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A PROUD TRADITION Red Deer’s most successful trade show was born from a flash of inspiration

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer’s most successful trade show owes its existence to a flash of inspiration on Hwy 2.

It was the early 1980s and Patrick Kennedy was returning from the Farm & Ranch Show in Edmonton. He’d asked organizers there if they’d considered organizing a similar event in Red Deer.

“On the drive back from Edmonton to Red Deer, I’m going, ‘Wait a minute, why would we let them do it when we could run it through the Chamber of Commerce and get this thing going right here in Red Deer, with local representation and local management?’ ” A subsequent survey of exhibitors at the Farm Progress Show in Regina convinced Kennedy there would be an appetite for a farm equipment exhibition in Central Alberta, although some members of the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce worried about the financial viability of such an endeavour. Nevertheless, arrangements were made for the first AgriTrade to take place at Westerner Park from Oct. 17 to 20, 1984.

On the first day of the event, it appeared the naysayers would be proven correct. A snowstorm rolled through the region, leaving 17-cm snowdrifts and closing a number of roads, including Hwy 2.

“I’m just sick about the weather,” then Chamber manager Pat Henry told the Advocate at the time. “But there’s nothing we can do about it.”

Kennedy remembers exhibitors calling to say they couldn’t get to Red Deer, with many farmers in a similar situation.

“We were at a point where we put out public service announcements saying if you could find your way to the front door you’d get in for free.”

To make matters worse, a late harvest meant many producers still had crops to bring in.

“Farmers were actually coming to the show in overalls and running,” said Kennedy.

But Agri-Trade survived — and went on to thrive. It long ago consumed all of the indoor space and a big chunk of the outdoor area at Westerner Park, which is now a partner with the Chamber in the event.

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Pat Kennedy, who began the Agri-Trade farm equipment exhibition 30 years ago, is stepping away from the annual project after this year’s convention.

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Ontario Premier Wynne plays nice in Alberta

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says what’s good for Alberta’s oil and gas industry is good for her province too.

“Oil and gas are clearly fundamental to Alberta’s economy and to Canada’s but also to Ontario’s — and I want everyone to know that I understand that and I want to advance that,” Wynne told a corporate crowd in Calgary on Friday.

“Many of our Ontario manufacturers now directly support your industry. I want us to build on that relationship.”

Wynne set a different tone than that of her predecessor on her first official visit to Alberta since she became premier of Canada’s most populous province in January.

Dalton McGuinty drew Alberta’s scorn last year when he said the oil and gas industry was driving up the loonie and making it more difficult for Ontario manufacturers to export their goods. He later softened his stance.

Wynne also made it clear that Alberta Premier Alison Redford has an ally in her push for a Canadian energy strategy, naming that effort one of her top priorities as chair of the Council of the Federation.

“We’ve agreed on common principles on the energy strategy — most of us have, not everybody,” Wynne said. “You know — it is Canada.”

“Together Ontario and Alberta will play a key role in helping us to get there.”

The debate over oil pipelines is heating up in Ontario. There are two major proposals in the works to ship Alberta crude through the province to eastern refineries and export points.

In her remarks, Wynne acknowledged how important it is to Alberta to get its resources to market — including via Ontario — but stressed the need for strong environmental oversight and First Nations consultation.

At hearings this month, many expressed concern over Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) proposal to reverse the flow of its existing Line 9 oil pipeline between southwestern Ontario and Montreal and pump more Alberta crude through it.

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Jeffrey Dow and Nancy Brown of the Canadian Paraplegic Association have a little fun at their booth at the Monster Mash Wellness Bash at the Gaetz United Church on Friday afternoon. Hosted by the Red Deer Native Friendship Society, the event brought together about two dozen heath and wellness organizations to speak about health, nutrition, exercise and other topics.

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BRIEF Premier Redford to meet with elected leaders of Edmonton, Calgary EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford

plans to meet this weekend with elected leaders of the province’s two largest cities.

Redford, re-elected Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton’s mayor-elect Don Iveson are to meet Saturday morning.

A government news release says they will discuss ways to work together to build a stronger province.

Both cities want action on promised big-city charters that would give them more taxing and spending authority.

Nenshi won a second term in Monday’s municipal elections.

Iveson replaces departing Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel.

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AGRI-TRADE: Nov. 6 to 9 This year, despite squeezing some 385 exhibitors into 350,000 square feet of pavilion space and 75,000 square feet outside, Agri-Trade has a waiting list of about 125 exhibitors.

Tens of thousands of attendees will converge on Red Deer from Canada, the United States and even overseas — creating an economic windfall for local ag product dealers, hotels, restaurants and other businesses that the Red Deer Chamber estimates at more than $15 million annually.

The 2013 edition of Agri-Trade, which will run from Nov. 6 to 9, is significant for a couple of reasons. It marks the 30th anniversary of the show and, perhaps more significantly, will be the last one that Kennedy manages.

The transfer of administrative responsibility for Agri-Trade began last year, when Dianne Smirl — a certified exhibition manager with 20 years of experience in the industry — was hired to assist and ultimately replace Kennedy.

“I’m personally excited, because I think it’s time for Dianne’s talents to take over,” said Kennedy, who is pleased with the changes his successor is already making.

For instance, Smirl is creating a Technology Pavilion where high-tech advances in the agricultural industry will be showcased, and is working toward locating other booths together on the basis of common themes. She’s also arranged for a professionally conducted survey of attendees and struck an advisory committee of ag experts to help plan for the future.

“Just sitting here, I can see where this thing is starting to morph into something bigger and better and more efficient, and more attractive to attendees,” said Kennedy.

For her part, Smirl speaks glowingly of Kennedy’s impact on the show during his three decades at the

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This year, despite squeezing some 385 exhibitors into 350,000 square feet of pavilion space and 75,000 square feet outside, Agri-Trade has a waiting list of about 125 exhibitors. helm.

“Events are risky, even with the best idea. The fact that he had the chutzpah to take that risk and push it forward — you don’t meet many people like that who are willing to throw their necks on the chopping block and say, ‘Win or lose, I’m right behind it.’

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She even compares the challenges of guiding Agri-Trade from concept to world-class trade show to those associated with raising a child.

“He’s taken it through grade school; now I’m going to take it through university. He’s had the hard job; mine’s pretty easy now.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘I accept that climate change is a reality’ WILDROSE PARTY LEADER DANIELLE SMITH PREPARED TO TACKLE THE ISSUE

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The fight against climate change and excessive greenhouse gas emissions got some strong support from Wildrose party leader Danielle Smith in Red Deer on Friday.

After being accused earlier in the week on not being clear about whether she believes climate change exists, Smith said she and Wildrose members are prepared to act on climate change should her party form the government.

She also maintained her tack of the last few days saying she need not pronounce on the severity of the topic because neither she nor her party members are scientists, “I accept that climate change is a reality, as do our members. I accept that there is a human influence on it,” said Smith at a media availability session during the party’s two-day annual general meeting at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel.

“It’s up to the scientists to do the research on the extent and how fast, but I think with that as a background, the solution for politicians is we have to come up with answers for how we would do it in a sensible way.”

Today, Wildrose will debate and vote on a number of proposed policy changes, including one that would commit the party to “reduce greenhouse gases by advancing, implementing, and co-operating on technology, research, conservation, and alternative renewable energy sources” and another ensuring the province’s emissions protocols are on par with national and

international standards.

In the 2012 election campaign, Smith came under fire for insisting that the science around climate change was not settled. While saying Friday that there are a “variety of different views out there, particularly in Alberta,” she said members are “overwhelmingly in favour” of passing policies committing the party to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

She said the issue has never been formally debated by party members before, but that they are now on board with tackling it.

“When our members are silent on particular issues, I try my best to interpret. Sometimes I get it wrong, and in this case I’m pleased to see that our members want us to move forward on a policy,” said Smith.

After being criticized by government Environment Minister Dianne McQueen on Thursday for her refusal to state her own personal opinion on climate change, Smith shot back by calling McQueen a “do-nothing environment minister.” She said Alberta’s environmental record under the Progressive Conservatives is hurting the province at home and abroad.

“It’s affecting Alberta. It’s affecting our markets. It’s affecting our ability to get access to markets. It’s affecting our relationship with our neighbours in Eastern Canada. It’s affecting the federal dynamic,” said Smith.

Other issues to be debated today include dumping the idea of a provincial police force, no longer calling for the abolition of Human Rights Commissions, and backing away from instituting “conscience rights” guarantees. A proposed constitutional change would

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Alberta Wildrose party leader Danielle Smith greets member delegate Paddy Bossert of Calgary during the opening day of the Wildrose Party Annual General Meeting at the Sheraton in Red Deer on Friday. ensure the party make the candidate selection process more rigourous.

The latter proposal is in response to homophobic and demeaning statements by candidates during the 2012 election campaign that Smith said turned voters off of her party in the campaign’s last 10 days, turning what looked like a sure Wildrose victory into a PC landslide.

Smith also said the party is seeking to demonstrate to Albertans that while it will aim to balance budgets, it will

not do on the backs of front-line workers and the most vulnerable. In her keynote address to members Friday night, she criticized the government’s shuttering of Michener Centre.

“The difference in cost of keeping Michener open is just $1.4 million per year, less than the cost of the raise the PC MLAs voted for themselves last year,” she said. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Ambulance dispatch a top priority for council

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF One of the first orders of business for Red Deer’s newly elected city council is to convince the province to reverse its plan to consolidate ambulance dispatch.

All ambulance dispatches in the province are set to be centralized into three centres in Edmonton, Calgary and Peace River by March 2014.

Mayor Tara Veer said by working with local MLAs the city was successful in delaying the consolidation from this month to next March.

Now council will be taking a formal, public position against consolidation.

“This is absolutely one of the most critical issues that we’ll be facing at

city council this term and in the coming months,” Veer said on Friday.

“Before they’ve reached the point of no return, our hope is that they would absolutely revisit that decision because we feel strongly it’s in the best interests of Red Deer region and throughout the province.”

Red Deer has an integrated service that allows for dispatch of ambulances and fire rescue at the same time. A transfer to Calgary would no longer allow this practice.

Veer said lives very well could be put at risk.

“It absolutely could because our current service level standard on the integrated service is advanced life support service, four minutes or less travel time 90 per cent of the time. Having both fire and ambulance dispatch service is central to our ability to con-

tinue with that.”

Alberta Health Services committed to the city, and the city in turn committed to residents, that there would be no degradation of service, she said.

“Our concern is if we no longer have authority over the dispatch, the risk is there could be a degradation of our integrated service which is in violation of what was committed to us with the governance transfer.”

Veer said Red Deer isn’t the only municipality with integrated services that has concerns.

The province looks favourably on regional partnerships and Red Deer’s regional emergency services is a prime example of a regional partnership that works well, she said.

Premier Alison Redford said Health Minister Fred Horn has been taking a look at ambulance dispatch with fresh

eyes since Alberta Health Services is without a board to make decisions.

“I think communities are going to have an awful lot more opportunity to really sit down and talk about what their concerns are and what they’d like to try and achieve,” Redford said.

“I don’t know yet what the final outcome will be, but we haven’t closed the door on that discussion.”

Redford said she is looking forward to the dialogue with Alberta’s newly elected mayors.

“The fact that we have vibrant communities that are being led by vibrant people, such as your new mayor, means we have to have a different conversation. We’re pretty excited about that.

We think it’s going to lead to much more opportunity for collaboration and planning in the longer term.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

AHS sticking with voluntary immunization for health-care workers

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Even though health-care workers in British Columbia now have to get a flu shot or wear a mask during flu season, Alberta Health Services is still relying on voluntary immunization for its workers.

“We continue to see progress in health-care workers getting immunized. So as long as that progress continues then we wouldn’t need to use the mandatory step. But it is of interest to us that the B.C. courts found that it was acceptable practice,” Dr. James Talbot, Alberta’s chief medical officer

of health, said Friday.

He said continuing care workers in Alberta have a 90 per cent immunization rate, and health-care workers have a 35 to 40 per cent rate, which is higher than the general population.

But mandatory immunization does remain an option, he said.

“I think it will be interesting to track whether the ruling has an affect on immunization in this province. I would like to think immunization rates increase because people recognize their professional duty. But I wouldn’t rule out that the B.C. decision provides another reason for people to think about their professional duty.”

This week a British Columbia arbitrator upheld a provincial government

First Nation smooths out last bump in drive to finish Calgary ring road CALGARY — A Calgary-area First Nation has voted in favour of a deal that will pave the way for completion of the city’s ring road.

Members of the Tsuu T’ina band cast ballots Thursday on a deal reached last month with the provincial government to complete the road’s southwest leg. The deal will see the First Nation sell 428 hectares of its land to the province for 2,030 hectares of Crown land, plus $340.7 million.

It also allows the First Nation to buy an additional

policy requiring health care workers to get the shot or wear a mask while caring for patients, dismissing a grievance brought by the B.C. Health Sciences Association, a union which represents about 16,000 health-care workers.

Talbot said AHS prefers immunization compared to masks. People can forget their masks or improperly wear them. “Forcing people to wear masks, or taking time off when they’re ill and make sure that they don’t show up to work, are not as good solutions as preventing them from getting ill in the first place.

“If you’re a health-care professional, we consider it part of your professional duty to protect those in your care, that includes getting the flu shot.”

All Albertans who qualify should go and get immunized, he said.

“The flu vaccine is available. It’s to protect themselves and the people around them. You’d feel terrible if you gave the flu to a co-worker and their spouse undergoing chemo ended up with the flu and having to get hospitalized. It’s not just about each of us as individuals,” Talbot said.

The vaccine is free of charge to all Albertans six months of age and older, and is available at public immunization clinics, as well at some pharmacies and physician offices.

For dates and times for clinics visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/influenza.asp. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford said in a news release that the ring road will benefit Calgarians and Tsuu T’ina people, and all Albertans because it will improve the flow of traffic through and around Calgary.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Senate drama over the ouster of three former Tory stalwarts provided mixed signals Friday as the government simultaneously dangled clemency while forcing a swift hanging vote.

Sen. Patrick Brazeau, who along with Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin, has been embroiled in a yearlong expense scandal, provided the saga’s latest eyepopper when he revealed he’d been offered what he called “a back-room deal.”

The three senators all face unprecedented twoyear suspensions without pay, despite not having been charged with any offence and while maintaining they did not knowingly fleece taxpayers.

Brazeau said Claude Carignan, the prime minister’s appointee as government leader in the Senate, had approached him outside the chamber Friday morning.

“I’ll be very careful about my words here, but I was essentially offered a back-room deal,” Brazeau told a stunned Senate chamber.

“And the back-room deal was that if I stood in this chamber, apologized to Canadians and took responsibility for my actions, that my punishment would be lesser than what is being proposed.”

Brazeau said he was “very disturbed” by the approach because he continues to maintain his innocence. The whole thrust of the raging Senate debate is to provide the outcast trio of senators due process to defend themselves.

Carignan did not deny the exchange took place, characterizing it as an act of kindness. He noted that mitigating or aggravating factors can help determine a penalty.

“I spoke to him out of friendship in saying, Sen. Brazeau, please suggest something. Apologize. Perhaps a lighter sanction. Something that we can come up with to find the right balance,” Carignan told the Senate.

“I did that in confidence and frankly I did so in an attempt to help him.”

Carignan, a lawyer, said he regretted that Brazeau “perceived that as an attack.”

“Perhaps I had too strong of an urge to help him,” he added.

Later, Carignan said outside the chamber he’s open to changing the suspension terms for both Brazeau and Wallin, but not Duffy.

The Carignan offer came shortly after the government introduced a motion Friday morning that will force an end to debate on the suspension motions.

And it preceded word that Prime Minister Stephen Harper recorded rare one-on-one interviews Friday with radio stations in Saskatoon, Toronto and Halifax in an effort to smooth troubled waters.

Add it all up and it was a portrait of a Conservative party scrambling to do damage control ahead of next week’s policy convention in Calgary.

“Nobody’s coming out of here unblemished,” Daniel Lang, the Conservative senator from Yukon, groused in the chamber.

James Cowan, the Liberal Senate leader, said the unseemly haste to punish Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau after months of inaction — and after Harper delayed the return of Parliament this fall by a month — is raising alarm bells of a coverup.

“This chamber has quite literally done no work other than consider these motions,” Cowan said in the Senate.

“The government has not even moved its own speech from the throne — the much-heralded new vision of the Harper government for Canadians — the reason why the prime minister said he had to had to prorogue Parliament.”

Even some Conservative senators, and at least one Conservative MP, are complaining about the haste and lack of due process.

Sen. Don Plett, a former Conservative party president and Harper loyalist, said he would propose his own amendment next week, but repeated Friday that he does not support the government’s suspension motion.

“Due process sometimes takes a bit of time,” Plett said outside the chamber.

“In my opinion, if we can slow it down a little bit we are the chamber of sober second thought, so let’s simply go with sober second thought.”

Plett said he has been getting emails “10-1 in support of what I’m doing.”

Harper dismissed criticism about the lack of due process in one of his radio interviews saying “it’s beyond a shadow of a doubt that these Senators in some cases have collected literally up to six figures worth of ineligible expenses.”

GOVERNMENT AHEAD OF LAST YEAR’S PACE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Aggressive cost cutting measures introduced by federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the years are continuing to pay dividends on the government’s bottom line, the latest fiscal report from the Finance Department shows.

Finance reported Friday that its deficit for August fell to $2.3 billion from $3 billion in the corresponding month last year, largely due to $759 million in savings from program expenses.

For the first five months of the fiscal year as a whole, the government was about $400 million ahead of last year’s deficit reduction pace, although the news may be even better for the Harper government.

Earlier this week, Flaherty unveiled a large surprise in the government’s fiscal tracking, showing that last year’s deficit was actually $7 billion lower than what he had calculated in the March budget — again most of the savings were found in what Ottawa calls “direct program expenses.”

That’s the part of the budget Ottawa has most control over and the target of the $5.2 billion in spending cuts introduced in 2012, which included a freeze in operating budgets and a reduction of about 19,000 in the size of the public service.

For the five months as a whole, program spending was up about 1.9 per cent.

“The government remains on track to balance the budget in 2015,” the department said in the report, adding that it will province updated projections later this fall, likely in mid-November.

The Parliamentary Budget Office is also expected to issue a fresh assessment of Ottawa’s fiscal position on Monday.

Flaherty has downplayed the chances of balancing the budget one year earlier than planned, but some economists believe the goal is attainable if things break his way, including better economic growth and more savings than expected from cost cutting.

In last week’s throne speech, the government said it would double down on spending restraint, freezing the overall operating budget to restrain new hires and make further reductions to internal government spending, as well consider selling federal assets.

The Harper government is anxious to present a balanced budget outlook in the spring of 2015, and preferably a modest surplus, in time for an election that fall. Such a success would not only allow the Conservatives to campaign on their record for fiscal competency, but fulfil 2011 campaign promises to reduce household taxes by introducing partial income splitting.

‘THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT EVEN MOVED ITS OWN SPEECH FROM THE THRONE — THE MUCH-HERALDED NEW VISION OF THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CANADIANS — THE REASON WHY THE PRIME MINISTER SAID HE HAD TO HAD TO PROROGUE PARLIAMENT.’ — JAMES COWAN LIBERAL SENATE LEADER

“I guess what I would say and what I think most Canadians would say is if you did that in your work, your boss wouldn’t wait for you to be convicted of a crime, your boss would say that and that alone requires that some action be taken in terms of your job,” Harper told NewsTalk 1010 radio host John Tory in an interview that lasted only about six minutes and also touched on the proposed Canada-EU trade deal.

Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau have paid back tens of thousands of dollars in Senate expense claims that were subsequently ruled ineligible, although the circumstances of each case are somewhat different.

Duffy’s is the most controversial, because of a secret, $90,000 personal cheque written by Harper’s former chief of staff to cover the P.E.I. senator’s arrears.

That matter is now under RCMP investigation, another reason many have argued the Senate should not wade in with a summary suspension judgment — “capital punishment” in the words of Tory Sen. Hugh Segal — at this time.

Liberal Sen. Terry Mercer noted Friday that MP Dean Del Mastro, Harper’s former parliamentary secretary, was recently charged under the Elections Act but no Conservative is threatening to suspend him without pay.

“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” said Mercer.

Wallin, as she left the Senate building late Friday, called it an amazing week of debate.

“I hope everybody take a few days and thinks this through,” she said.

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TOKYO — An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, triggering small tsunamis but causing no apparent damage.

Japan’s meteorological agency said the quake was an aftershock of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck the same area in 2011, killing about 19,000 people and devastating the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Tsunamis of up to 40 centimetres were reported Saturday at four areas along the coast, but a tsunami advisory was lifted less than two hours after the quake.

Japanese television images of harbours showed calm waters. The quake hit at 2:10 a.m. Tokyo time (1710 GMT) about 290 kilometres off Fukushima, and it was felt in Tokyo, some 480 kilometres away.

“It was fairly big, and rattled quite a bit, but nothing fell to the floor or broke. We’ve had quakes of this magnitude before,” Satoshi Mizuno, an official with the Fukushima prefectural government’s disaster management department, told The Associated Press by phone. “Luckily, the quake’s centre was very far off the coast.”

Mizuno said the operator of the troubled Fukushima plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said no damage or abnormalities have been found.

Japan’s meteorological agency issued a 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami advisory for a long stretch of Japan’s northeastern coast, and put the quake’s magnitude at 7.1. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not post warnings for the rest of the Pacific.

The meteorological agency reported tsunamis of 40 centimetres in Kuji city in Iwate prefecture and Soma city in Fukushima, as well as a 20-centimetre tsunami at Ofunato city in Iwate and a 30-centimetre tsunami at Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture.

All of Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors remain offline as the government decides whether they meet more stringent requirement enacted after the 2011 quake, which triggered multiple meltdowns and massive radiation leaks at the Fukushima plant about 250 kilometres northeast of Tokyo.

A string of mishaps this year at the Fukushima plant has raised international concerns about the operator’s ability to tackle the continuing crisis.

Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shinichi Tanaka has scheduled a Monday meeting with Tokyo Electric’s president to seek solutions to what he says appear to be fundamental problems.

BEIRUT — Syrian state-run TV reported Friday the leader of a powerful al-Qaida-linked rebel group has been killed — a claim that if confirmed would be a huge blow to fighters trying to topple President Bashar Assad. At least one rebel commander denied the report.

Abu Mohammad al-Golani heads Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as Nusra Front, which has emerged as one of the most effective among rebel groups fighting Assad.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which closely monitors the fighting in Syria, said senior Nusra Front leaders contacted by activists in Latakia and the eastern Deir el-Zour province denied al-Golani had been killed.

Other Nusra Front sources said they could not confirm or deny the report “because contact with alGolani was cut,” the Observatory said in a statement.

A rebel commander in a Damascus suburb contacted

by The Associated Press said he believed al-Golani was “alive and well” based on his contacts with other fighters including those from Nusra Front. He declined to elaborate or be identified for security concerns.

The report comes as the fragmented rebels have suffered significant losses on the battlefield.

Syrian troops killed at least 40 opposition fighters, including Nusra Front members, earlier Friday in an ambush near Damascus, the government said.

Assad’s forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah gunmen also seized control of a rebel ammunition supply route on a highway linking the capital to its eastern suburbs — part of a blistering government

offensive to bolster its position amid an international push for peace talks.

State TV said al-Golani was killed in the coastal province of Latakia. It did not say when or give other details. News of his death was not mentioned in the main headlines of the TV’s late night news bulletin.

Al-Golani, who fought previously in Iraq, is a shadowy figure who is believed to have spent time recently in rebellious suburbs south of Damascus.

Rebels have also gained footholds in mountainous regions of Latakia, which is largely loyal to Assad, and he may have gone there to direct fighting.

The Nusra Front is on a U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations. The group has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide bombings against government targets.

Al-Golani gained prominence in April when he rejected an attempted takeover of the group by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State of Iraq, revealing a growing rift within al-Qaida’s global network.

Al-Golani at the time distanced himself from claims that the two groups had merged into a group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Instead, he pledged allegiance to al-Qaida’s leader Ayman al-Zawahri.

He said that al-Baghdadi’s announcement of the merger was premature and that his group will continue to use Jabhat al-Nusra as its name.

The group is more popular in Syria than the ISIL, which is largely made up of foreign fighters and has been criticized for its brutality.

Al-Golani’s death could strengthen ISIL at a time of growing infighting between al-Qaida extremists and the more moderate rebels from the mainstream Free Syrian Army.

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Boerge Brende said Norway hadn’t been able to identify a port that could receive the weapons and didn’t have the capacity to treat some of the waste products resulting from the destruction of the munitions.

In a webcast news conference, Brende said both the U.S. and Norway agreed there was no point in continuing “the evaluation of Norway as a place for this destruction.”

Brende said the U.S. is looking at other alternatives.

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A6 When the law fails to protect

SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 2013

CANADIAN AND U.S. AUTHORITIES APPEAR TO HAVE LEARNED NOTHING FROM EXPERIENCE IN THE CASE OF HIGH-RISK SEX OFFENDER MICHAEL SEAN STANLEY “The law is an ass — an idiot!” declared Mr. Bumble, a character in Charles Dickens’ classic novel Oliver Twist.

Bumble’s reaction was related to a theft case. His wife committed the crime but he was blamed because the court ruled “the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.”

Bumble reacted: “If that’s the law ... the worse I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”

Today, the laws of Canada RICK and the United States appear ZEMANEK asinine, at least where they are applied to the case of a violent sex offender who fled Canada seeking safe haven in the U.S. and was granted his wish.

Bumble wished that experience would open the law’s eyes. Apparently Canadian and U.S. authorities have learned nothing from experience in the case of high-risk sex offender Michael Sean Stanley.

The 48-year-old man, a convicted pedophile, has a long history of sexual offences in Canada against children and women.

Despite his horrific record (would it not make him a prime candidate for a dangerous offender status and keep him in prison for life?), Canadian authorities paroled him and put an electronic-monitoring

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bracelet on him to track his movements.

His crimes included convictions of assault and forcible confinement involving two mentally challenged boys and the sexual assault of an elderly woman. According to Canadian Press, parole board “records said he lured the boys into a washroom, blew crack smoke in their faces and then sexually assaulted them.”

He was also convicted in the rape of a wheelchairbound 80-year-old woman in Lethbridge.

The parole board also said he “had not participated in any programming that might reduce his risk to reoffend and that he only took limited responsibility for his actions.” That lack of remorse should have raised a red flag.

In 2006, during Canadian court proceedings, he was described as having severe anti-social personality and psychopathic tendencies.

Earlier this month, Stanley walked away, cut off his monitoring bracelet and fled to the U.S., claiming “I had enough. I’m leaving this country because it hasn’t been good to me.” He said he wants to start a new life.

In the meantime, a warrant was issued for his arrest and Edmonton police warned U.S. border guards to watch for his attempts to enter their country.

About a week later, Stanley was discovered at a B.C. border crossing leading to Washington State.

However, despite his horrific criminal record in Canada, and despite the arrest warrant, American authorities released him because he’s a citizen of the U.S. With no arrest warrants awaiting him in the U.S.,

he was free to enter.

A short while later, B.C. authorities were contacted about his presence at the border crossing. But they claimed it was beyond their jurisdiction to act “because it was an Alberta provincial warrant.”

What a colossal mistake. Surely Stanley’s track record would dictate that a Canadawide warrant should have been issued, giving B.C. authorities the power to act. Why wasn’t such a warrant issued?

In an extremely abrasive move, Stanley gave an extensive television interview in Seattle during which he complained about his treatment in Canada.

“All they’ve been doing is belittle me, making me look like I’m some kind of menace, some creep, some pedophile, some kind of guy that didn’t deserve to be out in the community.”

Now Stanley has been arrested by U.S. authorities and faces allegations that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old in an alley.

The initial reluctance of U.S. authorities to arrest Stanley at the border or to return him to Canada is appalling. And equally appalling is the reluctance of Canadian officials to pursue his return. Alberta Justice said the current charges “do not typically warrant engaging the extradition process.”

The law indeed has presented itself as an ass. As the result of the failure of American and Canadian authorities, Stanley has apparently claimed another victim.

Surely citizens on both sides of the border should be able to trust the justice system to protect them from a threat as obvious as this.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Removing Syria’s chemical weapons: everybody wins (except Syrians) “That prize should have been given destroying the munitions that would to me,” joked Syria’s President Bashar actually deliver the end product with al-Assad shortly after the Organization sledgehammers, grinders and bulldozfor the Prohibition of Chemical Weap- ers. ons (OPCW) was awarded the Nobel Significantly, the inspectors have so Peace Prize on Oct. 11. far found no bombs, shells The guests gathered in or missiles that are actuhis palace in Damascus ally filled with poison gas, presumably laughed, out of which suggests that Syria’s courtesy to their host, but chemical weapons were in they all knew that giving up a very low state of readiSyria’s chemical weapons ness. hadn’t been Assad’s idea at It also greatly eases the all. next phase of the OPCW’s Al-Akhbar, the Beirut task, the destruction of the newspaper that reported actual chemicals, since it Assad’s remarks, has close is a tricky and dangerous links with Hezbollah, the business to extract the liqLebanese Shia militia that uefied poison gas from a GWYNNE is supported by Syria and projectile that also contains DYER Iran, and it accepted Assad’s the explosives to disperse it regret about the new turn of when it lands. events at face value.

Syria has an estimated “There is no doubt that 1,000 tonnes of toxic chemithe loss of chemical weapons has re- cals: around 300 tonnes of sulfur mussulted in a loss of morale and a politi- tard, a blistering agent, and about 700 cal loss for Syria,” Assad said. tonnes of the nerve agents sarin and “Since 2003, Syria has demanded VX. that the countries in the region disBut if none of it is “weaponized” mantle their weapons of mass destruc- (loaded into projectiles), and much of tion, and the chemical weapons were the nerve agent is in “precursor” form, meant to be a bargaining chip in Syr- as separate, less toxic components, ia’s hands in exchange for Israel dis- then OPCW’s goal of finishing the job mantling its nuclear arsenal,” the Syr- by mid-2014 seems feasible. ian president continued.

Even if it has to be done in the midst “Today the price (of the bargaining of a civil war. chip) has changed, and we have agreed It’s quite clear that Assad did not to give up our chemical weapons to plan all this. His forces (or somebody remove the threat of the U.S. attacking else’s) used poison gas in Damascus, us.” though the attack was pointless in miliHe’s really doing it, too. Sixty out of tary terms. a planned hundred OPCW inspectors President Barack Obama was are already in Syria, and they have trapped by his previous loose talk made no complaints about a lack of co- about an American “red line” into operation by Damascus. threatening to bomb Syria.

By the end of this month they will And the Russians got Obama off the have completed their initial verifica- hook (and saved Assad from a severe tion visits and confirmed that Syria’s pounding) by “persuading” the Syraccount of its chemical weapons and ian leader to renounce his chemical facilities is accurate and conceals weapons. nothing.

But what has Assad really lost?

They will also have disabled the “The chemical weapons, which have country’s ability to produce and mix lost their deterrent value over the past poison gases and load them into actual few years, were meant to be used only weapons by then. after Israel used its nuclear weapons,” The work is “cheap, quick and low- he says, but it was never a very credtech,” in the words of OPCW spokes- ible deterrent. man Michael Luhan.

Israel’s unstoppable nuclear weapThe inspectors are just smashing ons could annihilate Syria, whereas the control panels on the machines the very effective Israeli civil defence that produce and mix the gases, and organization would have made mass

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casualties unlikely even in a worstcase Syrian gas attack.

In any case, Syria’s chemical weapons have indeed now lost whatever deterrent value they ever had, for Israel has acquired good anti-missile defences that would shoot down most incoming Syrian missiles.

Syria actually stopped producing new chemical weapons in 1997, Assad said, because they had lost their military usefulness.

After that, they were only a lowvalue “bargaining chip” to be put on the table in the improbable event of region-wide negotiations on eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.

(Poison gas is not remotely comparable to nuclear weapons in its destructiveness, but it is technically WMD.) But Assad is a very lucky man.

He discovered belatedly that his

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So everybody wins. Obama escapes from the new Middle Eastern war that he dreaded.

Moscow gets huge diplomatic credit for coming up with the formula that averted that war, and saves its Syrian client as well.

Assad regains a measure of respectability by nobly relinquishing his useless chemical weapons.

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Why balanced-budget law is bad idea FISCAL POLICY SHOULD BELONG TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY, NOT SOME PAST GOVERNMENT One consistent goal in the evolution budgets during normal economic of the Reform Party into the Canadian times, and concrete timelines for reAlliance and on to the establishment turning to balance in the event of an of the Conservative Party has been to economic crisis.” significantly reduce the size and role Many of the provinces have tried of the federal government now and such legislation in the past and a numinto the future. ber still have such laws on That crusade was dethe books. But for the most toured by the recent global part they have had mixed economic crisis but, as the results because provincial latest throne speech makes governments have either clear, the Tories are back repealed the laws or igon track. nored them when they were “Our government will inconvenient. continue reducing the size More importantly, a baland cost of government,” the anced-budget law is simply throne speech promised, a bad idea, and for a numwith a plan to freeze the fedber of reasons. eral operating budget and It would be Canada’s constrain hiring, make furequivalent of the U.S. debt DAVID ther targeted reductions in ceiling, with all the chaos CRANE internal government spendthat can bring. ing, look for additional fedIt would mean that the eral assets to sell to the prifederal government would vate sector, and continue to not be able to borrow to clamp down on the public meet urgent new spending service. needs in “normal economic times” — Moreover, Prime Minister Stephen it would have to raise taxes or slash Harper’s government is seeking to en- other spending, or ignore new pressing shrine its view of small government — needs. the combination of ongoing spending The main benefit of the Harper govcuts and tax cuts that eliminate almost ernment’s intention to bring in such a any wiggle room for government to do law, though, is that it should force the anything new — through the introduc- political parties to be much clearer on tion of balanced-budget legislation. how they see the future role and size of This proposed new law, the throne the federal government and how they speech said, “will require balanced would finance it.

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All parties want government to be efficient, so that is not an issue. And Canadians want to be confident their money is being spent responsibly.

But the role and size of government is another matter.

The overriding objection to balanced-budget laws is that they are undemocratic.

The purpose of the kind of law that the Harper government proposes is to tie the hands of future elected governments since presumably the Harper government doesn’t need such a law to ensure that it pursues a balanced budget.

But future governments should be responsive to their voters, not to the philosophy and goals of the current government.

If future voters don’t like what future governments do, they have the opportunity to change the government in an election. Fiscal policy should be the policy of the government of the day, not the policy of some past government.

Balanced-budget laws also appear to be driven by a conservative view that the best economic and social results will occur if the private sector is free to pursue its own interests, in a small-government, low-tax and limitedregulation environment.

Government, in this view, is the problem; small government is necessary for economic and social progress.

The free market delivers, government gets in the way.

Such laws also assume that politicians, left to their own devices, cannot be trusted to be responsible, that they will tax and spend like mad. Politicians, like business executives, can be irresponsible but that is why we have elections.

There’s also the question of why balanced budgets should be the overriding objective, as opposed to other economic, social or environmental needs.

Moreover, the federal budget doesn’t distinguish between current spending for consumption and capital spending for infrastructure.

Yet incurring debt for infrastructure that delivers long-term benefit is important for economic, social and environmental reasons.

Canadians want responsible governments that spend and tax wisely.

But history shows that Canadians also value the contributions that governments make to their well-being, that public goods are just as important as private goods.

The Harper government’s plan for a balanced-budget law provides a muchneeded opportunity for serious debate on the future role of government and the management of fiscal policy, which is about both spending and taxing.

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

Community reaches out to the needy All of us in one form or another spend some time preparing for the coming winter.

We clean up the yard, put away all the items we want to protect from the winter snows; the car is winterized, we clean windows, check the house over and on and on it goes.

On a recent Thursday, an event took place that wouldn’t necessarily register on the events calendar in this city; not for the greater population that is.

But for the homeless and working poor or just struggling individuals, it is becoming a major and a welcome CHRIS event.

SALOMONS Through the efforts of the Everyone’s Home Healthy Supports program begun by the City of Red Deer’s initiative to end homelessness by 2018, the event much like our efforts to prepare for winter is called a Fall Tune Up. At this particular event (held at the Safe Harbor facility) 19 organizations and many more volunteers, led by Brenda Hogan, Sheila Dodge and Linda Healing, put together a sixhour time slot for anyone who needed help or information about a whole variety of issues.

The following list is of the organizations represented and providing services (I think I got them all), but if I listed the volunteers I would need this whole page: ● Red Deer and District Community Foundation ● City of Red Deer — Social Planning ● Safe Harbor Society ● Red Deer Housing Team ● ID Clinic/Legal advice ● Potter’s Hands ● Cosmos Group of Companies ● Alberta Health Services — Addictions and Mental Health ● Alberta Institute of Massage ● Red Deer Primary Care Network ● PACT team ● Red Deer Registries ● Service Canada ● John Howard Society ● Season’s Hair Designs and Day Spa ● Save on Foods North ● Sunnybrook Church ● Walmart ● Mindy Sitko Season’s Hair Designs and Day Spa At this Tune Up, people could meet with a health nurse, try to re-establish their lost identity, get a massage or a haircut, replace their worn out footwear or backpack.

While they enjoyed a light lunch, they were free to speak about their addictions in a nonjudgmental atmosphere and receive some mental encouragement and support.

Although I knew that a lot of resources were available to this group of people, I did not realize just how much of society’s time, monies and workforce went into looking after not just the people on the street, but working poor, physically and mentally handicapped, and those folks who just have difficulty working and living within a highstress society.

Even though I know many of those who came to this Tune Up, I was still reminded of the large number of individuals who are on the street only because they could not ‘fit in.’

They don’t do drugs or drink, they just can’t muster the ability to cope.

So for these searching and caring people, this event meant a lot.

It was particularly heartwarming to see all these volunteers and staff meeting with the folks as they came in.

Their efforts (often over and above what their work requires) to prepare these people for the coming winter were amazing and it showed me that again people really do care.

In a world so full of self-seeking people in all levels of society, this particular Tune Up was like a ray of sunshine to both the recipients and the suppliers of the services needed.

I was proud to be part of it.

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

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Wide world of Halloween weird Blame it on the Celts. Halloween, especially on Halloween night, when I mean. Because that is where all it is customary for Belgiumites to this weirdness started. On second light a candle to remember dead thought, maybe I should say thank relatives, unless of course the dead the Celts, because if we didn’t have relatives happen to be black cats.

Halloween, where and when would Czech Republic and Slovakia: Citiwe get a chance to dress up in weird zens here place chairs by the firecostumes and do crazy things. Other side on Halloween night. One chair than at a Masonic Hall or a clown for each living family member and convention. one for each family memThe Celts, being the ber’s spirit. Seeing that ancient Irish and/or posthere are many large famsibly the Scots, started ilies in this part of EuHalloween as a festival of rope, this tradition was harvest one year several started many years ago by decades ago when they a furniture rental store. had an accidental crop of England: Instead of way too many pumpkins, pumpkins, some Scots and decided to carve and Irish used to carve scary faces on the extra turnips, which is weird ones. enough, but not to be They (the Celts) are outdone traditional Engalso credited with inventlish kids sculpted large HARLEY ing a Halloween game beets, called beetroots HAY that consisted of children and which are, of course, knocking on doors and also known as “punkies.” running away. AccordThey would then carry ing to the website pumpthese punkies through the kinpatchesandmore.org, they called streets singing the Punkie Night Song this game “knock-a-dolly.” No one (really) and knock on doors and ask knows why. for money. Whereupon the hapless Down in good old Parkvale grow- inhabitants would dig out enough ing up, we called it “knock-a-door- moola to make the kids and their ginger” and I could never figure out song and their punkies go away as what that meant either. Although quickly as possible. it was great fun (or so I’m told) kids France: In France, they don’t go certainly didn’t play knock-a-door- for dressing up and carving vegeginger on Halloween. tables in honour of dead relatives After all, once the Halloween or in order to scare away spirits. tradition reached North America In fact, according to same website sometime in the early 1950s, it was scientifically cited earlier, Halquickly modified by sugar-addicted loween was “virtually unknown” Americans and Canadians so that in France until around 1996. It was children would get huge handfuls of only then that the French realized candy after knocking on a door. So North Americans were having way of course, the last thing any sensible too much fun on Oct. 31 and decided kid was going to do was to take off to join the party and dress up a bit on Halloween. and drink copious amounts of wine.

Be that as it may, there are many Which makes Halloween just a reguHalloween traditions in many for- lar weeknight in France. eign countries that may or may not Germany: In the Rhineland, peoinvolve knocking on doors and fill- ple hide away their knives on Haling pillow cases with goodies. For loween night, so that returning spirexample, in random alphabetical its can do them no harm. This is why order: they don’t carve pumpkins (because Austria: In Austria, some folks they have no knives, you see). Also, leave a lamp, bread and water out knife-happy spirits are the reason on a table overnight. No, it’s not for many Germans stay up all Hallowa Jolly Old Elf dressed up in a red een night with loaded shotguns. suit, it’s to welcome the dead souls Hong Kong: Here, Halloween is back to Earth. Dead souls who ap- known as Yue Lan or the Festival parently aren’t that fussy about what of Hungry Ghosts. Apparently some they eat.

Hong Kongites burn fruit or money Belgium: It’s reported that black or even set fire to pictures of fruit or cats are really bad luck in Belgium, money to “placate angry ghosts that

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may be looking for revenge.” Those Hong Konganians take pictures of everything.

Mexico: Halloween lasts three days in Mexico! It’s called El Dia de los Muertos (translation: Give Me some Candy) and once again, is all about the Dead, or to be more precise, the Un-living. However, this is a joyous celebration of the spirit world involving people dressing up like the ugly ghouls in Tim Burton’s movie The Nightmare Before Christmas and parading through the streets with a live person in a coffin. Needless to say, The Days of the Dead celebration in Mexico involves a great deal of tequila.

Romania: You only get one guess as to what the most popular Halloween costume is in this quaint little country where Transylvania is located. That’s right, everyone dresses like Shriners. Just kidding, because since this is the birthplace of Dracula, who is one of the world’s most well-known vampires (except for that guy in the Twilight books), there is a real dearth of vampire costumes in Romania this time of year.

Also there is always a serious shortage of garlic and wooden crosses in all the Transylvanian vampire stores in October.

But there’s no shortage of cheesy ghoul, goblin and ghost stuff in North American stores during Halloween — or as the Americans call it: the most lucrative commercial event next to Christmas.

But as we’ve seen in this little historical, occasionally accurate glimpse into the traditions of the odd celebration we know as Halloween, all around the world it’s all about wearing costumes and lighting candles, carving weird faces and designs on various hollowedout gourds, and feeding spirits and spooks all kinds of earthly comestibles so that they won’t be mad at us.

But really, when it comes down to it, for many of us Canucks it’s really all about the treats, isn’t it? Hands up those who have already dug into the candy stash you’ve purchased solely to give out to the kids at your door on Halloween night.

I thought so.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

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ABOVE and BELOW: To really rack up points, consider using your travel rewards credit card for major purchases — as long as you can pay it off and maintain a zero balance. While constructing a house, we used a travel rewards credit card to purchase building materials, plumbing fixtures, appliances and anything else that would allow credit card purchases.

We then used a draw mortgage to pay off the credit cards. In doing this, we got a new house and enough points to take our family of six to Australia on a trip of a lifetime.

INSET: If you are travelling at peak travel times like spring break, you can either book months in advance or consider travelling to a destination that is a little off the beaten path but still has the amenities you are looking for. We used rewards points at spring break to travel to Port Aransas, Tex. Our kids loved the beaches, and we enjoyed the fact that they were less crowded than Florida beaches.

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Travelling the world for free TIPS ON PUTTING YOUR FREQUENT FLYER POINTS TO WORK FOR YOUR

Like most young people, Brian Kelly was more computer savvy than his parents. His father had racked up a large number of frequent flyer points while travelling for business, but had no idea how to cash them in.

When Brian was just 12 years old, he sat down at a computer and with his parents’ permission booked the entire family of six on a vacation to the Cayman Islands using his father’s travel reward points. That was his first foray into the world of incentive travel and since then he has become one of the world’s leading experts on the topic, quitting his job on Wall Street to manage and grow his website, ThePointsGuy.com.

Knowing how to collect and cash in travel rewards is a valuable skill and some people take better advantage of incentive programs than others. Last year, Kelly collected more than a million miles through travel points programs and he spends his time teaching other people how to do it. Whether it’s frequent flyer points for travelling with a particular airline, travel rewards points for shopping at specific stores or credit card incentive travel programs, Kelly says that savvy consumers can travel more and get more DEBBIE value from their reward points simply by being more strategic in their use OLSEN of such incentive programs.

A recent survey commissioned by American Express polled 1,343 randomly selected Canadian adults and found that only 15 per cent of credit card holders researched their options prior to signing up for a credit card.

Another 27 per cent of credit card holders admitted to not understanding what their rewards program actually offers.

The next few months will be a key time for Canadians to re-examine the travel rewards credit cards in their wallets, because big changes are happening in the market.

In September, TD Bank Group and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) settled a deal regarding Aeroplan loyalty Visa credit cards that will see 550,000 credit cardholder accounts transferred from CIBC to TD in January 2014. Most Aeroplan Visa credit cardholders have not even been notified of this impending change, but some of those who have heard about it through media reports were incensed by the fact that they were not even consulted.

“We are at a pivotal time in the Canadian credit card sector,” admits Brett Mooney, vice-president of Consumer Acquisitions and Management for American Express Canada. “Our research shows that rewards programs are important to Canadian consumers and we believe many will be examining their options in light of the changes that will be taking place in the New Year.”

American Express and other companies will likely be developing product and sweetening their rewards programs in an effort to woo new customers.

When looking at credit card travel reward programs, there are four factors consumers should take into account when determining which travel rewards credit card will be the most beneficial for them.

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FOUR TIPS TO EARN MORE MILES FASTER ● Never carry a balance on your credit card — the interest paid will offset any value you are getting from a rewards program. ● Use your card for everyday purchases like gas and groceries to maximize your rewards. ● Be aware of bonus point offers and direct purchases to maximize these offers. For example, some cards offer 5,000 bonus points if you spend $1000 on the card within the first three months. ● You can rack up more rewards points by using your card on major purchases such as vehicles, boats or even a home. If you are building a house, you can use your rewards card to pay for building supplies, home decorating and furnishings.

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Where the wild things really are BOTSWANA’S OKAVANGO DELTA ONE OF AFRICA’S RICHEST GAME-VIEWING DESTINATIONS

BY CHARMAINE NORONHA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKAVANGO DELTA, Botswana — I’m jolted from sleep by a deep and rolling roar and what sounds like the slithering paws of a large cat trawling through my cabin.

“Oh my God, I think something’s in our room,” I whisper, waking up my friend and roommate, Patricia Lawton.

“I know,” she whispers back, adding a few expletives.

It might sound like the start of a Maurice Sendak story, but as we lay in our dreamy cabin in the great wilderness of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, we were truly snoozing where the wild things are.

Days before, when our safari began, we were told never to leave our tent at night to avoid encounters with the wild things. But what if they came to us?

For several hours, Patricia and I lay still, so afraid to move that we dared not even call for help. If this creature was in our room, the only thing that separated us from the potential intruder was a flimsy mosquito net billowing around our four-poster bed.

At one point it sounded like an animal was dragging our backpacks around. I cursed Patricia under my breath, thinking she had once again left the patio door to our cabin open — a massive no-no while lodging deep in the savannah.

Finally I picked up the phone beside the bed, punching in random numbers since I had no directory.

“Something is in our room, we need help,” I stuttered to the woman who answered. She alerted the safari staff on patrol. They discovered an elephant had been roaming around all night on the deck that lined the lodge perimeter, feasting on foliage shading our cabin.

Drenched in sweat — not from Botswana’s sweltering heat but from our anxiety — Patricia and I hugged each other and laughed, slightly embarrassed that we genuinely thought we were about to be a large cat’s meow.

That drama-filled last night of our safari was a fit-

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Two lions lounge in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Safaris in this rich game-viewing destination offer up-close views of the big cats and many other animals, including elephants, giraffes and hippos. ting end to what had been a week of pure magic and wonder.

We landed in Botswana zombie-like but excited, after 48 hours with no sleep, traversing time zones on two back-to-back overnight flights and another four flights. The safari began as soon as we got to PomPom airport in Muan, Botswana. We jumped in a

4x4 after being greeted by two guides from our safari company andBeyond. Guide Kgosikebatho Marota asked that we call him Chief, and guide Kutlwano Mobe said he goes by Kuks.

Please see BOTSWANA on Page B3 sumers and should be considered when choosing a rewards credit card.

The recent developments with the Aeroplan visa card are a wakeup call for Canadians. “No one likes the hassle of applying for a new credit card or changing their automatic bill payments, but rewards points can be valuable,” says Kelly. “This is a perfect time for Canadian consumers to sit back and assess whether or not their credit cards are working for them.”

Remember to redeem smart

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You should carefully examine the extra perks offered by a credit card when considering what card is right for you. Some cards offer access to premium airport lounges, which can be a little oasis of comfort in a hectic airport. Most lounges have free snacks and light meals, as well as free alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

Some have showers and most have business centres where you can check email and work quietly. If you travel a lot, accessing airport lounges can be a useful perk.

● Booking your travel well in advance will help you get the flights you want and use less points in the process. ● Consider the value you are getting for your points when you redeem them. You will typically get more bang for your buck by using your points to purchase first class tickets instead of economy class tickets — especially on transatlantic flights. You will also typically get more value for your points by redeeming for travel instead of merchandise.

For example, an economy ticket with Air Canada from Calgary to London may cost about $1060, while a first class ticket will cost $5800 (more than 5 times the cost). Using Aeroplan points, an economy ticket may be purchased for 60,000 points while a first class ticket will cost 90,000 points (1.5 times the cost).

90,000 points could also be used to purchase a camera worth about $600. In this case, redeeming points for first class travel represents the best value – and you get the added bonus of travelling in a lie-flat seat and enjoying gourmet meals.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer.

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“Consumers should consider how they spend their money and look for a points program that offers bonus points in their peak spending categories,” says Kelly.

“Some credit cards offer double points for gas, groceries or travel purchases. For consumers whose peak spending falls into those categories, a card that offers double points will help them earn rewards faster.”

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BY TAMARA LUSH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle signed a baseball for Dennis Schrader in 1956, when Schrader was a 9-yearold boy attending a spring training game in Florida, leading to a lifelong obsession: He now has more than 4,600 signed baseballs, certified by Guinness as the largest such collection in the world.

That obsession is now on display at the St. Petersburg Museum of History in Florida.

“Schrader’s Little Cooperstown” opened to the public Tuesday, and Schrader was grinning from ear to ear.

He and his wife have loaned the balls to the museum for 20 years, and after that, they will be returned to the family.

Previously, Schrader’s baseballs were displayed in a 12-by-14-foot room in his home that had walls a foot thick, a bank vault door, motion sensors and video camera surveillance. The semi-

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BOTSWANA: Pure magic Minutes into driving deep into the savannah, we were shaken out of our bleariness by the sight of vervet monkeys swinging through tree tops, herds of impalas prancing by and graceful woodland kingfishers with fringed, bright blue wings sweeping through the cloudless sky.

As if this wasn’t enough to tickle my African-born but North Americanbred fancy (I was born in Nairobi but raised in Canada), Chief beckoned us to look to the right of our jeep.

“Lions came through here this morning, probably tracking the buffalo we saw yesterday. Those are their footprints,” he said, instructing the driver to follow them.

We drove through the vast expanse of sun-drenched land, sprinkled with acacia trees, bulbous baobab trees and towering termite mounds, steering over and through bushes. We turned a corner and spotted a pride of six lions sprawled in the grass, lounging in the blistering afternoon sun in post-kill splendor. Their lolling yawns revealed formidable fangs and hinted at the hard work that goes into ruling such a fine kingdom. The moment was pure magic, a National Geographic episode come to life.

The big cats are among more than 100 species of mammals and 400 species of birds that call the delta home. This diversity found amid the lily-speckled marshes, blue lagoons and picturesque woodlands make this place, set along the banks of the Okavango River, one of Africa’s richest game-viewing destinations, albeit for tourists one of the continent’s pricier ones as well.

Conde Nast Traveler magazine recognized the Botswana government’s efforts to conserve the Okavango’s environment while balancing the needs of local people with a 2013 World Savers Award for a sustainable destination in a developing country. Our tour company has also been working with the government to reintroduce rhinos into the delta.

After hours exploring the bush, we headed back to our campsite, bathed in a tepid outdoor rain shower under a sliver of a crescent moon and prepared for a Botswanian feast of seswaa —beef stew served over thick pap, a type of maize porridge. We stuffed ourselves silly and traded stories under the stars with fellow safari-goers.

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A portion of Dennis Schrader’s autographed baseballs is seen at the St. Petersburg History Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle signed a baseball for Schrader in 1956, when Schrader was a nine-year-old boy attending a spring training game in Florida, leading to a lifelong obsession.

He now has more than 4,600 signed baseballs, certified by Guinness as the largest such collection in the world.

retired mobile home executive once spent $25,000 on a single ball, signed by Joe DiMaggio and then-wife Marilyn Monroe.

He estimates the collection is worth $2 million to $3 million.

The collection is a trip through baseball history, and Schrader will personally give tours of the collection to groups.

There are the obvious great signatures: Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson.

There are several Negro League balls, a tribute to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League featured in the movie A League of Their Own, and several signed by celebrities and politicians.

“He captured the essence of baseball,” said St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster.

In August 2011, Guinness World Records certified him as the owner of Tuckered out, we retreated to our luxury tents — with indoor plumbing to boot — which we slept in every night except the last, when we were in the cabins.

A 5:30 a.m. wake-up call began another day of exploring where zebras, hyenas, water buffalo, elephants and giraffe coexist and roam free. We left the wilderness of the delta to head to Chobe National Park, the third-largest game park in Botswana and one that boasts one of the largest concentrations of game in Africa, including the largest herds of elephants. It lived up to its reputation: Just after entering the gates into the lush terrain, we were greeted by a journey of giraffes munching on acacia trees that dot the plains.

Our guides imparted this interesting fact: As a defence mechanism, once the acacia foliage is torn by a foraging giraffe, the plant emits an airborne gas, ethylene, alerting nearby plants to increase tannin production, which the giraffes don’t like. The animals then move upwind to dine on plants that failed to catch the drift.

Our exploration and biology lessons were not limited to land. We jumped into a boat and cruised down the Okavango River, where we saw elephants frolicking in the water alongside their adorable offspring, glimpsed a hippo bobbing in and out of still water, and staked out a crocodile hoping to see its jaw snap.

Back in the 4x4, a torrential downpour suddenly lashed us without a moment’s notice. Chief hit the gas and it was like we were in our own version of Noah’s Ark meets Life of Pi as animals whizzed past, the wind-swept rain making it difficult for us to even open our eyes in the open-sided car.

“You’re not in Canada, anymore, are you?” he shouted from his watersoaked seat.

Definitely not, I thought, as water buffalo bolted by us. Drenched and slightly startled, though, there was no place I’d rather have been than this self-contained sanctuary where nearly every creature I’d read about since childhood came out to play.

“Let the wild rumpus start!” I hollered back.

4,020 baseballs signed by major league baseball players. Duplicates and balls signed by non-baseball celebrities — including President Barack Obama — brought his collection of baseballs to more than 4,600.

It cost the museum $300,000 to design the exhibit and two years for city officials to convince Schrader to loan the precious collection.

The museum, which sits along St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront, is also gearing up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of baseball spring training in the city.

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Blades too sharp for Rebels

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Blades 4 Rebels 3 Details, details.

The Red Deer Rebels have lost sight of the little things that define a successful hockey team. Friday’s WHL contest at the Enmax Centrium was a shining example of that, as the hosts stumbled their way to a 4-3 loss to the Saskatoon Blades in front of 4,975 fans.

“Our intent to compete and play hard is fine, it’s just the intelligence part of the game . . . we just really struggled with the details tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“You have a pretty decent first period and kill off some big penalties and then you give up two goals that should never happen at the start of the second period. You tie it up and then you get beat on just an easy one-on-one play, they score and you lose your goalie. Then you tie it up again and take a tripping penalty in your own zone when the puck should have been outside the blueline seconds before that.

We have to continue to work on the details, but our guys have to realize that their sharpness with and without the puck isn’t where it needs to be.”

The tripping call to Haydn Fleury with just over two minutes remaining in the third period proved costly, as Nikita Scherbak beat Taz Burman from the faceoff circle just 21 seconds later to give the Blades the two points.

Burman replaced Patrik Bartosak early in the third period when the Rebels starting netminder was run over

by Red Deer product Collin Valcourt, who scored on the play — the puck dribbling just past the post and in — a split second before he made contact with Bartosak.

Valcourt was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct, but not only was the goal allowed to stand, the Rebels failed to score on the extended power play and in fact were nailed with a too-many-men bench infraction.

“We take that penalty because one guy takes the wrong guy,” said Sutter.

“That’s just (a lack of ) sharpness on the ice. They know their power-play units, we work on that. It’s the same guys who take the same guys. You ask the individual and he says it’s inexcusable. Well, it is, but how do you correct that?

“Our focus just isn’t very good. It’s very erratic. I don’t like to be negative,

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Rebel Wyatt Johnson screens Saskatoon Blade goaltender Troy Trombley as Rebel Brooks Maxwell scores a first period power play goal at the Centrium Friday. but our awareness has to be a lot better.”

The Rebels opened the scoring on the power play as Brooks Maxwell beat Blades netminder Troy Trombley with a screened point shot at 13:05 of the opening period.

But the Blades struck for two goals in the first two and a half minutes of the second stanza, Ryan Graham roofing a rebound and former Rebel Cory Millette connecting on a fluke play, his

attempted pass glancing off Red Deer defenceman Kolton Dixon and past Bartosak.

From there, Conner Bleackley whipped a wrist shot past Trombley front directly just 32 seconds after Millette’s goal and the teams went into the second intermission tied 2-2.

Valcourt’s goal at 2:49 of the third period restored the Blades’ lead, but Bleackley potted his second of the night — and ninth of the season — at

13:55, taking advantage of a turnover in the offensive zone and scoring on another well-placed wrist shot.

The visitors took advantage of the late Red Deer penalty, however, and left the Centrium with the win.

The Rebels were guilty of numerous turnovers, most unforced, and their veteran defencemen were front and centre in that regard.

Please see REBELS on Page B5

Volleyball Queens tame Rattlers

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College Queen Shelby Bramall jumps to block a shot by a Medicine Hat Rattler player Friday night.

Queens 3 Rattlers 0 The RDC Queens looked a little nervous in the early portion of their Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League season opener at RDC Friday.

But a definite advantage in experience eventually showed as they downed the Medicine Hat Rattlers 2517, 25-12, 25-19.

“We talked about being excited about opening the season and play that way and that may have created a few more nerves, but it was still good to get them out of the way early on,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We also played Medicine Hat three weeks ago in Cranbrook and while the scores were similar they have changed a bit and they came out tonight, got a couple of serves in off the net, then won a long rally which seemed to rattle us a bit.

“It took us a while to slow down and trust what we were seeing and once we did that we were fine.”

The score was 15-15 in the first set before the Queens, led by star power hitters Brooke Sutter and Amber Adolf, started to take control.

Setter Bronwyn Hawkes, who took over for Kirsten Sorensen this season, was making her first start at home and was named the RDC player of the

match.

She too was a bit nervous, but settled down as the match wore on,.

“She’s working through a few things as a starter, things she realizes she has to do and we expect her to do,” said Walton. “And she did a good job and showed why we trust her. By the third set she was putting the ball in the right spot.”

Hawkes also finished with eight digs. Adolf led the Queens with nine kills despite not playing the third set.

Sutter, who came out late in the second set, had six kills, five digs, a stuff block and an ace. Leah Koot, who came in in the third set had six kills. Libero Maddi Quinn had 11 digs.

Lacombe native and libero Beth Fodor led the Rattlers with 13 digs.

Walton was able to use his bench in the final set, which will be important down the road, he said.

“They need to see game action to believe it. Those opportunities are vital for them so they learn the systems and will be that much more comfortable when they return after Christmas.”

Kings 3 Rattlers 0 The defending league champion Kings didn’t look as smooth as head coach Aaron Schulha would have liked, but they managed to pull out a 25-20, 25-16, 27-25 win over the Rattlers.

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Cardinals right at home as World Series shifts

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — From the Green Monster to the Gateway Arch. From the Charles River to the mighty Mississippi. From clam chowder to toasted ravioli.

The World Series scene is shifting, and St. Louis ace Adam Wainwright couldn’t be happier.

“We love Cardinal country,” he said Friday.

For good reason, too. After Boston split the first two games at Fenway Park, now Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury and the rest of the Red Sox will get to see what makes this place so

special.

Especially in October.

“Well, we love playing here at Busch Stadium. Like I said, it’s a sea of red,” pitcher Joe Kelly said.

The free-spirited Kelly was set to start Game 3 tonight against Jake Peavy.

“This is what I’ve lived for my whole life — my whole baseball career, I should say,” Peavy said. “I’m as prepared as I’ll ever be — physically, mentally.”

Also warmed up: A team of eight Clydesdales, ready to pull a red beer wagon around the warning track before the first pitch. It’s also a tradition for fans to gather early at the Musial

statue — there are two honouring Stan the Man, actually.

Red Sox closer Koji Uehara took a moment to soak it all in. As he walked onto the field for a workout, the firsttime visitor looked at the gleaming Arch hovering high beyond the centrefield fence.

The Cardinals rely on a lot more than pomp when they play in their own park.

They led the NL in scoring while going 54-27 at Busch, and then let pitching take over in the post-season. St. Louis is 5-1 at home in the playoffs — in those five wins, opponents scored a total of five runs.

Boston has hit just .188 so far in

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the Series, with David Ortiz providing the biggest bop. He’s homered in both games and is 4 for 6 overall with five RBIs. With no designated hitter in the National League park, Ortiz will switch to first base. Manager John Farrell wouldn’t say whether Ortiz would start there for every game in St. Louis, but it’s a good guess regular first baseman Mike Napoli will be on the bench for a while.

Farrell also said lefty-swinging Daniel Nava would start in left field instead of Jonny Gomes, who is 0 for 7 so far.

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Lightning hang on to win over Rams

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Lightning 31 Rams 21 What looked to be an easy victory turned out to be anything but for the Hunting Hills Lightning.

The Lightning jumped into a 240 lead, but were forced to hang on to pull out a 31-21 victory over the Lacombe Rams in Central Alberta High School Football League Aside semifinal playoff action before 332 fans at Great Chief Park Friday.

“No doubt we relaxed when we got up,” said Lightning head coach Kyle Sedgwick. “One of the toughest things is to play a team twice in a two to three week period, especially after a lopsided win the first time. When we got ahead we relaxed. Then we let up on a kick return and they take it to the three, score just before the half and get the momentum.

“They have too many Grade 12s and too much pride in their program for us to let down before the half is even over.”

The Lightning grabbed a 24-0 lead at 11:31 of the second quarter on a five-yard pass from quarterback Jarrett Burzuk to receiver Tristan Wattenbarger and a Skylar Roth convert. However, the Rams Ashton Jones brought the following kickoff back to the Lightning three with 12 seconds remaining. Despite an offside penalty the Rams scored with 1.4 seconds remaining on an eight-yard pass from Judah Knip to Josh Prevost.

The second half belonged to the Rams with Durwin Blabey picking up a fumble and scoring at 9:22 of the third quarter and Knip hitting SaDair Nobel on a 12-yard touchdown strike at 3:11 of the fourth quarter. Lachlan Jacobs converted all three majors making the score 24-21.

The Lightning still couldn’t generate any offence, but an outstanding interception by Evan Petriew late in the final quarter was the play of the game for the Lightning.

Three plays, and two penalties, later Jin Ahn went in from the six to give the Lightning the breathing room they needed. Petriew also converted the final touchdown, as he replaced Roth, who was injured on the Rams long kick return late in the first half.

“This game was much like last year’s semifinal,” said Sedgwick.

“We handled Sylvan Lake fairly

Bradley shoots a 6-under to take lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Hunting Hills Lightning Ashton Hall is tackled by Lacombe Ram Zachary Bailey during first quarter league semi final action at Great Chief Park in Red Deer Friday. handily in the regular season, then it was 14-10 in the semifinals.

But this will build character and as long as we get some of the injured guys back it will only help us going forward.”

Jin, on a 11-yard pass, and on a one-yard run scored twice in the first quarter for the Lightning with Roth kicking two converts and adding a 20-yard field goal.

Matt Russell had 63 yards rushing on 12 carries and Ahn added 56 on 13 carries. Prevost had 73 yards on 20 carries for the Rams.

Burzuk hit on 18 of 27 passes for 245 yards while Knip connected on 13 of 27 passes for 229 yards.

Ashton Hall had seven catches for 101 yards for Hunting Hills and Nobel grabbed nine for 191 yards for the Rams.

The Lightning face Sylvan Lake in the final, tentatively scheduled for next Saturday at Great Chief Park.

• The Lakers survived a late

scare and downed the host Rocky Mountain House Rebels 25-21 in the other A-side semifinal, earning a championship final date with the Lightning.

Shon Zenert scored two touchdowns for the winners, who clinched the victory when the Rebels lost a fumble at the Lakers’ 11-yard line on the last play of the game. Landon Rosene accounted for the other Sylvan Lake major, while Rosene added a two-point convert and Aden Smaill booted a field goal and two converts.

Zach Hazen had two touchdowns and a single for the Rebels. Darcy Gusek scored the other Rocky major and Kevin Shin had two converts.

Gusek led all rushers with 127 yards on 14 carries, while teammate Cooper Wood ran for 104 yards on nine trips. Rosene had a team-best 98 yards rushing for the visitors. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Keegan Bradley is playing so well at the CIMB Classic that not even the fact his beloved Boston Red Sox are in the World Series can distract him.

Teeing off on Friday in Malaysia while the Red Sox were playing the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 2 of the World Series in Boston, Bradley sunk seven birdies — including five in a six-hole stretch on his back nine — to shoot a 6-under 66 and open up a four-stroke lead over Ryan Moore heading into the weekend.

He’s at 13-under 131 for the tournament, an official event on the PGA Tour for the first time.

Bradley, who grew up near Boston in Woodstock, Vt., is such a big Red Sox fan, his bio on the tour website lists his “biggest thrill outside golf” as Boston’s World Series triumphs in 2004 and 2007.

But even though he’s been getting updates on this year’s series from his girlfriend, Jillian, on the course, he’s kept his focus on his own game. So much so, in fact, he’s playing some of his best golf — even though the Red Sox lost on Thursday to even the series at one game apiece.

“In the back of my mind, I’m wondering what’s going on (with the Red Sox),” he said. “I know my mom at home is flipping back and forth, watching. It’s fun to know yesterday the Red Sox won, the (Boston) Bruins won and I shot 7 under.”

Bradley has carded only one bogey in 36 holes at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club. And he nearly had an eagle and another birdie on the back nine on Friday, missing both putts by inches.

“It’s hard to remember a time where I’ve been more dialed in than these last two days,” he said.

Moore didn’t follow up his stellar play in the opening round — when he made 10 birdies — with an equally strong second round. He had three bogeys to go with three birdies in an even-par 72 and sits at 9-under 135, a stroke ahead of Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Chris Stroud in a tie for third.

“Obviously it wasn’t the round I had yesterday but amazingly enough it wasn’t too dissimilar,” Moore said. “I hit a lot of really good putts today that just were just right on the edge, burning the edges, so overall I’m still very happy with my game and where I’m at.”

Graham DeLaet of Weybun, Sask., followed an even opening round by shooting 5-under 67 Friday, moving him into a tie for 13th. David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., shot 2-under 70 and was tied for 33rd.

One player who’s not at all happy is Phil Mickelson, who again struggled with wayward drives a day after saying his swing is as bad as it’s been in a long time.

After a long wait caused by a backup at the 10th hole, Mickelson pulled his tee shot to the left, just out of bounds under a tree. He clenched his teeth and muttered to himself, but was in better spirits when he reached the ball, joking to the crowd, “Everybody OK? Sorry about that.”

Then, on the back nine, Mickelson gave himself two tough chip shots from sand traps onto the greens that led to back-to-back bogeys on the 13th and 14th holes. He birdied his last two holes to salvage a 2-under 70, but that didn’t give the five-time major winner much solace.

Kings pull out overtime win against Huskies

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 4 Huskies 3 (OT) PENHOLD — The RDC Kings aren’t making it easy on themselves, but they’re coming through when it counts.

The Kings needed overtime for the third game in a row to pull out a 4-3 victory over the Keyano College Huskies of Fort McMurray in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play at the Penhold Regional Multiplex Friday.

Riley Simpson notched the winning goal just 43 seconds into the extra period, spoiling a Keyano third-period comeback.

RDC led 2-1 and 3-1 by periods before the Huskies tallied twice within 27 seconds in the first minute of the third period.

“We let them score just after their power play ended, then they came right back to tie it,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper.

The Kings were fortunate to get out of the third period as they were outshot 24-5 in the frame but goaltender Kraymer Barnstable kept it tied.

Doug Jones scored the opening goal of the game at 5:13 of the first period with Samuel Coyne tying it at 6:41.

Defenceman Shamus Graham scored the first of his two power play goals at 11:03 and made it 3-1 at 6:06 of the second.

Donnie Churchill connected 19 seconds into the third period for the Huskies and Scott Sandercock tied it at 46 at the second mark.

The Huskies finished with 46 shots on Barnstable with Logan Stebner making 36 saves for Keyano.

The teams, who meet again today at 1:30 p.m. in Penhold, split 14 minor penalties.

Ooks 4 Soccer Queens 0 MEDICINE HAT — The RDC Queens time in the playoffs didn’t last long as they dropped a 4-0 decision to the NAIT Ooks in quarter-final play Friday.

“They are one of the top ranked teams in the country and it’s easy to see why,” said Queens head coach Dave Colley.

“They’re an excellent team and loaded with fourth and fifth year players. They’re physical and well coached.

They have a lot of major league experience, which we could see today.”

Still the Queens had a glorious opportunity to open the scoring, but ACAC rookie of the year Kayla Blacquiere

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REBELS: Hockey sense not so good “I thought our defence really had a tough time tonight. We had a lot of turnovers as a group and yet our veteran players have to lead the way for us,” said Sutter. “Brady (Gaudet), Faf (Devan Fafard) and Doetz (Kayle Doetzel) have to be better. They’re guys who have been in the league a long time. I’m not pointing fingers at anybody, you get what you deserve. Again, I’m not questioning our work ethic, our work ethic is fine, it’s just that our hockey sense is not good. We’re good and we’re sharp with it in practice, but then we lose our focus.”

The Blades entered the contest with the league’s top power play, but didn’t connect with a man advantage until late, when it really mattered. The visitors enjoyed an extensive power play in the first period when the Rebels were nailed with a high-sticking penalty and two successive delay-of-game infractions, but couldn’t cash in.

“I think we weren’t moving our feet and sticking to the simple plays that have made us effective,” said Blades defenceman and captain Graeme Craig, a Red Deer native who assisted on Scherbak’s winner.

“But at the end we got a much-needed goal and that’s all we can ask of our power play.”

While the Rebels suffered their fourth straight loss — all at home — and fell to 6-8-0-0, the Blades improved to 7-6-0-2 and are 7-1-0-2 in their last 10 games after opening the season with five consecutive setbacks.

“Of those first five games, we could have won two

saw her shot just slip past the post.

However, the Ooks stormed right back and converted on a rebound and eventually took a 2-0 lead into the half.

They scored twice more early in the second half to take control.

“We could have hung our heads, but instead we talked with the girls about sticking with it and they battled right to the end, in fact we had two glorious opportunities to score, but slid one off the goalie’s hand and hit the crossbar,” said Colley.

“It’s a tough to lose, but I have nothing but pride in these girls. We came a long way very quickly this season.

There’s no shame in losing to a team of that calibre.”

Blacquiere received her rookie award at the banquet Thursday where she was named to the South Division All-Conference team along with defender Adi Moyer and goalie Jesse Stewart.

Kings head coach Steve Fullarton was named the South Division coach of the year while defender Julius Abegar received the player of the year award.

Abegar was on the All-Conference team along with forward Nolan Hamilton, midfielder Andrew Jevne and defender Logan Grenier.

or three of them if we had a little better goaltending and made fewer mistakes,” said Craig. “Since we’ve turned it around our goalies have been outstanding.

Everyone is getting the gist of the league and we’ve been working our balls off.” ● Bartosak suffered what Sutter said was an “upper-body injury” and his status was unknown after the game . . . Sutter will serve as head coach of Team WHL for Super Series games against Team Russia Nov. 27 at the Centrium and the next night in Lethbridge. He will be assisted by Kootenay Ice coach Ryan McGill, who will also be an assistant to Team Canada bench boss Sutter in the World Junior Championship Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Sweden. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

BASEBALL: Red Sox first visit since June 8, 2005 “Obviously David’s bat, at all costs, needs to be in the lineup,” Peavy said. “David is a game-changer.

He’s as clutch as anybody I can remember playing with or against.”

“It just seems like he has a flair for the dramatic.

When the situation is the biggest, he’s at his best,” he said.

Ortiz hit a two-run homer off rookie sensation Michael Wacha in Game 2 that put Boston ahead 2-1 in the sixth inning, but St. Louis rallied in the seventh for a 4-2 win.

The Red Sox will spend this weekend at the stadium a few blocks from the Mississippi River.

“I believe our ballpark is very fair. I don’t think there’s one thing that would make our team any more effective in this park than any other,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “It’s not like

The Kings are in action today as they face then Ooks at 2 p.m. NAIT downed Medicine Hat 4-1 while Lethbridge stopped Concordia 4-1 and will face Grant MacEwan.

Basketball Kings 78 Keyano 62 FORT McMURRAY — The Kings are playing a bit shorthanded with only nine players on hand, but they were the fresher team down the stretch as they defeated the Keyano College Huskies 78-62 in ACAC Men’s Basketball League play Friday.

“They’re a much improved team over the one we saw earlier and for the most of three quarters it was a tight game,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger.

“But we began to wear them down by the end of the third quarter and into the fourth.”

Mari Peoples-Wong led the Kings with 24 points, seven rebounds and five steals while Jacob Cusumano added 14 points and Ashaunti Hogan 12.

The Queens dropped a 72-54 decision to the Huskies as Desirae Paterson scored 15 points in a losing cause.

Mozanga Ekwalagna was selected as the RDC player of the game.

The RDC teams play at NAIT today. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

there’s the oddities, like a Green Monster or deep corners and gaps.”

“But you can’t help but buy into the atmosphere, especially when you’re at home and every single thing you do gets such a positive response,” he said.

Kelly is glad to be home, all the way around.

“You get to sleep in your own bed. You get to do what you normally do on a regular basis,” he said. “If you get coffee in the morning, you go to your coffee shop. It’s just a comfort level to know that it’s your home away from your off-season home.”

For the Red Sox, this is their first visit to St. Louis since Ortiz hit a home run on June 8, 2005, in a win at the previous Busch Stadium. The new park opened the next year.

Kelly also had some friendly advice for Boston’s first-time visitors. It involved a local favourite, a food that many are certain started in this city.

“Find some toasted raviolis, eat some. Those are good, especially in St. Louis,” he said.

COLLEGE: Play again today at 1 p.m.

“It was sloppy at times, but give Medicine Hat credit, they’re a scrappy team and despite being undermanned played with a lot of fire and passion,” said Schulha. “I expect more of the same tomorrow and we’ll have to show up for sure.”

Chris Osborn led the Kings with nine kills, two aces, six digs and three blocks while Tim Finnigan had eight kills, six digs and three blocks.

The Queens open action at 1 p.m. today with the men to follow. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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Stamps, Riders battle for division lead

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CALGARY CAN CLINCH WEST FINAL BERTH WITH WIN OR TIE THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — There’s more on the marquee than the race for first place when the Calgary Stampeders host the Saskatchewan Roughriders today.

“There’s a few different storylines going on for this game,” agrees Stampeder running back Jon Cornish, who is heavily involved in one of them.

The main narrative is Calgary (13-3) can clinch the CFL’s West Division, and the rewards that go with it, with a win or a tie.

The Roughriders (11-5) can extend the race for first into the final week of the regular season with a win.

Both clubs have secured home playoff games, so it’s a matter of who hosts the division semifinal Nov. 10 and who gets the bye and the West final Nov. 17.

Saturday’s victor takes the season series 2-1 and would be seeded ahead of the other in the event the two teams tied for points at season’s end.

Calgary finishes on the road against the B.C. Lions, while the Roughriders are at home to Edmonton in their finale.

In addition to boasting the CFL’s most dynamic offences, the two teams are the only ones to give up less than 400 points so far this season.

“Stakes are high pretty much like every time we play this team,” Roughrider quarterback Darian Durant said.

“In my opinion, it’s the two best teams in the league. Not taking anything away from Toronto or anyone else.

“Both teams are filled with great players. Whenever you have that, you have these other battles than the game being talked about.”

Among Saturday’s subplots is the matchup of the top two running backs in the CFL. Cornish and Saskatchewan’s Kory Sheets are chasing their respective franchise’s season rushing records.

Cornish (1,690 yards) needs 206 to match Willie Burden’s 1,896. Sheets (1,556) is 212 away from George Reed’s 1,768.

Cornish is already smashing his league record for single-season rushing yards by a Canadian running back with two games to go.

“History is upon me,” Cornish said. “Who knows what the future holds? I don’t know how I’m going to do in this next game. I don’t know how I’m going to do in the B.C. game. I might not play too much in the B.C. game.

“For me to worry about it, I don’t think would be beneficial. I want to contribute to the team win as much as I have been.”

Calgary defensive end Charleston Hughes and Roughrider counterpart Alex Hall are tied for the CFL lead in sacks with 15.

The Stampeders offensive line held Hall to zero sacks Oct. 5 when he was a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, but Hughes didn’t get a sack in that game either.

Hall was traded the next day to Saskatchewan and makes a return trip to McMahon clad in green and white.

“They have a really good defence and adding a guy like Alex Hall made it that much better,” Stampeder quarterback Kevin Glenn said.

Hughes and Sheets threw gasoline on the fire trading social media salvos on Twitter this week. The banter continued Friday.

“It was fun, but I am annoyed by pretty much their whole offence,” Hughes said. “I’m tired of all this talking and ranting about how good he is and how much he compares to Cornish when they’re too different style running backs. When you line up numbers, you can figure out the rest.”

Said Sheets: “I stand behind everything I say and I will no matter what happens. I’ll still stand by I’m the best back in the league.”

Calgary’s 42-27 win Aug. 9 over Saskatchewan ended the Roughriders unbeaten streak this season.

It also drew a season-high 35,637 to McMahon. The forecast for Saturday’s game time is sunny with a high of 15.

The Roughriders beat Calgary 36-21 in Regina on July 5. Saskatchewan is 3-9-1 in the regular season at McMahon since 2005 and have lost six in a row there.

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B.C. Lions’ Stefan Logan, centre, is tackled by Edmonton Eskimos’ Eric Samuels, bottom, Aaron Grymes, 36, and Damaso Munoz, 45, during the first half of a CFL football game in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday. The Lions beat the Eskimos 43-29.

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McCorquindale leads Carstar to two point win Carstar squeezed out a 79-77 victory over Bulldog Scrap Metal in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Thursday.

Mike McCorquindale had 25 points and Murray Cunningham 22 for the winners, while Victor Moncholi had 25 points and Daniel Babik 21 in a losing cause.

Dorowicz hat trick gives Grizzlys win over Kodiaks CAMROSE — Spencer Dorowicz fired three goals, including one into an empty net, and Ethan Jemieff made 43 saves as the Olds Grizzlys downed the Camrose Kodiaks 5-3 in an AJHL game Friday.

Landon Kletke and Austin Kernahan also scored for the Grizzlys, who led 2-1 after 20 minutes and 4-2 after two periods in front of 1,289 fans at the Edgeworth Centre. Replying for the Kodiaks were Nelson Gadoury, Ryker Leer and Luc Vandale.

Matt Zentner and Devin McDonald combined to make 24 saves for Camrose.

The Grizzlys host the Calgary Canucks tonight at 7:30 p.m.

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PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends concluded round robin play on Friday at the 65+ World Baseball Championship with a 10-4 loss to the San Diego Angels.

Al West and Lyle Lorenz each had two hits while Ron Unrau cracked a triple and Lorenz added five stolen bases for the Legends, who will meet the undefeated California Sonoma County Oaks in a semifinal today.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today ● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber tournament. ● JV volleyball: Notre Dame tournament. ● Peewee/bantam football: Semifinals. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/Cochrane at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● College volleyball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● College men’s hockey: Fort McMurray Keyano at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Sylvan Lake, 2 p.m. ● Major bantam female hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Ramada, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 4:45 p.m.; Cranbrook at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, 7 p.m. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 7:30 p.m.; Coaldale at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Stettler, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Foothills at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:15 p.m., Kinex. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Don Wakamatsu bench coach and catching instructor and Mike Jirschele major league coach.

National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated RHP Joe Wieland and LHP Cory Luebke from the 60-day DL. Designated LHP Tommy Layne and LHP Colt Hynes for assignment.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS Released RHP Danny Gutierrez, C Clint Ourso and OF Jeremiah Piepkorn.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Exercised the 2014 option on LHP Edgar Osuna.

FRONTIER LEAGUE EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Sent INF Ryan Kresky and LHP Ryan Zamorsky to Washington to complete previous trades.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed OF Curran Redal to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Waived C DeSagana Diop, F Kenny Kadji, G Jermaine Taylor and G Elliot Williams.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Waived G Seth Curry, C Dewayne Dedmon and F Joe Alexander. Extended the contract of C Andrew Bogut.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Waived F Ike Diogu, F C.J. Leslie, F Josh Powell, F Jeremy Tyler and G Chris Douglas-Roberts.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Waived G Diante Garrett and G Rodney McGruder. Exercised the fourth-year contract option on G Reggie Jackson, third-year options for G Jeremy Lamb and F Perry Jones.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived G Vander Blue, G Khalif Wyatt, F Royce White and F Mac Koshwal.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS—Acquired C Marcin Gortat, G Kendall Marshall, G Shannon Brown and G Malcolm Lee from the Phoenix Suns for C Emeka Okafor and a top-12-protected first-round draft pick in 2014.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined St. Louis DL Chris Long $15,750, for unnecessary roughness for throwing a punch during a skirmish in an Oct. 20 game against Carolina. Fined Carolina WR Steve Smith and St. Louis WR Brian Quick $7,875 apiece, for striking an opponent in the face. Fined St. Louis G Harvey Dahl $7,875 for a late hit and Carolina S Mike Mitchell $7,875 for taunting.

BUFFALO BILLS — Released CB Brandon Burton. Signed RB Ronnie Wingo from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Placed G Cam Ward on injured reserve. Recalled G Mike Murphy from Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled F Jeremy Morin from Rockford (AHL). Agreed to terms with F Brad Mills to a one-year contract and recalled him from the Rockford.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Aaron Rome to Texas (AHL). Activated F Scott Glennie from the injured non-roster list and assigned him to Texas.

MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled G Johan Gustafsson from Iowa (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES — Recalled F Tim Kennedy from Portland (AHL).

American Hockey League NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Recalled D Norm Ezekiel from Utah (ECHL). Signed F Jamie MacQueen to a professional tryout contract.

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced F Justin Maylan was lent to Oklahoma City (AHL).

STOCKTON THUNDER — Announced F Brayden Irwin was signed to a professional tryout agreement by Utica (AHL).

SOCCER North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed D Jimmy Nealis for the remainder of the fall season.

National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Loaned D Caitlin Foord to Sydney FC of the Australian W-League, through March 1, 2014.

WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Acquired the rights to F Renae Cuellar, the discovery rights to F Jodie Taylor and the No. 23 pick in the 2014 college draft from Seattle Reign FC for the rights to D Nikki Marshall, the rights to D Alina Garciamendez and the No. 17 overall selection in the 2014 draft.

Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football CONCACAF — Announced the resignation of deputy general secretary Jill Fracisco.

COLLEGE CONNNECTICUT — Announced men’s freshman basketball F Kentan Facey was granted a waiver to play this season by the NCAA. GEORGE MASON — Suspended men’s junior basketball F Erik Copes six games for violation of athletic department policy.

ST. JOHN’S—Announced C Chris Obekpa has been suspended for two exhibition games for a violation of university policy.

NEW JERSEY CITY — Announced the resignation of softball coach Bridgette Quimpo.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 2013

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W L OTLSOL GF Prince Albert 14 8 5 1 0 50 Saskatoon 15 7 6 0 2 53 Moose Jaw 16 6 7 1 2 41 Brandon 12 7 5 0 0 43 Regina 14 7 7 0 0 41 Swift Current 15 6 8 0 1 49 Central Division GP W L OTLSOL Calgary 14 9 3 1 1 Edmonton 15 8 6 0 1 Medicine Hat 12 7 3 2 0 Kootenay 14 6 6 2 0 Red Deer 14 6 8 0 0 Lethbridge 15 2 11 1 1

GA 49 57 50 43 48 49

Pt 17 16 15 14 14 13

GF 53 57 47 40 40 38

GA 47 44 34 45 45 74

Pt 20 17 16 14 12 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF Victoria 15 9 6 0 0 40 Kelowna 11 7 2 0 2 47 Prince George 14 6 7 0 1 34 Vancouver 12 3 7 1 1 28 Kamloops 13 4 9 0 0 32

GA 38 30 46 45 43

Pt 18 16 13 8 8

GA 50 30 45 25 43

Pt 21 20 19 18 13

Portland Spokane Seattle Everett Tri-City

U.S. Division W L OTLSOL 10 3 0 1 10 3 0 0 9 3 0 1 8 2 2 0 6 8 0 1

GP 14 13 13 12 15

GF 73 48 53 36 37

Note: Any win is worth two points; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Friday’s results Edmonton 7 Regina 2 Portland 6 Kootenay 3 Saskatoon 4 Red Deer 3 Calgary at Prince George Brandon at Spokane Kelowna at Victoria Seattle at Tri-City Everett at Vancouver Today’s games Moose Jaw at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Calgary at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Everett at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s game Vancouver at Kamloops, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Blades 4, Rebels 3 First Period 1. Red Deer, Maxwell 2 (Musil) 13:05 (pp) Penalties — Clayton Sktn (hooking) 12:56; Doetzel R.d (high sticking) 16:39; Gaudet R.d (delay of game) 17:12; Johnson R.d (delay of game) 17:54.

Second Period 2. Saskatoon, Graham 4 (Revel, Scherbak) 1:46 3. Saskatoon, Millette 3 (Nikkel) 2:25 4. Red Deer, Bleackley 8, 2:57 Penalties — Nikkel Sas, Polei R.d (major-fighting) 5:10; Sutter R.d (tripping) 7:33.

Third Period 5. Saskatoon, Valcourt 8 (Scherbak, Coghlan) 2:49 6. Red Deer, Bleackley 9, 13:55 7. Saskatoon, Scherbak 9 (Millette, Craig) 17:56

(pp) Penalties — Valcourt Sktn (charging major) 2:49; R.d (too many men) 6:23; Fleury R.d (tripping) 17:35.

Shots on goal by Saskatoon 8 17 9 — 35 Red Deer 12 11 12 — 35 Goal (shots-saves) — Saskatoon: Trombley (W,32-1); Red Deer: Bartosak (28-25), Burman (L,1-2-0) (7-6).

Winterhawks 6, Ice 3 First Period 1. Portland, Petan 9 (Schoenborn, Leipsic) 1:00 2. Portland, De Leo 9 (Bjorkstrand) 4:30 3. Portland, De Leo 10 (Leier, Bjorkstrand) 14:03 4. Kootenay, Reinhart 8 (Descheneau, Bozon) 18:46 (pp) Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 5. Kootenay, Vetterl 2 (Philp, Valiev) 3:52 6. Portland, Pouliot 3 (Leipsic, Bjorkstrand) 6:08 (pp) 7. Portland, Hanson 1 (Bittner, Turgeon) 6:39 8. Kootenay, Zborosky 2 (Murray, Reinhart) 10:01 9. Portland, Iverson 5 (Texeira, Petan) 10:44 Shots on goal by Portland 17 9 12 — 38 Kootenay 6 11 13 — 30 Goal — Portland: Schamerhorn (W,1-1-0); Kootenay: Skapski (L,5-3-2).

Oil Kings 7, Pats 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Petryk 2 (Baddock, Samuelsson) 1:38 2. Edmonton, Samuelsson 7 (Bertolucci, Sautner) 8:02 Second Period 3. Edmonton, Sautner 2 (Lazar, Moroz) 0:55 (pp) 4. Edmonton, Sautner 3 (Petryk, Irving) 6:15 5. Edmonton, Bauer 1 (Pollock) 7:41 6. Edmonton, Lazar 10 (Irving) 13:35 7. Edmonton, Pollock 4 (Reinhart, Carroll) 16:25 (pp) Third Period 8. Regina, Stevenson 9 (Stephenson, Burroughs) 1:19 (pp) 9. Regina, Stephenson 8 (Klimchuk, Burroughs) 16:18 (sh) Shots on goal by Edmonton 13 17 8 — 38 Regina 10 9 10 — 29 Goal (shots-saves) — Edmonton: Jarry (W,8-5-1); Regina: MacAuley (L,7-5-0)(21-17), Engel (6:15 second, 17-14).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Boston 9 7 2 0 27 13 Toronto 11 7 4 0 36 29 Detroit 11 6 4 1 25 30 Tampa Bay 9 6 3 0 32 26 Montreal 10 6 4 0 33 20 Ottawa 10 4 4 2 28 27 Florida 11 3 7 1 23 38 Buffalo 12 2 9 1 18 34

Pt 14 14 13 12 12 10 7 5

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA 10 7 3 0 34 24 10 4 3 3 33 31 11 4 4 3 25 33 10 5 5 0 28 25 10 5 5 0 30 30 10 1 5 4 20 33 8 2 6 0 12 31

Pt 14 11 11 10 10 6 4

Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders Carolina Columbus Washington New Jersey N.Y. Rangers

Philadelphia

0 13 25

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Colorado 10 9 1 0 32 14 Chicago 10 6 1 3 31 27 Nashville 11 6 4 1 22 26 Minnesota 11 5 3 3 24 23 St. Louis 8 5 1 2 29 22 Winnipeg 11 4 5 2 28 33 Dallas 9 4 5 0 25 29

9

Pt 18 15 13 13 12 10 8

GP San Jose 10 Vancouver 13 Anaheim 11 Phoenix 11 Los Angeles 11 Calgary 10 Edmonton 11

2

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Pacific Division W L OL GF 8 1 1 41 8 4 1 38 8 3 0 35 6 3 2 35 7 4 0 33 4 4 2 29 3 7 1 31

GA 18 37 28 35 29 37 43

Pt 17 17 16 14 14 10 7

Note: Any win is worth two points; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OL column.

Friday’s results Columbus 5 Toronto 2 Anaheim 2 Ottawa 1 Vancouver 3 St. Louis 2 (OT) N.Y. Islanders 4 Pittsburgh 3 Buffalo 3 Florida 1 Colorado 4 Carolina 2 Today’s games Edmonton at Phoenix, 1 p.m.

New Jersey at Boston, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 5 p.m.

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

San Jose at Montreal, 5 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Washington at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s games San Jose at Ottawa, 3 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 3 p.m.

Anaheim at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Ducks 2, Senators 1 First Period 1. Anaheim, Maroon 2 (Perry, Getzlaf) 7:35 2. Anaheim, Getzlaf 4 (Perry) 17:38 Second Period 3. Ottawa, Zibanejad 1 (Phillips, Michalek) 9:04 (pp) Third Period No Scoring.

Shots on goal by Anaheim 12 10 6 — 28 Ottawa 7 8 12 — 27 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (W,2-0-0); Ottawa: Anderson (L,4-2-2).

Sabres 3, Panthers 1 First Period 1. Florida, Winchester 2 (Bergenheim, Gudbranson) 13:58 Second Period 2. Buffalo, Ristolainen 1 (Vanek, McBain) 13:32 Third Period 3. Buffalo, Ott 1 (Ehrhoff, Foligno) 12:42 4. Buffalo, Hodgson 4 (McCormick) 19:13 (en) Shots on goal by Buffalo 4 10 7 — 21 Florida 18 16 11 — 45

Goal — Buffalo: Enroth (W,1-2-1); Florida: Markstrom (L,1-4-1).

Blue Jackets 5, Maple Leafs 2 First Period 1. Columbus, Murray 1 (Umberger, Wisniewski) 4:55 (pp) Second Period 2. Toronto, Kessel 6 (Bozak, van Riemsdyk) 0:40 Third Period 3. Columbus, Gaborik 5 (Foligno, Anisimov) 3:12.

4. Columbus, Dubinsky 3, 12:27 (sh) 5. Toronto, Bolland 4 (Ranger, Raymond) 15:30 6. Columbus, Johansen 3 (Dubinsky, Tyutin) 19:33 (en) 7. Columbus, Foligno 3 (Letestu, Tyutin) 19:53 Shots on goal by Toronto 5 8 12 — 25 Columbus 16 7 13 — 36 Goal — Toronto: Bernier (L,5-4-0); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W,4-5-0).

Islanders 4, Penguins 3 First Period 1. N.Y. Islanders, Moulson 6 (Nielsen, Tavares) 10:14 (pp) 2. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 5 (Sutter, Niskanen) 13:25 Second Period 3. Pittsburgh, Crosby 8 (Kunitz) 5:59 Penalty — Moulson NYI (hooking) 13:21.

Third Period 4. N.Y. Islanders, Nielsen 6 (Hickey, Martinek) 12:46 5. Pittsburgh, Engelland 1 (Vitale, Niskanen) 13:02 6. N.Y. Islanders, Bouchard 1 (Martinek) 13:55 7. N.Y. Islanders, Bailey 4 (Nielsen, Okposo) 18:20 N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh

Shots on goal by 8 10 7 — 14 20 8 —

25 42

Goal — N.Y. Islanders: Nabokov (W,4-2-3); Pittsburgh: Zatkoff (L,0-2-0).

Canucks 3, Blues 2 (OT) First Period 1. Vancouver, Higgins 4 (Richardson, Santorelli) 17:11 Second Period 2. Vancouver, Kesler 6 (Santorelli) 9:34 3. St. Louis, Steen 8 (Oshie, Shattenkirk) 19:53 (pp) Third Period 4. St. Louis, Sobotka 2 (Steen, Shattenkirk) 1:38 Overtime 5. Vancouver, Kesler 7 (Sedin, Sedin) 4:45 (pp) Penalty — Berglund StL (hooking) 4:26.

Shots on goal by Vancouver 7 6 5 3 — 21 St. Louis 5 7 8 4 — 24 Goal — Vancouver: Lack (W,2-1-0); St. Louis: Halak (OTL,5-1-1).

Avalanche 4, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Colorado, Johnson 2 (Stastny, Tanguay) 11:30 2. Colorado, Duchene 7 (O’Reilly, Downie) 17:33 Second Period 3. Carolina, Bowman 1 (Jo.Staal, Sekera) 0:12 4. Colorado, Tanguay 3 (Duchene, Benoit) 10:11 Third Period 5. Colorado, Duchene 8, 0:36 (pp) 6. Carolina, Sekera 1 (Tlusty, Semin) 2:40 Shots on goal by Carolina 8 6 16 — 30 Colorado 18 8 8 — 34 Goal — Carolina: Peters (L,0-2-0); Colorado: Varlamov (W,6-1-0).

Football New England N.Y. Jets Miami Buffalo

CFL EAST DIVISION x-Toronto x-Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg

x-Calgary x-Sask. x-B.C. Edmonton

W 11 8 7 3

L T Pts PF 6 0 22 487 8 0 16 389 9 0 14 412 14 0 6 354 WEST DIVISION

W 13 11 10 3

L 3 5 7 14

T Pts 0 26 0 22 0 20 0 6

PF 513 468 478 391

PA 435 437 424 548 PA 362 339 454 493

x-clinched playoff berth Friday’s Game BC Lions 43, Edmonton 29 Today’s Games Montreal at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Saskatchewan at Calgary, 5 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 1 Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Calgary at BC Lions, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2 Hamilton at Winnipeg, 12 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 3 p.m.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF

.714 .571 .500 .429

152 134 135 159

127 162 140 178

W 5 3 2 0

South L T 2 0 4 0 5 0 7 0

Pct .714 .429 .286 .000

PF 187 145 122 76

PA 131 146 194 222

Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh

W 5 3 3 2

L 2 4 4 4

North T 0 0 0 0

Pct .714 .429 .429 .333

PF 148 150 131 107

PA 135 148 156 132

Kansas City Denver San Diego Oakland

W 7 6 4 2

L 0 1 3 4

West T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .857 .571 .333

PF 169 298 168 105

PA 81 197 144 132

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

PA

5 4 3 3

2 3 3 4

0 0 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 4 3 0 .571 200 Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 169 Washington 2 4 0 .333 152 N.Y. Giants 1 6 0 .143 126

PA 155 196 184 216

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 5 4 2 0

L 1 3 4 7

South T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .571 .333 .000

PF 161 170 153 100

PA 103 96 157 163

Green Bay Detroit Chicago Minnesota

W 4 4 4 1

L 2 3 3 5

North T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .571 .571 .167

PF 168 186 213 132

PA 127 167 206 181

L 1 2 4 4

West T 0 0 0 0

Pct .857 .714 .429 .429

PF 191 176 156 133

PA 116 135 184 161

Seattle San Francisco St. Louis Arizona

W 6 5 3 3

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

Atlanta at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, San Diego, Tennessee Monday’s Game Seattle at St. Louis, 6:40 p.m.

Thursday’s Game Carolina 31, Tampa Bay 13 Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Miami at New England, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

San Francisco vs. Jacksonville at London, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31 Cincinnati at Miami, 6:25 p.m.

NFL ODDS (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery Corp.; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday NY Giants at PHILADELPHIA 5.5 52.5 SAN FRANCISCO at Jacksonville 16.5 40.5 Dallas at DETROIT 2.5 51.5 Cleveland at KANSAS CITY 8.5 39.5 Miami at NEW ENGLAND 6.5 45.5 PITTSBURGH at Oakland 2.5 40.5 NY Jets at CINCINNATI 7.5 41.5 Washington at DENVER 13.5 58.5 Atlanta at ARIZONA 2.5 45.5 GREEN BAY at Minnesota 9.5 46.5 Buffalo at NEW ORLEANS 12.5 50.5 Monday SEATTLE at St. Louis 10.5 42.5

Baseball MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 1: NL: Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2 Wednesday, Oct. 2: AL: Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) American League Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Boston 12, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1

National League St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2 Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 Sunday, Oct. 6: Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday Oct. 9: St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 1

National League St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 11: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2, 13 innings Saturday, Oct. 12: St. Louis 1, Los Angeles 0 Monday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 0 Tuesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2

Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 1 Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3 Sunday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles 13, Atlanta 6 Monday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3

Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Friday, Oct. 4: Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Oakland 1, Detroit 0

Wednesday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 4 Friday, Oct. 18: St. Louis 9, Los Angeles 0

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7) American League Boston 4, Detroit 2 Saturday, Oct. 12: Detroit 1, Boston 0 Sunday, Oct. 13: Boston 6, Detroit 5 Tuesday, Oct. 15: Boston 1, Detroit 0 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Detroit 7, Boston 3 Thursday, Oct. 17: Boston 4, Detroit 3 Saturday, Oct. 19: Boston 5, Detroit 2

Monday, Oct. 7: Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Detroit 8, Oakland 6 Thursday, Oct. 10: Detroit 3, Oakland 0

WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Boston 1, St. Louis 1 Wednesday, Oct. 23: Boston 8, St. Louis 1 Thursday, Oct. 24: St. Louis 4, Boston 2 Saturday, Oct. 26: Boston (Buchholz 12-1 or Peavy 12-5) at St. Louis (Kelly 10-5), 6:07 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27: Boston (Peavy 12-5 or Buchholz 12-1) at St. Louis (Lynn 15-10), 6:15 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 28: Boston at St. Louis, 6:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: St. Louis at Boston, 6:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 31: St. Louis at Boston, 6:07 p.m.

Golf AT&T CHAMPIONSHIP At TPC San Antonio, AT&T Canyons Course San Antonio Purse: $1.9 million Yardage: 6,923; Par 72 (36-36) First Round Kenny Perry Tom Pernice Jr. Anders Forsbrand Bernhard Langer Bob Tway Russ Cochran Colin Montgomerie Scott Dunlap Steve Pate Joey Sindelar Chien Soon Lu Esteban Toledo Gary Hallberg Rod Spittle Fred Funk Corey Pavin John Cook Scott Simpson Steve Lowery Dick Mast Duffy Waldorf Bobby Clampett Jim Thorpe Jay Haas Bob Gilder Joe Daley Larry Mize Loren Roberts John Riegger Mark O’Meara Kirk Triplett Jay Don Blake Scott Hoch Brian Henninger Gene Jones Jeff Hart Peter Senior Jim Gallagher, Jr. Olin Browne Bruce Vaughan Rocco Mediate Joel Edwards Jim Rutledge Tom Byrum Mark Brooks Jose Coceres Gene Sauers John Inman Tom Kite Michael Allen Mark McNulty Bart Bryant Kohki Idoki Willie Wood Hale Irwin Tommy Armour III Mike Goodes Peter Jacobsen Steve Elkington

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TAIWAN CHAMPIONSHIP At Sunrise Golf and Country Club Course Yang Mei, Taiwan Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,533; Par: 72 (a-amateur) Second Round Suzann Pettersen Sun Young Yoo Carlota Ciganda Katherine Hull-Kirk Beatriz Recari Hee Kyung Seo Chella Choi Caroline Hedwall Alison Walshe Mina Harigae Azahara Munoz Irene Cho Mi Jung Hur Pernilla Lindberg Na Yeon Choi Candie Kung Paula Creamer Catriona Matthew Pornanong Phatlum Anna Nordqvist Se Ri Pak Hee Young Park Gerina Piller Jenny Shin Lexi Thompson Ilhee Lee Eun-Hee Ji Mariajo Uribe Juli Inkster Lindsey Wright x-Asuka Kashiwabara Belen Mozo Haeji Kang Cindy LaCrosse Jennifer Johnson

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CIMB CLASSIC At Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club, West Course Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Purse: $7 million Yardage: 6,924; Par: 72 Second Round Keegan Bradley Ryan Moore Kiradech Aphibarnrat Chris Stroud Sergio Garcia Marc Leishman Martin Laird Harris English Chris Kirk Stewart Cink Gary Woodland Hideki Matsuyama Bill Haas Wade Ormsby

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FALL DOG SHOW Dogs will put their best paws forward at Red Deer and District Kennel Club’s Fall Dog Show on Nov. 1, 2 and 3 at Westerner Park. . The event runs daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission per day is $10 for adults, $5 for children age three to 12, and $25 for families of four.

Seniors and children two and under get in free. For special group discounts, contact Suzan Humphreys at hawkhaven@xplornet. com or at 403-307-4527.

For more information, visit www.rddkc.com.

INDIA NIGHT A little culture, some food and entertainment from India is on tap early in November at the Holiday Inn and Suites. The Central Alberta Indo-Canadian Association is hosting India Night, a cultural extravaganza, on Nov. 2 at the hotel, at 37471 Hwy 2 in Gasoline Alley. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7, with entertainment and a dance to follow at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $30 for members of the association or $35 for non-members. For more information, call 403-3403881.

FEE FOR SERVICE APPLICATIONS The City of Red Deer is accepting Fee for Service applications from not-forprofit arts and heritage organizations for the 2014 funding year. The program is designed to help not-for-profits build their capacity to provide services or support special events. A board resolution supporting the application must be included with the application, which must be received by Dec. 6.

Eligibility information and application forms can be found at www.reddeer. ca/culture under the Fee for Service Program tab or they can be picked up at the Culture Services Centre at 3827 39th St. (open from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. from Monday to Friday). For more information, contact culture superintendent Kristina Öberg at 403-3092637.

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Traffic in the northbound lane of Hwy 2 was at a standstill for much of Friday afternoon due to a tanker truck rollover near the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame. A cleanup crew was called in from Edmonton, as well as RCMP and fire crews from Red Deer. RCMP were advising motorists to use alternate routes.

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BRIEFS City releases final election count The final results from Red Deer’s election on Monday were declared official on Friday by returning officer Frieda McDougall.

There were no major changes from earlier results. However, a few numbers were off by one vote.

In the race for mayor, Dennis Trepanier ended up coming in with one more vote than initially revealed, for a total of 1,514.

For city councillors, top ranking Dianne Wyntjes actually came in with 9,841 instead of 9,840. Buck Buchanan also had one more vote in the official results, making his total 8,435. Frank Wong was in the same books, scoring 8,019 votes over the 8,018 initially announced and Tanya Handley had 6,623 instead of 6,622.

Other candidates whose votes were off by one include Terry Balgobin, who had 4,743 not 4,742; Garry Didrikson at 3,517 not 3,516 and Ben Ordman, who came in with 2,984 not 2,983.

All official votes for the public and Catholic school boards matched Monday night’s unofficial count.

Those who voted against a ward voting system in the plebiscite were initially recorded at 13,314 strong. Officially, the votes totalled one more at 13,315.

For a full list of results, visit www.reddeer.ca/reddeervotes.

Sylvan woman faces drug trial Trial dates will be set soon for a Sylvan Lake woman arrested a year earlier on drug trafficking and weapons charges.

On Oct. 23, 2012, Red Deer City RCMP and members of the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Unit arrested two people who had been under investigation, including surveillance of a house in the Inglewood subdivision.

In a statement issued two days later, Red Deer RCMP said Summer Brook Kreiser, 30, and city resident Brian Buxton, 32, were taken down in a traffic stop on charges including possession of drugs for trafficking, possession of weapons for a dangerous purpose and possession of goods obtained through crime.

Kreiser was ordered to stand trial on Friday, represented by defence counsel Will Willms of Red Deer. She pleaded not guilty earlier and asked to be tried by judge alone in Court of Queen’s Bench.

Her trial dates will be set at the next available arraignment day.

Buxton, who was charged separately, is scheduled for a three-day trial by judge alone in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, starting on Dec. 17, and is represented by Calgary defence counsel Hirsh Wolch.

Olds speeders face crackdown Olds RCMP have been busy enforcing speed limits in schools zones.

On Wednesday and Thursday, RCMP stopped 35 vehicles and issued 29 tickets.

Two were seatbelt violations and the rest were connected to speed during the 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. period.

The fastest speed was clocked at 62 km/h, which brought a $194 penalty.

Police say that although there were a high number of violations written over a total of four hours, the majority of vehicles are respecting the limit of 30 km/h.

It was reported that about 335 children under the age of 15 are killed or injured on average each year when walking or cycling in Canada, based on data collected from 2003-2007.

RCMP remind motorists that school speed limits are in effect from 8 to 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3 to 4:30 p.m. on school days.

Military exercises in Lacombe Members of the military and their oversized vehicles will be in Lacombe this weekend.

The 41 Signal Regiment out of Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton is conducting a 36-hour communication training exercise in the vicinity of the Barnett Arena and the Lacombe Sports and Leisure Complex through to Sunday.

The training exercise will also highlight the work done year-round by citizen-soldier part-time army reservists who live in the region.

They will also be providing a recruiting and public information station where citizens can learn more about potential employment opportunities with the Army Reserve.

For more information, visit www.forces. ca.

Plea deal sought A plea negotiation is being worked out for a man accused of passing fake credit cards at a variety of local auto parts and tire stores.

Josil Cabuhat, 32, was arrested on June 20 on charges including fraud, passing false documents, possession of goods obtained through crime and possession of methamphetamine.

Represented by defence counsel Molly McVey, Cabuhat attended Red Deer provincial court on Friday to enter his plea.

However, the plea was reserved when it was announced in court that Crown prosecutor Anthony Pingatore had just been appointed to the file.

Pingatore said he is prepared to enter plea negotiations with McVey but needs time to review the file.

Cabuhat is to return to court on Nov. 12 to enter his plea.

Clearview teachers have deal Clearview Public Schools has ratified the teachers agreement for a new contract up to August 2016.

The board of trustees voted unanimously on Oct. 17 to ratify the memorandum of agreement with the Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) and directed senior administration to finalize the contract for signatures.

The local ATA ratified the agreement on Oct. 15.

The new contract includes several improvements, including salary increases of 1.34 per cent in September 2014, two per cent in September 2015 and a lump-sum payment of one per cent in December 2015 — part of the provincewide framework agreement.

There will be an additional paid personal leave day starting in September 2014 and aunts, uncles and step-relatives will now be in the definition for compassionate leave.

There will also be a simplification to the grievance process, a letter of understanding to establish a committee to discuss medical leave forms and much more.

The focus of the negotiations with teachers was on creating fairness with all staff in the school division and consistency with

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the provincial agreement between the ATA and the Alberta government.

For more information about what’s included in the new contract, visit www. clearview.ab.ca.

HGTV looking for subjects Do-it-yourselfers with a “kooky” approach to home repairs are being sought for a new HGTV Canada reality special.

Central Albertans who have homes filled with “jerry-rigged solutions” that are at odds with mainstream expectations for home maintenance can answer a casting call for the TV show.

Those behind the “strangest, wackiest, most extreme solutions to home repairs ever seen” can get an expert renovation by a team of professionals from the show.

For more information about the casting call, visit HGTV.ca/CastingCall.

Five injured in Hwy 42 crash Two full-size pickup trucks collided on Thursday night around 8 p.m. near Penhold, sending five people to hospital, one with critical injuries.

All five people involved were taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre by way of ground ambulance. One male, in critical condition, was later airlifted to the Calgary Foothills Hospital by STARS. Police say a large pickup truck was traveling northbound on Range Road 272 when it collided with another large pickup truck heading east on Hwy 42.

All three occupants of the eastbound truck were trapped inside the damaged truck and had to be freed by the fire department.

The northbound truck was carrying two individuals.

Innisfail RCMP and Red Deer Integrated Traffic Services attended the scene, as well as the RCMP collision reconstruction unit from Red Deer to examine and document the collision.

Alcohol is not considered to be a factor in the collision.

Officials continue to investigate.

Bail denied assault suspect Bail has been denied a Red Deer man accused of attacking his girlfriend on five separate occasions, starting on the evening of July 18.

The 33-year-old man, whose name is being withheld to protect his girlfriend’s identity, is alleged to have stabbed, beaten and sexually assaulted her after an argument in her Red Deer apartment.

Released on bail after the initial incident, the man is alleged to have returned to her home four more times, breaking into her suite and attacking her again, despite court orders prohibiting him from contacting her or going within one block of the building where she lives.

Charges against the man include three counts of assault with a weapon, two sexual assaults, assault causing bodily harm, common assault, unlawful confinement, choking with intent, uttering threats to kill or injure, four break and enters, two counts of possession of a knife for a dangerous purpose, mischief and 15 breaches of release conditions.

Following submissions by Crown prosecutor Jillian Brown and Edmonton-based defence counsel Nicole Sissons, Judge Gordon Yake determined in Red Deer provincial court on Friday afternoon that the man was not a suitable candidate for release.

Sissons and her client return to court on Nov. 7 to enter pleas.

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Thailand’s top Buddhist leader dies Thailand is the world’s most heavily Buddhist country, with more than 90 per cent of its 67 million people members of the religion.

As the head of the religion, the patriarch has legal authority to oversee different sects of Buddhism.

The Supreme Patriarch promotes Buddhism and leads the Sangha Supreme Council.

The council oversees the country’s Buddhist monks and novices of all sects.

The council’s job is to make sure monks follow Buddha’s teachings and do not violate the rules set by the council.

The Supreme Patriarch was a friend of His Holiness Dalai Lama of Tibet, who called the Thai monk “my elder brother.”

The Dalai Lama paid several visits to Thailand since his first state visit in 1967, and each time he would visit the temple where the Supreme Patriarch resided to have a discussion.

The Supreme Patriarch was born Charoen Gajavatra on Oct. 3, 1913, in Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi, the eldest of the three sons.

He was still a boy when his father died, and was raised by his aunt.

He became gravely ill as a boy, and his family made a promise to sacred spirits

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thailand’s Supreme Patriarch, who headed the country’s order of Buddhist monks for more than two decades, died on Thursday.

He was 100.

Doctors said that Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara (SOM-ded PRA YA-na-SUNGWORN) died at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, where he had been treated since being admitted for an illness more than a decade ago. “(The Supreme Patriarch’s) overall condition deteriorated and he passed away at 7:30 p.m. from septicemia,” or a severe blood infection, the doctors said in a statement.

After he was admitted to the hospital on Feb. 20, 2002, the Supreme Patriarch was able to perform leadership duties for a time, but in 2004, a senior Buddhist monk was appointed to work on his behalf.

That monk died earlier this year, raising speculation about who the Supreme Patriarch’s successor will be.

His successor will be formally appointed by Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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that he would become a monk if he recovered.

He did, and he became a novice when he turned 14.

The future Supreme Patriarch moved to Bangkok in 1929 to a well-respected Buddhist temple to continue his religious studies.

He returned briefly to his hometown to get ordained and became a monk in 1933.

He was named Suvaddhano — “one who prospers well” — by the Supreme Patriarch of the time, and rose through the ranks of the monkhood. In 1956, when King Bhumibol spent 15 days as an ordained monk, the future patriarch taught and supervised him.

He served as secretary of the Supreme Patriarch who preceded him, and was appointed the top Buddhist monk in 1989, when he took on the name Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara — “a person of great insight.”

The permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, Thongthong Chandrangsu, said government offices in Thailand will fly the national flag at half-staff for three days and government officials will be asked to wear black outfits for 15 days to mourn the Supreme Patriarch’s death.

Saskatoon mulling over whether to use a prayer at civic events ment of silence or a general message of giving thanks.

Warick will take the policy back for further review.

Last December, a Saskatoon man complained about “Merry Christmas” being flashed on city transit buses.

Ashu Solo has filed a complaint with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Com-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — City councillors in Saskatoon are looking at two options about using a prayer at civic events.

City solicitor Patricia Warick told a meeting of the executive committee that the options are no observance, or a mo-

mission alleging the message violates separation of religion and state.

He also said it discriminates against non-Christians.

Solo has said he is “offended and angered” that his tax money is funding city buses that promote a religion he doesn’t believe in.

Solo describes himself as an atheist.

SUNDAY Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-347-6706.

TUESDAY Innisfail United Church Harvest Turkey Supper will be celebrated on Oct. 29 at Innisfail Legion Auditorium from 4 to 7 p.m. Costs are $12 for 11 years and up, $6 for six to 10 years, and free for five years and under.

Take out orders are welcome.

To place an order, call 403-2274159 on Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. and noon.

World Religions Conference at Red Deer College explores Can Secularism and Religion Co-Exist on Oct. 29, 6 to 9 p.m. on Mainstage, Arts Centre. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Speakers will represent Sikhism, Christianity, Judaism, Aboriginal, and Islamic faiths. Question and answer period to follow. See www.rdc.ab.ca SATURDAY, NOV. 2 St. Leonard’s Church Winter Wonderland Tea and Bake Sale will be offered on Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to noon. Admission is $4.

St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church Annual Fall Tea and Bazaar, Nov. 2, 2 to 4 p.m. in Lacombe.

There will be baking, crafts and more. Phone 403-782-3633.

Balmoral Bible Chapel 403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.)

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9:00 am Communion Service 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Fred Thomson “Walking in Unity & Maturity” Ephesians 4 Verses 1-6

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43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service

Children’s Sunday School 2 1/2 - Grade 5

www.firstbaptistrd.ca

www.balmoralchapel.ca

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October 27 9:00am, 11:00am or 6:30pm •PROMISES: How to Get Taken In • CrossRoads Kids (to gr. 6)

SW Corner of 32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County

www.CrossRoadsChurch.ca

AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA

4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560

The Anglican Church of Canada

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

Sunday, October 27

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Established 1898

Sunday, Oct. 27

Wednesday Ministries 7:00p.m.

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

2020 40th Ave, Red Deer www.livingstones.ab.ca 403.347.7311

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Rev. Valentine Owen www.cslreddeer.org

#3 - 6315 Horn Street

“A Church For All Ages”

“Unrighteous, Selfrighteousness”

43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769 www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

10:30 am Worship Service

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery 7:00 p.m. “The Gathering” Contemp. Eucharist

West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave.

403-346-6036

SUNDAY WORSHIP Sunday Services Services 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

9:00a.m. & 11:00a.m.

6:00 p.m.

Centre for Spiritual Living

ST. LUKE’S

11:00 a.m.

“Old Church Blessing a New World”

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402 www.saintlukereddeer.posterous.com

Celebrant: Noel Wygiera

10:00 a.m. Family Friendly Worship with Eucharist

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Rev. Bert DeBruijn

Sunday School & Refreshments Thurs. 2:00 pm Eucharist

Everyone Welcome!

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

Sunday, Oct. 27

GOOD SHEPHERD ELCIC 40 Holmes St.

403-340-1022 Rev. Marc Jerry

WORSHIP SUNDAY 10:30 AM with Holy Communion Everyone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

MOUNT CALVARY (LC-C)

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

“We Rise Again”

www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m.

“God’s Spirit is with You” Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Clubwww.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk DIVINE SERVICE 10:00 a.m.

10:15 a.m. Sunday School 7:00 p.m. Divine Service Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org

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The roots run deep CENTRAL ALBERTA’S VIBRANT ARTISTIC HERITAGE IS CELEBRATED IN A NEW EXHIBIT

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A massive bear presses his square muzzle against barbed wire. Historic strongman Louis Cyr strains to lift 18 men standing on a platform on his back. And two young Hutterite girls peer soulfully into the camera.

These memorable images are all part of Central Alberta’s vibrant artistic heritage and can be seen in the display of paintings, prints, ceramics and photographs in the Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library.

The Rooted in the Arts II show is made up of 46 creations by Central Alberta-based artists from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection.

The display from the 1950s to the present, curated by Diana Anderson, co-ordinator of the Red Deer Arts Council, could have been much larger, based on the treasure trove of works in the AFA collection, but was limited by gallery space.

“There’s a richness of artistic heritage in Red Deer and Central Alberta and this vibrancy is still going on,” said Anderson, who wanted to share it with the community.

While perusing artworks in the AFA’s vaults, Anderson sought out a diverse cross-section of pieces by regional artists, past and present, in honour of the city’s centennial.

She also consciously chose the output of artists who are recognizable to many local residents. She hopes some local art lovers may have even followed their careers through the decades.

Viewers will undoubtedly see familiar names — such as that of former Red Deer College art instructor Chuck Wissinger, whose ceramic demons inhabit Of Intellect, Instinct, and Myth, a sizable vessel-shaped work from 1987.

While Wissinger now works in the U.S., fellow art instructor Jim Westergard remains in Central Alberta, and Anderson believes viewers will get a kick out of his The Ranger’s New Mask wood engraving on paper.

Westergard has depicted the untanned skin on the Lone Ranger’s expansive nose after he dons a skimpier new mask.

A sense of whimsey or humour permeates other works, including Brian McArthur’s ceramic depiction of French-Canadian Cyr, once considered the strongest man in the world.

There is Dawn Detarando’s clay homage to rural life — a sculpture of rubber boots embossed with wheat decoration — and Dawn Rigby’s brass

sculpture Abacus with Pears, from 1992, which is true to its title.

There’s also RDC art instructor Jason Frizzell’s oil pastel and ink on canvas Own Worst Enemy, which depicts wincing and grimacing visages under the slogan Two Faces, One Neurosis.

Anderson said this work has probably received the most public reaction — mostly negative, in keeping with the subject matter.

But part of the reason she picked pieces is for their ability to elicit emotions from viewers. “They resonate ... and if someone can’t stand a work, it still evokes a response.”

Other pieces that make a lasting impression are the haunting blackand-white Hutterite photo by Tim Van Horn and Confrontation, Mark Spowart’s 1994 coloured pencil depiction of a bear and wire fence. (A city commissionaire told Anderson he had a similar bear encounter in the West Country.)

Anderson said Spowart, who was one of her classmates when she studied art at RDC in the early 1970s, was more known for creating large abstract paintings. She was saddened to hear of his recent death.

Many pieces in the show are now part of this city’s artistic legacy, since the artists who created them are no longer around.

These include the late Ingrid Plaudis’s 1987 silver gelatin handcoloured photograph, Dance Marathon, from 1987. There’s also Margaret Seelye’s Sylvan Lake Holiday acrylic painting from 1990. (Seelye also left the area another artistic legacy when she’d lobbied to save the Allied Arts Council.)

And there’s the pastel collage My Garden, from 1991, by late artist Pat Pelletier.

But many eye-catching works were created by artists who continue to live and produce in Central Alberta, including David More and his sister Kate More, whose individual works (respectively Poppy Pink Morning and Deep Woods) share an energetic pink under painting.

There’s Shane Young’s Prairie watercolour Looking South from Antler Hill, Elyse Eliot-Los’s flamboyant I am the Dreamer, a mixed media on fabric creation, and ceramicist Shirley Rimer’s bell-like Greek Goddess of Regeneration sculpture from 1999.

There’s also Janice McEwen’s minimalist acrylic on paper Coming Storm, 1989, and Pierre Oberg’s mysterious Portal IV, 2001, made of glass, stone and metal, and featuring a cut-out male form.

Among the many works on exhibit in the Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library as part of the Rooted In The Arts II show (clockwise from top): Brian McArthur’s ceramic piece titled Louis Cyr, Lift, 2006; Ellen Lyons’s My Annuals, 1993; Annie Pearson’s Joffre Riverbank, 1984; Rick Decore’s watercolour and laquer on ostrich egg.

Anderson has witnessed artworks spark discussions between strangers, who have shared their preferences and debated the meanings of various works in the Kiwanis Gallery.

She believes this show, with its diversity of offerings, is particularly popular. “People have been coming in droves, even during the election.”

Hopefully, viewers will leave with an appreciation of how many “fabulous” professional and community artists live and work here, she added.

“Our arts scene has never been more vibrant ... and I think people forget, sometimes, that Red Deer has such a strong arts community.”

Rooted in the Arts II: The AFA Collection continues to Dec. 1. A First Friday reception will be held on Nov. 1 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with some of the artists in attendance and musical entertainment. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

London Calling: RDSO looks to England, and beyond

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra will pay tribute to composers from England — via Austria.

While a flute concerto by British composer Malcolm Arnold anchors the first half of the London Calling concert on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, the second half contains a late symphony by Austrian-born composer Joseph Haydn.

RDSO music director Claude Lapalme admitted Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 only qualifies as “English” because the composer happened to be working in Britain at the time he wrote this acclaimed work.

The choice of this only marginally English symphony indicates how few British-born composers were writing notable works during the Classical and Romantic eras, which are full of Germanic, Italian and Russian works.

According to Lapalme, one can possibly blame this on the tumult caused by Oliver Cromwell’s revolution or, later, on Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert swaying musical tastes toward composers from his German homeland.

It certainly isn’t due to any inherent shortcomings in British culture.

Lapalme noted England produced an “unbelievable” variety of influential and well-regarded composers from the Middle Ages right to the 1600s, and

then again from the early 1900s to the present day.

Unfortunately, “production is not consistent” during the symphonic era, said Lapalme — which brings us to Haydn.

In 1790, the Austrian known as “the father of symphonies” lost his position as court composer for reasons of economizing and the death of his Esterhazy patron.

Haydn, therefore, jumped at an opportunity to travel out of Austria and conduct symphonies with a large orchestra in England. His visits to London were immensely successful and culminated in 1795 with his composition of a symphony of “unsurpassing splendour, concentration and invention,” said Lapalme — the Symphony No. 104 in D Major.

This expansive work opens in the style of Mozart, with a slow lead-in to a showy and ultimately fast first movement.

The slow second movement has charm and breadth, while the third, a minuet, has a symphonic richness to it, said Lapalme, who can also hear some Beethoven influences in the work that ends with a folksy finale.

While both Mozart and Beethoven were certainly influenced by the older composer, “a little bit came back as well,” and Haydn was also inspired by his younger colleagues, he added.

Musicians generally enjoy playing Haydn symphonies, which tend to be full of surprises. “You find some really odd things — often a bit of humour

and clever stuff, such as irregular phrases and some funky modulation ... Haydn was an original,” said Lapalme.

This can also be said of Arnold, whose Flute Concerto No. 1 for flute and strings will be performed by guest flutist Leslie Newman and a chamber strings orchestra of about 25 musicians.

Arnold was not a pleasant man, said Lapalme. He was by all accounts a spiteful alcoholic and womanizer, who managed to turn his life around after doctors told him he had only a year to live in 1981.

A sober more even-tempered Arnold went on to live another quarter century, producing popular works that are considered a staple of the brass repertoire.

His flute concert is described as edgier and more rhythmic than the melodic flute concerto by Canadian composer Jim McGrath, which is also on the program, along with Puccini’s dramatic requiem, I Crisantemi.

Both flute concertos will feature soloist Newman, a Lacombe native who is now based in Toronto.

The flutist, who will be making her fifth soloist appearance with the RDSO, has performed in Colombia, China and Taiwan, as well as throughout North America. “She’s a favourite — one of the jewels of Central Alberta,” said Lapalme.

Tickets to the 8 p.m. concert are $54.75 ($52.75 students/seniors, and $39.25 youths/first four rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Norwegian duo, fox dance parody elevate animal for Halloween

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — What does the fox say?

Ka-ching at the moment, at least for some Halloween costume sellers and two Norwegian TV hosts who asked the question in a goofy video that landed them on U.S. talk shows and music charts.

Funny brothers Vegard and Bard Ylvisaker, known as Ylvis (ILL-vis), elevated the woodland creature in early September and have scored more than 150 million YouTube views of them prancing in fox suits singing: “Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!”

That, coming so close to Halloween, has the mysteriously sounding fox going tail to tail for meme-of-the-holiday with twerking teddy bears, the more modest companions of the barely dressed Miley Cyrus at the Video Music Awards.

Spirit Halloween, with strong online sales and more than 1,050 stores across the country and Canada, is among those doing a brisk business in fox costumes, bushy tails and a furry head piece that looks remarkably like the one worn by the duo. Spirit sold out of some popular fox costumes and accessories online after the video struck, said Lisa Barr, the Halloween company’s senior director of marketing.

“Although fox is selling out, Twerkin’ Teddy (a tongue-out, bear decorated leotard) is selling out even faster,” she said.

Yandy.com has seen a 227 per cent increase over last year in sales of its exclusive Sexy Fox costume for women — into the hundreds at $245 each.

The fox, it appears, was enjoying a boost before the shaggy-haired Norwegians put

together their disco-like gyrations to promote their late-night show, mockingly lamenting: “Fish goes blub and the seal goes ow, ow, ow. But there’s one sound that no one knows. What does the fox say?”

The last thing the Ylvisakers expected was to become godfathers of the fox, a word — by the way — that translates to “rev” in Norwegian and is slang for joint, of the smoking variety.

“There have been speculations that we were under the influence at the time we wrote the song, but I’m sorry that’s not the case,” Bard, 32, deadpanned in a telephone interview from Oslo. “It would have sounded much more rock ’n’ roll. It’s not that common over here. We’re way more into alcohol than you guys. You do a lot of smoking. We don’t.”

How do the brothers feel about the fleetfooted animal, anyway? Is it a favourite?

It is now, Bard said. “Prior to that I would say I don’t know. As long as it’s not cats. I hate cats. I’ve always hated cats.”

While Barr tries to shake the tune from her head, at least one Halloween merrymaker is more than a little giddy. Her name? Shelby Fox, who lives in Los Angeles.

“Oh yes, I’m very excited,” said the 26-year-old, lifelong collector of select fox stuff. “When the video came out, so many people sent it to me. Personally, I think it’s just a really cute animal.”

Josh Saterman, a Macy’s vicepresident and fashion director for millennial, said foxes have popped up on sweaters and graphic T-shirts as part of a broader “critter” trend.

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It’s a moment around laughter and

ilocks and the Three Bears.

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so there’s this play off of humour,” he said.

Shelby Fox, for one, won’t be going fullon fox for Halloween but will definitely riff on her namesake at a few parties she plans to attend.

“I think it’s going to come more down to me wearing ears and a tail and doing some combination of more normal clothing. I’m definitely not doing the sexy fox or anything,” she laughed.

Will she be getting a forest assist from any two-legged friends? “No. I’m on my own. The lone fox.”

Sarah Segal was on vacation in Mexico when things got truly foxy after Ylvis. “I was in a taxi and the driver had the radio on,” she said.

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Norwegian TV hosts known as Ylvis have taken the world by storm with their fox dance parody getting over 150 million views on YouTube. The popularity of the dance has also brought about the popularity of their costumes for Halloween.

Music by Handel, Grieg and local composer Cheryl Cooney will be played at the First Thursdays on Nov. 7 at the Snell noon-hour concert for November.

Violinist Cristian Neacsu, mezzo-soprano Sharon Braun and pianists Debra Bakland and Cooney will perform a diverse program — everything from operettas

by Victor Herbert to music by Russian Symbolist composer Alexander Scriabin.

Coffee and tea will be provided by Cafe Noir at the 12:15 to 1 p.m. concert, downstairs in the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library.

There is no admission, but donations will be accepted at the door.

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Rimbey-area farmer Dean Olson uses a silage cutter to process the straw from his bumper crop and disperse it throughout his field. The machine chopped the straw into small pieces that can more easily be worked into the soil — but he had to wait until wind conditions were right so that dust would not blow into town.

Canada not ready for ‘Asian Century’

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Many expect Asia — and especially China — to be the world’s economic sweet spot in the 21st Century.

Yet Canada is ill-prepared to take advantage of the resulting opportunities, says a member of a task force that analyzed this country’s readiness for the “Asian century.”

Victor Rabinovitch was among a group of Asian experts who shared their insights at a forum at Red Deer College on Thursday. A professor in Queen’s University’s school of policy studies, he recently served on an Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada task force that considered whether Canadians have the skills, knowledge and capabilities to engage produc-

tively with Asian countries.

The task force’s findings are scheduled for release on Nov. 5, but Rabinovitch offered a sneak peak at the Red Deer event, which was organized by Central Alberta: Access Prosperity, Red Deer College and the government of Alberta.

“Our main finding is that Canada has islands of innovation and creativity, but we’re a long way from a serious commitment to being better informed, more experienced and more capable of engaging with Asia,” said Rabinovitch. “There’s a long way to go.”

In several of Canada’s biggest urban centres, the task force found school systems’ language and awareness training related to China to be “scattered and disconnected,” he said. This extended to universities, where there is a lack of funding and focus.

The exception is Edmonton, said Rabinovitch,

where schools have a co-ordinated and long-term approach to language and cultural training. The University of Alberta even provides credits to students who have completed language immersion courses in high school.

Rabinovitch also praised Alberta for its recent creation of an Asia Advisory Council, whose mandate is to provide advice and recommendations to the minister of international and intergovernmental relations.

“Alberta really is ahead of the pack in thinking, talking and teaching about issues of Asia competence, and particularly in talking about language skills and engagement with China.”

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Tyson decision ‘devastating’ for feedlot sector

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AGRIBUSINESS GIANT TO STOP BUYING SLAUGHTER-READY CANADIAN CATTLE OVER U.S. MEAT LABEL RULE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Agribusiness giant Tyson Foods Inc. says it will stop buying slaughter-ready Canadian cattle because of the high cost of adhering to U.S. meat labelling rules.

The decision Thursday by Tyson, the third-largest buyer of Canadian cattle, is expected to lead to a drop in prices for producers.

“It really is devastating to the Canadian feedlot sector,” John Masswohl, a spokesman for the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, said Thursday.

“It is hard to know what the full impact of this will be. This is terrible.”

Masswohl said Tyson’s decision shows the damaging effects of the U.S. country-of-origin meat labelling (COOL) policy, which Canada is challenging at the World Trade Organization and in the U.S. courts.

He said Tyson had been talking to cattle producers about their plan over the past few weeks. The move confirms what the industry has long feared.

Tyson said like others in the beef industry, it is disappointed with the U.S. rules that require labels on meat products to contain detailed information about where the products come from. It also means that meat coming from different countries has to be in separate packages.

“Unfortunately, we don’t have enough warehousing capacity to accommodate the proliferation of products requiring different types of labels due to this regulation,” Tyson spokesman Worth Sparkman wrote in an email.

“As a result, we have discontinued buying cattle shipped to our U.S. beef plants directly from Canada effective mid-October.”

Sparkman said Tyson would continue buying Canadian calves for U.S. feedlots.

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is part of a coalition that is in the process of appealing a U.S. court ruling last month. That ruling rejected a request for an injunction against the latest version of the U.S. label policy, which is to go into effect in November.

The U.S. announced earlier this year it wants to require even more detail on the origins of beef, pork and chicken sold in grocery stores.

Labels would include such information as “born, raised and slaughtered in the United States” for American meat.

Cuts of meat from other countries could carry labels such as “born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United States.”

The coalition argues the policy would be costly and offer no food safety or public health benefit.

Other plaintiffs in the lawsuit include the American Association of Meat Processors, American Meat Institute, Canadian Pork Council, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Pork Producers Council, North American Meat Association and Southwest Meat Association.

The USDA first brought in the meat labelling rules in 2008, saying it would help consumers make informed decisions about food choices.

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The Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce honoured some of the entrepreneurial talent in the city and region Friday evening at its annual Business & Community Awards gala.

D & M Concrete was recognized as the Large Business of the Year, while Chateau Wines & Spirits was named Small Business of the Year. Cilantro & Chive earned the award for Rookie Business of the Year, the Lacombe Kinsmen club was named Not for Profit of the Year, and the Lifetime Achievement Award went to Rilla Hand.

Rounding out the award recipients was Darren Gagnon, who became the Rotary Clubs of Lacombe Citizen of the Year; and Kanngiesser Farms Inc., which is Lacombe County’s Farm Family of the Year.

Olymel backs swine welfare research Olymel LP has pledged its support for a research program focused on swine welfare.

Olymel, which is based in Quebec and has a hog processing plant in Red Deer, announced this week that it will provide $15,000 annually to the National Chair in Swine Welfare.

“Olymel believes that because the research findings of the new National Chair in Swine Welfare are focussed on animal welfare regardless what production systems are in use, they should benefit all stakeholders in the Canadian hog industry — producers, veterinarians, processors and distributors,” said Réjean Nadeau, Olymel’s CEO. The five-year program is an industry-wide initiative, with support from six provincial pork associations and four pork processors. It will involve a team of researchers focusing on swine welfare, and working with the University of Saskatchewan and the Prairie Swine Centre in Saskatoon.

Negative talk about past jobs triggers red flags Dear Working Wise: I was recently laid off from my job unfairly.

I had worked for this company for over six months. During that time, I introduced a number of successful projects, including one that saved the company nearly one full-time position. That project was so successful that the president of the company asked me to work on another big project.

But, I think my supervisor was jealous. As soon as the president went on vacation, CHARLES my supervisor laid me off.

STRACHEY Now, I’m angry. How can I explain what happened at my next job interview? — Furious WORKING WISE Dear Furious: It doesn’t sound like you were treated very nicely at your last job. And you are right, you will need to change how you feel about what happened before you can talk about it in a job interview.

I think the key is to stick to the facts that you

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know, instead of guessing what motivated your supervisor. You need a short, simple answer for why you were laid off.

You said that you saved the company nearly one full-time-equivalent position. It sounds like you could possibly have worked yourself out of a job.

That’s a great reason for leaving — one that will thrill other employers.

You may also be deluding yourself into thinking that it was jealousy and not something you did that led to your lay-off. You need to be honest with yourself about why you were let go.

Employees need to be productive and good team members. If you contributed to your departure, you need to accept it, learn from it and be able to explain to your next employer why you will not make the same mistake.

Regardless, you need a short simple and accurate answer for your departure from your last job to prevent you from plunging into a negative story about your last supervisor.

Negative talk about past jobs or supervisors triggers red flags for interviewers. No employer wants drama in their workplace, so keep your answers positive.

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Check with your old supervisor to see if he will provide you with a positive job reference or letter of recommendation? If not, ask the president, since he had so much confidence in you. That way, you can walk into your next interview with a list of accomplishments to talk about, a good reason for leaving and a good reference.

Focus on all of the great things you did while you were with the company and provide your short, simple answer for your departure.

If you would like further help preparing for your next job interview, contact your local Alberta Works Centre at humanservices.alberta.ca/offices. They offer advice, books and free workshops on resumés, job interviews and job searches.

You can also check out the job interview tips on the Alberta Learning Information Service website at alis.alberta.ca.

Good luck!

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

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 89.90 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.47 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.23 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.60 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.37 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.54 Cdn. National Railway . 115.18 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 150.04 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.08 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.76 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 39.52 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.33 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.88 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.71 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.59 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.16 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.78 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.84 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 55.15 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.84 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.31 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 46.96

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.08 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.09 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 63.81 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.08 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.90 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 21.07 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.27 First Quantum Minerals . 19.25 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.98 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.79 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.44 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.61 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.66 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 30.27

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 51.69 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.82 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.96 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.66 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.77 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.570 Precision Drilling Corp . . 11.05 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.66 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.91 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.91 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.93 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.33

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 97.86 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.12 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.77 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.98

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.32 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 71.12 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.23 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.71 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 58.00 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 33.32 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.70 Canyon Services Group. 11.33 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.98 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.780 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.16 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 3.04 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.97

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.93 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.39 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.79 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 33.07 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.23 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.98 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 49.37 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 65.32 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.07 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 89.39 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.70 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 69.45 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 34.66 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.10

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market registered a solid gain to cap a positive week on Friday, with the TSX powered by earnings news and positive manufacturing data from China.

The S&P/TSX composite index was up 74.67 points at 13,299.42 in an advance spread across all sectors save for minor declines in tech and health-care stocks.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.27 of a cent to 95.65 cents US, lower for a third day in the wake of a decision by the Bank of Canada to remove its tightening bias and downgraded its economic forecast. The move has led analysts to believe that

interest rate hikes are off the table until 2015, leaving the loonie to fall 1.5 cents this week.

U.S. indexes were higher amid well-received earnings reports from Amazon and Microsoft.

The Dow Jones industrials closed up 61.07 at 15,570.28, the Nasdaq ran up 14.4 points to 3,943.36 and the S&P 500 index rose 7.7 points to 1,759.77.

After the close Thursday, Amazon.com posted a quarterly loss of $41 million, or nine cents per share, matching analyst expectations. Revenue jumped 24 per cent $17.09 billion against expectations of $16.76 billion and its stock surged US$31.18, or 9.39 per cent, to $363.39.

Microsoft’s net income in three months through Sept. 30 grew 17 per cent to $5.24 billion, or 62 cents per share, from $4.47 billion, or 53 cents per share, a year ago. That beat the 54 cents expected by analysts. Revenue rose 16 per cent to $18.53 billion, also beating the $17.79 billion analysts had been expecting and its shares were ahead $2.01, 5.96 or per cent, to $35.73.

It was a quiet day for earnings out of Canada after a week that saw positive earnings reports from the likes of Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B), Goldcorp (TSX:G), Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) and Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP).

“Some good numbers are

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ASIA: Global competition will be stiff But global competition for the Asian pie will be stiff. Rabinovitch described how Australia, New Zealand, the United States and European counties are aggressively positioning their populations to take advantage of the opportunities there.

He pointed out that the number of Canadian students and teachers who study or work abroad is indicative of how Canada is lagging behind “We’re aware of how, amongst postsecondary students in Canada, only three per cent — only three out of 100 — are currently taking up studyabroad, work-abroad opportunities.

“Australia has double that percentage; Germany is at 30 per cent and is targeting 50 per cent of post-secondary students doing study or work abroad.”

In the United States, he noted, a “100,000 Strong” initiative was launched in 2010 with a goal of sending 100,000 Americans to study in China by 2014.

Rabinovitch also took part in a panel discussion moderated by International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas. The other members were Teresa Woo-Paw, associate minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations and chair of Alberta’s Asia Advisory Council; Gordon Houlden, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta; and Margaret Cornish, Bennett Jones Commercial Consulting’s Beijingbased senior advisor for China.

Woo-Paw said a balanced approach is needed to prepare Canada for the Asian century, including public policies dedicated to developing the necessary competencies. She added that Alberta has much to offer China, and other countries.

“We have five heritage sites that the

world wants to experience, we have agriculture, forestry, and know-how and advanced technology.”

Cornish said the issue may be whether Canada has the will to transform itself into an Asia-ready country.

“We conceive of ourselves as an Atlantic nation and a continental-linked nation, so turning to Asia is an exceedingly difficult task. It’s a transformation in our identity.”

Houlden agreed that Canada’s economy has a north-south orientation, with some focus on the Atlantic as well. But it’s an economic necessity that this change, he said.

“It’s not a question of should we or should we not engage in Asia; if we want to maintain our prosperity we have no choice. It’s simple reality.”

A second panel discussion featured Tom Walter, vice-chair of the Asia Advisory Council; Peter Sutherland, president of the Canada-India Business Council; Robert Francis, president and CEO of Agriteam Canada; and John Zahary, president and CEO of Sunshine Oilsands. It was moderated

by Cornish. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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coming out of corporations and then the international markets (and) the eurozone are starting to look better,” said Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer at Sun Life Global Investment.

“The confidence is starting to improve from that standpoint and heading into the new year, people are not seeing anything that might pop up that might derail this rally right now.”

The TSX ended the week up 1.24 per cent, leaving the Toronto market up almost seven per cent year to date.

CP was in focus Friday after its biggest shareholder sharply narrowed its position. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has sold about a third of its holdings in the railway.

CP, which reported a record quarterly profit on Wednesday, said the hedge fund has sold 5.96 million CP shares for about US$140 a share, bringing the total divestment so far to seven million shares. On Friday, CP shares added $2.09 to C$150.04, which is more than triple their level when Pershing Square began building up its stake in the railway.

The beaten down utilities sector led advancers, up 1.27 per cent. The interest rate sensitive sector has been under selling pressure since June amid speculation over when the U.S. Federal Reserve may start to wind down its monthly US$85 billion of bond purchases. That speculation pushed U.S. government bond yields substantially higher from around 1.6 per cent in early May to almost three per cent in September. The benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has since backed away to about 2.5 per cent.

Canadian Utilities (TSX:CU) added 85 cents to C$38.08 and Emera (TSX:EMA) climbed 44 cents to $31.42.

Telecoms also suffered from those high U.S. yields and on

Friday the sector rolled ahead 1.16 per cent, with Telus (TSX:T) rising 63 cents to $36.84.

Commodities were mixed as December crude moved ahead 74 cents to US$97.85 a barrel and the TSX energy sector climbed one per cent. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) gained 59 cents to C$37.66.

Financials were also strong with Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) ahead 47 cents to $72.93.

The TSX gold sector was ahead one per cent while December bullion rose $2.20 to US$1,352.50 an ounce. Iamgold (TSX:IMG) gained 10 cents to C$5.70.

The base metals component ticked ahead 0.14 per cent after gaining Thursday in the wake of data showing stronger than expected expansion in the Chinese manufacturing sector as December copper inched up one cent to US$3.27 a pound. Teck Resources was 27 cents lower to C$30.27.

The tech sector was also negative with CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) down 30 cents to $35.59. A subsidiary, CGI Federal, was one of the main contractors for the U.S. government’s troubled health-care insurance website and its shares have slid about eight per cent since Oct. 16. A congressional committee was told this week that the government didn’t allow enough time to test the system before it went online Oct. 1.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,399.42 up 74.67 points TSX Venture Exchange — 973.58 up 0.87 point TSX 60 — 769.95 up 4.05 points Dow — 15,570.28 up 61.07

some fruits and vegetables and chocolate.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has said that while Canadians could see higher prices as a result, the U.S. will lose jobs and significant revenue from the tariffs.

Tyson said Thursday it is possible

points S&P 500 — 1,759.77 up 7.70 points Nasdaq — 3,943.36 up 14.40 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.65 cents US, down 0.27 of a cent Pound — C$1.6912, up 0.21 of a cent Euro — C$1.4431, up 0.42 of a cent Euro — US$1.3803, up 0.01 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.85 per barrel, up 74 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,352.50 per oz., up $2.20 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.436 per oz., down 26.6 cents $785.62 per kg., down $8.55 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $3.70 lower $485.40; Jan. ’14 $4.10 lower $495.90; March ’14 $4.80 lower $503.90; May ’14 $5.10 lower $510.50; July ’14 $5.20 lower $516.10; Nov. ’14 $6.10 lower $519.40; Jan ’15 $6.00 lower $520.50; March ’15 $6.00 lower $519.50; May ’15 $6.00 lower $513.50; July ’15 $6.00 lower $510.70; Nov ’15 $6.00 lower $506.90.

Barley (Western): Dec ’13 unchanged $152.00; March ’14 unchanged $154.00; May ’14 unchanged $155.00; July ’14 unchanged $155.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $155.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $155.00; March ’15 unchanged $155.00; May ’15 unchanged $155.00; July ’15 unchanged $155.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 478,020 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 478,020.

that its decision to stop buying Canadian slaughter-ready cattle will only be temporary.

“We remain hopeful that these new rules will eventually be rescinded and we’ll be able to resume buying cattle directly from Canadian cattle feeders,” Sparkman said.

Great company.

It lead to Canadian cattle shipments to the U.S. being cut in half within a year, and a 58 per cent drop in slaughter hog exports.

The U.S. then amended its regulations after the World Trade Organization ruled against Washington. But Canada believes the amendments due to go into effect next month are even worse.

The dispute will now be reviewed again by the WTO, but that can take time.

Earlier this year, the Canadian government released a list of potential U.S. agricultural products to which Canada could apply retaliatory tariffs.

They include cattle, pigs, beef, pork,

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Man’s girlfriend doesn’t like co-ed friendship Dear Harlan; I’m a first-year college student and you got her. have a really good guy friend.

If this bothers you and you need to discuss it, start The problem is that his girlfriend gets jealous off the conversation explaining that you made a miswhen we hang out together. I’ve been friendly with take. Then share what’s bothering you. her and told her that I have a boyfriend (whom I love If it’s not bothering you, then let it go. very much), but she still gets angry when Dear Harlan; I’m interested in a guy, but we spend time together. How should I I’m not a woman who makes the first move. handle this? — Not the Other Girl I text him often and he texts me back. I Dear Not The Other Girl; Your friend’s don’t want to bother him or look desperate, girlfriend isn’t an idiot. She should be but I’m definitely interested in him. concerned.

What should I do to get his attention I imagine you’re an incredibly attracwithout looking like I’m starved for attentive woman. I know you’re in a relationtion? — Texting ship, but you’re not married. RelationDear Texting; No naked texts. No oral ships in college are about as predictable sex in bathrooms. No telling him you’re as Kanye West on live TV — anything desperate. Other than that, you’ll only look can happen. She’d rather he hang out thirsty if you’re thirsty. with guys. It’s safer. And I know you As a rule, make it easy for him to know might just be friends with this guy, but you like him without being easy. Show an if he was single and you were single, interest. Get to know him. Figure out what you two might not be single for long. The you want.

HARLAN girlfriend smells it.

The next time you have a conversation COHEN All that said, this is between him and with him, suggest that you do something. If his girlfriend. Right or wrong, you’re not there’s a party or event, invite him to come part of this love triangle. You just have along. If you are exercising or doing someto deal with your own boyfriend and thing where you can get to know him better, your relationship. Anticipate that this guy may not invite him along. be able to spend as much time with you in the future.

Spend time with him. Show an interest. Give yourFind other friends. Give him permission to do self permission to get to know him. Then the rest whatever he needs to do for his own happiness and should come naturally. preservation. My prediction — you two will be dating Dear Harlan; I made out with a guy for the first before you graduate. Keep me posted. time a couple of weeks ago.

Dear Harlan; Is it wrong to flirt with my co-workI’m also a guy and this is a new thing for me. Neier? We’re both in relationships, but we have this ther of us has spoken about what happened. How do work flirting thing that goes on.

I bring it up without making him feel awkward? — It’s harmless, but she thinks there is something Kissed strange about it. I’m fine stopping, but I don’t see the Dear Kissed; Was it a good kiss? Did it feel good? problem. Is she overreacting? — Flirting That’s what you need to hang on to. That’s the Dear Flirting; If it makes your co-worker feel feeling you need to embody when you approach him. guilty, it’s wrong.

That’s what you need to be thinking about when you If you wouldn’t do it with your girlfriend watching, slip into awkward mode. it’s also wrong. If you wouldn’t want to watch your See, when you’re feeling uncomfortable, convergirlfriend do what you’re doing, it’s wrong. sations are uncomfortable. When you’re feeling conShe’s not overreacting. This is a normal reaction nected and comfortable, conversations are free flowwhen someone in a loving relationship feels like ing and you can connect. she’s betraying her boyfriend’s trust. What’s abnorFigure out what you want. If you want to date him, mal is why you’re having such a hard time with this. then approach him and ask him on a date. If you I can’t imagine your girlfriend is giving you want to know how he feels about the kiss, ask him. If enough attention. Any guy getting enough attention you want another kiss, ask him for another kiss. from his girlfriend wouldn’t be this upset if a girl at Focus on what you want. Give him permission to respond freely. If he doesn’t want the same things, work stopped flirting.

Dear Harlan; I’ve been hooking up with a guy for move on. If he does, then move in for another kiss.

Whatever happens next, assuming you want to several weeks. I’ve started to develop deeper feelmeet more men, you’re going to need people who can ings for him.

Is it bad to keep hooking up with the guy I like help you and guide you — people who don’t want to without telling him that I like him?

The reason is that I’m afraid that if he’s not interested in dating me, we will stop having sex. I’m not sure what I should I do. — FWB Dear FWB; Bad isn’t the right word to describe hooking up with someone you want to date.

I’m thinking more like sad, uncomfortable and painful. Every time you sleep with him, you’re fallKisipatnahk Economic Development Corporation ing deeper for him. And all you’re doing is setting yourself up for deeper ACCOUNTING CLERK hurt. But I get why it’s so hard to tell him the truth.

OPEN: October 21, 2013 You don’t want to be CLOSED: November 18, 2013 alone. You don’t want to INTERVIEW: November 21, 2013 be rejected. You don’t ________________________________________________________________________ feel good about yourself.

Practice imagining what Summary: This position is responsible for maintaining accurate accounting and Ànances for the business it would be like to be on off and on reserve. Reporting on a monthly basis to the Kisipatnahk Economic Development Corporation your own, practice feeling Board on the Ànancial status of all businesses, provide monthly ledgers of all accounts to the Chairman good enough without him, and EDO. and have a plan in place should he not share your Typical Duties include but are not limited to: feelings.

• File all payroll pay lists and cheque duplicates In the meantime, find • Complete monthly Bank Reconciliation’s a therapist who can be in º Accounts Receivable your corner. º Accounts Payable Dear Harlan; I know my º General Ledger Entries girlfriend did something º Payroll before we started dat• Deposits ing that she’s lying to me • Audit preparations about.

• Must work closely with all Managers on Ànancial procedures Should I not worry • GST/Payroll Remittances • Alberta Indian Tax Exemption Maintenance about it because it happened before I met her and she probably doesn’t QualiÀcations/Experience/Skills: • Must have completion of Accounting/Bookkeeping CertiÀcation want to upset me, or • Must have Accpac training and experience. should I be worried that she’s lying?

A complete job description is available upon request.

I go both ways. What’s your take? — Secret KeepPlease Submit Applications & Resume to: er Dear Secret Keeper; Lorraine White @ Louis Bull Economic Development Department Here’s the issue I have with you and your probBox 130 Hobbema, AB, T0C 1N0 lem — you’re not being Phone: 780-585-3978 Fax: 780-585-3799 truthful with her.

When she didn’t tell you ** Must Provide 3 current Reference Letters** the truth, you should have discussed it. Now you’re lying. As a rule, if something bothers you, discuss it. Keeping your secret about her secret wasn’t fair. It’s like screaming “GOTCHA!” weeks after

kiss you.

Reach out to your local LGBT group or organization. There are college groups, professional groups and community groups. You can also find a therapist or counselor who can be in your corner.

Let me know if there’s a second kiss.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

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C/O Personnel Committee Piper Creek Foundation #301, 4719 - 48 Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 3T1 www.pipercreek.ca

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The Piper Creek Foundation is looking for members of the community to serve on its Board of Directors who may have experience in one or more of these areas - Finance, experience with not for profits, Senior’s Health or Community Development. This position is a voluntary 3-year term.

Mission Statement: The Piper Creek Foundation is committed to providing a secure home environment to seniors of modest means, by promoting a strong sense of community for the well being of our residents.

If you are interested in serving the Seniors of Red Deer in this capacity, please send your resume:

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Production Testing Crews

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Essential Job Functions Perform visual inspection on all assemblies at various checkpoints in the production process Ensure conformity of production with drawings Viewing and interpret x-ray film & NDE reports Ensure proper welding procedures are adhered to Track Weld ID’s for compliance with Sec 8 Witness weld tests and record results Witness hydro tests of Spooling/Bridles/Vessels Required ABSA Reports. Ex.( U1,U1A,AB-24,AB-81,AB-83)

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We offer competitive wage and benefits packages. Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

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diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience Must have 3 years’ experience in a comparable position Must have valid driver’s license and be able to perform field service calls

If you like what you have read, and think this is the job for you; come build your career with The City of Red Deer. We are committed to a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable community. Our employees are the cornerstone of our organization and working with us will provide you with the opportunity to work in an ever growing environment that offers a competitive salary, and to work with an awesome group of people.

The incumbent must possess the following; • Minimum 3 year’s experience inspecting piping packages, pressure vessels, tanks and skids • The ability to read and understand codes and customer specifications, with this understanding be able to properly apply it to the tasks at hand.

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The City of Red Deer is always on the hunt for talented and success driven people. We offer a great work environment with the opportunity to work with a dynamic and dedicated team of likeminded professionals.

We are currently seeking the right person to fill the position of Applications System Analyst within Information Technology Services. The position will be responsible to help plan, design, implement and integrate several key applications as part of the Enterprise Business Application project within the Business Systems Support Section of IT Services. As our preferred candidate you will have:

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Animal control officers in Des Moines used a tranquilizer to capture a mysterious goat that had dived into traffic and was on the run for hours.

The Boer goat got a taste of freedom Wednesday morning as she evaded capture on the city’s south side. The brown and white animal with floppy ears ran into traffic and eventually went into a fenced car dealership.

The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.co/HfuQA4 ) officers chased the goat around the dealership before using a tranquilizer to stop her.

Officials say the goat appears to be healthy and uninjured. Authorities are now looking for her owner.

Recently awarded the 2013 Business of the Year, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary, Alberta.

We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

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LUANN Oct. 26 1997 — Wayne Gretzky of the New York Rangers assisted on a goal by Niklas Sundstrom to notch his 1,850th career assist, equalling Gordie Howe’s record. In the third period, he assisted on a goal by Ulf Samuelsson for his NHL record 1,851st career assist.

1992 — Alberta electors vote 39.7 per

cent Yes, 68 per cent No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.

1950 — La Société Radio-Canada extends French programming as far west as Calgary and Edmonton.

1908 — Wilfrid Laurier wins the 11th Canadian federal general election, taking 135 seats to 85. He defeats Robert Borden with 50.4 per cent of the popular vote. Two future prime ministers are also elected for the first time — William Lyon Mackenzie King and Arthur Meighen.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 2013

Inspirational poem has special meaning for reader Dear Annie: When I was in high school, I collected articles that I found inspirational and motivational.

One of my most prized pieces appeared in Ann Landers’ column in 1978.

It was Heaven’s Very Special Child by Edna Massimilla, who had a daughter with severe disabilities.

For some reason, I cut out this letter and glued it to a piece of blue construction paper.

I carried it with me through college when I studied to be an occupational therapist. After I graduated, I packed up MITCHELL all of my college “memories” & SUGAR and stored them at my parents’ house.

I married and worked for 15 years in hospitals, rehabilitation centres, nursing homes and in home health care.

When my third son was born with Down syndrome, he shook, rattled and rolled our world. I had never worked with children with special needs, nor did I have any idea what it was like in “their” world.

I was extremely hurt, angry and all the other emo-

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tions attached to grief. After three days, I remembered that column and, amazingly, found it at my parents’ house in the first box I opened.

My son is now 20 years old and has just graduated from high school.

Yes, we have had trials, challenges and sadness, but we also have had miracles and pure joy.

Would you be able to reprint this piece? My copy has yellowed, and this time, I would like to frame it.

— Missouri Dear Missouri: How prescient of you to have cut this heartwarming piece out of the newspaper when you were only in high school.

We are, of course, delighted to reprint it. The first time it appeared, hundreds of readers asked for copies.

We know it has touched thousands over the years.

Mrs. Massimilla is a remarkable woman — 97 years old, still writing, playing the organ and helping others.

If you would like more information regarding her work, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope and send it to: This Is Our Life Publications, PO Box 21, Hatboro, PA 19040.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Heaven’s Very Special Child

by Edna Massimilla Copyright 1956 A meeting was held, quite far from earth

peace and calmness is re-established back to its normal position. Your biggest problems suddenly appear solvable and perhaps not much of a concern to you, to start with. You are developSaturday, Oct. 26 ing a greater sense of wellbeing now.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: MorVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A great portion gan Saylor, 19; Dylan McDermott, 52 of you is in a reflective mode but also willing to THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Sun, the ar- share what is truly going on in your own brain. It chetype of our identity is harmoniously speaking appears that there is a whole new life living up in to Neptune, the dreamy planet. A softer inclina- there in the process of regenerative itself. tion oozes us to follow our dreams and to act LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A highly social out on our artistic side. There’s an air of calmday for you promises to bring you ness and ease as our personal closer to your own set of beliefs ambition is not that strong. We rely and values. You appreciate a more heavily on our intuition rather crowd whom you identify with and than intellect. Our spiritual insights who has a similar view on life as are enhanced now. The Moon triyou do. Share your visions. umphs in Leo. A sense of cheerfulSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): ness prevails throughout the day.

Art, drama and artistic endeavours Let your inner child out! all appeal to you now. You may be HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is dreaming of a potential romance your birthday, the year ahead will that could appear to you as your make you more dependable in a ideal soul mate. A more compasclose relationship. You will need to sionate proclivity will make you see learn how to address issues to anthe best in everyone. other person by using a good great SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. portion of tact and diplomacy. You ASTRO 21): Contemplation will give you may become the main mediator in clues about your private life. Your DOYNA this union. sensitivity is heightened at this ARIES (March 21-April 19): time. You are much more recepIt is not a sin to indulge in life’s tive to other people’s needs and saccharine offerings. You will seek concerns. The help that you offer the most sugar-coated and intimate experiences now will not be forgotten, but rewarded. you can live at this moment. It would help you CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is that much more if it were with someone you truly more to your friendships than meets the eye. fancy.

Today, you find it relatively easy to connect with TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You lose your your peers by sharing common interests and trust and your total devotion towards anyone likes. You will not insist engaging yourself into who dares to not keep their promises and you any complex topics of discussion. may be motivated to go against someone’s false AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You believe pledge towards you. You want only your share in your potential and in owning a valuable set of the goodies. of personal assets. Despite any rivalry, you GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Friends may insist on wanting to be known for your creative come and go, yet a very limited number of them abilities, your vision and your uncanny ability to will pass the test of time. Verbalisation is a ne- understand others. cessity to you and, to demonstrate your emoPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your nontions, you may feel disoriented if not given per- chalant predisposition may be interpreted as a mission to freely express yourself. lack of concern to any issues around you. The CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today, you truth is that you are so well attuned to your outer may find it a bit challenging being disciplined in world that you believe to have found the true terms of money. Window shopping will lure you and only meaning of your life. to visit some stores and get swept off your feet with expensive items. Whatever you purchase, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 check with the store’s return policy.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Kelly LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your sense of inner

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“It’s time again for another birth” Said the Angels to the Lord above, “This special child will need much love.”

Her progress may seem very slow, Accomplishments she may not show And she’ll require extra care From all the folks she meets down there.

She may not run or laugh or play Her thoughts may seem quite far away In many ways she won’t adapt, And she’ll be known as handicapped.

So let’s be careful where she’s sent We want her life to be content Please, Lord, find the right parents who Will do this special job for You. They will not realize right away The leading role they’re asked to play But with this child sent from above Comes stronger faith and richer love.

And soon they’ll know the privilege given In caring for this gift from Heaven.

Their precious charge, so meek and mild Is heaven’s very special child.

Obsbourne, 29; Roberto Benigni, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Lion King makes its walk of fame in today’s lunar configuration. The Leo Moon is in a dazzling aspect to Uranus. Our intrinsic needs need something spicy, something out of the ordinary in order to feel truly alive. As long as we know how to hide our insecurities and any negative tendencies, an element of surprise and eccentricity will make this day quite extraordinary.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you are likely to change career this coming year. It is also possible that you may want to completely change the direction of your vocation and pursue a field of your own interest. Hard work and persistence will pay off.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Despite some frustrating money news, you will be able to fully enjoy your day without letting the complexities of your life affect your overall predisposition. Love is in the air and this wave of romance seems to come from faraway lands.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may be inclined to just sit back and enjoy the comforts of your own home. A get-together in familiar territory will do the job as well. Your stamina is lower than usual, making you feel somewhat prone to procrastination.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are on a roll today, but sudden interruptions may get in your way today. Your interpersonal dynamics are excellent today, be it with your sweetheart or in a circle of friends. Leave the mundane chores aside and get some fresh air.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your monetary desires and whatever needs you might have to keep you even more secure financially will stem from a powerful figure that you haven’t expected.

Money pours in from a creative work you might have been working on for a while now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You have a devilmay-care attitude today. You are infused with a heavy dose of zephyr for life, that you are certain enough to be able to conquer the world. You find irresistible this savour of sovereignty and you will do anything in your power to keep it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): An interesting aroma will enlighten your day from private sources. Monetary gains are possible now especially if you are in a creative field or in regards to one of your mastered skills. Give yourself permission to accept this gesture of honour.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You can’t be by yourself today and you will choose to engage yourself in some activity either with your friends or with like-minded people where you can share your similar life experiences. The dynamics should go wonderfully.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You start feeling little drops of motivation kicking in, which pushes you to get more implicated in a team project or take some action in order to pursue a dream of yours. Do the best of your abilities without exceeding your own limits.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are uncertain which direction you should take next in your professional sphere. Your work demands and your domestic life are anything but clear.

Take a break from this weighty thinking and do something enjoyable for yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pleasant developments will occur around your personal foundations. You may get to know a close female that will help you see the world through a different prospective. Be open to what you hear or to what is being suggested to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today, you will want to relate to another person or to a group of individuals whom you can relate to.

You have excellent opportunities to expand your circle of friends and become one of their favourite ones. Stimulating ideas and visions pop like jolts of genius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you get your work done properly and if you have a creative way of investing your money or, let’s say, spend your money more wisely, you could get breath with relief. Freedom comes at a cost, but it is so worth it in the end.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Various shades of orange ... perfect for Halloween but always providing suitably warm tones. Below: before, the bland bedroom.

The season’s top shades will rock your casbah Blimey it’s fall and, whilst critically nature-inspired motifs, such as falling aware of changing colours and trees leaves or floral shapes. stripped bare of foliage, it’s with beLattice and trellis are huge news — grudging acceptance we note summer jump online and search “David Hicks.” has sadly passed.

The late designer and decoIndeed, Halloween loomrator often used motifs such ing, homes everywhere are as honeycomb and hexagons dressed with pumpkins, as his central reference. witches and all manner of And take it from us: this ghoulish garb. The spectaseason anything Hicks is cle is astounding. terribly de rigeur.

Back home we certainly Moorish magic is another acknowledge Halloween, decorating style that is gaththough spooky garden attire ering momentum. We’re curand creepy domestic dressrently running prototypes ing — to this extent — are (for our own home line) that rare, to say the very least. include drinking vessels Festive garb aside, we’re with stamped Moroccan COLIN & often asked about trends pattern, linens with MoorJUSTIN this time of year. Which ish “cut work” and crockery colours will become breakthat would more than rock through stars? The tones to the casbah. avoid?

Colour wise, we’re workFor fear of maligning Pantone (the ing on several items with pumpkin colour counsel that decrees an official tones and a plethora of home accessoshade of choice as each year approach- ries with dramatic woody detail. You’ll es) we truly believe that emerald was a see some of these on store shelves in poor choice for 2013. time for party season, with the remainSure, the fashion cognoscenti in der of the accessories coming as 2014 Milan, Paris and London witnessed rolls forward. a green sheen on their hallowed catIn the meantime, how about an auwalks but, sartorial issues aside (and tumnal before-and-after attic converas a decorating dictum), emerald just sion to whet your artistic appetite? didn’t sparkle.

Decorative controls set to designer Why? Well, the vibrant green tone, warp speed (so that comfort, style and as we see it certainly, doesn’t lend it- warmth can reign supreme), here’s the self to liberal application on walls, low-down on the high up space: rugs, ceramics and other homely meColour: Paper Doll by Benjamin diums.

Moore is one of our favourites, a deSo, which colour will steal the jaded fault mechanism which we employ crown for 2014? We still favour our across many projects. Boasting all the beloved yellow. And blue, in any of its expansive qualities of pure white, it’s myriad guises. gentler on the eye — and much more What can we expect as fall 2013 relaxing — making it ideal for bedyields to the icier chills of winter? room application.

Let’s see. ...

Flooring: Replacement wall-to-wall Mother Nature is a force to be reck- Berber would have been cosy, but we oned with and her seasonal master discovered another option: dreamy class seldom misses a beat. This in original floorboards that, while somemind, shades of ochre, mustard and what uneven, came immediately alive cinnamon are great starting points. with sanding and several coats of But don’t stop at colour — indulge cream floor paint. For a job like this your love of texture with rich brocades, you could call in the pros; expect to tapestry fabrics and with crushed silks pay up to $5 a square foot, or around a and damasks. $1,000 for a 15-foot-by-15-foot room.

For further inspiration, scope www.

Or you could do as we did and, for robertallendesign.com — find a pat- around $60 a day, hire a floor-refinishtern you like, isolate a suitably warm ing machine and do it yourself. Factor tone and apply paint in the same shade in the cost of sandpaper and paint, and to an accent wall. create similar results for $150.

Layer surroundings with upholstery Quite a saving, by any account. and tonally connected accessories, and Wardrobe and fretwork panels: We your new look will quickly emerge. heard of www.myoverlays.com when To ensure your home remains sea- working on a U.K. chat show and have sonally correct, employ dressings with used their products many times since.

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Used in conjunction with our client’s existing divan meant we saved cash, thereby allowing us to spend up on ancillary furniture such as the chair, custom manufactured (for approximately $575) at www.ciaosofadesigns.com in Toronto.

Rug: Perhaps the best $300 we spent during the room’s reversion. The jaunty pumpkin tone is a wonderful foil to the plain white floor and its geometric design subtly enhances our Moroccan theme.

The rug buyers at HomeSense are amongst the market’s most capable and their revolving collection seldom disappoints.

Bear in mind, however, that in stores like these, it’s first-come, first-served and that, due to price points, stock and availability changes frequently.

So go on — indulge. Enjoy a spot of seasonal adjustment and your home will soon elicit a rewarding glow to fend off — at least some of — the oncoming chill.

Yup, by many accounts it’s going to be a very cold winter.

In the meantime, though, if you plan and choose colours carefully, the only ghoulish thing chez vous will be the zombie on your lawn this week. And hey: Happy Halloween!

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts on TV and print.

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Most recently we employed the exciting range to embellish Ikea cabinetry. Scope the website and be inspired by numerous fretwork options that can be built into frames or laid upon any flat surface.

For today’s project, we created window screens and decorative panels to minimize the dated feel of mirror fronted wardrobes. Framed-out and glued in place, they add zeal and substance.

Woodwork faux finish: To enhance the room’s warm appeal, we updated previously white trim using milky brown matte paint. This settled, we “dry brushed” surfaces with dark brown satin.

Ahem — dry brushed?

Oh yes. Dry brushing is actually a simple way in which to achieve a realistic wood effect. Dip a two-inch brush in a darker tone and blot excess on paper.

When bristles are nearly empty, drag lightly across the surface of trim to create a grained appearance.

Practise on a spare piece of wood until you’re comfortable and note how the opposing matte and satin paints add to the project’s realism.

Divan and frame: The central most important feature in any bedroom is, generally speaking, the bed so invest whatever you can and secure something that will last. Find similar styles

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HOUSEWORKS Question: Is it OK to install a metal roof on top of existing asphalt shingles? I’m going to need a new roof in a few years and I’m planning what to do.

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The best way to assess window quality and performance ahead of time is by visiting www. windowwise.com. There you’ll find a list of manufacturers that make windows that meet a high level of performance.

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Question: What’s the best type of replacement window to install for maximum soundproofing? Some experts suggest triple pane windows, while another recommends double-pane windows made with different thicknesses of glass. What should I do?

Answer: Published figures for the soundproofing abilities of windows aren’t common, but from stories I’ve heard triple pane blocks sound better. That’s what I’d go with.

If you find a doublepane window made with different thicknesses of glass specifically to boost soundproofing capabilities, look for numeric measurements of soundproofing qualities before deciding.

Question: Do I need to finish a new cedar fence to keep it in good shape?

It’s a shared fence and our neighbour wants use to stain our side while he stains his. Is all this work really necessary?

I’d rather leave the wood bare.

Answer: Your new fence won’t last longer if it’s stained, it’ll just look more refined during its working life.

Wood stains do slow down weathering and cracking, but neither of these issues will shorten the life of your fence.

Many people are surprised to learn that stain doesn’t prevent or slow the rotting of wood, either. The longest you’ll get from any fence stain is three to five years before it’s peeled and ugly,

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A metal roofs is a long-lasting option that installs quickly. Ask about the warranty on the finish before choosing a product.

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The issue with your neighbour is probably about looks more than anything, and allowing your fence to weather naturally does have aesthetic drawbacks, at least the way it’s usually allowed to unfold. Some areas will weather more than others, creating an uneven look.

My own strategy for outdoor projects at my house is to treat the wood with a one-time, water-based product that turns all the wood an even, grey appearance in a few hours. The results look better and more even than regular weathering, while also saving the ongoing chore of re-staining.

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DEBBIE TRAVIS

HOUSE TO HOME da and the U.S. The room was designed by Beckie Farrant for a contest held by HGTV HOME using JoAnn fabric.

A plywood frame was covered in Jigsaw (malachite) to produce the headboard and also the curtains.

Pillows and art have two different designs with similar colourways; Turtle Shell in turquoise

and Groove Move in malachite.

The turquoise green and navy blue are crisp and colourful against the all white room, young and fun.

Dear Debbie: Our downstairs living room and the stairwell to upstairs are wallpapered.

The paper is affixed very smoothly to wallboard and is still in good shape 25 years later.

We want to change to a painted finish but cannot afford to have all the walls stripped. Could we have someone come in and simply paint over the paper? Any other suggestions? — Diane Dear Diane: It is always better to strip the wallpaper and start fresh, but if this is too difficult or costly, then you can paint over the paper.

Remove any loose bits and sand the edges lightly.

If the paper is thick, apply some spackle to even up the surface where paper has come off.

Since water-based paint and primer will soak through the paper and dissolve the glue, use a thin coat of oilbased primer over the paper.

Now you can proceed with water-based paint.

Apply one or two coats of paint sparingly so the weight of the paint doesn’t pull the paper down.

You will still see the join lines between the wallpaper strips, but that is OK. You may want to use these lines as a guide to creating a pattern.

Note re: using mirrored glass as an exterior decorative feature: In a past column, I showed the tiny garden of a neighbour of mine who used mirrored glass to create the illusion of space.

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Check out the latest fabric fashions at your favourite sewing store or over the Internet.

I heard from many of you regarding the demise of birds who fly into the mirrors.

This should not happen if you place a trellis in front of the mirror and/or plants stacked up to blur the vision.

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A fresh pair of drapes, a few stylish throw cushions, or chic upholstery for the living room are basic changes that will immediately update your home.

For shoppers and those who like to follow the trends, there is always something new and delicious to be found in the fabric world.

Classic patterns such as stripes, Greek key and chevron take on a modern aspect shown in new ‘colourways’ and oversized dimensions.

A familiar black and white geometric print or polka dots becomes daring and youthful in purples or greens, or blown up to a larger scale.

For this fall, there’s a feast of fabrics to update your home décor without being too costly.

Mixing patterns is the latest trend, along with stripes mixed with dots alongside florals.

The timeless themes of nature-inspired patterns continue to rule: ferns and leaves, colourful florals that pop, animal prints used subtly, garden lattice in hot new shades of black and deep blue, and faux bois patterns are all included in the lineup.

Global Chic decorating continues to grow with rich durable colours of tribal and ikat patterns for carpets and textiles.

Indian style in particular is brightening homes with alluring paisley, and sari shades splashed around. Also, faded patterns are huge.

The best way to track down what’s new is to study the exciting swatches and room settings on various Internet locations.

I discovered the child’s room shown here at Jo-Ann fabric and craft stores online, www. joann.com.

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BEATRICE HURLEY (nee Smart) Oct. 24, 2009 It’s been four years since you have gone. There is not a day that I don’t think about you. As a mother, sister, wife, gramma, great gramma and friend. There will always be memories to cherish by all who knew you.

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You all made me feel so special. ~ Deanna THANK YOU From Shotokan Karate Club of Red Deer for all the donations to our Juniors Tournament Aardvark Stamp & Seal R & E Elevator Ltd. Cunningham Electric Humpty’s Classic CafÊ QA Structures Inc. Southpointe Dental Northland Construction Quinn Contracting Ltd. A & R Security Consultants National Transmission Sobeys Eastview Red Deer Co-op A&W Blackfalds McDonald’s Restaurants Keith Metcalfe & Trpevski Family Allsen & Family/MacDonald Family

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Card Of Thanks JOHNSON Dec. 19, 1937 - Oct. 23, 2013 Yvonne Lorraine Johnson, a longtime resident of The City of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Center in the morning of Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at the age of 75 years.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Funeral arrangements will be announced by Gordon R. Mathers at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Companions HOUGH - MacBETH Allan and Janice Hough and Garnett and Laurie MacBeth, celebrate the marriage of Cassandra and Scott.

Surrounded by family and friends, with much laughter and love, the beautiful outdoor wedding took place on September 7th, 2013.

The couple danced the night away and then flew to Iceland for their honeymoon!

They will reside in Calgary and we wish them a lifetime of dreams and adventures.

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56 YEAR old independent lady would like to meet a gentlement 55 - 67 yrs. No attachments, dependents, must be active & enjoy nature and animals. Reply to Box 1065, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., R. D., AB T4R 1M9 WOULD you enjoy dating, attending various entertainment venues, a companion? Active senior lady would love to meet active senior gent to share these activities. Reply to Box 1066, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Looking for a place to live?

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FAMILY and FRIENDS Please join us for a celebration honoring MAX GINTHER on his 80th Birthday Saturday November 2, 2013 1:00 to 4:00 at the Stettler United Church Your presence will be a wonderful gift!

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OSMOND Dean and Kim Osmond, of Red Deer, are proud to announce the graduation of their son Constable Travis Osmond, on Sept. 20, 2013 from Calgary Police Services.

Love and best wishes on an exciting career from your very proud family and girlfiend, Chelsi.

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COMMUNITY T.I.E.S. is seeking Level 2 & 3 Child Care Professionals to join our team. Accredited, lower child/staff ratio & competitive wages.

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ROTH B. Jean 1942 - 2013 B. “Jean� Roth of Red Deer passed away with her family by her side on Monday, October 14, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre at the age of 70 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Roth in 2005. She has left behind her daughters, Bonnie (Ken) Roth, Rose (Mike) Lewis and Karrie (Keith) Lee. She will be watching over her grandchildren; Dwayne, Joe, Steven, Chris, Megan and Sara as well as her great grandchildren; Kaiden, Alexander and Brooklyn. She will also be missed by her friend Terry.

The family would like to extend a heartfelt appreciation to her friends, co-workers and the many volunteers that she had the privilege to serve with in the Poplar Ridge Community. Jean was born and raised in Red Deer County.

She raised her family on the farm where she was born.

Many, many people touched her life and just as many were touched by her. Special thanks to the Doctors and nurses in the ICU and a special thanks to Crystal, Jen and Debbie. A Celebration of Jean’s Life will be held at the Poplar Ridge Community Centre (Highway 11 West and North on R.R. 283 past the School to the Hall), on Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Permanent Position remote field locations. $18 $24/hr. Group benefit plan after 3 month probation. • Min. 2 yrs. exp. in a responsible admin. role in construction or mfg. • Post-secondary education in business or combination of exp. & education. • Working knowledge of pertinent regulations, COPP’S SERVICE INC. 225 Burnt Ridge Rd. Red Deer County, AB T4S 2L4 Phone: 403 347-6222 Email HR@coppsinc.ca Fax: 403-406-5447 www.coppsinc.ca Buying or Selling your home?

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P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE The Red Deer Advocate has an entry level opening in their Circulation Dept. for a Customer Service Representative.

This position is responsible for assisting circulation customers by phone or in person & compiling reports for the mailroom.

CLEANING CUSTODIAN Family owned and operated since 1974, Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada.

Trail Appliances Ltd is looking for a full time Cleaning Custodian for our Red Deer location.

The successful candidate will possess: The responsibilities of this job include, but are not * Good telephone manner limited to: * Excellent communication • Dust and clean appliskills ances and cabinets * Basic Computer skills • Wash all non-carpeted * Attention to detail floors in store * Ability to function in a • Clean and maintain fast-paced environment store washroom * A positive attitude • Va c u u m c a r p e t e d areas of store Preference will be given to • O r d e r c l e a n i n g a n d those with previous convenience supplies customer service experience. • Assist with the overall appearance of store Approx. 20 hrs. per week • Includes maintenance including weekend shifts. and merchandising duties Please submit your • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. resume to: If you wish to become part HUMAN RESOURCES of a well known family Red Deer Advocate owned and operated 2950 Bremner Ave. business, please apply in Red Deer, T4R 1M9 person to Chris Sturdy at Fax: 403-341-4772 2823 Bremner Ave. Email: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com Security Clearances will with CSR in subject line be conducted on all successful applicants.

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F/T FEED TRUCK OPERATOR for large expanding feed lot in Sundre.

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P/T Professional Medical Secretary needed in Red Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499

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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:

* 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.

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives.

Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com

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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.

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Small company, good money, paid benefits.

Looking for responsible, safe drivers and operators.

Phone 403-391-8004 for details. haulinacid.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

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EXPERIENCED SERVICE and SLANT RIG HANDS needed ASAP! All positions Floorhand to Rig Manager Opportunity to work close to home or away on camp rotation. (FL$27-32) (DE$31-37)(OP$35-42)(R M$50-56) FAX: 403-351-1754 or EMAIL: CV@ brightskilledworkers.com LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers for areas including Sask. and US. Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com LOOKING for Class 1 and Class 3 driver/operators of Superheater and Swampers. First Aid and H2S an asset. Competive wages, medical/dental plans. Lots of out of town work, camps or hotels provided. Send resume to rpower@ interceptenergy.ca com or bklassen@ interceptenergy.ca

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LOOKING FOR BOILER OPERATORS with tickets for work in Central Alberta and Northeastern BC. Submit resumes to info@gtchandler.com or fax to: 403-886-2223 Looking for a new pet?

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Req’d for an oilfield fabrication ASME facility.

Must be able to identify and source pipe, fittings, instrumentation. Review requisition orders for accuracy and verify availability with suppliers.

Prepare and maintain job purchasing files, reports and price lists. Previous experience is necessary.

We offer above industry wages and comprehensive benefit package.

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Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

* Downhole Tool Supervisors * Coil Tubing Rig Managers * Crane Truck Operators * Nitrogen Pump Operators * Fluid Pump Operators * Mechanics

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position. This position is required for Tues/Thurs evenings from 4:30pm-8:30pm. There is a possibility for extra hours.

A self-motivated, individual with exceptional organizational skills, computer expertise, and skills in dealing with the public are a must. Preference will be given to individuals with a two year Business Administration or Office Administration diploma and related experience.

Resumes can be emailed to HR@ parklandyouthhomes.ca, faxed to (403) 346-3225, or forwarded to: Human Resources Parkland Youth Homes 4920 54 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2G8 Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Competition closes when positions are filled.

COMMUNITY DISABILITY WORKER

Competition # 13-199 One permanent full-time position and one contract fulltime position for 40 hours per week are currently available.

You can change the world of someone in your neighborhood. As a Community Disability Worker, you provide high quality group care supporting adults with developmental disabilities. Motivated, compassionate and organized, you enthusiastically assist with daily living activities and social events supporting dignity, independence and empowerment. Open to learning new things, you want to become skilled in providing personal care, supporting behavioral challenges, helping with medical needs or implementing programs tailored to individual needs. As our programs operate on a 24 hour basis, shift work is required and may include weekends, depending on the needs of the program.

Your grade 12 education (or equivalent) is preferably supported by some experience working with persons with developmental disabilities and personal care. A vehicle and valid driver’s license are required for these rewarding opportunities.

Location: Red Deer We offer flexibility, a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive working environment.

Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, Intervention Record Check and/or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

We thank all applicants. If your skill set matches those of other competitions, you may also be considered for other positions. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please send resume, quoting competition number 13199 before October 30, 2013 to:

Catholic Charities Human Resources Office 5104 – 48 Avenue, Red Deer AB, T4N 3T Fax: (403) 342-1890 www.catholicsocialservices.ab.ca We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer Serving and Employing People of all Faiths and Cultures Since 1961 327029J27

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Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you.

Now hiring the following positions in Fracturing, Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing and Cement & Acid: f Class 1 Drivers/Operators – all Divisions f Bulk Transport Drivers—Sand and Nitrogen f Supervisors—Coiled Tubing, Cement and Acid

Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f 15 /6 or contract 22/13 schedules f Safety-focused f Team orientated f Clean drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New Equipment

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

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Apply in person, by fax or email.

QUEENS DINER REQ’S F/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

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(formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, DISHWASHER, SERVERS, BARTENDERS. Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer

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GUEST SERVICES SUPERVISOR Bower Place Red Deer, AB

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

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is now accepting applications for P/T exp.

We are looking for a team leader that is highly motivated, hardworking and energetic and who will be responsible for communicating and providing ‘First Class’ customer service at Bower Place Shopping Centre.

Requirements: Minimum 3 years of customer service/retail industry experience. Strong skills in Word, Excel, and basic accounting.

DOOR PERSONNEL Apply in person after 3

THE TRAVELMAN

Luggage & Swimwear Warehouse (next to Downtown McDonalds) Looking for responsible, energetic salesperson to sell luggage and ladies swimwear, approx. 15-20 hrs. per week, $11/hr. + bonuses.

No nights, Sundays or Holidays. Please fax resume to (403)348-2033 or email: richard@thetravelman.com

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ALL WEATHER WINDOWS is seeking a SERVICE TECHNICIAN.

Responsibilities : -Installation/repair of windows and doors -Installation of glass -Replacing sealed units and ELEMENTS is looking for door slabs, making screens, 5 retail sales reps. selling adjusting windows and doors, season gift packages and and replacing casings personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Must have valid class 5 Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + drivers license and be bonus & comm. FT. No willing to undergo a exp. req`d. Please email Drug & Alcohol test. elementsreddeer@gmail.com To apply please visit FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN allweatherwindows.com is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & BRAATT CONST. apparel, at our Parkland Of Red Deer is seeking Mall. 4747 67 St. Red exp’d. carpenters for the Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus agricultural industry. Must & comm. F/T Position. No have drivers license. Call exp. req’d. Email Brad 403-588-8588 Flurriesrd@gmail.com BUSY sheet metal compaLUCKY’S LOUNGE SOAP Stories is seeking 5 ny requires INSTALLER located in Jackpot Casino, retail sales reps. Selling for residential new housing. requires Experienced soap & bath products.

Must have experience, F/T or P/T Servers. $12.10 hr + bonus & com- own tools and valid driver’s Please apply in person at mission. Ft No exp. req`d. license. Immediate 4950 47 Ave. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. position. Please fax No phone calls please Red Deer. email resume to resume to: 403-309-8302 premierjobrd@gmail.com or e-mail: info@ comfortecheating.com

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PARKLAND YOUTH HOMES SOCIETY Red Deer, Alberta TEAM LEADER (FULL TIME)

Responsible for all aspects related to front line staff orientation and on the job training within the residential treatment and group care programs. Ability to work a variety of shifts including evenings and weekends required.

Qualifications: A degree or diploma in the Human Services field and a minimum of four (4) years’ experience working with young people and families in residential care. Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills required and an interest or training within the general area of Human Services Management. Must have current Standard First Aid with Level C CPR, PIC, CYIM, Driver’s License (with GDL removed) and Driver’s Abstract.

Please visit our website

www.parklandyouthhomes.ca for more information.

Applicants are sincerely thanked in advance for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition closes when position filled.

Human Resources Parkland Youth Homes Society 4920 54 St., Red Deer, AB, T4N 2G8

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Resumes can be emailed to: HR@parklandyouthhomes.ca Faxed to: 403-346-3225 or forwarded to:

CERTIFIED WELDER Permanent Certified Welders $28 - $45 per hour dependent on level of exp.

Group benefit plan after 3 month probation.

• Red Seal Welder or equiv. academic & exp.

• Min, 2 yrs welding exp. at a Journeyman level • Familiar with working outdoors in remote locations and all weather conditions • Working knowledge of pertinent industry • regulations and OH&S. COPP’S SERVICES INC. 225 Burnt Ridge Rd. Red Deer County, AB T4S 2L4 Phone: 403 347-6222 Email: HR@coppsinc.ca Fax 403-403-5447 www,.coppsinc.ca DNR Powerline Construction requires Journeyman/ Apprentices/Labourers for various projects in Alberta.

Long term employment.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Noel. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol program in effect.

DNR Pressure Welding requires Labourers for various projects in Alberta.

Long term employment.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Ryan. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol program in effect.

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CHILDREN & ADULT RESIDENTIAL SUPERVISORS Parkland CLASS is currently seeking Residential Supervisors to manage the overall program delivery for 3 individuals with developmental disabilities living in a residential home. Responsibilities include: providing direct care, participating in the development & implementation of personalized plans, training, supervising a team of approximately 5-12 employees & budget management. Hours of work are 40 hrs. /wk., primarily days, Mon-Fri; however, you will be required to work some evenings and weekends.

Qualifications: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services, Social work or a related field. Preferably, you will have 3–5 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as, excellent interpersonal, team building and leadership skills. Experience responding to behaviours of concern, assisting with personal care and/or working with medically fragile individuals would be ideal.

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FORMULA POWELL

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for an experienced

JOURNEYMAN HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC

overhead crane operator

is seeking a F/T

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for For more details or if you F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at are interested in applying all stations, prep, sea food, for this position, apps., entres. etc. Must be please visit our website at avail. nights and week- www.BentallKennedy.com. ends.

LOOKING FOR LIQUOR MUST HAVE: STORE SALE CLERK, • 2-3 yrs. post secondary F/T jobs, $11/hr, must be able education. to work night & weekends • 2-5 yrs. training & pass criminal check, • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp. drop off resume in person, • Provide references 112 5th St SE Sundre AB. The hourly rate will be $13.10 per hour Rusty Pelican Restaurant 2079 50 AVE. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161

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IN BLACKFALDS Maintain repairs, maint of equipment, CVIP license an asset, own tools and Class 5 Drivers License required. Further training to meet the company safety requirements provided. Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening in effect. Interested applicants should forward resume to branch manager: Kevin.stering@ formulapowell.com Fax: 403-885-5454

to join an enthusiastic and rapidly expanding company.

All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Benefits are paid and lots of overtime.

Own transportation to work is needed. Wage will be based on experience, attitude, and desire to commit to long term employment. Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

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CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

Central AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Company Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

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Trades

Tired of just being a number?

DRIVER req’d. for city & Looking for a job that fits with family life?

GOODMEN rural deliveries, must be ROOFING LTD. able to work alone and Requires with others. Duties incl. driving, shipping/receiving SLOPED ROOFERS Concrete finisher a n d c u s t o m e r s e r v i c e .

LABOURERS Class 3 with air ticket and needed to perform & FLAT ROOFERS detailed and quality finish- abstract is req’d. Drop Full Time ing as well as other related resume off at Weldco #11, Valid Driver’s Licence 7491 49th Ave. or fax to tasks, minimum 5 years We are currently looking for a valued preferred. Fax or email experience. All applicants 403-346-1065. No phone team member seeking a small shop info@goodmenroofing.ca must be flexible for hours calls please. Only applior (403)341-6722 environment. Competitive Wages & cants selected for an and dedicated due to a NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! interview will be contacted. demanding production Bonuses. Journeymen or Apprentices schedule. Own transportawill be considered. tion to work is needed.

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Wage will be based on Minimum Class 5 with air Contact Scott at 403-340-8110 experience, attitude and and clean abstract. Exp. or email scott@westock.ca willingness to commit to preferred. In person to Key long term employment.

Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Please fax resume to Red Deer.

403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca Mechanic Position Thank you to all applicants but only those Oil Boss Rentals, is a selected for an interview registered Commercial will be notified.

Vehicle Inspection Station.

Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year We currently have a award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. SHEET Metal Installer mechanics position open.

LOCAL freight company required with residential designs, engineers and manufactures custom This individual must be a req’s P & D body job driver and retro-fit experience. energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked 3rd year apprentice minimum, for Red Deer/Edmonton run.

HVAC Service Person with engineering firms and oil and natural gas self-motivated, hard-working, Fax resume and driver’s also required. producers around the globe to develop their own and enthusiastic with solid abstract to Rocky Fast Attractive wages and work ethic. An ideal equipment standards for size, capacity and any Express 403-845-2432 benefits. Great hours. candidate would have some number of technical specifications. We operate Shop person needed for fabrication experience, seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta full time work.

Required Immediately enjoy building equipment e-mail: brad@ and have recently expanded our facilities into from scratch, be easy to Parts Delivery comfortecheating.com Calgary Alberta. get along with and be able or Fax resume to: Driver to think outside the box 403-309-8302 Must possess clean We employ over 175 people and provide ample when necessary. drivers abstract, know opportunities to employees to achieve their career WATER WELL DRILLING city well.

The individual goals. We provide hands-on training and an COMPANY IN BENTLEY The position will break must be able to work REQ’S EXPERIENCED down as follows: opportunity to work on some of the most interesting unsupervised in a fast • 60% repairs and mainWATER WELL projects and applications in the energy sector. paced environment. Some tenance on rental equipment DRILLERS HELPER warehouse work and some • 15% on heavy trucks with class 3, air. All safety If you would like to be a part of our growing and heavy lifting is required. and trailers dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are tickets required.

The company • 10% on light duty trucks Meal and Accommodation currently seeking offers full benefit package • 10% on fabrication provided when out of town. for this full time position.

• 5% paperwork and Fax resume with drivers Please email or drop off program management abstract: 403-748-3015 resume.

ARTIC TRUCK PARTS for full-time permanent shop positions This individual will also act #3-6540 71 ST as the shop foreman and We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 insure that the shop is kept (P)403-348-0999 packages including Health, RRSP and Tool clean and organized.

(F)403-348-5198 Allowance programs.

This position will be home Email to: 95% of the time.

Please fax resume to ron.cain@ WELDERS WANTED On average 2-3 nights a nfleetsolutions.com FOR OILFIELD month out of town.

MANUFACTURING FACILITY Regular Schedule, 5/2 or 10/4 email to Competitive Wages, Benefits, B Pressure Welders Dedicated Service Truck. Interest in Vessel work Trades Mig and Metal Core Applicant must have a experience is a great asset. clean Driver’s Abstract We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal To apply please email Rimoka Housing Foundation orientated team players your resume to: A Foundation for the Future to join our fast paced Gerry@oilbossrentals.com 3608 57 Avenue, Ponoka T4J 1P2 Phone 403-783-0126 or Fax 403-783-5656 growing team!. or fax to 1-866-914-7507 Please forward your The Bethany Group resume by fax to 403-347-7867

NOW HIRING HEAVY DUTY TECHNICIANS

APPRENTICE PIPEFITTERS

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OK TIRE SOUTH REQUIRES AN

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN

2nd yr, 3rd yr, 4th yr or licensed.

Apply in person, 3218 49 Ave. Red Deer Right behind BP’s South.

Restaurant/ Hotel

Truckers/ Drivers

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DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

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Now Hiring

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Qualifications: - High School diploma - Three years operations experience with maintenance management and periodic maintenance program experience - Knowledge and/or experience with computerized control systems and maintenance management would be beneficial - Minimum 5th Class Steam Ticket would be preferred but not mandatory.

Until suitable candidates found

A current Police Information Check is a pre-employment requirement for new employees to The Rimoka Housing Foundation We sincerely thank all candidates for their application; however only those selected for interview will be contacted

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

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Under supervision, this position performs a variety of maintenance duties on various types of equipment, buildings; and grounds under the direction of the Department Supervisor and/or other maintenance workers in accordance with acceptable standards, regulations, safety, policies and procedures. The work is defined as semi-skilled, routine, manual, becoming somewhat independent.

Please direct applications to: Human Resources lacombe.foundation@bethanygrp.ca

ALL POSITIONS ALL SHIFTS

Apply in person at any location or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

hr@bilton.ca

Maintenance Service Worker II - FTE 1.0 Ponoka, AB - Two Full-Time Positions

Closing Date:

We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION MECHANIC (Petrochemical Facility in Red Deer Area)

The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeymen Instrumentation Mechanic

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• Experience with Maintenance and/or plant facility work • CSTS • A Team Player • Excellent communication skills

Salary: $3,709.48 - $3,764.94

Rate starting at $43.06/hour.

A valid class 5 driver’s license and your own transportation are required.

This position will work 4 days per week, 10 hour days.

is looking for an experienced

We look forward to hearing from you; please forward your resume by November 7, 2013 quoting competition # 4726SUP to:

Parkland CLASS, Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: 403 342-2677 email: hr@pclass.org

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We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition will remain open until all positions are filled.

OUTSIDE SALES PERSON

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

This person must have: • Experience in Outside Sales • Be self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills • Experience with landscaping or construction products is a definite asset Excellent wages and benefits.

Please forward your resume to the address below.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Please note: This job posting closes on October 30th, 2013.

For the Central Alberta region

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We will be hiring permanent and temporary Residential Supervisors. To be discussed further at interview. Questions can be directed to Roxanne Mauch at 403 347-3333.

www.parklandclass.org

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with the Red Deer Public School District. Term: Dec., 2013 - June, 2015 Resiliency Coaches are responsible for the implementation of an adolescent intervention program designed to enhance the emotional and mental wellness of youth in grades 6-12. This is a research project and collaborative initiative of the Addiction & Mental Health Strategic Clinical Network, Red Deer Public Schools, Alberta Health Services Central Zone Addiction & Mental Health, University of Alberta and the Red Deer Primary Care Network.

Resiliency Coaches will follow a prescribed screening and curriculum determined by the parameters of the research project as outlined by the partners. Desirable Qualifications: University degree in Social Work, Psychiatric Nursing, Psychology, Education or a suitable equivalent.

For more information refer to our website: rdpsd.ab.ca Applications received by 4:00 p.m. on November 2, 2013 will be assured of careful consideration.

Applications with references should be directed to: humanresources @rdpsd.ab.ca

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Restaurant/ Hotel

To apply fax resume to (403) 347-4980 or email jobs@proform.ab.ca

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Human Resources Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

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Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill full-time UPS is now hiring for

F/T Driving, P/T Pre-Load & Seasonal Workers

Applicants must be physically fit and be able to lift up to 70 lbs.

P/T Warehouse, Mon. to Fri. 15 - 25 hrs/wk.

Driving Mon. to Fri, 10 to 12 hours per day.

Alberta Class 5 license, clean abstract. This is fast paced, physically demanding environment.

All candidates are subject to criminal record checks.

Apply by online @ www.upsjobs.com or fax resume to: 403-648-3310

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) DEER PARK AREA Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

EASTVIEW AREA Ellenwood Dr. & Erickson Dr. Area 60 papers $321/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres Area 67 papers $360/mo.

FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY.

ALSO Rowell Cl. Reichley St. & Robinson Cres. area.

115 Papers $616./mo

For the Red Deer area.

Please contact memphisbluesprairies @gmail.com

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Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

880 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Woody’s RV World Red Deer has an opening for a

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

SERVICE PARTS COORDINATOR

Mustang Acres

In this role, you will maintain an orderly department with retail and manufacturing parts. Assisting in and developing a system to ensure that stock levels are monitored and consistent with the requirements of the service department.

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1578018 ALBERTA LTD o/a: Windspinners & Gadgets o/a: Gigs Watches, Hire Sales Clerks Parkland Mall, Bower Place Shopping Centre, Red Deer, AB. Goal oriented. Good English.

Perm, F/T, Shifts, Weekends Wage - $14.00/hr. E-mail: fishergrp@gmail.com

Academic Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START GED preparation to start November 5 Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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in DEERPARK AREA Denovan Cres., Dickenson Cres & Davison Dr. Area $201/mo.

ALSO Doran Cres., & Dunn Cl. Area $65/mo.

ALSO Doran Cres. & Doan Ave, Area $64/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres (100 to 800 Ramage Cl.) & Ralston Cres. Area $209/mo.

ALSO Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO 28 to 233 Blocks of Reichley St. & Reighley Cl. $137/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

at our company. Must be physically fit as this labourer position requires constant heavy lifting and involves fast paced, on the job training. Applicant must be able to travel and must have reliable transportation to and from work as well as a valid class 5 driver’s license. All meals and hotel expenses are paid when out of town.

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 , must flag attn: Craig or e-mail to c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

FIELD PERSON

Insulation Cover Manufacturer is looking to train someone to take measurements and make simple drawings of oilfield and petrochemical equipment and assist in manufacturing as required.

Anyone with knowledge of oilfield equipment would be ideal. Must have a dependable truck (compensation paid). $19/hr. to start with wage review and some benefits after 3 months. Please reply, with resume, to: cover@ telus.net or phone 403-343-3435 FURNACE DUCT CLEANING TECH REQ’D. IMMED. Wages neg. 403-506-4822

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 $.

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For over 100 years, Nestle Purina PetCare Company has dedicated itself to creating innovative, nutritious products – all designed to enhance the well being of pets. Nestle Purina PetCare is the world’s largest producer of dry dog food and softmoist and dry cat foods, as well as being a leading producer of cat box filler in Canada and the United Sates. In Canada, Nestle Purina’s leading brands include Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Pro Plan, Purina One, Fancy Feast, Friskies and Purina MAXX.

We currently have a position available at our Innisfail, AB plant.

FORKLIFT OPERATOR (Term Contract)

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If you have a passion to succeed in a stimulating work environment with excellent wages and benefits we would like to hear from you. This position will be responsible for the movement of finished product through the distribution system while ensuring product integrity, and superior customer service.

As the successful candidate, you will have a minimum grade 12 education, forklift experience, and be able to work flexible shifts.

Please send your resume to: Nestle Purina PetCare 5128 – 54th Street, Box 6160 Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1S8 Attention: Human Resources Fax: (403) 227-4245 E-mail: InnisfailHR@purina.nestle.com Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada

Real Pets, Real People, Real Passion For over 100 years, Nestle Purina PetCare Company has dedicated itself to creating innovative, nutritious products – all designed to enhance the well being of pets. Nestle Purina PetCare is the world’s largest producer of dry dog food and softmoist and dry cat foods, as well as being a leading producer of cat box filler in Canada and the United Sates. In Canada, Nestle Purina’s leading brands include Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Pro Plan, Purina One, Fancy Feast, Friskies and Purina MAXX.

We currently have a position available at our Innisfail, AB plant.

MILL OPERATOR If you have a passion to succeed in a stimulating work environment with excellent wages and benefits we would like to hear from you. This position is responsible for the accurate mixing of ingredients as per formula in accordance with the Production Schedule and the proper storage of raw and mixed ingredients.

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As the successful candidate, you will have a minimum grade 12 education, and be able to work shift work.

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

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)

LANCASTER AREA Long Close Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Landry Bend Lawson Close

McKinnon Cres/ Munro Cres.

Marion Cres./ MacKenzie Cres.

Maxwell Ave./ McGill St. Metcalf Ave./ Mayberry Close.

McLean St. SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave. Springfield Ave. VANIER AREA Visser St. Vanson Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

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Antiques & Art

1 PRINT, Approx. 15” x 30” Called the signing of Peace Treaty Dance Party.

A must see. $200.

403-347-7405 7TH ANNUAL ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE Olds Legion 5241, 46 Street.

Oct. 26th, 9:30-4:00 Admission $3.00.

Info, Janice 403-227-6622

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ANTIQUE ESTATE AUCTION

Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.) in:

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 REG COX FEEDMIXERS Req’s F/T In Service Shop, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld.

Apply fax 403-341-5622 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

SORTERS for recycling also required.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info 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 GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

16 F/T seasonal positions.

Training provided.

Start Feb 2014. $9.95/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period.

Fax resume 403-886-2252.

FOR SALE 11000 SPECIAL EDITION SEWING,EMBROIDERY SEWING MACHINE MANY EXTRA’S,PAID $6500.00 ASKING $2300.00. 403-843-7295

Household Furnishings

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LOOKER OFFICE FURNITURE ANNUAL GARAGE SALE ON NOW

Transportation Manager Division Office Ponoka, AB

For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

Horses

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WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

TO GIVE AWAY Beautiful long haired, mostly white calico, 2 yr. old Cat. Has shots and is declawed, inside cat only.

Needs “Cat Whisperer”. **HOME FOUND**

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

Dogs

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SMALL SQUARE HAY and straw 403-340-3061

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Houses/ Duplexes

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F1B GOLDEN DOODLES, 2 BDRM. in tri-plex, main black now but will brindle floor, washer/dryer, as they get older. Non everything incld’. $1400. shedding, well handled, Avail. Nov 1. long time breeder. $900.

403-392-2488 Delivered to Alberta.

Text 306-521-1371 3 BDRM. 2 full bath, or call 306-792-2113 $1395 mo. 403-782-7156 www.furtettishfarm.ca or 357-7465 MINI SCHNAUZER pup3 BDRM. main level, pies, ready to go $650/ea. house, Johnstone Park.

403-746-0007, 877-3352 $1300 + d.d. 30% utils. incld’. Nov,. 1., no pets 403-970-3954, 805-6102 Sporting

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Selling on behalf of FortisAlberta, Service Alberta; Wheatland County, Rocky View County, AltaLink, Keystone Excavating Ltd., City of Medicine Hat, Town of Cochrane & other consignors.

For a comprehensive brochure please call Canadian Public Auction Ltd. 403-269-6600 or 800-786-0857.

Home Page at www. canadianpublicauction.com G.S.T. applies. A 10% handling fee applies to each lot selling for $5,000.00 or less, a 2.5% handing fee applies to each lot selling greater that $5,000.00 with a cap of $1,000.00 per lot. Live Internet Bidding www. canadianpublicauction.com all internet purchases are subject to an internet buyer’s fee & a deposit may be required depending on your purchase history. Auction License # 200278, AMVIC 327763J26 License # 200279.

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Tour These Fine Homes Out Of Red Deer

4310 SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Oct 26 & 27 Sat. & Sun., 1 - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

4622 49 AVE. BENTLEY Sun. Oct. 27th, 2-4 p.m. $210,000. Help-U-Sell Red Deer. 403-342-7355

PLACE an ad in Central Alber ta LIFE and reach over 100,000 potential buyers. 309-3300.

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

Accounting

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1070

Contractors

1100

CONCRETE!

Stamp finish, exposed finish, basements, garages, patio pads, driveways & sidewalks. etc. No job to Big or too Small, we do it All! Call Mark 403-597-3523 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Eavestroughing

1130

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car ULTIMATE PLAYMATES. 403-986-SEXY, 402-3964 Red Deer’s Best www.viimassage.biz

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

Massage Therapy

1280

Massage Therapy

1280

TCM & Lensen Therapy In home care. Females preferred. 8 am-9 pm 4922 55 St. 403-986-1691

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

1315

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

Painters/ Decorators

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Personal Services Pampering at its BEST! LOOKING TO SHARE the 403-986-6686 HOLIDAYS with a new love?

Come in and see They are a call away. why we are the talk Call 403-886-4733 Sincere Connections of the town. www.viimassage.biz

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving Central AB. 403-318-4346

UNWANTED Yard & House Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

1300

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Moving & Storage

DOOR PERSONNEL

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Apply in person after 3

2000-2290

FREE TO LOVING HOME. 4 golden orange 10 week old kittens, and 1 6 week old orphaned kitten, grey, white & cream calico runt.

403-782-3130

X-STATIC

is now accepting applications for P/T exp.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

SATURN front seat covers Space -Great Value!

This 3 bdrm, 2 bath Duplex $10 403-347-8726 Mon. - Fri. 10 am - 5 pm is on a mature, quiet street!

SPACEMATE Gold tread- Vacant now, this could be #3 - 5015-48 St. Red Deer mill $100 403-309-3117 the home you’ve been (next to CNIB and across looking for. With a 2nd living from Original Joes) room & kitchenette, fresh paint, fenced yard and Collectors' Workstations, desks, task tonnes of storage this Items chairs, guest chairs, home will go quick. Call dividing panels, file Lucie at 403-396-9554 to 8 ONLY. Indian Holy Men cabinets and more!! get a look inside! & Medicine Men Shields: Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Sarcee, Cree, Souis, BLOWOUT PRICES!!!!

Blackfoot. All approx. 24” 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 Please call 403-346-8827† wide x 36” long. Generally bath, new paint & carpets found in Museum for more information. & deck at 7316-59 Ave. showcases. A must see!

Avail. to over 40 tenants. $200 for everything.

WANTED No pets. Off street parking 403-347-7405 Antiques, furniture and for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, estates. 342-2514 D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 A MUST SEE TO BELIEVE COLLECTOR’S DREAM. EASTVIEW Misc. for 5 only, 4’ “DIM”. All furs, 2 bdrm. duplex, full bsmt., breathtaking designed wall Sale quiet area, close to bus hangers. Not found in AB. and shopping, 4 appl., off $200. 403-347-7405 DEER HEAD mount on street parking. $875/mo. shield $200 403-314-2026 SD $875. Avail. Dec. 1st.

403-350-9138 Travel DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, Packages LIVE AT THE LAKE fairies, dragons and biker NW corner of Gull Lake, gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east 3 bdrms., ensuite, 4 pce.

TRAVEL ALBERTA end of Cash Casino bath + bdrm. lower level, Alberta offers fireplace, dble det. garage SOMETHING HIDE A BED, combination w/breeze way on 1/2 acre. for everyone. radio/phonograph to give $1200 /.mo + utils.

Make your travel away 403-347-5316 Call Dennis 403-829-8291 plans now.

INDOOR/OUTDOOR ELECTRIC HEALTH GRILL. $45. 403-347-8726

TUESDAY, Nov. 5, 2013 8:00 a.m.

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

invites applications for the following position:

4 BEAUTIFUL kittens to give away. 403-343-2522

1710

Household Appliances

UNRESERVED PUBLIC AUCTION

Cleaning

WOLF CREEK Public Schools

1830

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

9320 – 52 Street SE., CALGARY

Highland Green

Kentwood / Johnstone Crossing

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

1530

Auctions

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Homestead Firewood

Cats

LOGS

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals

Inglis Cres.

AFFORDABLE

FREE FIREWOOD KINDLING 403-314-0804

In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

1660

CLASSIFICATIONS

INGLEWOOD AREA

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

WANTED: wild meat and beef for greyhound diets.

Freezer burnt ok,749-3242

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

For afternoon delivery once per week

INNISFAIL

1650

S A F E S T E P WA L K I N TUB, new $17,000 asking $5900. 346-4926 or 304-9813

Farmers' Market

stuff 1500-1990

1760

JACK LALANNE’S STAINLESS STELL POWER JUICER. Like new. $75. 403-347-8726

CHOPPED Poplar free, you pick up 403-392-8385

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Misc. for Sale

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Asmundsen Ave./ Ainsworth Cres.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

1630

EquipmentHeavy

Firewood

ANDERS AREA

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

MORRISROE

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

SAFETY

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

900

Sunday October 27 11 am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only Antiques & Collectibles - Wood Wheel Chair - Wood Propeller - Radios - Show Case - Wall Phone - Train Horns - Grandfather Clock - Curved Glass China Cabinet - Antique Oval Pictures - Wash Stands & Dressers - China Sets - Approx. 200 Die-Cast Cars Assorted - Collector Coins - Pepsi Tray - Duncan Fife Set - Vintage Comic Books - African Soap Stone & Wood Carvings - Furniture - Parlor Chairs - Sofas - Oak Dining Suite - Living Room Suite - Bedroom Suites - Miscellaneous - Vending Machines (Snack & Pop) - Money Changer (New) - Tools - Floor Model Video Games & More.

For a complete list and Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15% buyer’s premium.

Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

CARRIERS NEEDED

Niven St. & Newton Cres.

ALSO Nielson Close

Please send your resume to: Nestle Purina PetCare 5128 – 54th Street, Box 6160 Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1S8 Attention: Human Resources Fax: (403) 227-4245 E-mail: InnisfailHR@purina.nestle.com Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada

precast concrete erecting laborer position

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Normandeau

1702 - 49th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4R 2N7

•

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

6940 63 Ave.

See More at woodysrv.com or send resume to: Parts Manager - Red Deer

Fax: 403-341-4380 or Email applications@woodysrv.com

in

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Employment Training

278950A5

Truckers/ Drivers

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

Yard Care

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034

D10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013

3030

3190

Mobile Lot

MOBILE HOME PAD, in ADULT 40+ Condo. 1 bdrm. + den. Partially furn. All utils, Red Deer Close to Gaetz, internet, cable, phone incl. 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Heated underground parking. Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 Avail. Immed. 403-346-8278

BEAUTIFUL 2 BDRM. SUITE!!

This 2 bdrm 1 bath suite boasts both space & style.

With its own heat & controls, driveway parking for 2 vehicles & designer colors & finishing’s, you will be comfortable in and proud of your new home. This is not your average bsemt unit. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to have a look.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

LARGE 2 BDRM. CONDO!!

Bldg located on a quiet close backing onto treed area. Spacious suites c/w Dishwasher, larger storage area & more. Short walk to schools & Parks. Just $975/mo. Heat & Water incl in rent. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to book a viewing.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Housesitting Wanted

3300

ROOM FOR FREE, live in, watch my dog while I am away. F. preferred. For info call 403-850-2947

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

STYLISH 2 BDRM. IN ANDERS

This 2 bdrm townhouse is a must-see! Located in desirable Anders on a quiet close, it boasts 3 levels, a nice yard 1.5 baths & a great feeling of comfort & openness. Come & take a look, this is a very nice home especially at just $1475/mo.

Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to get a look inside.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

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

4020

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

In a quiet and calm location, assigned off street parking & a dishwasher, this could be the home you are looking for. Perfect for young professionals. Just $1025/mo. Come take a look at a bldg you will be proud to show off and call home. Call Lucie now at 403-396-9554 before it’s gone.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3080

$650/mo incl. utils. have 2 small dogs. n/s 403-986-6195

Rooms For Rent

3090

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $525. 403-346-7546 Mountview: fully furn bdrm $500/$250. Working Male only. Call 403-396-2468 ROOM in quiet home.

N/S, no drinking, working Female. Avail. Oct. 25 $450 + $200 d.d.

403-309-4155 ROOM in quiet home. $450. Call 403-350-7799

Warehouse Space

3140

CLEAN and ready to move into 30x80 warehouse bay with large yard for lease in great location. Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355 SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Storage Space

3160

SUNHAVEN RV & BOAT STORAGE www.rvboatstorage.ca Do you like a good deal?

Do you like to be safe and secure? Starting at $25/mo. with 24/7 security/surveillance.

Graveled parking and sani-dump. It’s the best deal around. 403-340-9483 or 403-506-7383

Cars

5030

3 Bdrm., 2 bath 1200 sq.ft. bi-level on 62x140 lot. $250,000. Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree.

Lloyd 403-391-9294

Great for retirement. 2 bdrm., 2 Bath 1/2 duplex in Olds.

Attached garage. $239,900. 403-507-0028

Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY 100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY 104x353 lot in the heart of Sylvan Lake. Excellent location for future

Pine Lake acreage! 4 bdrm., 3 bath, attached garage.

Lake view. $329,900.

403-318-4448

Central Alberta LIFE

J CBuffalo Lake. 3/4 acre with Jlake views, 4 bdrm, 3 bath.

C $334,900. 403-741-6190 M t M t

at www.garymoe.com

development. $449,900.

Affordable newer 2 bdrm. home on large pie lot in Springbrook. Hardwood.

Deck off kitchen. $269,900 Brand new Penhold bi-level.

2 bdrm, 2 bath. Fireplace.

Acreages

4050

6 quiet fenced acres with beautiful view. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 yrs old. $277,900. 587-729-3009

LOCATION... LOCATION! On pavement, min. from Innisfail, 1500 sq. ft. ranch style home on 3.81 acres.

5 bdrms., w/2.5 baths, att. car port, cedar vaulted ceiling, 2 fireplaces, high speed DSL internet. $495,000. 403-357-9930

Upgraded. $379,900.

4 bdrm., 2 bath in Bentley.

Open concept oak kitchen.

Beautifully landscaped.

4090

2005 CHEV Silverado, 2500 crew cab, Duramax, 4x4, 5 spd. Allison. 2, 5th whl. hook ups, basic 1 owner, from Arizona, no rust.

403-887-2441, 928-503-5344 1997 CHEVY S10. Red. 147,000 km. 1 owner, club cab, long box. Air, 5 spd. good tires. Runs great. Great gas mileage. No rust. Clean, $2500 obo.**SOLD**

Fifth Wheels

5110

5160

Boats & Marine

2000 CAMPION 552 with 200 hrs on 2007 Volvo Penta 4.3L I/O. All cushions, seats & tarps in great shape & winterized. Garmin fishfinder 597C & full instrument panel.

Asking $18,000, can be viewed on Kijiji. 403-341-4627 before I put the tarp on for winter.

Snowmobiles

5170

1980 YAMAHA EXL3, $1000. obo. 1978 Yamaha ET340, $800. obo. In Bashaw. 403-318-5799

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

(4) R18 Winter tires with Rims for BMW X5.

Used 2 winters. $750.

403-342-0539

5190

Auto Wreckers

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 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

Businesses For Sale

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

Cars

2007 LAND ROVER Range Rover supercharged, 4X4, nav., sunroof, lthr., $33,888 348-8788, Sport & Import

Call For Home Delivery

314-4300

5030

1993 OLDSMOBILE. Certified. 6cyl, $1650 obo.

403-314-0804 2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 dr. red, 403-348-2999

2006 PILGRIM w/lrg slide-out. Hardwall, bunks, loaded, clean. Model 272 BHSS. Sale $16,900.

403-872-2403 anytime.

Holiday Trailers

5000-5300

4040

NEW CONDO

4140

LIMO COMPANY. Includes 2 stretch SUV’s. Call for more details. 403-343-0649

$210,000. 403-877-5052 Fully finished in Lancaster.

4 Bdrm., 3 bath. Fireplace, main floor laundry. $354,900.

1443 SQ. FT. CONDO. Great location.

403-343-1811, 550-3365

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded $22,900. 403-784-2482 2008 BMW X5 4.8i AWD, pana-roof, lthr., $36,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

5120

2009 SWIFT 22’. Queen bed, rear bath. Clean, $10,900. 403-872-2403 call anytime!

2009 PUMA 27’. Jack & Jill Bunks, queen bed in private bdrm. Rear end storage. Clean. $13,900.

403-872-2403

ATV's 2006 LAND ROVER Sport HSE AWD, lthr., sunroof, $24,888 7652 Gaetz Ave., Sport & Import

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate Of LOIS ELIZABETH SISSON Who Died On November 9, 2012

2008 GMC ACADIA SLE, AWD, 8 passenger, $20,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Your Guide To

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. OBO. Top of the line. Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. and much more. Avail. for viewing. Call 403 357 6950 2010 40 FOOT CEDAR CREEK 5TH WHEEL, THREE SLIDES,LOADED ASKING $39,000.00 OBO. PH 403-843-7295

INNISFAIL mobile. 3 bdrm, 2 bath. Fireplace. Lrg rented lot. $49,500. Help-U-Sell RD 403-342-7355

ENTERTAINMENT

Condos/ Townhouses

2008 JEEP Rubicon 4X4, $20,888 7652 Gaetz Ave, Sport & Import 348-8788

Manufactured Homes

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER

www.laebon.com

2005 DODGE RAM 1500 SLT, quad cab., 4x2, 5.7L Hemi, only 123,300 km.

Power equipped, side steps, tonneau cover. Very well kept truck, must be seen.

Call Dean at 403-347-2797

1996 FORD Ranger E/C, 5 spd. 3.0 V6, Topper, clean glass, good. cond. mech. insp. avail. $1800.

OBO 403-340-0945

2008 LAND ROVER LR2 SE 4X4,.sunroofs, $18,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

THE

garage. 4 bdrm., 3 bath.

On quiet close. $429,000.

See kijiji # 532958670.

Call 403-309-4464

5040

CALL 309-3300

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

New 2300 sq.ft. developed 4 Level Split 4 bdrms., 3 bath, walk-out.

In McKay Ranch in new Blackfalds.

A MUST SEE! W/ ROOM FOR THE GROWING FAMILY. $340,000.

Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree.

Lloyd 403-391-9294

5040

Beautiful views overlooking Gscenic river valley. Only 6 miles Afrom Red Deer on pavement.

P Starting at $249,000 B

MUST SELL

ONLY ONE! RISER HOMES

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

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

MASON MARTIN HOMES

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Stylish 2 Bdrm. Just ROSEDALE Bi-Level w/att.

South of the Hospital dbl. garage & det. shop/ adult only building.

4050

5050

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom suites perfect for all walks of life. Cat friendly. Plaza Apartments: 1(888)7849279 rentmidwest.com

This 3rd flr 2 bdrm apt is in a quiet,

Acreages

RECENT UPGRADES: IT SPARKLES! $294,900 48 Gillespie Crescent Well maintained, new paint. 4 good size bdrms., lg. family room, & paved You can save thousands! You can save thousands! driveway.

Helping sellers sell for a Helping sellers sell for a QUICK POSSESSION! low set fee. No advance fee. low set fee. No advance fee. ************ 2008 BMW 328 xi sunroof, 2003 DODGE Durango SLT Money back guarantee.

Money back guarantee.

78 VANIER ST. 4 BDRM. lthr., 66,382 kms., $25,888 Plus, 4X4, $8888. bi-level, fully finished, large 348-8788 Sport & Import 348-8788 Sport & Import deck, large front porch.

QUICK POSSESSION! 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., $346,000 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 ************** Trucks 1448 sq. ft. bungalow, 3 1999 PONTIAC Bonneybdrm. 2 bath, built 2005, ville 4 dr., 403-352-6889 dbl. det. heated garage, 3 outside parking stalls.

Acreage with art studio 2 bdrm apt. in a +18 bldg $207,000 on a quiet street downtown. awaiting your imagination.

STEAL OF A DEAL! 3.09 acres of lush trees $149,900. 403-347-4931 Call to view ANYTIME for and 2 homes. $549,900 private appointment.

Margaret Comeau RE/MAX Real Estate Central 2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 Alberta 403-391-3399 LT, 4X4, Z-71, cold air intake, 62629kms, $20888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2 BDRMS. FOR THE BUDGET MINDED

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070

4040

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

LARGE, 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

At just $865 this is perfect for a young family. Located in Woodlea with easy acces to Downtown and Gaetz. This is space for a price that can’t be beat.

Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to take a walk through the property.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Condos/ Townhouses

Fantastic 3rd floor end unit condo. 2 bdrm. 2 bath.

You can save thousands!

Walk in closet & 4 piece Helping sellers sell for a ensuite. $219,900. low set fee. No advance fee.

Money back guarantee.

LEGACY ESTATES Best Adult Retirement Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury condo unit. $800 + utils.

Call Joe 403-848-0266 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

Houses For Sale

5150

2012 POLARIS 550. 2 up, 94 miles. Cover for quad. $8000 cash. 403-887-2441, 928-503-5344

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your reply by December 15, 2013 and provide details of your claim with Warren Sinclair LLP at #600-4911-51st Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6V4.

Attention: Donald J. Sinclair.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE

5 P.M. Each Day For The Next Day’s Paper CALL 309-3300

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Parade of Homes 1

buy new. buy now.

2 Silverberg Place - Red Deer

Premier adult villas with No Condo Fees! Main 1350 sq. ft. + complete basement dev. 1200 sq ft. 3 bedroom + den, 3 bathroom bungalow.

Granite countertops, hardwood, tile, maple cabinets, 9ft ceilings

OCT 19  NOV 3

403.343.6480 www.abbeymasterbuilder.ca

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Saturday and Sunday, October 19 - 20 1 - 5 pm Saturday and Sunday, October 26 - 27 1 - 5 pm Saturday and Sunday, November 2 - 3 1 - 5 pm

311 Webster Drive- Red Deer 2012 sq ft 2 storey, 3 bedroom + den + bonus room above garage, 2 1/2 baths. Spacious upper level laundry room has built-in cabinets.

Mudroom of garage has custom cabinetry with dog bed and a storage closet!

403.343.6480 www.abbeymasterbuilder.ca

213 Van Slyke Way - Red Deer 1996 sq ft 2 storey w/ 3 bedrooms + den, 2 1/2 baths. Kitchen Includes quartz island w/raised eating bar. Living room features a custom tiled fireplace. Ensuite includes NuHeat Mats under tile, a free standing tub, shower & dual vanity.

403.343.6480 www.abbeymasterbuilder.ca

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1 Radcliff Way - Sylvan Lake

403.347.8088 www.landmarkgroup.ca

19 2 Van Slyke Way - Red Deer Completely finished on all three floors (3 bdrm + 3.5 baths). Completely landscaped + fenced.

Many energy efficient features ( 81 EnerGuide rating). Upgraded interior finishes.

403.347.8088 www.landmarkgroup.ca

20 193 Van Slyke Way - Red Deer 1740 sq ft 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath. Upgraded interior finishes. Double attached garage. Bonus room.

403.347.8088 www.landmarkgroup.ca

Phenomenal entrance & kitchen. Quartz throughout home. Custom millwork thoughout home. Spa-like ensuite bathroom w quartz tub & shower. Fabulous curb appeal modern meets traditional.

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24 Solar panels. Unique 4 bedroom with bonus room. Great location on the park and close to all amenities. Energy effieniences (88 EnerGuide rating) (spray foamed, tankless, triple pane, HRV, drain waater heat recovery unit).

13 3 Voisin Close- Red Deer

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1150 sq ft + 800 sq ft basement development.

Bi-level w/ 5 bedrooms, 3 baths & fully landscaped yard. Master bedroom complete with 3 piece ensuite. Kitchen includes pantry, stainless appliance package & extended eating bar.

21 4914 Aspen Lakes - Blackfalds 1834 sq ft two storey w/bonus room. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath, walk thru pantry, upper laundry,maple cabinets, ceramic & laminate, s/s appliances. Open concept & great for families.

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RED DEER

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18 100 Timberstone Way - Red Deer

Visit www.chbaca.ca for more information

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advances, regulations, new products, financing, and so on - in short, knowledge that no professional new home builders can do without.

• Home building is teamwork that takes the skills and expertise of many different trades and suppliers. Builders who belong to the CHBA have ready access to a wide network of member companies to help them deliver a high level of quality and service to home buyers.

• Managing a successful home building business means being part of the community. Through their local associations, CHBA members work with local decision-makers to contribute to the vitality and well being of the community, and perhaps most importantly to make a difference in the lives of the people who live there.

Visit www.chbaca.ca to learn more about the Canadian Home Builders’ Association and its members, and get helpful information about new home buying.

Wondering about finding the right new home builder? Concerned about getting the best possible value for your home buying-money?

Not sure where to begin your search? When you are thinking about buying a new home, it’s a good idea to turn to a builder who is a member of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA).

The CHBA represents the professional home building industry, with more than 8,000 members across the country.

• Membership in the CHBA is a strong indication that a new homebuilder is a professional, dedicated to the business of home building, and in business for the long term.

• Membership is voluntary. Members agree to the Association’s Code of Ethics, which is based on principles of fairness, integrity and consumer satisfaction.

• Home building is complex, demanding and constantly evolving.

Through the CHBA, members can keep up to date on technological

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The very best in modern home design. Great value, 3 bedrms/2.5 baths, 2,135 sq ft all for $392,999. Large bedrooms. Spacious bonus room.

Why Choose a CHBA Builder

172 Paramount Crescent - Blackfalds 1852 sq ft, 2 storey w/3 bedrooms + den, 2 1/2 baths. Laundry chute upstairs joins to main floor laundry. Double garden doors lead to massive 10x26’ deck. 10’ ceilings in living room & den.

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1622 sq ft, 1 1/2 storey, 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath.

Vaulted ceiling open to 2nd storey in great rm & foyer. Plan modified to include laundry room on main floor.

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Modern kitchen w lots of natural light & European cabinets. Fully developed basement w lots of room family rm & 2 additional bedrms. Good use of space w master bedroom over garage.

Beautiful corner lot in the up & coming coummunity of Blackfalds.

403.588.8861 www.larkaunhomes.com

22 1 Morris Court - Blackfalds Chefs kitchen. Indoor outdoor fireplace. Spa master ensuite & bedroom. Bonus room.

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3 Veronica Close - Red Deer

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4934 Beardsley Ave., Lacombe Beautiful executive adult lifestyle semi detached bungalows. Situated right on Lacombe’s beautiful walking trail system.

Located in Lacombe’s quiet north west corner.

Lake view from most lots in subdivision.

Registered in Holmes Approved Homes. 3 season room. 2773 sq ft with 3 bed and bonus room or 4 bedrooms upstairs. Festival of Trees Charity Home. .

112 Eastpointe Dr., Blackfalds

3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath. Our most popular plan.

Open concept living w/tons of windows. Pot lights throughout.

403.396.1269 www.colbrayhomes.ca

403.340.1090 www.avaloncentralalberta.com

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11 2 Regal Court - Sylvan Lake

10 4936 Aspen Lake Blvd. - Blackfalds

12 50 Van Slyke Way - Red Deer

403.885.2970 wwwhomesbyeagleridge.com

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Open concept layout. Large kitchen with walk through pantry. Dream master suite. 3 bedrooms 2.5 bathrooms.

Modern grey tones. Fully sodded yards.

Attached single car garage. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath.

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16 2 Tallman Close - Red Deer

Coffered ceiling. Custom tiled shower.

Upgraded cabinets. On demand hot water.

403.304.7684 www.stalwoodhomes.ca

24 7 Vista Close - Red Deer

Spacious bright design. Large kitchen with island is open to dining area & living room. 3 different top floor plans to suit your needs 3 bdrm/2 bath, 2 bdrm/2 bath or 3 bdrm/1 bath.

Bungalow style adult villa in a quiet close. Full of executive features and finishings. Highefficient package. Yard care & snow removal provided.

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23 140 Ponderosa Ave. - Blackfalds

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1703 sq ft modified bilevel with att garage.

Granite counter tops. Hardwood floors.

Oversized master bedroom with 2 walk-in closets.

Executive 2 storey with home automation.

Fully finished basement on walk out lot.

Certified Built Green by one of central Alberta’s premier builders. Situated on Blackfalds east side close to all amenities.

15 6 Thompson Cres - Red Deer

• Samsung Front Load, Steam Laundry, Heavy Duty, 9 cycle set worth approx. $2000.00 • Samsung 51 inch plasma TV with a Samsung sound bar worth approx. $1500.00 • $500.00 Gift Card for Wolf Creek Building Supplies - Lacombe Timbr Mart

403.341.5933 www.truelinehomes.com

SILVER

• $500.00 Red Deer Lighting Gift Certificate Bonus Prize (see rules and regulations) • $500 Visa Gift Card