those killed when the militants entered the Westgate Mall on Saturday, firing assault rifles and throwing grenades were six Britons and citizens from France, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Peru, India, Ghana, South Africa and China.

Asked if al-Shabab had intended to kill foreigners, the group said “our target was to attack the Kenyan govt on it’s soil and any part of the Kenyan territory is a legitimate target . . . and Kenya should be held responsible for the loss of life, whether foreigners or local.”

Al-Shabab had threatened retaliation against Kenya for sending its troops into Somalia against al-Shabab, and many of those killed in an attack that horrified the world were Kenyans.

Though Kenya’s foreign minister earlier said that “two or three” American citizens may have been involved in the attack, a Western official said that after checking passport and refugee databases, there is not yet an indication any Americans were involved.

Several U.S. cities, notably Minneapolis, host large Somali-American communities.

The violence continued elsewhere Wednesday. On Kenya’s border with Somalia, in the town of Wajir, police chief Isiah Odhiambo said at least two people were wounded after a gunman opened fire in town and two explosions detonated. Odhiambo said police repelled one gunman.

Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said forensic experts from the U.S., Israel, Britain, Germany and Canada are all taking part in trying to reconstruct the scene at the mall. He said results would not be ready before a week’s time.

Morgue officials in Nairobi have been prepared for the last two days for a large influx of bodies still in the mall. Officials have told AP that the shopping centre, which the terrorists held for four days, could hold dozens more bodies. The government has confirmed 72 total deaths: 61 civilians, six security forces and five attackers. The Red Cross says 71 people remain missing.

Al-Shabab on its Twitter feed Wednesday claimed that the Kenyan government assault team carried out “a demolition” of the building, burying 137 hostages in the debris. A government spokesman denied the claim and said Kenyan forces were clearing all rooms Wednesday, firing as they moved and encountering no one.

Navy Yard gunman delusional at time of shooting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Washington Navy Yard gunman did not target specific individuals when he opened fire inside a building, killing 12 people, and was under a delusional belief that he was being controlled by extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves, the FBI said Tuesday.

Records recovered from Aaron Alexis’s computer and cellphone reveal paranoia and mental health problems that authorities are investigating as the root cause.

“Ultra-low frequency attack is what I’ve been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this,” read a document agents recovered from Alexis after the shooting. He had also written “my ELF weapon” — an apparent reference to extremely low frequency waves — on a shotgun he used in the rampage.

Alexis, a 34-year-old former Navy reservist and IT contractor, used a valid badge to access the Navy Yard on the morning of Sept. 16 with a sawed-off Remington shotgun he had purchased two days earlier. He was killed by a U.S. Park Police officer following a rampage and shootout.

Authorities say Alexis had only recently started his job, and that although there was a “routine performance-related issue addressed to him” on the Friday before the shooting, there’s no indication that he targeted particular co-workers or was motivated by problems in the workplace, said Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI’s Washington field office.

“There is no indication that this caused any sort of reaction from him. We have not determined there to be any previous relationship between Alexis and any of the victims,” Parlave said.

At the Pentagon on Wednesday, Deputy Secretary Ash Carter said the department will complete three separate reviews in late December, including internal and independent assessments of base safety procedures as well as the security clearance process.

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Above left: Part of a harvest of various stages of Alberta’s official mushroom, the Aspen Bolete, a delicious fall favourite.

Right: Oyster mushrooms up a dead, standing aspen.

Fall is the time to hunt for Alberta mushrooms 7,500 VARIETIES, PERHAPS ONLY 20 EDIBLE The Alberta Mycological Society re- own juices until the moisture evapocently conducted a wild fungus foray rates, then sauté in a mixture of olive along riverside trails in Edmonton. oil and butter and season lightly with The Edmonton Journal’s food writer, garlic salt. Another fall favourite, the Liane Faulder, joined the foragers and Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreareports Rob Simpson of AMS telling tus, also grows from expired aspen, them that there are more but sometimes six metres than 7,500 varieties of wild up dead trunks that just mushrooms in Alberta, of haven’t fallen yet. which, “perhaps only 20” of Oysters have been scarce them are edible. this fall, as have my personOver many years I have al fall favourite species, Alfound and enjoyed eating a berta’s official mushroom, dozen species of Alberta’s the Aspen Bolete, or Aspen edible wild fungi, and have Rough Stem, Leccinum also found and managed to insigne. Avid fungaphiles avoid eating two of our few blame this hot, dry late sumseriously poisonous species, mer and early fall. But in narrowly, once, in the case similar conditions several of the False Morel of spring, years ago I got lost wanderGyromitra esculenta. The ing the moss in The Crossrest of the 7,500 are overley Demonstration Forest BOB whelmingly not poisonous, on Hwy 752 south SCAMMELL just not very good for eatwest of Rocky Mouning for various reasons: untain House, as I harpleasant or no flavour, no vested more Aspen substance to them, etc.

Boletes than I had bags to carRecent reader contacts have re- ry them. Our long cold and wet minded me that Alberta’s major wild spring produced few morels, mushroom season is the fall, generally but in springs gone by I have from late summer to freeze-up. Seven also had good morel harvests of my 12 “edibles” are fall mushrooms, in The Crossley, especially in as is one of my two seriously poisonous its recent cut-over areas. species.

As I travelled to and by faOld friend Gilles Patenaude, of Vic- vourite old hot spots, I found toria, dropped by recently, wending few Shaggy Manes, Coprinus his way home from Ottawa, where he comatus, a delicious fall speattended the 35th anniversary of Myco- cies that often pops up by the logues Amateur de L’Outaouais (Ama- bushel in most falls along teur Mycologists of Ottawa), of which roads and trails. he was the founding president. The My old friend, the late Vern dinner was prepared by top chefs us- Caddy, and I used to pick them ing five varieties of wild mushrooms, in the fall along the Kin Canfour of which are fall species. yon trails in Red Deer, and Then there is an anguished email then cook similarly to a methfrom another old friend, Robert Short: od for Oyster mushrooms: dip “Two weeks ago I harvested Hericium them in beaten egg, roll them in crackat the road allowance. I will not live er crumbs and brown them in butter to harvest it at that spot again … the and olive oil. whole area is a wasteland.” (My comThe two red-capped, non-edible fall ment: Caused by an oil company bull- species one must be careful not to condozing flat far more public land than it fuse with the also-red-capped Aspen really needs, just to horizontally drill Bolete are also scarce so far: the usutwo small diameter fracking pipes un- ally super-abundant Sickener, Russula der my private land.) emetica, and the scarcer, poisonous, Hericium ramosum, commonly Fly Amanita, Amanita muscaria, idencalled Bear’s Head, or Comb Tooth, ar- tifiable by the white spots, or flecks on guably one of Alberta’s more beautiful its red cap. and delicious fungi, is generally found Two edible and delicious fall spein the fall, growing on deadfall aspen cies just do not appear at all in many logs. years, for no apparent reason: the HonThis one I slice and simmer in its ey Mushroom, Armillaria mellea, and

Above: Mushrooms of the Boreal Forest picture of Bear’s Head, or Comb Tooth mushroom.

Below left, The poisonous, white spotted, Fly Amanita.

Below right, Gilles Patenaude savours the cinnamon scent of a Matsutake mushroom from Vancouver Island.

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the Blewit (Blue Hat), Lepista nuda.

Mushroom pot-hunters rise up and get out in the spring to scour the forest floors, mainly for morels. But most falls are prime hunting time for a much wider variety of Alberta’s edible mushrooms.

It is not surprising that so few wild mushroom foragers know of the many Alberta species available to them in most falls, because far too many field guides do not mention when the various species appear.

That omission is doubly a shame, because time of appearance can be a strong clue toward positively identifying a species, the prerequisite to eat-

ing any wild fungus.

One field guide that does faithfully specify when each species it covers is likely to appear also happens to be my favorite, for my area, of the more than a dozen wild mushroom books in my “working” library: Mushrooms of the Boreal Forest, by Eugene F. Bossenmaier, published by University Extension Press, University of Saskatchewan.

The “morel” of this column is that hunting for them is just spring training for Alberta’s major mushroom hunting season: in the fall.

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

When gardeners plant, they hope for the best Each growing season is different due to temperatures and precipitation.

A wet spring will be reflected in cool or cold soil, causing seeds to germinate slower. Lack of moisture impedes plant growth and seed germination.

Each season, gardeners plant plants or seeds and hope for the best.

Fall is a good time to reflect on the gardens deciding what worked and what didn’t.

Do not discard everything that didn’t work this growing season as the next one might be different.

Central Alberta had a wet and cool spring, followed by dry hot weather.

While many plants had a slow start, they made up for it in August.

LINDA In the vegetable garden, TOMLINSON some old favourites still outperformed the new varieties.

Homesteader and Green Arrow peas might be a week later than early varieties but they provide twice the yield.

The early variety of pea seed that was readily available on seed stands tended to produce fat pods with very small peas.

Carrots come in a variety of colours as opposed to the standard orange: white, yellow and purple.

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Different coloured carrots taste the same as orange and add colour to the table. The old standby orange varieties like Nantes tend to outproduce the new coloured varieties.

A hot sunny August was perfect for growing any variety of squash: zucchini, acorn, spaghetti. In most cases, one plant will produce more food than one family can eat.

Fruit is mature when the outer coat loses its gloss.

Once picked, store mature squash in a cool, dry area.

Tomatoes, peppers and corn grew well this season as they received enough moisture in the spring and heat during August and September.

The extra month of growing made a huge difference to most gardens.

Grapes, Valiant and Beta, got off to a slow start but are ripening on the vine.

Livingstone Daisies love the heat and sunshine.

They did well this summer in a raised bed as it was fairly dry and hot for the month of August. Deer do not eat these plants.

If they try, they spit them back out, leaving them to continue to flower in the grass.

Annuals might have got off to a slow start but they rallied and put on a great show. Hopefully, people have had time to enjoy plantings in public areas.

They have been fantastic.

Petunias are filling in areas and tumbling over the edge of pots. Plantings of Alyssum are tight with a lovely sent.

Gladiolas grew well this year. The main season has past and the frost-free nights have allowed sec-

ondary shoots to flower.

Dahlias put on a tremendous show and will continue until frost.

For those who wish to see new, up-and-coming varieties, contact Lorne at 403-346-4902 to tour the Piper Creek Trial Gardens on 40th Avenue in Red Deer.

On the down side, black knot a fungal disease spread rapidly during the wet spring.

It will attack any plant that produces a small stone fruit but is most prevalent in maydays and Schubert cherries. Like the name suggests, black lumps or knots appear on branches. They should be cut out and destroyed.

Weather conditions were such that powdery mildew is prevalent on many different plants. In the initial infection, the plant looks like it had a very light white wash.

As the fungus reproduces, the white will intensify.

Powdery mildew rarely kills plants but it is unpleasant to look at and reduces yields.

Placing plants further apart, allowing air to circulate, helps reduce the fungus. So does watering in the morning or avoiding getting the foliage wet. Cool temperature and wet foliage can result in powdery mildew.

Take time to enjoy the fall garden and make plans for next season.

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

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 2013

Guilt-free fries BURGER KING LAUNCHES ‘SATISFRIES’ IN CANADA, UNITED STATES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Burger King wants people to feel less guilty about gobbling up its french fries.

The world’s No. 2 hamburger chain is launching a new crinkle-cut french fry on Tuesday in the U.S. that it says has 20 per cent fewer calories than its regular french fries.

The chain says a small order of the new “Satisfries” clocks in at 270 calories because of a new batter that doesn’t absorb as much oil. By comparison, a small order of its regular fries, sans crinkles, has 340 calories.

Burger King Canada was planning to launch a similar product under different names in English Canada and Quebec on Wednesday.

The concept of taking an indulgent food and removing some of the guilt isn’t new, of course. Supermarkets are filled with baked Lay’s potato chips, 100-calorie packs of Oreos cookies and other less fattening versions of popular treats. Such creations play on people’s inability to give up their food vices, even as they struggle to eat better. The idea is to create something that skimps on calories, but not on taste.

Burger King executives say people won’t be able to tell that Satisfries are lower in calories. It says they use exactly the same ingredients as its regular fries — potatoes, oil and batter.

To keep kitchen operations simple, they’re even made in the same fryers and cooked for the same amount of time as regular fries.

The difference, Burger King says, is that it adjusts the proportions of different ingredients for the batter to block out more oil. The company declined to be more specific. Another difference, the crinkle-cut shape is in part so workers will be able to easily distinguish them from the regular fries when they’re deep frying them together.

“You need to make things as simple as possible,” says Eric Hirschhorn, Burger King’s chief marketing officer.

As per capita consumption of french fries has declined over the years, frozen potato suppliers have been working on ways to reduce fat and calories in french fries, said Maureen Storey, president and CEO of the Alliance for Potato Research & Education, an industry group.

“It’s actually not an easy thing to do to because consumers want the same

Boost your intensity with Tabata training One of the hottest new interval training protocols that you may want to try adding to your workout program is Tabata training.

Tabata training is a protocol where you are going to work as hard as you possibly can for a 20-second period and then couple that with a 10-second rest interval.

Once that 30-second interval is completed, you’ll repeat this process eight more times, for a grand total of four minutes. Don’t be fooled though

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This image provided by Burger King shows the new french fry that the company says has 20 per cent fewer calories than its regular fries. The ‘Satisfries’ will cost about 30 cents more than its regular fries. taste and the same texture,” she said.

Alex Macedo, head of North American operations at Burger King, said the chain worked with one of its potato suppliers, McCain Foods, to develop the lower-calorie fries. He said McCain can’t sell the fries to other fast-food cli-

ents and that different suppliers might have a tough time imitating them.

Burger King took great pains to keep the launch of Satisfries under wraps. Last week, reporters were invited to preview a “top secret new product” at a New York City hotel, where

— despite the fact this workout is just four minutes in duration, it will be the hardest four minutes of your training to date.

B e c a u s e these workouts are so intense, however, you need to be careful when adding them to your strength training protocol, which is another form of intense workout session.

CABEL Let’s look at MCELDERRY some key points to know so that you can get them integrated in properly:

tage to this is that you’ll be able to still do both Tabata and strength training in your workout week, while still maintaining more overall days for complete rest and recovery.

The best recuperation will take place on days where you don’t do any form of intense training at all, so you’ll achieve that with this set-up.

The drawback, of course, is that you’ll also have some incredibly intense and demanding days when you do both sessions.

For more advanced individuals, though, this can work and produce the results you’re looking for.

If you’re going to go this route, then you’ll want to perform the sessions about four to six hours apart — if not further. Don’t do them too close or that second session is going to suffer.

Most people will lift better later on in the day, which means starting off with Tabata training in the morning.

If you are going to do them in the same day, try to use a non-strength oriented exercise for the Tabata training.

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Same day options The first way that you can add these to your strength training protocol is to do them on the same day. The advan-

Off day options

they were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements. Attendees were each served a carton of the fries on a plate that looked and tasted like any other fries, even leaving the familiar grease stains in their paper cartons.

Burger King led off its presentation by comparing the fries to the “leading french fries,” which are made by rival McDonald’s. On a pound-for-pound basis, executives noted that the new fries have 30 per cent fewer calories than those served at the Golden Arches.

The comparison to McDonald’s may prove to be confusing for some, since fast-food chains each have their own definitions of what qualifies as a small, medium or large.

A small serving at McDonald’s, for example, weighs considerably less than a small order at Burger King. As a result, a small order of McDonald’s fries has 230 calories — which is still less than the 270 calories for a small serving of Burger King’s Satisfries. A “value” order of Satisfries at Burger King — which is closer in weight to the small size at McDonald’s — has 190 calories.

Satisfries is the latest gambit by Burger King Worldwide Inc. to revive its image after a series of ownership changes in recent years. 3G Capital, the Brazilian private investment firm that bought the chain and took it private in 2010, kicked off a campaign last spring with a revamped menu and starstudded ad campaign.

The splashy moves came just before 3G announced a deal to take Burger King public again. The deal was structured in a way that let 3G more than recoup the $3.26 billion it paid for the chain, while still maintaining a majority stake. Burger King’s stock price is up 37 per cent over the past year and trading at close to $20 per share.

The company has continued to press ahead with new menu items in hopes of pushing up soft sales, but the efforts haven’t yet yielded results. For its second quarter, sales at restaurants open at least a year slipped 0.5 per cent in the U.S. and Canada, where it has about 7,200 locations.

Still, Burger King is betting Satisfries will be so popular that people will even be willing to fork over more money for them. The suggested price for a small order of Satisfries is $1.89, compared with $1.59 for regular fries.

That’s a 19 per cent markup.

The second option for integrating tabata training into your strength training protocol is to do it on your day off from your lifting workouts. This will be the more common choice for most people and will work well, but you do still need to make sure that you have one day off total each week for optimal rest and recuperation.

If you aren’t getting that full day off each week, overtraining will almost certainly take place.

Most people will need two full days off for recovery, so note that this would mean three lifting days and two Tabata days total. Try to space your recovery days off so one comes mid-week and another on the weekend.

As you go about adding Tabata training to your workout protocol, make sure that you are paying attention to your recovery rates at all times so that you don’t verge on overtraining. Proper monitoring is key and will allow you to integrate this workout successfully.

Cabel McElderry is a personal trainer and nutrition coach. For more information on fitness and nutrition, visit the Fitness F/X website at www.fitnessfx.com.

Not-so-sweet news about zero-calorie sweeteners

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN Why are diet-soda sales tumbling two to three times faster than sales of sugary fizzy drinks? Could be thanks to a supersize helping of negative news, as more and more reports uncap the facts that no-calorie sweeteners may not help your diet and instead could boost your risk for diabetes, heart disease and extra pounds. No wonder one major soda maker has gone on the defensive, recently airing new ads touting calorie-free cola as an ally in the battle of the bulge.

If your enthusiasm for artificial sweeteners has gone flat or if you’re worried about mounting evidence

sumption is linked to higher rates of depression. And in one study, people who drank diet sodas had a 70 per cent greater increase in waist circumference over a few years.

One reason diet sodas may backfire in an overall diet is that it’s easy to jus-

tify rewarding yourself with a cookie or fries or a second slice of pizza because you’ve eliminated hundreds of calories by choosing diet beverages over regular drinks.

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On the surface, diet sodas look like a dream come true. Flavour and fizz, without all that high fructose corn syrup and calories. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved six non-nutritive sweeteners for use in foods and drinks — aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal), acesulfame potassium (Sunett, Sweet One), neotame (used in commercial food products), saccharin (Sweet’N Low, Sugar Twin), a stevia extract called rebaudioside A (Truvia, PureVia) and sucralose (Splenda, Nevella). Yet even with FDA approval, conflicting and often bothersome research about calorie-free sweeteners keeps bubbling to the surface.

The latest? Evidence from human studies shows that artificially sweetened drinks are associated with weight gain in adults and teens, and raise risk for diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. Some data even suggest that these zero-calorie sips could double the risk for metabolic syndrome, a huge risk factor for diabetes and heart disease.

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Battle with the bottle AUTHOR EXPLORES HER ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY IN DRINK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The handmade Mother’s Day card Ann Dowsett Johnston received from her son delivered such a gut-wrenching blow that she carried it around for three years — a stark reminder of its commentary on her addiction.

Following a bad root canal in the spring of 2005, Johnston was put on heavy antibiotics and told not to drink for three weeks.

Towards the end of that period, her then 20-year-old son, Nicholas, Ann Dowsett gave her card Johnston entitled Happy Mother. It depicted Johnston at her typewriter, where he noted that “the whites of her eyes are white” and “she is drinking Perrier, not wine.”

“For my only child to comment so bluntly and so astutely on my alcohol dependency was a huge, cold glass of water over the head. It was a huge moment for me,” Johnston recalled in an interview.

“I never looked at my drinking the same way. I knew then I had been outed.”

In Drink (HarperCollins), the awardwinning journalist candidly chronicles her alcohol dependency — as well her mother’s drinking problems — while also offering an in-depth exploration of the relationship between women and the bottle.

As an Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, Johnston wrote a multi-part series on women and alcohol published in the Toronto Star in 2011 which served as the genesis for the research in Drink on advertising and trends.

“My heart and soul, though, had always been for decades in writing about my mother’s drinking. I had wondered for years why a person became addicted,” recalled Johnston. “When I fell down the same bunny hole, I mostly wanted to write that as a book. I wanted to use my personal voice.”

As a well-educated professional, Johnston described herself as “the new face of alcohol problems.”

“I never missed work. I never crashed a car. I never was involved in some of the things that people presume are part of alcoholism,” she said.

“Mine was quiet and hidden and lonely and isolated — and that is the picture

of female drinkers. We tend to drink alone because of grief or isolation, depression in my case, and loneliness.”

Johnston said she “got into trouble” while serving as vice-principal of McGill University, which she described as a very lonely and stressful time. After initially spending her evenings holed up in her office, she wrote of bringing her BlackBerry and reading during evenings out solo.

Each night, the same waiter would bring her “three glasses of crisp Sauvignon Blanc” to accompany her salad and baguette. Soon, she starting picking up another bottle on the way home.

And then there was the time she slept through two alarms and missed her boss’s ride to the annual executive retreat, having imbibed the night prior.

Still, when Johnston eventually received the “wake-up call” from Nicholas, it would still take another three years to kick the habit. She entered rehab in 2008.

“That’s addiction. That’s when you know you have a problem,” she said.

“You start making your deals and say(ing): ‘I will only drink on weekend nights. I will only drink white wine . . . .’

“That’s when I began to give myself the monkey stickers to say: ‘Well, I can do four nights of drinking and three nights of sobriety — and of course, I couldn’t.

“When you say: ‘I’m going to start controlling this,’ addiction shows you that you actually have no control. I had no control in the end over my drinking.

I was blacking out every night which is no way to go to sleep.”

Johnston speaks with a host of educators and experts in Drink, where she also examines the move by corporations to market and tout niche alcoholic products specifically towards female consumers. The book also explores the dangers of the binge drinking phenomenon seen among women with startling accounts of excessive consumption.

“We have a university culture where so much of this behaviour is associated with success, fun, etc. And while we’ve had such an open dialogue about mental health and depression and stigma around those things, we haven’t had an open dialogue around this,” said Johnston, co-chair of the National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol.

The author said she wants to start a recovery movement across Canada in hopes of removing the stigma around alcoholism. And while there isn’t a need to be “punitive or pejorative or prohibitionist about alcohol,” she believes an open conversation is needed to address several issues: the connection with breast cancer risk, marketing that’s targeted at women and the

reality that “some of us have genetic predispositions to be in trouble.”

“Whether we argue about whether it’s a disease or not or an affliction, the issue is that many of us suffer and we get into trouble, and it is a matter of rescuing your life. And it isn’t for the faint of heart,” said Johnston.

“It’s a very difficult thing to turn your life around. I hid for two years. I stayed at home and was deadly serious about getting better before I stepped

out into the world again.”

Nov. 3 will be a key sobriety milestone for Johnston, which she plans to celebrate with fellow sober friends she calls her “serenity sisters.”

“Five years is a big marker for me — touch wood — and it’s very precious.

It’s the foundation of everything that I’m grateful for.

“Nothing would be possible without my sobriety, and many don’t succeed.

I’m humbled by it.”

Guidelines tackle post-concussion syndrome TORONTO — When Leah Braithwaite suffered a concussion after getting tripped up by another skier, she was told her symptoms — feeling fuzzyheaded, exhausted and unable to bear light or noise — should dissipate in a week or two. All she needed was to rest her body and brain.

But a month after her February 2011 mishap in the Gatineau Hills, she wasn’t getting better, despite the fact her fall had been so unremarkable it hadn’t even put a mark on her helmet.

Braithwaite attempted to go back to her job as head of policy and planning for the Canadian Ice Service, but her fatigue, dizziness, headaches and vomiting only got worse.

“I was very sensitive to noise, particularly the dishwasher — unloading and loading the dishwasher was just excruciating for me,” said the Ottawa mother of two. “And the kids learned eventually they had to kind of tiptoe around the house.”

She was also having difficulty processing information and concentrating; she stumbled during conversation, unable at times to come up with the word she wanted.

Braithwaite tried to research her condition — and the reasons her symptoms were lingering —but using the computer had become difficult.

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SWEETENERS: Options That’s called compensation. And to be fair, it doesn’t always happen. For some people, switching from regular soda to diet soda does save hundreds of calories. Keep everything else equal and you could lose weight. (Read on for an even better choice!)

But newer research says diet drinks and foods may mess with your brain and your metabolism. It turns out that artificial sweeteners flood your taste buds with sweet flavours but don’t light up satisfaction centres in your brain the way real sweets do. So cravings build.

Artificial sweeteners also may ramp up your body’s response to real sugars and carbohydrates — spiking levels of blood sugar. This is where the frightening news of their link to metabolic syndrome, prediabetes and diabetes comes from.

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“If I could find appropriate sites, I couldn’t figure out what information was relevant to me or how to connect it to my needs,” she said.

Frustrated with her inability to recover, she asked her family doctor to refer her to a specialist, but “it was another four months before I saw someone familiar enough with concussions to actively address my symptoms and help me get back to work and my family.”

That specialist, Dr. Shawn Marshall of the Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, told Braithwaite most people who have a concussion get over their symptoms within a few months at most.

But about 10 to 15 per cent of patients who have taken a blow to the head develop what’s known as postconcussion syndrome, in which symptoms persist far longer than expected.

“Those symptoms include very typical symptoms, like headache, sleep problems, irritability,” Marshall said from Ottawa.

Initially after a concussion, patients are told to rest both physically and mentally — limiting or avoiding reading or time in front of the TV or computer screen — to give the brain an opportunity to recover from the injury.

“However, there comes a time where rest probably isn’t that productive,” he said of patients whose symptoms persist over time. “What we need to do is come up with a plan about reWant to cut down or cut out diet drinks? These strategies can help: ● Opt for water and fruit. Switching from regular soda to water can help you lose weight. Munch a juicy peach, pear, apple or orange when you crave something sweet. Your taste buds will be satisfied, and you’ll get a burst of important nutrients. ● Make a zero-calorie tea in 60 seconds. Stash fruit-flavoured herbal tea in your cabinet or desk; add one or two bags to a bottle of plain water. Shake gently; wait a minute or two and — voila! — you have a delicious drink. ● Sprinkle sweet seasonings. Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and vanilla give cereal, coffee and wholegrain bread a sweet taste with no downside. ● Slash your diet soda consumption in half. Then halve it again next week.

Keep going until you’re close enough to zero to stop entirely. Replace with water, unsweetened tea, caffeinated water or coffee — just like Dr. Mike!

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suming activities if possible.”

To help primary-care physicians and other health providers, the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation has published a set of guidelines for dealing with post-concussion syndrome.

“Concussion is commonly thought of as a sports injury,” said Marshall, lead author of the guidelines. “But the reality is that many concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, come from mishaps of daily living, such as slipping on the ice while walking the dog, falling down the stairs at home or being in a car crash.

“There are currently good sports guidelines about how to return to play.

Our guidelines take a broader view.

We want to help people return to their lives.”

The guidelines deal with a wide range of symptoms and how best to deal with them.

The key is to help patients find a balance, gradually increasing their ability to tolerate the demands of home, work and social life without causing symptoms to recur or worsen, stressed Marshall.

“For example, if you’re having headaches and other symptoms just merely interacting with your spouse or your family members at home, you’re proba-

bly not at the stage of looking at return to work or return to school,” he said.

“And those are going to be indicators before trying something at a higher level, where it’s truly cognitively demanding.”

Braithwaite was able to return to her job in about 10 months, although she did it in graduated steps, including working from home for a period to avoid the cognitively taxing drive to the office. Her disturbed sleep pattern was treated with medication and good sleep habits that finally helped her get a solid night’s rest.

“It wasn’t do this, that and the other, it was let’s try to find the balance that allows you to not completely remove yourself from life but allows you to heal in the least painful way possible,” she said of Marshall’s prescription for recovery.

“It wasn’t really until I hit the twoyear mark that I felt I was finally more myself,” said Braithwaite, who was once again able to work all day, make dinner and resume her book club and other social activities, which she’d mostly had to give up.

“And I would come home after that and think: ’I still feel OK. I don’t have a crushing headache and I’m not totally exhausted.”’

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SPORTS

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No rush to name captain REBELS WAITING FOR RIGHT TIME BEFORE THEY NAME TEAM’S CAPTAIN

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The official on-ice leader of the Red Deer Rebels will be identified at some point in the future.

Whether that means near future or even a month or two down the road is still up in the air.

“We have no immediate plans to name a captain,” Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter said Wednesday. “We’re just going to hold off and do it at the right time.”

Sutter is waiting for the Minnesota Wild to decide whether defenceman Mathew Dumba will be playing full-time in the NHL this season or whether he will be returned to the Rebels. Dumba will no doubt wear a letter if he’s back in Red Deer, perhaps even the ‘C’.

The Wild pared their roster to 28 players this week, including nine defenceman. Minnesota will almost certainly carry Dumba into the regular season — the Wild’s first game is Oct. 3 — and the 19-yearold will likely play at least nine games — the maxi-

mum allowed for the first year of his three-year entry-level contract to slide — before the club will make a decision on his immediate future.

Meanwhile, rearguard Brady Gaudet and forwards Lukas Sutter and Brooks Maxwell were the Rebels’ alternate captains during 4-2 and 6-3 WHL regularseason opening wins over the Kootenay Ice last weekend.

The same three will be adorned with ‘As’ Friday night when the Rebels host the Regina Pats, but one of more of the letters may be switched around once the club heads out on a four-game road trip next week, or even Saturday when the team visits the Calgary Hitmen.

“We’re thinking about a couple of other guys at this point,” said Sutter.

The Rebels roster still consists of 26 players, not including Dumba, which is more than Sutter would prefer to carry too far into the season.

“I’m trying to do a couple of things (transactions) and I don’t know if they’ll get done or not,” he said.

“We have a couple of players who aren’t happy with the roles they are in and I don’t want any unhappy

players around.” ● The Rebels will open their annual early-season East Division road trip next Tuesday in Saskatoon and will also visit Prince Albert, Moose Jaw and Brandon on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. ● On the Rebels prospects front, forward Meyer Nell, 16, has scored twice and collected six points in two preseason games with the midget AAA Notre Dame Hounds.

Meanwhile, netminders Grant Naherniak, Ryan Toth and Colby Entz have also posted impressive numbers in midget AAA preseason play. Naherniak, in fact, has two shutouts in as many games with the Moose Jaw Generals, Toth didn’t allow a goal in one outing with the Battleford Stars and Colby Entz surrendered just one in a single game with the Generals.

Defenceman Wyatt Kalynuk, 16, has bypassed the midget AAA level altogether and has suited up with his hometown Virden Oil Capitals of the Manitoba Junior League. Kalynuk registered an assist in Virden’s regular-season opener last Friday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Flames edged by ’Yotes in preseason finale

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Coyotes 3 Flames 2 OT CALGARY — Lance Bouma continued his unexpected scoring prowess Wednesday night with his fourth goal in as many pre-season games. Now the Calgary Flames prospect will sit back, wait and hope he did enough to make the team.

In the Flames final preseason test, Calgary fell 3-2 in overtime to the Phoenix Coyotes. Defenceman Zbynek Michalek scored the winning goal.

Coach Bob Hartley said the Flames will make several cuts Thursday as they get closer to the 23-man roster they will deploy when Calgary opens the regular season one week later in Washington.

“I don’t want to go down, I’ve played in the minors before, I know what it’s all about,” said Bouma, the Flames third round draft pick in 2008. “I know I can play here so I want to be here, for sure.”

Due to a serious knee injury, Bouma was limited to just three AHL games last season.

That came after a 2011-12 season in which he was called up in January and spent the rest of the year with the Flames.

He was a good bet to make the club last year but badly injured his knee in October while playing for Abbotsford (AHL) during the NHL lockout.

“For a player that basically missed the entire year last year, Lance showed up in great shape,” said Hartley.

“We saw him work here last year during his rehab. He’s a very committed young man.”

Known more as a physical player at 6-foot-1 and 210 pounds, Bouma has just one goal on his NHL resume in 47 games.

“After missing almost all of last year, it’s nice to come in and have success offensively.

It gives me more confidence on the ice and in the way in the way I’m playing,” Bouma said. “I feel confident that I’ve showed that I can play here, that my knee is fine and I have

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Calgary Flames goalie Reto Berra lets in the game winning overtime goal during NHL pre-season action against the Phoenix Coyotes in Calgary, Wednesday. The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Calgary Flames 3-2. confidence in it. Hopefully they have confidence in me.”

Bouma says he won’t let the stats sheet change who he is as a player.

“I have to be an energy player,” said Bouma. “I need to be as physical as possible and get in and forecheck as much as I can. That’s my game and I have to bring that every night.”

Bouma’s goal on Mike Smith from a scramble in front was one of two goals in less than two minutes that suddenly tied the game 2-2 halfway through the third period.

It wasn’t pretty but Hartley says that’s going to be the way it has to be with this team this year.

“If we can have scoring throughout the lineup, that’s going to be very helpful,” said Hartley. “I don’t think we have one go-to guy offensively that will get 100, 110 points. If we can get scoring from our support guys that will definitely help this hockey club.”

The other goal for Calgary (4-2-1) was scored by Corban Knight, another young forward who is on the bubble of making the team.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Shane Doan also scored for Phoenix (3-2-1). The Coyotes finish their pre-season Friday night with a home game against the San Jose Sharks.

Mike Smith had 29 saves to get the victory while first-year Swiss goaltender Reto Berra had 22 stops for Calgary.

Berra was making his home debut for the Flames.

Acquired last year from St. Louis in the package Calgary got in exchange for Jay Bouwmeester, the 26-year-old has played his entire career in Switzerland.

He has been locked in a goaltending battle with Karri Ramo and veteran Joey MacDonald.

“It’s getting better. For sure, the more you’re on the ice here, you get more comfortable,” Berra said. “I gave everything I had. I think I did pretty good. I think I can play in this league, but it’s not my decision at the end.”

Notes: Not dressed for Calgary were Jiri Hudler (lower body) and Mike Cammalleri (hand), who are both nursing minor injuries. Brian McGrattan also did not play.

Bombers’ bad season continues with loss to Lions This week begins with a clash between the B.C. Tiger-Cats against the Calgary Stampeders in Guelph Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday night. Ont., the temporary shelter for the homeless ‘Cats.

One team has temporarily pinned its hopes on a I lean toward Hamilton to win this game because young quarterback who appears to have enough they have assembled a semblance of a defence from talent to play in this league. The other team is Win- the CFL and NFL discard piles since the start of the nipeg and the beat goes on for the hapless season. The result is a lights-out offence Bombers while they search for a young and an adequate defence for Hamilton as quarterback just like BC’s interim starter, the ‘Cats round the clubhouse turn on the Thomas DeMarco.

2013 regular season.

It is a little dangerous to anoint young Calgary is a very good team, but they pivots like DeMarco as one of the future have trouble playing in the East and will quarterback stars in the CFL, but he is feel the wrath of spurned former Stamp already better than any of Winnipeg’s curquarterback Henry Burris following his rent or former pivots from the past few team’s road loss in Calgary a few weeks seasons. I list former pivots because forago. The game in Calgary was decided by mer Bomber quarterback Buck Pierce a poor field goal kicking game by Hamspelled off DeMarco for a brief time ilton and this game will be decided by against Saskatchewan last Sunday with Burris. predictably poor results.

The late game on Saturday matches the JIM Buck Pierce’s best days as a quarterAlberta Argonauts against the Edmonton SUTHERLAND back were a few years ago before the helEskimos. Alberta has been home for the lacious beatings he has taken to play footArgos since their game against Calgary ball exacted a heavy toll on him. If he was last weekend because they never left the forced into play against his old team, then province.

I would pick the Bombers to win this game because The team stayed in Calgary this past week, unlike the Lions’ third string quarterback is also a former the Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts and BalBomber by the name of Joey Elliot. timore Stallions, all of whom made Red Deer a home But I will pick the BC Lions in this game because base in the past during the week between games in the only light left at the end of the tunnel for the Alberta.

Bombers is they will be more than two-thirds of the Toronto is acclimatized to Mountain Daylight way through the season after they lose this game. Time and will be acclimatized to football victories This season has been one long root canal surgery over Alberta teams after the game against the Eswithout anesthesia for Bomber fans. kimos. Edmonton is buoyed by the two consecutive Saturday’s earlier game matches the Hamilton wins over the Bombers, but that is like a Harlem

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Globetrotter victory in basketball. Toronto quarterback Zach Callaros is the real deal and he will be too much for the Eskies in this game.

The last game of the weekend takes place in Montreal on Sunday morning when the Alouettes host the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Riders do very poorly in their early Sunday games against host Montreal because they are scheduled too soon after a Montreal Saturday night on the town for Reginabased players.

It is very difficult to concentrate on football when the bright lights of a cosmopolitan city like Montreal beckon for young players who live in Regina during the season. The social life change is a little like the difference between a Chevette and a Corvette for these guys.

Saskatchewan will lose even if the team tucks in early in Montreal because the Riders have learned where they really stand when every component of their offence is not available to them. They have lost two starters on the offensive line and star running back Kory Sheets who was well on his way to a CFL rushing record before he was injured a few weeks ago.

The pressure to win games was placed squarely on Rider quarterback Darian Durant with very predictable results: he tanked and the team has lost three games in a row. The trend will continue in Montreal because the Riders will lose another game. Durant can win under ideal conditions but these are hardly ideal conditions for a quarterback with his limited skill set so make it four losses in a row for the Riders after this game.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 B5

Orioles use long ball to drop Jays THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore 9 Toronto 5 BALTIMORE — A winning season was never an objective for the Baltimore Orioles. Reaching the playoffs was all that mattered.

So, after the Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-5 on Wednesday night to clinch a winning record for the second straight year, the players saw absolutely no reason to celebrate the moment.

“We didn’t make it to the playoffs. That was our goal,” shortstop J.J. Hardy said.

“I don’t know how much we look at it as, ‘All right, we got a winning season. Hurrah, hooray.”’

The Orioles were eliminated from the wild-card hunt one night earlier, so manager Buck Showalter rested Adam Jones, Brian Roberts and Matt Wieters and moved Chris Davis from first base to designated hitter.

Jonathan Schoop, a 21-year-old prospect making his major league debut, homered, singled, walked and scored three runs.

Now that, Hardy contended, was exciting.

“I think that’s more important right now, seeing Schoopy go out there and do what he did,” Hardy said. “It’s pretty special, fun to be a part of.”

Perhaps that was the biggest benefit from playing a game that did not have playoff ramifications. With a lineup that included Jason Pridie, Schoop and Steve Clevenger, the Orioles ended a streak of 21 straight games of scoring five runs or fewer.

Schoop couldn’t contain his excitement, even after receiving two postgame pies to the face, an Orioles tradition.

“My major league debut, it was good,” he said.

“It’s the first experience and I’m never going to forget.”

Ryan Flaherty hit a pair of two-run homers, Steve Pearce hit a solo shot and Davis doubled in a run to increase his RBI total to 137 — tied with Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera for the major league lead.

Flaherty connected in the third and eighth innings. It was his second career two-homer game, both of which came against Toronto this season. And so, after a run of 14 straight losing seasons, Baltimore (82-76) is assured of having a winning record in successive years for the first time since 1996-97.

Crawford, Howard among players on Olympic bubble

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — When the NHL season begins, a lot of players will begin tryouts of sorts for their Olympic teams.

Sidney Crosby, of course, is a lock to play for the defending champion Canadians, assuming he stays healthy while playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Patrick Kane, likewise, has a secure spot after helping the U.S. win silver in 2010 — if he isn’t injured in a Chicago Blackhawks uniform.

But for some players in the league such as Corey Crawford and Jimmy Howard, they won’t be only playing for the Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings early in the season.

The goalies are also vying for the honour of being between the pipes at the Sochi Games in less than five months.

Crawford insisted earning a spot on Canada’s team is not on his mind.

“That only puts more pressure on myself,” he said after a preseason game in Detroit. “I just want to worry about what I have to do for our team. To spend any extra time thinking about the Olympic team would be a waste of a time.”

Crawford was one of five goaltenders invited to Hockey Canada’s camp last month.

He was joined by Vancouver’s Roberto Luongo, Montreal’s Carey Price, Phoenix’s Mike Smith and Washington’s Braden Holtby. Three of them will suit up for Canada.

“It’s going to be a huge three months for everybody that’s in consideration because that’s when a lot of guys will make the team — or not,” said Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, who will be back on Canada’s bench after leading the team to gold at the Van-

couver Games.

Howard plans to focus on helping the Red Wings win, hoping that helps him play for the U.S. when the NHL takes a break in February.

“In the back of my mind, I’ll know that I’ll also be auditioning for this team,” Howard said last month in Arlington, Va., at the U.S. hockey camp. “It’ll make the stakes higher for every single game, and I like that.”

Howard acknowledged he will keep tabs on his competition — Los Angeles’ Jonathan Quick, Buffalo’s Ryan Miller, Ottawa’s Craig Anderson and New Jersey’s Cory Schneider — knowing they’re vying for one of three spots.

“Everybody will sort of be watching it,” Howard said. “But I’m not going to read into it too much. You just have to worry about your own game, take care of your business and make it difficult on the staff picking the team.”

Each country in the tournament will have some tough choices to make when finalizing their 25-man teams, but the picks and snubs will be closely watched in the Canada and might create a bit of a buzz in the U.S. before the Dec. 31 deadline to submit rosters. Steve Yzerman returns as the executive director of Hockey Canada and his management group includes fellow NHL executives Ken Holland, Doug Armstrong and Kevin Lowe.

While their watching their teams in the league, the executives will be keeping an eye on players from their countries, conducting conference calls and filing reports.

Holland, GM of the Red Wings, also plans to scout some games in person that are not on his team’s schedule.

“A lot of players from the 2010 team will be on our radar, but there will be some changes because Canada has a lot of good young players who have developed a lot over the last four years,” Holland said.

“When we are playing an opponent, I know who I’ll be evaluating on the other team for Team Canada consideration.”

Nashville Predators GM David Poile is leading the U.S. team for the first time, but is leaning on an advisory group he has been a part of since its inception in 2007.

NHL executives Ray Shero, Stan Bowman, Brian Burke, Dean Lombardi, Dale Tallon and Paul Holmgren are a part of the group that will file reports after each game they attend.

“When we’re watching hockey, out of one eye we’re looking at it from a U.S.A. standpoint,” Poile said.

Poile predicted most, if not all, of the 16 players from the 2010 silver-medal winning team will end up earning a spot to play for their country in Russia.

Blackhawks forward Brandon Saad, who turns 21 in late October, was too young and inexperienced to play for the Americans at the Vancouver Games. He is among the upand-coming players with a shot to be a firsttime Olympian in Sochi.

“That would be a dream come true to represent our country at the Olympics,” Saad said. “If I focus on my game and playing for the Hawks, then hopefully I’ll get to play for our country.”

And his NHL boss doesn’t mind that Saad is thinking and talking about his chances of playing at the Winter Olympics.

“I don’t think it’s a bad thing,” Bowman said. “I don’t think it’s an added pressure.

It’s an added incentive.”

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The Kings got solid goaltending from Mike Salmon who saved all 22 shots he faced but had to leave the game in the third period after being crashed into by a Vikings player. Kraymer Barnstable took over and stopped seven of the eight shots he faced to help preserve the win.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Everett at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Tri-City at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

GA 3 6 4 5 4 9 10 7 9 10 12 12

Pt 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Spokane 3 3 0 0 0 18 5 6 Kelowna 2 2 0 0 0 10 4 4 Seattle 2 2 0 0 0 10 3 4 Portland 3 1 1 0 1 14 12 3 Everett 1 1 0 0 0 8 3 2 Tri-City 3 1 2 0 0 9 10 2 Prince George 3 1 2 0 0 7 18 2 Vancouver 3 1 2 0 0 4 11 2 Victoria 4 1 3 0 0 8 16 2 Kamloops 2 0 2 0 0 4 10 0 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Tuesday’s results Spokane 6 Victoria 2 Tri-City 6 Portland 2 Wednesday’s results Regina 6 Edmonton 0 Seattle 6 Vancouver 0 Spokane 6 Victoria 1 Friday’s games Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 7 5 1 1 11 26 18 Calgary 7 4 2 1 9 25 21 San Jose 4 3 0 1 7 13 7 Phoenix 6 3 2 1 7 17 20 Anaheim 6 3 3 0 6 13 15 Los Angeles 5 2 2 1 5 14 14 Vancouver 5 1 4 0 2 11 18 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s games Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’s game Lethbridge at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

National Hockey League Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Toronto 6 4 1 1 9 19 Buffalo 6 4 1 1 9 21 Ottawa 5 4 1 0 8 17 Boston 5 4 1 0 8 16 Tampa Bay 5 4 1 0 8 19 Florida 5 2 1 2 6 16 Montreal 6 2 3 1 5 19 Detroit 6 2 4 0 4 16

GA 16 15 10 15 13 17 21 16

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 6 3 0 3 9 Columbus 7 4 2 1 9 Pittsburgh 6 3 2 1 7 New Jersey 5 3 2 0 6 Philadelphia 5 1 3 1 3 N.Y. Rangers 4 1 3 0 2 Carolina 4 1 3 0 2 N.Y. Islanders 5 1 4 0 2

GF 20 20 20 12 12 8 9 10

GA 18 20 20 10 15 13 17 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Minnesota 5 4 1 0 8 14 Dallas 5 3 0 2 8 19 Chicago 5 3 0 2 8 16 St. Louis 5 2 2 1 5 16 Nashville 6 2 3 1 5 11 Colorado 4 2 2 0 4 10 Winnipeg 6 1 3 2 4 12

GA 9 15 14 18 19 11 19

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa 3, Toronto 2 New Jersey 2, Philadelphia 1 Nashville 2, Tampa Bay 1 Dallas 5, Colorado 3 Edmonton 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Los Angeles 2, Anaheim 1 San Jose 5, Vancouver 0

CFL East Division W L T 8 4 0 6 6 0 4 8 0 2 10 0

West Division GP W L T x-Calgary 12 9 3 0 B.C. 12 8 4 0 Saskatchewan 12 8 4 0 Edmonton 12 3 9 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

Tennessee Jacksonville PF 354 316 285 251

PA 315 329 349 368

Pt 16 12 8 4

PF 373 325 376 294

PA 301 302 282 328

Pt 18 16 16 6

WEEK 14 Friday, Sept. 27 B.C. at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 28 Calgary vs. Hamilton (at Guelph, Ont.), 4 p.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 29 Saskatchewan at Montreal, 11 a.m.

WEEK 15 Friday, Oct. 4 Hamilton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5 Montreal at Edmonton, 1:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 4:30 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 3 0 0 1.000 59 Miami 3 0 0 1.000 74 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 55 Buffalo 1 2 0 .333 65 L 1 1

South T Pct 0 .667 0 .667

PF 70 68

PA 82 48

1 3

0 0

.667 .000

60 28

56 92

Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh

W 2 2 1 0

L 1 1 2 3

North T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

PF 75 71 47 42

PA 64 64 64 76

Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

W 3 3 1 1

L 0 0 2 2

West T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .333 .333

PF 127 71 78 57

PA 71 34 81 67

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 2 1 0 .667 83 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 79 N.Y. Giants 0 3 0 .000 54 Washington 0 3 0 .000 67

PA 55 86 115 98

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 3 1 1 0

South L T Pct 0 0 1.000 2 0 .333 2 0 .333 3 0 .000

Chicago Detroit Green Bay Minnesota

W 3 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 3

North T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .000

PF 95 82 96 81

PA 74 69 88 96

W Seattle 3 St. Louis 1 San Francisco 1 Arizona 1

L 0 2 2 2

West T 0 0 0 0

PF 86 58 44 56

PA 27 86 84 79

Pct 1.000 .333 .333 .333

PF 70 68 71 34

PA 38 36 74 57

Wednesday’s Games Buffalo 3, Columbus 0 Washington 4, Nashville 1 Ottawa 5, Montreal 2 Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 1 Minnesota 3, St. Louis 1 Phoenix 3, Calgary 2, OT Thursday’s Games Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Florida vs. Tampa Bay at Estero, FL, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Games Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

Toronto at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Dallas vs. Edmonton at Oklahoma City, OK, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg vs. Boston at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers vs. Los Angeles at Las Vegas, NV, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sep. 26 San Francisco at St. Louis, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 29 N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Houston, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at London, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

New England at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Green Bay Monday, Sep. 30 Miami at New Orleans, 6:40 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery Corp.; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday SAN FRANCISCO at St. Louis 3.5 41.5 Sunday Chicago at DETROIT 1.5 48.5 BALTIMORE at Buffalo 3.5 44.5 Arizona at TAMPA BAY 2.5 40.5 PITTSBURGH at Minnesota 1.5 42.5 INDIANAPOLIS at Jacksonville 8.5 42.5 SEATTLE at Houston 2.5 43.5 CINCINNATI at Cleveland 5.5 41.5 NY Jets at TENNESSEE 3.5 39.5 WASHINGTON at Oakland 3.5 45.5 Philadelphia at DENVER 10.5 58.5 DALLAS at San Diego 2.5 47.5 New England at ATLANTA 0.5 49.5 NY Giants at KANSAS CITY 4.5 44.5 Monday Miami at NEW ORLEANS 6.5 47.5

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES—Signed D Nikita Zadorov to a three-year contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Assigned F Brad Winchester and D Theo Peckham to Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS STARS—Assigned D Cameron Gaunce to Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled C Riley Sheahan, RW Teemu Pulkkinen and D Xavier Ouellet from Grand Rapids (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS—Loaned F Vincent Trocheck to San Antonio (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Assigned G Scott Wedgewood; D Brandon Burlon, Eric Gelinas and Jon Merrill; and Fs Stefan Matteau, Rod Pelley, Tim Sestito and Mike Sislo to Albany (AHL). Returned D Damon Severson to Kelowna (WHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS—Assigned G Cam

● High school football: Sylvan Lake at Lindsay Thurber, 4:30 P.M., Great Chief Park; Stettler at Rocky Mountain House, 4:30 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Lacombe, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College hockey: Camrose Augustana at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Talbot; D Tommy Hughes, Aaron Johnson, Dylan McIlrath and Danny Syvret; and Fs Micheal Haley, Michael Kantor, Danny Kristo and Andrew Yogan to Hartford (AHL).

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Reassigned Fs Jonathan Hazen, Trevor Lewis, Mattias Lindstrom and Anthony Luciani to Cincinnati (ECHL). Released D George Hughes and Myles Harvey.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Released 3B Wilson Betemit. Placed INF Manny Machado on the 60-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. Selected the contract of OF Jason Pridie from Norfolk (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS—Promoted manager of media relations Aileen Villarreal to director of media relations.

NEW YORK YANKEES—Placed LHP CC Sabathia on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday.

Reinstated DH Travis Hafner from the 60-day DL. TAMPA BAY RAYS—Assigned RHP J.D. Martin

outright to Durham (IL).

National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Assigned 1B Blake Lalli outright to Nashville (PCL).

NEW YORK METS—Reinstated OF Jordany Valdespin from the restricted list and assigned him to Las Vegas (PCL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Placed LB Alex Okafor on injured reserve. Signed LB Kenny Demens from the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Released OT Dennis Roland. Signed S Chris Crocker.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Signed CB Chris Greenwood from Detroit’s practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS—Released DT Justin Bannan.

Signed WR Charles Hawkins to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Released WR Danny Coale and RB Miguel Maysonet from the practice squad. Signed WR Da’Rick Rogers and RB Kerwynn Williams to the practice squad.

make 31 saves for Olds. Cam Barnes stopped 36 shots in the Canmore net.

Olds will take on the Fort McMurray Oil Barons in a Showcase contest at 4:30 p.m. Friday and will meet the Lloydminster Bobcats Saturday at noon.

The Grizzlys’ next home game is Oct. 8 versus the Calgary Mustangs.

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BRIEFS Grizzlys snap skid with win over Eagles

Vipers edge Wranglers in OT

The Olds Grizzlys will carry at least a bit of momentum into the Alberta Junior Hockey League Showcase starting Thursday at Spruce Grove.

Spencer Dorowicz fired three goals as the Grizzlys snapped a five-game losing streak Tuesday with an 8-5 victory over the host Canmore Eagles.

BJ Duffin connected twice and added two assists for the Grizzlys, who got single goals from Chris Gerrie, Jack Goranson and Austin Kernahan. Replying for the Eagles were Luke Simpson with two goals, Jeremy Margeson, Austen Hebert and Kyle Pauls.

Jake Tamagi and Ethan Jemieff combined to

BLACKFALDS — Nick Glackin’s goal at 4:59 of overtime gave the Red Deer Vipers a 5-4 victory over the Blackfalds Wranglers in Heritage Junior B Hockey league exhibition play Tuesday.

Chris Robertson had two goals and Avery Weenink and Tanner Howe one each for the Vipers, who trailed 2-1 and 3-1 by periods.

Jared Guilbault, Curtis Rajotte, Trent Hermary and Matthew Johnson scored for the Wranglers.

Sunday

Saturday ● College golf: ACAC championship at Olds Central Highlands. ● Peewee football: Red Deer Hornets at Red Deer Steelers, 10:30 a.m., Great Chief Park; Sylvan Lake at Olds, 11 a.m.; Lacombe at Stettler, 1 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer Black, 11 a.m., Arena; Calgary Bisons at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena.

● College golf: ACAC championship at Olds Central Highlands. ● College soccer: Lethbridge at RDC, women at noon, men at 2 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer TBS, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 3 p.m., Arena; Okotoks at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.

Baseball x-Boston Tampa Bay Baltimore New York Toronto

American League East Division W L Pct 96 63 .604 89 69 .563 82 76 .519 82 76 .519 72 86 .456

GB — 6 1/2 13 1/2 13 1/2 23 1/2

x-Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 93 66 .585 88 70 .557 83 75 .529 66 92 .418 62 96 .392

GB — 4 1/2 9 1/2 26 1/2 30 1/2

West Division W L Pct 94 65 .591 87 71 .551 78 80 .494 70 89 .437 51 108 .321

GB — 6 1/2 15 1/2 24 43

x-Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston x-clinched division

Tampa Bay Cleveland Texas Kansas City

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions

● High school football: Ponoka at Lacombe, 7:30 p.m. ● JV volleyball: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

● Bantam football: Ponoka at Lindsay Thurber, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park; Stettler at Lacombe, time TBA; RV Rage at Innisfail, 2:30 p.m.; Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● College soccer: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 2 p.m., men at 4 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Steel Kings, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Sylvan Lake, 6:15 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m., Saddledome (The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Ponoka, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m.

Wild Card AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct 89 69 .563 88 70 .557 87 71 .551 83 75 .529

WCGB — — 1 5

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Yankees 0 Toronto 3, Baltimore 2, 10 innings Texas 3, Houston 2 Detroit 4, Minnesota 2 Colorado 8, Boston 3 L.A. Angels 3, Oakland 0 Seattle 4, Kansas City 0

155 143 155 118

571 602 606 460

88 90 84 55

174 183 184 139

.305 .304 .304 .302

Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 52; MiCabrera, Detroit, 44; Encarnacion, Toronto, 36; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 34; ADunn, Chicago, 32; AJones, Baltimore, 32.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 137; CDavis, Baltimore, 137; Cano, New York, 106; Fielder, Detroit, 106; AJones, Baltimore, 106; Encarnacion, Toronto, 104.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 21-3; Colon, Oakland, 17-6; CWilson, Los Angeles, 17-7; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 16-4; Tillman, Baltimore, 16-7; Lester, Boston, 15-8.

x-Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 93 65 .589 84 75 .528 73 85 .462 72 86 .456 59 100 .371

GB — 9 1/2 20 21 34 1/2

z-St. Louis z-Pittsburgh z-Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 94 65 .591 91 68 .572 90 69 .566 71 87 .449 66 93 .415

GB — 3 4 22 1/2 28

West Division W L Pct x-Los Angeles 91 66 .580 Arizona 80 77 .510 San Diego 73 84 .465 San Francisco 72 85 .459 Colorado 72 87 .453 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Angels 3, Oakland 1 Cleveland 7, Chicago White Sox 2 Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Yankees 3 Baltimore 9, Toronto 5 Texas 7, Houston 3 Detroit 1, Minnesota 0 Boston 15, Colorado 5 Kansas City 0, Seattle 6

GB — 11 18 19 20

Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 2 N.Y. Mets 4, Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 2, Miami 1 Pittsburgh 8, Chicago Cubs 2 St. Louis 2, Washington 0 Colorado 8, Boston 3 Arizona 2, San Diego 1, 12 innings L.A. Dodgers 2, San Francisco 1

Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay (Cobb 10-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 9-5), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 12-9) at Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 10-8), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Williams 9-10) at Texas (Garza 4-5), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (McAllister 9-9) at Minnesota (A.Albers 2-4), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 14-12) at Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 2-2), 6:10 p.m.

H 189 144 187 194 187 156

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 1, Cincinnati 0 St. Louis 4, Washington 1 Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 4, Atlanta 0 Miami 3, Philadelphia 2 Boston 15, Colorado 5 Arizona at San Diego, late L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, late Thursday’s Games Arizona (Cahill 8-10) at San Diego (Erlin 3-3), 4:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Hellweg 1-4) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 12-10), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Cloyd 2-6) at Atlanta (Hale 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Volquez 9-12) at San Francisco (Lincecum 10-14), 8:15 p.m.

Friday’s Games Boston at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 810 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R MiCabrera Det 146 548 103 Mauer Min 113 445 62 Trout LAA 153 578 108 ABeltre Tex 156 612 85 Cano NYY 157 594 80 DOrtiz Bos 135 508 80

Donaldson Oak TorHunter Det Hosmer KC HKendrick LAA

Pct. .345 .324 .324 .317 .315 .307

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Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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All about continuity for Habs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — It will be all about continuity for the Montreal Canadiens.

And they’ll be a little bigger and grittier too.

The Canadiens were one of the big surprises of the lockout-shortened 2012-13 NHL campaign, as they went from last in the east to winning the Northeast Division and finishing second to Pittsburgh in the conference.

A sterling regular season was almost forgotten with their quick playoff exit at the hands of the Ottawa Senators, but defenceman Josh Gorges says there must have been a lot to their game that was worth keeping when they posted a 29-14-5 record in 48 games.

“This year, it’s attention to detail and fine-tuning the little parts of our game,” said Gorges. “We’re used to the system. Now it’s time to take it to that next level.”

It is Season 2 with Marc Bergevin as general manager and Michel Therrien

as coach.

Bergevin made a few moves, but kept the core of the team intact.

The biggest signing was small, skilled forward Danny Briere, who turns 36 on Oct. 6. The Gatineau, Que., native who grew up idolizing the Canadiens was bought out by the salary cap-squeezed Philadelphia Flyers and finds himself on right wing of the first line with David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty.

They added size and toughness by signing defenceman Douglas Murray, who is expected to skate on the third pairing, and fourth-line enforcer George Parros.

The notable departures were winger Michael Ryder, who was replaced

by Briere, and little-used defenceman Tomas Kaberle.

The biggest question will be how Carey Price will perform after his game, which had been solid most of the campaign, fell apart late in the season and into the playoffs, prompting fits of angst among the team’s fans.

Bergevin signed goalie coach Stephane Waite, who had helped Antti Niemi and Corey Crawford develop into Stanley Cup winners in Chicago, to work on taking Price to the next level.

The 26-year-old won’t lack motivation, as a strong first half could win him a spot on the Canadian Olympic team.

Where the Canadiens should get better is from the continued development of the three gifted young players who now form the third line — centre Lars Eller with pesky Brendan Gallagher and 2012 third-overall draft pick Alex Galchenyuk.

Gallagher was a finalist for the Calder Trophy after scoring 15 goals

as rookie, but the playmaking Galchenyuk is the one with star potential who will be looking to improve on his nine goals and 18 assists in controlled ice time last season.

When asked where he thought the team would be better this season, the captain Brian Gionta said “just maturity.

“Look at the strides some of our young guys made last year. That end will be much better.”

That would include the flashy 24-year-old P.K. Subban, Gorges’ defence partner who had a breakout year with 11 goals and 38 points in 42 games that won him the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top rearguard.

And 24-year-old Pacioretty, the power winger who led the team with 39 points.

Better seasons are expected from some older players as well.

Andrei Markov, who looked stiff at times on the rebound from a run of knee injuries, has been skating with something like his old fluidity in camp.

When healthy, Markov is a first-rate puck-moving defenceman and powerplay point man.

“It’s a huge lift having him as healthy and strong and conditioned as he is,” said Gorges. “He’s arguably a top-tier defenceman in the game today.

“His ability to make plays and calm things down when things get crazy out there is unbelievable. He’s a big asset for our team.”

“I’m just happy to be healthy and working hard like a normal person,” said Markov.

He is paired with third-year blueliner Raphael Diaz, at least until nasty hitter Alexei Emelin returns from a

knee injury some time in December.

And there is forward Travis Moen, who struggled last season after signing a contract extension with only two goals and six points in 45 games. A checker, he isn’t looked to for many points, but Moen looked listless for most of the 2012-13 campaign.

“He looks to be in better shape than he was last season and it shows on the ice,” said Therrien. “He has a lot more jump in his game.”

Moen has been mostly on the fourth line in camp. He is likely to share that unit with centre Ryan White, winger Brandon Prust and, at times, Parros.

The veteran second line is unchanged with Tomas Plekanec between Rene Bourque and Brian Gionta, who returns from a torn biceps muscle.

If a rookie sticks with the club it will no doubt be towering defenceman Jarred Tinordi, a stay-at-home type who can move the puck and plays a physical game.

With seventh defenceman Davis Drewiske injured, Tinordi could pressure slow-footed Murray and 37-yearold Francis Bouillon for a spot on the third pairing.

Greg Pateryn also looks close to being NHL-ready, so the Canadiens have depth at the blue-line.

Where they want to improve most is in their post-season play. Losing in five to Ottawa threw a large bucket of cold water on a team that had been hot for most of the regular season.

“The challenge is always to be peaking come playoffs,” said Gionta. “It was a great accomplishment to win the division and come second in the conference, but at the end of the day, it’s what you do in the playoffs.

More goals, tough defence priorities for Senators

Maple Leafs looking to move on from playoff collapse

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators believe that a single player doesn’t define a team, even if that player is Daniel Alfredsson.

In a surprise turn of events this past summer, the Senators’ longtime captain signed a one-year deal with the Detroit Red Wings as an unrestricted free agent.

Alfredsson’s departure left fans, management and even teammates reeling, but to a man the Senators say they are ready to move on.

“Our identity is still the same as last year,” said forward Zack Smith. “We’re known as a hard working team, a very good skating team and one that never gives up. “(Alfredsson) was a huge part of the team for years and it will be hard to match that, but at the same time people don’t see other leadership throughout the room. We have a lot of guys who have been around for a while and are leaders as well, so it’s a chance for them to step up and kind of take on a bigger role.”

When the Senators open the regular season against the Buffalo Sabres Oct. 4 they will usher in a new era with Jason Spezza as captain. After missing most of last season with a back injury, the 30-year-old is excited at the prospect of leading the Senators.

“I have high expectations of myself and with missing last year I want to have a good year,” said Spezza.

“You want to be consistent when you’re the captain of a hockey club, you want guys to see you’re there every day and you’re bringing what’s good for the team every night and that’s what I’m going to try and do.”

Spezza worked hard over the summer and doesn’t anticipate any recurring issues from the back surgery he underwent for a herniated disc.

Hours after losing Alfredsson to free agency, the Senators worked out a trade with Anaheim and acquired Bobby Ryan, a four-time thirty goal scorer, who will play on Spezza’s right side with Milan Michalek on the left. Michalek is recovering from a procedure on his knee and only time will tell whether or not it was successful.

Ryan is looking forward to helping the Senators improve on its 27th ranking in goals scored last season after playing in the shadow of Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in Anaheim.

“After being around for a couple of weeks you start to get a realization and an understanding of just what the pressure feels like playing here,” said Ryan. “I think if you have the expectations yourself it won’t mount as much and I certainly have that for myself this year.”

The addition of Clarke MacArthur, who is expected to play with Kyle Turris and a yet-to-be determined right-winger on the second line, allows for the possibility of decent secondary scoring.

While there’s little doubt the Senators will want to score more goals this year, they would be happy to replicate their defensive prowess. The Senators finished second in the league in goals against thanks to the play of its goaltenders.

TORONTO — By the second week of the pre-season, Randy Carlyle was tired of talking about Game 7.

In chiding reporters for asking about the Toronto Maple Leafs’ stunning collapse in the first round against the Boston Bruins last season, the coach joked that he “forgot about it already.”

It’s hard to forget about an elimination that stemmed from surrendering a three-goal lead with 14:31 left in the third period and losing in overtime. But that’s exactly what the Leafs are trying to do as they attempt to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year and perhaps take a step forward by winning a round.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow at that time, and I think everyone’s over it now and there’s really no sense of looking at the past,” centre Nazem Kadri said.

“We’re just looking forward. We know we can obviously do better than that. That experience, a seven-game series with arguably the best team in hockey, is something you can’t teach.”

Losing in such heartbreaking fashion could be a teachable moment for a group that was in the playoffs for the first time. But listen to general manager Dave Nonis and it’s like Game 7 was just another end to a season.

“To be honest with you, I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about the end of the Boston game,” Nonis said. “We’re not forgetting what happened. But I haven’t spent, literally, five minutes thinking about it. It’s dwelling on a negative that we shouldn’t dwell on.”

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Most importantly a Leafs team made the playoffs for the first time since 2003-04.

“It was a different year for us,” Nonis said.

“We had to push people.

Coaches, players pushed themselves to do what they normally hadn’t done, and it allowed us to have a little bit of success.”

But it’s not nearly enough, especially given that new Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment CEO talking about planning out the eventual Stanley Cup parade though Toronto.

So the Leafs made some changes. They traded for Los Angeles Kings backup goaltender Jonathan Bernier to team him up with James Reimer, traded for Chicago Blackhawks centre Dave Bolland to replace the bought-out Mikhail Grabovski and signed right-winger David Clarkson to a seven-year, $36.75-million contract.

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Bergeron won it in overtime, sending the Leafs home for the off-season.

“That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die,” Toronto winger Joffrey Lupul tweeted the next day.

It’s a game that has the potential to haunt the Leafs for a long time.

But even if it’s in players’ heads, they’re not saying so.

“I haven’t thought too much about it,” centre Tyler Bozak said. “I mean we don’t talk about it that much or anything like that, but obviously it’s something that is pretty tough to forget and gives you a lot of motivation. But in the end I think it’s something that we learn from and it’ll help us in the future.”

Sure, it might. But Nonis made the better argument that last season as a whole should have a more profound impact on the Leafs than the final 11 minutes.

Toronto won 26 games and picked up 57 points during the lockout-shortened season. Over a full 82 games, that would be

built to do, you get into some trouble. We want Dave Bolland to be the player he was in Chicago, for David Clarkson to be the player he was in New Jersey and for Jonathan Bernier to be the guy he was in L.A.” The Leafs also need last season’s stars to continue producing.

Kadri got a two-year, $5.8-million deal after recording 44 points in 48 games. Toronto is wellpositioned in those two seasons if he’s still a point-a-game player.

“Do I think I can?

Yeah, I think I can. Am I saying I’m going to? I don’t know yet,” Kadri said. “I’m not making any promises. I’m just going to go out there, try and handle myself like I did last year, and obviously if I’m working as hard as I possibly can, I’m going to get some bounces and the puck’s going to fall (for) me some games.”

Forward Phil Kessel (20 goals and 32 assists in 48 games) hopes this is the season he scores 40.

He’s in a contract year and could be an unrestricted free agent next summer.

By then, his value could be astronomical, especially with the salary cap expected to rise.

Kessel, who turns 26 on Oct. 2, brushed off worries about re-signing with the Leafs right away and may be set for a career year.

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Coaching changes could lead to culture shocks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Marc Staal kept trailing off.

The New York Rangers defenceman was trying to describe the end of the John Tortorella era. “It just seemed like we had no...” he said, not completing his sentence. “There was a lot of negative...”

Staal never finished the thought.

But he acknowledged that things got “stagnant” under the disciplinarian coach.

“Management thought we needed a fresh voice as something that would spark us up a little bit,” he said. “I think there’s excitement to have a fresh voice and fresh ideas that are going to come into play.”

That fresh voice belongs to former Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault. Tortorella replaced him with the Canucks, and culture changes are in the offing in both places.

“It’s just a different look,” Canucks centre Ryan Kesler said. “Hopefully it energizes both teams.”

That’s the idea behind coaching changes, including the Edmonton Oilers hiring Dallas Eakins to replace the fired Ralph Krueger and the Dallas Stars bringing in the seasoned Lindy Ruff to shepherd a litany of changes.

In Edmonton, Eakins is being counted on to get the Oilers back to the playoffs for the first time since their 2006 trip to the Stanley Cup final. The former coach of the AHL’s Toronto Marlies could be well-suited for a talented yet growing group that includes Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Ryan NugentHopkins, Nail Yakupov and Justin Schultz.

‘I KNOW HIS PHILOSOPHY IS IN GREAT, GREAT CONDITIONING AND MOST PLAYERS ARE, BUT HE GOES THAT EXTRA STEP. HIS TEAMS ARE REALLY GOING TO SKATE WELL, BE IN GREAT CONDITION. THEY’RE ALL YOUNG, GOOD PLAYERS THERE IN EDMONTON RIGHT NOW, SO I THINK IT’S A GOOD SITUATION FOR HIM.’ — BINGHAMTON SENATORS COACH LUKE RICHARDSON ON NEW EDMONTON OILERS COACH DALLAS EAKINS

“I think it was a great situation for him to go to Edmonton because it’s a young team, it’s what he’s used to dealing with,” said Binghamton Senators coach Luke Richardson, a friend of Eakins dating to their time with the Peterborough Petes.

“I know his philosophy is in great, great conditioning and most players are, but he goes that extra step. His teams are really going to skate well, be in great condition. They’re all young, good players there in Edmonton right now, so I think it’s a good situation for him.”

Those young players understand the pressure is on them to perform on the ice. Eberle remembers the Oilers dominating at times last season but not being able to maintain consistency.

“I think we need to get a winning mentality back,” he said.

Richardson is one of Eakins’ biggest supporters as his fitness-first mentality gets a run at this Edmonton team.

“I think an organization, as good of players as you have and talented as players you have, you really have got to have good coaching and good structure and have that respect there to have all those players playing together,” Richardson said. “Otherwise, if you don’t

play together and every other team is, you’re not going to go anywhere.”

Perhaps that’s why Eakins was so sought-after during the off-season. The Canucks were interested in hiring him, before the Oilers made room for him by firing Krueger.

“Think there was talk of Vancouver really wanting him but him deciding his fit would be Edmonton better,” Richardson said. “It sure seems to be a better fit.”

But Vigneault was also a hot commodity. As Stars general manager Jim Nill remade the roster by trading for centres Tyler Seguin and Rich Peverley from Boston, Shawn Horcoff from Edmonton and defenceman Sergei Gonchar from Ottawa, he interviewed Vigneault.

Nill wasn’t surprised that Vigneault withdrew from consideration and took the Rangers job. So he moved on and hired Ruff because of his experience, credibility and knowledge.

“All these attributes were checked off,” Nill said.

Ruff and Vigneault don’t share much in terms of coaching styles, but both came close to winning the Stanley Cup. Ruff and the Buffalo Sabres lost to the Stars, coincidentally enough, on

Dallas Eakins Brett Hull’s infamous overtime goal in 1999, while Vigneault and the Canucks fell short against the Bruins in 2011.

That 2011 Cup final created plenty of tension between the Bruins and Canucks, but it also Boston centre Patrice Bergeron a look at how Vigneault teams tend to play. That experience will be vital now that he’s behind the Rangers’ bench.

“I think the Rangers were already a team that was hard to play against,” Bergeron said. “I think (up-tempo) is his style. Playing against Vancouver, that’s the way that they were: an inyour-face type of team and lots of offence but also lots of grit.”

The Canucks could present the same challenges. With Daniel and Henrik Sedin leading the way, Vancouver is built for skill but now coached for shot-blocking and sacrifice thanks to Tortorella.

“Obviously a guy that expects a lot, wants a lot from his team and a guy that wants more and a guy that’s going to hold everybody accountable,” Kesler said.

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FRONT UPCYCLED COSTUMES Bring your Halloween costume idea to the Upcycled Costume Workshop on Friday and leave with a plan to make it more eco-friendly. The workshop, to be held at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 6 to 8 p.m., is open to all. Admission is by suggested donation of $5 per person. Call 403-346-2010 for more information.

HUMANITARIAN TO TELL STORIES A man who has spent 15 years doing humanitarian work in Mongolia and Sudan will share his stories on this weekend. Llewellyn Juby will speak about his experiences at Canadian University College in Lacombe on Saturday, and CrossRoads Church on Sunday. Juby is the project partner for A Better World and CrossRoads Church’s humanitarian work in Sudan, where he and his wife live. The talks are titled Beyond Borders: The Goat Ate My School! and put on by A Better World.

Start times at Canadian University College are 9:15 and 11:45 a.m. on Saturday; the talks at CrossRoads Church start at 9 and 11 a.m., and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.

CANCER CLINIC UPDATE An update on the new Central Alberta Cancer Clinic will be provided during the Central Alberta Council on Aging annual meeting on Tuesday. Mona Udowicz, project leader, director of radiation therapy, community oncology, for Alberta Health Services, will speak at 9 a.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre located at 4620 47A Ave. There will be a $3 charge at the door to cover costs, which include light refreshments.

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Unique skateboard program starts GLENDALE PROGRAM BELIEVED ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN CANADA

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Many teachers perhaps wish they could make use of a megaphone in class like Everett Tetz gets to do.

But the teachers at Red Deer’s Glendale Sciences and Technology School do not have to contend with rolling wheels, the slap of runaway skateboards on concrete, or the excited chatter of students attempting their first ollies while in class.

In fact, there may be no other teacher in the province, or the country, that deals with such a din, because the school’s new program offering of skateboarding in class could be the only one of its kind in Canada.

On Wednesday, class started with a discussion on boarding safety and how one configures the parts of the board to fit one’s own riding style.

Then, the students excitedly grabbed their helmets and boards and, not waiting for their teacher, raced out to the brand new boarding park adjacent to the northend school.

After no more than a minute, ever-eager Noah Goodwin’s board was flying in the air and he was falling onto the hard slope of one of the park’s two bowls.

This fall did not do any damage, but the 11-year-old may actually have wished that it did.

“It’s a lot of fun, until you get hurt,” he said.

And then, a pause, and Goodwin shows off a still-healing wound from a past tumble: “But it’s still fun after that. It’s actually quite fun getting hurt, ‘cause then you get to learn what you did wrong.”

Novice skateboarders ollieing their way to injuries is not something Tetz wants, of

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Glendale Science and Technology School teacher Everett Tetz leads a group of boys including from the left, Caleb Ward, Carter Stacey, Carlos Thurlow and Jayvan Diks during the after school skateboarding club in the skate park at the school this week. course, as his emphasis on safety in class demonstrates.

But, he said, the perception that skateboarding is more dangerous than more traditional pursuits like basketball or football is actually false, despite what the bloodsplattering graphics on Tony Hawk video games might suggest.

And some of the greenest students were not ready on Wednesday to hop up onto the board on their two feet, preferring to ride around on their bums, or even their stomachs. Tetz said the sport naturally allows for creativity and a lot of trial and error.

“Schools are really moving towards creativity being at the centre of education.

Having skated most of my life, it still stands that some of the most creative people I know have skateboarded.

“There’s just something about it. It’s sort

of self-taught. It attracts the kids that don’t learn well out of a textbook or by a coach.

They’re really teaching themselves, they’re problem solving, and just finding creative ways to express themselves on a skateboard,” he said.

The class is an even split between girls and boys.

Like Goodwin, Taylor Bazylo had tried skateboarding before the class was offered, having started two years ago.

Her brothers taught her to skateboard and longboard, and though one of those brothers wrecked the board she owns, she is still eager to skate and learn from the class how to do tricks.

“I like it. I think it was a really good idea to make this a class,” she said.

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REC DEER CIVIC ELECTIONS

Moffat promises lively debate BIDS TO RETURN TO COUNCIL

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Former long-term city councillor Dennis Moffat promises lively debate and pointed discussions while offering experience on Red Deer city council.

Moffat said the nine years away from the political arena have refreshed and rejuvenatDennis Moffat ed him.

“I want to be back in it because it is going to be an exciting time,” said Moffat, who added he missed being at the table.

The 80-year-old says he brings experience and common sense to the table.

Moffat served 27 years on city council until he was defeated at the polls in 2004.

The retired teacher would like to see the city’s 10-year capital plan and the Riverlands development carried out properly, with the right people in place.

Moffat supports building a 50-metre pool and the bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

Repairing the damage to the city’s riverbanks from the June flooding is high on his priority list.

Moffat said he takes his time to make a decision after examining all the facts and listening to all the arguments.

He says he knows how the system works.

“Investing in the city is

good,” said Moffat.

“Throwing money to satisfy an interest group is wrong. I am not afraid to be wrong. I just want to make clear decisions on the questions that come up.”

Moffat said he is proud of the work he did on council on the Collicutt Centre, Great Chief Park, River Bend and the landfill at the city’s Waste Management Facility. He is a founding member of Central Alberta Theatre.

“Red Deer has been good to me and my family and I want to return something,” said Moffat.

“I like to be involved.”

These days, Moffat is busy running an art studio, the Red Deer Public Market and is a director on the boards of the Central Alberta Co-op and River Bend Golf and Recreation Area.

He’s been married to Barb for 52 years.

Other council hopefuls are Jerry Anderson, Betty LynBaker, Terry Balgobin, Bob Bevins, Buck Buchanan (incumbent), Matt Chapin, Steve Coop, Garry Didrikson, Serge Gingras, Calvin Goulet-Jones, Tanya Handley, Paul Harris (incumbent), David Helm, Lloyd Johnson, Ken Johnston, Tim Lasiuta, Lawrence Lee, Dan McKenna, Victor Mobley, Dawna Morey, Lynne Mulder (incumbent), Ben Ordman, Janella Spearing, Troy Wavrecan, Jonathan Wieler, Frank Wong (incumbent), Dianne Wyntjes (incumbent), Darren Young and Calvin Yzerman.

The five-way mayoral race includes Councillors Cindy Jefferies and Tara Veer and newcomers William Horn and Chad Mason. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Coop making — no promises — says citizens build city

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer city council candidate Stephen Coop is not making many election promises because he says it takes a group to move them forward.

Coop, 57, an Associated Cab taxi driver, was born in Calgary and has lived in Red Deer since 1992.

Coop started his career w o r k i n g i n Stephen Coop newspapers as a reporter and photojournalist before moving to public relations work with the provincial government.

He is also a former justice education co-ordinator for the John Howard Society in Red Deer.

“I believe the citizens build the city,” said Coop.

“City Hall doesn’t. I think a council is a sounding board of the community.

“It is up to the community to build their city. I am only offering to be there as a public service.”

Coop said he is not running for council with a plan to change a lot of things but to learn, listen and contribute.

“There are major costs involved in a developing city,” said Coop.

“I think part of what needs to be happen is some better communication.

“People need to understand what is being done and why . . .

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some fairly simple basic principles of communication seem to be missing.”

Coop does not support the city moving to a ward system because he said it would be very expensive and the citizens would not get the representation they seek.

Coop wants to have discussions around moving council into a full-time job.

“It is in the interest of the community that the elected people are there with a full-time commitment,” said Coop.

“A full-time commitment to the city is necessary.”

Coop has volunteered on political campaigns in Edmonton.

His platform pledge is to donate 500 Crimson Star columbines, Red Deer’s official flower, to the community.

Other council hopefuls are Jerry Anderson, Betty LynBaker, Terry Balgobin, Bob Bevins, Buck Buchanan (incumbent), Matt Chapin, Garry Didrikson, Serge Gingras, Calvin Goulet-Jones, Tanya Handley, Paul Harris (incumbent), David Helm, Lloyd Johnson, Ken Johnston, Tim Lasiuta, Lawrence Lee, Dan McKenna, Victor Mobley, Dennis Moffat, Dawna Morey, Lynne Mulder (incumbent), Ben Ordman, Janella Spearing, Troy Wavrecan, Jonathan Wieler, Frank Wong (incumbent), Dianne Wyntjes (incumbent), Darren Young and Calvin Yzerman.

The five-way mayoral race includes Councillors Cindy Jefferies and Tara Veer and newcomers William Horn and Chad Mason. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Woman fined, jailed Fines and a short jail term have been ordered for a Red Deer woman awaiting trial in connection with an alleged escort scam.

Lindsay Rae Mazzei, 30, was arrested in Kamloops with two others on June 13 on charges arising from allegations that local men were robbed and beaten after attempting to hire escorts online.

Mazzei also faces charges arising from break-ins at rural properties around Blackfalds and Bentley earlier this year.

In Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday, Mazzei pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching release conditions by failing to attend court when required.

She was fined $250 for the first breach and ordered to serve one day in custody for the second, with Judge Bill Andreasson giving her seven days credit for the time she has already served in pretrial custody. Mazzei is not in custody.

She and her lawyer, Walter Kubanek, are to return to court on Oct. 9 to address additional charges arising from the alleged break-ins and alleged escort scam.

Residents enjoy car free day Residents dusted off their bikes, took a stroll or carpooled, parking their vehicles as part of World Car Free Day on Sunday.

Nearly 50 people filled out an online survey saying they had taken part in World Car Free Day, with many choosing multiple alternative modes of transportation to the vehicle, including walking (65 per cent), taking Red Deer Transit (47 per cent), cycling (42 per cent) and carpooling (21 per cent).

Red Deer Transit ridership was up 23 per cent overall on World Car Free Day from the previous Sunday. The day is designed to explore alternative modes of transportation to the vehicle, reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution, improve health and save money.

Survey respondents answered a question about what would make it easier to get around the city any other day of the year.

Some suggested more buses, routes, stops and bus benches; cheaper bus passes; and more sidewalks cleared of snow.

Man sentenced on charges A Red Deer man accused in a violent robbery at a downtown pizza store has been sentenced to a total of 161 days on other charges, minus credit for two different stints in pre-trial custody.

Ernest Leslie Bedore, 42, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday to five different counts of breaching release conditions, including failing to report to his probation officer, drinking while prohibited and missing court dates.

Bedore and David Fehr, 45, were arrested on Jan. 30 by Red Deer City RCMP investigating a robbery at the Dominos Pizza. Both men were charged with robbery, forcible confinement and choking someone to overcome resistance.

Bedore was granted bail on March 20, with new

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Rob Desfosse from Alderflats in the red truck thought that Rick Hoflan was putting up a smoke screen at the Rimbey Mod Bog. The crowd cheered when they lost sight of the trucks in the smoke from the truck’s exhaust pipe. warrants issued when he failed to attend court on May 8. He was arrested again on July 27 on outstanding warrants and has remained in custody since on various charges. On Wednesday, Judge Bill Andreasson sentenced Bedore to 161 days in total on the breaches, minus 120 days for the time he has spent in remand since being arrested in January.

Represented by defence counsel Craig Paterson of Ponoka, Bedore had previously pleaded not guilty and asked for trial in the Court of Queen’s Bench on charges laid in connection with the Dominos Pizza allegations. Fehr pleaded guilty on March 15 to the robbery charge and was sentenced to 21 months in jail followed by 12 months on probation.

Charges of forcible confinement and choking to overcome resistance were withdrawn as a result of his guilty plea. Bedore has also pleaded not guilty to charges of impaired driving and driving while disqualified, laid in a separate investigation.

He and his lawyer are to return to court on Oct. 22 for a bail hearing on both sets of charges and to set dates for the impaired and disqualified driving trial.

A preliminary hearing is being scheduled separately for the robbery and related offences.

Man’s sentencing delayed Sentencing has been delayed until mid-October for a Red Deer man arrested on warrants dating back to 2009.

Brandon Kevin Wattie, 27, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Aug. 28 to break and enter charges laid in 2009 and 2010.

Sentencing had been postponed to Wednesday to allow time for psychiatric and psychological assessments to determine if Wattie suffers from a mental disorder. But the planned hearing could not proceed because the assessments has not yet been performed. Represented by defence counsel Michael Scrase, Wattie remains in custody with sentencing rescheduled to Oct. 16. ‘Wattie has additional charg-

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Garrington bridge rebuild complete A three-month long project to rebuild the Garrington bridge has wrapped up, allowing both lanes to travel over the well-used span.

Both lanes of the bridge on Hwy 587 re-opened Tuesday for regular traffic. The bridge was damaged during the June flooding in Alberta. On June 22 the east end of the Garrington bridge was washed out.

Alberta Transportation said crews and contractors worked hundreds of hours on major repair work to rebuild the approach to the bridge and build up the foundation.

Though work on the bridge itself has wrapped up, additional work to mitigate potential future flooding to the span is going ahead. New riverbank protection works upstream, seeding the disturbed areas and installing drainage control measures is underway.

The work does not affect the safe operation of the bridge deck for motorists traveling on it and will be completed in November. On average about 1,100 vehicles cross the bridge every day.

Chinook’s Edge teachers pact signed The Chinook’s Edge School Division and the Alberta Teaches Association Local 17 have signed a collective agreement, with unanimous support from both sides.

Kevin Pizzey, ATA Local 17 president, said that while a unanimous vote is unusual it was welcome.

“We were seventh out of 62 divisions in the province to reach a tentative agreement, which we accomplished on Sept. 12,” said Pizzey. “To pass it so smoothly continues to build on the positivity that exists between the local ATA and the Chinook’s Edge board.” The collective agreement encompasses the results of the local bargaining process and is part of the overall provincial framework delivered through Alberta Education.

“For Chinook’s Edge, this represent three years of labour stability with a key group of our people and this is great news for everyone in our Chinook’s Edge communities,” said Colleen Butler, board of education chair.

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SKATEBOARD: Curriculum planned

It is not fully a class just yet though. This semester it is operating as a part of the Recreation Education class offering while Tetz develops a curriculum for a skateboarding-specific class.

“I want to promote skateboarding, but this is about education for me. Schools need to adapt to the kids that we’re teaching, and this is a part of that.

For some teachers, it’s just as simple as bringing in what they’re passionate about, and connecting with what the kids are passionate about. This is more about engagement, giving kids skills to move forward with, all that kind of stuff,” said Tetz.

He will present his curriculum to the division board in January, with the board then to decide whether skateboarding can stand alone as a class. It would be offered as an elective to Grade 7 and 8 students at Glendale.

“It’s going to be insane. I’ve got a huge group of 7s and 8s who are really just chomping at the bit to get at it. It’s think it’s going to be a long list,” said Tetz.

His main duty at the school is as its guidance counsellor, and he sees his skateboarding teaching as somewhat of an extension of that job.

“I get to work with kids in a different capacity and a lot of those kids who you’d classify as hard-to-reach kids, we have the opportunity to bond over something as trivial as skateboarding. It’s a moment for us to get together and talk and spend time together, so it’s a real positive thing,” he said.

Should the course be approved by the board, it would become one in a long list of locally-developed courses for middle invites you to their school students in the Red Deer Public School Division. Recreation Education itself was such a course; others include Hockey Skills, (Gasoline Alley, RD South) Scrapbooking, and Sci8:00 to 5:00 on Friday, Sept. 27 and ence Fiction Reading and Creative Writing.

9:00 to 2:00 on Saturday, Sept. 28 Division deputy superintendent Stu Henry Shop for piano books, said the Recreation Education course was digital and acoustic pianos, initially designed by music-themed gifts, and more. an elementary school that had its own bus to APTA Conference, www.aptaonline.net use to shuttle students

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around town for activities such as bowling and rock climbing. Now that other schools have buses at their disposal, he said he expects they too will look at skateboarding as an educational option, even if only Glendale has a skate park on school grounds.

“I would believe that as Mr. Tetz develops this course, it’ll become popular and it’ll probably get picked up elsewhere as well,” said Henry.

Neither Tetz nor Henry were aware of any other schools in Canada that offer skateboarding as a class, but Tetz said some schools in the U.S. do. Tetz has also run an extra-curricular skate club with 30-40 attendees after school for the last three years.

The new skate park, at 21,000 square feet, opened earlier this year and has proven popular with students and adults alike. In past years, the club would practice on a simple concrete pad.

In addition to skating at the park, the class will learn some about skateboarding history and its relevance to modern culture. They will also have the opportunity to make and design their own boards from square one using a board press at the school. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

BUSINESS

C3 TD raises growth outlook

THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 2013

SAYS CONSUMER SPENDING WILL DRIVE Q3 GROWTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

staircase connecting the two.

The 14 bays inside range in size from about 800 to 4,730 square feet.

Because the building has been condominiumized, space can be purchased or leased, said Jardine.

“We’ve had good interest,” he said. “I’ve had about a half a dozen people express interest with me personally, and then I’ve had a couple of realtors call with questions.”

Jardine said retail and office uses have been proposed for the building.

TD Bank has raised its outlook for Canadian economic growth for the third quarter and says consumer spending will be the driving force — not exports and business spending, as it had thought earlier.

In a quarterly update to its economic forecast, the bank (TSX:TD) said Wednesday that it expects Canada’s economy to grow at an annual pace of 2.3 per cent in the July-September period, compared with a June forecast for growth of two per cent.

TD still expects full-year growth will be 1.7 per cent in 2013 and 2.4 per cent in 2014.

“Economists in Canada are guilty of sounding like broken records, repeating the need for Canada’s growth to shift from relying on heavily indebted consumers to stronger exports and business investment,” the bank said in its report.

“While the process has started, U.S. economic growth looks slightly softer in the near term making the transition uneven. In the meantime, the consumer and the housing market have shown more momentum, helping to keep the economy puffing along.”

The U.S. economy faces several challenges in the coming months including another congressional showdown over the federal government’s budget and borrowing.

A near-term issue is a temporary spending bill required to keep the U.S. government fully open after the start of the new budget year. The government also reaches its borrowing limit, or debt ceiling, early in October.

In addition, the U.S. Federal Reserve has moved to delay its plan to start withdrawing some economic stimulus until it sees further confirmation of improvements in the economy.

TD noted that interest rates in the U.S. have been rising and they will act as a headwind to growth.

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Work on the former Cobb’s AG Foods building, now called Cobb’s Block Central, is nearing completion. The downtown Sylvan Lake building has 14 commercial bays, with these available for lease or purchase.

Cobb’s Block Central expected to open soon

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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Sylvan Lake’s first enclosed shopping mall should soon be welcoming occupants.

Renovations to the former Cobb’s AG Foods building at 5015 50th St. are progressing well, said Jim Jardine, whose firm Trilliant Real Estate Group is the leasing and selling agent for the property.

“They’ve just finished getting the roof done, and we need to get the parking lot cleaned up a bit, and then we’re ready to go.

“We’re probably a couple of

weeks before we can start signing offers, because I’m still waiting on the final leases and condo documents.”

River City Developments Ltd. bought the building last year after Cobb’s AG Foods closed.

The structure, which has been renamed Cobb’s Block Central, has since been gutted and redeveloped, including the addition of a new exterior facade.

There is now approximately 26,000 square feet of usable space over two levels, with a circular

Consignment boutique specializes in high-end women’s clothing

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Want to look like a million bucks for a fraction of the price?

Jeanette Mitten might be able to help.

The Red Deer woman recently opened Once Again Consignment Boutique, a downtown store that specializes in high-end women’s clothing.

This emphasis on quality distinguishes her shop from most other second-hand and consignment stores, said Mitten.

In addition to brand-name clothing, Once Again Consignment Boutique has a variety of new items, including shoes, boots, handbags, jewelry and belts.

Much of this came from clothing store Dirtbags Inc., which previously operated in the same 4801 51st Ave. premises.

“We have everything from funky

jackets to jeans and dress pants,” said Mitten of her store.

A Red Deer resident since 1991, Mitten was born in Sweden and lived in Spain for a period of time.

She and her mother ran a secondhand women’s clothing store in Spain, and despite the fact Mitten has operated an equine business for most of her time in Canada, she retained fond memories of her earlier retail experience.

“I always wanted to get into it again, because I think it’s fun.

“You never know from one day to another what you’re going to get.”

So far, said Mitten, feedback from customers has been positive.

“It’s looking really good.”

Once Again Consignment Boutique is open Monday to Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Consignment items are accepted on an appointment basis, and Mitten en-

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Once Again Boutique, consignment clothing store owner Jeanette Mitten in her store in Red Deer. courages prospective sellers to visit her shop first to get a sense of the type of clothing it carries.

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Living the dream at work NEARLY HALF OF WORKERS SAY SO: BMO SURVEY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A dream job may not be as elusive as you think.

Nearly half of Canadians recently surveyed said they were already working in their dream jobs, according to a poll by the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO).

The survey results, released Wednesday, listed 47 per cent of respondents as saying they had already found their dream jobs, while two-thirds (65 per cent) said they looked forward to going into the office each day.

And 70 per cent of those surveyed say they feel that they’re valued at work.

Peter Harris of job search website Workopolis said he was pleasantly surprised by the results.

“Dream jobs are the ultimate goal. It’s good to hear that so many people have achieved it,” said Harris, editor-in-chief of the on-

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“It sounds surprising to me because Workopolis deals with the other half. People who interact with us ... are people who haven’t achieved the dream yet and that’s why they’re looking to make a career change.”

Despite the high level of satisfaction at work, a majority (64 per cent) say they would quit their jobs in a heartbeat if they ever won the lottery.

That wasn’t the case for small business owners, with only 39 per cent saying they would sell their business if they ever hit the jackpot.

The survey also found that gender and income were factors, but not major ones, in workplace satisfaction.

Men (51 per cent) were more likely than women (43 per cent) to say they were employed in their dream jobs.

Regionally, the highest per-

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centage of those to say there were working in their dream jobs lived in Quebec (59 per cent), followed by those in Alberta (50 per cent), Saskatchewan and Manitoba (47 per cent), Atlantic Canada (45 per cent) and B.C. (44 per cent).

Only 40 per cent of those surveyed in Ontario said they were employed in a dream gig.

Meanwhile, 58 per cent of those surveyed with an annual household income of less than $50,000 say they look forward to going into their jobs each day, compared with 69 per cent among people who made at least $50,000 a year.

Harris said at Workopolis, the top five factors a job candidate looks for in a new job usually don’t include salary.

“The most important thing is work environment, and other factors like location and advancement opportunities,” he said.

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Session to address international reach for local business Are you eager to extend your business’s reach across borders, but aren’t sure how to do so?

Some guidance will be offered in Red Deer on Oct. 18 at a session being organized by Central Alberta: Access Prosperity and the Alberta government.

Gateway for International Market Access will include presentations by representatives of the World Bank; Export Development Canada; Foreign Affairs, Trade & Development Canada; Alberta International and Intergovernmental Affairs and companies already doing business internationally.

Among the topics to be discussed will be strategies used by successful companies, procurement opportunities at international financial institutions and how to write proposals, accessing government expertise and marketing assistance, the dos and don’ts of working with the World Bank, and identifying opportunities.

Cal Dallas, Alberta’s minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, will also discuss provincial strategies for encouraging Alberta companies to access international markets.

This one-day session will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Red Deer College. Cost is $75, with registration information at http://intlmarketaccess.eventbrite.ca.

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 88.95 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.52 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.13 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.26 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.81 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.22 Cdn. National Railway . 102.77

Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 129.17 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.40 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.89 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.75 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 39.86 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 42.92 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.22 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.33

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market gave up a solid early gain and closed lower Wednesday as an impending deadline for dealing with the U.S. budget and debt ceiling continued to cast a shadow over trading.

The S&P/TSX composite index had been up as much as 65 points, but closed down 12.18 points at 12,836.71, reflecting growing weakness in telecoms, industrials and smartphone maker BlackBerry.

The Canadian dollar also erased early gains and was down 0.11 of a cent at 96.96 cents US. U.S. indexes moved deeper into negative numbers amid reports that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) was cutting orders from suppliers this quarter and next to address rising inventories. It’s the latest sign that Wal-Mart’s sales have been slow after the company cut its full-year sales forecast back in August.

The retailer later responded that the reports were “misleading.”

Wal-Mart stock was down $1.10 to US$74.65 after falling as low as $73.56.

Meanwhile, investors looked ahead to an Oct. 1 deadline for American political leaders. At issue is a temporary spending bill required to keep the U.S. government fully open after the start of the new budget year.

The government reaches its borrowing limit, or debt ceiling, early in October. If Congress doesn’t raise that limit, the government won’t be able to pay all its bills, a blow to confidence in the world’s biggest economy.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says the government will have exhausted its borrowing authority by Oct. 17, leaving the United States with just $30 billion cash on hand to pay its bills.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 61.33 points to 15,273.26, the Nasdaq was 7.16 points lower at 3,761.1 and the S&P 500 index was down 4.65 points to 1,692.77.

Investors well remember the last time Democrats and Republicans locked horns over raising the debt limit during the summer of 2011. Indexes were hard hit as traders worried about a possible default and the damage done to the economy from a possible government shutdown. Standard & Poor’s ended up downgrading the U.S. credit rating, before a political compromise was reached.

On the economic front, U.S. durable goods orders in August were up 0.1 per cent following a 7.4 per cent drop in July. Other data showed that U.S. new home sales rebounded by 7.9 per cent in August to 421,000, the biggest one-month gain since January.

The information technology sector was the biggest percentage decliner, down 1.3 per cent as BlackBerry shares continued to deteriorate as the Globe and Mail reported that Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (TSX:FFH) is seeking more than US$1 billion from other investors to help fund a takeover of BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB) (NASDAQ:BBRY). Fairfax said on Monday that it’s leading a group that would buy the Canadian smartphone maker for US$4.7 billion, paying shareholders US$9 a share.

The Globe said that as of Tuesday only one pension fund was seriously considering joining the Fairfaxled consortium — the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. BlackBerry fell 52 cents, or 5.9 per cent, to $8.26 on the TSX and lost 52 cents, or 6.15 per cent, to US$8 in New York.

Telecoms and industrials also pressured the TSX with Telus Corp.

(TSX:T) down 78 cents to $34.78 while Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) fell $1.33 to $102.77.

The TSX gold sector led advancers, up about 2.2 per cent while December bullion gained $19.90 to US$1,336.20 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) rose 45 cents to C$26.84.

December copper was ahead two cents to US$3.27 a pound and the base metals sector was up 1.5 per cent with Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) ahead 38 cents to C$28.58.

The energy sector was up a slight 0.09 per cent while oil prices moved lower as data showed that U.S. supplies increased by 2.6 million barrels last week, against a drop of 1.5 million barrels that analysts expected.

The November contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped 47 cents to US$102.66 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) advanced 46 cents to C$37.09.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Wednesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,836.71 down 12.18 points TSX Venture Exchange — 947.70 up 1.57 points

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COBB’S: Optimism about attracting new business A 2,555-square-foot area on the west side has been earmarked for a restaurant with a patio.

“We’ve had a couple people take a look at it,” said Jardine.

Another 3,630-square-foot bay is already occupied by Cobb’s Clothing, which continued to operate in the building after Cobb’s AG Foods closed.

Jardine said Cobb’s Block Central’s lease rates, which start at about $8 a square foot, are among the cheapest in town. And he’s optimistic about the outlook for Sylvan Lake’s downtown.

Despite losing a number of businesses in recent years, the area is attracting new ones, noted Jardine. And town officials are aggressively recruiting more, with a formal retail and service opportunity profile prepared for this purpose.

Jardine said Sylvan Lake has one big advantage over its municipal counterparts when it comes to preserving a vibrant downtown — the district’s proximity to a popular lake. He added that the town has also grown to the point that consumers throughout the area now go to Sylvan Lake to shop, including at its downtown.

“We’re becoming more of a regional shopping centre.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

JOBS: Many young people have found dream jobs “People want to see themselves working in a place that they believe in, that they contribute and see growth.

After that, of course, they need to get paid and be fairly compensated but it’s not what they look for and not why they get out of bed in the morning.”

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $4.80 higher $484.90; Jan. ’14 $4.80 higher $494.60; March ’14 $4.70 higher $502.30; May ’14 $4.30 higher $508.40; July ’14 $4.10 higher $514.40; Nov. ’14 $3.90 higher $506.70; Jan ’15 $3.90 higher $508.70; March ’15 $3.90 higher $507.70; May ’15 $3.90 higher $507.70; July ’15 $3.90 higher $507.70; Nov. ’15 $3.90 higher $507.70.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’13 unchanged $158.30; Dec ’13 unchanged $161.30; March ’14 unchanged $163.30; May ’14 unchanged $164.30; July ’14 unchanged $164.30; Oct. ’14 unchanged $164.30; Dec. ’14 unchanged $164.30; March ’15 unchanged $164.30; May ’15 unchanged $164.30; July ’15 unchanged $164.30; Oct. ’15 unchanged $164.30.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 536,640 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 536,640.

James Gardiner with BMO said the survey results were fairly optimistic, particularly for young workers.

“The results that stood out to us were the high percentage of young people working in their dream job,” said Gardiner, who is the bank’s vicepresident of commercial banking.

“It’s encouraging to know that within 10 years of starting in the workforce, a majority of Canadians have already found what they want to do.”

BMO said the survey did not ask participants which sectors they worked in.

The survey, conducted by Pollara, used results from an online sample of 1,005 Canadians between July 12 and July 16. The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.

GROWTH: U.S. forecast lowered TD has reduced its U.S. economic growth forecast for all of 2013 to 1.6 per cent and 2.6 per cent in 2014, compared with its June forecast for growth of 1.9 per cent for this year and 2.8 per cent next year.

“The U.S. economic recovery remains broadly in place. While the transition to higher longer-term interest rates will slow the pace of growth over the next year, it will not halt it,” TD said.

“The fundamentals in place supporting higher growth are well entrenched.”

The Canadian economy grew by 1.7 per cent in the second quarter as flooding in Alberta and a construction strike in Quebec took their toll and most economists expect some bounce back in the third quarter.

However, TD noted the extent and timing remains uncertain.

The Bank of Canada estimated in July that the economy would grow by 3.8 per cent in the third quarter. However the central bank also predicted growth of just one per cent in the second quarter.

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OTTAWA — The CRTC and Competition Bureau are planning closer co-operation between the two federal agencies, which play complementary roles in overseeing mergers and takeovers in the broadcast and telecommunications sectors.

The agreement, among other things, calls for joint training of employees and information sharing between the two agencies. They have also committed to semi-annual meetings between senior management.

Both the bureau and Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission are under the

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BlackBerry shares continue tumble

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BlackBerry (TSX:BB) has decided to cancel a conference call and webcast that had been scheduled for Friday after the release of its second-quarter financial results, which the company has already telegraphed will be dismal.

The announcement by the struggling smartphone maker came after the close of markets Wednesday when BlackBerry’s already beaten down shares fell another six per cent as investors weighed the likelihood of a highly conditional takeover offer from Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFH), one of BlackBerry’s largest shareholders.

In a statement, the Waterloo, Ont.,based concern said only that it decided to cancel the conference call “in light of the letter of intent agreement between BlackBerry and Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.” Last week, the company, which reports in U.S. dollars, said it would likely post a loss of between US$950 million and US$995 million for its fiscal second quarter. It also projected

US$1.6 billion in sales, far short of analyst expectations of about US$3 billion.

A plan to cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, about 4,500 jobs, is also underway.

A report in the Globe and Mail said that Fairfax was seeking more than US$1 billion from other investors to help fund a takeover of BlackBerry, but that the Toronto-based investment firm still has a long way before it gains the support it needs.

The Globe, citing unidentified sources, said that as of Tuesday only one pension fund was seriously considering joining the Fairfax-led consortium — the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, one of Canada’s largest institutional investors.

The pension plan has declined to comment on any reports that link it to deals before they’re announced.

The Globe report says Fairfax is pitching a deal that would be financed with $3 billion of bank loans, $1 billion of equity from institutions and Fairfax’s current 10 per cent stake in BlackBerry, worth about $470 million.

IMF experts say eurozone will need common budget

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS, Belgium — International Monetary Fund experts argue the eurozone should set up a joint budget to strengthen the 17-country bloc’s ability to weather economic shocks and help its hardest-hit members avoid severe recessions.

Establishing a risk-sharing system would help offset the weaknesses in the currency zone that have contributed to its debt crisis, the IMF experts said in a discussion paper published Wednesday.

A joint budget or rainy-day fund with dedicated tax revenues could, for example, pay for infrastructure projects or public services across the bloc.

That would provide an automatic safety net for countries hit by a downturn, “containing the social and economic cost of the crisis,” the report said.

“Such a fund would collect revenues from euro area members at all times and make transfers to countries when

they experience negative shocks,” it said.

The report’s proposals go far beyond what is currently envisioned in Europe and would face huge political and legal hurdles.

They would weaken national sovereignty by handing more money and power to joint institutions.

Stronger economies like Germany are likely to reject them as an introduction through the backdoor of permanent transfer payments to financially weaker countries.

The concern is that countries benefiting from the payments would be less willing to make unpopular reforms.

While acknowledging such hurdles and drawbacks of deeper fiscal integration, the IMF’s paper is unequivocal in stressing that the bloc needs to strengthen its institutions if it wants to be better prepared to weather the next crisis.

“It’s meant to engage a discussion,” IMF official Celine Allard said in a conference call about the study.

“It’s a complex issue for which decisions will not be taken overnight.”

Asia adds 300K millionaires but outpaced by North America THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG — Some 300,000 people joined Asia’s millionaire ranks last year, according to a world wealth report released Wednesday, which also found that the region slipped behind a rebounding North America.

The report by CapGemini and Royal Bank of Canada is the

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Industry Department.

John Pecman, the commissioner of competition, said “this co-operation agreement will allow us to further strengthen our commitment to competition in the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors.”

Earlier this year, the CRTC was faced with reviewing BCE Inc.’s (TSX:BCE) takeover of Astral Media Inc. that had already been approved by the Competition Bureau. The CRTC, which eventually also approved the takeover, had initially rejected the deal, saying it wasn’t good for Canadians.

However, BCE reworked the deal, including an agreement to sell several pay and speciality TV channels, to win approval from the regulators.

latest of several recent surveys highlighting the strong rise in the region’s wealthy while also hinting at persistent inequality.

The survey found that the number of Asian millionaires grew 9.4 per cent in 2012 to 3.68 million people, up from 3.37 million the year before, and their combined wealth rose 12.2 per cent to $12 trillion.

Economic growth, strong stock markets, rising property prices and the region’s high savings

rates helped boost fortunes.

The report defines wealthy as those with at least $1 million in liquid assets.

It covered 10 Asian countries and territories including China, Japan, Australia and South Korea.

Asia was surpassed only by North America, where the millionaire population grew 11.5 per cent to 3.73 million with combined wealth rising 9.8 per cent to $12.7 trillion.

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Boyfriend’s sister making it hard to cut ties with his ex Dear Annie: I started dating “Zach” for texting or using apps. I try to avoid 18 months ago and have been living using my phone while at social events. with him for almost a year. Things are If I have to make a call or respond to perfect except for one thing. a message, I excuse myself to another Before we met, Zach dated another room. girl for three years before me. She was Lately, I have noticed people using horrible and hurtful toward him. their phones in all types of situations When I began seeing Zach, his ex that I would consider inappropriate. started harassing me to the Are these people just oblivpoint where I had to take ious to the standards of reout a restraining order spect that should be shown against her. to others, or have the stanThe problem is, Zach’s dards changed? older sister is still in conIs there a good set of stant contact with the ex. rules to follow when using She always talks about my smartphone in public? her in front of me and even Also, how can I politely allows the ex to babysit her let people know that their children. phone use is making me She often invites the ex feel ignored? — Confused to go places with her and College Kid posts pictures of the two of Dear College Kid: May we MITCHELL them on Facebook. clone you?

Zach has had many fights Basic phone etiquette & SUGAR with his sister about this, says that you do not take telling her how hurtful it is a call when you are with to both of us, yet she still someone else. continues to do it.

Letting it disturb your I’ve tried everything possible to conversation indicates that the call is make his sister like me, but I can’t more important than the person you keep competing with the ex. It’s caus- are with. ing a strain between Zach and his sisIf it is an emergency, excuse yourter. self and call back.

I don’t have issues with anyone else Try not to speak too loudly. Every in his family. person around shouldn’t be privy to What can I do to get the ex out of the your conversation. (It is also a safety ispicture permanently? — The Current sue in case you are giving out personal Woman in His Life information.)

Dear Current: Zach’s sister is doing If someone ignores you to answer this for one of two reasons: Either she a call or play Angry Birds, ask them likes getting your goat, in which case, nicely to please put their phone away. your response is very gratifying for If they still cannot focus their attenher. Or, she doesn’t want you to dictate tion on you, say, “I can see that you are who her friends can be. busy. I’ll talk to you later.”

Either way, your response should Dear Annie: This is for “Torn Grandbe the same: Ignore it. If her main pur- ma,” who babysits for her granddaughpose is to annoy you, she will become ter who may be allergic to Grandma’s bored with the tactic when she sees it dog. has no effect.

Perhaps Grandma could watch her And if she is truly friends with this granddaughter in the child’s home or woman, the relationship is not your in a dog-free room that has an air filter business. running daily.

The added benefit of ignoring it is The child should be tested to be that Zach will be grateful. You already sure it’s the dog that is truly the cause have his total support, and that is what of her reaction. — Your Local Vetericounts. narian Dear Annie: I recently bought my Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy first smartphone and have yet to figure Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediout the proper etiquette for using it in tors of the Ann Landers column. Please public. email your questions to anniesmailbox@ I was taught that it is rude to answer comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, one’s phone when in the midst of a c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, conversation. I believe this also goes Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ANNIE ANNIE

confiding into someone you trust.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There is a marked restless desire within you. You know that you no longer can keep it to yourself and that you Wednesday, Sept. 26 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: want your voice to be heard. The only disadJim Caviezel, 45; Linda Hamilton, 57; Olivia vantage is that you will act out of egocentrism and not out of logic.

Newton-John, 65 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): THOUGHT OF THE DAY: You have a knack for assessing We evoke a greater need for proASTRO your fundamental needs and for tection, nurture and care. These DOYNA making a financial plan based emotions are highly emphasized on realistic expectations. The while the Moon makes its month goals you set now will reflect visit in its own home, the Crab. your hopes and wishes and by The Sun semi-squares Mars detaking into account your own limitations. noting actions stirred upon the first signs of LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Money and threat. A healthy link to Mercury suggests an easy flow of information, satisfying trips success are following you everywhere these around the town and effortless negotiations. days. Your self-esteem gets a major boost The biggest news of the day is that Venus is and your confidence skyrockets. Due to your in a gorgeous aspect to Jupiter, which indi- current professional popularity, you cannot cates a period of celebrations. Financial deal- stop thinking about your next big purchase.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Daydreamings and business, in general, promise to be ing takes you away from reality. Your intuition very profitable now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth- is sharpened today and you can hear the day, this is a significant year for you career slightest sound. You are not particularly willwise. You may make an important step into ing to let your voice be heard, you would rathyour life or sign a life-long commitment re- er spend your time philosophizing or studying.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You garding your future. You will also make pact with your past, a process which will offer you start feeling optimistic about the source of the possibility to accept the present as is and revenue that is headed your way. You may benefit following a credit analysis or from a move on into a new chapter of your life.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are recent loan, a tax return or insurance pay-out.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t let centred on one particular relationship. The tension that may have may stem from sup- others define who you are as an individual. pressed anger which you may still hold onto. Unnecessary conflicts of interests with higher You could be driven by a restless desire to ups or even due to shared resources may be taken on too personally. Choose your battles act upon a set goal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is an wisely and fight for what it is really worth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Someone element of pleasantness and easiness when from your usual environment may challenge interacting with others. On the positive side, you are gaining sufficient self-confidence to you into a debate about your personal beliefs pick from where you have left of and able to on a particular subject. Don’t feel pressured to respond. Enjoy the popularity this wave of walk again with your head up high.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have noise brings along.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You ponder waited long enough to bring up a subject about your own needs and desires, today is a lot and deeply about life’s most complex isyour day. You will find the right time as well sues. There is so much going on in your own as the proper words to convey exactly what private world and there is much you cannot disclose to others. Your mate or your child you have intended to say.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You seek will contribute to your personal and spiritual closeness and you may approach others progression.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndithrough confidential conversations. You will reveal whatever you have kept under your cated astrologer and columnist. Her column wraps for a while now. Unload your chest by appears daily in the Advocate.

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Our Back Yard RED DEER COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR LARRY REESE INTERPRETS THE RURAL AND URBAN FLAVOURS OF LIFE IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Art that mirrors our Central Albertan selves — with some distortions — is showing in downtown Red Deer in the first ongoing gallery exhibit at City Centre Stage.

Our Back Yard — The People and Landscapes of Central Alberta, diverse paintings by Red Deer College instructor Larry Reese, are being displayed in gallery space at the back of City Centre Stage.

The front foyer features large abstract works from the college’s permanent collection.

Both exhibits can be viewed on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 12:30 to 4:40 p.m. during Alberta Culture Days.

In Reese’s oil paintings, he sought to interpret some of the rural and urban flavours of living in this part of the world. “The concept was (to paint) the people and places of Central Alberta . . . it’s about ourselves and our environment, as it was rearranged and reinterpreted by me,” he added, with a chuckle.

Several of his works contain a certain tongue-incheek sensibility — including Riders of the Storm.

This striking small canvas shows a corpse being dragged by someone through a windy gale. Reese said he painted the woodsy background to this imagined Gothic scene from the same vantage point as his more serene straightup landscape Autumn at Half Moon Bay. “Maybe it’s a metaphor for getting rid of your anger or your agony,” he added, noting that his daughter, who posed for the figure dragging the lifeless body, was going through a breakup with her first boyfriend at the time, so there was emotional turmoil in the house.

Another partially imagined painting, ER Market, shows what a farmer’s market would look like if it sprang up on Ross Street. Reese said the painting doesn’t make any kind of statement, except a personal artistic one. “It appealed to me to have that corner come very alive with a market.”

Among his urban works is Kitchen Heart, a glimpse of the hectic, behind-the-scenes action of a restaurant kitchen.

Reese, who teaches acting in the RDC Motion Picture Arts program, imagined some drama or “tension” happening between prep staff, while a waitress stands to one side, catching the viewer’s eye.

“She was inspired by Manet’s painting of the girl at the Folies-Bergere, where she’s looking out at us.”

Two of his largest works are pure landscapes, painted near the Raven Brood Trout Station near Caroline, where Reese also based his Guardians

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ABOVE: Kitchen Heat (Oil on Canvas 2013) by Larry Reese hangs in the City Centre Stage Gallery.

LEFT: Hello, We’re From Alberta (Oil on Canvas 2013) by Larry Reese. of the Sleeping Duck painting.

That piece inspired his Mapping Creativity documentary, a faculty film that’s being screened for the public at 12:30 and 3 p.m. on Saturday at City Centre Stage, along with The Long Road, a film by his RDC colleague Lori Ravensborg.

While the duck painting is on permanent display at the college, viewers can see its companions at City Centre Stage — including Pristine, which shows light reflections in glassy water behind a curtain of trees.

Reese said these large works, for which he is still seeking a home, were influenced by his friend and mentor, Central Alberta artist David More.

“He’s probably my biggest inspiration and mentor.”

Upon leaving Reese’s exhibit, viewers will be greeted by a family portrait called, Hello, We’re From Alberta. Reese said he decided to paint himself, his

wife and their son, daughter, and two pets because there was no single photograph with all six of them together.

“There’s a sense of humour to it, I exaggerated their features,” said the local artist, who considers this quirky work his “Corb Lund” response to being Albertan.

“Everybody liked the way I painted everybody else — except themselves.”

The Our Back Yard exhibit is on through October. City Centre Stage will be open from 5 to 8 p.m. during the First Friday gallery openings on Oct. 4.

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ARMSTRONG George Robert “Bob” 1919 - 2013 Robert “Bob” Armstrong passed away peacefully in his sleep at the Rimbey Care Centre on Thursday, September 12, 2013, at the age of 94 years. Robert was born in Clive, Alberta on January 16, 1919 to George and Mary Armstrong. He grew up on the farm in the Clive area with his five brothers and three sisters. In 1940, Robert e n l i s t e d i n t h e a r m y. H e was a member of the 14th Regiment, Calgary Tanks.

On August 19, 1942, Robert was the driver/mechanic of a Churchill Class Tank, “Cougar”, and was captured at Dieppe.

He was liberated from Colditz in April of 1945. After the war ended, Robert married Clara (Helen) Seaville, they had eight children. They resided in Lacombe until 1964 where Robert farmed and worked at Miller’s International Service Station before moving to Bentley. In Bentley, Robert drove a school bus and worked at McKenzie’s service station. He was well known in Bentley area for his ability to fix small engines. Robert is survived by five daughters and three sons; Lorna Fisher (Dannie Willard) of Strathmore, Shirley Whitfield (Walter) of Wetaskiwin, Connie Gladwin ( E l v i n ) o f B e n t l e y, B e t t y Butcher (Tim Dodds) of Red Deer, Ronnie (Sharon Johnston) of Rimbey, David (Karen) of Olds, Joan Allen (Murray) of Calgary, and Mike (Brenda) o f R i m b e y. H e w i l l a l s o be lovingly remembered by numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. Robert is predeceased by his wife, Helen Armstrong (Seaville), and his five brothers and three sisters. Robert’s request was to be cremated.

Family and friends are invited to the Bentley Community Church, 4633 53 Avenue, Bentley, for a celebration of his life on Friday, October 4, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made directly to the Rimbey Care Centre Area 1, 5228 50 Avenue, Rimbey, Alberta, T0C 2J0.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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CROSWELL Kenneth Hollis 1942-2013 Kenneth Hollis Croswell of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at his home on Friday September 20th, 2013 at the age of 71. Ken was born in Radway, Alberta and resided in Red Deer until his passing.

He was loved by all who knew him. Ken will be missed for his teasing, sense of humor and his smile. Ken is survived by his daughter Kelly Tisdale and son Darren (Val) Croswell, brother Roger (Betty) Croswell, Barry (Jamie) Croswell, Terry (Rhonda) Croswell and sister Bev (Bob) Sinclair. He is also survived by his step children Dean and Roxy Hudema, grandchildren Meaghan Tisdale (Henry), Mark Tisdale, Kira Croswell, Kayla Hudema and numerous nieces and nephews.

Ken was predeceased by his father William Croswell, mother Phyllis Croswell and sister Sylvia Beckley. A celebration of Ken’s life will be Friday September 27th, 2013 at 1:00 pm at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820 45th Street, Red Deer, Ab. Family and friends are welcome to come and celebrate his life. Donations may be made to the Diabetes Association, 6-5015 48th Street, Red Deer, Ab, T4N 1S9.

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DOWNEY Robert (Bob) Brockie Downey passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 19, 2013 in Vancouver, BC at the age of 84 years. Bob is survived by his friend, Chris Vlachos; his brother, Ferg Downey (Donna); nieces and nephews, Lindsay (Melissa) Downey, Stacy Wasson, Katherine (Jim) Heisler, Patti (Ken) Gordon, and John (Carolyn) Downey, as well as many great-nephews and nieces.

Bob was predeceased by his parents, Fergus Eugene and Katherine Belle Downey; brother, Jim; and sister-in-law, Lynn Downey. Bob was the original owner of Sterling Cleaners and Parkland Linens in Red Deer and was co-owner of Polo Cleaners in Va n c o u v e r. H e e n j o y e d extensive travelling and great times out at the family cottage at Gull Lake. A Celebration of Life will be held Friday, September 27, 2013 at 1:00 pm at Red Deer Funeral Home 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta.

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WRIGHT William Allen Aug. 7 1952 - Sept. 15, 2013 Bill was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident on September 15 at the age of 61. He was overseas near the city of Samara in Russia.

He is survived by his four children: Ken, Trevor (Nicole), Gavin and Gail Wright. As well as two Grandchildren Ryker Laybourne and Emma Rose Wright. Bill is also survived by his mother Jean Wright and his siblings: Nora Niddrie (Bill), Ian Wright, Elaine Knorr (Dean) as well as his nieces and nephews Billy, Denise, Nicholas and Katy. Bill was predeceased by his father Robert Wright and infant brother Neil. Bill will be forever remembered for his compassion and sense of humor. He was fearless in his drive to live life as he wanted and was determined to achieve as much as possible.

Though his life was taken far too soon, Bill had few regrets.

He travelled extensively on his motorcycle and befriended people across the globe. His loss will be felt keenly by those who knew him. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday September 27, 2013 at 11:00am at the Innisfail Legion. In honor of Bill’s extraordinary life, the family is asking for stories of Bill to be told during the service. If you have a tale to tell please let one of the family know or email the Heartland Funeral Home in Innisfail (ifh@telus.net) to let them know you are interested in speaking. Donations in his memory can be made to an Orphanage in Kiev that Bill held in very high regard.

Funds for the orphanage can be directed to the family and they will see the funds are appropriately distributed to the orphanage.

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PILLING William Robert Allan (Bob) May 9, 1942 - Yorkton, SK Sept. 23, 2013 - Calgary, AB It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Bob Pilling; a wonderful son, husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend, on M o n d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 3 , 2013. Bob will be lovingly remembered for his generous spirit and unconditional love of his family. Always the patriarch, Sundays were often spent around the dinner table. Birthdays and holidays were a reason to celebrate.

Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Bob spent his early childhood moving around Canada as the son of an Air Force pilot.

Later he attended the University of Saskatchewan where he met his future wife Mary Lou. It was there that they started a family and later moved to Brandon, Manitoba. In 1970, Bob accepted a position as Te r r i t o r i a l Tr e a s u r e r a n d moved his young family “North of 60” to Yellowknife, NWT. Next, his entrepreneurial spirit took him to Red Deer, Alberta where he started his own accounting firm. In 1993, Bob and Mary Lou moved to Calgary, thus beginning a successful career in the oil & gas industry. That year also marked the birth of the first of his seven grandchildren.

Retirement served him well; the purchase of an RV allowed Bob and Mary Lou the ability to travel extensively throughout North America.

His love of fine wines, fast cars and great weather led him to summers in the Okanagan where family was always welcome and encouraged to join him. Bob is survived by his children Laurel (Ryan), Brad (Melissa) and Dean (Lisa); grandchildren Jericho, Tesla, McKinley, Brendan, Ty, Ryley and Hunter; his brother Mike (Pat) and his e x t e n d e d f a m i l y, M y r n a , Rollie (Gloria), Lanny (Lynn), Allison, Michael (Sebastian), Mike, Amy and Alex; as well as many other relatives and good friends. Bob was predeceased by his loving wife Mary Lou and his parents Bill and Irene.

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die” Funeral Services will be held at McINNIS & HOLLOWAY’S Crowfoot Chapel (82 Crowfoot Circle N.W. Calgary, AB), on Friday, September 27, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com In

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CHARLOTTE DAVIDIUK Jan. 31, 1943 - Sept. 30, 2012 I Only Wanted You They say memories are golden Well maybe that is true.

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A million times I needed you, a million times I cried, If love alone could have saved you You never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly, in death I love you still In my heart you hold a place no one could ever fill.

Our family chain is broken, and nothing seems the same.

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In Memoriam ERNEST KRAUSS In Loving Memory of Ernie, Dad, Papa and Great Papa who passed away Sept. 26, 2012 God looked around his garden And found an empty space; He then looked down upon this earth, And saw your tired face.

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Phone 403-340-1668 LOST: MEN’S GOLD & DIAMOND RING Gold spells out Dad. Very sentimental.

If found, please call 403-597-3738 ORANGE M. tabby, large cat, long tail, lost from 43 Ave. in Grandview on Sept. 13. Tattoo in ear, friendly and curious, name is Permit, his person is a little girl and she is devastated. If found, call or text 403-588-6555

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Personals

A single man, with his 9 yr. old son has been burnt out of house & home in Lacombe.

Donations may be made to help this young man and his son at the Royal Bank in Lacombe.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

BOOKKEEPER

P/T required for small oilfield service company in Lacombe. Send resume to scottk@ratracer.ca

Hair Stylists

760

JUST CUTS is looking for F/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary.

Call Jen at 403-340-1447 or Christie 403-309-2494 NEW IMPRESSIONS SALON & SPA Seeking F/T Hair Stylist Drop off resume to 190 Northey Ave.

Janitorial

770

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

LIVE IN CAREGIVER FOR memory challenged lady, ideal living conditions 403-346-3179

Clerical

720

Howard & Company Real Estate Appraisers requires a permanent F/T or P/T office assistant. Please send resumes to: davidhorn@ howardandcompany.com or drop off at Unit 906, 2nd Floor Parkland Mall.

MORTAGE Administrator no exp. necessary M - F. 10 - 5, $14/hr to start.

Review after 6 mos.

Please forward resume to: info@mortgagestogo.ca no phone calls please.

Clerical

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

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

Oilfield

800

CLASS 1 DRIVER needed for small acid hauling company based out of Red Deer. Drivers need 3 years previous oil field hauling experience and should live within 1/2 hour of Red Deer. We offer safety training and benefits as well as job bonuses.

Please email resume and abstract to info@marvantransport. com fax to 403-346-9488 or call direct 403-396-3039

720

SERVICE RIG

Do you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company...

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

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

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

HSC and Safety Coordinator

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.

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 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.

Instream Integrity Inc. is currently looking for a full time pipeline integrity technician (this position includes monitoring pig progress in pipelines, AGM placement as well as extensive travel). Must be 21 years of age with a clean drivers abstract.

Position available immediately. Please send resume to Kelly@instreamintegrity. com

Oilfield

PRODUCTION TESTING Locally based, home every Experienced Oilfield PERSONNEL REQ’D night! Qualified applicants must have all necessary Construction valid tickets for the position Day Supervisors Lead Hands

800

(5- 10yrs experience)

Experienced Oilfield Construction Labourers Journeyman Picker Operator (Class 1)

Night Supervisors (2-4yrs experience)

JOIN OUR FAST GROWING TEAM!!

Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction • industry since 1969.

Please Apply at • www.alstaroilfield.com Career Section • “Committed to enriching the • lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions” •

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 scornell@1strateenergy.ca

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND

to haul clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home every night, company benefits with exceptional pay structure. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced operators Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com fax 403-844-2148

Oilfield

Competitive Wages, Benefits, Retirement and Saving Plan!

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QUALIFICATIONS: 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:

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please email: jwalsh@galleonrigs.com or Fax (403) 358-3326

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800 Immediate Opportunity.

This position is responsible for ABSA drawings & shop layout drawings for truck mounted vacuum systems using Autodesk Inventor.

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to hr@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

Viking Projects Ltd. is located in Lacombe, Alberta and services all of Western Canada. We specialize in a variety of pipeline, facility and reclamation services.

We are looking for:

PIPELINE PERSONNEL and HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

Restaurant/ Hotel

Viking Projects Ltd. offers competitive wages, WHMSI and TDG tickets done in house.

Safety Tickets required: - H2S, CSTS/PST, First Aid, and Ground Disturbance - Valid driver’s licence an asset Please reply with resume to:

Email: reception@vikingprojects.ca Fax: 403-782-6856 3412 53rd Ave., Lacombe, AB T4L OB5 Phone: 403-782-2756 Website: www.vikingprojects.ca

$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 $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

Restaurant/ Hotel

Qualification Requirements:

The successful candidate will be dependable and able to work accurately and efÄciently.

Candidates must be Åuent with Excel, Word and Microsoft OfÄce applications. Applicants should have experience in operating a multi-line telephone system and completing daily deposits.

Good oral, listening and written communication proÄciency, excellent interpersonal expertise, good organizational and time management skills are an essential part of this position. The successful applicant will enjoy a full compliment of company beneÄts as well as remuneration.

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

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please MUCHO BURRITO $11.33/Hr - Cust Serv EMAIL -MUCHOREDDEER @HOTMAIL.COM ORIGINAL Joe’s Restaurant & Bar is hiring experienced Line Cooks, starting wage $13 - $16/hr based on exper. 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. $12./hr. Open avail.. Eves. & weekends. Please drop resume at Bay #4, 5108 52 St.

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or you can mail your resume to:

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Oilfield

(formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for experienced SERVERS, BARTENDERS, DISHWASHERS AND COOKS. Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer

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 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 Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Sales & Distributors

830

CUSTOM Energized Air is a leader in compressed air technology and requires an

Outside Sales Rep

for our solutions driven sales team. Experience in air compressors and pneumatics a definite asset. Base + commission + mileage + benefits. For Red Deer & area. Apply: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & apparel, at our Parkland Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus & comm. F/T Position. No exp. req’d. Email Flurriesrd@gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

Trades

850

Of Red Deer is seeking exp’d. carpenters for the agricultural industry. Must have drivers license. Call Brad 403-588-8588 CHILES SANDBLASTING & PAINTING REQ’S I Labourer & 1 Prepper, exp. would be an asset, must have own transportation. Wage is $15 - $18/hr.

Please submit resume by fax: 403-340-3800 DUE TO A LARGE INCREASE IN BUSINESS,

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET

800

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

...Join our Team!

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QUEENS DINER REQ’S P/T DISHWASHER Hours are Mon.- Fri. 6:30-4 & Sat. 8-2:30 pm Drop off resume any time after 1 & before 4, Mon-Fri. 34 Burnt Basin St, Red Deer Fax: 403-347-2925 email: accuracyonlineoffice @gmail.com RAMADA INN & SUITES REQUIRES ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred.

Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 RED DER BINGO CENTRE IS NOW HIRING CONSCESSION COOKS 2 positions avail. 35-40 hrs/wk. Exp. pref. Must be 18 yrs or older. Email: ognib@telus.net or apply in person to 4946 53 Ave.

BRAATT CONST.

Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

4301 Will Rogers Parkway, Ste 600 Oklahoma City, OK 73108

www.trican.ca

For (Thai Cuisine) wage $12 hr. Please apply in person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St. Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available

gwen.yates@oilstates.com

Stinger Wellhead offers a competitive salary & bonus structure along with a comprehensive benefit package.

We are an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

KITCHEN HELPERS

DELIVERY DRIVERS

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR RESUME TO:

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HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

KFC requires

• Have or working toward NCSO (National Construction Safety Officer) designation.

• Must have knowledge of common best practices for the oil and gas industry.

• Facilitator Certification/skills training appropriate to position.

• Must have and maintain a safe driving record as prescribed by company policy & insurance requirements.

• Class 3 driver’s license (minimum) with airbrake endorsement.

• Current H2S Alive (Enform).

• Oil and Gas industry Health and Safety Experience preferred.

at our Red Deer facility

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

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

820

TAP HOUSE NORTH

REBEL METAL FABRICATORS DRAFTSPERSON

This position will monitor, coach, train and evaluate operational and employee performance related to industry safety and driving standards.

RECEPTIONIST

800

GOLDEN DRAGON RESTAURANT HIRING Waitress & Dishwasher.

For application please call 403-348-0081 or apply with-in.

Va l i d 1 s t A i d , H 2 S , Driver’s License required! Professionals • Must be willing to submit pre access fit EXPANDING accounting for duty test, as well as office is accepting resumes drug and alcohol for skilled accounting • Travel & be away from technicians. Positive home for periods of time 21/7 attitude, ethics, and good • A b i l i t y t o w o r k i n work habits are essential. c h a n g i n g c l i m a t e Experience and education conditions are an asset. Please forward your resume to website: info@mcgillco.ca. Thank www.cathedralenergyservices.com you to all applicants, but Methods to Apply: only those selected for an HRCanada@ interview will be contacted. cathedralenergyservices.com pnieman@ EYEWEAR cathedralenergyservices.com LIQUIDATORS Your application will be requires kept strictly confidential.

OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Looking for a place Apply in person with to live? resume to: 4924 59 St. Take a tour through the Red Deer, AB. CLASSIFIEDS

HSE ADVISOR

We are looking to Äll the position of

Oilfield

BENEFITS AFTER 6 MONTHS Apply in Person!!

Kitchen Helper

Badger Daylighting LP. is North America’s largest provider of non-destructive excavating services.

FOR ALL POSITIONS. MUST BE AVAIL. ON WEEKENDS.

Is seeking FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $14.00/hr.

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Stinger Wellhead (Red Deer Location) is accepting applications for an:

Please e-mail resumes to jwinter@badgerinc.com.

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

DENNY’S IS NOW HIRING

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

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CLASSIFICATIONS

Restaurant/ Hotel

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.

EXP’D Siding installer with truck & tools. New const. $100 per sq. We pay comp. 403-347-2522

F/T PAINTER

Commercial/Residential Experience required.

Vehicle required.

Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 D3

850

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca FRAMING CREW WANTED to frame two 1000 sq.ft. cottages at Pine Lake.

Call Wayne MacKay 403-352-5476

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

Trades

850

MECHANICS req’d for busy transmission shop.

Allison Transmissions exp. an asset but will train.

Exc. wages and benefits available. Fax resume to: 403-885-2556 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Micron Industries is a licensed inspection facility in Red Deer specializing in cryogenic tank repairs, currently seeking a Mechanic with HD, Hydraulic and Hose crimping experience. Must have their own tools.

Weekdays 7:00 to 4:30.

Excellent working conditions & benefits after 3 months. Fax resume to (403) 346-2072 or email admin@micronindustries. ca

NEWCART CONTRACTING (1993)LTD

Is currently recruiting

JEETS PLUMBING & HEATING 1st or 2nd Year Apprentice.

Competitive wages. Fax resume: 403-356-0244

pipefitter/apprentice, experienced turnaround/shutdown personnel

for an upcoming turnaround project to start work immediately. The successful candidates CELEBRATIONS must have experience or HAPPEN EVERY DAY related experience in a IN CLASSIFIEDS similar field with the blinding and de-blinding JOURNEYMAN H.D. and buffing of vessels.

MECHANIC req’d immed.

Newcart Contracting is for very busy heavy equip. offering competitive sales lot in Innisfail. wages and additional Wage range $25. - $35/hr incentives for the duration depending on exp. of the project. There are no Preference will be given fly in/fly out for this project. to those with previous This project is in a camp equipment rental service, setting; therefore, no LOA lifts and off road will be provided. construction equipment REQUIREMENTS: experience. Fax resume The successful candidates to 403-227-5701 or email: must have or willing to bouvier9@telus.net acquire the following safety tickets prior to the start date of Sept. 23 • H2S Alive • Confined Space • CSTS When applying, please quote “ CAMP PROJECT or LOA PROJECT” LINE LOCATING in the subject line. If you ASSISTANT are interested in joining a REQUIRED growing industrial Central Line Locating req’s construction company, a locator assistant. No please forward a copy of experience necessary, your resume, along with willing to train. Must be the safety tickets physically fit. Working mentioned above with the varied hours. Send attention of HR to: resumes to: office@ resumes@ centrallinelocating.com newcartcontracting.com Fax 403-747-3535 Failure to apply with the Office: 403-747-3017 required documents or in the way specified by the LOCAL certified trailer employer, will not guaranmanufacturer looking to fill tee an offer of employment the following positions: Lead Frame Foreman OWEN OIL TOOLS Framer helpers with Required Immediately experience Experienced CNC Journeyman Carpenters Operators/Machinists and Carpenter helpers with Production Workers willing experience to work various shifts. We General Tradesmen with offer: RESPECT, Full experience in various Benefit package and aspects of construction competitive salary. industry.

Please e-mail resume to Indoor, year-round work, Jim Nowicki at top wages and top benefit Jim.Nowicki@corelab.com packages.

Pro-Water Conditioning in Please email resume to Lacombe seeks a highly inquiries@sheltersrus.ca motivated individual to or call Mike between the install and service water hours of 8AM-8PM treatment equipment, Monday to Friday pumps and pressure 587-679-3776 systems. Experience with Local company looking for Auto Trol and Fleck is an experienced residential asset. Resumes to and commercial service lori7151@me.com technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing ticket. Benefit package after 3 months, wages based on experience. Email: info@serviceplumbing.ca or fax to (403) 342-2025 REBEL METAL LPS Crane Services is looking for: Journeyman Crane Operators, Boom Truck Operators and Apprentices. We are a growing company wanting hardworking motivated individuals who are looking for a safe, exciting career with opportunities to advance. We offer a competitive compensation package with Group Health and Dental benefits. Must have a valid Drivers license. Please email resume to admin@lpscrane.ca

Misc.

Help

FABRICATORS MIG WELDERS 2nd, 3rd Yr.

APPRENTICES

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to shop@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249 REQ’D IMMEDIATLEY. 3rd. yr. power lineman or journeyman power lineman for rubber glove work. $44/hr. + benefits. Fax resume to 403-348-5579

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $180/mo.

ALSO Castle Cres., Clark Cres. & Crawford St. $141/mo.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Connaught Cres. & Cooper Close area $192/mo.

DEERPARK AREA Denovan Cres., Dickenson Cres & Davison Dr. Area $201/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA Spruce Drive & Springbett Dr. AND 43A Ave. between 37 St. & 39 St. and 43 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. $180/mo ALSO 42 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. AND 41 Ave. between 36 to 38 St. $196/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Roche St. & 3 Blocks of Roland St. $54/mo.

ALSO East half of Robinson Cres., Revie Cl. & Reinholt Ave. $84/mo.

ALSO Richards Cr. & Cl., Russell Cres. & Ray Ave. $120/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Trades

850

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Misc.

Help

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Required Immediately WANTED: Exp’d driver with clean Class 1 license PARTS MAN for Super B work in Central Parts man required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store.

Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment.

Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry.

Must possess strong customer service skills.

Above average wages, benefits package.

Apply with resume @ Artic Truck, Email: ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Fax: 403-348-5198

Alberta. F/T, benefits.

Fax resume and current driver’s abstract to 403-728-3902. or 746-5794 or email mrmike71@hotmail.com

CATHOLIC Social Services is offering a rewarding opportunity for individuals or families living within the Red Deer region Misc. who are willing to open Help their homes to children and youth with developmental Academic Express disabilities.

As a Host Home provider, ADULT EDUCATION you will provide room and AND TRAINING board, supervision, care and personal development FALL START Shipper / Receiver in a safe, nurturing AES INDUSTRIAL environment on a short• Women in Trades SUPPLIES LTD. term or extended basis.

• Math and Science in A current criminal record looking for an energetic/ the Trades enthusiastic individual for check, child intervention our receiving department. • GED preparation check and driver’s license Gov’t of Alberta Funding Fax resume to are required. may be available.

403-342-0233 The successful candidate will receive training, SHOP PERSONNEL 403-340-1930 support and remuneration.

Req’d immed. Reliable HD www.academicexpress.ca If you would like to make a mechanics, apprentices difference in the life of a and shop hands for Alix child, please contact a area shop. Successful Service Coordinator applicant will be physically 403 347 8844. Ext. 2954 fit (heavy lifting occurs on a daily basis) mechanically ADULT CARRIERS inclined with working NEEDED knowledge of the tools Service Runner For delivery of used in the trade. Reliable (Part Time) the morning transportation is also req’d as there is no public ADVOCATE Do You: transit. Set Mon.-Fri. in Red Deer, by - Want extra income 8:30-5:00 work week 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk - Possess a clean, valid (evenings, weekends, and drivers license holidays off). Competitive - Have a friendly attitude pay, health benefits, and (Reliable vehicle needed) - Enjoy customer service stable year round work - Want part-time work with no layoffs. Please fax (12 to 22 hours per week) EASTVIEW AREA resume to 403-784-2330 60 papers As part of our customer $32/mo. service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to MICHENER AREA delivery newspapers 134 papers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery $793/mo.

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC vehicle is provided.

Requires Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday ROSEDALE AREA 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, QUALIFIED 67 papers and/or afternoon shifts JOURNEYMAN $360/mo.

Monday to Friday 2rd and 4th yr.

2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, ELECTRICIANS Call Jamie 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. or longer With Residential roughin 403-314-4306 Submit resume, indicating exp. Competitive wages for more information “Service Runner Position”, & benefits. along with your drivers Fax resume to: abstract immediately to: 403-314-5599 careers@ Wanted experienced only, ADULT or YOUTH reddeeradvocate.com industrial preppers, paintor mail to: CARRIERS ers and coaters for full time Human Resources NEEDED positions. Also looking for 2950 Bremner Avenue For delivery of a full time experienced Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 yard person with forklift Flyers, Express and or fax to: 403-341-4772 ticket. Fax resume to Sunday Life 403-346-0626 or email to We thank all applicants for ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK nancy.hacoatings their interest, however, in @gmail.com only selected candidates will be contacted.

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CIRCULATION

UPPER FAIRVIEW

WE ARE GROWING, NOW HIRING

F/T MEAT CUTTER

Competitive wages.

Apply in person or fax resume to 403-885-5231.

WELDER REQUIRED

For shop position for National Coil Tubing Manufacturing Company.

Tig exp. REQUIRED. 8-5:30. Some OT. 9 days on, 5 days off. Shift negotiable.

Salary based on experience & qualification.

Email resume, complete with references to: dbraun@tenaris.com

WELDERS WANTED For Oilfield Manufacturing Facility

B PRESSURE

2nd & 3rd Year Apprentice We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players to join our fast paced growing team!

Vessel experience is an asset.

Please forward your resume to Fax: 403-347-7867

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 FLAT DECK Duane’s Trucking Ltd is seeking exp’d Class 1 drivers. Working knowledge of load securement is crucial as we only transport 53’ flat deck trailers throughout the western provinces (BC, AB, SK, MB) Successful candidate will also be up to date with Federal HOS, have to have ability to maintain LEGAL log books, be polite, punctual and courteous as well as respectful to company equipment. We offer steady year round work with no lay offs, a company benefits package, competitive pay and achievable drivers incentive bonuses.

Please fax resume with a recent CDA to 403-784-2330

Fairbanks Rd, Fir St. & Fox Cres.

ALSO Fairway Ave. & Freemont Cl. ALSO Farrell Ave., Flagstaff Cl. & Fountain Dr. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

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

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

LIMO

Arrow Limousine.

Qualified local p/t drivers for eves/wknds. We will train. N/S vehicles. Drug testing mandatory. Patience a definite asset 403-346-0034 NEED experienced Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Part time weekdays.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316 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 F/T or P/T Seamstress needed for busy alteration shop ASAP. Must have sewing exp. Please drop off resume to Gloria’s Alterations in Bower Mall.

FURNACE DUCT CLEANING TECH. Ground floor opportunity.

Good salary. 403-506-4822 GENERAL MAINTENANCE person req’d. Exp. a must.

Please email resume to: lsservices@live.com IMMED. POSISTION for F/T owner/operator Courier. for local delivery company.

Small pick-up or mini van would be the ideal vehicle.

Reply w/resume by fax: 403-342-7636 or email denw70@hotmail.com

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Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL

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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

NEED SOMEONETO HANG X-MAS LIGHTS. Call 403-343-8387

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

WAREHOUSE HELP WANTED For Oilfield Manufacturing Facility

JUNIOR WAREHOUSE/ SHIPPER & RECIEVER

Experience and knowledge is an asset.

We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players To join our fast paced growing team!

Please forward your resume by fax to 403-347-7867 WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295 WINDOW CLEANER Hours vary. Exp. pref.

Drivers license an asset.

Call 403-506-4822

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE

To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REP in green drycleaners.

Must be able to work some evenings until 7 p.m. & some Saturday. $13.50/hr Call Shannon 403-550-7440

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

wegot CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Plant Laborer

1600

Computers

19” HP Computer Monitor $60 obo. 403-782-3847

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

LOVESEAT, beige; 2 La-Z-Boy leather Chairs, beige; 1 chair & ottoman, red. $200 for everything.

403-346-4811

TABLE & Chairs, wooden dining table & 4 chairs. $500. 403-350-0035 UPPER & LOWER 6’ BANK OF DABINETS w/counter top. Nice finish, or can be painted/stained.

Exc. cond. Suitable for cabin or garage. $200.

403-347-4727

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 WOOD / PLASTIC WARDROBE 20d x 36w x 72 h $25 WOODEN WARDROBE sliding doors, top shelf 20d x 48w x 72h, $80 WHITE LAMINATE PANTRY 4 movable shelves 16d x 30w x 60h, $40.

L-SHAPE COMPUTER DESK w/2 upper & 2 lowers cabinets, cherry finish, $40.

403-347-4727

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

Misc. for Sale

1760

8x8 SCREEN HOUSE - Dome Tent - New, never used. $50. 403-343-6044

stuff

Job Description As a critical member of our operational team, you will be required to perform tasks including climbing above three meters, loading and unloading of chemicals, some heavy lifting and general housekeeping and laborer tasks.

Qualifications Required: We are looking for workers experienced in handling chemicals, equipment use and maintenance. CFR is offering an excellent benefits package with the company matching RRSP contributions while providing all required training (certifications).

Workers are required to provide personal transportation with a valid “Alberta” driver’s license. Drug and alcohol policy is effect with pre-employment testing.

Please forward your resume to Dave Oyka at doyka@cfrchemicals.com Starting Wage:$17.50/hr

BEDROOM SET, solid oak, bed, dresser w/mirror and high boy. $200.

403-357-9363

PS2 w/10 games, $60 obo.

SURROUND SOUND Stereo package $100.

XBOX w/15 games $70 obo 403-782-3847

OILFIELD TICKETS

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

1720

SMALL MICROWAVE OVEN $10.

2 DINING ROOM CHAIRS $30.

SMALL DESK $20.

SMALL DRESSER $20.

403-346-0674

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Household Furnishings

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

ALLIED FLOATING TANK DE-ICER, 1500 Watt. $15.

W.P. Brown Speedy Sprayer Compressor.

For fish pond. $20.

403-340-1644 BROIL KING NATURAL GAS BBQ w/cover, $75.

COUCH/SOFA BED, clean & exc. cond. $125.

403-352-8811 DECK SET W/5 CHAIRS & TABLE w/GLASS TOP, $85.

8’ CACTUS, 25 yrs old, $50.

3 MATCHING WOOL ACCENT CARPETS, will sell separately, or $45 for all 3. (Valued at $400).

COMMERCIAL OFFICE CHAIR, good cond., $20.

403-352-8811 GUN STORAGE CABINET 80”h x 24”w x 10”d, $60.

COOEY 12 gauge shotgun, model 840, incl. case & 2 boxes of shells. $95.

BELL Express Vu Satellite Dish, 22” dual LBN, $45.

403-352-8811 HOUSEPLANTS TO GIVE AWAY Huge spider plant, Swedish ivy, wandering jews.

403-358-5599 KARRIT Cartop luggage carrier, like new, $75; 20’ RErmineskin Arizona room good cond. $100.

403-396-2528 OUTDOOR WILLOW BASKETS & CHAIRS. Ideal for holding a 10” flower pot. $25 each.

4 chairs & 2 baskets.

403-346-7825

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 SINGLE ELECTRIC Precast Concrete Plant in Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BLANKET $40 obo Blackfalds, AB, is looking BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 403-782-3847 for new team members to del. Lyle 403-783-2275 join an enthusiastic and ZERO Halliburton Large rapidly expanding company. SPLIT Dry Firewood. De- Aluminum suitcase $100.

General labourers livery avail (403)845-8989 OFFICE CHAIR $15. are needed to do framing, 2 BURNER Propane cleaning, reinforcing, Camp Stove $15. pouring and other precast Garden 403-340-1644 related jobs. All applicants Supplies must be flexible for hours IN the field, currently growing: and dedicated due to a Ornamental grasses incl. Dogs demanding production Karl Foerster. 6’ tall, 3-5 schedule. Benefits are gallon sizes. $15-20/ea. paid and lots of overtime.

F1 & F1B Own transportation to work Pick up only. 403-550-0020 LABRA DOODLE & is needed. Please fax GOLDEN DOODLE resume to 403 885 5516 Household puppies. Visit or email to k.kooiker@ www.furfettishfarm.ca Appliances eaglebuilders.ca. We text 306-521-1371 thank all applicants for or call 403-919-1370 their applications, but only FRIDGE. Estate, white those selected for an inter- with top freezer. Good Classifieds...costs so little cond. $195. 403-986-2114 view will be contacted.

Saves you so much!

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Long lose Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Addington Drive

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SUNNYBROOK AREA

1000-1430

CLASSIFICATIONS

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave.

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

VANIER AREA Visser St. Vanson Close

DRIVER req’d. for city & rural deliveries, must be able to work alone and with others. Duties incl. driving, shipping/receiving and customer service.

Class 3 with air ticket and abstract is req’d. Drop resume off at Weldco #11, 7491 49th Ave. or fax to 403-346-1065. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery in

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Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

1070

P/T CLEANING HELP REQUIRED Afternoons to Evenings, Sunday-Thursday.

Call 403-318-7625 VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RENOVATIONS, bsmt. dev., bathrooms, drywall & taping, ceramic tile, hardwood floor. decks, complete garage pckgs. Call for an estimate.

587-679-5732

Eavestroughing

1130

Massage Therapy

1280

Moving & Storage

1300

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

FANTASY

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

International ladies

Now Open

Painters/ Decorators

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Looking for a new sidewalk, help on small jobs around the house, such as small tree cutting, landscaping, painting or flooring?

Call James 403-341-0617 GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

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

MASSAGE

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.biz

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving central AB. 403-318-4346

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Plumbing & Heating

1330

ALBERTA SUMPS AND PUMPS. Sales/Services/ Installation 780-781-6401

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013

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Dogs

PITBULL PUPPIES FOR SALE!! Only 7 left, 3 male 4 female $1000 each, includes first shots. Ready first week in Oct. Please text or call 403-391-8953

Sporting Goods

Rooms For Rent

3090

Offices

1860

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

Warehouse Space

Mobile Lot

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

ONLY $3000 DOWN $795/MO.

Includes lot rent, taxes and payment O.A.C. 16 wide, totally upgraded, 3 bdrms, 2 bath, new stainless steel appls, 2 decks, 15 x 15 shed, in Benalto. Call Jack @Sutton 403-357-4156

3190

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS Money To Loan

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Houses WANTED • 3250-3390 For Sale

Houses/ Duplexes

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3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627

4430

Private Mortgages Our Rates start at 8%. We lend on Equity. Bus. For Self & Bruised Credit Ok. Ron Lewis 403 819 2436

BENTLEY HOUSE FOR SALE, 4622 49 Ave. Ready for occupancy.

Call 403-877-5052

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

5030

SYLVAN 2 bdrm. newly reno’d, private entrance, close to shopping, avail.

Oct. 1, 403-341-9974

Manufactured Homes

New in Sylvan Lake

3 bdrm/2 bath NEW LAEBON home is sure to please.

Open concept floor plan. $299,900 Call Jennifer 403-392-6841

Newly Reno’d Mobile

Suites

3060

1 BDRM apt. at the rear side of 4616-44St., 1/2 block from farmers market, for Nov. 1st. Quiet bldg & avail. to over 50 non smoker, non partier & no pets.

Laundry on site. $750/mo/s.d 403-341-4627 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Value Packed Home

3 bdrm/3 bath 2 storey home in Timberstone.

Large kitchen with island & stainless steel appliances $439,900 Call Chris 403-392-7118

N/S, executive home, all utils incl + high spd. internet & digital cable. $600/mo + d.d. 403-357-0320

Rooms For Rent

3090

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $550. 403-346-7546 MOUNTVIEW: Avail fully furn bdrm for rent. $550/$275.† Working/Student M only. †Call 403-396-2468.

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550 ONE LEFT!

Acreages

4050

1.22 ACRES

5 min. W. of Red Deer.

Private, peaceful. This 3 bdrm., 2 bath bi-level home has it all. Many upgrades, lrg. kitchen, family room, big windows for all that natural light. Fully dev. bsmt. w/walk-out. $557.900.

Shanda, Maxwell Real Estate Solutions 403-391-3597

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Tour These Fine Homes

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Sat. & Sun. Sept. 28 & 29 1 pm - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

Vans Buses

5070

2006 HONDA CIVIC LX

2 Door, 84,202 km., original owner, great condition.

Keyless entry, iPod aux. jack, cruise, a/c, power windows, brand new battery.

Asking $10,200.

403-302-1138 (Red Deer)

2003 HONDA Odyssey EX-L V6. Loaded.

One owner. 189,000 kms.

Call 403-396-0722.

Motorhomes

2006 COROLLA CE. exc. cond. 78,000. kims.

Offers. 403-392-5628 2005 CHRYSLER Sebring 92,500 kms., $5,900 obo Touring sedan in exc. cond. V-6, p. driver seat, p. windows, p. door locks, p. mirrors, air cond, computer display, new front disc brakes & rotors, good tires. Call 403-346-2626 to view.

2004 MUSTANG Convertible 91,500 kms. $9,900. obo 40th Anniversary Edition in exc. cond. V-6 p. driver seat, p. windows, p. locks, air cond, p. mirrors, tilt steer, frnt & rear disc brakes, good tires.

Call 403-346-2626 to view

at www.garymoe.com

5100

1995 PINNACLE 32`, tow car avail. Both in Very good cond. 403-986-2004

Fifth Wheels

5110

2011 CARDINAL 38’.

Only used once. Top line. $56.000 obo. 403-347-5947

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A-1 WILLY’S Parts Place Inc. Will haul away salvage cars free in city limits. Will pay for some.

Only AMVIC approved salvage yard in Red Deer 403-346-7278

Out Of Red Deer

4310

SERGE’S HOMES Mackenzie Ranch 58 Mackenzie Cres.

LACOMBE Sept. 26th & 27th 2 pm - 5 pm Custom 2 storey 1392 sq. ft. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

Iran shows new urgency to revive stalled nuclear negotiations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Iran showed new urgency Wednesday to revive stalled negotiations with six world powers over its disputed nuclear activities, seeking to ease crippling international sanctions as quickly as possible.

New Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said “we have nothing to hide” as diplomats prepared to meet Thursday to discuss the way forward on the negotiations that have been on hold since April.

Rouhani’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who has been tasked as the lead nuclear negotiator, said he hoped his counterparts from six world powers — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — “have the same political will as we do to start serious negotiations with a view to reaching an agreement within the shortest span of time.”

Zarif will be a part of the Thursday meeting to discuss the next round of negotiations in Geneva, expected in October.

The West suspects Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon and has imposed crippling sanctions on Tehran that have slashed its vital oil exports and severely restricted its international bank transfers. Inflation has surged and the value of the local currency has plunged.

Tehran has repeatedly denied that its nuclear program is for anything other than peaceful purposes.

But since his June election, Rouhani has made clear he is seeking relief from the sanctions and has welcomed a new start in nuclear negotiations in hopes this could ease the economic pressure. He has said he has the full support of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on all important matters of state including the nuclear file.

“If there is political will on the other side, which we think there is, we are ready to talk,” Rouhani told editors Wednesday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “We believe the nuclear issue will be solved by negotiation.”

In his debut speech to world leaders at the U.N. on Tuesday, Rouhani repeated Iran’s long-standing demand that any nuclear agreement must recognize its right under international treaties to continue enriching uranium. The U.S. and its allies have long demanded a halt to enrichment, fearing Tehran could secretly build nuclear warheads.

Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as fuel for nuclear energy but at higher levels of enrichment, it could

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be used to build a nuclear weapon.

Rouhani also insisted in his speech that any deal be contingent on all other nations declaring their nuclear programs too are solely for peaceful purposes — alluding to the U.S. and Israel.

Iran watchers say Rouhani may have limited time to reach a settlement — possibly a year or less — before Khamenei decides negotiations are fruitless. That could explain the urgency in Zarif’s call to reach a deal quickly.

“He is not negotiating for the sake of negotiating and dragging it out,” Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Mideast program at the Wilson Center think-tank in Washington, said of Rouhani. “His reputation, and the country’s reputation, is at stake. This is an issue they are willing to work on, and move to take concrete steps to serious negotiations.”

Rouhani in New York has come across as a more moderate face of the hard-line clerical regime in Tehran.

In particular, he appears to be trying to tone down the caustic rhetoric of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with regard to Israel — one of the points of friction in relations with the West.

Still his speech to the U.N. was peppered with Iran’s traditional digs at America and the West — a reminder that a diplomatic warming will not come quickly or easily.

Rouhani condemned “the Nazi massacre against Jews, Christians and others” in his remarks to editors on Wednesday.

“There is no way to ignore Nazi crimes against Jews,” he said. But he added “it is important that those victimized not seek compensation by victimizing other groups” — a pointed reference to what he has described as Israel’s occupation and subjugation of Palestinians.

Citing the Qur’an, or Muslim holy book, Rouhani said that if any innocent person is killed, it is as if all of mankind has been killed.“ Ahmadinejad, in contrast, once called the Holocaust a “myth” and later said more research was needed to determine whether it had really happened.

Israel’s U.N. delegation walked out of Rouhani’s speech Tuesday in protest. But in a text message statement sent to reporters on Wednesday, Finance Minister Yair Lapid said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s instruction to Israeli delegates to walk out was a “mistake.” He said it created the impression that Israel was not interested in encouraging a peaceful solution to Iran’s suspect nuclear program.

Biden and Clinton share spotlight as Democrats look to 2016 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 783-2064

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2006 Jetta TDI 73,699 km $16,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

www.laebon.com

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403-596-2444

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2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT 4X4, Z-71 $22,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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THE NORDIC

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FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

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2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788 2006 PONTIAC Grand Prix 85,000 km. Immaculate.

Remote start, newer tires. $9500 403-302-1300

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

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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

2011 F-350 Lariat Diesel.

Loaded + spare fuel/toolbox & 5th wheel hitch. 28,000 km $53,000 obo. 403-347-5947

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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 2 BDRM. APT. CONDO Call Kyle Lygas Call 1-403-462-9999 403-588-2550 $10,000 Move-In Allowance AVA I L . O c t 1 , 4 b d r m .

MASON MARTIN HOMES townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping & schools. $1200 + util. + d.d 403-506-0054

Condos/ Townhouses

5050

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WILL do Custom Baling.

JD round net or string wrap.

403-342-0891 or 340-9111

rentals

Trucks

4400-4430

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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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

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SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

2000-2290

2140

5040

3110

CLASSIFICATIONS

Horses

SUV's

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dona, who advised Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. “Most people would think, ‘How uncomfortable must it be to be in the same room with them!’ Probably not for them. It’s a comfort, because they’ve already been in those roles before.”

Clinton and Biden share a long history that has evolved over decades. They have been Senate colleagues, 2008 primary opponents, and principal players on foreign policy in the Obama administration. And their alliance dates back to Bill Clinton’s presidency, when Biden used his perch on the Senate Judiciary Committee to help pass legislation targeting crime, gun violence and domestic abuse.

Those who have worked with Clinton and Biden say they’re genuine friends who enjoy each other’s company.

While no longer working together in a formal capacity, their status as two of the highest-profile members of their party ensures their paths cross frequently.

In July, the two dined on eggs, bacon and fresh fruit at the vicepresident’s residence at the Naval Observatory, which is within walking distance of the Clintons’ Washington home.

The private breakfast came a day after Clinton had lunch at the White House with President Barack Obama, stoking speculation the presi-

dent might be signalling his support for his former secretary of state in the next presidential race.

A month earlier, Biden and Clinton spoke in New York at the funeral of Sen. Frank Lautenberg. And in April, they shared the stage at another awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center, a few blocks from the White House, where they praised each other like old chums.

“Vice-President Biden and I have worked together on so many issues,” Clinton said.

“There’s no woman like Hillary Clinton,” Biden chimed in.

A private citizen after resigning as the top U.S. diplomat, Clinton has stepped back onto the national stage recently, appearing refreshed and energized as she speaks before groups that include key Democratic constituencies, including college students, black women, and the gay and lesbian community.

Biden, meanwhile, has become the president’s most visible surrogate, heading up efforts to curb gun violence, promoting trade and infrastructure, and travelling the globe to meet with world leaders. He also has kept up his profile in Democratic circles.

An aggressive schedule of fundraising and campaigning has taken him repeatedly to important presidential primary states like Iowa and South Carolina.

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Several teams faced off against each other in the parking lot at the Parkland Mall last weekend. They were participating in the United Way Meinema Cup Street Hockey Challenge.

On this lot, the Alix IDA Drugs players took on the Meinema family, for which the tournament is named.

The late Henry Meinema was a minor hockey coach and manager in Red Deer who had three passions in life: his wife Val, his beloved Hamilton TigerCats and hockey. Along with sponsoring many sports teams, he spent years coaching and managing in Red Deer Minor Hockey. A total of $7,300 was raised in the three-day event to benefit the United Way of Central Alberta.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dr. Donald Low, the infectious disease specialist who shepherded Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, made a videotaped appeal prior to his death for Canada to legalize assisted suicide and let people die with dignity.

The emotional video was shot eight days before Low’s death from a brain tumour last week at age 68.

In the YouTube video produced by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and posted Tuesday, Low says he is not in pain but his vision, hearing and strength are waning and he worries what will happen before the end.

Low says he would like the option of choosing when he will die, before the disease renders him incapable of walking, swallowing food or using the bathroom without his family’s assistance.

“What the end is going to look like, that’s what’s bothering me the most,” he says in a weakened voice, one eye closed, the other held open by a small bandage.

Low says he’s envious of people living in some U.S. states and countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands, where assisted dying is legal.

“They give you a very simple way out. You drink a cocktail and you fall asleep and you do this in the presence of your family.

In countries where it’s legal, it’s quite easy to do.

In countries where it’s not legal, it’s pretty well impossible.

“In Canada, it’s illegal and it will be a long time before we mature to a level where we accept dying with dignity,” he says, pointing out that there are people who oppose assisted dying, among them “a lot of clinicians.”

Those who oppose legalizing assisted suicide argue against it on several grounds: from a religious belief that only God can take a life; that society has a responsibility to preserve life; that assisted dying is a slippery slope toward euthanasia without consent of people with mental illness, physical handicaps or the elderly; and that it violates the doctors’ Hippocratic oath to “first, do no harm.”

But in his video, Low pleads with those who are against assisted suicide to rethink their stance.

“I wish they could live in my body for 24 hours and I think they would change that opinion,” he says.

“I’m just frustrated not to be able to have control of my own life. Not being able to have the decision for myself when enough is enough.”

The Canadian Medical Association, which represents 78,000 of the country’s doctors, prohibits physicians from participating in assisted suicide.

At the CMA’s annual meeting in August, delegates voted against a motion calling on all levels of government to hold public hearings into “medical aid in dying.”

The reasons were varied: doctors couldn’t agree on what the term means; some view it as a medical act, while others see it as simple euthanasia; and delegates also were uncomfortable in telling provincial governments, which are responsible for health care, what their policies should be.

Even so, Canada’s doctors are split on the issue.

In 2011, a survey of CMA members found that 38 per cent believe assisted suicide should remain against the law, while 34 per cent said it should be legalized.

Canada’s law banning doctor-assisted suicide is currently under review by the courts. The B.C. Supreme Court ruled last year that the law is unconstitutional, but the federal government appealed that decision; a ruling by the B.C. Court of Appeal is expected later this year.

Meanwhile, the Quebec government recently introduced its right-to-die bill 52, which would legalize medically assisted dying in the province.

“I think we are on the cusp of change,” said Wanda Morris, executive director of Dying With Dignity Canada, calling Low’s posthumous video “very poignant.”

She said his desire to control the circumstances of his own death is in keeping with the view of the majority of Canadians: an Angus Reid poll last year found 80 per cent of adults support the idea of assisted dying.

“And as people knew and respected and looked up to Dr. Low, we encourage people to act on his wish, to educate their MP, to join Dying with Dignity and add their voices to ours and try to make his dying wish a reality,” Morris said from Vancouver.

Lee Fairclough, a spokeswoman for Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, said Low and his family approached the organization about recording a video, one in an upcoming series that presents different patients’ views on issues related to palliative end-of-life care.

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ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS

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Alberta Culture Days is on this weekend in Red Deer. Along with native drumming, shown here from the left, drummers, Samuel Tologanak, Leon Gardypie and Brennan Baptiste, there will be many options in downtown Red Deer to experience what makes Red Deer and Central Alberta a diverse cultural centre. Festivities begin on Friday, Sept. 27, at Red Deer College with a piano recital with Allen Reiser at 8 p.m. There are a number of activities taking place Saturday, Sept. 28, at the City Centre Stage, the Hub on Ross, the Scott Block, and Pioneer Lodge. For more information on weekend events, contact the City of Red Deer Cultural Services at 403-309-4091.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Heartwise, a free, three-hour group session offered by Alberta Health Services, will be held on Sept. 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Bethany CollegeSide.

Nutrition and food service professionals will share their knowledge and guide discussions to help individuals manage their heart health. To register, call 1-88-314-6997. ● Craving Change will be offered by Alberta Health Services at Bethany CollegeSide and is designed to help local residents looking to improve their eating habits in a series of three weekly workshops. Participants will learn self-awareness tools and engage in activities designed to help identify and manage challenges associated with nutrition decisions. Workshops will be held on Sept. 27, and Oct. 11 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, or to register, call 1-877-314-6997. ● Of Moose and Men— Across the World, the Red Deer River Naturalist fall social, will be held on Sept. 27, 7 p.m. at Festival Hall. Enjoy a wine and cheese social with quest speaker Jerry Haigh, wildlife vet, author and storyteller. Tickets, $10, are available at Kerry Wood Nature Centre in advance. ● Rimbey Art club Show and Sale goes on Sept. 27, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sept. 28 and 29 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rimbey Art Studio of the Community Centre. Special guests the Kansas Ridge Quiltters with Patty Morris. Refreshments served. For more information call 403-843-6122. ● Upcycled Costume Workshop will be offered on Sept. 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Bring your costume idea and leave with a plan to make it more eco-friendly. Admission by donation of $5. Call 403-346-2010 for more information. ● Alberta Culture Days Celebration — a family-friendly event — will be held at various venues in Red Deer, Sept. 27 to 29. Highlights include the Sept. 27 Tree House Youth Theatre presentation for elementary children at Red Deer College Arts Centre of the play I Met a Bully on the Hill, by Martha Brooks and Maureen Hunter, and various arts workshops for middle and high schools. On Sept.

28, Larry Reese’s Mapping Creativity will be shown in the City Centre Stage, the main festival site. Art works, ethnic food vendors, will be in the Centre Stage parking lot. Face painters, live music, chalk art, and a dance extravaganza will be held at Scott Block. A Native Showcase by Native Friendship Society will take place at The Hub on Ross starting at 10 a.m. Look for a Pop-Up-Gallery, local visual artists, performing artists, literary artists, and Central Alberta Retired Teachers art exhibit at Pioneer Lodge from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. will be featured on Saturday. On Sunday, Sept. 29, City Centre Stage will showcase the movie Older than America as a presentation of Red Deer Native Friendship Society. This award-winning movie is about a woman’s haunting visions of a Catholic priest and a Native American boarding school. Stars Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper. See http://culture.alberta.ca/culturedays/ and City of Red Deer Culture Services Facebook page for additional details. ● Jennifer Quist — local author — will read from her debut novel Love Letters of the Angels at Sunworks at 7 p.m. This is a novel for everyone who has ever been happily married — and for everyone who would like to be. Contact Lesley at 403-341-3455.

● Lacombe Culture and Harvest Festival will continue until Sept. 29 at various venues in Lacombe. There will be fun for the whole family with plenty of feasting, merriment, and live performances, midway, ranch rodeo, talent show, free classic rock concert, fireworks, county fair, artistic exhibits, 10 by 10 — the unknown artist silent auction (continues until Sept. 29) and more. See www. heartoflacombe.ca. ● Gallery on Main in Lacombe events: Show and Sale of watercolours and acrylics by Sandra Bingeman of Central Alberta, until Sept. 27; Opening Show Reception for Fraser Hine of Calgary from 5 to 9 p.m., Sept. 28; gallery hours Friday until 8 p.m. and Saturday until 9 p.m., and Sunday noon to 4 p.m. for Lacombe Culture and Harvest Festival. ● Deer Park Alliance Church presents Breathe — theatrical show based on award-winning book Close Enough to Hear God Breathe by Greg Pauls — on Sept. 27, 7 p.m. The show stars Jason Hildebrand and Mike Janzen. General free admission. See www.jasonhildebrand.com, www. mikejanzen.ca, or contact 403-343-1511, or dtjart@ deerparkchurch.ca. ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Allen Reiser, Piano on Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. on Mainstage, Arts Centre. In cooperation with the Alberta Piano Teachers Association, Calgary pianist Allen Reiser presents an all-Chopin recital. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● Scrabble is offered at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Fridays at 1 p.m. for a cost of $1. Phone 403-343-6074.

Saturday ● 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. 28 session is called Drawing of Everyday Stuff with artist Carlene La Rue. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403309-8405. Free with admission. ● Pipe Band Pub Night, hosted by the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band will go at Bo’s Bar and Grill on Sept. 28, 7 p.m. Silent auction and music by St. James Gate and the pipe band. Tickets, $20, include a pint and apples, available by calling 403782-7183 or any pipe band member. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Sept. 28 at Penhold Hall. Music by Lost Highway.

Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m.

Members and invited guests only; new members welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403-3417653 or Bob at 403-304-7440. ● Puppet Family Storytime will be offered at Dawe Library on Sept. 28 from 1 to 2 p.m. All ages welcome for games, crafts and show based on the book King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub. ● Central Alberta Retired Teachers’ Association will hold their Annual Art Show and Sale on Sept. 28 at Pioneer Lodge from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call Margaret at 403-347-5500. ● Central Alberta Wood Workers Guild will hold their Wood Working Show on Sept. 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lacombe Memorial Centre as part of the Lacombe Culture and Harvest Festival. Admission is free. For more information call Duane at 403-782-6597.

● A Better World presents Beyond Borders — The Goat Ate My School — stories from Sudan with Llewellyn Juby, on Sept. 28, 9:15 or 11:45 a.m. at Canadian University College Heights Church, or on Sept. 29, 9 or 11 a.m., or 6:30 p.m. at CrossRoads Church. See www.a-better-world.ca, or contact info@abwcanda.org, or 403-782-1141.

Sunday ● 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. ● Fundraiser for Mikeala will be held on Sept.

29 at Gospel Chapel in Sylvan Lake at 3 p.m. with beef on a bun, $10 and silent auction, live auction at 5 p.m. and a 7 p.m. concert with the Boom Chucka Boys, $20 donation. For more information call Pam at 403-352-2972 or 403-346-2973. ● Tim Hortons Smile Cookie Days in support of Foundation for Red Deer Public Schools — Bright Start program continue until Sept. 29. See timhortons.com. Smile cookies cost $1 each. ● J.J. Collett Natural Area Annual Fall Walk will be held on Sept. 29, 2 p.m. J.J. Collett Foundation Directors will lead two guided walks, and there will be hot dogs, desserts, and beverages to follow the walk. Medicine River Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre may have a rehabilitated hawk available for release as well. Phone 403-704-5360.

Monday ● Unpacking Gender Identity will be presented on Sept. 30, 7 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe. Jordan Sullivan — a former Lacombe resident and student at Canadian University College who is now on staff with the national United Church — will speak on gender identity, identity barriers of transgendered people, and more. Contact Marg at 403-782-1887. ● Monday Melodies at Kerry Wood Nature Centre will be on Sept. 30, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Seniors invited to drop in and celebrate nature inspired music and more. Phone 403-346-2010. ● Primary Care Network Red Deer Health Café — Hot Flash Bash — embracing menopause, will be offered on Sept. 30, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Red Deer Lodge. Limited seats available. Please reserve by calling 403-343-9100. Cost is $5 at the door. Bring questions, and the man in your life is welcome also. Dress in your favourite red hot outfit (optional). Chocolate served. ● Red Deer Square Dance Club new dancer lessons are offered on Mondays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Clearview Community Hall beginning on Sept. 30. First class is free. Classes continue to Dec. 16 and cost $50. Easy to learn figures are walked through to the beat of a variety of music.

Casual dress. Contact Eileen at 403-342-1509.

Tuesday ● Radical Reels — extreme film from Banff Mountain Film Festival — will be shown on Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Tickets are $20 plus GST, and are available from Wipe-Out Ski and Bike, Pursuit Adventure and Travel, and from the Nature Centre. ● Central Alberta Council on Aging Annual General Meeting takes place on Oct. 1 at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre starting at 9 a.m.

Mona Udowicz, Project Leader Director of Radiation Therapy, Community Oncology, Alberta Health Services will give an update on Central Alberta Cancer Clinic. Contact Shirley at 403-343-0767, Ron at 403-346-8115, or Margaret at 403-3430698. There will be a $3 charge at the door. ● Canadian Mental Health Association Cen-

tral Alberta will host a series of mental health education evenings at the Snell Auditorium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with psychiatrist Dr. Norm Costigan. Topics will be Depression on Oct. 1, Anxiety on Oct. 8, Bipolar Disorder on Oct. 22, and Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on Oct. 29.

Free of charge. To register or find out more, phone 403-342-2244. ● Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held Oct. 1 and 15. Phone 403-742-4273. ● Drop-in Pajama Storytime invites children aged two and their families to the children’s department at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch for stories, songs, finger plays, and crafts at 6:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Children under three years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Stettler Celiac Support Group meets at Stettler Hospital Board Room on the first Tuesday of every month — next Oct. 1 — starting at 7 p.m.

Contact Diane at 403-742-0903, or Val at 403-7425217.

Wednesday ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Country Express is on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403342-0035. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. Share a 10 minute travel story for entertainment or get inspired by listening to others. Pictures welcome. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. Join the fun on Oct. 2.

Thursday ● Red Deer College music student showcases and concert series presents Thursday Live Concerts on Oct. 3 and 31 on the Mainstage, Arts Centre at 1 p.m. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Oct. 3, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Silver and Gold Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170. ● Parkvale Lodge Fall Tea, Craft, and Bake Sale is coming up on Oct. 3, 1:45 to 3 p.m. at 4277 46A Ave. There will be a raffle, door prizes, silent auction. Admission is $4. Phone 403-343-0688. ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month.

Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The Oct. 3 event features soprano Angela Siemens and pianist Vernon Murgatroyd as musical guests. Phone 403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● Red Deer Public Library Election Forum will be held on Oct. 3, 7 to 9 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown branch for Red Deer mayoral candidates. There will presentations by the candidates followed by question and answer period, also streamed live at http://ww.rdpl.org/programs/live. See other election related information sponsored by the library is available on Facebook, Twitter, and Pintrest. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on Oct. 3 at the north side of the Red Deer Curling Club parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. a final potluck and hike. Hike will be cancelled if raining or about to rain, or if the temperature is too unsuitable. To find out the details, phone Art at 403-347-5778, or Mavis at 403-343-0091 or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

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Sudan drops off Internet on third day of riots

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters burn tires and close the highway to northern cities amid a wave of unrest over the lifting of fuel subsidies by the Sudanese government, in Kadro, 25 km north of downtown Khartoum, Wednesday.

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan dropped almost completely off the Internet on Wednesday as riots over the lifting of fuel subsidies entered their third day and protesters battled security forces in the capital.

Renesys Corp., a company that maps the pathways of the Internet, said it could not confirm whether the blackout was government-orchestrated. But the cut recalls a similarly dramatic outage in Egypt, Sudan’s neighbour, when authorities shut off Internet access during that country’s 2011 uprising.

“It’s either a government-directed thing or some very catastrophic technological failure that just happens to coincide with violent riots happening in the city,” said senior analyst Doug Madory. He said it was almost a “total blackout.”

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said it was alarmed by the reports of what seemed like an official attempt to stifle coverage, and called on the government to restore the country’s connection.

A police statement said three peo-

ple have died in three days of rioting over the lifting of fuel subsidies — two in the town of Wad Medani south of Khartoum, and one in the Omdurman district of the capital.

In northern Khartoum, Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters who demonstrated and torched a police station.

Wednesday’s protests took place in several areas of Kadro district, 25 km from the capital’s city centre, where protesters blocked roads using lengths of pipe and burning tires. They also attacked a police station.

The riots that began in the state of Gezira, south of Khartoum, have turned into a call for the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir, who has ruled the country for more than two decades.

The rioting started after Sudan’s government decided to lift subsidies, immediately doubling prices of gasoline and fuel.

The semi-official Sudan Media Center on Wednesday quoted Gezira governor Al-Zubair Bashir Taha as saying that aside from police stations, riots there targeted power and gas stations, banks, shops and private property. Police are tracking down the “saboteurs,” he said.

The SMC also quoted the deputy head of the Sudanese parliament, Samiya Ahmed Mohammed, as saying she hopes the “opposition understands the measures with objectivity.”

Sudan lost most of its main oil-producing territory when South Sudan broke off as an independent state in 2011.

An initial attempt by the government to cut subsidies sparked similar protests but they were quelled by a heavy crackdown on protesters, activists and journalists.

Al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on allegations linked to the conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur where an estimated 300,000 people have died since 2003 due to fighting between governmentbacked tribes and rebels.

Al-Bashir received an invitation to attend the UN General Assembly and applied for a visa to enter the U.S. The State Department said Washington received a visa request but that before going to UN headquarters, al-Bashir should present himself to the ICC. Sudan condemned Washington’s response.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Gallery on Main in Lacombe classes: Dee Poisson will offer an animal pencil drawing class on Oct. 26; Sandra Bingeman will offer watercolour class for painting birds on Nov. 16. For each, phone 403-782-3402 to register and find out more. ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Cheryl Clooney and Debra Bakland, Piano Duo on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. on Mainstage, Arts Centre. RDC professor emeritus Cheryl Clooney and Canadian University College faculty member Debra Bakland present an evening of duo piano music by Bach, Lutoslawski, Brahms, Rachmaninov, and Rzewski. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403755-6626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● Red Deer Youth and Community Orchestra is looking for players of all ages to meet on Tuesday nights, 7 to 9 p.m. to play orchestral music. Concerts are planned for December and spring.

Rehearsals start in early Oct. Contact Louise at 587-998-9453. ● Cornerstone Youth Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland coming up at First Church of the Nazarene with performances at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 26, Nov. 1 and 2, and at 3 p.m. on Oct. 26, and Nov. 2. Other showtimes are 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 5 p.m. on Nov. 3, as well as school day showtimes. Tickets are available at www.cornerstoneyouththeatre.org, or by phone 403-986-2981 with costs from $10 to $12, and by purchase at the door. ● Benalto Christmas Sale and Cookie Walk now offering table rentals for the sale on Nov. 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Benalto Community Hall. Costs are $15 per table. To book tables phone 403-7465494 or 403-340-9441. Hosted by Benalto Royal Purple supporting community projects, and food

counter hosted by Benalto Shadow Riders Horse Club. ● Donald School of Business Speaker Series presents author, and CBC Dragon’s Den judge — David Chilton — on Oct. 9 at City Centre Stage. Networking and refreshments from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. followed by speaker presentation from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 each and $35 for students, and tickets are available at www.bkticketcentre.ca or by calling 403-755-6626. ● Ridgewood Turkey Supper takes place on Oct. 19, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets at the door. Adults $12 per plate, children five to 12 years $5, under five years free. Directions from Penhold FasGas are west on 592 at RR. 10 north (west side). Phone 403-886-4642. ● Stettler Agriculture Society Christmas Farmers’ Market will be on Nov. 26 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Concession open for lunch and supper.

Gift basket draw. Tables available. Phone 403-7426288. ● 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 by volunteer position (customer service, cleaning equipment, repair shop, warehouse, drivers). Drop in at 5406C, 43 St. or contact Audrey at 403-356-1678, ext. 22, or audrey.lendingcupboard@shaw.ca ● Epilepsy Association of Calgary Central Alberta Office offers free presentations on Basics of Epilepsy and First Aid for organizations and businesses. Book a presentation at normak@ epilepsycalgary.com, or 403-358-3358, or see www.epilepsycalgary.com ● 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. ● 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. ● 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 will be offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association for eight weeks. One session will run on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. from Oct. 9 to Nov. 27 at CMHA office, and another session will be 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 see www. reddeer.cmha.ab.ca. Participants must speak with staff prior to enrollment at 403-342-2266. ● 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. ● Red Deer Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Awards tickets are now on sale for the Oct. 15 event at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. Tickets, $85 are available online at www. reddeerchamber.com or at the Chamber office. For

more information call Shelley at 403-347-4491. ● 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. Ways to make a difference are by hosting a Coffee Break or donate directly to www.alzheimercoffeebreak.ca ● Poplar Ridge Annual Turkey Supper will be held on Nov. 2 starting at 5 p.m. Advance tickets only. Call Esther at 403-346-5983 or Janet at 403346-5629. ● Magdalene House Society/Joy Smith Foundation in support of victims of human trafficking will be on Oct. 5. To donate, see www.rideforrefuge.org, or contact David at 403-342-6191 or dacat2@shaw.ca. ● Heart Wise, a free, three-hour group session offered by Alberta Health Services, will be held on Oct. 4, 18, Nov. 1, 6, and Dec. 13 from 9 a.m. to noon, and Nov. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Bethany CollegeSide. Nutrition and food service professionals will share their knowledge and guide discussions to help individuals manage their heart health. To register, call 1-877-314-6997. ● Canadian Red Cross is seeking adult volunteers who can commit two times per week facilitating exercise classes one hour in length plus travel and preparation time. Needed are a Seniors Link to Health Lead Facilitator to provide leadership and training to other volunteer facilitators, and a Link to Health Facilitator to deliver the program to participants over 50 years of age. To get involved, contact Leigh Baker at Leigh.Baker@redcross.ca, 403-346-1241.

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On Saturday, November 9th, the Advocate, with the generous support of the local business community, will pay tribute to those who have answered Canada’s call in time of need by publishing a very special pictorial section honouring our veterans.

In Search of Pictures and Stories . . . of yourself, your family, loved ones or friends who have served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War I, World War II, the Korean ConÀict, Desert Storm, Afghanistan or any of Canada’s Peacekeeping Missions.

THE RED DEER ADVOCATE ATTENTION: SPECIAL SECTIONS COORDINATOR 2950 BREMNER AVE. RED DEER, AB T4R 1M9 OR EMAIL: SPECIALSECTIONS@REDDEERADVOCATE.COM We will run as many photos as possible, but space is limited. Those individuals whose photos have been submitted, but for whatever reason are unable to be reproduced and do not run, will be named in our special “Honour Roll.”

The Red Deer Advocate would like to thank participating businesses and families of veterans for their assistance in the publication of this very special section.

Advertisers: Please call Display Advertising at 403-314-4392 for information on how to be included in this event.

PLEASE INCLUDE COMPLETED FORM WITH YOUR PHOTO(S).

Name of veteran(s) _______________________________________________________________________________

Please ensure your photos are clearly marked with your name and address so we can return them to you.

We can reproduce black & white or colour photos of almost any size; however, we do require an original.

We cannot reproduce photocopies of pictures.

Mail or bring in your photos before Wednesday, October 16, and completed write-up to:

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Branch of Service _______________________________________________________________________________ Unit _______________________________________________________________________________ Years Enlisted _______________________________________________________________________________ Served In Which Theatres _______________________________________________________________________________

Medals Awarded __________________________________________________________________ A brief biography relating unique experiences: ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________

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The Advocate has archived all the photos and biographies from our previous editions in 2010, 2011 and 2012. We plan to continue our tribute and memory of the veterans from those editions in our 2012 edition. In order to assist our composing department in this special publication, please indicate if the veteran’s photo appeared in either the 2010, 2011 or the 2012 edition.

IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013

stock up & save

10

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98 750 mL

Wolf Blass Yellow Label

750 mL

16

750 mL

10

98

J.Lohr Seven Oaks Cabernet

Stoneleigh Sauvignon Blanc

498242

169568

197804

108941

LARGE 1.14 L BONUS 50 mL

BONUS 50 mL

LARGE 1.14 L BONUS 50 mL

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98 750 mL

with purchase while quantities last

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98 1.14 L

with purchase while quantities last

15

98 750 mL

with purchase while quantities last

24

98

Meiomi Belle Glos Pinot Noir

Absolut vodka

Famous Grouse scotch

Alberta Premium rye

Alberta vodka

921852

168609

200598

196443

197818

works out to 0.96 per can

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1.14 L

or 11.33 ea., works out to 1.42 per can

98 /24 cans

19

98 /12 bottles

Heineken beer

Old Milwaukee beer 912834

750 mL

Trapiche Oak Cask Malbec

with purchase while quantities last

17

750 mL

98

Monte Antico Toscana

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98

98

750 mL

assorted varieties 109543/109094/125454/679116/ 475269/384179

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24 x 355 mL

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18

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Rickard’s Taster’s beer pack 12 x 330 mL

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12 x 341 mL

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Aphrodisiaque beer 695693

6 x 341 mL

33

99 /24 cans

Budweiser or Bud Light beer 298593/731464

8 x 355 mL

PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE G.S.T. OR DEPOSIT

Prices effective Thursday, September 26 to Sunday, September 29, 2013 at #5 Clearview Market Way, Red Deer.

Please drink responsibly and designate a driver. Don’t Drink & Drive!

We accept MasterCard or Visa

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We reserve the right to limit quantities. While stock lasts. Prices subject to change. No rainchecks, no substitutions.