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ASK HER ANYTHING New Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer reflects on her path to public office and where it will lead from here

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City of Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer takes a break from running on the track at the Collicutt Centre this week. The first-term mayor says she likes to run two or three times a week on the indoor track through the winter months to keep fit.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF You might think Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer’s interest in politics was sparked while working as a constituency assistant for a member of Parliament.

You would be wrong.

In fact, the campaigns and lobbying efforts began when the 35-year-old was at Aspen Heights Elementary School.

“When I was about five, it became evident I was fairly opinionated,” laughed Veer. “If I didn’t like

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Her first real glimpse into the political world came four years later, when she advocated for residents as a constituency assistant in former MP Bob Mills’ office.

Fast forward to 2004, when Veer became the youngest female councillor to serve on Red Deer city council at age 26. She barely made the cut, though, after the ballots at three polls were not counted on election night.

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something, I would lobby for change.”

Her parents — Melba and Brian Veer — would be subjected to campaigns on issues that the young Veer wanted to change in the household.

Picket signs and posters often appeared calling for a change in the dinner menu or a later bedtime.

“My mom would open her purse to find a sign or my dad would flip down the visor of his truck and find a sign,” said Veer.

When her Grade 6 class visited City Hall, Veer remembered whirling around in a chair and thinking, “Maybe one day I will become a city councillor.”

At age 17, she brought a petition signed by River

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VEER: ‘An exciting time’ Veer, who was sitting in seventh, and Coun. Frank Wong, who was in eighth position, received an unexpected phone call the next day.

“Frank and I received the call: don’t quit your day job just yet,” laughed Veer. “I still ended up staying in seventh position ... Frank and I are still here and it kinda bonded us for life.”

Veer said she originally planned not to run until 2007, but when the election signs went up she was convinced to throw her hat in the 2004 pool of 25 council candidates. She won re-election twice, in and in 2010.

‘I think it’s hard 2007 Veer said she did to look too far not run for councillor with the intenout in politics tion to use it as a stone for because you stepping the mayor’s job but depend so much she has known for few years it was on the favour of aher next goal. She the public.’ said she had to make some adjustments when she moved from party politics to municipal politics. Unlike party politics, there were no briefings on issues in municipal politics so elected officials have to land on their own opinions.

“Once I adjusted to that I actually grew very fond of the strength of municipal government and that you can form your own opinion,” she said.

“And it is the closest government to the people.”

Veer said throughout the years she has been encouraged to seek the office

Mayor Veer gets personal When is your birthday?

Dec. 29, 1977 What is your marital status?

Single. She prefers to keep her private life separate from her public life. “When I am engaged to be married, Red Deer will know through the announcement section in the Red Deer Advocate.”

What’s your education?

Graduated from River Glen School; sociology courses with a concentration in criminology at Red Deer College and Queen’s University; will write a paper to finish her degree starting in January.

What jobs have you held? ● Cashier at Dairy Queen in Deer Park (first job) ● Salesperson at La Senza in Parkland Mall ● Flagger for Northside Construction ● Waitress at Earl’s restaurant ● Classified ad taker at Red Deer Ad-

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of mayor, and to set her sights on provincial and federal seats.

She hasn’t closed the door on pursuing federal or provincial office, down the road.

“I think it’s hard to look too far out in politics because you depend so much on the favour of the public,” she said. “You have to take it one term at a time.”

On Oct. 21, Veer made history by becoming the youngest mayor in Red Deer’s history. She is the city’s second female mayor (Gail Surkan was the first).

“It’s an exciting time because our city just turned 100,” said Veer. “I think it is an exciting time to be the mayor as we enter our next century of progress.”

Politics aside, Veer says she’s just a regular person with a passion for cooking, running and gardening. Last year, she strutted her stuff in the local charity dance competition.

“This taught me it’s important to set time aside to learn something new and step outside your comfort zone,” said Veer. “In that case I had never danced.

I grew so much as a person because it forced me to step outside my comfort zone.”

Veer said she didn’t want to live with the regret of saying no. She said it was a good lesson leading up to the mayoral campaign.

For those pondering elected office, Veer offers some advice.

“You need to know who you are and stay true to who you are,” said Veer. “I think you need to resolve that before you enter the political arena.”

Veer encourages anyone with an interest to have an eye on the community because she said politics needs to be about the people.

“My personal view is that politics have to be about the people and about community service,” said the mayor. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Four-year-old Tara Veer stands with grandfather Vern Sampson — a former mayor of Irma — in Red Deer’s City Hall Park. When her Grade 6 class visited City Hall, Veer remembered whirling around in a chair and thinking, “Maybe one day I will become a city councillor.”

vocate ● Constituency assistant at MP Bob Mills’ office ● Executive director and children’s ministry co-ordinator at Living Stones Church What vehicle do you drive?

Jeep Liberty Smartphone?

An iPhone 4 with a shattered screen but it still works fine.

What’s your diet look like? ● Avoids processed food, 90 per cent vegetarian, eats organic ● Cooks from scratch from ingredients grown in her parent’s garden and/or in her backyard ● Drinks strong dark roast coffee with one cream and one sugar ● Enjoys a glass of red or white wine, depending on her mood Favourite book?

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Favorite hockey and CFL teams?

Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Eskimos

Quirky facts ● Dwight Schrute II is her favourite character on The Office ● She has mastered Earl’s chili chicken recipe ● Reads three books a week ● Runs at the Collicutt Centre Describe yourself “I love public policy and I am a bit of a book worm.”

What are some of your milestones in your political career? ● Youngest elected female to Red Deer city council, in 2004 at age 26 ● One of the five female councillors on the 2007 council, the most number of female councillors at one time in Red Deer’s history ● Youngest mayor in Red Deer’s history ● Second female Red Deer mayor What role (if any) will the church have in influencing your decision making?

“There is not a direct relationship because I am firm believer of valuing all people of all walks of life. When people raise that question, I say my personal

town of High River are starting to get into their modular classrooms.

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And he says the remaining 260 students should be ready to move in over the next couple of weeks.

Johnson says the government had hoped to move more quickly.

He suggested the delay had nothing to do with the single-source contract the government signed for the modulars.

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faith grounds me as a person. Everyone has a value system that they bring to the table. I think ultimately it grounds me as a person. With respect to public policy, there is not a linkage between the two.”

Will you keep your election promises?

Yes with the consent of council.

What’s your take on being the youngest mayor?

“I love public policy. I love my community. I have already jumped in with my two feet and I am going to give it my all.”

How have your platform/politics changed since 2004?

“In many respects, I am the same on a foundational basis but I have grown in many respects. I think I have become more conscious of councillors’ roles and now as my role of mayor as an influence in the community and the possibilities we have for community building. I have grown in a more formal sense. I am more conscious how the actions, the decisions and choices of councillors can actually influence the community in many respects.”

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City of Red Deer Environmental Services workers and Enviro Sort employees clean up a minor solvent spill at Taylor Drive and 77th Street on Friday. Around 2:30 p.m., a truck carrying a load of Varsol solvent lost 20 litres of its load while taking a corner. The spill was not considered a hazardous material incident. The northbound lanes at the intersection were closed for a couple hours while workers cleaned up the mess.

Outcome of sex assault trial hinges on credibility of witnesses

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The credibility of witnesses will play a major role in the outcome of a sex assault trial that wrapped up in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Friday morning.

A 39-year-old Red Deer man, whose name is withheld to shield the identity of his alleged victim, is accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter three times in July and August 2011. The girl was 13 at the time.

An additional charge arising from an incident alleged to have occurred in 2002 was dismissed because the Crown could offer no evidence.

Defence counsel Kevin Sproule, in presenting his case before Justice Keith Yamauchi, pointed to “significant” inconsistencies and contradictions in the girl’s statements, including her initial statement to police and her testimony during the preliminary hearing and the trial.

Sproule asked Yamauchi to consider testimony in which the girl said all of the incidents occurred while she was asleep, claiming to have “the uncanny ability to know what was going on with her, even when she is in a deep sleep.”

Sproule challenged DNA evidence collected from the girl’s skin and clothes, stating that it would not be unusual to find a man’s DNA on people and items in his own home.

Crown prosecutor Robin Snider countered that the level of DNA material recovered from the victim and her clothes was beyond that which could nor-

mally have been transferred through normal activities in the household.

While none of the material could be identified as semen, that does not prove that there was no sexual activity, said Snider.

She said some inconsistencies can be expected when children are called to the witness stand.

“The court should be sensitive to the perspective of children,” said Snider.

The courts have recognized that child witnesses may give inconsistent testimony, she said, stating that the physical evidence submitted at trial does not contradict the girl’s account of what happened to her.

Snider went on to say that the accused man’s testimony was self-serving and therefore not credible.

Yamauchi is to return next Friday with his verdict. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Construction worker sentenced to time served on firearms charges A Ponoka construction worker has paid a hefty price for trying to resolve his housing costs by couch surfing.

In Red Deer provincial court on Friday, Stephen James Richmond, 27, was sentenced to eight and half months in jail, satisfied by the time he served in remand after being caught with a collection of firearms in the back seat while driving someone else’s car.

Defence counsel Lorne Goddard said his client was working for a company that erects steel buildings and was put up in motels while on the job.

Rather than maintaining a place of his own, he would crash on others people’s couches between jobs, said Goddard.

Richmond got mixed up with the wrong kind of people as a result, which is how he happened to be driving the car that had the guns in the back seat, he said.

Remarking on a fresh bruise under the man’s right eye, Goddard said his client had suffered some tough lessons in remand, including a recent beating.

Crown prosecutor Jillian Brown said Richmond

was arrested on the morning of Feb. 18 after Red Deer City RCMP officers ran the car’s licence plate and found that it did not match the vehicle, said Brown.

Officers found three rifles and a shotgun in the back seat. The shotgun and two of the rifles were loaded, she said.

Richmond was arrested on more than 30 charges, including weapons offences, possession of marijuana and possession of stolen property.

He pleaded guilty before Judge John Holmes on Friday afternoon to five counts of having firearms in a vehicle without authorization, three counts of careless transport of firearms and three counts of unlawful possession of firearms. The balance of the charges were withdrawn.

Brown said she and Goddard recommended a global sentence of eight and a half months, satisfied by time served.

Holmes agreed. Richmond must also submit a sample of his DNA and he is prohibited from possessing weapons for five years. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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The United Nurses of Alberta says Alberta Health Services wants to cut 81 registered nurses — equivalent to 38 full-time positions — from Red Deer Regional Hospital.

The reductions are based on AHS staff scheduling transformation documents from July.

United Nurses of Alberta president Heather Smith said on Friday the reduction was significant.

“This is going to mean basically fewer registered nurses interacting with patients, residents, clients, in Red Deer and surrounding area.”

An Alberta Health Services spokesperson firmly denied there are reductions underway to nursing staff at the hospital.

Nurses say across the province 391 nurses will lose their jobs at some of the hospital units at about 30 worksites, which is the equivalent of about 80 fulltime jobs.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen at the remainder of units at these sites, let alone the rest of the province,” Smith said.

She said an AHS advertising campaign says it is looking for more full-time nurses, trying to suggest they’re not reducing nursing care and they’re not laying off anybody.

AHS originally agreed to incorporate staff changes through attrition as nurses change positions or leave, Smith said.

“It appears they’re not willing to wait to make changes through attrition, which is why I think they are ramping up their media campaign, looking to have a showdown,” Smith said.

Alberta Health Services and the union are currently in contract negotiations.

The nurses’ union says from July 2012 to October 2013, on average only a third of RN job postings by AHS have been for full-time positions.

Deb Gordon, with Alberta Health Services, said there is absolutely no action underway to reduce the number of nurses at the Red Deer hospital.

AHS information released by UNA on Friday was from the July-August period and was only part of the picture, not the full picture, Gordon said.

“We’re continuing to develop additional schedules for nurses. As we’re doing that, we expect the head count to stay steady over time,” she said.

She said AHS did agree to increase full-time positions through attrition.

“This is still a work in progress and will be for a long period of time. This transition will be gradual over time.”

Alberta Health Services says about 31 per cent of AHS nurses are full time. Nationally, 59 per cent work full time.

“We’re a bit low. We’re just trying to change the balance a bit. That’s because it’s good for patients,” Gordon said.

From the patient’s perspective, if they could see two full-time nurses instead of four part-time nurses while in hospital, it would give them a sense of comfort, she said.

“They think — she looked after me yesterday. I’m comfortable with her and she knows my story.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Wallin facing more allegations EXPENSE CLAIMS CONSTITUTE FRAUD, BREACH OF TRUST, RCMP DOCUMENTS ALLEGE

Senate expense audit cost almost $530K

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Ford friend threatened alleged gang member to try to find video, police allege the bail hearing was placed under a publication ban, but wording in Lisi’s formal charge and his bail conditions paint a picture of what investigators allege.

The Star and Gawker reports were published the night of May 16, and Lisi’s extortion charge alleges that between May 16 and 18 he “did induce Mohamed Siad or Liban Siyad by threats or violence or menace to deliver said digital video recording.”

Siad is referred to in a police report released by the courts Thursday as “believed to have been one of the people trying to sell Mayor Ford crack video.”

Both Siad and Siyad were arrested as part of Project Traveller, a drugs and weapons investigation that culminated June 13 with a series of raids.

It was that day that police seized a hard drive on which the video was ultimately found as a deleted file, Blair said.

The arrests targeted alleged members of the Dixon City Bloods gang and both men are facing charges of participating in a criminal organization.

Siyad is also one of the people that a confidential informant told police he has seen at an alleged “crack house” on Windsor Road in Toronto.

“The house belongs to a couple of crack heads but Dixon guys go there often to ‘chop’ crack or just hang out and get drunk,” the source is quoted as telling investigators in the recently released police report.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A friend of Toronto’s mayor threatened two alleged gang members as he tried to get his hands on a video appearing to show Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, police allege.

A brief court appearance Friday for Alexander Lisi, 35, helped shed light on his alleged activities in the hours after the Toronto Star and U.S. website Gawker published accounts of the video.

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair announced Thursday that investigators have uncovered what appears to be the alleged video.

Ford has said he doesn’t use crack cocaine and couldn’t comment on a video that he hadn’t seen or did not exist. In response to Blair’s stunning announcement he said he couldn’t comment because it was before the courts.

Blair said police have no “reasonable” grounds to criminally charge the mayor based on the video.

Lisi was charged with extortion this week for alleged attempts to get the recording. The mayor’s friend and occasional driver made his first court appearance Friday morning and was released on $5,000 bail, with his father acting as his surety.

Lisi was already out on bail after being arrested and charged last month with four drug offences.

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OTTAWA — The effort to hold Canada’s allegedly free-spending senators to account has a new price tag — and it’s a whopper.

The independent audit of Sen. Pamela Wallin’s expenses has cost taxpayers $390,058, nearly three times the amount of ineligible expenses she was required to pay back, Senate officials disclosed Friday.

It’s also more than twice the total cost the auditing firm in question, Deloitte, billed for its review of expense claims filed by senators Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and now-retired Liberal Mac Harb.

The audit into their living allowances and expenses cost $138,784.

“We know this is a significant cost,” said a statement from Sen. Gerald Comeau, the Conservative chairman of the Senate’s board of internal economy, which oversees contracts and spending.

“However, once the audit was ordered, we had to allow it to be fully concluded in order to get a fair and consistent reading of the issues involved.”

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Wallin has paid back more than $138,000 in expenses declared ineligible. Some $90,000 involving Duffy was paid by the prime minister’s former chief of staff. Harb gave back $231,649, covering eight years, and Brazeau is having his $48,744 expenses tab taken out of his paycheque.

The audit bills represent the latest revelations in the Senate spending scandal, which has gripped Ottawa for months and comes with the upper chamber nearing a vote next week on a motion to suspend Wallin, Duffy and Brazeau without pay.

In Wallin’s case, the cost soared after the Senate asked auditors to expand their probe of her expenses — primarily travel costs — to include her entire time in the upper chamber, which was not done in the other three cases.

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OTTAWA — Sen. Pamela Wallin committed fraud and breach of trust by filing fraudulent expense claims, RCMP investigators allege in court documents released Friday — the latest twist in the roller-coaster Senate expense scandal.

The allegations are spelled out by investigators in documents authorizing a production order — a binding court document aimed at compelling the Senate and its auditors to hand over material related to the police investigation.

In particular, the Mounties have asked for several versions of Wallin’s electronic Senate calendar, saying the calendars could provide further evidence to back up the allegations.

Wallin has not been charged with an offence, nor have the allegations been proven in court.

The investigation and subsequent allegations relate to a Deloitte audit that flagged more than $140,000 in questionable travel expenses Wallin claimed between Jan. 1, 2009, and Sept. 30, 2012 — expenses she has since paid back.

In the court filings, RCMP Const. Michael Johnson said there are reasonable grounds to believe that two offences have been committed.

The documents allege Wallin “did commit breach of trust in connection with the duties of office” and “by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means defrauded the Senate of Canada of money by fil-

gators the flight was to attend the Institute of Corporate Directors Fellowship Awards.

But the awards gala was scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. that day. Wallin’s flight didn’t arrive in Toronto until 9:05 p.m. Investigators also found, as part of Wallin’s travel claim, a car service invoice indicating the senator was driven that day from “airport to home.”

Wallin — who initially described the Deloitte audit as “fundamentally flawed and unfair” — has accused some fellow senators of succumbing to a “lynch mob” mentality in trying to suspend her.

In her Oct. 23 speech to the Senate, Wallin admitted to having made mistakes in her expenses filings.

“When we found mistakes, we acknowledged them and I repaid the amounts immediately,” she said.

She also said she co-operated fully with the outside auditors.

“My assistant and I worked night and day verifying timelines, searching out supporting documentation for each and every event — and there were many.”

Wallin said the whole proceeding against her, including the bid to suspend her, is a result of backroom politics. “It is, as my lawyer said, Kafkaesque.”

The independent audit cleared her name, she insisted, but the attacks carried on.

“Just to be clear, when asked, Deloitte said there was no evidence of deliberate misrepresentation or fraud or fiddling with the books, as the media had reported,” she said.

ing inappropriate expense claims,” contrary to the Criminal Code.

In addition to the calendars, the police also want to see all of Wallin’s travel expense claims between Jan. 9 and Sept. 30 this year.

They’re also requesting billing statements from her corporate and personal credit cards, statements for her Senate-supplied cell phones and all recordings and notes from Deloitte interviews conducted during their audit.

The latest twist comes with the Senate mired in a politically explosive debate about whether Wallin and fellow former Conservative senators Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau should be suspended without pay over their disallowed expense claims.

In his request for a production order, Johnson points to several instances where Wallin submitted expense claims for travel to events in Toronto. But many of the timelines included in her electronic calendar submissions don’t add up, he alleges.

Accounting firm Deloitte, hired to review Wallin’s expense claims, noted that there were three versions of her calendar, and that entries had been altered more than 391 times.

After reviewing the Deloitte audit findings, Johnson told the court that Wallin spent most of her time in Toronto, despite declaring Wadena, Sask., as her “primary residence.”

One travel claim highlighted in the documents showed her flying from Ottawa to Toronto on June 4, 2009, for “Senate business.” Wallin later told investi-

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Gunman kills TSA agent at LAX SIX TAKEN TO HOSPITAL; SUSPECT IN CUSTODY LOS ANGELES — A man with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing a TSA employee and wounding two other people in an attack that frightened passengers and disrupted flights nationwide, officials said.

Los Angeles police Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger said the unidentified gunman was apparently wounded following an exchange of gunfire with officers and was in custody.

Tim Kauffman, a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees in Washington, confirmed Friday that a Transportation Security Administration officer was killed.

Kauffman said the union’s information comes from their local officials in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said that at about 9:20 a.m., the gunman pulled what he described as an “assault rifle” from a bag and began firing inside Terminal 3.

He then went to the security screening area, where he fired more shots and went into the secure area of the terminal, Gannon said.

Officers exchanged fire with the gunman and apprehended him; police believe he was the only shooter, Gannon said. “As you can imagine, a large amount of chaos took place in this entire incident,” he said.

Some passengers who already had cleared security rushed onto the tarmac to evacuate, while others were locked down in airport restaurants and lounges. The airport was being swept as a precaution and the bomb unit was on scene.

Air traffic was affected nationwide as the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights that had not yet

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria — The international envoy to Syria called on the divided opposition Friday to overcome differences and agree to attend peace talks with President Bashar Assad’s government, warning the negotiations cannot go forward without them.

Lakhdar Brahimi, who wrapped up his five-day visit to Damascus, appeared uncertain about prospects for the meeting expected to take place later this month in Geneva.

The deeply fractured Syrian opposition groups are split on whether to attend the talks. They also disagree over conditions for taking part — from demands that Assad steps down right away to guarantees that he would not be part of a negotiated solution for the country’s future. The opposition is also split between Damascus-based groups, who have said they will attend without preconditions, and the exiled opposition, which is more hard-line.

The government has rejected demands that Assad step aside, saying he will stay at least until the end of his term in mid-2014, and will then decide whether to seek re-election. Assad also has said he will not negotiate with armed rebels.

“The Syrian national opposition, armed and unarmed, have all been invited to form a convincing delegation,” Brahimi said in Beirut after arriving from Syria. “I am counting on the Syrian people and those who claim to represent the Syrian people to realize the danger of the situation and for all sides to seek to save Syria and to save their country.”

In New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon told reporters the aim was to convene the talks “within the month of November.”

UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said “a great deal is being done” to try to unite the opposition.

“Everybody knows that this is difficult,” he said.

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departed for LAX. Some flights were still allowed to depart what is one of the nation’s busiest airports. Cars were blocked from entering.

Witness Brian Keech said he heard about a dozen gunshots from inside a security gate at the terminal, which has been evacuated.

Ben Rosen was sitting at the Starbucks in Terminal 3 eating oatmeal at about 9:20 a.m. when he heard gunfire erupt and people start running in all directions and others crouching on the ground. Rosen got on the ground and another passenger said “don’t worry we’re safe.”

Then more gunshots erupted. He grabbed his phone and tried to lie down as flat on the ground as he could.

Police showed up with their guns drawn, shouting, “This is not a drill!

Hands up!”

Everyone put their hands up and then were led out of the airport terminal to the international terminal, Rosen said.

As they were led out they saw broken glass from a window that looked like it’d been shot out. Rosen left his bag behind.

The Federal Aviation Administration said a “ground stop” was in affect for all flights heading to Los Angeles, meaning planes at other airports can’t take off for the city, although some flights in the air were allowed to land.

LAX air traffic controller Michael Foote said some flights were still being allowed to depart.

Foote said his colleagues in the control tower saw passengers spilling from the terminal onto the tarmac, “evacuating the building, getting out as fast as they could.” Officers eventually corralled them.

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Public has right to know about evils NEWFOUNDLAND-LABRADOR DECIDES NOT TO REVEAL STUDY INTO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION As a parent, wouldn’t you like to know about the sexual predators prowling around for your children, as close as the alley behind your house? And wouldn’t you expect officials to alert the public on these issues for the sake of education and protection of the children?

Shockingly, the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador has concluded that what it has learned about sexual exploitation on their turf is none of the public’s business.

A government-funded study on the subject in that province, released in 2011, struck a nerve painful enough to impose censorship on that very important document. ApparRICK ently the province was not ZEMANEK banking on the depth of an alarming problem when it issued the study. It also was not banking on the multiple recommendations contained in the report to address this dilemma.

In response, that government promptly buried its head in the sand, ignored the studies’ findings, and censored the 120-page report from public view. It argued the results were too sensitive and dangerous to be made public.

Most surprising was the response of that government’s Women’s Policy Office, which turned cold as stone in defending the report’s censorship.

That office justified censorship, saying the re-

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port’s entirety is covered by an exemption in accessto-information law dealing with disclosures “harmful to individual or public safety,” according to a CBC report.

So why was the study conducted if it wasn’t intended to be made public?

“It’s not enough to be compassionate. We must act,” the study rightfully concludes. Yet the provincial government, for puzzling and unjustified reasons, is sweeping the issue under the carpet and ignoring the report in its entirety.

The CBC obtained a copy of the censored report.

It makes sweeping recommendations for protection of children, the sex trade, and suggestions to help sex workers exit the industry.

But apparently findings in the report, titled It’s Nobody’s Mandate and Everyone’s Responsibility: Sexual Exploitation and the Sex Trade in Newfoundland and Labrador, raised enough influential eyebrows to succeed in censorship.

The CBC reports that more than 100 key informants were interviewed for the report between December 2010 and April 2011.

Victims of sexual exploitation also contributed to the report.

Informants included, said the CBC, “representatives of youth-serving agencies, aboriginal organizations, shelters, women’s organizations, social workers, health-care providers, housing agencies, teachers, RCMP, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the Department of Justice.”

Among other things, the report asserts that “All governments must take responsibility” in this sexual exploitation crisis, which no doubt extends across Canada.

In 2011, Laura Winters, a PhD candidate researching sex work, obtained a copy of the report, hoping to use it at conferences.

Shortly after, she was told to return the copy and was then put under a gag order.

Winters was enraged, according to CBC. “I can’t see sitting on this report; it’s alarming,” she said.

“It calls for action, it calls for government action.

You know, to really sit there and do nothing, you are re-victimizing the people who have had these experiences.”

She added “By keeping this (report) under wraps, the government is allowing it to happen in the province unchecked. ... By not really doing anything real about this issue, the government is endangering people” by holding back the report. Winters says the first step would be to release the report.

Critics are puzzled over the reasons for censorship.

“I’m not sure whose safety they’re protecting, but it’s certainly not the public’s, and it’s certainly not the safety of the people involved here,” said Winters.

The Newfoundland government has committed a grave injustice against its citizens by denying them the right to know about the evils haunting their streets.

A responsible government has an obligation to educate its citizens on these issues of great concern.

Sexual exploitation will not dissipate by pretending it’s not there.

An obtuse attitude merely fans the flames, gives the offenders wider pastures to roam, and robs Canadians of the right to the utmost protection under our laws.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

The downfall of the NSA Politicians and government offi- ward Snowden, reported recently that cials rarely tell outright lies; the cost a total of 35 national leaders have been of being caught out in a lie is too high. targeted by the NSA. We know that the Instead, they make carefully worded German, Brazilian and Mexican leadstatements that seem to address the is- ers were bugged, but it’s almost cersue, but avoid the truth. tain that the leaders of France, Spain Take, for example, Caitand Italy, Egypt, Israel and lin Hayden, the White Saudi Arabia, and Japan, House spokesperson who India and Indonesia were replied on Oct. 24 to Geralso targeted. Not to menman Chancellor Angela tion Russia and China.

Merkel’s angry protest at The only one of the the tapping of her mobile NSA’s high-level victims to phone by the U.S. National speak out yet, apart from Security Agency.

Angela Merkel, is President “The United States is Dilma Roussef of Brazil. not monitoring and will Last month she told the UN not monitor the commuGeneral Assembly: “Pernications of Chancellor sonal data of (Brazilian) Merkel,” she said. Yes, but citizens was intercepted inGWYNNE has the U.S. been listening discriminately. Corporate DYER to Merkel’s mobile phone information — often of high calls from 2002 until the day economic and even stratebefore yesterday? “Beyond gic value — was at the centhat, I’m not in a position to tre of espionage activity. ... comment publicly on every specific al- The office of the president itself had leged intelligence activity.” its communications intercepted.”

By Sunday, the argument had moved “Friendly governments and societon. The question now was: did Presi- ies that seek to build a true strategic dent Barack Obama know the chan- partnership ... cannot allow recurring cellor’s phone was bugged? (The Ger- illegal actions to take place as if they man tabloid Bild am Sonntag reported were normal,” Roussef concluded. that Gen. Keith Alexander, head of “They are unacceptable.” the NSA, told Obama about it in 2010.

And you wonder how the brilliant, Obama allegedly said that the surveil- power-drunk fools at the NSA could lance should continue, as “he did not possibly have believed they could get trust her.”) away with this kind of behaviour inNow it was the turn of the NSA definitely. spokesperson, Vanee Vines, to deny The 4.9 million (!) Americans with the truth. “Alexander did not discuss access to classified information inwith President Obama in 2010 an al- clude 480,000 civilian contractors with leged foreign intelligence operation the same “top secret” security clearinvolving German Chancellor Merkel, ance as Snowden. nor has he ever discussed alleged opEven if all the military and public erations involving Chancellor Merkel,” servants could be trusted to keep the she said. But she carefully avoided NSA’s guilty secret forever (unlikely) saying that Obama had not been told and only one in a hundred of the conat all. tractors was outraged by it, then there The ridiculous thing about these were still 4,800 potential whistleblowmeticulously crafted pseudo-denials is ers waiting to blow. that they leave a truth-shaped hole for If Snowden hadn’t, somebody else everyone to see. would have.

Of course, the United States has When the astounding scale and been listening to Angela Merkel’s scope of the agency’s operations finalphone calls since 2002, and of course ly came out, it was bound to create inObama knew about it. It would have tense pressure on Washington to rein been quite easy to deny those facts if in the NSA. they were not true.

The agency can deflect the domestic The NSA is completely out of con- pressure, to some extent, by insisting trol. Its German outpost was brazenly that it’s all being done to keep Amerilocated on the fourth floor of the U.S. cans safe from terrorism, but it can’t embassy in Berlin, and leaked docu- persuade the president of South Korea ments published by Der Spiegel say that or the prime minister of Bangladesh the NSA maintains similar operations that she was being bugged because she in 80 other U.S. embassies and consul- was a terrorist suspect. ates around the world.

The NSA’s worst abuse has been its The Guardian, also relying on docu- violation of the privacy of hundreds ments provided by whistleblower Ed- of millions of private citizens at home

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and abroad, but it’s the pressure from furious foreign leaders that will finally force the U.S. government to act.

“Trust in our ally the U.S.A. has been shattered,” said German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich. “If the Americans have tapped mobile phones in Germany, then they have broken German law on German soil.”

This will end up in the German courts, and probably in those of many other countries as well (and Snowden may well end up being granted asylum in Germany).

To rebuild its relations with its key allies, the White House is going to have to radically curb the NSA’s powers.

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Is there a skills crisis?

SOME MISMATCHES EXIST BUT CAN BE OVERCOME There is no skills crisis, now or in the near future, TD Economics tells us in a new report, Jobs in Canada: Where, What and For Whom?

— although it acknowledges that there are some mismatches between Canadians seeking jobs and what employers want.

But the basic message is reassuring — with some improvements by policymakers, employers and educators, we should have no real problem in matching people and jobs in the future.

DAVID While there is much useCRANE ful research in their report, there is a big risk that the TD Economics group could be terribly wrong, because they largely dismiss the implications of the fast-changing digital economy and the risks for middle-class jobs and growing inequality.

Brian Arthur, an American economist specializing in complex systems, argued in a 2011 essay, The second economy, that rapid advances in information and communications technologies are radically transforming society and creating a second economy that is eliminating large numbers of middle class jobs.

In the essay, published in the McKinsey Quarterly, he argued that “something deep is going on with information technology.”

What is happening is that “business processes that once took place among human beings are now being executed electronically. They are taking place

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in an unseen domain that is strictly digital.”

And this, he argued, is creating a digital economy where computers and sensors talk to each other without human intervention. What is happening now “may well be the biggest change ever in the economy.”

As Arthur stresses, the second or digital economy isn’t producing anything physical.

“It’s not making my bed in a hotel, or bringing me orange juice in the morning. But it is running an awful lot of the economy,” he says.

“It’s helping architects design buildings, it’s tracking sales and inventory, getting goods from here to there, executing trades and banking operations, controlling manufacturing equipment, making design calculations, billing clients, navigating aircraft, helping diagnose patients, and guiding laparoscopic surgeries.”

Arthur’s concerns are reinforced in a 2011 book, Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In it, they note that economists have come up with three explanations for persistent unemployment or underemployment: Cyclicality, which says the problem is an economy that is growing too slowly; stagnation, which means that the capacity to innovate and boost productivity has been lost; and end of work, which means that rapid technological progress, especially in digital technology, is eliminating many jobs.

The two MIT economists agree with the end-ofwork thesis.

“Digital technologies are one of the most important driving forces in the economy today” and “computers are now doing many things that used to be the domain of people only,” they say.

As continuing exponential increases in computing power yield far greater capacities, “we expect that economic disruptions will only grow as well.”

A recent report from Oxford University’s Pro-

gramme on the Impact of Future Technology argues that 45 per cent of occupations in the U.S. could be automated over the next two decades.

Computers are replacing people in administrative tasks, production and logistics and distribution, as well in sales and service.

Next, with advances in artificial intelligence, jobs in management, science, and engineering could be threatened.

And in a new book, Average is Over, economist Tyler Cowen contends that advances in the digital economy will bring about a much deeper divide in society, with some 10 to 15 per cent of the population enjoying an extraordinary level of affluence, much of the middle-class disappearing, and a growing underclass with much diminished prospects. As he puts it, a large number of Americans will have to live “like Mexicans.”

Not all economists agree with these gloomy prognostications.

But what if the fears are right?

For their part, the TD economists reject fears of a new technological revolution.

“While it is true that technology has taken off particularly over the past decade, it is debatable whether the impacts on labour supply from technological advances are any more significant than in prior decades,” they say.

But the issue is good jobs.

Complacency is not an option. We need a much better understanding of the transformative changes that new technologies could bring and what these would mean for what we teach young people, how we retrain people, how we ensure we have the right environment and incentives for the industries and tasks of the future, and how we address income inequality and the risks to the middle class.

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

Thoughts behind the appearances

Surviving the fish fry at the farm I’d never been to a fish fry. In fact, two rotten nephews and my rotten I wasn’t exactly sure just what a fish niece and their better halves and fry was, except for the obvious no- their own rotten kidlets were having tion that it must have something or a Sunday “fish fry” out at their farm other to do with a form and that we would really of cooking, and aquatic enjoy it, I told her that beasts who inexplicably she was deranged and breathe water. So I wasn’t that I would be away on that thrilled, to tell you business in South Amerthe honest truth. ica.

Oh, I have absolutely Just kidding of course, nothing against the techI would never miss a famnical act of cooking as ily get-together even if long as I don’t have to it did involve ingesting do it. And as far as cookprehistorically ugly maing fishes themselves rine creatures. I decidgo, whether it be frying, ed I would take the high baking, boiling, broiling, road — grin and bear it, HARLEY basting, roasting, or toastplug my nose, avert my HAY ing in kettles, crocks, oveyes and avoid anything ens, pans, pots, planks of remotely fishy. cedar, skewers of steel, And besides, my Betbarbecues, campfires, ter Half and the one Rotbonfires, accidental fires ten Kid who was around or no fires at all (i.e. sushi) — it’s wanted to go and, I must report, have all fine as long as I don’t have to eat actually consumed fish, even in my them. Fishes, I mean. presence — I’m not kidding.

Sorry, but I just can’t like fish, as I’ve long ago forgiven them this semy Rotten Kids used to say when rious personality flaw, so I couldn’t they were just little Rotten Kidlets. say no to the fish fry for their sake.

Let’s face it — fish are, to be po- And also besides, there’s a popular lite, exceptionally ugly. drive-through hamburger establishOh, I can tolerate those slimy, ment conveniently located on the shiny, scale-ridden H2O residents way out to the farm, so I could alas long they stay completely out of ways sneak some real food (cow) in sight, preferably at or near the bot- my back pocket, so to speak, in case tom of a very deep and extremely of onset starvation. remote body of water.

So we get to the farm, a place we I just don’t have any admiration always love to go especially when at all for slippery prehistoric-look- Norm and Hedy are lacking in fish, ing creatures with eyes on opposite and the first thing we see is a cloth sides of their skinny pointy heads, garage. weird sharp spikey teeth in gaping Right by the house and near maws like tiny gates of hell, and a a whole bunch of other normal slithering body of fins and gills that wooden sheds and buildings there belongs on another planet in an ob- stood one of those portable tent-like scure galaxy far far away. shacks you can get at Costco to put And who can even touch, let alone vehicles or use for a special event bite, chew and swallow a creature such as a fish fry. that — how shall I put this — lives, And sure enough, the canvas cabswims around in and breathes an in had nothing to do with storing environment that contains all of its beaters or hot rods. very own bodily functions?

Inside, my nephews, who shall reStill, I know a lot of seemingly main nameless (Tim and Tyler), tointelligent, normal people who catch gether with my nephew-in-law, who fish, gut fish, fillet fish, fry fish, eat is protected by the fifth amendment, fish and generally love and adore are raucously holding court in the fish, but these people are clearly in- midst of numerous propane tanks, sane. Or maybe from another planet large kettles bubbling away vigor— that one in that far far away fish ously and ominously on the cold and galaxy, perhaps. icy ground and a folding table covSo when my very own sister Hedy ered with bowls of white fleshy stuff (Heather Corrigan, RR2) called last and some sort of doughy batter conweek and said her rotten kids — my coctions involving beer.

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This was indeed a proverbial “fish fry.” At least the way it’s done out on the old farm.

I managed to control my gag reflex when the elder anonymous nephew (Tim) pointed out that the white fleshy chunks were pieces of halibut that he has personally caught out on the B.C. coast and that they were going to taste “awesome.” I, of course, asked him if he went fishing “just for the halibut,” which resulted in yours truly almost getting kicked out of the tent garage cabin.

But my clever jocularity was merely a diversion, I’m afraid. Eyeing the fleshy chunks being battered and dropped into a kettle of boiling oil, all I could think of was eyeballs and fish entrails.

It got so bad my mind wandered to other denizens of the deep, like lobsters and crabs — which are really just wet giant insects and, I’m gagging as I type, even octopuses.

How people can actually munch on and attempt to digest these revolting alien organisms is way beyond me.

So anyway, it just so happened that day I had been working on editing a safety video for a well-known, highly-respected nameless company (Nova Chemicals) so I had safety on the brain, which is way better than thinking about eating cold-blooded aquatic slimeballs.

But somehow the fish got fried without any major injuries to relatives or any large structure fires, which was a miracle in itself, and somehow I was talked into taking a bite of the batter.

It didn’t look like it when all was said and done, but in reality the fish and chips resulting from the fish fry contained actual fish, and with enough ketchup, vinegar and adult beverages, I actually ingested some without going into anaphylactic shock or turning into the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

As a matter of fact, don’t tell anyone, but I went back for more. You just can’t beat batter, even if it’s a fish fry. I just pretended they were corn dogs.

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.

“What did the cow ask the horse?” he asked with a straight face.

“I don’t know,” I replied.

“Why the long face,” was the reply.

So often as I look around me, I see so many people walking about with unsmiling and often serious or sad expressions on their faces.

These are people from all walks of life not just those on the street.

The businessman with his purposeful stride but with an almost worried expression; the office worker with her gaze on the sidewalk about four metres in front of her, her face making the statement, ‘If they can’t see my eyes they won’t see what I’m thinking or feeling.’

The different looks are endless and, of course, my imagination goes into overdrive as I imagine the thoughts behind the appearances.

CHRIS Often the expresSALOMONS sions change completely when they are walking with somebody.

Smiles and laughter continually break out as conversations are carried on; their faces becoming animated, almost completely hiding the feelings inside.

But it doesn’t take too much to see that in many cases a cover-up is taking place.

But then every once in a while someone walks by and their looks make the statement” ‘I am happy, I am content, life is good.’ It’s a beautiful thing to see and I feel we see it all too rarely.

His wispy hair is tossed back and forth in the breeze as he shuffles his lanky frame along the sidewalk; his face a sad neutral appearance. The moment he enters the kitchen and sees me, a quick and ready smile emphasizes the deep lines on his face. Over the years, we have gotten to know each other a bit, so I stopped what I was doing and struck up a conversation with him.

After the pleasantries were dealt with, he made the observation that as he had walked by the window, it looked like I was really deep in thought and he asked if it something serious.

I explained that a couple that we knew to be really antagonistic toward each other and constantly fighting walked by my open window, and they were talking about how they “loved: this and they “loved” that; so much so that it got me to thinking, ‘Do we even really know what love is?’ How can the love of a hamburger equate with the love of another person? At times the English language in so inadequate when we use only one word to explain a multitude of feelings or expressions.

As my friend and I carried on this conversation, I turned to him and asked him what he thought love was.

“Love is a gift,” he started, “it’s a gift that keeps on giving.” In his halting speech, he carried on.

“It’s something that has no limits ... and definitely no end ... it’s constant and without reservation.”

Coming from this man, this statement came as a surprise to me. I, like many others around me, had made an assumption about this man and others like him that made a statement like I had just heard extraordinary.

Not that they are incapable of these thoughts, but that the normal expressions they wear as they go about everyday life make comments like this seem so out of character.

I guess that’s one of the reasons I like what I do so much — I get to see another side of a person that we don’t normally see until we take the time to find out. It makes the statement true that says, ‘Don’t judge a person until you walk a mile in their moccasins.’

So now as I walk down the street and I observe people and the expressions they wear, it just makes me curious as to how far off base my estimation of a person is.

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

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LEFT: A visit to Cadbury World includes a tour of the working factory and an opportunity to see chocolatiers working their magic on real products coming off the production line.

ABOVE: The history of chocolate began in MesoAmerica.

Chocolate played a special role in Mayan and Aztec religious events. Priests presented cocoa beans as offerings to the gods and served cocoa drinks during sacred ceremonies. Cocoa was one of the great treasures discovered when Europeans conquered the Aztecs.

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he holidays — starting with Halloween — are primetime for sweets. And chocolate ranks as one of the most popular of all North American treats. It’s a temptation that has a long history

and if you ever want to learn about it, Cadbury World in the village of Bournville, England, is the place to go.

A visit to Cadbury World unveiled for me the fascinating history of chocolate, as well as the history of the Cadbury Co., and although it felt

at times like a big marketing campaign designed to get me to buy more Cadbury chocolate, it was also interesting and educational. Besides, no examination of the history of chocolate would be complete without a look at the Cadbury family and their impact on the worldwide chocolate market.

Our tour began outside the factory with an exploration of the village of Bournville.

In 1893, George Cadbury pur-

chased 120 acres of land next to his new factory in the countryside near Birmingham and designed, at his own expense, a model village to house his factory workers. His plan was to “alleviate the evils of modern, more cramped living conditions” that existed for factory workers in many parts of Britain.

The Cadbury brothers set out to build the ideal village for their workers with wide streets, plenty of green

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TRAVEL spaces, sports and recreation facilities and cute cottages.

Each cottage owner received six fruit trees and the village grew into a beautiful green little community.

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NO EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A LOOK AT THE CADBURY FAMILY AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE WORLDWIDE CHOCOLATE MARKET

ABOVE: Chocolate houses were central to London social life in the 18th century and White’s was one of the most famous chocolate houses. Gentlemen would pay for admission to enter and then pay for an expensive hot chocolate (chocolate was heavily taxed) and then sit at a table and sip and chat. At White’s, gentlemen often gambled while drinking their hot chocolate.

LEFT: During the factory tour, Cadbury World Demonstration staff show off their chocolate making skills and even allow guests to try their hand at various chocolate-making skills.

This demo table demonstrated techniques for writing with chocolate.

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ABOVE: In 1893, George Cadbury bought 120 acres of land close to his factory and planned at his own expense a model village to house factory workers. In an effort to improve the health and fitness of their workforce, the Cadburys incorporated plenty of parks and recreational areas into the village and built sports fields, schools and churches. The Cadburys were Quakers, so there were no pubs or drinking establishments inside the village and there still aren’t any to this day.

BOTTOM LEFT: This is a parish church of the Church of England located in Bournville. It has unique architectural features both inside and out.

BOTTOM RIGHT: The Bournville Carillon of 22 bells dates from 1906 and was augmented to its current 48 bells in 1934. The bells are hung below a domed copper cupola above the tower of the junior and infant schools on Bournville Village Green.

Our guide, Eric, explained that the Cadburys were ahead of their time with regard to the health and wellness of their workforce. They developed pension plans, medical programs, and supported recreational activities and facilities in the community to help maintain the health and wellness of their workforce.

Even today, Bournville is considered one of the best places to live in Britain. The only thing lacking in Bournville are drinking establishments. The Cadbury brothers were Quakers, so no pubs or drinking establishments were ever built in the village. While this may be a deterrent for some visitors, residents have fought to maintain the community as a dry town, even going so far as to take on Britain’s largest supermarket chain in court, winning a case in 2007 to prevent it from selling alcohol in the Bournville outlet.

The next stop on our tour was a look at the history of chocolate via a walking tour inside the Cadbury World Welcome Centre. The walking tour began with displays of the Aztecs who first introduced Europeans to chocolate. Chocolate played an important role in Mayan and Aztec religious events. Priests presented cocoa beans as an offering to the gods and served cocoa drinks during sacred ceremonies.

When the Europeans conquered the Aztecs, they discovered cocoa and added sugar and milk to the Aztecs’ chocolate drinks. The drink became very popular with Britain’s social elite and in the early 18th century, chocolate houses sprang up all over London — rivalling the coffee and tea houses that had been an integral part of that city for more than a century. Chocolate houses were at the heart of Lon-

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BRIEF Malaria cases in U.S. at highest count since 1971 ATLANTA — U.S. malaria cases are at their highest level in four decades, mostly from Americans bringing home an unwelcome souvenir from their travels.

Malaria is not a big problem in the U.S. — there were only 1,925 cases in 2011, including five deaths. But cases were up 14 per cent from the previous year, and the most since 1971.

Nearly all the cases were Americans or foreign travellers bringing it into the country. Sixty per cent were infected in Africa, where malaria is common.

Malaria is a deadly tropical disease spread by mosquitoes. It’s treatable when caught early.

Travellers can protect themselves by taking malaria drugs before and during a trip. Only a fraction of the 2011 cases took the right drugs.

Cool chocolate facts ● It takes an entire year’s crop of cocoa beans from one tree to make 450 grams of chocolate. ● The largest moulded bar in the world was made

by Cadbury Ltd. in October 1998. The bar weighs 1.1 tons and stands nearly 2.75 metres high and more than 1.2 metres wide. It is estimated the average person would require 120 years to eat it all. No estimates are available for what the person would weigh when they finished eating it. ● Although chocolate originated in Mesoamerica, most of the world’s cocoa beans today come from West Africa.

If you go ● Cadbury World is located south of Birmingham, England — about 90 minutes by train from London.

In November, Cadbury World will be celebrating Aztec weekend in honour of the history of chocolate. The weekend will include special activities for kids such as a craft zone where kids can make Aztec headdresses, samples of Montezuma’s favourite chili chocolate drink, special activities and prizes. ● Following Aztec Weekend, Cadbury World will be getting into the festive spirit with its popular Christmas Celebration weekends. Admission to Cadbury World costs £14.95 for adults and £10.95 for children. Family rates are available. For more information about a visit to Cadbury World, visit www. cadburyworld.co.uk.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer.

Follow Debbie’s travels at www.wanderwoman.ca. If you have an interesting travel story you would like to share, please email: DOGO@telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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don’s social life — offering the social elite food, card playing, dice and gambling, and a place to get together and talk about everything from poetry to politics — while they drank their expensive hot chocolate.

It was at this point that the Cadburys became involved in the chocolate industry. In 1824, John Cadbury borrowed money to start his own business as a tea, coffee and chocolate dealer. At first he sold cocoa primarily to chocolate houses as a drink, but he ultimately developed a chocolate candy bar that started people eating chocolate and drinking it.

The business was passed down through the family until it came to George and Richard Cadbury.

With the passing of the “adulteration of food act” in Britain, George saw an opportunity to improve the product and grow the business. He dropped the lower grade cocoas and added more milk to the recipe, creating the world’s first Dairy Milk chocolate bar in 1905, a candy bar that is to this day is one of the most popular chocolate bars in the world.

The next part of the tour took us through interesting displays on the history of Cadbury’s advertising campaigns and then through the packaging area of the Cadbury factory to see the workings of a real chocolate factory. There were special demo areas along the way that allowed visitors to try their hand at chocolate making and chocolate samples to be enjoyed.

We boarded a ride called Cadabra next to be transported into “a magical chocolate world.” For my part, the ride was reminiscent of Disney’s It’s a Small World with giant cocoa beans taking the place of the costumed dolls.

Our tour ended in the World’s Biggest Cadbury Shop, a huge gift shop with all of the Cadbury chocolate you might ever want. As I stocked up on Cadbury treats that are unavailable in Canada, I couldn’t help wondering if Cadbury World was exactly what I first suspected it to be — a complicated marketing plan to get me to buy more chocolate.

If so, it worked.

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Angelo Lutz poses at his newly expanded restaurant The Kitchen Consigliere in Collingswood, N.J. Former Philly mob associate Lutz, who served several years in prison for racketeering and extortion, has turned to crowdfunding to raise money to expand his restaurant after he said he was unable to obtain a loan from a bank as a convicted felon.

Convicted mobster hoping to make a hit in the restaurant world HAS MAFIA-THEMED EATERY IN NEW JERSEY

BY GEOFF MULVIHILL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When he was on trial for racketeering, Angelo Lutz denied the mob’s existence, but now he’s using his past in organized crime to promote his new restaurant, the Kitchen Consigliere.

The sign out front echoes the logo for The Godfather but with a chef’s hat.

A mural on one wall puts Lutz, also known as Fat Ange, at a table with famous gangsters, both real (John Gotti) and fictional (Tony Soprano). Sconces to hold lights look like 9 mm handguns.

And some nights, he serves up a special he calls Joey’s Pork Chops, in honour of Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, the reputed Philadelphia-South Jersey mob boss. He’s also happy to tell customers stories from his past.

Lutz is using some unsavoury associations as he attempts a transformation from prisoner to opinionated celebrity chef.

Last week, he moved his operations from an 11-table res-

taurant to one three times as large on a prominent corner of the hip, foodie-friendly Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood.

“I never considered myself a gangster. I’m not a gangster.

The government considered me a gangster. The government considered me a mob associate,” he said.

“But what I am now is a businessman.”

Lutz, 49, grew up in South Philadelphia, where food was a big part of his life. According to federal prosecutors and a jury, he also did some bad along the way.

He was one of seven men convicted in a 2001 mob trial that made him a celebrity.

He was the only non-“made” member of La Costa Nostra in the case and the only defendant allowed bail during the trial.

And he talked and talked while he was out, calling into a sports talk radio show and cooking steaks for a TV news reporter.

The government said Lutz was a bookie and debt collector for the Mafia.

Although he wasn’t violent, he was sentenced to nine years in prison but later got nearly a year knocked off on appeal.

The night before he entered prison, he cooked for his own going-away party, leading one TV reporter to call him “the kitchen consigliere.”

from the kitchen.

When he got out in 2008, Lutz did some online cooking shows before opening his first restaurant in Collingswood.

But when it came time to move to bigger digs, there was a problem: “I couldn’t get conventional bank loans because I’m a felon. I broke the law,” he said, slapping his arm.

“Shame on you forever, for life.”

He raised nearly $100,000 for renovations from investors and crowd-funding for his restaurant, — ANGELO LUTZ w h i c h f e a t u r e s home-style Italian classics.

“I then served my time like Lutz doesn’t want to stop with a man, didn’t rat, didn’t snitch, his Collingswood restaurant. you know, took the medicine He has designs on opening that went along with when you franchises of his restaurant break the law,” he said from the in other cities known for their section of his restaurant that gangsters, licensing products pays tribute to Frank Sinatra with his brand, starring in a and his Rat Pack. reality TV show and starting In prison, he grew to well a foundation to help other exover 400 pounds and learned prisoners become entrepremore about cooking, including neurs. how to use a microwave to bake “Redemption,” he said. a pizza made from flour stolen “That’s what I’m all about now.”

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But passengers shouldn’t expect changes to happen right away, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said at a news conference. How fast the change is implemented will vary by airline, he said.

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Delta and JetBlue said they would immediately submit plans to implement the new policy.

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Red Wings edge Flames

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Detroit 4 Calgary 3 CALGARY — The Detroit Red Wings shrugged off a sloppy second period with a strong third to edge the Calgary Flames 4-3 on Friday.

Tomas Tatar scored a fluky goal 85 seconds into the final frame to give the Red Wings (8-4-2) a lead they wouldn’t relinquish, while Justin Abdelkader added an insurance marker that turned out to be the game winner.

“I thought we finished the second strong and had a real good third period,” said Detroit coach Mike Babcock, who coached his 800th career NHL game. “We controlled the third, I thought hands down for me. There’s no question you want to just keep going after them and I thought we did that tonight.”

Early in the third period, Detroit forward Joakim Andersson chased down the puck in the Flames zone and attempted a centring pass from the corner, but the puck glanced off Tatar’s skate before deflecting into the net off of Calgary goalie Joey MacDonald’s leg.

“It was a lucky bounce,” Andersson said. “Sometimes you need those lucky bounces to win games. It was nice to get it. We’ve been talking about that all year, shooting more and getting the pucks more to the net.”

Calgary coach Bob Hartley said Tatar’s goal was definitely a tough break for the Flames (5-6-2) to handle.

“Obviously, it’s like you take a good punch on the nose, but, at the same time, you have to regroup,” Hartley said. “In a game, anything can happen and you have to be ready for it.”

Abdelkader then scored at 16:36 of the third when he sent a wrist shot into the top corner past MacDonald.

Curtis Glencross rounded out the scoring for the Flames when his pass from behind the net hit Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall and bounced past Howard with 9.8 seconds left on the clock.

Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg each had a goal and an assist in the first period to put the Red Wings up 2-0 before the Flames answered back with goals by Chris Butler and rookie Sean Monahan in the second.

“I think after they scored their second goal, we really turned things around and got playing again,” Babcock said.

Kronwall and Todd Bertuzzi each had two assists for the Red Wings, who

Rebels hang on to beat Royals

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Calgary Flames’ Sean Monahan, right, celebrates his goal against the Detroit Red Wings with Jiri Hudler, from Czech Republic, during second period NHL action in Calgary on Friday. were coming off a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.

“In the second period, a couple mistakes and the puck wound up in the back of our net,” said Howard, who made 22 saves to improve his record to 5-4-2. “I think we got back to playing the style of hockey we played in Vancouver the whole game in the third

period here. That’s how we’re going to be successful.”

The Red Wings will continue their four-game road swing through Western Canada on Saturday when they visit the Edmonton Oilers.

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Rebels 2 Royals 1 VICTORIA — Thanks mainly to netminder Patrik Bartosak, the Red Deer Rebels opened their six-game Western Hockey League road trip on a positive note Friday.

Bartosak turned aside 42 shots — including 19 in the second period — and was named first star of the game as the Rebels pulled out a 2-1 win over the Victoria Royals in front of 3,787 fans at Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena.

Dominik Volek staked the visitors to a 1-0 lead when he one-timed a feed from Wyatt Johnson past Victoria goalie Partik Polivka 14 minutes into the contest and defenceman Haydn Fleury notched a late second-period powerplay goal that proved to be the winner.

Ben Walker pulled the Royals to within one when he connected at 6:04 of the final frame, but Bartosak shut the door the rest of the way while making 11 saves in the period.

The Rebels, who directed a total of 18 shots at Polivka, were one-for-five on the power play. The Royals were zero-for-four with a man advantage.

The clubs meet again tonight before Red Deer heads to Kamloops for a Tuesday meeting with the Blazers. The Rebels close out their nine-day trip with games Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at Kelowna, Cranbrook and Lethbridge.

Virtue foursome pick up sloppy win over Korea rink

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

CURLING CLASSIC

Brock Virtue and his supporting cast that includes Red Deer native Chris Schille stumbled out of the starting gate Friday, yet pulled out a win that — based on earlier cashspiel results — may indeed make for a successful weekend.

“Our bonspiel season last year was atrocious. I think we played seven ‘spiels and didn’t win a dollar,” Schille said after a sloppy 5-4 victory over Chang Min Kim of Korea in the opening men’s draw of the Red Deer Curling Classic at the Pidherney Centre.

“We could never win our first game last year. We were joking during our second ‘spiel of this year in Edmonton that we had finally won our first game in 11 ‘spiels. Then we won six in a row to make the final and lost to Kevin (Martin).

“So everything we did there was one step forward in itself.”

While the Virtue foursome was cash poor during the 2012 season, the Regina-based crew came alive during the Saskatchewan men’s playdowns, capturing the provincial title and earn-

ing a berth in the Brier at Edmonton, where they finished 5-6 and out of the playoffs.

“We put the team together with that in mind and that’s kind of what kept us going,” said Schille. “We just told each that that this is what we’ve teamed together for and let’s keep building . . . let’s take something positive out of all of these (cashspiel) losses. We were something like 10 and 23 (wins, losses) going into playdowns and we were 17-2 in the playdowns to get to the Brier.

“We geared toward that and thankfully for us it worked out that way.

That’s where we finally started clicking and playing our best.”

The Virtue team was formed last year and also includes third Braeden Moskowy and lead D.J. Kidby, both from Regina. Skip Brock Virtue, a former Canadian and world junior champion, is from Lethbridge.

“I’ve played with D.J. for a total of five years on and off and I curled against Brock for the last dozen years or so,” said Schille, 30, who skipped his Red Deer team to the Alberta junior men’s title in 2004.

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Playing second on the Brock Virtue rink, Chris Schille takes a shot at the Pidherney Curling Centre in Red Deer Friday.

Schille lives in Red Deer during the summer and Regina in the winter.

He helps operate a Carpet Superstore franchise in both cities.

The 2013 World Curling Tour season has so far been far more profitable than was the case one year ago, with the Virtue foursome sitting ninth on the men’s money list with earnings of $15,000.

“We’ve been on a pretty good roll,” said Schille. “We lost to Kevin in Edmonton and lost a semifinal to (Mike) McEwen at Portage la Prairie two weeks ago. I think we’re a step up from where we were at the Brier last spring.

We were 5-6 at the Brier and lost lastrock games to teams like Martin, (Glen) Howard and (Jeff) Stoughton, so we were probably a grand total of six inches from being in the playoffs.

“To be playing one step better than that at this time is an encouraging sign.”

Schille, who also played in the 2007 and ‘08 Briers as the second for 2006 Olympic gold medalist Brad Gushue of Newfoundland, said the reigning Saskatchewan champs realize the importance of longevity as a team.

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Trojans’ size trumps Kings’ speed in Penhold

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Trojans 5 Kings 1 The Red Deer College Kings had plenty of jump in their stride for the better part of 40 minutes Friday, but gave up a pair of power-play goals late in the second period and ran out of steam in the third.

The end result was a 5-1 Alberta Colleges men’s hockey loss to the SAIT Trojans at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

“That was a learning experience for our guys. SAIT is a good team and that was kind of like playoff hockey in our

league,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper, whose squad entered the contest tied with the Trojans for top spot in the nine-team league.

“It was a measuring stick for our team. They (Trojans) have size, they play physical and try to intimidate a bit. We told our guys that our strength is our speed, that we had to get in on the forecheck and create chances in their end. Tonight the physical game won out over our speed in the third period.”

The Kings’ game plan was working for most of the first two periods, but, while trailing 1-0, they found themselves two men short with two minutes remaining in the middle frame due to

a bench minor for too many men and a needless roughing infraction to Andrew Coles.

The visitors took full advantage, as Riley Paterson snuck a sharp-angle shot past RDC netminder Kraymer Barnstable and Sam Mitchell cashed a rebound from the edge of the crease.

“The turning point of the game was the five-on-three,” said Keeper. “Before that I thought we were controlling the puck, creating plays in their end and getting out of our end quickly.”

Indeed, the Kings were outshooting their guests 30-16 prior to the pair of penalties, but couldn’t solve SAIT stopper Brayden Hopfe, who was selected as the Trojans player of the game.

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Dustin Lebrun finally got to Hopfe with a power-play marker at 12:07 of the final frame, but the Trojans sealed the deal with late goals 20 seconds apart from Paterson and Brenden Forbes. Sam Mitchell had a first-period goal for SAIT. Hopfe finished with 34 saves, while Barnstable faced 32 shots.

“We did pretty well the first two periods and even a bit in the third,” said Lebrun. “The last bit of the third we started to run around a bit, allowed guys to get out-manned and they capitalized with a couple of goals and kind of sunk the ship.”

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RDC basketball teams best Olds Queens 69 Broncos 47 There’s still some work to do, but the RDC Queens are heading in the right direction.

The RDC squad ran their Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League record to 2-2, winning their home opener 69-47 over the defending ACAC champion Olds Broncos at RDC Friday.

“It feels great,” said Queens five-foot-six thirdyear guard Sarah Williamson, who last year was needed to be one of the team’s leading rebounders.

This year with six-foot-two Jessica Foley joining sixfoot-two Desirae Paterson and five-foot-11 Kaitlin Bracko the Queens are much stronger inside, which played a major role in Friday’s victory.

“Now with more height we’re able to use the post more,” said Williamson. “I trust our post players to get the rebounds and I can help out as well. We trust each other and that’s a good feeling.”

Queens head coach Mike Woollard knows to have success their inside players need to control the game.

“We have more size and we’re making a concentrated effort to get the ball to them,” he said. “We need to be more consistent, but tonight for close to three quarters we did a good job of that.”

The Queens never trailed as they held quarter leads of 19-9, 40-25 and 57-41.

It was a far cry from the last meeting with the Broncos when the Queens were handily defeated in Olds.

“It’s nicer than last year for sure, but then they’re missing a lot of fire power from last year’s championship team while we’re a year older, which showed today,” said Woollard.

“We’re still making some mistakes, but we’ll learn from them and move forward,” added Williamson.

“I like what we’re doing and this was a good feeling, considering what happened the last time we faced them.”

The Queens do have experience at all positions, buy also some impressive new faces.

“We got some good minutes off the bench today,” said Woollard. “(Guard) Gillian Griffin did a great job defensively and got some well-earned minutes.

We have a 11 kids on the roster and you never know who will step up. It’s someone different each day, which we didn’t have last year.”

Bracko led the Queens with 17 points while Mozanga Ekwalanga had 14 points and Foley 13. Paterson had eight points and 10 rebounds.

Destiny Whitehead led Olds with 18 points with Sierra Hester adding 11.

Kings 109 Broncos 62 The Kings did what was expected to them as they rolled to a 109-62 win over the Broncos and ran their record to 4-0.

“It was a good defensive effort top to bottom,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “There were still a few errors, but overall we defended well, which will always keep you in the ball game.”

It was the Kings defence that also produced a number of fast break points.

“A lot of our points were generated by our defence, plus the second half we rebounded well and had a number of second chance points,” added Pottinger, who was impressed with his first-year post players.

“The guys are steadily improving. The last few games our bigs such as Craig (Johnson), Dallas (Hancox) and Taner (Parrington) have all played well.”

Clay Crelin led the Kings with 18 points while Reece Gavin added 15, Jacob Cusumano, Mari PeoplesWong, Matt Johnson and Parrington had 11 each and Brian Prenoslo 10. Colton Short had 19 points, Cordell Minifree 12 and Patrick Magnaka 11 for Olds.

RDC visits Olds tonight.

Volleyball While the basketball was enjoying home cooking the RDC volleyball squads were on the road in Olds and also enjoyed a productive evening.

The Queens opened with a 25-18, 28-26, 25-15 victory over the Broncs with the Kings recording a 2515, 25-14, 25-18 win.

“Overall I was happy with the performance,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We served well and kept them off balance. We didn’t play exceptionally well at the net, but did enough to get by.”

The only setback came late in the second set when the Queens allowed 21-16 lead to get away from them.

“We fell asleep and they came back to tie it at 21.

But we came back strong and then put it away early in the third set.”

Amber Adolf was the RDC player of the match with 10 kills and six digs.

The Kings were never in trouble as head coach Aaron Schulha went to his bench early.

Tim Finnigan was the player of the match with

Late TD to former Argo Bruce rallies Als to win THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal 23 Toronto 20 TORONTO — Troy Smith’s 37-yard TD strike to Arland Bruce III with 2:47 remaining rallied the Montreal Alouettes to a 23-20 win over a short-handed Toronto Argonauts squad Friday night in the regular-season finale for both teams.

Smith finished with three TD strikes but Montreal’s offence struggled to mount a consistent attack against the Argos. However, the unit needed just three plays to go 71 yards for the go-ahead TD before Smith ran in for the two-point convert to put Montreal ahead by three points before a Rogers Centre gathering of 22,589.

Toronto was poised to get the ball back with just over a minute remaining but Hugo Lopez was flagged for hitting Montreal punter Burke Dales, allowing the Alouettes to maintain possession and run out the clock.

The game had no bearing on the East Division standings as Toronto (11-7) had cemented top spot to secure home-field advantage for the conference final Nov. 17. Montreal (8-10) was already assured of finishing third and will face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats — who visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday — in semifinal action next weekend in Guelph, Ont. So the Als and Argos took vastly different ap-

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KINGS: Injuries piling up Lebrun agreed that the Trojans swung the game in their favour with the late second-period power-play tallies.

“That was tough, we were beating them handily in shots at that point,” he said. “That definitely took a toll, for sure.”

Already missing a pair of defencemen due to injuries, the Kings lost key forwards Djay McGrath and Riley Simpson during the contest. McGrath blocked a shot midway through the game and didn’t return and Simpson took a check to the head — which led to a major penalty and game misconduct to Dan Gendur — in the first period.

“He (Simpson) got cut and was kind of woozy . . . it may be a concussion,” said Keeper. “Those are important players for us on one of our top lines and one of our power-play units. That unit was not there the rest of the game which made it a little tougher.”

The teams meet again tonight in Calgary. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

CURLING: Team-building takes work “You see so many teams who put something together that looks good on paper and it doesn’t work out right away so they shred it and start over,” said Schille. “When you look at the top teams, they’ve all been together for 10 years with few changes. They’re the teams who are winning every single week.

“We told ourselves last year that we can’t push the panic button after a few ‘spiels, that we have to keep going. The original plan was to put two years together and already we’ve started this year better than we ended off last spring.”

Whether the foursome will stay intact beyond the current season remains to be seen, but Schille doesn’t envision the union ending any time soon.

“All you can do is put the time and effort in and believe in each other,” he said. “From there, eveything else takes care of itself, hopefully for the better.”

Virtue fell 7-4 to Rob Schlender of Airdrie later in the day. Meanwhile, the Red Deer rink skipped

by Dustin Eckstrand suffered a pair of losses, 6-3 to Kevin MacKenzie of Kelowna and 8-2 to Peter de Cruz of Switzerland.

On the women’s side, Jocelyn Peterman’s Red Deer foursome opened with a 6-4 win over Enjung Kim of Korea, then fell 7-1 to Teryn Hamilton of Calgary.

Each of the men’s and women’s divisons of the triple-knockout Red Deer Curling Classic offers $38,000 in prize money. The WCT event concludes Monday

proaches to the contest. Montreal, looking to establish much-needed momentum heading into the playoffs, went with all of its starters while Toronto sat out 17 of its regulars, including quarterback Ricky Ray as backups Zach Collaros, Trevor Harris and Mitchell Gale all took snaps.

But it was Toronto that consistently won the fieldposition battle and led 19-15 on a conceded safety to start the fourth. Harris erased the Argos’ 15-11 half-time deficit with an 11-yard TD strike to Darvin Adams at 7:18 of the third although the convert was blocked.

Toronto was attempting to secure 12 wins in a season for the first time since 1997 when it won 15 games en route to the first of two straight Grey Cup titles under head coach Don Matthews.

Matt Black had Toronto’s other touchdown. Rookie Quinn Sharp had a tough CFL debut, hitting oneof-two converts and one-of-three field goals with two singles.

Duron Carter and Bo Bowling scored Montreal’s touchdowns. Sean Whyte booted two converts and a single.

Smith’s two second-quarter TD strikes rallied Montreal to a 15-11 half-time advantage. Smith hit Carter, the son of Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter, on a 71-yard touchdown pass at 2:07 to cut Toronto’s lead to 10-7 at 2:07 before Nicolas Boulay recovered Toronto’s fumble on the ensuing kickoff. with the 3 p.m. championship finals.

Friday scores: Men 9:30 a.m. — A event: White 7 Zou 2; Schlender 9 K.Park 5; Manners 8 de Cruz 3; Eriksson 6 Cross 3; J.Heidt 7 Maksymetz 5; MacKenzie 6 Eckstrand 3; Jordison 7 Blandford 5; Virtue 5 Kim 4.

1 p.m. — A event: Richard 5 Ross 2; Bitz 6 Koe 3; Stroh 5 Freiberger 4; Bottcher 5 Mabergs 3; Appelman 7 Jacobson 5; S.Park 6 Perepolkin 2; B.Heidt 9 O’Connor 8.

4:30 p.m. — A event: Jordison 9 White 1; Schlender 7 Virtue 4; Manners 6 MacKenzie 4; Eriksson 6 J.Heidt 5; B event: de Cruz 8 Eckstrand 2; Maksymetz 6 Cross 2; Kim 7 K.Park 2; Blandford 6 Zou 4.

8 p.m. — A event: Appelman 8 Bottcher 2; B.Heidt 5 Wang 4; Bitz 4 S.Park 3; Stroh 8 Richard 7; B event: Perepolkin 9 Koe 6; Ross 5 Freiberger 2; O’Connor 6 Willerton 5; Jacobson 6 Mabergs 5.

Women 9:30 a.m. — A event: MacInnes 8 Paetz 4; Peterman 6 Kim 4; Paulson 6 Feltscher Beel 5; DeJong 7 Thurston 4.

1 p.m. — A event: Moore 5 Doyle 4; Ostlund 6 Kaufman 5; Nixon 4 Jaing 3.

4:30 p.m. — A event: Hamilton 7 Peterman 1; DeJong 8 Barber 3; MacInnes 8 Game 4; Paulson 5 Jensen 2.

8 p.m. — A event: Rogers 5 Scheidegger 3; B event: Thurston 5 Feltscher Beel 2; Kaufman 6 Doyle 3. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

FLAMES: Tough road games ahead “We’ve got to get re-energized and get ready to go,” Babcock said.

Jiri Hudler had two assists for the Flames, who finished their three-game homestand with a 1-2 record. MacDonald finished with 18 saves.

“I felt that we didn’t skate like the way we could,” Hartley said.

“The way that the Wings play, they kind of slow down the play, and I felt that we got caught. Especially with scoring two goals, they kind of put us back on our heels a little bit. I just felt that we didn’t have our usual jump.”

Calgary now heads out on a four-game road trip starting on Sunday in Chicago before travelling on to face Minnesota, St. Louis and Colorado.

Despite being outshot 12-5 in the first period, the Red Wings had a 2-0 lead thanks to goals by Datsyuk and Zetterberg.

Datsyuk opened the scoring at 10:57. MacDonald made a glove save to stop a point shot by Detroit defenceman Jakub Kindl, but the puck dropped right into the slot to Datsyuk who easily deposited it into a wide-open net.

Late in the first, Bertuzzi spotted Zetterberg wide open at the side of the net and made a nice behindthe-back pass to get him the puck.

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Red Deer College Queen Sarah Williamson looks to take a shot after getting past Olds College Bronco Alicia Phillips at Red Deer College Friday. five kills and three aces while playing just one set.

“We were able to mix our lineup up and hopefully tomorrow we can get more of our younger guys in,” he said.

The Broncos visit RDC today with the women starting at 6 p.m. and the men to follow. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilers try to eliminate costly mistakes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — It seems like whenever Edmonton Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins fixes one mistake, a handful of new ones appear to cost his team badly needed wins.

“It’s like a game of pool, it’s basically what you leave on the table,” Eakins said Friday of the untimely and costly errors that have been killing the Oilers (3-9-2) through their first 14 games of the season.

The mistakes through the first half dozen games were repetitive ones that the coaching staff “squashed.”

Now the miscues seem to be all over the place, and a lot of it the first-year Oilers coach attributes to inexperience and some players having different workloads or different responsibilities.

“A lot of times, it’s like you’re standing in front of a dyke and the holes are popping out and you’re trying to fill the holes as fast as you can,” he said. “But I’m glad they’re a little more scattered. The repetitive ones are hard to cure a lot of times.

LOCAL SPORTS

Grizzlys lose to Oilers OKOTOKS — John Edwardh scored once and assisted on another goal to help the Okotoks Oilers to a 5-2 AJHL win over the Olds Grizzlys Friday.

Also connecting for the Oilers, who are in Olds tonight for a 7:30 p.m. contest, were Kyle Krabben, Connor Hartley, Tariq Hammond and Mitch Amatto.

Ty Mappin and Lukas Pollack replied for the Grizzlys, who got a 27-save performance from Ethan Jemieff. Jared D’Amico stopped 17 shots for the winners.

Red Deer volleyball teams start strong The host senior boys Lightning posted a 2-1 record in Friday’s round-robin games of the Hunting Hills volleyball tournament.

The Lightning defeated Calgary Centennial 25-17, 25-17 and Spruce Grove 25-22, 25-13, and lost 23-25, 25-20, 20-22 to Calgary Western Canada.

Meanwhile, the Lindsay Thurber Raiders were 3-2 Friday and the Notre Dame Cougars won two of three matches, including a 19-25, 26-24, 15-11 conquest of the Raiders.

The Cougars also downed Grande Prairie 25-23, 22-25, 15-12 and fell 24-26, 21-25 to Bev Facey of Sherwood Park. The Raiders defeated Bev Facey 25-21, 22-25, 15-12, Chinook of Lethbridge 25-23, 22-25, 15-10 and Grande Prairie 25-23, 25-9, and lost 18-25, 25-20, 18-20 to Edmonton Harry Ainlay.

The Hunting Hills girls finished 5-0 in the round robin with three wins Friday — 25-22, 25-19 over Western Canada, 25-23, 25-22 over Centennial and 2521, 25-13 over Spruce Grove.

Notre Dame was 1-1 Friday with a 25-7, 25-16 win over Spruce Grove and a 22-25, 21-25 loss to Centennial, while Lindsay Thurber was 0-4, losing 18-25, 2225 to Chinook, 25-18, 15-25, 9-15 to Edmonton Strathcona, 25-18, 19-25, 9-15 to Harry Ainlay and 25-23, 19-25, 13-15 to Grande Prairie.

The finals will go today at 7 p.m.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today ● Curling: World Curling Tour — Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre. ● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● High school football: Central Alberta League, A-side, Lacombe at Rocky, third place, noon; Sylvan Lake at Hunting Hills, championship final, 4 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Major midget girls hockey: Highwood at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer Black, 12:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex; Leduc at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Elks, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m.; Okotoks at Lacombe, 5:45 p.m. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● College volleyball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Ponoka at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. (The Drive).

Sunday ● Curling: World Curling Tour — Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings 2:15 p.m., Kinex; Red Deer Ramada at Sylvan Lake, 5 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Rusty Chuckers, Sheraton Red Deer vs. The Secret Runs, Alken Basin Drillers vs. Gord Scott Nissan, 4:15 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Carstar vs. Dream Team, Orangemen vs.

Monstars, Triple A Batteries vs.

Triple Threat, 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Chicago White Sox minor league RHP Nicholas Blount (Great Falls-Pioneer) 50 games after testing positive for an amphetamine.

Suspended Chicago Cubs minor league SS Elliot Soto (Daytona-FSL) 50 games after a second violation for a drug of abuse.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Exercised the 2014 contract option on LHP Jon Lester.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent RHP Simon Castro outright to Charlotte (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Exercised the 2014 contract option on RHP Ubaldo Jimenez, who voided the contract. Declined the 2014 contract option on OF Jason Kubel. Agreed to terms with INF Ryan Rohlinger and RHP J.C. Ramirez on minor league contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS — Declined the 2014 contract option on RHP Jose Veras. Announced OF Matt Tuiasosopo was claimed off waivers by Arizona. Reinstated INF Danny Worth from the 60-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Claimed LHP Darin Downs off waivers from Detroit.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Brian Poldberg manager of Omaha (PCL), Vance Wilson manager of Northwest Arkansas (Texas) and Darryl Kennedy manager of Wilmington (Carolina).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with SS Derek Jeter on a one-year contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Exercised the 2014 contract options on LHP Brett Anderson and OF Coco Crisp. Declined to exercise the 2014 contract options on C Kurt Suzuki and OF Chris Young.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Declined to exercise the 2014 contract options on OF Franklin Gutierrez and LHP Joe Saunders. Reinstated RHP Stephen Pryor from the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Exercised the 2014 contract option for RHP Joe Nathan, who voided the contract. Claimed RHP Chaz Roe off waivers from Arizona.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Exercised the 2014 contract options on RHP Casey Janssen, 1B Adam Lind and INF Mark DeRosa. Declined the 2014 contract option on INF Munenori Kawasaki. Reinstated OF Melky Cabrera, LHP Brett Cecil, RHP Brandon Morrow, INF Maicer Izturis, LHP Juan Perez, RHP Josh Johnson and RHP Ramon Ortiz from the 60day DL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Dave McKay first base coach, Glenn Sherlock third base coach and Turner Ward hitting coach.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Selected the contracts of LHP Ryan Buchter and RHP Wirfin Obispo from Gwinnett (IL).

NEW YORK METS — Declined the 2014 contract option on LHP Johan Santana.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Announced LHP Wandy Rodriguez exercised his player option for 2014. Announced OF Felix Pie rejected an outright to Indianapolis (IL) and became a free agent.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Jacksonville WR Justin Blackmon indefinitely for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy. Fined Cincinnati LB Vontaze Burfict $21,000 for his hit on New York Jets WR Stephen Hill and New York Jets WR David Nelson $7,875 for unnecessary roughness against Cincinnati’s Adam “Pacman” Jones in an Oct. 27 game.

Fined Denver LB Wesley Woodyard and Atlanta DE Osi Umenyiora and Atlanta S William Moore $15,750 each for roughing-the-passer hits and Denver DT Kevin Vickerson $7,875 for a late hit in an Oct. 27 game. Fined Cleveland CB Joe Haden (late hit out of bounds), Buffalo DE Mario Williams (facemask) and Detroit TE Joseph Fauria (unnecessary roughness), $7,875 apiece. Fined Seattle WR Golden Tate $7,875 for taunting in an Oct. 28 game against St. Louis.

NEW YORK JETS — Announced the retirement of G Brandon Moore. Released WR Michael Campbell. Signed S Rontez Miles from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Toronto F Carter Ashton two games for boarding.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Petr Mrazek from Grand Rapids (AHL). Agreed to terms with RW Zach Nastasiuk on a three-year entry-level contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Named Paul Beirne new executive vice-president of ticketing. Promoted Geoff Publow to vice-president of strategic development.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Signed F Daniel Sedin and F Henrik Sedin to four-year contract extensions.

WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled D Julian Melchiori from St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Mark Stuart on the injured reserve list, retroactive to Oct. 29.

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Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Prince Albert 17 10 6 1 0 61 Swift Current 18 9 8 0 1 60 Regina 17 8 9 0 0 46 Saskatoon 18 7 9 0 2 63 Moose Jaw 18 6 9 1 2 45 Brandon 16 7 9 0 0 49 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 16 11 3 2 0 Calgary 16 10 3 1 2 Kootenay 16 8 6 2 0 Edmonton 16 8 7 0 1 Red Deer 15 6 8 0 1 Lethbridge 16 2 11 1 2

GA 54 55 58 72 58 63

Pt 21 19 16 16 15 14

GF 63 60 49 58 43 40

GA 44 54 52 47 49 77

Pt 24 23 18 17 13 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 13 9 2 0 2 53 Victoria 17 9 7 0 1 42 Prince George 18 7 8 1 2 48 Vancouver 17 6 9 1 1 49 Kamloops 16 5 10 1 0 44

GA 32 44 62 64 58

Pt 20 19 17 14 11

GA 55 53 36 40 49

Pt 25 24 22 22 18

GP 16 16 14 16 18

Portland Seattle Everett Spokane Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 12 3 0 1 11 3 0 2 10 2 2 0 11 5 0 0 8 8 0 2

GF 82 64 49 62 46

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 Swift Current 5 Saskatoon 3 Medicine Hat 3 Tri-City 2 (SO) Prince Albert 7 Regina 1 Kelowna at Prince George Red Deer 2 Victoria 1 Spokane at Vancouver Brandon at Everett Portland at Seattle Today’s games Tri-City at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Moose Jaw at Regina, 1 p.m.

Brandon at Lethbridge, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Tri-City at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Raiders 7, Pats 1 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Busenius 4 (Hart, Perreaux) 17:46 (pp) Second Period 2. Regina, Maguire 4 (Williams, Hak) 0:40 3. Prince Albert, Draisaitl 8 (Conroy, Morrissey) 1:56 (pp) 4. Prince Albert, Morrissey 6 (Draisaitl, Lange) 8:16 (pp) 5. Prince Albert, Hart 5 (Gardiner, Morrissey) 13:00 6. Prince Albert, Hart 6 (Morrissey, Gardiner) 14:07 (pp) Third Period 7. Prince Albert, Zaharichuk 2 (Gennaro, Gardiner) 8:48 8. Prince Albert, Zaharichuk 3 (unassisted) 13:29 (pp) Shots on goal by Regina 8 13 13 — 34 Prince Albert 8 12 11 — 31 Goal (shots-saves) — Regina: Engel (L, 0-2-0) (29-22), MacAuley (6:00 third, 2-2); Prince Albert: Cheveldave (W, 9-5-1)(29-28), McBride (6:00 third, 5-5).

Tigers 3, Amercians 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Second Period 1. Tri-City, Bowles 1 (unassisted) 11:54 2. Tri-City, McCue 7 (Tot, Nickles) 13:23 3. Medicine Hat, Owre 6 (Stanton, Butcher) 16:06 (pp) Third Period 4. Medicine Hat, McVeigh 3 (Bredo, Doty) 14:18 Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout

Medicine Hat wins 2-0 Tri-City — Astles miss, Bowles miss. Medicine Hat — Valk goal, Sanford miss, Vannelli goal.

Shots on goal by Tri-City 11 9 8 6 2 — 34 Medicine Hat 5 9 13 4 3 — 30 Goal — Tri-City: Comrie (SOL,7-7-2); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W,6-2-1).

Broncos 5, Blades 3 First Period 1. Swift Current, Cave 10 (Gordon, Gawdin) 5:06 2. Swift Current, Mackay 4 (Heatherington, Gawdin) 8:01 3. Saskatoon, Sherbak 12 (Zajac) 16:23 Second Period 4. Saskatoon, Stovin 2 (Valcourt, Revel) 6:06 5. Swift Current, Merkley 5 (Honka, Martin) 11:41 (pp) Third Period 6. Swift Current, Honka 6 (Gordon, Martin) 13:36 (pp).

7. Saskatoon, Revel 3 (Coghlan) 16:41.

8. Swift Current, Sanvido 7 (Gordon) 18:33 (en) Shots on goal by Swift Current 15 12 12 — 39 Saskatoon 11 11 11 — 33 Goal — Swift Current: Laurikainen (W, 5-7-0); Saskatoon: Trombley (L, 3-3-0).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Toronto 14 10 4 0 20 48 Tampa Bay 13 9 4 0 18 43 Detroit 14 8 4 2 18 33 Boston 12 8 4 0 16 35 Montreal 14 8 6 0 16 40 Ottawa 13 4 6 3 11 39 Florida 13 3 8 2 8 26 Buffalo 15 2 12 1 5 23 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 14 10 4 0 20 45 N.Y. Islanders 13 5 5 3 13 42 Washington 13 6 7 0 12 41 Carolina 13 4 6 3 11 26 N.Y. Rangers 12 5 7 0 10 20 Columbus 12 5 7 0 10 33 New Jersey 12 3 5 4 10 26 Philadelphia 12 3 9 0 6 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Colorado 12 11 1 0 22 38 Chicago 13 8 2 3 19 45 St. Louis 11 8 1 2 18 42 Minnesota 14 7 4 3 17 34 Nashville 13 6 5 2 14 27 Dallas 13 5 6 2 12 33 Winnipeg 14 5 7 2 12 34 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 13 10 1 2 22 51 Anaheim 14 10 3 1 21 44 Phoenix 14 9 3 2 20 48 Vancouver 15 9 5 1 19 42 Los Angeles 14 9 5 0 18 40 Calgary 13 5 6 2 12 39 Edmonton 14 3 9 2 8 36

GA 32 33 37 22 27 43 46 43 GA 33 43 38 39 37 33 37 37

Third Period 3. Dallas, Goligoski 2 (Seguin, Peverley) 3:57 4. Dallas, Seguin 6 (Peverley, Benn) 16:31 Overtime 5. Colorado, Stastny 4 (Guenin, Wilson) 3:36.

Shots on goal by Colorado 13 5 8 3 — 29 Dallas 4 8 16 1 — 29 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (W, 8-1-0); Dallas: Lehtonen (LO, 4-2-2).

Wild 4, Canadiens 3 First Period 1. Minnesota, Fontaine 4 (Ballard, Mitchell) 5:45 2. Montreal, Gallagher 6 (Galchenyuk, Markov) 6:10 Second Period 3. Minnesota, Pominville 8 (Granlund) 8:41 Third Period 4. Minnesota, Niederreiter 3 (Granlund, Pominville) 4:02 5. Montreal, Subban 3 (Markov) 7:12 (pp) 6. Montreal, Gionta 4 (Markov, Subban) 10:13 7. Minnesota, Pominville 9 (Parise, Ballard) 14:32 Shots on goal by Montreal 6 13 12 — 31 Minnesota 7 6 12 — 25 Goal — Montreal: Price (L, 6-6-0); Minnesota: Harding (W, 6-2-1).

Islanders 5, Senators 4 (SO) First Period 1. Ottawa, Condra 1 (Grant) 18:38 2. Ottawa, Zibanejad 3 (Karlsson, Phillips) 19:40 Second Period 3. NY Islanders, Tavares 5 (Vanek, Okposo) 9:07 4. NY Islanders, Martin 2 (Carkner, Nelson) 9:35 5. Ottawa, Ryan 7 (Wiercioch, Karlsson) 12:34 6. Ottawa, MacArthur 1 (Ryan, Turris) 14:47 7. NY Islanders, Bouchard 2 (Donovan, Okposo) 18:24 Third Period 8. NY Islanders, Nielsen 8 (Hickey, Bouchard) 3:14 Penalties — None.

Overtime No Scoring.

Shootout NY Islanders win 1-0 NY Islanders: Vanek miss, Nielsen goal. Ottawa: Spezza miss, Michalek miss, Ryan miss.

Shots on goal by NY Islanders 18 25 10 4 — 57 Ottawa 9 9 9 4 — 31 Goal — NY Islanders: Nabokov (W, 5-3-3); Ottawa: Lehner (LO, 0-2-1).

GA 18 38 25 34 37 39 40 GA 24 36 44 41 36 47 54

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 5, Ottawa 4, SO Washington 7, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 4, Columbus 2 Tampa Bay 3, Carolina 0 St. Louis 4, Florida 0 Minnesota 4, Montreal 3 Colorado 3, Dallas 2, OT Detroit 4, Calgary 3 Today’s Games Chicago at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Anaheim at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

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

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

Florida at Washington, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Phoenix at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Avalanche 3, Stars 2 (OT) First Period 1. Colorado, Stastny 3 (Tanguay, Hejda) 8:22 Second Period 2. Colorado, Landeskog 4 (MacKinnon) 18:41

Capitals 7, Flyers 0 First Period 1. Washington, Backstrom 3 (Erat, Schmidt) 17:28 Penalties — Schmidt Wash (interference) 6:39, Chimera Wash (tripping) 11:08, Timonen Pha (holding) 12:32.

Second Period 2. Washington, Ward 4 (Chimera, Grabovski) 1:24 3. Washington, Chimera 5 (Grabovski) 2:44 4. Washington, Backstrom 4 (Fehr, Erat) 3:49 5. Washington, Ward 5 (Grabovski, Chimera) 16:25 6. Washington, Brouwer 4 (Green, Backstrom) 18:20 (pp) Penalties — Rinaldo Pha (misconduct) 1:58, Volpatti Wash (interference) 9:00, Raffl Pha (boarding) 12:30, Downie Pha (instigator), Downie Pha (misconduct), Downie Pha (fighting), Volpatti Wash (fighting) 17:17, Alzner Wash (tripping) 18:32.

Third Period 7. Washington, Ward 6 (Chimera, Fehr) 5:23 (pp) Penalties — Rinaldo Pha (boarding) 4:35, Simmonds Pha (fighting), Urbom Wash (fighting), Emery Pha (fighting), Emery Pha (Leaving the Crease), Oleksy Wash (fighting), Wilson Wash (fighting), Holtby Wash (fighting), Lecavalier Pha (fighting), Schenn Pha (fighting), Emery Pha (game misconduct), Schenn Pha (game misconduct), Emery Pha (instigator), Lecavalier Pha (game misconduct), Oleksy Wash (game misconduct), Emery Pha (misconduct) 5:31, Volpatti Wash (misconduct), Urbom Wash (game misconduct) 5:31, Grossmann Pha (boarding) 8:13, Alzner Wash (high-sticking) 19:53.

Shots on goal by Washington 4 15 13 — 32 Philadelphia 8 9 13 — 30 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 5-5-0); Philadelphia: Mason (L, 3-7-0).

Blues 4, Panthers 0 First Period 1. St. Louis, Roy 4 (Stewart, Shattenkirk) 15:41 Penalties — Steen StL (tripping) 11:42, Barkov Fla (hooking) 16:44.

Second Period 2. St. Louis, Stewart 1 (Jackman, Sobotka) 5:21 3. St. Louis, Pietrangelo 3 (Backes, Bouwmeester) 7:06 (pp) 4. St. Louis, Steen 12 (Oshie, Backes) 10:42

Penalties — Huberdeau Fla (boarding) 6:09, Gomez Fla (hooking) 7:45, Shattenkirk StL (slashing) 13:28, Winchester Fla (roughing) 18:58.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by St. Louis 10 8 5 — 23 Florida 11 10 10 — 31 Goal — St. Louis: Elliott (W, 1-0-1); Florida: Markstrom (L, 1-5-2).

Penguins 4, Blue Jackets 2 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 7 (Martin, Crosby) 7:11 (pp) Penalties — Savard Clb (hooking) 7:05, Letang Pit (cross-checking) 12:37, Adams Pit (cross-checking) 17:23.

Second Period 2. Pittsburgh, Sutter 2 (Glass, Adams) 1:10 3. Pittsburgh, Letang 2 (Niskanen, Malkin) 3:01 (pp) 4. Pittsburgh, Megna 2 (Jokinen, Malkin) 5:34 5. Columbus, Mackenzie 1 (Foligno, Johnson) 9:56 Penalties — Wisniewski Clb (freezing the puck) 2:12, Jeffrey Pit (tripping) 6:42, Niskanen Pit, Comeau Clb (fighting) 20:00.

Third Period 6. Columbus, Johansen 4 (Umberger, Wisniewski) 19:14 Penalties — Dubinsky Clb (holding) 0:25, Johnson Clb (high-sticking) 4:26, Letang Pit (delay of game) 19:34.

Shots on goal by Columbus 16 11 12 — 39 Pittsburgh 9 9 9 — 27 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 4-7-0); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 10-2-0).

Lightning 3, Hurricanes 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Ruutu Car (tripping) 8:21, Thompson TB (tripping) 11:07, St. Louis TB (interference) 15:25.

Second Period 1. Tampa Bay, Hedman 2 (Thompson, Crombeen) 9:54 Penalties — Gerbe Car (slashing), Brewer TB (cross-checking) 5:06, Staal Car (tripping) 10:00, Barberio TB (slashing) 19:00.

Third Period 2. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 10 (Killorn, St. Louis) 11:38 3. Tampa Bay, Killorn 3 (St. Louis) 17:14 Penalty — Barberio TB (boarding) 5:03, Staal Car (hooking) 5:44.

Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 3 16 12 — 31 Carolina 5 12 15 — 32 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 8-2-0); Carolina: Peters (L, 0-4-0).

Red Wings 4, Flames 3 First Period 1. Detroit, Datsyuk 6 (Bertuzzi, Kindl) 10:57 2. Detroit, Zetterberg 7 (Bertuzzi, Datsyuk) 17:15 Penalties — Franzen Det (roughing) 1:27, Jones Cal (high-sticking) 1:39, Andersson Det (holding) 12:27, Kronwall Det (interference) 17:57.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Butler 1 (Hudler, Smith) 10:15 4. Calgary, Monahan 7 (Cammalleri, Russell) 12:47 Penalties — Detroit Bench (too many men) 4:32, Backlund Cal (boarding) 14:08.

Third Period 5. Detroit, Tatar 2 (Andersson, Kronwall) 1:25 6. Detroit, Abdelkader 2 (Kronwall, DeKeyser) 16:36 7. Calgary, Glencross 4 (Stajan, Hudler) 19:50 Penalties — Kindl Det (interference) 4:00, Cammalleri Cgy (hooking) 7:35.

Shots on goal by Detroit 5 7 10 — 22 Calgary 12 6 7 — 25 Goal — Detroit: Howard (W, 5-4-2); Calgary: MacDonald (L, 3-3-1).

Football GP y-Toronto 18 x-Hamilton 17 x-Montreal 18 Winnipeg 17

CFL East Division W L T PF 11 7 0 507 9 8 0 416 8 10 0 459 3 14 0 354

West Division GP y-Calgary 18 x-Sask.

17 x-B.C. 18 Edmonton 17

W L 14 4 11 6 11 7 3 14

T 0 0 0 0

PA 458 461 471 548

PF 549 493 504 391

PA 413 368 461 493

Pt 22 18 16 6 Pt 28 22 22 6

x — clinched playoff berth. y — clinched division title.

Tor — Single Sharp 43 8:25 Mtl — Single Whyte 47 12:25 Third Quarter Tor — TD Adams 11 pass from Harris (convert failed) 7:18 Fourth Quarter Tor — Safety Dales concedes 0:08 Tor — Single Sharp 40 5:55 Mtl — Bruce 37 pass from Smith (Smith 5 run for two-point convert) 12:13 Montreal 0 15 0 8 — 23 Toronto 10 1 6 3 — 20 Attendance — 22,589 at Toronto.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 6 2 0 .750 179 N.Y. Jets 4 4 0 .500 143 Miami 4 4 0 .500 174 Buffalo 3 5 0 .375 176

WEEK 19 Friday’s results B.C. 26 Calgary 7 Montreal 23 Toronto 20 Today’s games Hamilton at Winnipeg, 12 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 3 p.m.

End of 2013 CFL Regular Season FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Alouettes 23, Argonauts 20 First Quarter Tor — TD Black 62 interception return (Sharp convert) 3:26 Tor — FG Sharp 42 13:18 Second Quarter Mtl — TD Carter 71 pass from Smith (Whyte convert) 2:07 Mtl — TD Bowling 2 pass from Smith (Whyte convert) 5:19

W 5 3 2 0

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

South L 2 4 5 8 North L 3 4 5 5

W 6 3 3 2

Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh

T 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0

Pct .714 .429 .286 .000

PF 187 145 122 86

Pct .667 .429 .375 .286

PF 217 150 148 125

PA 144 211 187 213 PA 131 146 194 264 PA 166 148 179 153

Kansas City Denver San Diego Oakland

West L 0 1 3 4

W 8 7 4 3

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .875 0 .571 0 .429

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 4 4 0 .500 Philadelphia 3 5 0 .375 Washington 2 5 0 .286 N.Y. Giants 2 6 0 .250

PF 192 343 168 126

PA 98 218 144 150

PF 230 176 173 141

PA 186 211 229 223

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 6 4 2 0

South L 1 3 5 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .857 .571 .286 .000

PF 196 170 166 100

PA 120 96 184 163

Green Bay Detroit Chicago Minnesota

W 5 5 4 1

North L 2 3 3 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .714 .625 .571 .143

PF 212 217 213 163

PA 158 197 206 225

Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

W 7 6 4 3

West L 1 2 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .875 .750 .500 .375

PF 205 218 160 165

PA 125 145 174 198

Thursday, Oct. 31 Cincinnati 20, Miami 22, OT

Sunday, Nov. 3 Minnesota at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Washington, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 2:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, N.Y. Giants, San Francisco Monday, Nov. 4 Chicago at Green Bay, 6:40 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday KANSAS CITY at Buffalo 4.5 40.5 TENNESSEE at St. Louis 2.5 39.5 NEW ORLEANS at NY Jets 5.5 45.5 San Diego at WASHINGTON 0.5 51.5 Minnesota at DALLAS 10.5 47.5 Atlanta at CAROLINA 7.5 43.5 Tampa Bay at SEATTLE 16.5 39.5 PHILADELPHIA at Oakland NA NA Pittsburgh at NEW ENGLAND 7.5 44.5 BALTIMORE at Cleveland 2.5 40.5 INDIANAPOLIS at Houston 2.5 44.5 Monday Chicago at GREEN BAY 10.5 49.5

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Philadelphia Toronto Brooklyn New York Boston

W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 0 2 .000 Southeast Division

GB — 1 1 1 2

Atlanta Charlotte Miami Orlando Washington

W L Pct 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 2 .333 1 2 .333 0 2 .000 Central Division

GB — — 1/2 1/2 1

W

L

Pct

GB

Indiana Detroit Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee

2 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

— 1 1 1 1

W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 0 2 .000 Northwest Division

GB — 1/2 1 1 2

Houston San Antonio Dallas Memphis New Orleans

Minnesota Oklahoma City Portland Utah

W 2 1 1 0

L 0 1 1 1

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .000

GB — 1 1 1.5

Denver

0 2 .000 Pacific Division

Phoenix Sacramento Golden State L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers

W 1 1 1 1 1

L 0 0 1 1 1

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .500

2 GB — — 1/2 1/2 1/2

Friday’s Games Orlando 110, New Orleans 90 Philadelphia 109, Washington 102 Charlotte 90, Cleveland 84 Milwaukee 105, Boston 98 Atlanta 102, Toronto 95 Minnesota 100, Oklahoma City 81 Houston 113, Dallas 105 Memphis 111, Detroit 108, OT Brooklyn 101, Miami 100 Portland 113, Denver 98

Utah at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Cleveland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Brooklyn at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 4 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Golf Tom Pernice Jr. Corey Pavin Steve Elkington Mark Wiebe Dan Forsman Craig Stadler

CHARLES SCHWAB CUP At TPC Harding Park San Francisco Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 7,127; Par 71 Second Round Fred Couples Peter Senior Bart Bryant Bernhard Langer Russ Cochran Mike Goodes Mark O’Meara David Frost Jay Don Blake Duffy Waldorf Jay Haas Tom Lehman Kenny Perry Gene Sauers Kirk Triplett Chien Soon Lu Jeff Sluman Rocco Mediate Fred Funk John Cook Michael Allen Esteban Toledo Mark Calcavecchia John Riegger

65-65 63-69 68-66 67-68 68-68 68-68 66-70 64-73 69-69 67-71 70-69 69-70 68-71 68-71 71-69 72-68 71-69 70-70 70-70 69-71 68-72 70-71 70-71 72-70

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HSBC CHAMPIONS At Sheshan International Golf Club Shanghai Purse: $8.5 million Yardage: 7,266; Par: 72 Second Round Dustin Johnson Bubba Watson Boo Weekley Rory McIlroy Tommy Fleetwood Sergio Garcia Gonzalo Fdez-Castano Ernie Els Graeme McDowell Ian Poulter Jin Jeong Wen-Chong Liang Phil Mickelson Justin Rose Keegan Bradley Graham Delaet Jordan Spieth

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Billy Horschel Louis Oosthuizen Jason Dufner Gaganjeet Bhullar Luke Donald Mikko Ilonen Francesco Molinari Jamie Donaldson Mark Brown Matteo Manassero Chris Wood Paul Casey Ken Duke Kevin Streelman Peter Hanson Gregory Bourdy Brian Gay Hao Tong Li Scott Hend Derek Ernst David Lynn Rickie Fowler Darren Fichardt Bill Haas Martin Kaymer Thongchai Jaidee Ryan Moore Peter Uihlein Lee Westwood Bo Van Pelt Wenyi Huang

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Hiroyuki Fujita Jonas Blixt Masahiro Kawamura Michael Hendry Scott Piercy Jaco Van Zyl D.a. Points Stephen Gallacher Michael Thompson Thomas Bjorn Jimmy Walker John Merrick Richard Sterne Kiradech Aphibarnrat David Howell Brandt Snedeker Daniel Popovic Ashun Wu Nick Watney Seuk-Hyun Baek Branden Grace Henrik Stenson Raphael Jacquelin Miguel Angel Jimenez Mu Hu Brett Rumford George Coetzee Ryo Ishikawa Ming-Jie Huang Hideki Matsuyama

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SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 2013

EU boasts of gains

BY JULIAN BELTRAME AND MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS

CANADA-EU FREE TRADE

OTTAWA — A European Union analysis of the just-completed trade agreement with Canada suggests the EU gained more than it expected — and might have settled for less had Ottawa pushed harder.

The internal document, obtained by The Canadian Press, indicates EU exporters expect to make great inroads in the Canada market. Negotiators hope the gains can be used to their advantage in other trade negotiations, including talks with the United States that have just begun.

The Europeans cite bidding on government contracts, as well as shipments of cheese, wine and spirits, as negotiating victories. The Europeans are also touting their success in persuading Canada to adopt the use of geographical indicators to market their goods.

The document also makes clear not all issues have been settled although, like Canadian officials, the Europeans don’t expect major hurdles. A final text could be “initialled” in a few months.

“In many negotiating areas Canada offered more

than it has offered to any negotiating partner before,” says the document.

“This is a very good outcome in its own right, but it will also provide a solid stepping stone for our negotiations with other partners.”

That characterization is similar to claims made by Canadian officials and government ministers, who have called the deal a win for both exporters and consumers. But the European document is unique in claiming to have won concessions beyond their expectations.

The Europeans are particularly pleased about realizing all their goals in the area of geographic indicators or GIs, those products named for their origins, such as Gorgonzola or Feta cheeses.

“Canada — not traditionally a friend of GIs — has accepted that all types of food products will be protected at a comparable level to that offered by EU law and that additional GIs can be added in the future,” says the document, noting 125 of Europe’s 145 “priority GIs” will enjoy full protection.

On cheeses, the document notes existing Canadi-

Finance ministers agree CPP needs fixing

an products are grandfathered, but new entrants will need to be identified by such modifiers as “style,” “type” or “imitation.”

The paper suggests winning the GI battle will give European manufacturers a significant leg up when competing with Canadian producers of similar products.

It also revels in Canada’s concession to extend patent protection on brand-name drugs by up to two years, although it makes clear that their negotiators were trying for the EU standard of five years.

“This is an important and unprecedented concession from Canada in the area of intellectual property rights.”

A report by two university researchers this week estimated the cost to Canadians from delaying introduction of cheaper generic medicines will likely range between $800 million and $1.65 billion, once the patents on new drugs expire starting in 2023.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has acknowledged that the cheese and pharmaceuticals sectors might be adversely affected in the short term by the agreement. He has also said the government will consider compensation for the cheese makers and the provinces, which would bear the brunt of higher drug costs.

SHALE GAS PROTEST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — All of Canada’s provincial and territorial finance ministers agree that something needs to be done to enhance the Canada Pension Plan, Ontario’s treasurer said Friday.

Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan “had some issues,” Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said after emerging from a meeting with his counterparts in Toronto.

“But in the end, they all agreed that there is a definite problem and we need to resolve it.”

The group found common ground by agreeing to several objectives and principles for possible CPP changes, including moderating the effect it may have on businesses and the economy, Sousa said.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is urging the ministers to reject mandatory increases to CPP, saying it will end up killing jobs and reducing work hours by forcing small businesses to hike payroll taxes.

Workers and companies currently split the premiums, which are 9.9 per cent of a workers’ annual salary.

Sousa said the group didn’t arrive at a new number, but agreed that they’ll need to talk to business groups, labour associations and other “stakeholders” first.

They talked about “amending” the number depending on the salary range “as well as possibly alternating numbers,” he said. But they couldn’t come to an agreement.

“But they recognize that something of that nature will have to be done,” he said.

“So I don’t want to advertise a number at this point. There’s a recognition though that the amount that we now have isn’t sufficient.”

Prince Edward Island wants to hike maximum CPP contributions to $4,681.20 a year from $2,356.20 starting in 2016, and boost the maximum benefit to $23,400 from $12,150.

CFIB said their analysis suggests the P.E.I. proposal would result in a one per cent drop in wages and the loss of 500,000 person years of employment.

“Even polling done by public sector unions tells us that a majority of Canadians who are struggling to save for their retirement simply can’t afford to,” CFIB president Dan Kelly said in a release.

“Adding a higher payroll tax deduction to their paycheque is not going to help them.”

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lawyer Alison Menard, right, along with Jason Augustine, a Mi’kmaq Warrior, holds a news conference outside the Moncton Law Courts in Moncton, N.B. on Friday. Augustine was one of many arrested and detained after the RCMP enforced a court injunction against shale gas protesters near Rexton, N.B. on Oct. 17.

BlackBerry founders in talks with Cerberus, Qualcomm over bid

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The founders of BlackBerry are in discussions to partner with investment firm Cerberus Capital Management LP to make a competitive bid for the struggling technology company.

A source familiar with the process said that Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin began talks with Cerberus in hopes that an agreement could be ironed out before a key deadline next week.

The source asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak on the matter.

The potential group includes other parties that could join an official bid, including cellphone chip maker Qualcomm Inc., the source said.

Representatives for both Cerberus and Qualcomm declined to comment on whether they are in negotiations.

The move comes ahead of a deadline set for Monday for potential bidders for BlackBerry (TSX:BB) assets.

At that time, a due diligence period ends for Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFX), BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, which made a conditional US$9-per-share offer for the company in September.

Together, Lazaridis and Fregin own roughly an eight per cent stake in BlackBerry, while Fairfax holds about 10 per cent.

Cerberus has a long relationship with Canadian companies and in 2004 helped rescue Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) from bankruptcy.

In 2008, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX:CM) sold part of its structured credit portfolio to Cerberus in a US$1.05-billion deal as it backed away from exposure to the U.S. residential mortgage market.

Mentors have a chance to make a positive impact Dear Working Wise: One of the newer members of our office just asked me if I would be willing to be her mentor. I am flattered but a little surprised because I feel like I’m still learning and I’m not sure if I have anything to offer.

I never had a mentor. What does a mentor do? — Hesitant Dear Hesitant: Congratulations on being asked to be a mentor. You may not feel like it, but your co-worker obviously admires you and believes she can learn from you.

Mentors are trusted advisers who have successful careers and proven track records. They make a commitment to support and encourCHARLES age their mentees or protégés STRACHEY as they develop their careers.

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You have an opportunity to have a positive impact on someone else’s life and help them develop into a professional that you and others admire.

Many teachers say they learn more from their students than their students learn from them. Mentoring can give you a new perspective on your career — offering you the opportunity to see yourself and your profession through your mentee’s eyes.

It’s an opportunity to give back to your organization or profession, and strengthen your reputation for developing new talent. Mentoring can also help reignite your passion for your work and inspire you to stay on top of the latest trends and best practices.

However, you should be cautious before you agree to mentor someone. What a mentee does and how she does it will reflect on you.

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Choose a protégé who is trustworthy, professional and ethical. Set clear boundaries about what you expect. If you are open, ethical and supportive, you will establish a relationship with your mentee that will continue to be a source of inspiration for both of you.

If you don’t think you can effectively mentor her, though, tell her right away so that you don’t waste her time.

For more information and tips on being a mentor: ● Check to see if your organization has a mentoring program or offers resources; ● Look for books on mentoring at your local bookstore; or ● Visit the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) website at www.alis.alberta.ca and read the tip sheet: Mentoring: How to Be an Effective Mentor.

If you are a young worker who is looking for a mentor, check out the Mentoring: Finding and Working With a Mentor tip sheet on ALIS. 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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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.20 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.97 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 62.56 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.07 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.43

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 89.36 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.96 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.61 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.09 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.58 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.42 Cdn. National Railway . 115.86 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 151.68 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.40 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.48 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.61 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 38.95 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.32 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.23 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.47 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.39 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.98 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.75 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.52 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 65.69 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.49 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.09 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.20

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.72 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.76 First Quantum Minerals . 19.71 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.34 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.33 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.00 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.79 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.53 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.20

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 97.32 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.44 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.04 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.77 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.17

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.21 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 72.30 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.29 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.19 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 57.67 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.64 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.27 Canyon Services Group. 11.32 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.54 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.780 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.58 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 3.01 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.82

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Friday as investors took in encouraging manufacturing data from China and the United States The S&P/TSX composite index declined 23.8 points to 13,337.46, pressured by continued weakness in the gold sector as prices hit a two-week low and Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) announced a huge stock offering.

“Gold is getting crushed, but gold is a flight to safety,” said Wes Mills, chief investment officer Scotia Asset Management PM Advisor Services.

“And so, gold coming off the way it is, is a confirmation that the global economy is in fact improving.”

The Canadian dollar was unchanged at 95.9 cents US. U.S. indexes were higher after the Institute for Supply Management reported the factory sector showed greater than expected expansion during October, rising to 56.4 from 56.2 in September. Economists had expected the index to dip to 50.9.

Anything above 50 indicates expansion.

The Dow Jones industrials closed up 69.8 points to 15,615.55, the Nasdaq rose 2.34 points to 3,922.04 and the S&P 500 index was up 5.1 points to 1,761.64.

Earlier, HSBC Corp. said its monthly purchasing managers’ index for China showed its best improvement in seven months,

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October auto sales up 7.4 per cent from a year ago TORONTO — Canadian auto and truck sales last month were up 7.4 per cent from a year ago, according to data compiled by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.

Light vehicle sales totalled 145,460 for the month, up from 135,476 in October 2012 as Ford led the way with a gain of more than 10 per cent.

The U.S. automaker sold 22,635 vehicles for the month, up from 20,561 a year ago.

“We are proud to have achieved the best month of sales on record in more than 15 years,” Ford Canada president and chief executive Dianne Craig said in a statement.

Canadian auto sales have set a tor-

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 53.23 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.61 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.07 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.61 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.43 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.550 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.88 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.80 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.01 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.90 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.02 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.27 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.02 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.70 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.18 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 33.36 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.20 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.14 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 49.83 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.22 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.52 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 90.72 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.60 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.41 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 35.23 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.88

rising to 50.9 from September’s 50.2.

And an industry group, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, said its index rose to 51.4 from the previous month’s 51.1.

China’s economic growth rebounded to 7.8 per cent in the three months ending in September, from the previous quarter’s two-decade low of 7.5 per cent.

The ISM data will also be carefully weighed as to how it might affect the timing of the U.S. Federal Reserve in cutting back on a key stimulus program, its monthly purchases of US$85 billion of bonds.

The Fed announced earlier this week it would carry on with the program, which is credited

rid pace so far this year.

According to DesRosiers, the industry has sold 1,496,216 light vehicles through the first 10 months of the year, up 3.8 per cent from 1,441,014 a year ago.

General Motors, which posted a nearly 10 per cent gain, was second in October as it said sales jumped across all four of its brands, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac for the month that included an extra selling day than last year.

The automaker sold 20,503 vehicles last month, compared with 18,651 in October 2012.

Chrysler rounded out the top 3 with sales of 18,007, up from 17,333 a year ago.

U.S. manufacturing expanded in October WASHINGTON — U.S. factory activity expanded in October at the fastest pace in 2 ½ years, suggesting that the 16-day partial shutdown of the government had little effect on manufactur-

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with keeping long-term interest rates low and therefore encouraging more people to buy equities. But there remains much speculation about when the Fed might start to taper those asset purchases.

That speculation helped send North American markets lower Thursday but they ended up higher for the month.

The TSX rose 4.5 per cent during October, adding up to a 7.5 per cent gain for 2013 so far. And many analysts think the market has further room to improve.

“The bottom line, I step back and I say, OK, is the economic trend up and it is,” added Mills.

“And so until we get confirmation that in fact things are rolling over, then I’m OK with it because markets won’t always sit at perfect equilibrium.”

The gold sector fell about 4.55 per cent while December bullion closed $10.50 lower to US$1,313.20 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) fell $1.22 to C$25.34.

Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) fell $1.56 or 7.69 per cent to $18.72 after it unveiled plans to raise roughly $3 billion to repay debt by issuing 163.5 million shares at $18.35 per share. Barrick also announced Thursday that it was suspending work on its troubled Pascua-Lama project as it moved to rein in costs at the mine under construction high in the Andes mountains.

Base metal stocks were also weak, down 1.3 per cent. December copper had received an earlier boost from the Chinese data but later was unchanged at US$3.30 a pound.

The sector was weighed down in particular by Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO). Its stock fell 25 cents or 9.77 per cent to $2.31 after a new environmental study into its billion-dollar New Prosperity mine proposal in British Columbia said it would pose “several significant adverse environmental effects.”

The energy sector was 1.2 per cent lower as December crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange moved down $1.77 to US$94.61. Crude has fallen 3.3 per cent this week following data out mid-week showing a sharp spike in U.S. supplies last week. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) fell $1.09 to $36.80.

Industrial stocks were positive with Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) shares up $1.31 to $115.86 after earlier hitting a 52-week high of $116.98. CN announced that it has reached tentative agreements with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents 3,000 workers.

In other corporate developments, SNC-Lavalin shares were ahead 71 cents to $44.52 as the engineering giant swung to a $72.7-million loss in the thirdquarter. SNC has warned that its net income for the full year would drop dramatically due to moneylosing legacy contracts, weak mining markets and a European restructuring charge.

Last week, the TSX ended down 0.46 per cent as gold stocks fell further into negative territory and bullion prices continued to lose ground.

But the market is coming off its best month of 2013, running ahead 4.5 per cent during October, leaving the TSX up 7.26 per cent year to date.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,337.46 down 23.80 points TSX Venture Exchange — 955.33 down 3.52 points TSX 60 — 766.99 down 0.48 point Dow — 15,615.55 up 69.80 points S&P 500 — 1,761.64 up 5.10 points Nasdaq — 3,922.04 up 2.34

ers.

Instead, overseas demand and healthy U.S. auto sales appear to be supporting factory output. The housing recovery is also lifting the furniture and wood products industry despite a recent slowing in home sales.

“We’ve become accustomed to the way Washington operates in the past couple of years and assume that it will get resolved eventually, however painfully,” said Bradley Holcomb, head of the survey committee of the Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers that on Friday reported a solid manufacturing figure for October.

The ISM’s manufacturing index rose to 56.4 from 56.2 in September. A reading above 50 indicates growth.

Factories also expanded in Europe this month, though at a slightly slower pace, according to surveys in that region. Manufacturing indexes have all picked up in China, Japan, and South Korea.

The overseas strength is boosting demand for U.S. factories. A measure

points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.90 cents US, unchanged Pound — C$1.6605, down 1.17 cents Euro — C$1.4065, down 0.97 of a cent Euro — US$1.3489, down 0.93 of a cent Oil futures: US$94.61 per barrel, down $1.77 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,313.20 per oz., down $10.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.717 per oz., down 9.7 cents $762.50 per kg., down $3.12 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $1.90 lower $481.70; Jan. ’14 $3.00 lower $491.40; March ’14 $3.00 lower $499.40; May ’14 $3.20 lower $505.50; July ’14 $3.20 lower $511.20; Nov. ’14 $3.30 lower $517.20; Jan ’15 $3.30 lower $519.70; March ’15 $4.30 lower $518.50; May ’15 $4.20 lower $513.00; July ’15 $4.20 lower $510.20; Nov ’15 $4.20 lower $506.40.

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: 464,120 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 464,120.

of export orders jumped to its highest level in nearly a year and a half in October, the ISM report said.

ECB faces falling inflation FRANKFURT, Germany — On top of high unemployment and sluggish growth, the European Central Bank has a new headache: an unexpected drop in inflation.

Most people think lower inflation is good news because it makes things easier to buy — and usually it is. But the current slide is just another sign of how weak the economic recovery is in the 17 countries that use the euro.

An official report this week showed a surprise drop in the inflation rate to 0.7 per cent in September from 1.1 per cent the month before. That’s well below the ECB’s stated goal of close to but below 2 per cent that it considers ideal for the economy.

But the monetary authority for the eurozone may be running short of tools to deal with the problem.

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Photos contributed The Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, along with community donors, gave out $26,000 in healthcare scholarships to Central Alberta students on Oct. 25.

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arships. Students came from Central Alberta communities including Red Deer, Ponoka, Spruce View, Sylvan Lake, and Penhold.

For more information on scholarship program, criteria or applications, visit www.rdrhfoundation.com.

Anyone interested in establishing a scholarship should contact the Health Foundation at 403-343-4773.

2013 scholarship recipients ● Edengrace Barisow Scholarship: Cari Tetz ● Leo J. Falardeau Scholarship: Christopher Beavington, Jamie Calkins ● Health Care Scholarship: Cari-Lea Webber ● Cec and Phyl Holmes Scholarship: Louis Porterfield, Karyn Iliscupidez, Christopher Beavington ● Landmark Group of Builders Youth Volunteer Scholarship: Stephanie Aubuchon ● Lloyd and Evelyn McNeil Scholarship (Lab and Diagnostic): Devin Kozun Lab, Sarah Letourneau ● Lloyd and Evelyn McNeil Scholarship (Nursing): Pat Hanson l Dr. Victor Ratzlaff and Dr. Carey Molberg Scholarship: Jamie Calkins, Pat Hanson ● James Bradley Tubbs Memorial Scholarship: Emma Malsbury ● Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship: Christopher Beavington ● Young Guns Rehabilitation Scholarship: Michael Carson Cari Lea Webber and family.

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LOCAL HOME

FRONT EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING Nominations for the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Awards are open. The awards honour outstanding teachers and principals who have made a difference in the lives of their students. The awards are presented by Alberta Education. About 130 semifinalists will be selected and considered for one of the 20 awards.

Nomination packages can be downloaded at www.education.alberta. ca/teachers/excellence. aspx or can be requested by emailing edc. excellenceinteaching@ gov.ab.ca or call toll free 1-866-590-1660.

Nominations close on Feb. 7, 2014.

FASHION SHOW The women-only What a Girl Wants gourmet breakfast and fashion show is set for Nov. 8 at Bower Place Shopping Centre. Presented by the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, the event features a decadent breakfast spread and a collection of prizes, as well as a talk from Robyn Beazely, an enthusiasm expert. Little Black Dress is the theme of the event and organizers are asking participants to show off their favourite black dress.

The event begins at 7 a.m. and runs until 9 a.m.

Tickets are $40 each or $150 for a table of four.

They can be purchased by visiting www.cawes. com or calling 403-3182321. All proceeds go towards the shelter’s Family Violence Prevention Initiative. For more information, contact Anna Robertshaw at 403-5974142 or by email at anna. robertshaw@cawes.com.

VICTIM SUPPORT GALA Rural Red Deer and District Victim Support group is hosting its second annual gala on Nov. 9 at the Black Knight Inn to help fund programs for victims and witnesses of crime and tragedy. The Helping Hands Harvest Gala, a fine dining charity event, brings awareness to the group’s cause and needs.

The gala will feature raffle draws, auctions and live entertainment from Randi Boulton and The Band Porter, as well as a live painting performance.

Tickets, $75 each or $600 for a table of eight, are on sale now through the Black Night Ticket Centre.

For information, contact Karie Ackermann of the Blackfalds and District Victim Support Society at 403-392-2412 or visit www.victimsupport.ca.

CORRECTIONS ● A caption beneath a photo of a student in a zombie Halloween mask in Friday’s Advocate had some incorrect information. The student was not sent home by staff at St. Patrick’s School.

The student was asked to take off the costume. The costume was not allowed under school policy that prohibits costumes that portray evil, dark or questionable characters. ● An Advocate story on Friday had an incorrect first name for a man sentenced for his role in an escort scam. The man who was sentenced to four years in prison is Florian Edward Poitra.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 2013

CHINOOK’S EDGE AT ALL-TIME HIGH; OTHER DISTRICTS LOSE GROUND

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF High school completion rates have reached an all-time high at Chinook’s Edge School Division.

The percentage of students completing high school was 78.2 for the 2012-2013 school year, up from the record-setting 77.7 per cent last year.

The figure also comes in above the provincial average of 74.5 per cent.

“We are proud of the hard work being accomplished in all of our schools, across all the grades, that is directly impacting student achievement,” superintendent Kurt Sacher said in a news release.

“High school completion is the result of years of quality learning, from the minute our students enter kindergarten to the time

they graduate. We’re very pleased with this evidence that our focus on achievement is setting our students up for success in school — and in life.”

Sacher credits staff and various programs in place as part of the reason for the upward trend in high school completion at Chinook, which is headquartered in Innisfail.

“Our commitment to literacy is part of the story. Our commitment to higher levels of student engagement is part of the story. ... We have an instructional leadership program with our administrators that supports teachers.

“It’s the whole focus on students that leads to these results,” Sacher said.

“They don’t just happen because of one program but all of them. We do a lot of work with our young people asking them about career choices.

“We have five career highs, formally outreach schools, that work closely with traditional high schools to make sure no one slips under the cracks. We have the Sundre Learning Centre that has also improved local completion rates there. So much is at work here.”

High school completion rates in Red Deer Public School District dipped slightly to 72.6 for 2012-2013, compared to 73.5 per cent in the 2011 school year. The rate was at 69 per cent in 2010.

At Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, the rate is at 86 per cent, a slight decrease from 86.8 per cent in 2011 and 86.1 in 2010.

Wolf Creek Public Schools also experienced a decline in their high school completion rate, coming in at 71 per cent compared to the 73 per cent rate the previous year. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Mild trend comes to end

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Old Man Winter is set to make a messy appearance in Red Deer today and Sunday, ushering in November with blowing snow, according to Environment Canada.

“It looks like a band of precipitation will settle across Red Deer on Saturday,” Chris Emond, Environment Canada meteorologist, said on Friday.

“Snow is in the forecast for the weekend. A low-pressure system is approaching British Columbia from the southwest and should move into Southern Alberta later Saturday afternoon.”

Today calls for the beginning of the snowfall, with the risk of freezing rain late in the morning and 10 to 15 cm of snow falling throughout the day.

A high of 4C is called for today, setting the scene for sloppy conditions, and cooling down in the evening, Emond said.

Temperatures should hover around -2C on Sunday. Sunday’s forecast also calls for windy

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Ben Harbinson sends a big air trick on his scooter at the skate park near the Arena in Red Deer on Friday afternoon. The fantastic autumn weather is forecast to make a decidedly winter change this weekend with snow and blowing snow and cold temperatures bringing in the month of November. conditions with blowing snow.

The snowy forecast comes after a month of fairly standard temperatures for the region, when compared to records over the past 30 years.

No records were broken, but it was “slightly warmer with a tad more precipitation than normal, though not significantly so,” Emond said of October’s weather.

Shelter beds, ambulance dispatch on agenda

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Shelter beds and ambulance dispatch will be two of the first issues addressed by the newly-elected Red Deer city council on Monday.

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BRIEFS Christmas bureau ramps up Families and individuals who need some help this holiday season can look to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau.

Starting on Nov. 11 and running until Dec. 19, the bureau will take applications for food hampers.

Last year, the organization handed out 950 hampers to those in need.

Teresa Kutynec, bureau president, said it expects a similar number of requests this year. Successful applicants can pick up their hampers on Dec. 19 and 20. Kutynec said those who do not pick up hampers may be ineligible to apply next year for assistance.

Hampers are filled with the traditional makings of a holiday meal, including turkey, ham, milk, potatoes, cereal, fruit and vegetables.

To qualify, residents are asked to have a form of identification, proof of income and Alberta Health Care card. Applications can be accepted at the Toy Depot (No. 15 7428 49th Ave.).

Kutynec said volunteers are always needed to help clients shop at the Toy Depot and to hand out the hampers. The depot needs 10 to 12 volunteers every day, Monday to Friday, to keep the shop running.

Volunteers are also needed for weekend

The month’s average temperature was 4.8C, compared to the climatological norm of 4.1C. In terms of precipitation, Red Deer had 24.5 mm, with the average settling around 19.8.

The first snow was on Oct. 27, falling for several hours and accumulating three cm, Emond said.

“The record snowfall for Red Deer’s was 25.4 cm on Oct. 21,

CITY COUNCIL Council will consider first reading of a land use bylaw amendment to allow Safe Harbour Society to add six more spaces, bringing the total to 26 spaces for its mat program, located at 5246 53rd Ave. The society has been turning away clients for many months.

Council will then turn its attention to its fight against the pending consolidation of ambulance dispatch services in the province.

Council will discuss a motion that calls on the provincial government to reverse fundraisers.

For more information, contact the bureau at 403-347-2210.

Sleighs run at Heritage Ranch A sleigh ride with 20,000 Christmas lights strung up along the trails at Heritage Ranch is the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit.

The popular Winter Lights Tour is back for another year.

Heritage Ranch offers three sleigh packages to choose from. A 30-minute sleigh ride with hot chocolate at the end is geared for families. There’s also a date night and family and friends packages that include dinner.

For pricing and booking, visit www.heritageranch.ca or call 347-4977.

Hwy 2/Hwy 27 access upgraded A smoother ride is in store for motorists using the Hwy 2 and Hwy 27 interchange just east of Olds.

Upgrades that include eliminating two loops on the current interchange and improving the two on-ramps are complete.

Eastbound drivers heading north will now turn left on a new access point to the northbound on-ramp after crossing over the Hwy 2.

Westbound drivers heading south will turn left on a new access point to the southbound ramp after crossing over Hwy 2.

This work is part of a larger $23-million Hwy 2 upgrade, which included repaving

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1957,” he said. “Typically the airport would report 3.4 days with more than a trace of snowfall but less than five cm as the average.”

The region’s lowest low for the month was -12.3C on Oct. 28. The October low record remains at -28.8C, set on Oct. 29 in 1991. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate. com

its decision in the interests of the health and safety of citizens in the Central Alberta region.

An organizational meeting takes place before the council meeting, where councillors will be appointed to various boards, committees and commissions. Council meeting schedules, seating arrangements and deputy mayor appointments will also be sorted out.

Council representation will also be considered for the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association board and committees.

The meeting gets underway at 2:30 p.m. in City Hall council chambers. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com of 42 km of the highway between Red Deer and Carstairs.

Turn tickets into toys Parking tickets issued from the City of Red Deer between Nov. 1 and Dec. 6 can be paid once again with a toy donation for the city’s Toys for Tickets program.

All the toys collected go to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau, seeking to ensure no child wakes up without a toy on Christmas morning.

This is the seventh time the program has run.

“It’s all about giving back to the community,” said Fred Dieno, parking co-ordinator. “The program has been a huge success with over 3,300 toys collected since the program started.”

More than 400 citizens donated toys last year.

Toys must be new, unwrapped and in their original packaging.

The early payment rate will remain in effect when the ticket is paid for with a toy.

However, the value of the toy must equal or exceed the amount owed on the parking ticket. A receipt must be presented at the time of payment. If the toy is valued lower than the price of the ticket, the difference must be paid.

Toy donations will be accepted in lieu of parking tickets only on Dec. 5 and 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the first floor of City Hall. For more information about the Toys for Tickets program, contact parking administration at 403-342-8185 or visit www. reddeer.ca/inspections.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 2013

Rethinking the ‘nones’ phenomenon Old-school preachers used to call them “backsliders,” those folks who were raised in the pews but then fled.

Sociologists and church-growth professionals eventually pinned more bookish labels on these people, calling them the “unchurched” or describing them as “spiritual, but not religious.”

Pollsters at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and similar think tanks are now using a more neutral term to describe a key trend in various religious traditions, talking about a sharp increase in the percentage of North Americans who are “religiously unaffiliated.”

TERRY That’s certainly an awkMATTINGLY ward, non-snappy label that’s hard to use in headlines. It’s so much easier to call them the “nones.”

Anyone who cares about the role of religion in public life had to pay attention to last year’s “Nones’ on the Rise” study by the Pew researchers, especially the jarring fact that 20 percent of U.S. adults — including 32 percent under the age of 30 — embrace that “religiously unaffiliated” label.

The question some experts are asking now is whether Americans have simply changed how they describe their beliefs, rather than making radical changes at the level of faith and practice.

While there has certainly been a rise in the number of “religiously unaffiliated” people, when researchers “dig down inside the numbers they will find that there hasn’t been that much change in the practice of religion in America,” said Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at Gallup, in a recent telephone interview.

“What’s happening is that people who weren’t practicing their faith and have never really prac-

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ticed a faith are now, for some reason, much more likely to be honest about that fact,” he said.

“People used to say they didn’t go to church, but they would still call themselves ‘Baptists,’ or ‘Catholics’ or whatever. ...

“It’s that lukewarm, vague sense of religious identity that is fading. We’re seeing a lot more truth in the reporting, right now.”

It’s especially important to note that young people who were raised in intensely religious, traditional homes are much more likely to continue practicing their faith, or to become active in a similar faith, according to a new Focus on the Family report, built on the Pew Research Center numbers and the most recent General Social Survey from the National Science Foundation.

In the millennial generation -- those born in the 1980s and ’90s — only 11 per cent of those who now call themselves “religiously unaffiliated” said they were raised in a home in which a faith tradition was enthusiastically lived and taught.

The Focus on the Family study noted: “This is not a crisis of faith, per se, but of parenting. ... Young adults cannot keep what they were never given.”

So what has changed? Experts at the Gallup Poll have been asking similar questions about religious identity and practice for decades, noted Newport, and it’s clear that in the past it was much harder for Americans to face a pollster and muster up the courage to openly reject religion — period.

“I found the survey in the ’50s where it was zero per cent ‘none.’ How’s that? I mean literally, it rounded down to zero,” said Newport, drawing laughter during a recent Pew Forum event.

“So it’s amazing that back when the Gallup interviewer came a-calling — and it was in person in the ’50s — literally it looks like almost every single respondent chose a religious identification other than ‘none.’ “ Now, it’s becoming clear that — perhaps following the cultural earthquakes of the 1960s — many Americans have stopped pretending they are linked

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to faith traditions that they have no interest in practicing.

These “unreligious” Americans, Newport told the Pew gathering, are not really changing how they live their lives, they “are just changing the way that they label themselves.”

Meanwhile, it may be time for researchers to pay renewed attention to what is happening among the Americans on the other end of the spectrum — those who remain committed to faith-centered ways of life, said Newport, in the telephone interview.

“It’s possible that if you really claim a religion today, then it’s much more likely that your religious identity is pure, that you’re making sacrifices to practice your faith because it really means something to you,” he said. “Maybe it’s significant that so many people are willing to stand up and say that they still believe.”

Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Contact him at tmattingly@cccu.org or www. tmatt.net.

LOCAL EVENTS TUESDAY Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held Nov. 5 and 19.

Phone 403-742-4273.

UPCOMING EVENTS Victory Church Red Deer is accepting registrations for First Annual Cookie Walk, Craft and Bake Sale which will take place on Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To book a table, contact Sandi at 403-986-1605, or Shirley at 403-872-1345. Table rental $15.

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Steel Magnolias blossoms CHARACTERS AND STORY RING TRUE IN THIS CENTRAL ALBERTA THEATRE PRODUCTION A warm-hearted tale of female friendship is served up in eccentric southern style in Central Alberta Theatre’s Steel Magnolias, which opened on Friday at City Centre Stage in downtown Red Deer.

There’s plenty of helmet hair, bigshouldered dresses and dotty older women making remarks such as: “I’m an old Southern woman and we’re supposed to wear funny looking hats and ugly clothes and grow vegetables in the dirt.”

The town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, LANA goes on to MICHELIN state: “I don’t know why. I don’t make the rules!”

The “rules” were largely set by southern playwright Robert Harling, who with Steel Magnolias shaped the world’s impressions of what women from Louisiana look and sound like.

His laugh-cry dramedy about three years in the lives of a group of closeknit friends who regularly meet at Truvy’s beauty salon was turned into a popular all-star 1989 movie with Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, et al, and spawned stage productions across the globe, including Japan, Sweden and Ireland.

The play became universally beloved because its characters and story ring true. And this Central Alberta Theatre production, while running on the frozen Prairie, some 4,000 km north of Louisiana, is no exception.

CAT’s version of Steel Magnolias, directed by Albertus Koett, is very moving and offers a generous sprinkling of laugh-out-loud moments — such as when Truvy says, “The only thing that separates us from animals is our ability to accessorize.”

Or when the irascible Ouiser cracks: “I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years!”

The well-paced production banks on good performances from local actors who know the meaning of being part of an ensemble cast.

There is no upstaging here.

Every performance is on the same wave-length, and we believe in the characters’ inter-relationships.

The action starts with Shelby (Jennifer Barritt) dropping in to have Truvy (Trina Penner) do her hair on her wedding day.

Their chatter is regularly interrupt-

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From the left, Vicki Dykes, as Ouiser, Tori Grebinski as Annele, Trina Penner as Truvy, Jennifer Barritt as Shelby, Beryl Starke as Clairee Angel Paulsen as M’Lynn play out a scene from the Central Alberta Theatre production of Steel Magnolias during a recent rehearsal. ed by off-stage gun shot blasts, courtesy of Shelby’s wacky father, who is trying to scare birds out of the trees in readiness for the reception.

Shelby notices a new hairdresser, Annelle (Tori Grebinski) who just got hired, despite a mysterious past she doesn’t want to talk about.

The audience is soon introduced to Shelby’s overprotective and somewhat controlling mother M’Lynn (Angel Paulsen), the good-natured widow of the town’s late mayor, Clairee (Beryl Starke), and the community’s resident negative nelly, Ouiser (Vicki Dykes).

The actors pull off the warts-and-all characters who weather life’s triumphs and tragedies by sticking together and drawing strength from friendship.

My quibble is they need to speak

slower than at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal to convey the lazy Louisiana drawl and make every line understandable to an audience not used to Southern accents.

Particular standouts from the talented cast are Penner, for capturing Truvy’s dual qualities of warm informality and wry world-weariness, and Paulsen, for hitting all the right emotions — especially in the final scene, which, if you have children and are not made of stone, will likely make you cry.

Part of this play’s success is based on wish fulfilment.

A lot of us overly-busy people probably wish we had an ever-present, always supportive group of friends waiting for us in some mythical hair salon,

somewhere, to dispense a group hug and instant validation every time we needed it. Women, especially, need to make time for their girlfriends — and going to see Steel Magnolias would be an entirely appropriate girls’ night out.

Despite the play’s chick-flick associations, its humour might also appeal to some husbands.

Audience members will enjoy the trip back to the 1980s, courtesy of costumers Marj Craig and Darlene McGill and set designer Ken Shaw. Extra kudos go to The Academy of Professional Hair Design for lending CAT old salon equipment, training the actors on hair dressing techniques, and volunteering to do their hair and makeup.

The play continues to Nov. 16. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY

Nurturing talent from home and beyond

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Ten years ago, Sunworks owner Paul Harris was approached by an art student who lamented the lack of gallery space in Red Deer.

Harris, who creates art himself, sympathized.

He pointed the young woman towards an old storeroom filled with boxes at the back of his store.

The student was told that Harris and his partner Terry Warke could contribute all the materials, lighting and staffing for a gallery, but she had to convert the space, and find someone to do the adjudicating and curating for shows.

“She said OK,” he recalled, so storage boxes were shoved under the stairs.

An old shelving unit was converted into plinths, walls were painted — and a gallery was born.

Since then, the non-profit Harris-Warke Gallery has hosted a multitude of diverse exhibits.

Some have pushed the boundaries of what conservative viewers would consider art.

From a table full of artfully arranged napkins, to ceramic depictions of food, spherical landscape sculptures, and boxes displaying various ‘fears,’ the Harris-Warke Gallery has exhibited it all.

The space that has now been moved upstairs to the second floor of Sunworks on Ross Street has, in the process, nurtured all kinds of artistic talents through its revolving door of six-week exhibits.

Some featured artists have been local, including abstract landscape painter Galia Kwetny, figure painter Erin Boake and multidisciplinary artist Daniel Anhorn, a visual arts technician at Red Deer College.

Many other sculptors, photographers and printmakers have hailed from across Alberta and a few sent their artwork to the gallery from as far as Winnipeg.

“Our primary focus is the quality of the work,” said local artist Paul Boultbee, who is stepping down from an ad-hoc adjudicating committee after 10 years of service.

Boultbee said he’s always found it “fascinating” to see what others are creating.

“We’ve never turned anything away” based on content, he added.

In fact, when faced with a choice of exhibiting painted flowers or an interesting and unusual sculptural show, the committee of four to 10 local artists and art supporters would invariably make the less conventional choice.

“We wanted to show things that you might not get to see in a Red Deer gallery,” said Boultbee.

Commercial appeal isn’t a factor because the space can run on a shoestring budget made up from an annual fundraiser.

(If an exhibited work does sell, the artist gets to keep 70 per cent of proceeds, with the rest going towards gallery costs, he added.)

Boultbee remembers only one show that caused difficulties.

A Winnipeg artist had sent 1,200 paper napkins with lipstick lip prints and asked cu-

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Paul Harris in the recently renovated space upstairs at Sunworks in Red Deer, where the HarrisWarke Gallery now resides. rators to arrange them on a table in a particular pattern.

Unfortunately the store kitten began frolicking on the table, causing no end of extra rearranging work for store staff.

But no show has ever been derailed by customer complaint.

Boultbee said he can’t even recall receiving a negative comment from a viewer over an exhibit.

“Sometimes we know people don’t like a show when they say ‘I don’t like this,’ or ‘I don’t understand this’ in the comment book,” but that’s as far as it goes.

Harris, a city councillor who considers himself an activist, appreciates that art often makes a statement.

For instance, Anhorn, whose October exhibit of “toids” featured spherical forests that could fit in the palm of your hand, showed how industry affects the natural world.

Some of his forests were shaped like plumes from smokestacks, others showed dead trees from oil spills.

Some of Anhorn’s pipecleaner trees were depicted as dried up from water being pumped underground for oil extraction.

Harris said one of the most popular recent exhibits, Little Fears, delved into the psychological.

Edmonton artist Laura O’Connor explored evolving anxieties through mixed media works — from worrying about “a monster under my bed” to “a strange man walking a few steps behind me down an empty street.”

The artist wanted viewers to recognize anxieties are part of emotional maturation, said Harris, who believes “art expresses to society things that are sometimes difficult to express in any other way.”

Boultbee credited the Harris-Warke Gallery for serving

as a starting point for many artists, who have often gone on to exhibit in other places.

For instance, a version of one of his shows, which debuted at the Red Deer gallery in 2004, later moved to Calgary and will appear next year in Portland, Ore. Harris, who is glad to have created opportunities for artists, decided to move the gallery upstairs after 10 years because “art is important.” He said he wanted it shown in an airier, brighter location.

The new gallery was designed with the help of a curator with upgraded risers, a skylight and more wall space.

“Now we have a beautiful space for beautiful art,” added Harris.

The gallery’s 2013 fundraiser runs Nov. 11 to 15. Silent auction bids on donated art close at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 15. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate. com

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 C5

Banksy: Is he a jerk or a genius?

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ben Kingsley, left, and Asa Butterfield in a scene from Ender’s Game: the adults are particularly convincing in this film.

Ender’s Game and About Time — Dad, can I borrow the space ship?

NEW YORK — The secretive British street artist Banksy ended his self-announced monthlong residency in New York City with a final piece of graffiti, a $615,000 painting donated to charity and a debate: Is he a jerk or a genius?

Banksy, who created a new picture, video or prank every day of October somewhere in the city, spent his last day like thousands of graffiti artists before him: He tagged a building near a highway with his name in giant bubble letters. The twist was that these letters were actual bubbles: balloon-like inflatables stuck to a wall near the Long Island Expressway in Queens.

As if to underscore his dual identity as both a street punk and an art-world darling, he also donated a painting that was auctioned off Thursday night for $615,000. The original painting first sold for $50 at a Manhattan thrift shop that benefits Housing Works, an organization that fights homelessness and AIDS. Banksy added a Nazi soldier to the landscape scene and Housing Works sold it in an online auction.

Throughout his 31 days here, Banksy put pictures of his work on BanksyNY.com, with clues as to locations but nothing precise. That spawned a treasure hunt by fans who tracked the works down, shared locations via social media, then swarmed to see them.

But by the time Banksy was done, New Yorkers were divided in their opinions. Some tweeted “Go home, Banksy!” Others declared their admiration.

The turning point for many was an essay he wrote criticizing the building replacing the World Trade Center. Banksy called the new design “vanilla ... something they would build in Canada,” and added, “It so clearly proclaims the terrorists won.” He offered the essay to The New York Times. The paper wouldn’t print it, so he posted it on his website.

“The terrorists won” comment upset many New Yorkers, including Brian Major, 51, of Brooklyn.

“Enough!” Major said. “Who is this guy? Everybody’s got a right to an opinion but what gives him any kind of credibility in New York? Shut up, Banksy! Go home!” A lifelong New Yorker, Major says he understands graffiti culture, and he also appreciates fine art. But he doesn’t think Banksy’s art is all that good — “though I’ll give him credit, he’s a good marketer.”

But Sean Lynch, 25, of Staten Island, thinks Banksy is “one of the more captivating artists of our generation.”

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No matter whether you’re saving the planet or just trying to figure out your own timeline, daddy issues must PETER always be dealt with.

HOWELL That’s the subtext of two unusual new sci-fi movies, Ender’s Game and About Time.

The former is a franchise wannabe about a brainy preteen boy who is snatched from his parents and conscripted into saving Earth from invading giant alien bugs.

The latter is a quirky time-travel story about a son getting to know his father and himself by bending the rules of the clock.

Ender’s Game, written and directed by Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), is based on the popular 1985 young adult sci-fi novel (and subsequent series)

by Orson Scott Card, the Mormon author who has come under fire for his outspoken statements about homosexuality.

It stars Hugo’s Asa Butterfield (Hugo) as the title Ender, a brilliant yet aggressive 12-year-old plucked from his family on Earth to train in space in an elite academy for like-minded kids.

He’s always been the odd kid out, being the third child in a future society that mandates two per household.

His father and two brothers have already fought and failed in the long struggle against the invading insects, known as Formics, making Ender the last hope of both his kin and his planet. He’s shipped off to Battle School, an orbiting training facility sort of like Hogwart’s Academy, but with ray guns instead of wands.

Ender’s youth and advanced video-game skills are prized by Earth’s military elders, played by Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis. Ford’s Colonel Hyrum Graff thinks Elder can be trained to lead the squashing of the bugs because the child is a warrior “the enemy would never expect.”

Neither would most moviegoers, it must be said, but the young cast (which also includes True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld) acquits itself well.

Butterfield seems almost laughable at first, and the scenario brings uncomfortable reminders of real-life child soldiers.

But the kid has an air of authority about him, much like a younger Christian Bale or Benedict Cumberbatch, and it doesn’t take much to buy into the premise, especially once the not-bad CGI revs up and Ender and his pint-sized pals start their tiny en-

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Teens dropped into Japanese-style game show TORONTO — When teenage siblings Scott and Taylor Alderdice applied to be contestants on a new YTV game show, they weren’t told the nature of the program or what they would be doing on it, so they did some stretches the morning of the taping just in case things got physical.

And boy, did they get physical — not to mention bizarre.

As the Burlington, Ont., duo found out when they got to the Toronto studio and took off their blindfolds on set, they were part of Japanizi: Going, Going, Gong!, a comical new Japanese-style game show for teens and families involving wacky obstacle courses and personalities.

Surprised but enthusiastic, the Alderdices had to wear octopus costumes and do a three-legged race while carrying “seawater” in a wok across a slippery inflatable pit filled with liquid.

As they competed, a giant fan blew on the colourful arena while ninjas threw objects such as pool noodles and inflatable toys at the contestants, and a studio audience, including Japanese-Canadians, cheered them on in zany outfits with noisemakers.

“I was completely surprised it was like a Japanese game show,” said Taylor, 16. “I was totally taken aback. I was like, ‘What?’ ” “I took off the blindfold and I had to take a minute to get my eyes adjusted,” said Scott, 14. “But it was good.”

Japanizi: Going, Going, Gong! premieres on YTV in

Canada on Tuesday, a day after its premiere on Disney XD in the U.S. The host is spirited Japanese game show personality Yoshi Amao, who’s known simply as Yoshi.

Masayuki Hashimoto (aka Masa) of Toronto acts as the stoic judge.

Other personalities include a group of ninjas led by a character called Shinobi, who also acts as the English translator.

Contestants are brought on to the set with no knowledge of what they’re walking into.

Keeping them in the dark was a way of eliciting the most authentic reactions, which can sometimes be a challenge with teens on TV, says show creator marblemedia.

“Revealing them too suddenly this incredibly fish-out-of-water experience, of feeling as if they’ve been transported over to Japan and landing into a Japanese game show with all the authentic Japanese elements made for a really great natural, honest reaction from the kids,” said Matt Hornburg, co-CEO and executive producer of marblemedia.

Challenges include the aforementioned Multi-Leg Octodash as well as Human Sticky Jump, in which teams wear Velcro costumes and throw themselves against a sticky wall.

Then there’s Most Extreme Froggy Jump, which involves slippery spinning disks, and Tokyo Belt Bike Race, in which contestants ride small bicycles on a conveyor belt and try to hit a buzzer with their head. “No injuries so far. It’s a miracle,” Amao said with a laugh.

Hornburg assures the company has “a fair bit

of experience working with kids on these types of physical shows,” citing The Adrenaline Project and Splatalot!

“We’re certainly no strangers to thinking of the considerations of the safety for the kids.”

There has been some crying, though, said Hashimoto.

“There was a mother doing the Happy Penguin Fun and the mother had to ... make herself as slippery or non-slippery to go down the slide and land on a target,” he said.

“The younger daughter, she’s like, ‘No, don’t put any more liquid on you, don’t pour!’ The mother kept on pouring, pouring, ‘It’s OK, it’s OK,’ and the (daughter) started crying. She’s like, ’No! I told you, don’t put it on!’ and she ended up missing the target, plunged right into the water.

“I felt so sorry for her. It’s very emotional. Kids get right into it.”

Winners get a trophy and bragging rights.

Why guys like to be chased Dear Harlan; Why do guys want you to chase them?

Dear Stuck; You don’t want to move on. You don’t I met a nice guy (or so I thought), we got along well want other men in your life. It’s easier to focus on and even made plans to hang out again. this one.

Then he started to play games, like making plans Looking back is safe. Giving him the power is and not following through, flirting with other women easier. Looking forward means possibly getting hurt, online and commenting on other women’s Facebook having to be judged and being vulnerable. posts.

This isn’t about him. Why can’t you I just don’t get it. Is it an insecurity open up? Why don’t you think you’re good thing with them? My friends and I are all enough? Why are you giving him all this asking the same question. It’s not like we power? are in our teens, 20s or even 30s — OK, I’m Work on finding the answers. When you 50. find it, you’ll imagine your life with someWe are all professionals, overachievers one else. And then, poof! You’ll be with with fantastic jobs, good incomes and we someone else. look fantastic. I just don’t get it. — FantasDear Harlan; I’m in my first year in tic Single college and realized the college choice I Dear Fantastic Single; Don’t spend your made is wrong. time figuring these men out. It’s not your I am looking to change schools. You job. have mentioned in the past that you transBesides, you already have a fantastic ferred from one school to another. Any job, and you look fantastic, too. The moadvice? — On the Move ment a man plays games, cancels a date Dear On the Move; Make sure you’re not HARLAN or does something that makes you uncomrunning. I was running. I hated change.

COHEN fortable, tell him. Don’t keep it a secret.

That’s why I hated college.

Tell the man. If he does it again, move on.

It took me years to figure it out. Do Make him chase you. A lot of profesyourself a favor — ask yourself if you hate sional women with fantastic jobs, friends change, or do you hate your school? and looks are hard for fantastic men to approach.

List what will be different at your new school. List You either look taken, act taken or assume all the what you will do differently. Finally, ask what you good ones are taken. can do to make the best of your current situation.

Set each other up, use friends in other circles to Finish the year. Find places to do things you love create gatherings and make it clear that you’re inter- to do, be around people who share similar interests ested in men who interest you. A lot of the best men and be patient. If you’re still not happy and can’t aren’t dating and playing around. They are waiting get what you want, then transfer. But make sure you around, working around you and waiting for a fantas- know what you’re leaving and what will be better. tic woman like you to chase.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit Dear Harlan; I’m 28 years old and lost the only online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted person I’ve ever been in love with, and it’s taken up become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, 16 years of my life.

Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL We dated in middle school and into high school 60657. for a few months, and went through serious ups and downs as friends following the breakup. We were very hot and cold, but there was a lot of chemistry and never a dull conversation, and we were never in want for anything to talk about.

We went our separate ways after graduation, and whenever we were home, we would reconnect. Two years ago, he was in a serious relationship and I was tired of thinking about him.

I approached him and Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation, Various locations. The Alberta Strategic asked him for closure, which he kind of gave Tourism Council is an advisory council accountable to the Minister of Tourism, Parks me. Last year, he was out and Recreation. The Council works in partnership with industry bodies and government of the relationship and agencies to provide a strong voice for the tourism industry to support marketing and approached me. We met product development, investment, workforce skills and training to support tourism jobs up while I was home visand businesses. Job ID #1020206 iting. We slept together and proceeded to spend the next few months conVisit jobs.alberta.ca to learn more stantly going back and about this opportunity and to apply online. forth across the country visiting each other.

I made the mistake of thinking that this was it. I hadn’t been happy where I was, I was completely in love with him and just saw a life with him, and when it wasn’t materializing and I felt him start to pull away, I had a complete meltdown.

He pulled away further, I decided to move back (which he knew I MANAGER, BUSINESS BANKING CENTRE OLDS, AB had been considering) and by the time I came Are you ready to explore a new career challenge? Mountain View Credit Union home, he was seeing othhas an outstanding career opportunity available in Olds, Alberta. er girls and cut things off The Manager, Business Banking Centre (BBC) provides leadership and support with me completely. It just all felt like such bad to the BBC team as they strive to provide the utmost service to our current timing in an otherwise and potential Commercial & Agricultural business members. The Manager, amazing relationship, BBC has responsibility for the development, administration and marketing of and I can’t let it go.

Commercial & Agricultural loans, and provides instrumental input regarding I don’t understand related policies. The incumbent is also responsible for the analysis and how we can give up what approval/recommendation of Commercial & Agricultural credit applications even he felt had longevgenerated by the BBC team, and may be indirectly responsible for the ity over a weak moment management of specific credits. in my life, and let this 16-year friendship go, This role offers the opportunity to explore when I have never been a career that aligns with your values and in love with anyone else puts your future in your hands. To learn and really can’t imagine more about this position, my life with anyone else. please visit mvcu.ca.

What do I do, and how do I move on? — Stuck

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LUANN Nov. 2 1992 — A nanny goat in St-Isidore, Que., has six kids, and makes it into the Guinness Book of Records.

1982 — Peter Lougheed wins an increased majority in Alberta provincial election. The Conservatives take 75 of 79 seats.

1959 — Montreal Canadiens goalie

Jacques Plante is the first NHL goalie to wear a mask on a permanent basis. He used the mask after getting hit by a shot from Rangers’ Andy Bathgate.

1936 — The new Canadian Broadcasting Act creates the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBC replaces Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.

1887 — The first long-distance telephone call is made on the Prairies, from Battleford, Sask., to Edmonton, 500 km away.

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LIFESTYLE Saturday, Nov. 2 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Scorpio Moon, will bring themes that are usually hard to digest, yet too intriguing not to talk about. Answers can be attained through relentless pursuits of the truth. Focus pledges to be just as sharp as an eagle’s eye in hunt for its prey. Venus and Neptune will add extra oomph and inspiration to the day. Our need for answers could come through the help of our sharp insights of revelation. Feelings are easier to express ASTRO today either by body language or DOYNA through a creative endeavour.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the forthcoming year will be both an emotionally charged and a passionate year. Your imagination and your creativity could skyrocket, making you design an art like never before.

Tasty foods and tangible pleasures will be like elixirs of life to you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Release your inner fears from a possible complexity of yours. Let passion sway you away from your inhibitions, which may be restraining you to feel liberated. Tap into your psyche for answers to your quest for life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Treat yourself and your sweetheart with the outmost gestures of affection and care. You are entirely devoted to your partner and your level of commitment is only getting hotter and spicier. Watch out for that sizzling effect!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will not get a dull moment with all you have to deal with today. On a very positive note, you will get to enjoy today’s powerful energy, which will allow you to cater after your needs. A boost in self-esteem makes you confident about your personal, daily choices.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your fun-loving predisposition and your radiant aura makes others wonder what or who exactly is behind your jovial attitude. You don’t need to share any of your secrets to anyone. Enjoy unleashing your divine self under the limelight. It’s time for your performance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Use today’s powerful astral configurations to strengthen the bonds with a parental figure. There is a great potential for house improvements or to simply host a get-together in your own home. Harmony reigns within your soul.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your social life picks up quite fast. Your circle of acquaintances increases by the day bringing along a few interesting individuals who will stimulate your thoughts with fresh new ideas. Your relationships are devoid of criticism or prejudice.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If there is anybody that enjoys the most being pampered, without a shadow of a doubt, that is you, dear Libra. Sure, it helps to have some control over your finances, but at the time being, you want to give in to your temptations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are engaging, you are outspoken and you are in control. You love having all this astral energy channelled into your personality that simply gives a nice, generous boost to your ego. State your opinion and have your voice heard.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Retreat yourself from the noisy, busy world out there. Solitude moments and stillness appeal to you right now. The practice of meditation or yoga can prove very healing for your soul. Listen to your inner voice.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In your social circle, you are the life of the party. You enjoy sharing ideas and advice with like-minded people. Being part of a community brings you a sense of belonging and ease, which could also reveal your humanitarian side.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your attention in focussed into your building a stronger reputation so that others can recognize your abilities of an achiever. Your drive to accomplish something is at an ultimate high. While you stand up high, don’t forget to smile.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You need to break free from your restrictions imposed by life. You are willing to make a few sacrifices if that grants you total independence and liberation.

You have plenty of ideologies, which inspire you to aim higher.

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Sunday, Nov. 3 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: A New Moon Solar Eclipse occurs today in the sign of Scorpio.

This celestial configuration is extremely influential as it is in the intense sign of Scorpio and it has close encounters with the rest of the astral players. Everyone will experience changes in order to welcome a new beginning. We will live this transit by shedding or cleansing what is not necessary in our lives and by welcoming new opportunities.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If an eclipse falls on your birthday, it is most certain that the year that follows will not leave you without a few surprises, adventures and opportunities on its way.

Changes relating to your exterior, relating to your body or your style and your mannerism will be most evident. They will mark the new you. A metamorphosis is in the works!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will experience changes within your innermost emotions. The area of your life dealing with other people’s money, loans, joint resources, shared income will resurface now. You will reassess your shared belongings.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are yearning to meet your soul mate. Emotionality, in general, distorts the way you want to present yourself outwards. Accept reality as is. Truth enables us to shape our course in life in order to progress.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Health related issues might require you to follow some guidelines. A change in your lifestyle, your daily routine is likely to occur. At your job, something disregarded will surely come up, be watchful.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A new love interest can present itself at this time. Otherwise, the existing one will feel upgraded. You are feeling more of a risk-taker right now and you are about to find out your secret gifts. There’s a little star hidden under that shell.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you believe that your home foundations are not what they are, work towards building a new structure. Let go of whatever is no longer beneficial to your emotional well-being. You might also be asked to be more present at home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Utilize all available resources properly and don’t be afraid to advance in your abilities. Your mind is quite active and restless at this time; use it to cleanse yourself of wasteful conversations, non-functional means of communication. Your motto is to let yourself be known.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Whatever you cannot survive without will require you to deal with its unclear facets now. Your financial situation will call for a reevaluation and clarification of your resources. Watch out your spending habits.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will want to unleash yourself from a burden in order to advance. An ending has to occur in order for a new beginning to take place. You will also be exposed to your deepest desires, secrets and fears quite head on. It’s all for the better, dear Scorpio!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The inner you will be asking for your special attention. You need to let go of something from your past, it can be a person, a fear or a secret.

Forgive it and release it. As a consequence, you will be the one taking full advantage from it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will be making a complete change in your friendship area. New prospects present themselves to you. Luck is upon you and you are feeling hopeful and enthusiastic about your future.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is the time where you will move up the ladder in a grand way. Success is calling your name. You are shedding yourself of an older style just to bring in a fresh new beginning of a renewed, improved you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This eclipse might test your degree of independence. You will ask yourself what needs to be done and accomplished in order to prosper. As long as you let go of what is no longer of use to your advancement, you are on the right track.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Children, grandchildren not including grandma in lives Dear Annie: I am hurt that my less I include their friends, which children and grandchildren do I cannot afford. not include me when they have I recently decided not to call family get-togethers. them and have had no They say they would contact in more than MITCHELL have to clean their three weeks. Should I & SUGAR houses if I came, or just go on without them they don’t know when I in my life? — Hurt in am available. They exFlorida pect me to call when I Dear Hurt: We want to see them. They swear they agree that their excuses seem aren’t upset with me, but they nev- flimsy, but they do not need to iner initiate a call. clude you in every get-together or When I invite them to my house, outing. the conversation revolves around It’s perfectly OK for them to recent outings and get-togethers have these events with just their at their homes to which I haven’t spouses and kids. You also know been invited. teenagers tend to be busy and that I have taken my grandchildren family obligations are not high on on many vacations over the years, their list of priorities. We don’t but they are teenagers now and believe anyone is being intentiontoo busy. They don’t want to go un- ally hurtful.

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You don’t need to take the kids on expensive vacations, but a special few hours with Grandma a couple of times a year -- dinner at a nice restaurant or watching their favorite rock band together -- would be lovely and help cement the bond. Think of ways to make the relationship warmer, instead of focusing on your hurt feelings and blaming them because you aren’t closer.

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Cottage life a rocky, soggy dream come true

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Above: granite slabs reface the faux red-brick hearth to create a dry stack appearance. Carpets (show in before photo right) were replaced with engineered lumber floors. We also added soft grey upholstery to amplify the comfort factor, then accented with yellow artwork and cushions to provide visual punch.

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Dry foods like pasta and flour should be stored in glass jars or metal containers.”

So no plastic tubs, then? “Are you kidding?

Mice are determined critters and will shred polythene and plastic to use as confetti as they party.”

As we envision Mickey Mouse doing the hokey pokey, Donaldson adds: “Everything fresh should be taken away.

And I mean everything.

Tiny scraps of food will invite trouble so do your best Mother Hubbard and ensure the cupboards are bare.”

Even innocuous canned goods, she counsels, are a potential problem, as ingredients can freeze, expand and break.

And this, of course, can lead to food seepage and, ultimately, animal invasion.

Stepping aside from issues comestible, we discuss areas such as toaster trays (“where crumbs can gather”) and ovens which, by Donaldson’s account, can harbour food debris.

The barbecue, too, is an area of concern.

“Scrub the grill and drip-tray. Don’t leave fat build-ups as these are irresistible to animals.”

She listens as we confess the tale of our own “hibernated” barbecue, invaded last year by hungry raccoons after we naively stored it in our screened porch, and says simply: “You only do that once. ...

“If you have mice problems, now is a great time to tackle eradication.

Cloves, dryer sheets and cotton balls soaked with peppermint oil are a humane way to discourage invasion, although warfarin and spring-action traps are perhaps more effective.”

Bear in mind, however, that lethal dispatch can leave remains and a bad smell.

Dealing with water is absolutely crucial.

“Utility lines,” we are told, “should be drained by opening faucets and valves.

“Gravity will take care of most water but you may have to blast away excess using a compressed air can. It’s important to banish every drop.”

In addition to tanks, we’re reminded that moisture also gathers in the freezer (defrost it), under sinks, showers, in the dishwasher and in toilet U bends.

Any other zones to flush?

“Washing machines and garden hoses. Hey, even shower attachments can freeze so drain everything meticulously to avoid damage.”

By Donaldson’s account, it’s similarly important to defrost your freezer.

“The amount of liquid in there is surprising, especially if there’s frost build up. So close it down, ahead of departure, and dry thoroughly.”

She also recommends leaving a bowl of baking soda in your freezer to help keep it dry and odour-free.

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Time flies when you’re having fun, Then, just as the leaves began fallright? And boy, has the fun quotient ing, so too did our newly landscaped been massive of late. garden — towards the lake. Yup, heavy Aye, we can hardly believe it’s a rainfall and newly applied top soil, year since we bought our we discovered, simply don’t cottage. You may rememmix. Especially when you ber we purred excitedly, in factor in a steep gradient to these very pages, after takthe water’s edge. ing possession.

But hey, we lived. And we In a flourish of naive exlearned. citement, we reckoned our As our journey seemed rundown cabin could be to go from bad to worse, transformed from “maxifortune suddenly smiled. A mum security twilight chance meeting with landhome” (macramé corn dolscaper Kirby Hall, of Muskolies and pottery duck chatka Rock Company, set us on tels adorned every surface) a new path — literally. into a slick country retreat We shored up our hill COLIN & (with an urban vibe, doncha with his granite, which we know) in just a few short blasted ourselves.

JUSTIN weeks.

Kirby planted the exWith the passage of time, plosives, trailed the wire however, came realization to a controlled safety zone that, in cottage country, life and we pressed the button. moves at an eminently more tranquil Bang! pace.

As winter approaches (there’s curAmbition unbridled, our light deco- rently a dusting of snow on our cotrative plans (accent walls, new sofas tage) we look forward to sitting around and minor DIY) yielded to a full-scale our fireplace, an image of which we’ve reno — new bathrooms, a revisioned used today to illustrate the level of kitchen and flooring throughout were work we’re tackling. just the start.

Dan the man, and his trusty assisBefore Dan, our contractor, could tant Ewan, cut granite slabs to reface chime “get ’er done,” we’d designed the faux red-brick hearth and, in doing a new bunkie in association with The so, created a dry stack appearance.

Canada Builds Co. (you have to see our We replaced carpets with engiwee guest nest to believe it) and a stun- neered lumber floors, added soft grey ning B.C. cedar deck — the original upholstery to amplify the comfort facwraparound, inherited with the house, tor then accented with yellow artwork turned out to be a wolf in sheep’s cloth- and cushions to provide visual punch. ing. Rotten?

Thankfully, because our cabin is All 1,500 square feet of it, and then winterized, we’ll continue spending some. weekends here.

It was so decayed, in fact, that Dan If you intend closing up, we thought condemned it the day we took posses- some timely advice might come in sion. handy.

So down it came. All 1,500 square We caught up with Sharon Donaldfeet of it. Along with (what turned out son, marketing manager of The Fall to be) an equally rot-ridden Muskoka Cottage Life. room directly below.

“If you’re winterized,” she explains, And so as the parameters of ambi- “and if your amenities are suitably tion expanded, so too did the vagaries protected, you’re lucky. Otherwise of nature. there’s work to be done.”

The weather, hot and dry one minFirst up? ute, became wet and distinctly damp “Well, aside from ensuring all winthe next. dows are locked before departure, and The last vestiges of summer yield- that floating docks are removed from ing, we watched the landscape explode the water, there are lots of mundane into a palette of rich ochre and warm, but nevertheless important things to vibrant red. consider.

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Choose tools like a pro Completing repairs can afford only one powand renovations around er tool, a drill is the one your home eventually to choose. That’s why comes down to tools, I’m always testing drills and the better the tools to find the best perforyou’ve got, the mance for the more producmoney. tive and sucAt two cessful you’ll pounds, 12.2 be. ounces (1,258 Even as a grams), the homeowner, D E W A L T productivDCD795 hamity matters mer drill is because few exceptionof us have ally light in time to waste weight for a completing full-featured repairs and model. It acimprovecepts the ments. We’ve same 20-volt STEVE got the rest battery sysMAXWELL of life to live tem that’s and weekends been around are always too since 2011, short. and uses the kind of In addition to this, brushless motors that few of us have money to are vaulting tool perforthrow away on tools that mance higher. Looking don’t last. inside the tool, it’s easy Although many hom- to see why brushless is eowners short-change taking off. themselves when it A small circuit board comes to tool quality, replaces the mechanical the need for productiv- parts of traditional tool ity and durability are the motors. reasons I always recomFewer moving parts mend professional-grade means less to go wrong. power tools, even for Typical street price with most non-professionals. two batteries and a charThis is also one rea- ger is $269, and while son you need to recog- that’s roughly twice as nize one particular cord- much as low-end brushless tool advance that’s style drills, don’t be quietly unfolding right fooled. now.

Remember that brushCordless tools with less motors typically last brushless motors are des- 10 times longer, so the tined to become the only value is there. game in town. Increased Got a lot of screws to power, longer run time drive? An impact driver for a given battery size, makes more sense than and vastly longer motor a drill for this work. life are the reasons why All impact drivers look smart tool users are driv- something like drills, exing this technology away cept they’re made to acfrom older, brush-style cept hex-shaped screwtools. In fact, bench tests driver bits, not drill bits. of brushless tool moThe big advantage is tors have shown the best that impact drivers work brushless lasts at least 10 faster than a drill and times as long as brushed they don’t slip and spin models, precisely be- in screw heads nearly as cause there are far fewer much as a drill. That’s moving internal parts. why impact drivers are You don’t need to un- taking over the building derstand all the techni- and renovation scene. cal differences between At just over two brushed and brushless pounds on my test scale, tool motors, just that the DEWALT DCF886 is these differences matter. the lightest impact drivThis is especially true er I’ve ever tested in the when it comes to choos- 18-to-20-volt class. Shorting that workhorse of er is also better when it home improvement tools, comes to impact drivers the cordless drill. If you because it makes the tool

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easier to wield, and at a five and a half inches long, the DCF886 is tied for the shortest model I’ve seen.

The triple LED headlight system delivers a lot of illumination whenever you pull the trigger, and the lights stay on for an average of 19 and a half seconds in my tests after the trigger is released.

That’s plenty. The kit I tested comes with two batteries and a charger at a street price of $249.

These days, the old saying “penny wise and pound foolish” applies to many homeowners investing in tools. And while the temptation may be there to buy cheap “because I don’t need anything better,” trust me, even weekend warriors need more than today’s cheapest models.

Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988. Get home improvement and renovation advice directly from Steve at www.stevemaxwellhowto. com.

Photo by STEVE MAXWELL/freelance

Above: Brushless tool motors use small circuit boards to replace mechanical springs and other parts still found in most tools. Simplicity and effectiveness mean that brushless motors will dominate.

Below photo by ROBERT MAXWELL/freelance

Impact drivers offer a faster and more reliable way to drive screws. Brushless versions like this one offer longer life, longer run time between charges and more power.

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Find beauty far and wide

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HOUSE TO HOME the entrance to the house and delivers a welcome message to family and guests.

It is an exciting place to showcase unique cabinetry, a console with curved supports, a framed mirror, and works of art and sculpture that bring stories of different cultures together.

In the dining room shown here, handpainted dishes from a street vendor in Hanoi and iridescent motherof-pearl napkin rings set a casually elegant scene on a travertine

tabletop.

On other pages in her book, light fixtures set the style and tone from delicate glass sconces to oversized iron chandeliers.

Chairs are upholstered in a mix of fabrics new and old, leather seats with tapestry backs.

“Every great living room should have a dramatic moment, a stellar piece or something unexpected,” says Espinet.

This can be an imposing fireplace with a carved fireplace hood, a large iron and glass coffee table or an Italianate console.

Scale plays an important part, so the seating will have a balancing weight, but plain lines to allow the eye to rest.

A bathroom can be as uniquely fitted out as you please.

Espinet shows a rustic antique Afghan cabinet fitted with a bowl from Thailand and repurposed as a vessel sink.

Wall-mounted faucets and the drop front of the cabinet keep the plumbing pipes hidden.

Bedrooms lend them-

selves to an eclectic array of dramatic and romantic elements that relate to your ideal of a restful space that welcomes dreams and repose.

Shown here, simple bedding in bright blue is enlivened by vibrant pillows made from vintage textiles — Guatemalan stripes and Mexican florals.

The headboards are antique Guatemalan screens.

The wall colour glows with the same tone of dark honey gold found in the woven chair and footstool.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle.

Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www. debbietravis.com.

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If you love to travel, as I do, you are sure to come across items of special beauty and interest that you’d love to take home.

Fabulous finds that will fit into luggage present no problem.

A few yards of Moroccan textiles, or a collection of beaded napkin rings are easily transported.

But what about that 17th-century, handcarved Spanish trunk that you can picture in your family room or an intricately wrought Indonesian entry door you would give pride of place repurposed as a handsome headboard in the master bedroom?

And once home, how would they mix and mingle with your existing furnishings?

These are challenges that designer and author Sandra Espinet has met and solved over and over again.

Espinet brings the exotic home to North America and creates stunning interiors that champion the blend of traditional style with prized pieces from other cultures.

In her book The WellTraveled Home, photography by Hector Velazco, published by Gibbs Smith, Espinet shares her passion for seeking out the rare and exquisite in places less-traveled.

Then, small or large, each piece is integrated into home and family life thousands of kilometres away.

If you are more of an armchair traveller, but long to have art and artifacts from other lands in your life, the rooms on these pages will inspire you to find a resource close to home that imports these gems.

The author has showcased each room to illustrate the versatility and repurposing of objects that are both practical and works of art.

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announcements Obituaries Ferries William Morrey July 19, 1949-Oct. 29th 2013

CAMPBELL Frederick Colin Fred passed away on October 27, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 63 years. Fred is survived by his wife, Fay; son, Craig Campbell (Kelly) of Lousana, Ab; daughter, Terrie (Tracy) Metzger of Red Deer, Ab; grandchildren; Bailey Campbell, CJ Campbell, Vi c k y M e t z g e r, C o u r t n e y Metzger, Austin Metzger and baby Metzger on the way.

He is also survived by his mother Doris; one sister and four brothers. He was predeceased by his son Barry and father Don. A graveside Service will be held at 3:30 pm November 2, 2013 at the Elnora Cemetery.

CONNELL It is with great sadness that we announce that Patrick George Connell of Innisfail, AB passed away at Innisfail Health Centre on October 30, 2013 at the age of 85 years.

Pat grew up in the Consort, AB area where he worked as a Rancher/Farmer and raised his family. He retired to an acreage in Innisfail, AB in 1996 with his beloved wife Vera and his horses. After a short but courageous battle with cancer, he died peacefully with family at his side. He is lovingly remembered by his w i f e o f 6 1 y e a r s Ve r a Connell, and children Donald (Mary) Connell of Didsbury, AB, David (Sheila) Connell of Calgary, AB, Stanley (Cheryl) Connell of Consort, AB, Louise Connell (Daniel Stecyk) of Calgary, AB, and Noreen (Kim) Neyrink of Denver, CO, USA, 13 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren with two m o r e o n t h e w a y, a n d countless wonderful friends.

He will also be lovingly remembered by his sister Jean (Ken) of Texas, USA, and brother Ralph of Calgary, AB. He is predeceased by his grandson, Wesley Connell. A funeral service and celebration of life will be held at the Innisfail Alliance Church on Monday November 4, 2013 at 2:00 pm with Andrew Rilling officiating. A graveside burial will take place Tuesday November 5, 2013 at 1:00pm at the Lakeroad Cemetery in Consort, AB, with lunch to follow at 2:00pm at the Monitor Hall (Monitor, AB). In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Innisfail Alliance Church.

Arrangements entrusted to HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES, LTD., INNISFAIL Phone: 403-227-0006. www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

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Morrey Ferries passed away peacefully at his home in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, of heart failure on October 29th.

He was predeceased by his parents, Wallace and Mary Ferries, and is survived by his sisters; Moira Dennis (Lynn) and Merrill Young (Robert), and his nieces Grace, Taryn and Tegan.

The family wishes to thank Brian Bowman, the Sylvan Lake EMT, RCMP and Fire Department for all of their support. There will be no funeral at the request of the deceased, but condolences and memories may be sent to the Sylvan Lake Funeral home website: www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca/

FRAAS Jackie Mary 1950 - 2013 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend at the age of 63. Left to cherish Jackie’s memory are her husband Lorrie Davies; daughter Dana; mother Chris; sisters Sherry (Louis), Diane (Adam), Tish (Rob), Carol (Scott); stepchildren Jesse, Robin (Jeff), Ashley (Ryan); all her nieces and nephews, new grandson, and special neighbor Pat. Jackie worked as an X-ray Technician for the past 40 years. She loved life, and loved to spend time with her daughter Dana. She made many special friends and will truly be missed. A Celebration of Jackie’s Life will take place at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor D r i v e ) , R e d D e e r, o n Saturday, November 9, 2013 a t 11 : 0 0 a . m . I n l i e u o f flowers, donations may be made to the ALS foundation in her memory at http://www.als.ca/en/donate.

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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ROBERTSON John Thomas 1960 - 2013 It is with deep sadness that we announce John’s untimely passing October 27 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital after a long and courageous battle. John was born and raised in Edmonton. John started working at the age of 12 for his father at Norwest Motors where he became a machinist by trade. He branched out into sales to travel throughout Western Canada and NWT selling everything from auto parts to RVs. One of his great pleasures, other than The Price is Right, was to relate many an entertaining story from which there were life lessons he passed on to family and friends. John’s life epitomized the phrase Courage is not having the strength to go on - it is going on when you haven’t the strength. He will be dearly missed. John is survived by his wife, soul mate and caregiver, Judi, step daughters, Tamra Francoeur, Tarra (Chris) Walter, Taryne (Steve) Munro, grandchildren Terri, Miranda, Ricki, Evan and Connor; sons, Alex and Willie, brothers Ed (Rita), Pat (Val) and sister Joanie. His parents Alex and Olga Robertson and special Baba Sophie predeceased him.

The family wishes to thank Dr. Simmonds, the staff of unit 32, the Medical Day Room, and the Emergency Department, for their care in making John as comfortable as possible. At John’s request there will be no formal funeral service. A gathering of friends and family will be announced at a later date. In John’s memory donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Births WESTLUND/HUME Grant and Bette are happy to announce the safe arrival on October 3, 2013 of their twin grandbabies Brynn 5 lb. 15 ozs. and Asher 6 lb. 4 ozs.

Parents Susan and Colin and big brother Hayden are in Calgary.

Celebrations DAVE MCDOWELL is turning 80.

Friends and family are cordially invited to swing by, test your luck, enjoy a nibbly and catch up with Dave.

Saturday, November 9th, from 1:00 - 4:00pm at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel.

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Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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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:

CO2/LNG PLANT OPERATOR

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

Joffre Plant

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, and supply of liquid nitrogen (N2), liquid carbon dioxide (CO2), liquid natural gas (LNG), and compressed natural gas (CNG) for the energy industry in both Canada and the USA. Ferus has a great corporate culture with an excellent work/home life balance, strong team atmosphere and encourages the development of their employees for future growth.

Ferus requires a CO2/LNG Field Operator to oversee the daily operations of the Ferus CO2 and LNG production facilities.

The position is based out of the Joffre production office and the candidate must be willing to travel. All duties will be performed in a safe, environmentally friendly & cost effective manner.

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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 mbell@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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Now hiring the following positions in Fracturing, Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing and Cement & Acid:

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 Class 1 and Class 3 driver/operators of Superheater and Swampers. First Aid and H2S an asset. Competitive wages, medical/dental plans. Lots of out of town work, camps or hotels provided. Send resume to rpower@ interceptenergy.ca or bklassen@ interceptenergy.ca LOOKING for responsible and Reliable person w/ valid driver’s license and oilfield tickets to work for the winter, running a steam truck. Drivers abstract is needed. Send resume to: plumkraz@telus.net.

NOW ACCEPTING Resumes for: COIL TUBING SUPERVISOR Must have drivers abstract.

Must fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-314-5405.

Quattro Energy Services TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced Snubbing Operators.

Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com fax 403-844-2148

Now has immediate openings for CGSB Level II RT’s and CEDO’s for our winter pipeline projects. Top wages and comprehensive benefit package available.

Subcontractors also welcome.

Email resumes to: qtestltd@telus.net or Phone 403-887-5630.

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS and DERRICK HANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

WANTED

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VAC/steamer Truck driver.

Lacombe area, HOME EVERY NIGHT. Fax resume to 403-704-1442 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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We are currently seeking a professional;

f Class 1 Drivers/Operators – all Divisions f Bulk Transport Drivers—Sand and Nitrogen f Supervisors—Coiled Tubing, Cement and Acid • • • • • • • • •

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

QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTOR

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)

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.

• Perform in a high paced working environment

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.

How to apply:

We offer competitive wage and benefits packages. Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

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email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

PURCHASER

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.

Please email resumes to careers@fusionpro.ca

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.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you.

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

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Oilfield

PRODUCTION TESTING SUPERVISORS & OPERATORS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

Q TEST INSPECTION LTD.

The candidate will require the following skills, experience & certification: • Gas compression operations experience • H2S removal system operations experience an asset • Refrigeration system operations experience an asset • Pipeline operations experience • Gas processing facility operations experience • CO2 experience is an asset but not required • Current H2S Alive & First Aid certification • Current Class 5 Drivers License • Basic computer skills & knowledge of production and sales reporting an asset Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including a Group RSP Savings Plan.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please fax resume to: 1 -888-879-6125 or email humanresources@ferus.ca

by November 25th, 2013 We thank you for your interest, however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

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The candidate will be responsible for: • Supporting the daily operations of the Ferus CO2 and LNG production facilities by assisting in optimizing, troubleshooting and performing corrective actions with the goal of maintaining optimum facility production • Assisting in new facility commissioning and existing facility project additions or expansions • Ensuring correct environmental and safety practices are performed and upheld at the Ferus facilities • Assisting in training CO2 and LNG facility operators as required

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.

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REBEL METAL FABRICATORS DRAFTSPERSON

Immediate Opportunity.

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to amie@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

RESILIENCY COACH 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

MANAGER req’d for Royal Canadian Legion Branch #104 Innisfail Responsible for the overall day to day operation of the branch supervision of staff and maintaining a safe and secure work environment.

Inventory control. Interact with both members and the general public. Knowledge of Legion policies and procedures an asset. Drop off resume at the branch. Fax 403-227-2825 Email: rcl104innisfail@shaw.ca

989240 AB LTD. o/a TIM HORTONS Hiring 15 Permanent F/T Food Counter Attendants & 4 Permanent F/T Food Service Supervisors for eachRed Deer Locations Parkland Mall 6359 50 Ave. & 6020 - 67 St. & 2325 - 50 Ave. Fax: 403-314-4427, email parklandtimhortons @gmail.com Must be available all shifts, evenings., wknds., nights $11./hr. - FCA No exp. needed. $13.50/hr. - FSS 1-2 yrs. industry exp. needed.

Apply in person, by fax or email.

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T or P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please Tired of Standing?

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SUBWAY All Red Deer Locations Hiring Immediately

Food Counter Attendants Are you looking for a career opportunity with excellent benefits, a mature working environment and opportunity to advance? If so, Subway has a position for you!

Some of our locations are 24 Hours.

Please apply online @ mysubwaycareer.com or Drop resume off in person at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive Or email to careers@rdsubway.com or Call us at 403-342-0203

TAP HOUSE NORTH

(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

Sales & Distributors

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ELEMENTS is looking for CERTIFIED WELDER 5 retail sales reps. selling Permanent season gift packages and Certified Welders personal care products in $28 - $45 per hour Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. dependent on level of exp.

Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + Group benefit plan after 3 bonus & comm. FT. No month probation. exp. req`d. Please email • Red Seal Welder or elementsreddeer@gmail.com equiv. academic & exp. • Min, 2 yrs welding exp.

FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN at a Journeyman level is looking for 5 SALES • Familiar with working REPS, selling shoes & outdoors in remote loapparel, at our Parkland cations and all weather Mall. 4747 67 St. Red conditions Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus • Working knowledge of & comm. F/T Position. No pertinent industry exp. req’d. Email • regulations and OH&S. Flurriesrd@gmail.com COPP’S SERVICES INC. SOAP Stories is seeking 5 225 Burnt Ridge Rd. Red F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, Deer County, AB T4S 2L4 selling soap & bath Phone: 403 347-6222 products $14.55/hr. + Email: HR@coppsinc.ca bonus & comm. Beauty Fax 403-403-5447 cert. req’d. Location www,.coppsinc.ca Parkland Mall - 4747 67th TOO MUCH STUFF? St. Red Deer. email Let Classifieds premierjobrdbto@ help you sell it. gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

Trades

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A growing, well established ASME fabrication facility is recruiting for

Senior Piping/ Vessel Draft-Person

Candidate must demonstrate proficiency with AutoCAD Knowledge of Inventor & Compress.

Proven record of successful projects.

Strong computer skills, Technical aptitude and Problem solving capability are required.

We offer above industry wages and comprehensive benefit package.

Please email resumes to careers@fusionpro.ca or fax 403-347-7867

BUSY sheet metal compaTHE RUSTY PELICAN is ny requires INSTALLER now accepting resumes for for residential new housing.

F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at Must have experience, all stations, prep, sea food, own tools and valid driver’s apps., entres. etc. Must be license. Immediate avail. nights and weekposition. Please fax ends. resume to: 403-309-8302 MUST HAVE: or e-mail: info@ • 2-3 yrs. post secondary comfortecheating.com education.

Looking for a place • 2-5 yrs. training to live? • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

Take a tour through the • Provide references CLASSIFIEDS The hourly rate will be $13.10 per hour CARPET COLOUR Rusty Pelican Restaurant CENTRE 2079 50 AVE. is currently looking for Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 SCHEDULING / Call 403-347-1414 SERVICE MANAGER or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Applicant must have ability schedule 22 installation crews, make sure material will arrive on time & deal with customer complaints & service issues. Min. 5 yrs exp. req’d. Submit resume Attn: Margaret mperrin The Tap House Pub & Grill @carpetcolourcentre.com or drop off at Carpet req’s full and part time Colour Centre, 1100, cooks. Apply with resume 5001 - 19 Street Red Deer, at 1927 Gaetz Avenue AB T4R 3R1 between 2-5 pm.

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Oil Boss Rentals, is a registered Commercial Vehicle Inspection Station.

We currently have a mechanics position open.

This individual must be a 3rd year apprentice minimum, self-motivated, hard-working, and enthusiastic with solid work ethic. An ideal candidate would have some fabrication experience, enjoy building equipment from scratch, be easy to get along with and be able to think outside the box when necessary.

Looking for an experienced, career minded automotive technician who is performance driven and customer focused. Both apprentice and journeymen may apply.

Competitive compensation with beneďŹ ts and opportunity for advancement. Ford experience an asset and driver’s licence required. Training oered. Must have a positive attitude, strong work ethic and be professional.

Don’t let our looks fool you; we have a new store coming in 2014.

We are always looking for exceptional people.

Please send your resume to: blake@camclarkford.com or fax 403-556-3585

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5642 - 46 St., Olds www.camclarkford.com

with Ag experience for our Red Deer location.

This is a fast-paced environment and ideal candidate would be able to work with minimal supervision, have the ability to take initiative and consistently demonstrate exceptional customer service.

FUTURE AG INC. “People You Can Count On�, is offering the opportunity to grow in your career with a thriving company.

We offer an exemplary benefits package, hour, annual work boot reimbursement, RRSP plan, sick days, monthly bonus and continuous professional training in a positive friendly environment.

If you have a great attitude and integrity, FUTURE AG is offering you an exciting career opportunity.

To apply, forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn: Barry Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax 403-342-0396 hr@futureag.ca

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

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See employment opportunities at www.westock.ca or Contact Scott 403-340-8110 scott@westock.ca

Garage Limited

Automotive Technician GM dealership has been serving the Rocky Mtn. House region since 1929. Our customer list is long and so is our need for technicians who want more.

Flat Rate Based on Experience and Certifications

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! HVAC Service Person required. SHEET Metal Installer required with residential and retro-fit experience.

Attractive wages and benefits. Great hours.

Shop person needed for full time work. e-mail: brad@ comfortecheating.com or Fax resume to: 403-309-8302

We have an immediate need for Certified Technicians and are eager to speak with qualified people about what we have to offer.

To get started, email us a brief outline of your skills and certifications. We appreciate people who want more.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY 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 employ over 175 people.

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We currently have career opportunities for a professional;

CAD DESIGNER / DRAFTSPERSON Essential Job Functions â&#x20AC;˘ design/draft tanks, vessels and piping packages â&#x20AC;˘ create detailed fabrication drawings using inventor software â&#x20AC;˘ interpret customer and engineering markups and make changes to drawings â&#x20AC;˘ create drawing files for parts to be cut by the plasma table â&#x20AC;˘ administrate autodesk vault, inventor content center libraries and autocad plant 3d specs The incumbent must possess the following;Â â&#x20AC;˘ diploma in Engineering Design and Drafting Technology or equivalent â&#x20AC;˘ certified Engineering Technologist (CET) â&#x20AC;˘ minimum 3 yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience designing/drafting piping packages, pressure vessels, tanks and skids â&#x20AC;˘ proficient with using AutoCAD, plant 3d, and inventor â&#x20AC;˘ experience with creating BOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and utilizing an ERP software (M2M preferred) â&#x20AC;˘ experience using a nesting software (ProNest preferred)

MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Joffre Plant Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, and supply of liquid nitrogen (N2), liquid carbon dioxide (CO2), liquid natural gas (LNG), and compressed natural gas (CNG) for the energy industry in both Canada and the USA. Ferus has a great corporate culture with an excellent work/home life balance, strong team atmosphere and encourages through support the development of their employees for future growth.

To apply please email your resume to: Gerry@oilbossrentals.com or fax to 1-866-914-7507 Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

Concrete finisher

needed to perform detailed and quality finishing as well as other related tasks, minimum 5 years experience. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Own transportation to work is needed.

Wage will be based on experience, attitude and willingness to commit to long term employment.

Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca Thank you to all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be notified.

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

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.

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FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY.

For the Red Deer area.

Please contact memphisbluesprairies @gmail.com

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

WELDERS WANTED FOR OILFIELD MANUFACTURING FACILITY

B Pressure Welders Interest in Vessel work Mig and Metal Core experience is a great asset.

We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players to join our fast paced growing team!.

Please forward your resume by fax to 403-347-7867

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The candidate will be responsible for: â&#x20AC;˘ Performing both planned and breakdown maintenance on rotating equipment. â&#x20AC;˘ Installing, troubleshooting, maintaining equipment based on Ferus and OEM recommendations. â&#x20AC;˘ Scheduling and Supervising 3rd party contractors when needed. â&#x20AC;˘ Developing maintenance procedures and schedules for new and existing equipment. â&#x20AC;˘ Assist with planning of turnarounds and other maintenance activities.

We thank you for your interest, however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

VOORTMAN COOKIES has a distributorship available in Red Deer and surrounding area.

This is an established and protected territory.

Grocery/DSD experience is a plus.

Delivery vehicle and investment is required.

Please submit resume to mycareer@voortman.com

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

Ferus requires a Mechanical Maintenance Technician for our production facilities. This position will be based out of our Joffre production ofďŹ ce with some occasional travel to other facilities within western Canada. The ideal candidate will be open and honest with the ability to work individually as well as within groups.

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 Please forward your resume via fax to (403) 227-7796 or e-mail to hr@bilton.ca

We are offering comparative wages and health plan. We as a company pride ourselves on an excellent health and safety plan and record. Please contact us with a resume and driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract @403-309-0846 or erebhahn@ performanceenergy.ca or drop off at 5, 7957 Edgar Industrial Way, Red Deer.

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Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic needed to manage and maintain a fleet of 20 trucks; $45/hour.

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LOCAL freight company reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s P & D body job driver for Red Deer/Edmonton run.

Fax resume and driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract to Rocky Fast Express 403-845-2432

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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

This individual will also act as the shop foreman and insure that the shop is kept clean and organized.

This position will be home 95% of the time.

On average 2-3 nights a month out of town.

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Mechanic Position

Service Technician Wanted

FUTURE AG INC. owns and operates 5 branches throughout Central Alberta selling and servicing CASE IH Agriculture and Construction equipment.

We are currently looking for

850

Highland Green Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

850

Journeyman HE (off road) Mechanic needed for Red Deer shop See full details at www.GCSenergy.ca

Email or fax resume to: resumes@GCSenergy.ca or 780-888-2100

328581K14

Professionals

820

328609K2

We are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floorhands for the Red Deer area. $2 safety bonus and above CAODC recommended wages.

Please email jwalsh@galleonrigs.com or Fax (403) 358-3326.

Restaurant/ Hotel

328148J31K1,2

800

Oilfield

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 D7

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

880

Misc.

Help

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in

(Reliable vehicle needed)

Johnstone Park

DEER PARK AREA Jones Cres. & Juniper Close

Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

Mustang Acres

EASTVIEW AREA Ellenwood Dr. & Erickson Dr. Area 60 papers $321/mo.

6940 63 Ave.

Normandeau ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres Area 67 papers $360/mo.

ALSO

Nyman Cres.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

Rowell Cl. Reichley St. & Robinson Cres. area.

115 Papers $616./mo

CARRIERS NEEDED

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Allan St. / Armstrong Close

Misc.

Help

Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill full-time

precast concrete erecting laborer position

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.

FURNACE DUCT CLEANING TECH REQ’D. IMMED. Wages neg. 403-506-4822 GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold 10 F/T seasonal positions.

Training provided. Start Feb 2014. $9.95/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume 403886-2252 or email to info@ mbrook.ca.

IMMED. POSISTION for F/T owner/operator Courier. for local delivery company.

Small pick-up or mini van would be the ideal vehicle.

Reply w/resume by fax: 403-342-7636 or email denw70@hotmail.com Integra Tire Innisfail requires exper Tire Tech, Lube Bay exper an asset, valid class 5 license required.Competitive wages/benefits. Email innisfail@integratire.com

Allsop Ave / Allsop Close

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

INGLEWOOD AREA ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Inglis Cres.

Ireland Cres.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Lord Close Lawford Ave / Leonard Cres.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS & EQUIPMENT INSTALLERS Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

in Rimbey area. Must be bondable and have transportation. 403-346-7695 MATURE CARETAKERS for 32 room motel in Forestburg, AB. Couple preferred. Handyman work, exp. in motels and computer knowledge 1-604-725-4448 email: jmann47@gmail.com

Sutton Close NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Voisin Close

OILFIELD TICKETS

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem)

stuff

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Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

VINTAGE Retro ANTIQUE SALE Sat. Nov. 2 , 10-3 @ Clearview Hall, 93 Cornett Dr.

1550

Children's Items

WESTPARK AREA

KIDS WOODEN PLAYHOUYSE FURNITURE - Free. 403-342-5609

1590 1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers' Market

1650

WANTED: wild meat and beef for greyhound diets.

Freezer burnt ok,749-3242

Household Furnishings

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

1580

1660

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

BOWER AREA

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

1520

LOGS

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 P/T CASHIER, week nights 4 pm -8 pm. Apply with resume to Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

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

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1720

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

WANTED TO RENT: Horse & horse drawn sleigh ride for Christmas season. 1/2 hour will do.

403-347-9343 / 587-647-2243

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 WOOD STEREO CABINET. - Free. 403-342-5609

880

SMALL SQUARE HAY and straw 403-340-3061 TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 RIVERSIDE MEADOWS Avail. Dec. 1, 4 bdrm. 1 bath, 5 appls., $1200 + 60% utils.. small pet ok. www.lindenproperties. com 403-246-4351

328904K2

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

3030

Condos/ Townhouses

3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townhouse in well kept condominium complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. 5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 40 w/references & quiet living.

Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627

Musical Instruments

1770

homes CLASSIFICATIONS

4010

3050

3 BDRM, 4 appls. partial utils. 1.5 bath. Avail. Nov. 15.

403-304-8472 or 346-8581

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Houses For Sale

4020

$329,000 5709 35 Street MLS CA0022457

1045 sq ft Bungalow 5 BDRM/2 BATHS NEW GARAGE, Mature Yard

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 OVER 200 channels, TV supplied, MUST love dogs, must be working M., rent $550., N/S, 403-358-3786

Rooms For Rent

3090

ROOM in quiet home. $450. Call 403-350-7799 ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436 VANIER WOODS 1 bdrm. $490/mo. + DD 403-588-6268 after 6 pm.

Mobile Lot

3190

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820

4 bdrms. 3.5 baths, front att. garage. 2 storey.

Indoor/outdoor fireplace, hardwood, tile, house-wide deck & many more upgrades.

Please phone Lloyd at 403-391-9294 for all the details. $437,900 incl. legal fees, appls., GST, front sod & tree.

403-350-6926

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

1443 SQ. FT. CONDO. Great location.

403-343-1811, 550-3365

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550 4-BEDROOM home in Blackfalds for rent or lease. 7 appls. Beautiful fenced backyard, Double garage, Large deck with natural gas BBQ, Wood stove. 2200 & util & DD. Available Dec. 15,

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 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

4090

Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Commercial Property

IMMED. POSS. on brand new home. 155 Garrison Circle, Red Deer. 2 storey, 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath. $450,244 + GST. 403-550-3515 IMMED. POSSESSION 85 Piper Close, Blackfalds.

Duplex with att. garage.

3 bdrm., 1.5 bath. 1292 sq.ft. $287,500. 403-550-3515

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

www.laebon.com

4110

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Businesses For Sale

4140

HAIR SALON FOR SALE. Owners retiring. Large well established clientele.

403-358-2470

IMMED. POSS 2 Cedar Cres.

Blackfalds. Bi-level, 2 bdrm., 990 sq.ft. $283,500.

403-550-3515

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

5030

2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 dr. red, 403-348-2999 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 1999 PONTIAC Bonney-

Laebon Homes 346-7273 ville 4 dr., 403-352-6995

Open House Directory

Tour These Fine Homes SE Red Deer

4280

Out Of Red Deer

4310

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Sun. Nov. 3rd. 1 - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

RISER HOMES BLACKFALDS

1331 sq.ft. home QUICK POSSESSION UPDATED in Mountview. $404,000.

Margaret Comeau Open House Nov. 2nd, 1-4.

4464 34 Street.

RE/MAX 403.391.3399

CLIVE -Won’t Last!

RISER HOMES

Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom suites perfect for all walks of life. Cat friendly. Plaza Apartments: 1(888)7849279 rentmidwest.com

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

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

**RENTED**

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

ONLY ONE! RISER HOMES

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

4000-4190

& Services

4020

Houses For Sale

20 ASKIN CLOSE Sun. Nov. 3, 2 - 4 Ed Katchur, Maxwell Realty 403-506-7171

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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

Grounds Positions

person during business hours:

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

1760

THE BURNT LAKE 25 BOOKS (250 pages) GENERAL STORE full of illustrations only of is looking for F/T Customer masterpieces of natural The easy way to find a Service person for shift crafts & cloths. $200 for all. buyer for items you want to work.

Please apply in 403-347-7405 sell is with a Red Deer person, Hwy. 11 West.

Advocate want ad. Phone CEDAR chest 32”l, 16”h, No phone calls please.

309-3300.

14 1/2w, $40; commercial black office chair w/adjustments $40, 3 wool accent Misc. matching carpets, clean, Help will sell seperatly $60, 8’ live cactus plant $25 403-352-8811 CRAFSTMAN SNOWBLOWER, electric start, recent professional tune-up. 403-346-5731 CRAFTSMAN Snow Blower 8.4 HP w/6’ trailer. New. $1100 obo. 403-314-0804 INDOOR/OUTDOOR Rocky View Schools (RVS) is the fifth largest jurisdiction in Alberta serving ELECTRIC HEALTH GRILL. $45. 403-347-8726 almost 20,000 students in both rural and urban schools. As a 21st Century JUICE Extractor, MEHU student-centric learning organization, RVS is committed to engaging, enriching 403-346-4307 and empowering all learners through meaningful and challenging experiences LOOKING FOR WRAP GIRLS. that prepare them to understand, adapt and successfully contribute to our Must be passionate about changing global community. helping others, self We are seeking outstanding professionals for the following positions: motivated & hard working.

No exp. required.

Competition #4053 – Journeyman Landscape Gardener (2 Positions) Call or text Jaclyn at Competition #4054 – Irrigation Specialist 403-396-8504 or email: keepfitgirl@hotmail.ca To learn more about these job opportunities and the application process please YAMAHA P5R-500 visit our website at www.rockyview.ab.ca.

Electronic piano w/chair.

Exc. cond. $95 As the successful candidate, you will be required to submit a current Criminal CANON K920 Copier Record and Vulnerable Sector Check. Please submit your application, cover letter machine w/metal stand. and resume, quoting the competition number on or before November 8, 2013.

Exc. cond. $100.

Applications can be emailed to careers@rockyview.ab.ca or dropped off in 403-352-8811

Rocky View Schools Human Resources 2651 Chinook Winds Drive SW, Airdrie, AB T4B 0B4 www.rockyview.ab.ca

2190

6’ NEXT TO NEW OFFICE DESK. LEGACY ESTATES Light caramel colour.

Best Adult Retirement $100. 403-347-7405 Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury COUCH, CHAIR condo unit. $800 + utils. & FOOT STOOL. Call Joe 403-848-0266 All Matching. Yellow & Gold print. Good cond.

SOUTHWOOD PARK No stains or tears. $50.

3110-47TH Avenue, 403-342-6943 after 7 p.m.

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, or 403-347-2374 during the day. generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, GREY lift chair, 3 mo. old, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, $650 403-358-5359 Sorry no pets.

ROUND PINE 40” TABLE www.greatapartments.ca & 4 CHAIRS, exc. cond. $195 403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

$950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

wegot

Newly Reno’d Mobile Realtors FREE Shaw Cable + more

2 BDRM. APT. downtown. $800/month. No pets, N/S Ph: 403-346-0824.

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

EASY!

1900

Travel Packages

1500-1990

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

BODY Solid equip. Pd. $1800. Asking $750 obo., Great cond. 403-597-3958 Cash Only

CLASSIFICATIONS

Building Supplies

IN HALKIRK 1970 Mobile Home For Rent. $500/mo.

On own lot. Close to school, store, hotel. Ideal for single parent. For more info call 403-583-2380.

SPACEMATE Gold treadmill $100 403-309-3117

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Antiques & Art

3040

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Dec 1 403-304-5337

403.341.4544 R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Manufactured Homes

ORIOLE PARK

AFFORDABLE

In the towns of:

1860

Sporting Goods

Industries #1 Choice!

Homestead Firewood

For afternoon delivery once per week

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

KITTENS (2) SIAMESE (1) BALINESE & (1) BURMAN $50/ea. 403-887-3649

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Firewood

VANIER AREA

FREE TO LOVING HOME. 4 golden orange 11 week old kittens, litter trained and one 8 week old M. tabby, litter trained, 403-782-3130 phone back in order

SAFETY

Somerset Close

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

900

1830

Cats

TRAINING CENTRE

EquipmentHeavy

Looking for subcontractors or cleaners

Ladwig Close Logan Close

Employment Training

MEN’S WINTER BIB OVERALLS. Size Large. $40.

Boots, size 12. $40.

Large jacket, $50.

403-342-5609

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

LANCASTER AREA

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.

WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295 WOODYNOOK PALLETS, looking for pallet Builders, Payday every Fri. Must have own transportation.

Bob 403-596-9181

Clothing

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Ibbotson Close

in

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

INNISFAIL

Ingram Close / Inglewood Dr.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

880

CEDAR Clad solid core wood door, 24” wide with frame. Asking $100.

403-227-2976

Addinnell Close / Allan St.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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.

880

Misc.

Help

278950A5

880

Misc.

Help

Cleaning

1070

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822 GUITAR Amplifier, Rocker VELOX EAVESTROUGH RX-100, 7 Watt, Asking Cleaning & Repairs. $50. obo. 403-227-2976 Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Looking for a new sidewalk, help on small jobs around the house, such as small tree cutting, landscaping, painting or flooring?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

Massage Therapy

TCM & Lensen Therapy Cover all insurance 8 am-9 pm 4606-48 Ave 403-986-1691 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

1372

Services

1290

CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822

FANTASY MASSAGE

Painters/ Decorators

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Seniors’ Pampering at its Services BEST! 403-986-6686 HELPING HANDS Home Come in and see Ltd. for SENIORS. why we are the talk Support Companionship, cleaning, of the town. cooking - in home, in facility. www.viimassage.biz We are BETTER for

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) Misc.

(FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

1280

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving Central AB. 403-318-4346

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Yard Care

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013

Snowden seeks German help in getting spying charges dropped Two members of GREECE

neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party killed in drive-by shooting

IN LETTER TO GERMAN LAWMAKER NSA WHISTEBLOWER LOOKING FOR FOREIGN HELP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — The U.S. refused to show any leniency to fugitive leaker Edward Snowden on Friday, even as Secretary of State John Kerry conceded that eavesdropping on allies had happened on “automatic pilot” and went too far.

Snowden made his appeal for U.S. clemency in a letter released Friday by a German lawmaker who met with him in Moscow. In it, the 30-year-old American asked for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop spying charges against him and said he would like to testify before the U.S. Congress about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities.

Snowden also indicated he would be willing to help German officials investigate alleged U.S. spying in Germany, said Hans-Christian Stroebele, a lawmaker with the opposition Green Party and a member of the parliamentary committee that oversees German intelligence.

Stroebele met with Snowden for three hours on Thursday, a week after explosive allegations that the NSA had monitored Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone prompted her to complain personally to President Barack Obama. The alleged spying has produced the most serious diplomatic tensions between the two allies since Germany opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In his one-page typed letter, written in English and bearing signatures that Stroebele said were his own and Snowden’s, the American complained that the U.S. government “continues to treat dissent as defection, and seeks to criminalize political speech with felony charges that provide no defence.”

“However, speaking the truth is not a crime,” Snowden wrote. “I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behaviour.”

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not respond directly to Snowden’s appeal, but said the U.S. position “has not changed.”

“Despite recent reports or recent pronouncements from Mr. Snowden, as we’ve stated many times before, he’s accused of leaking classified information, faces felony charges here in the United States and we believe he should be returned as soon as possible, where he will be accorded full due process and protections applicable under U.S. law,” Psaki said.

Snowden’s father, Lon Snowden, who recently visited his son in Russia and continues to communicate with him, told The Associated Press on Friday that

Cars

5030

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Public Notices PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

U-STORE IT SELF STORAGE NOTICE TO:

Sheena Hoff Carly McMeekin Corey Mitcham Jeremy Mickelson Sheldon Nadeau Peter Odidi Andrew Wiper Iron Eagle

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

5040

2001 CHEV Venture, 161,000 kms., good shape, clean, N/S. $2100 obo.

403-352-2339

Trucks

5050

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Please be advised that you have until

November 7, 2013 to pay these units in full or they will be auctioned off on November 16, 2013

Snowden will not travel to Germany to talk to authorities as long as the U.S. charges remain in place.

“If they want to understand my son’s position about Germany, read his letter. It’s pretty clear. He is not going to Germany to testify as long as he is indicted by the United States and their position is what it is,” the elder Snowden said, adding that his son would prefer to testify before Congress anyway.

“My son would love to come back to the United States but I’m not sure it will be safe for him, even if all charges are dropped,” Lon Snowden said. “My advice would be to stay in Russia and move on with his life, and that’s what I believe he will do.”

Stroebele said Edward Snowden appeared healthy and cheerful during their meeting at an undisclosed location in Moscow. The German television network ARD, which accompanied Stroebele, said the Germans were taken to the meeting by unidentified security officials under “strict secrecy.”

Snowden “said that he would like most to lay the facts on the table before a committee of the U.S. Congress and explain them,” Stroebele said. The lawmaker, a prominent critic of the NSA’s alleged activities, said Snowden “did not present himself to me as anti-American or anything like that — quite the contrary.”

Merkel this week sent German officials to Washington for talks on the spying issue. Germany’s parliament also is expected to discuss the NSA’s alleged spying on Nov. 18.

Snowden’s appeal came as Kerry conceded that because of modern technology, some NSA activities had gone too far and were carried out without the knowledge of Obama administration officials.

“The president and I have learned of some things that have been happening, in many ways on an automatic pilot, because the technology is there,” Kerry said Thursday, speaking in a video link to an open government conference in London.

“In some cases, some of these actions have reached too far and we are going to try to make sure it doesn’t happen in the future,” Kerry said, adding that ongoing reviews of U.S. surveillance will ensure that technology is not being abused.

Snowden was granted a one-year asylum in Russia in August after being stuck at a Moscow airport for more than a month following his arrival from Hong Kong.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Snowden got asylum on condition that he wouldn’t harm U.S. interests.

Snowden’s exact whereabouts in Russia and his activities there have been a mystery, though there has been wide speculation that he is under the control of Russia’s security services.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS — A drive-by shooting killed two members of Greece’s Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party and wounded one outside a party office in Athens on Friday night, in what officials are treating as a likely far-left domestic terrorist attack.

The government and opposition parties — all who have long ostracized Golden Dawn as a group of neoNazis — quickly condemned the attack, which the left-wing main opposition Syriza said “targets democracy” in Greece.

The two victims, aged 22 and 27, were shot at close range from a motorcycle carrying two men, Golden Dawn lawmaker Georgios Germenis told The Associated Press.

“A man got off a motorcycle wearing a helmet and shot them,” he said, adding the attack was captured on a security camera at the party office in Athens’ Neo Iraklio suburb.

A third man, aged 29, was taken to hospital with severe gunshot wounds.

The shooting occurred amid a government crackdown on Golden Dawn following the Sept. 17 fatal stabbing of an anti-fascist musician in Athens.

A Golden Dawn supporter has been arrested and charged with murder. The party’s leader and two of its lawmakers have been jailed pending trial on charges of forming a criminal group, and another six stripped of immunity from prosecution.

The party has denied any wrongdoing, and none of the leadership has been charged with any direct connection to the killing.

Golden Dawn, which rose from obscurity during Greece’s financial crisis, won 18 of Parliament’s 300 seats in last year’s elections and is now polling as the recession-plagued nation’s third most popular political party.

Police said no arrests were made and the counterterrorism squad has taken over the investigation. There has been no claim of responsibility, but Greece still has active far-left and anarchist extremist groups that have claimed a string of shootings and bombings that killed two policemen and a journalist.

“We are examining every possibility, but the indications are that it is a terrorist attack,” a police official said on condition of anonymity.

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Estate Of LOIS ELIZABETH SISSON Who Died On November 9, 2012 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.

Please be advised that you have until

November 15, 2013 to pay in full. Auction will be held Nov. 16, 2013

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