Red Deer Advocate, October 15, 2013

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Hell no, we won’t GMO! Vendors praise setup MARKET EXPERIMENTED WITH CLOSURE OF PART OF 43RD STREET BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

parents’ lifetimes.” Nelson says cancer, autism, diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease rates among other diseases are all rising dramatically. Red Deer’s event was not organized by a group, she said. “We are just likeminded citizens who are concerned about toxins in our environment and toxins in our food. “We’re concerned that our government is letting this become part of our food supply.”

A sharp chill in the morning air and pumpkins on fruit and vegetable stands were sure signs the Red Deer Public Market season was drawing to a close. “It was a really good year,” said Patrick Moffat, who runs the market with father, Dennis. “We had probably one of our best years ever.” The market set a new vendor record over the summer, with 256 showing up to shop their wares one Saturday, Moffat said. Weather also co-operated, with only two or three “suspect days” and none so bad to scare away shoppers. A new experiment this year, closing off a portion of 43rd Street to vehicles during the 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. market seemed to go over well. “It took some of the congestion out of the one part in front of the arena,” he said. It also created a safer environment along the street. Moffat said he’d like to see the road closed again next year, but that decision will be made after market organizers do their usual post-season review with the city and RCMP.

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About 40 demonstrators took to Red Deer’s Streets on Saturday as part of a worldwide protest against genetically modified seeds.

PROTEST CHALLENGES SAFETY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF About 40 placard-waving demonstrators took to Red Deer’s streets on Saturday to draw attention to activist claims about the dangers of genetically modified foods. Food giant Monsanto was singled out for its role as a leading producer of genetically modified seed in the protests held in more than 50 countries worldwide. In Canada, about 4,000 people gathered in Vancouver and protests drew crowds in many other cities

across the country. Red Deer organizer Mara Nelson said the goal is to keep genetically modified organisms (GMOs) out of the food supply. “We want to keep our seeds safe,” said Nelson. “Our pollinators are decreasing at such a rapid rate that they are not going to be able to recover and we rely on our pollinators for over 40 per cent of the foods we eat daily. “There are too many pesticides, herbicides and fungicides being put on our foods. And with that come along an increase in disease we’ve never seen before in our lifetimes or our grand-

Aviation society looking for space to restore biplane BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF When a vintage Tiger Moth biplane trainer was donated to the Harvard Historical Aviation Society, the offer came with a challenging catch. The plane had to fly again. Fortunately, the society has just the people trained in the art of covering the wooden skeletons of old planes with the hardened fabric that preceded the days of stressed aluminum skins. “We were very thrilled with this type of donation,” said society president Jodi Smith. “We have people who are ready to go and get it flying.” The biggest obstacle now is to find a place to do the work on the 70-plusyear-old plane, which was largely re-

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Hundreds of Tiger Moths were built as elementary trainers to give prospective pilots their first taste of flying.

A million miles and more by motorcycle Sometime last week on his way into work, Glenn Turple hit one million miles on the back of a motorcycle. Story on PAGE A7

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stored by longtime Sundre Flying Club member Alf Bicknell before he passed away in 2012 at the age of 84. What is needed is an empty bay or some other similar space where society members can work their magic and turn the disassembled plane into flying history. A suitable workshop is planned as part of the society’s goal to build a restored H-Hut as a museum at Springbrook, but that project is still a few years off. Fundraising is well underway for that $300,000 project. H-Huts were easy-to-build structures named for their distinctive shape that housed thousands of airmen who came to Penhold to train as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during the Second World War.


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