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GOVERNMENT REVERSES CUTS TO CENTRAL ALBERTA COLLEGES

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Getting into the spirit of Dia de Los Muertos, Melissa Duran of Red Deer gets her face painted by co-worker Moneza Secjadas in the classic Day of the Dead skull design this week. The holiday is celebrated around the world and focuses on gatherings to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico. The two women who work for the Central Alberta Refugee Effort in Red Deer celebrated with others at their office on Tuesday.

Central Alberta colleges will get about $1.8 million back from the province, almost eight months after the Alberta budget cut operational grant funding across the province by 7.2 per cent.

Red Deer College will get $1,152,000 back and Olds College will get $689,300 back.

Thomas Lukaszuk, deputy premier and minister of Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education, announced the return of $50 million to the province’s post-secondary schools on Wednesday.

The deputy premier said on Wednesday that the money is meant to help ease enrolment pressures.

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Mobile home fire leads to arson charge

Shelters full, homeless turned away

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF A 29-year-old man has been charged with one count of arson following Monday’s fire in Mustang Acres that destroyed a mobile home.

Red Deer RCMP have charged Randy Evans, who they say was one of the occupants of the trailer.

Red Deer Emergency Services received a call just after 2 p.m. on Monday about a fire at 6834 59th Ave. Crews took nearly 40 minutes to put out the blaze.

No injuries were reported as no one was home during the fire and no surrounding mobile homes were affected.

Tim Kivell, fire prevention officer for Red Deer Emergency Services, said the trailer is a “complete write-off.”

Kivell also said the fire started in the hallway.

Police allege the fire was deliberately set.

Daniel Land, who has owned the mobile home for the past four years and was renting it out, said he had been trying to evict the current tenants for a number of months due to missed rent payments.

Land said he served the tenants with court-ordered eviction papers on Friday, ordering them to be out by noon on Tuesday.

The trailer was not covered with insurance, he said.

“I’d had insurance on it before but I didn’t bother renewing it because I was going to sell it and I didn’t realize how long that process would drag out.”

“It’s not a happy story but it’s a lesson in life. Always have insurance no matter what. I should know better. I was taking full possession of it on Tuesday and I had the place sold . . . Now it’ll cost $3,000 to pull it out of there.”

Evans remains in custody and will appear in Red Deer provincial court on Nov. 15. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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An arson investigation is underway in regards to a fire that took place on Tuesday at the Mustang Acres Mobile Home Park.

Homeless people in Red Deer are being turned away from shelters because they are filled to capacity.

Kath Hoffman, executive director of Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, said on Wednesday that all staff could do was provide them with some extra clothing to help brave the elements.

At People’s Place, four individuals were turned away on Monday and another eight on Tuesday.

At the mat program for homeless who are intoxicated or high, six people could not get in on Monday and two on Tuesday.

Hoffman said people turned away from the mat program are particularly vulnerable.

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Crews still clearing streets after snowfall

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer city crews continue to clear the streets after the first major snowfall of the year.

As of Wednesday, crews have finished ploughing and removing snow from the Priority 1 — hills and bridges — and Priority 2 — arterials and high collision intersections — areas in the city.

Public Works manager Greg Sikora said the crews are continuing with sidewalk ploughing, which includes transit stops on arterial and collector roads.

Crews will continue doing hand work on the areas where the equipment cannot get into, which includes intersection islands, staircases and bridge decks.

“We’re continually sanding slippery intersec-

tions,” said Sikora. “Basically that gets us to more or less we’re at the point where we completed all the duties that have been triggered based on our priority system.”

Over Saturday and Sunday, 33 cms of snow fell in Red Deer causing havoc on city streets and area highways.

Sikora said the city is receiving calls for sanding at some slippery intersections. He said the city is continuing to monitor the sanding and deploying when necessary throughout the city.

In the meantime, Sikora is encouraging drivers to use caution when driving on the winter roads.

Cpl. Al Nicholson of the Innisfail Integrated Traffic Unit said that last weekend Hwy 2 was quite treacherous and incidents have slowed down. As of Wednesday afternoon, there had not been many reported incidents.

Nicholson said a new coating of asphalt was

put down on Hwy 2 south of Red Deer this year and that may have caused some of the problems.

“They don’t put chip coating down the first year so it makes it a little more hazardous than it was last year,” said Nickolson. “When we get ice and snow on the highway it does create a little bit more of a hazard.”

The traffic unit covers Hwy 2 from Red Deer to Didsbury.

“Winter driving conditions are a bit of a learning curve.,” said Nickolson. “You go from dry pavement to winter icy driving conditions. We want to be cognizant of the distance and the speed and to leave the cellphone somewhere else.”

A mix of snow with a high of zero is in the forecast for today. There’s a 40 per cent chance of flurries in the late afternoon. It will get chilly overnight with a low of -5C. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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New bunk beds installed at the People’s Place shelter in Red Deer have expanded the capacity from 23 beds to 35, says shelter manager Kelley Arnold.

CASH: Funding cut Funding was cut in March as part of the provincial budget.

Red Deer College president and CEO Joel Ward was in Toronto at a skills and post-secondary education conference with four other Alberta college presidents when they received an email about the announcement. The five went into a room and listened to the announcement on a cellphone.

“We were pleasantly surprised, we had no idea it was coming.

“Though our deputy premier did say if the government’s financial situation did change they would try to put some of that money back,” said Ward, adding he and the presidents of SAIT, Mount Royal University, Keyano College and Athabasca University listened to the call together.

The money coming into RDC will go towards helping with enrolment increases in the college’s international business certificate program, some engineer programs and massage therapy.

“It’s a funding envelope for enrolment,” said Ward.

“This is to address the shortage of spaces that

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A new report on elder care in Alberta is giving the system a failing grade.

The Parkland Institute report gathered data from Statistics Canada and the Alberta Health Facilities Review Committee.

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“I hope that our report serves to put numbers, hard data, to what people with experience in the residential elder care system have known for some time,” she said. “Hopefully this sort of hard data will prompt the provincial government to change policy direction.”

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had to be cut from the system when the big decrease came out.

“This is a little bit back so we can start to grow our enrolments again by putting this money directly into new programming.”

Olds College vice-president of advancement Jordan Cleland said the money will be put to good use right away.

Four programs at Olds will benefit from the sudden, mid-term influx of money, including the fashion program in Calgary, the tourism and hospitality program, the academic programming at the college’s water treatment wetlands and for new sports management programming and the college’s new centre for high performance sport.

“It’s not just ‘Here’s $700,000 for any part of your operation,’ it needs to be tied to student access and it didn’t take us long at all to be able to figure out exactly how we would use that,” said Cleland.

“We had to really take a hard, rationalizing look when we saw what the budget was in spring and this is at least a partial reprieve from those austerity measures.”

The $50 million the province is giving back represents about one-third of the $147 million that was cut in the March budget. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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“The RCMP will help us out and keep an eye out for those folks out there and help them as best they can.

“It is a more expensive option to use police resources for that, but right now that’s our only option,” Hoffman said.

On Friday, Safe Harbour added 12 more spaces at People’s Place emergency shelter to increase housing for the Red Deer’s homeless this winter. The number of beds at the homeless shelter increased to 35 from 23.

Safe Harbour is also working on city approval to increase spaces in the mat program to 26 from 20.

Expanding the homeless programs was sought after Safe Harbour did not get its usual funding from the city’s Community Housing Advisory Board to run the seasonal Winter Inn program.

Hoffman said she would like to see the city and the community develop some sort of emergency homeless plan, like emergency disaster plans, for when shelters are full.

A current backlog in housing options for people in shelter means more homeless may be turned away this winter, she said.

“A lot of people who stay at People’s Place are on the Red Deer Housing Team wait list.

“People are getting hooked up to the resources, but the resources don’t always have the capacity to be able to help right away,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman said Safe Harbour is also in desperate need of adult toques, mitts and winter coats for those who are turned away. Safe Harbour is located at 5246-53rd Ave. Unlike the Winter Inn for adults, the Youth Winter Inn will operate again this season at Red Deer Youth and Volunteer Centre.

It opens on Friday with space for seven youth, ages 14 to 17, and will run until April 30, from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Program manager Rose Hatfield said Central Alberta Child and Family Services Authority (CFSA) is committed to funding the program this year.

“CFSA is certainly looking for the community to come on board and support this. Ending homelessness is a community issue. It’s not solely a child welfare issue,” Hatfield said.

CFSA would like to see partial funding come from corporations or individuals, she said.

Last year, both the City of Red Deer and Central Alberta Child and Family Services funded the program.

Hatfield said donations of socks and mitts would also help keep youth warm on the streets. The Youth and Volunteer Centre is located at 4633-49th St. “We really encourage the community to be part of the solution in whatever way they can.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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It appears that you can’t dig a deep hole in Alberta without finding a duck-billed dinosaur.

For the second time in weeks, construction crews have discovered the fossilized remains of a hadrosaur, a plant-eating creature that stalked the Earth about 68 million years ago. The latest discovery happened in Leduc, south of Edmonton.

A crew helping to build a housing development found the fossils six metres below the surface and called the Royal Tyrrell Museum to report the find. The crew then helped museum staff carefully remove dirt and rock from the prehistoric buried treasure.

Museum curator Francois Therrien said this dinosaur was a teenager when it died and is about eight metres long. He said the fact that much of the skeleton was found intact makes it an important find — no bones about it.

“When you walk in the badlands of southern Alberta when you find dinosaur bones, nine times out of 10 it will be from a duck-billed dinosaur,” he said Wednesday.

“But in terms of finding a complete skeleton — all the bones connected the way they were in life — that is really a rare discovery.”

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has brought forward a law that proposes further regulation to how car insurance rates are set.

Under the Enhancing Consumer Protection in Auto Insurance Act, both mandatory liability and optional collision rate hikes would be subject to review by the Automobile Insurance Rate Board.

Currently, only the mandatory rate hikes are subject to approval.

Insurance companies would also have to apply for rate hikes individually when wanted, rather than annually through an industry group.

Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner says driver have been calling for more oversight of the insurance industry.

The government says areas of the system that deal with the definition of minor injury and the cap on payouts for minor injuries are still under review.

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A hadrosaur fossil in Leduc, is shown. For the second time in weeks a construction crew has discovered the fossilized remains of a hadrosaur, a plant-eating creature that stalked the Earth about 68 million years ago.

So far, the tail and hips of the beast are visible and the skull has been identified.

Last month a pipeline crew in northwestern Alberta uncovered the fossils of a larger and older hadrosaur, a dinosaur that was almost as common during the Cretaceous era as deer are today.

Hadrosaurs roamed over much of western North America and grew up to 12 metres long.

The fossils are to be stored at the museum in Drumheller, Alta., for further study. “It has been an incredible year for dinosaur finds,” said Andrew Neuman, executive director of the museum.

“This surge in fossil finds has supplemented are own work this field season due in part to increased awareness and diligence among industry and keen-eyed amateurs.”

Man faces murder charge in shooting A 20-year-old Hobbema man has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Chelsea Yellowbird.

Shelby Minde of Hobbema was arrested without incident by RCMP on Wednesday.

He remains in police custody and will appear in Wetaskiwin provincial court at a date to be determined.

Yellowbird, 23, was shot at a residence on the Samson Cree First Nation townsite on Sept. 5, 2011.

The house was next door to a home where her nephew, five-year-old Ethan Yellowbird, was shot

SAMSON CREE FIRST NATION dead while sleeping two months earlier. In both cases, the shots came from outside the homes.

Minde’s arrest comes after a two-year investigation by the Hobbema detachment and the Calgary Major Crimes Unit.

The investigation is still ongoing. Police continue to speak to witnesses and follow up on tips.

People can call Hobbema RCMP at 780-585-4600 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 with information on this homicide.

Jail guard faces drug charges MEDICINE HAT — A jail guard in southern Alberta faces drug charges following an investigation that turned up marijuana and $1,000 in cash.

Police say Ricki Raymond Fehr, who is 24, was arrested at the Medicine Hat Remand Centre last week. Officers were investigating allegations that someone was bringing marijuana to inmates.

Fehr has been charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds of crime.

He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 3.

Bill creates arm’s-length environmental monitoring panel EDMONTON— The Alberta government has passed legislation for an arm’s-length panel to monitor the environment and help officials reduce pollution in years to come.

The Protecting Alberta’s Environment Act passed third reading in the legislature Tuesday night.

Environment Minister Diana McQueen says the act will create an agency to better monitor and disperse information on air, water and soil quality.

Opposition politicians say it is a good idea, but it is poorly executed.

Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman says there’s no requirement that those overseeing the panel have any scientific experience.

Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says despite its independent status, the panel is likely to be tightly controlled by the government and used as a scapegoat when things go wrong.

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Senate circus still in play We witnessed history here Tuesday evening, and it was about as tawdry as it gets.

An embarrassed Senate further embarrassed itself with an efficient execution before a proper trial for three of its own.

Canadians may not really care about due process in its TIM Senate, but after HARPER Tuesday surely they can understand that if you become a problem for Stephen Harper you become roadkill.

One really just wanted to look away before the firing squad rose in its place.

For Harper, it was a political victory but not a substantive one. This Senate circus dragged on so long it did him more damage during the two-week show than any benefit he could have accrued from the vote that removed

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Patrick Brazeau, Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin from the Senate for up to two years.

Harper has removed the privileged soapbox that the trio, particularly Duffy, had from their Senate perch.

He can tell the faithful the three raided the public purse and were purged. He can crow that the Liberals want to protect the “club” and tried to keep the three in there as long as possible. The Harper argument will be simple going forward — Nigel Wright, the former chief of staff who Harper maintains acted in concert with Duffy, is gone. Duffy is gone. Wallin is gone.

Brazeau is gone.

This may slow the Senate saga temporarily, but it will not kill it.

There is no way to understate what the Conservative majority in the Senate has done and they had all better be sure they have clean hands before they, too, are reduced to health and life insurance benefits.

None of the three faces any charges in relation to their spending, although Brazeau does face criminal charges of assault and sexual assault.

Duffy is under police investigation for possible breach of trust and subsequent cover story he says was cooked

up in Harper’s office and Wallin is being probed in relation to her travel expense claims.

A Liberal, Mac Harb, is also under police investigation but he has retired from the Senate.

If any of the three were to be charged, tried and convicted between Tuesday’s suspension and their potential date of return in 2015, the suspension would become an expulsion, but on the day they received their sentences they had been charged with nothing.

In the meantime, a precedent has been established and the suspensions have shown the country that the Conservative majority is merely an arm of the PMO and feels it is above the law.

Brazeau is hardly an oracle, but when he warns that those voting to suspend could one day be on the other side of this gulf, he should be heeded.

Brazeau, the first to be booted, walked resolutely to his car, silent, a night after he wavered between lashing out, playing the race card and taking the high road for his children in an emotional address.

Duffy, who says he is having heart work done later this week, missed his own execution. It was lost on no one that Duffy, who has spent most of his

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Successful food banks, unsuccessful cities

I was largely unaware of Rob Ford until a few years ago when I read about his ambitious plan to bring an NFL team to Toronto.

The story was more whimsy than fact, but I sent emails to both Ford brothers on Toronto’s city council about my concerns that a Toronto National Football team would ultimately be the death of our own Canadian Football League.

JIM I never received SUTHERLAND a response from either Rob or Doug, but now it appears their Toronto NFL dreams are not their greatest issue in 2013.

Mayor Ford has been front page news many times over the past few years because of his bad behaviour.

Truth be told, I met many Rob Fords during my 20-odd years in the bar business; overweight middle-aged guys with caustic personalities who lived large and displayed an enormous lack of control when under the influence. These kind of people lacked couth, tact and most other crucial elements of socially acceptable behaviour, but the Rob Fords of this world were also very good at their chosen careers or business.

Ford is a poster boy for success at City Hall. He reduced Toronto’s massive debt and produced a $270-million budget surplus in 2011 by trimming costs on a sinking financial ship. He made many enemies in the process because he slashed city employee numbers and non-essential programs in a huge way. He alienated the Toronto media and behaved in an incredibly undignified fashion on many occasions during his tenure as mayor.

The wild behaviour culminated in a well-publicized crack cocaine video that has put him in the spotlight again for all of the wrong reasons. Ford initially lied about his indiscretion and now he has admitted his participation in the crack pipe incident because he has been cornered on the issue.

There is little to like about Rob Ford beyond his uncanny ability to balance the books in a public service environment where all expenditures, even costly and unnecessary ones, are deemed sacred territory. His connection to the destructive

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The concept of food banks was Whatever, in the decades that first developed to be a stop-gap have followed, the group of Canadimeasure against hunger, especially ans with direct contact with a food for families with children. Local bank has grown. Two years ago, the charities would collect boxed ce- national office of the Salvation Arreal and milk, bread, peanut but- my hired Angus Reid to determine ter, canned beans and pasta to help what portion of Canada had direct families facing hunger, just for a experience with homelessness and short term. hunger at some point in That isn’t how things their lives. have evolved, is it?

The answer: about Today, across the one in four. That’s really country, food banks are high. now too large a part of About seven per cent a broader strategy for of respondents in the surcoping with poverty. Devey said they had been pending on how you look homeless at some point at things, either the copin their lives, and had eiing strategy is failing or ther slept on the street food banks have become or made use of a shelter. a great success.

About 25 per cent said In Red Deer, after they made use of a food GREG more than doubling durbank, either now or at NEIMAN ing the past recession, some time in their lives. demand at our food bank That’s with a three per has settled back and has cent national usage rate. remained more or less My math is either unsteady at something like 50 per cent believably poor or, at our local rate higher than it was before the reces- of food bank use, we will surpass sion hit. the national figure very soon, if we Last year, 16,500 people made haven’t already. One in four? That use of the food bank in Red Deer, is not success. some of them multiple times. Since What do we do with this informaour food bank also serves people tion? from communities in our immediate I believe the success of food region, we can surmise that roughly banks has to include an admission 10 per cent (or perhaps less) of our of failure in other areas. We canlocal population required help to not accept the poor economics of keep from going hungry at one time supply and demand where food is or another in the past year. concerned, but we also cannot grow That’s way too high. the food bank indefinitely.

Nationally, while the Canadian One food bank in Nashville has economy continues to make small a kitchen where people devise recigains, the number of people going pes from whatever donations come to a food bank in March 2013 was in. They cook meals in an industrial more than 833,000, a drop from just pressure cooker and flash freeze over 872,000 in March of 2012. them (these meals store for a year I know this is poor math, but let’s or more), and distribute free nutriuse this to make what comparisons tious heat-and-eat meals. we can. Extrapolated over a year, I don’t think we want to go there. that national monthly figure works Poverty, housing, minimum wage, out to roughly a million people — or living wage, illiteracy, social supjust under three per cent of the Ca- ports, none of these are the purview nadian population. of cities. But cities are where all While admitting these are rough the services in these areas are defigures, the comparison is still rath- livered. It’s where these issues live. er jarring.

Therefore, cities do need to be at Years ago, while Stockwell Day the table where they are discussed. was Red Deer’s MLA, he used an Cities should not just get behind the economics model to explain food non-profits who advocate on issues bank growth. You could view it as a around poverty, homelessness and success story, I suppose. hunger, but lead the efforts to make He said demand for a free prod- decision-makers at higher levels of uct would grow infinitely, as long government pay better attention. as the supply lasted. The Red Deer Changes in quality of life affect Food Bank was simply being suc- how cities grow, and determine cessful in growing with this de- whether cities prosper or whither. mand, but ultimately would fail, If we can’t convince our local civsince supply could not possibly ic leaders to take the lead in this, grow infinitely. we are left with needing to continuIf my math is poor, Day’s under- ously restock our food banks. That’s standing of economics and poverty not success — for food banks or for was even worse. People do not go cities. to the food bank because the food Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate is free, they go because they cannot editor. Follow his blog at readersadvoafford to buy food. And people need cate.blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman. food to live. blog@gmail.com.

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life riding the vagaries of the news gods, was suspended on a day when Rob Ford knocked Duffy off the top of the national newscasts.

Last came Wallin to rue the “sad day for democracy,” as she departed the chamber for possibly the last time.

“If we can’t expect the rule of law in Canada, then where on earth can we expect it?’’ she said.

Harper may have shut down one avenue of trouble, but more loom.

Duffy, in particular, is expert in surreptitiously making documents available. He may not yet be done because after two weeks of successfully picking at Harper’s credibility he will likely look for a proper place and time for his next salvo.

There are continuing RCMP investigations, a Senate audit, the potential for Wright to step forward to defend his reputation and holes in the story of a prime minister who maintains he was in the dark as a deal was cut to pay Duffy’s expenses, a fake narrative was crafted and his legal fees were paid by the party.

It’s going to take more than three Senate ejector seats to get past that.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national news columnist.

and sleazy world of crack cocaine makes him even less likable, particularly after he lied about his involvement.

Ford’s admission was a good first move if he wants to win his next election, in October 2014. He clearly has some giant personal demons and now would be the time to address them as part of an early mayoralty campaign. He cannot fix his personality, but he can take steps to make his life less of a circus act. He needs to quit the booze binges for starters and actually address the substance abuse issue in a legitimate rehabilitation program.

Ford is an obese 44-year-old man with bad habits that include everything from numerous infamous booze stories to a crack cocaine episode. The situation will be self-correcting when he gets fitted with a toe tag, if he chooses to ignore the obvious and continue his bad habits.

The rise and fall of Rob Ford will be measured by how he handles his personal demons.

The world will forgive a guy who makes a sincere effort to make much-needed changes to his life because it is in our nature to hand out an occasional mulligan, even to unlikable people like Ford. He has a golden opportunity to play an underdog role in his battle against his own destructive behaviour and that decision would score popularity points for him.

The big question for an aging alpha male like Ford will be whether he buys into the program enough to make changes that will save both his political career and his life.

My best guess on the guy would be no, based upon many years of first-hand experience with the Rob Fords of this world.

Jim Sutherland is a local freelance writer.

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Ottawa gets low marks on health care DOCTORS SAY FEDERAL EFFORTS LACKING ON SEVERAL FRONTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A national doctor’s association has given the Conservative government low marks on health care and is calling on Ottawa to show leadership in setting national standards as it confronts an aging population.

The report from the College of Family Physicians of Canada rates the government’s efforts on several fronts and finds them lacking.

Among the areas of biggest concern are the absence of a national home-care program, primary care supports and an immunization strategy.

“We thought it was an important report to do as we look at an election in 2015,” MarieDominique Beaulieu, the college’s executive director, said in an interview.

“We’ll look at it and update

it in a year’s time and see if we have any changes; hopefully we’ll see changes in a positive direction.”

The college used a colourcode scheme to rate the government, with green denoting strong leadership, yellow suggesting a need for more work and red indicating a complete lack of involvement and a need for immediate attention.

The majority of indicators are yellow, several are red but there’s only a solitary green — the government’s national homelessness plan.

At least two of the red marks, Beaulieu said, could have significant ramifications if not addressed — the lack of countrywide immunization standards and the absence of a national poverty plan.

“They’re very important and very concerning,” she said.

The report urges the government to establish a plan to combat poverty, noting that “economic well-being is a key contributor to health outcomes, and a healthy workforce is the foundation of a healthy economy.”

Immunization, it adds, “is a well-established preventative health measure that is easy to implement, but in Canada the coverage and schedules for routine immunizations are not standard across the provinces and territories.”

Another red mark is the absence of a health-care program for children and youth.

“There is currently no federal strategy on child and youth health issues such as mental health and obesity,” the report states.

“Canada’s investment in early childhood development is one of the lowest among OECD countries.”

The report also reiterates a long-standing call for a national home-care program.

Beaulieu said that’s been a going concern for almost two decades.

“We need to realize that we have changing demographics and there are also changes in how care is being delivered ...

Canadians are getting older and that is why having a national home-care strategy is so important.”

The government received middling marks on everything from efforts to ensure everyone has a family doctor to appropriate funding for healthcare research.

“Funding is decreasing,” the study found, urging stable cash infusions for such research.

Beaulieu said government officials were “receptive” when the college discussed the report with them before

publication.

“We had an opportunity to discuss the report with all the federal parties and we did meet with staff of the Conservative government,” she said.

“We were careful in pitching this not as scolding anybody, but really wanting to engage the federal government in this kind of discussion with us being part of the solution.

They were very receptive.”

Health Minister Rona Ambrose’s office said the government was “committed to a strong, publicly funded health-care system, guided by the Canada Health Act.” “We are focused on working with the provinces and territories on developing a health innovation framework to ensure our heath system is sustainable and delivering the care that Canadians need,” the statement said.

Enbridge CEO lauds Alberta-B.C. pipeline deal CALLED GOOD LEADERSHIP BY BOTH PREMIERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The CEO of Enbridge Inc. says he sees momentum shifting in favour of his company’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, with an agreement between Alberta and British Columbia on West Coast oil exports the latest encouraging sign.

“We think it’s quite positive, actually, that we’re seeing some good collaboration between the provinces. I think it shows leadership by both of the premiers,” Al Monaco told analysts and reporters on a conference call Wednesday.

“Certainly what I take away, and what we take away as a company, is that this is a very good pathway, I think, to getting to a yes answer here.”

Under the deal announced Tuesday, B.C. will not ask Alberta for a slice of its oil royalties to ensure it has its fair share of the project’s economic benefits — the most contentious of Premier Christy Clark’s five conditions for oil pipelines crossing her province.

However, Alberta supports B.C.’s right to negotiate with industry on that matter.

The two premiers are on the same page when it comes to caveats around environmental protection and First Nations consultation, though critics say those conditions are a long way

from being met.

Monaco said it’s too soon to say what, if anything, Enbridge can offer on that front.

“We’ve obviously been giving that a lot of thought. We’ve been talking to communities, First Nations, people along the right-of-way and now this will allow us to, I think, open up a greater dialogue,” he said.

The interests of oil companies that have committed to ship their crude on Northern Gateway must be taken into account in any such discussion, he added.

Monaco also said the cost of the Northern Gateway pipeline is likely to go over its current price tag of $6 billion, which is based on an “outdated” 2010 estimate.

Enbridge is doing some preliminary engineering and design work, which will allow it to pin down a more accurate figure. The work so far points to increasing costs and inflation between 2010 and now is also a factor.

The earliest Northern Gateway could be up and running is 2018, Monaco said. A regulatory decision is expected around the end of this year,

though an Enbridge executive has said previously he expects opponents to appeal any approval.

Northern Gateway would carry 525,000 barrels of oilsands crude per day from the Edmonton area to the West Coast port of Kitimat, B.C. From there, the crude would be loaded on tankers and sent across the Pacific to lucrative Asian markets.

the B.C. Lower Mainland, enabling oilsands exports from the West Coast.

That proposal, too, has faced strong dissent.

Also Wednesday, Enbridge said its adjusted earnings in the third quarter rose to $278 million, which was up four per cent from a year earlier but below analyst estimates.

The adjusted earnings amounted to 34 cents per share, which was a penny below estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

The Calgarybased pipeline company did better in terms of net income, which more than — AL MONACO, ENBRIDGE CEO doubled to $421 million in the quarter, A smaller, parallel line would flow or 51 cents per share, from $187 milin the opposite direction, carrying im- lion, or 24 cents per share a year earported diluent, a petroleum product lier. used to thin bitumen so it can move The net income, which includes the through pipelines. impact of Enbridge’s hedging program The project has faced stiff opposi- and an insurance payment received by tion in B.C., centred on the environ- the company, was above estimates of mental damage that could result from 36 cents per share. an oil spill on the pipeline itself or Enbridge’s overall revenue was just from tankers along the coast. under $9 billion, up from $5.6 billion a Another pipeline company, Kinder year earlier, largely due to higher comMorgan, is planning to nearly triple modity sales. the size of its existing Trans MounRevenue from pipeline and gas distain line, which runs from Alberta to tribution sales was also up.

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The member for the riding of Macleod tweeted the news before releasing a more detailed statement thanking his wife, staff and long-time constituents for their support.

“The time has come for me to move on,” Menzies said, noting that his decision earlier this year to surrender his ministerial duties allowed him to focus on helping flood-ravaged residents of southern Alberta.

“I am retiring from politics but look forward to another exciting career ahead. Thank you all for the opportunity to proudly represent the most beautiful riding in Canada, and for the privilege to represent some of the greatest people I will ever know.”

In a statement, Prime Minister Stephen Harper thanked Menzies for “many years of devoted service to his constituents of Macleod in the Parliament of Canada and for his tremendous contributions to our government.”

“Since his election to the House of Commons, Ted has been a strong voice and advocate for Alberta, and a valued member within our caucus,” Harper said. Menzies, lauded on all sides of the Commons as a well-liked and respected MP, was first elected in 2004 and won re-election three times.

The 61-year-old farmer was named junior minister for finance in January 2011, but took himself out of cabinet consideration before last summer’s shuffle by saying he wouldn’t run again.

He was born in Claresholm, in 1952.

He married shortly after high school and for nearly 30 years he and Sandy operated Section One Farm Ltd., growing wheat, barley, canola, field peas, lentils, chickpeas and spice crops.

In the late 1990s, Menzies moved into the business of agriculture and international trade, working with the Grain Growers of Canada, Western Canadian Wheat Growers and other industry groups.

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The report released Wednesday by the Council of Canadian Academies said government funding for ocean science is actually increasing — contrary to perception — but a lack of co-ordination limits the usefulness of research being done by governments, universities and industry in this country.

“We’ve got to take seriously that fact that oceans are just fundamental to us,” said David Strangway, chairman of the expert panel that prepared the report and the former president of the University of British Columbia.

“The world of science and technology and the things we need to understand about our coasts and our coastlines and the impact on people is changing dramatically, and we have to not just rest on our laurels.”

Canada has been a leader in ocean science internationally, Strangway said.

But the review by a panel of eight experts from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, several universities, and as far afield as the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Germany found three main gaps that threaten that status.

There is no overarching national strategy or vision for ocean science for Canada, and there is a lack of coordination among the many different organizations conducting research and innovation in the private and public

sectors, the report said.

There is also an information gap, it said, making it very difficult to put together a solid picture of the information and resources out there.

“The fork in the road that we’re at is if we don’t take all of this really seriously and understand the significance of the oceans to Canada, we are not going to continue to be leaders,” Strangway said.

Canada, with 243,000 kilometres of coastline, has an enormous impact on the ocean and it has an enormous impact on us, the report stressed.

The authors pointed out that the three oceans along our coasts provide Canadians with food and energy, they are our connection to the goods of the rest of the world, and important to our health and well-being.

Oceans effect and are affected by climate change, and there are many issues arising in ocean science, including water acidification, overfishing, resource extraction and Arctic shipping.

Louis Fortier, a biologist at Universite Laval and a co-author of the report, said Canada has a substantial but aging research fleet, including an investment in unmanned underwater vehicles, and emerging technology.

“Compared to other countries, there is a need to renew the Canadian research fleet,” he said.

Canada does have several worldclass ocean observation systems, the report noted, including the Ocean Networks Canada, which operates the NEPTUNE and VENUS ocean observatories in British Columbia and recently went live with an Arctic observatory anchored in the waters off Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

Confusion reigns over pension, disability entitlements for suspended senators

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government is scrambling to figure out if the suspensions of three of its own senators actually means they’re entirely off the public payroll, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper claims.

Tuesday’s suspensions of Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau for allegedly fraudulent expense claims are without precedent and the government still hasn’t figured out all the ramifications.

Among the lingering questions: Is Duffy eligible for a disability allowance? Will the trio’s time in political purgatory — as much as two years — count toward the six years of service needed to be eligible for a generous parliamentary pension?

Good questions — and it’s up to the Senate to answer them, said Treasury Board President Tony Clement, the chief guardian of the public purse.

“You’re asking very legitimate questions and there should be answers to those questions,” Clement said Wednesday, stressing that the Senate runs its own internal affairs.

“I honestly don’t know the answer to that. I know that there’s a legal opinion that is being sought.”

Claude Carignan, government leader in the Senate, called the questions “technicalities” that will be sorted out by the chamber’s administration.

The intention of the suspension motions passed on Tuesday was to suspend Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau “without pay, without any benefits ... includ-

Calgary’s police chief says he stands by the actions of officers who shot a man in the city’s southeast earlier this week.

Rick Hanson says the officer who shot the suspect has 18 months on the job and felt his life was at risk.

Hanson also says the suspect is known to police and allege the vehicle he was in was stolen.

Although he says he is confident the officer’s actions were justified, Hanson says the investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team will continue.

The family of Matthew Brown, the man who was shot, admits he recently served time for robbery with a weapon but says he wasn’t violent and didn’t deserve being shot.

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“But all that we can do to suspend the benefits and the salary, within the parameters of the law, we will do it.”

In fact, the three are still entitled to health, dental and life insurance benefits — a provision added by Carignan last week to make the suspensions more palatable to some of his Conservative colleagues.

Tory Sen. Don Meredith, who abstained from Tuesday’s vote, said he hopes the suspensions will not adversely impact his three former colleagues’ pension eligibility.

“I think we need to begin to support our colleagues as they’re on suspension, especially their economic and social state, especially Sen. Brazeau,” Meredith said, pointing out that Brazeau has young children, including one with a disability. Wallin’s lawyer, Terrence O’Sullivan, told Global News that his client will consider legal action if the Senate attempts to tamper with her pension eligibility.

Liberal Senate leader James Cowan said the confusion is further evidence that the government rushed through the suspensions to solve a political problem, without giving any thought to the possible consequences.

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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez was arrested in Tampa, Florida. His lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment.

In a criminal complaint, Sanchez is accused of accepting prostitutes, $100,000 cash and other bribes from Leonard Glenn Francis, the CEO of Singapore-based Glenn Defence Marine Asia Ltd., or GDMA. Prosecutors say in exchange, Sanchez passed on classified U.S. Navy information to the Malaysian contractor, whose company has serviced Navy ships in the Pacific for 25 years and is accused of overbilling the Pentagon by millions. Wednesday’s arrest marks the latest development in the case rocking the Navy. The accusations signal serious national security breaches and corruption and has set off high-level meetings at the Pentagon with the threat that more people, including those of higher ranks, could be swept up as the investigation continues. A hearing Nov. 8 could set a trial date.

“According to the allegations in this case, a number of officials were willing to sacrifice their integrity and millions of taxpayer dollars for personal gratification,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said after Wednesday’s arrest.

The two other senior officials arrested in recent weeks in the case are Navy Cmdr.

Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz — who like Sanchez, is accused of giving Francis’ company confidential information about Navy ship routes — and a senior Navy investigator, John Beliveau II. Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Beliveau, 44, kept Francis abreast of the bribery probe and advised him on how

to respond in exchange for such things as prostitution services.

Federal authorities said Wednesday they will seek to have Sanchez, 41, sent to San Diego to face the charges.

GDMA overcharged the Navy millions of dollars for fuel, food and other services it provided, and invented tariffs by using phoney port authorities, prosecutors say.

Misiewicz and Francis moved Navy vessels like chess pieces, diverting aircraft carriers, destroyers and other ships to Asian ports with lax oversight where Francis could inflate costs, the criminal complaint alleges.

Francis, 49, was arrested in San Diego in September. A few weeks later, authorities arrested his company’s general manager of global government contracts, Alex Wisidagama, 40. Misiewicz, Beliveau, Francis and Wisidagama have pleaded not guilty.

Their defence attorneys declined comment.

Court records allege that Sanchez regularly emailed Francis internal Navy discussions about GDMA, including legal opinions, and made recommendations in GDMA’s favour about port visits and Navy personnel assignments.

The conspiracy began in January 2009, when Sanchez was the deputy logistics officer for the commander of the Navy’s 7th Fleet in Yokosuka, Japan, according to charging documents. Francis, who is known in Navy circles as “Fat Leonard,” hired prostitutes for Sanchez and friends on multiple occasions, according to the investigation.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Raman said the GDMA executives “boasted” about their unlawful dealings.

“Day by day, this massive Navy fraud and bribery investigation continues to widen, and as the charges announced today show, we will follow the evidence wherever it takes us,” he said.

The defendants could face up to five years in prison if convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery.

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Indiana hunter chooses to end life support after near-fatal fall from tree

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Tim Bowers got to decide for himself whether he wanted to live or die.

When the avid outdoorsman was badly hurt Saturday in a hunting accident, doctors said he would be paralyzed and could be on a ventilator for life. His family had a unique request: Could he be brought out of sedation to hear his prognosis and decide what he wanted to do?

Doctors said yes, and Bowers chose to take no extra measures to stay alive. He died Sunday, hours after his breathing tube was removed.

“We just asked him, ‘Do you want this?’ And he shook his head emphatically no,” his sister, Jenny Shultz, said of her brother, who was often found hunting, camping or helping his father on his northeastern Indiana farm.

The 32-year-old was deer hunting when he fell 16 feet (5 metres) from a tree and suffered a severe spinal injury that paralyzed him from the shoulders down.

Doctors thought he might never breathe on his own again.

Courts have long upheld the rights of patients to refuse life support. But Bowers’ case was unusual because it’s often family members or surrogates, not the patient, who make end-of-life decisions.

Medical ethicists say it’s rare for someone to decide on the spot to be removed from life support, especially so soon after an injury.

But standard medical practice is to grant more autonomy to patients. The heart-wrenching call to remove life support is more often left to relatives. Even when a patient has outlined his wishes for end-of-life care, the decision can tear families apart.

Shultz, an intensive care nurse in Las Vegas, has seen it happen in her job. But her medical training also meant she understood the severity of her brother’s injuries. His C3, C4 and C5 vertebrae were crushed.

Though his brain was not injured, his body was irreparably broken. Surgery could fuse the vertebrae, but that would only allow Bowers to sit up. He would never walk or hold his baby. He might live the rest of his life in a rehabilitation hospital, relying on a machine to help him breathe.

Shultz said her brother — the youngest of four siblings — wanted to talk but couldn’t because the ventilator tube was still in place. If the tube were removed, she told him, doctors were not sure how long he would live. But when she asked if he wanted the tube reinserted if he struggled, Bowers shook his head no.

Doctors asked Bowers the same questions and got the same responses. Then they removed the tube.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013

In the eye of the storm IN SEARCH OF DEER AS HEAVY SNOW APPROACHES All opening days are dif- swamps out here while storms ferent, and some are more rage, and then, hungry, get up interesting than others, but I and feed heavily again after it still enjoy them all, and have a is over. hard time missing any of them.

During my hunting years, I Last year, on the Nov. 1 deer took many of my deer by huntopener, thick ice fog made ing feeding areas just as a even city driving a storm is coming in, puzzling challenge. or immediately the I was all loaded storm has ended. up to head west Storm front fishimmediately my ing can also be fanearly morning eye tastic. appointment was On June 9, years over. ago, angling artist When it was, I Jack Cowin of Rechecked the road gina, the late Lloyd reports and learned Graff and I had that travel west was the fastest fishing not recommended, on Prairie Creek and that conditions I can ever recall got worse the closer anywhere, during you got to my deer miserable, cold, BOB country, generally constantly worsenSCAMMELL between Rocky ing rain storms.

Mountain House Every cast of a and Caroline. streamer fly anyI’ve never done well hunt- where brought savage hits ing in the fog, anyway, so I from the big browns that were went home and dined there on then common in the creek. The my hunting lunch. next morning we were snowed This year, Friday, Nov. 1, in. featuring bluebird weather, If I still hunted deer bright sunshine and blue with a rifle, I would have skies, was the most eerily qui- stayed out Friday evening, but et opening day I have ever ex- hunting them with a camera in perienced in more than 60 sea- failing late day light produces sons, if you count bird hunting bad or no pictures. openers.

On the way home I detoured First, I saw not one live wild to the east by some of the bigcritter in six hours of looking gest alfalfa fields out here, all for them, in many of my best bordered by good riparian and places, not even a squirrel. thick forest and swamp cover.

There was one fresh road Usually, even on a bluekilled deer being feasted on bird day, deer are out there by a mixture of murders of feeding on the frozen, second crows and magpies and un- growth alfalfa, but today nothkindnesses of ravens. ing was out there but fresh air A perfect but too-early and sunshine, probably for the tracking snow had fallen on first time I can remember.

Tuesday, but now, three days But during the late afterlater, there were astonishingly noon-evening watch to last lefew deer tracks printed on the gal shooting light, deer of both blank snowy white pages. species entered those fields Over the years, I have no- and commenced stuffing themticed that the first snow seems selves with alfalfa to tide them to make deer nervous. over the storm they knew was The theory is that they know on its way. they are easier to see against That was when two young the white background and stop friends of this column took their usual movements, even a magnificent, even, typical at night, until they get used to 12-point wall hanger of a white the sudden change. tailed buck.

At every stopping and A non-hunting friend who watching spot, I listened care- is a year-round fly fishing fafully and did not hear one natic was having a tough day shot fired, again a first for me on the North Raven River unon any opening day out here. til, toward last light, big brown In my travels I saw few oth- trout suddenly started rising er vehicles, and not one that and feeding voraciously and seemed to be occupied by saved his day. hunters.

A quiet opening day it was, So, for lunch, I parked on a but hunting and fishing sudhigh spot with good draws to denly improved as the first the left and right of me on the big storm of winter moved in, most reliable hunting road I and I wouldn’t be surprised to know of anywhere. hear some stories of great sucSurely I might get a picture cess from after it moved on. of a deer or moose from there, Bob Scammell is an awardor at least a shot or two of the winning columnist who lives in usual passing parade of road Red Deer. He can be reached at hunters. bscam@telusplanet.net.

But no, in an hour no big game animal crossed, and not one vehicle travelled the road, not oil workers, neighbours, and certainly not hunters.

While munching my sandwich and sipping a hot mix of bouillon and VGo juice, I heard dire warnings on the radio that a big snowstorm was coming in.

That news took me back 40 years to when the deer season out here opened on a sensible and civilized Sept. 20, and I took my first deer, a 3x2 mule deer buck that was up and feeding well ahead of the equinoctial storm my radio was then predicting.

Deer bed down in the

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Top: As the storm ends.

Middle: No critters and no road hunters on opening day along a likely trail.

Below right: Mule deer buck feeding as a storm starts.

Below left: A 60-cm brown trout taken before the storm blew in.

Some essential things to do as winter arrives As usual, the first snowfall of the ea to allow fish to overwinter. Remove season has people scrambling to put tender water plants. on winter tires and put the finishing Hardy waterlilies will overwinter touches on the yard. in a pond as long as the pond doesn’t Luckily, a few warm days freeze to the bottom. often follow the first snow, In smaller ponds remove giving people time to comthe lilies and place them in plete the last-minute chores. a black plastic bag which This late in the season, can be stored in a cool area. garden chores fall into Leave all marginal plants three categories: things that intact. have to be done, things that Cutting them back will are better completed, and allow moisture to enter things that can be done but their stems, causing the it really doesn’t matter. root to rot.

Most people rarely get to Dig all root crops that the third category. are still in the ground.

Make sure all waterlines Let them dry in a warm are blown out and drained. area before storing them If water is left over the for winter. Check them over LINDA winter, there is a good carefully, removing any TOMLINSON chance that the lines will produce that is rotting or split when the water freezhas been frozen. es. Remove all hoses from Dig all tender corms faucets for the same reason. and tubers that need to be Drain and hang the hoses until next stored for the winter. spring.

They will have to dry and be Remove all fish from the pond un- checked for rot before being placed in less it is set up with a pump or open ar- storage.

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Provide winter protection for all tender plants.

This can be as simple as covering plants with leaves. Larger, tender plants can benefit from placing a frame around the plant and filling it with an insulating material.

Once again, leaves work well but if they are not available try peatmoss.

An alternative is to purchase a readymade cover that is made to give plants winter protection.

Cedars and junipers that are on the south or west side of a building can burn if they lose too much moisture in the winter to transpiration.

Covering them in burlap or a synthetic wrap will help alleviate this problem. Take care when wrapping plants to make sure they are not unsightly. They will be wrapped and visible for four or five months.

Water in new plantings, cedars and junipers.

The easiest method is to leave a hose drizzling water over the roots for a number of hours. Once the ground is saturated, move the hose to another spot or plant.

Clear the yard of all toys, hoses, pots and tools.

Equipment lasts longer if it isn’t exposed to the elements. Once things are covered with snow, they can become a tripping hazard.

Remove the dead tops of plants from the vegetable garden, as well as all annuals.

If possible, place them in a compost pile. An alternative is to dig a trench in the garden and bury the plant material. It will start decaying and enrich the soil.

Placing a thin layer of compost or manure on perennial beds will enrich the soil, enabling the plants to easily find nutrients next growing season.

Choose the compost or manure with care as weed seeds can be viable for many years.

Gardening is over for another year.

It is time to take care of the final odds and ends.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013

Sources of nourishment during times of loss It’s been a tough week. A close friend passed away so it’s been difficult to come up with a source of happy, inspiring healthful things to write about when all I feel like doing myself is drinking a bottle of wine, curling up in a ball and listening to heart-breaking music that reminds me of my friend.

Taken much too suddenly, much too young and much too soon for my liking. It’s the kind of loss that leads to a lot of sorrow — not just on my part, but on so many friends, friends of friends, family, many people in the community and even people who were just acquaintances.

Not just in death but also KRISTIN in experiencing many of life’s FRASER sorrows, it’s so easy to let go of self-care when some nourishment during times of loss is so critical to make it through.

My friend and I had a rule: whenever problems arise … go nap in nature.

“Nature, the cure,” we called it.

Sometimes it would be -5C and 11 o’clock at night and we would go lay in Coronation Park and laugh off whatever struggle may have been occurring. And losing him is giving me a strong urge to spend a lot of time in nature.

It really does help in giving you perspective on just how fragile life is.

And somehow reminds you not to wallow in your sadness, but to take a deep breath of fresh air and go make something of this life — in honour of those we

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lose. Even when whisky is preferred, sweating is so important to release endorphins to keep your spirits up and lots of rest is encouraged to give your body the rest it needs from dealing with any loss.

Your body can be more susceptible to physical symptoms from experiencing emotional trauma, including anxiety, panic attacks and eating disturbances.

Self destructive, impulsive behaviour, including substance abuse, is important to avoid by incorporating some form of relaxation/stress reduction techniques such as breath work or even hypnosis, according to Jeanne Segal, PhD — sociologist, psychologist, author and co-creator of helpguide.org.

Incorporating enzymatic rich foods, lots of hydration and some omega 3 fatty acid supplementation are also known to keep the body more resilient during times of emotional stress.

But sometimes all of that falls by the wayside.

Remind yourself that they wouldn’t want you to fall apart — so if not doing it for yourself, take care of you for their sake.

Sometimes just some good old-fashioned journaling, talking with friends or even a therapist to express harboured emotions is necessary.

The way we care for the rest of the world is by caring for ourselves. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others and stay nourished in your mind, body and hearts.

For those of you who knew him too — my heart goes out to you. Keep your heads up and your hearts strong.

Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday. She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

Survey suggests colon cancer screening rates may be levelling off EXPERTS NOT SURE WHY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — After years of steady increases, testing for colon cancer may be levelling off, a federal report suggests.

A large survey done last year found that about two-thirds of Americans ages 50 to 75 have had the recommended screenings for colorectal cancer.

That’s the same percentage from 2010, apparently marking the first year in at least a decade there was no increase.

It’s not clear why rates may be slowing, said Dr. Marcus Plescia of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC report was released Tuesday.

“Even the hint of a levelling off is very concerning,” he said.

Screening rates in the U.S. had been rising steadily, up from 54 per cent in 2002.

The jump was attributed partly to the “Katie Couric effect,” named for the former Today show host who lost her husband to colon cancer and then had a colonoscopy on television.

The test is the most common of the three screening options for people 50 and older. It is recommended once every 10 years. Doctors use a long flexible tube to spot and remove polyps before they turn cancerous.

Colonoscopy has been credited with making an impact: colorectal cancer death rates have been dropping for more than 20 years.

But the test can be uncomfortable,

expensive and require taking a day off from work.

Another option is a test that checks only the lower colon. But the easiest choice is a home stool test done annually, which health officials say can be just as good for most people. Doctors should work harder to suggest it, said CDC Director Tom Frieden.

“The best test is the test that gets done,” Frieden said.

The national telephone survey of more than 200,000 Americans is done every two years. Last year’s survey included cellphones for the first time, which may have affected the results. But other research has also suggested screening rates are climbing less rapidly, CDC officials said.

Online: CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/ vitalsigns

Slightly sleep deprived surgeons still function well, study finds moves to restrict the number of hours that residents — doctors still in training — can work without breaks.

And in the U.S., there have also been calls to reguSurgeons who are slightly sleep deprived do not perform more poorly than when they are well rested, late the working hours of surgeons as well.

These findings suggest that type of move is unthe largest study to look at the question suggests. necessary, said Dr. The study showed Michael Zinner, that general surchief of surgery at geons who perBrigham and Womformed emergency en’s Hospital in Bossurgery the night beton. fore planned opera“The key mestions did not have a sage is for us there’s higher level of medino need to create cal errors or deaths regulation or polithen when they opercy changes to limit ated after not workperforming surgery. ing overnight.

There’s no evidence The study, which that it makes a difis based on records — DR. MICHAEL ZINNER, CHIEF OF SURGERY AT BRIGHAM of more than 10,000 AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL IN BOSTON ference,” said Zinner, a general and gallbladder removal oncologic surgeon surgeries in Ontario, is published in this week’s issue of the Journal of the who co-wrote an editorial on the study for the journal.

American Medical Association.

One of the authors of the study said the results “These findings do not support safety concerns related to surgeons operating under these conditions,” should assuage concerns of patients about to unconcluded the authors from London Health Sciences dergo surgery.

Centre in London, Ont. In Canada and the United States, there have been Please see SURGEONS on Page B3

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘THE KEY MESSAGE IS FOR US THERE’S NO NEED TO CREATE REGULATION OR POLICY CHANGES TO LIMIT PERFORMING SURGERY. THERE’S NO EVIDENCE THAT IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.’

MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN

The diet that scares off cancer The most-feared health risk in North America is the big “C,” but in one recent survey, not even half of all adults were hip to the do-it-yourself steps that can help wipe out an estimated 400,000 new cases a year.

The great news: There’s a bushel basket of fresh reports that reveal how a delicious, disease-fighting diet can protect you and your family from becoming one of those 400,000.

A peanut butter habit in tweens and teens lowers risk for benign breast disease by 39 per cent. BBD is a common problem that raises breast cancer risk later in life by as much as 56 per cent.

Since one out of every four women develops BBD, this is big news.

Nuts are breast-friendly, too (peanuts are actually legumes), and girls who eat some every day are a whopping 68 per cent less likely to have BBD. So make it a habit to put peanut butter (it’s got be 100 per cent peanuts with no added sugar or bad oils!) and tree nuts (we love walnuts and almonds) on your daughter’s plate — and yours.

Fruits and vegetables slash a woman’s risk for estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer and cut bladder cancer risk 65 per cent for women and for men who smoke. (Half of all bladder cancers are associated with smoking).

Phytochemicals — beneficial compounds such as alpha and beta carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-cryptoxanthin — found in vegetables and fruits may protect bladder cells by mopping up damaging free radicals (those are the oxidizing culprits that erode your health like rust on a bolt).

Your best cancer-fighting choices are yelloworange vegetables (carrots, winter squash), crucifers (broccoli, kale, cabbage, mustard greens) and citrus fruit. So commit to having nine servings a day of fruit and veggies.

You can do that with one 4-ounce glass of our green drink — see Sharecare.com for the recipe (two servings); one large salad with mixed greens (2 cups equals two servings) and with carrots, celery and tomatoes (together they could easily deliver one serving), a cup of broccoli (two servings), 1 cup raw spinach (one serving) and 4 ounces of blueberries (one serving).

Less-sugary food plus a healthy weight equals 59 per cent less endometrial cancer. When our friends at the American Cancer Research Institute weighed the evidence, they concluded that 29,500 of the 50,000 cases of endometrial cancer diagnosed each year could be avoided if women made food choices that helped them maintain a healthy weight and kept blood sugar levels low and steady. Extra pounds double or triple the risk of endometrial cancer. The link? Fat cells store estrogen, which fuels tumour cells in the lining of the uterus.

The best diet choices: Choose 100 per cent whole grains over processed grains and foods. Remember, if it doesn’t say 100 per cent whole grain, it’s not the choice you want to make. And skip any food with added sugar or any sugar syrup.

Low-fat, calorie-moderate choices may slash your risk for pancreatic cancer. A lab study showed that a high-fat, high-calorie diet boosts precancerous cell changes that lead to the development of this superaggressive cancer.

In other words, weight gain causes an increase in inflammation within the pancreas.

This is the most direct evidence yet of a link between food choices and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias; lesions that precede this cancer. But fortunately, lesions take a long time to develop, giving you time to change what you put on your plate at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So your smart step is to show saturated and trans fats the door.

Choose lean proteins such as beans, tofu, skinless poultry and proteins that are loaded with healthy fats, such as salmon and ocean trout.

Meanwhile, if you’re sipping your morning java while reading this column, you’re off to a good start.

Coffee, it turns out, also helps your body fend off cancer of the colon, prostate, mouth and lining of the uterus by switching on your body’s defenses and helping to keep your body’s sugar-processing system humming.

Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit sharecare.com.

Heavily marketed testosterone products linked with heart risks, strokes, deaths in older men

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Testosterone treatments may increase risks for heart attacks, strokes and death in older men with low hormone levels and other health problems, a big Veterans Affairs study suggests.

The results raise concerns about the widely used testosterone gels, patches or injections that are heavily marketed for low sex drive, fatigue and purported anti-aging benefits, the authors and other doctors said.

Men who used testosterone were 30 per cent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke or to die during a three-year period than men with low hormone levels who didn’t take the supplements.

Hormone users and nonusers were in their early 60s on average, and most had other health problems including high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol and diabetes.

The research doesn’t prove that testosterone caused the heart attacks, strokes or death, but echoes a previous study in

older men and should prompt doctors and patients to discuss potential risks and benefits of using the products, said study lead author Dr. Michael Ho, a cardiologist with the VA’s Eastern Colorado Health System in Denver.

The nationwide study involved an analysis of health data on 8,700 veterans with low levels of testosterone, the main male sex hormone.

All had undergone a heart imaging test and many had risk factors for heart problems, including blocked heart arteries.

Risks linked with testosterone were similar in men with and without existing heart problems.

Nearly 26 per cent of men using testosterone had one of the bad outcomes within three years of the heart test, compared with 20 per cent of nonusers.

It’s unclear how the hormone might increase heart risks but possibilities include evidence that testosterone might make blood substances called platelets stick together, which could lead to blood clots, the study authors said.

Previous studies on the supplements’ health effects have had mixed results, with some research suggesting potential heart benefits but none of the studies has been conclusive.

The new study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

An editorial in the journal said it is uncertain if the study results apply to other groups of men, including younger men using the hormone for supposed anti-aging benefits.

See STUDY on Page B3

Strep app may reduce doctor visits THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Debating whether to seek a strep test for that sore throat?

One day there could be an app for that: Researchers are developing a home scorecard that aims to prevent thousands of unnecessary trips to the doctor for this common complaint.

More than 12 million people make doctors’ visits for a sore throat every year. Usually the culprit is a virus that they just have to wait out with a little TLC. In fact, the risk of strep throat is low enough for adults that doctors may skip testing them, deciding not to bother after running down a list of symptoms.

That can leave patients wondering why they spent hours in the waiting room and had to pay the doctor’s bill.

“If you could know that your risk was low enough that you wouldn’t even be tested, you might actually save yourself a visit,” said Dr. Andrew Fine, an emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital.

The trick: Combine some of the symptoms that doctors look for with a bit of computer data to tell if strep throat is circulating in your geographical region.

If the bug’s in your neighbourhood, that increases the chances that you’ve caught it, said Dr. Kenneth Mandl, a Harvard professor and informatics specialist with Boston Children’s.

As a first step, Fine and Mandl turned to the records of more than 70,000 sore-throat patients who got strep tests and had their symptoms recorded at CVS MinuteClinics in six states between 2006 and 2008.

They determined those people’s risk of strep using the experimental scorecard approach and checked the computer model’s accuracy against the strep test results.

Nationally, identifying those with less than a 10 per cent chance of strep throat could save 230,000 doctor visits a year, the team reported Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

The method wasn’t perfect: It meant 8,500 strep cases would have been missed, or the diagnosis delayed, concluded the government-funded study.

But Mandl said it’s unlikely that would lead to lasting harm as most of those infections would clear up on their own, or persisting pain eventually would send patients to the doctor. And he noted that the rapid strep tests that doctors use in their offices can miss cases, too.

Much more research is needed to prove if the method would work in everyday life and if a mobile app or a phone call to the doctor would be the best approach.

The Boston team has begun the next step: Parents of kids who come to the hospital’s emergency room for a strep test are handed a digital tablet and asked to fill out the scorecard first.

Researchers will see how the combination of symptoms and local infection trends compare with actual strep test results.

Sore throats are a challenge. Strep throat, caused by bacteria named Group A streptococcus, is to blame for only about 10 per cent of cases in adults, and 30 per cent in children.

It’s hard to tell who needs a strep test based on symptoms alone, cautioned Dr. Chris Van Beneden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped fund the new research. But what is clear: Doctors should be sure it’s strep before prescribing antibiotics because those bacteria-fighting drugs have no effect on viruses.

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SURGEONS: Patients assured “It hopefully will make patients feel better and reassure them that their physician can still perform well, even if they were performing the night before,” said Danielle Nash, an epidemiologist.

Several previous studies have looked at the issue. But they have been small studies, often looking only at the safety records of a single hospital.

In this case, the authors drew on the huge data resources of Ontario’s Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

They could pull up records on operations for all non-academic hospitals in the province, and use billing data to determine if the surgeon who performed a gallbladder operation on a particular day had performed emergency surgery the night before.

They then compared the outcomes of those operations to gallbladder operations the same surgeons performed on days when they hadn’t worked overnight.

The study compared results from 2,078 operations done when the surgeons had worked overnight to 8,312 operations the same doctors performed when they hadn’t worked the night before.

They looked for cases where surgeons started off doing laparoscopic surgery — formerly known as keyhole surgery — but then changed mid-operation to open-cavity surgery.

While that switch can happen for other reasons, such a move is generally an indication that something has gone wrong with a surgery.

There wasn’t a higher rate of mid-operation technique shifts among operations when the surgeon had worked the night before.

Nor were there higher rates of surgeryrelated injuries. And when the authors

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 B3 tients should be wary” and more research is needed, she wrote.

Annual prescriptions for testosterone supplements have increased more than five-fold in recent years, climbing to more than 5 million and $1.6 billion in U.S. sales in 2011, the study noted.

Dr. Nathaniel Polnaszek, a urologist with Scott & White Healthcare in Round Rock, Texas, said he prescribes testosterone for many men, mostly in their 40s and 50s, with low levels and erectile dysfunction or other symptoms.

He called the study “concerning.”

“This is something I’m going to be discussing with my patients,” he said.

Testosterone levels gradually decline as men age, and guidelines from doctors who specialize in hormone-related problems say hormone supplements should only be considered in men with symptoms of low levels, including sexual dysfunction.

They’re not advised for men with prostate cancer because of concerns they could make the disease spread, said Dr. Robert Carey, a former Endocrine Society president and a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Health System.

AbbVie, Inc., makers of one heavily marketed testosterone supplement, AndroGel, issued a statement in response to the study, noting that testosterone treatments are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and the risks are listed.

Possible side effects shown on the package insert include high blood pressure, blood clots in the legs, and body swelling that may occur with or without heart failure.

“This may cause serious problems for people who have heart, kidney or liver disease,” the insert says.

“We encourage discussion between phy“There is only anecdotal evidence that sicians and patients that leads to proper ditestosterone is safe for these men,” said agnosis based on symptoms, lab tests and a editorial author Dr. Anne Cappola, a horpatient’s other health needs,” AbbVie said. mone expert at University of Pennsylvania and an associate journal editor.

Online: “In light of the high volume of prescripJAMA: http://jama.ama-assn.org tions and aggressive marketing by testosterone manufacturers, prescribers and paTestosterone: http://tinyurl.com/27785fp looked at deaths — which are uncommon in gallbladder removal surgery — there was no elevated risk seen there either.

This type of study is what is known as observational, so it cannot prove (or disprove) cause and effect. The authors can only say operating without a full night’s sleep was not associated with a higher rate of surgical errors.

To prove cause and effect, they would have needed to do a randomized controlled trial, where some surgeons were randomly assigned to perform when well rested and others operated while tired. But such a study would not be allowed, for ethical reasons.

So a study like this one is likely the best option there is for answering the question of what the effect of slight sleep deprivation is on surgical performance, Nash said.

She acknowledged the messaging here is complex.

No one would advise surgeons to skip sleep or to over-pack their schedules.

Still, if they miss some sleep because they have to respond to an emergency the night before a scheduled operation, their performance may not suffer markedly.

“We don’t want to say that for sure all surgeons can perform well when they’re sleep deprived,” said Nash.

“But we just kind of say it’s reassuring to see that with this common surgery, on average we find that there are no greater complications when surgeons are maybe tired from performing a surgery the night before.”

STUDY: Only anecdotal evidence

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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013

Rebels shelled by Rockets FOUR FIRST-PERIOD GOALS PUT REBELS IN TOO BIG OF HOLE TO COME OUT OF

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rockets 6 Rebels 2 KELOWNA — The Red Deer Rebels never gave themselves a chance Wednesday night.

The Rebels, playing their fourth game in six nights, coughed up four unanswered first-period goals which proved to be the difference in a 6-2 Western Hockey League loss to the Kelowna Rockets before 4,621 fans at Prospera Place.

“Our guys were on their heels for the first 12 to 13 minutes and looked like they were playing scared,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “They admitted it after the first period when I asked them what the problem was.

“They were playing tentative and no one was taking charge . . . no one was taking the bull by the horns to get it turned around.”

Rourke Chartier opened the scoring 3:09 into the contest and defenceman and team captain Madison Bowey extended the Rockets’ lead just over two minutes later. Less than two minutes had expired when rearguard Riley Stadel notched his eighth goal of the

season — on the power play — and Damon Severson, another defenceman, made it 4-0 at 13:35.

The fourth goal spelled the end for Rebels starting netminder Patrik Bartosak, who was replaced by rookie Taz Burman after stopping 11 of 15 shots.

After being owned in the opening frame, the Rebels potted the lone goal of the middle period when Brooks Maxwell struck for his fourth of the season.

“We started switching some things up to try and get going and we were better in the second,” said Sutter.

The visitors cut the deficit to two when Dominik Volek scored his sixth of the season just 2:15 into the third period, but Carter Rigby replied for the Rockets at 5:50 to douse Red Deer’s comeback hopes.

“We did battle back and made it a 4-2 game, and then we just made a bad mistake. Our defenceman doesn’t make the tape-to-tape play, we turn it over and it’s in our net,” said Sutter. “Those are the types of things we’re dealing with and a lot of it has to do with mental breakdowns.

“Our defence had a hard time tonight with pressure, they didn’t recognize where the pressure was coming from and as a result were turning pucks over.

After we got accustomed to the pace of the game we were better, but we still made some bad decisions.

The coaching staff has worked with the players on these things. We’ve identified and broken things down by video, but we’re having a hard time executing.”

Zach Franko closed out the scoring at 8:14 of the final frame with Red Deer two men short.

The Rebels directed 18 shots at Kelowna goaltender Jordon Cooke, while Burman finished with 27 saves.

“Patty didn’t have a good start to the game and Taz went in and played well. He was calm,” said Sutter.

“It was good for him to get in and do that, but I wish it could have been under different circumstances.”

The game heated up in the final minute when the Rebels were assessed four of seven roughing penalties at 19:06, and Red Deer defenceman Kolton Dixon squared off with Dalton Yorke 28 seconds later.

The Rebels conclude their six-game road trip with a Friday stop in Cranbrook for a meeting with the Kootenay Ice, and a Saturday date with the Lethbridge Hurricanes. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Ray, Durant top lists of CFL division all-stars

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Calgary grabbed the most selections but the Toronto Argonauts’ Ricky Ray and Darian Durant of the Saskatchewan Roughriders were voted the top quarterbacks for the CFL East and West in 2013.

Calgary grabbed a leagueleading 10 spots on the western squad as the division allstar teams were announced Wednesday.

Ray’s numbers were held back as he missed six games to injury and sat out the last game of the season.

But he still finished with 234 completed passes out of 303 tries for a career high 77.2 per cent, tops among CFL starting quarterbacks.

Durant finished the season with 4,154 passing yards and a league-leading 31 touchdown strikes.

Saskatchewan and Montreal were tied with nine selections each.

Toronto was next at eight, with Hamilton and B.C. at six each, Winnipeg at four and Edmonton at two.

Representing the West at running back is Calgary’s Jon Cornish, the CFL rushing leader, and Saskatchewan’s Kory Sheets, the runner-up. Hamilton’s C.J. Gable and Winnipeg’s Will Ford share the honour in the East.

Sheets and Cornish were both unanimous selections.

Toronto’s Chad Owens was one of the four receivers named in the East and Edmonton’s Fred Stamps was a unanimous pick as one of the four in the West, after leading the league with 1,259 receiving yards.

The others were Toronto’s Andre Durie, Hamilton’s Bakari Grant, Montreal’s S.J. Green, Saskatchewan’s Weston Dressler and Chris Getzlaf and Calgary’s Marquay McDaniel.

The offensive lineman named for the East were Montreal’s Josh Bourke, Winnipeg’s Glenn January, Toronto’s Chris Van Zeyl and Jeff Keeping and Hamilton’s Greg Wojt.

For the West it was Calgary’s Brett Jones, Jon Gott

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Toronto Argonauts quarterback Ricky Ray fires a pass during CFL action in Guelph, Ont., on Oct. 14. Ray tops this year’s CFL East Division all-stars, while Darian Durant of the Saskatchewan Roughriders headlines the West. and Stanley Bryant, B.C.’s Jovan Olafioye and Saskatchewan’s Brendon Labatte.

For January, a seven-year CFL veteran who has made the East all-star squad three times now, the honour was bittersweet after the Bombers finished last at 3-15, tied for their worst record ever in the 18-game CFL. “It was an extremely difficult season for us and I think it’s been well documened that a lot of are frustrated that the season went the way it did,” he said.

“It’s nice to have individual acknowledgment but I sure wish I was playing this weekend.”

Defensive players include

CFL tackle leader Chip Cox from Montreal and runner-up Henoc Muamba from Winnipeg in the East, and sack-leader Charleston Hughes from Calgary and Saskatchewan’s Alex Hall in the West.

Muamba said terrible season or not, the fact that four Bombers made the all-star list helps show that the team never gave up.

“It’s a testament to the fact that myself personally, I didn’t quit, and for the rest of the all-stars. It goes to prove that there were a lot of guys in that room that never quit, despite the things that were going on and the season that we had.”

He also sounded a little more positive at the prospect

of returning to the Bombers, although he said his agent is still in negotiations with the team.

Six of Montreal’s all-star selections were on defence.

Besides Cox, John Bowman, Geoff Tisdale, Jerald Brown, Billy Parker and Mike Edem were named.

Toronto’s Khalif Mitchell and Patrick Watkins, Winnipeg’s Bryant Turner and Hamilton’s Brandon Boudreaux complete the defence for the East.

In the West it was Saskatchewan’s Tearrius George, Dwight Anderson and Tyron Brackenridge; B.C.’s Adam Bighill, Solomon Elimimian, Cord Parks, Dante Marsh and

Ryan Phillips; Calgary’s Juwan Simpson and Edmonton’s Almondo Sewell.

Calgary swept the special teams category in the West with league-leading kicker Rene Paredes, punter Rob Maver and the CFL’s leader in combined return yards, Larry Taylor.

Hamilton claimed two spots in the East for punter Josh Bartel and tackle-leader Marc Beswick, while Montreal’s Sean Whyte took kicker.

The lists are voted on by coaches and members of the Football Reporters of Canada.

The CFL will announce its allstar team, featuring players from both divisions, in early December.

Hamilton hoping to end stay in Guelph on a winning note The CFL playoffs begin in beautiful downtown ful of starts and whether Hamilton’s defence can Guelph on Sunday when the homeless Hamilton Ti- handle highly-talented rookie Als receiver Duron ger-Cats meet the Montreal Alouettes. Montreal has Carter along with veteran receiver SJ Green. rarely played in a road show for a semifinal since However, after much deliberation, I will pick the franchise returned to the CFL in the Hamilton to win this game. The main rea‘90s because the Als have been a perenson is the CFL quarterback experience nial powerhouse in a traditionally weak deficit when you compare Henry Burris to CFL East Division.

Troy Smith. Burris has spent the bulk of his The game plan for Hamilton is a onelong pro career in the CFL while Smith has year run in Guelph as the ‘Cats wait for played three games in the league, two of the completion of their new stadium and them against Hamilton. they want to end their stay on a winning The recipe for Montreal success is just note. The Alouettes want to prevent that not evident to me when I include the two Hamilton happy ending in the worst way quarterbacks in the mix. and will ride the arm of new quarterCFL playoff football is a game of cat and back Troy Smith, along with a killer demouse because no team wants to reveal fence into the playoffs. which players will make the 42-man game The Tiger-Cats won two out of three day roster before they absolutely have to JIM regular-season games against the Alouset their lineups. The games begin long SUTHERLAND ettes and both were very close victories before the kickoff as head coaches become for Hamilton, including a late-game ‘Cat as coy as high school girls asked out to the TD in a Week 18 meeting between the prom and provide vagaries instead of antwo rivals. Sandwiched in between the swers to the media. two Hamilton victories was a Week 17 36-5 Ticat masThe big question in the CFL West semifinal is sacre in Montreal that featured the very successful the starting quarterback for the BC Lions. If it was debut of Troy Smith in an Alouette uniform. up to BC pivot Travis Lulay, it would be him. The The game is difficult to predict because the vari- problem is a shoulder injury that may curtail Lulay’s ables include a pressure Montreal defence and effectiveness, despite his success against Calgary in whether ‘Cat quarterback Henry Burris can cope the last game of the regular season. A cold Novemwith the heat of a relentless Alouette blitz package. ber day in Regina will not help his healing process, Other variables include Smith’s ability to cope with but BC head coach Mike Benevides will leave some the nuances of the Canadian game after only a hand- doubt about his quarterback starter choice for as

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long as possible. Who can really blame any coach for hedging his bets when it comes to his starters in a playoff game?

One Lion who will play a role in the game is speedy Stefan Logan, a returnee from the NFL who has made a huge impact on the Leos’ kick return game as well as their run game. The guy is lightning in a bottle and will be a big part of the BC success on the field in Sunday’s game, but will he be enough to win the game?

Personally I do not think Logan and his teammates will have enough to win the game on Sunday against the Roughriders. The Lions will face a very tough Rider defence that has forced an enormous number of turnovers during the latter part of the regular season and I expect them to dial up even more pressure against the Lion offence.

The Riders have an area of concern as they head into the game: Saskatchewan’s chronic inconsistency on offence requires quarterback Darian Durant to dial up his own running game to win the semifinal. Durant will contribute to a victory if he takes advantage of his mobility and every opportunity to run against the BC Lions. A mobile Durant will sow seeds of doubt in the BC defence because they will have to pay attention to him — as well as tailback Kory Sheets and the pass threat — to contain the Rider offence.

It is a tall order for BC to win if the Riders get Durant involved as a running threat and my money is on the Riders in this game.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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Stamps Lightning face tough task in provincial opener WILL FACE TOP TEAM IN TIER IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PROVINCIAL not SEMIFINALS, RAIDERS TAKE ON TOP TEAM IN FROM EDMONTON worried FOOTBALL PROVINCIALS about injuries going into playoffs

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II title three times in the last 13 years, their last coming in 2009.

The winner of the game will host the winner of the Calgary St. Mary’s Saints and Lethbridge Catholic Central game in the south final Nov. 16.

The two-time defending Tier II champion Austin O’Brien Crusaders of Edmonton meet the Lloydminster Barons and the Paul Kane Blues of St. Albert clash with St. Josephs Celtics of Grande Prairie in the north.

Meanwhile for the first time in 10 years the Lindsay Thurber Raiders will compete in the Tier I playoffs. Their reward is a meeting with the Edmonton champion, and third-ranked Salisbury Sabres of Sherwood Park. The two meet Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at Foote Field in Edmonton.

The winner will host the winner of the Calgary Henry Wise

Wood Warriors and the Spruce Grove Panthers contest.

The south semifinals sees the Edmonton Harry Ainlay Titans clashing with the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Rams and the Calgary St. Francis Browns meeting the top-ranked Notre Dame Pride of Calgary.

The seventh-ranked Sylvan Lake Lakers will represent Central Alberta in the Tier III playoffs. They open on the road in St. Paul Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against the third-ranked Lions.

The winner will host the winner of the Ardrossan Bisons and Peace River Pioneers game.

In the south, the Cardston Cougars face the Cochrane Cobras and the Calgary Rundle College Cobras meet the Crescent Heights Vikings of Medicine Hat. The West Central Rebels of Rocky Mountain House, who are ranked eighth, hosts the

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Calgary finished atop the CFL standings with a 14-4 record and earned the right to host the West Division final at McMahon Stadium on Nov. 17 against either the Saskatchewan Roughriders or the B.C. Lions.

In their final game of the regular season in Vancouver last Friday, the Stamps suffered a 26-7 setback to the Lions and also lost the services of three starters due to injury in the first half.

Defensive linemen Micah Johnson and Demonte Bolden both injured knee ligaments and receiver Marquay McDaniel sustained a high ankle sprain. With all three deemed unable to play in the West Final, the Stamps will count on other players to step up in their absence.

“That’s been our mindset all year,” said defensive tackle Junior Turner. “Guys have gone down and out and guys have filled in.”

Running back Jon Cornish, who was one of 10 Calgary players named to the CFL’s West Division all-star team on Wednesday, said that dealing with injuries is nothing new for the Stamps.

“We’re a team that played through all kinds of injuries last year and we came into this season virtually the same team,” said Cornish, who missed one game with a thigh contusion. “We understood that people get hurt playing football, so I don’t ever think that we need to do any rallying. The next guy up did what they needed to do and they understood that they either did it right or they’re off the team.”

Calgary coach John Hufnagel said that Turner and Etienne Legare will be counted upon to anchor Calgary’s defensive line up the middle, while he’ll also consider activating Earl Okine and/or Oren Wilson from the practice roster.

“We brought Mr. Wilson in to see what he can provide for us,” Hufnagel said. “Earl Okine’s been here for a couple, three, four weeks. With Etienne Legare and Junior Turner we have enough men to fill the holes.”

Standing 6-foot-6 and weighing in at 286 pounds, Okine appears to have the physical stature to make an impact on defence for the Stamps.

“The CFL is a tough game and absolutely it’s a very fast-paced athletic game and it takes a lot of adjustment, but I’ve been here,” said Okine.

“I’ve been working very hard in practice, getting in with my defensive line, working very hard every day.”

The Stamps received some good news on Wednesday as Joe West returned to the practice field after missing the past three games with a shoulder injury, while fellow receiver Brad Sinopoli is close to making his return from a concussion he sustained on Oct. 18 in Edmonton during Calgary’s 27-13 win over the Eskimos.

“Brad Sinopoli was back on the practice field doing a bit of individual work,” Hufnagel said. “He’ll do a little bit of contact work (Thursday), but everything looks like he’ll be able to make the game, so we’ll adjust accordingly.”

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It’s good news, bad news for the Hunting Hills Lightning.

The newly-crowned Central Alberta High School Football League champion Lightning will open the provincial Tier II high school championships at home Saturday, but they will face the top-ranked Foothills Falcons from Okotoks.

The game is set for 4 p.m. as part of a busy day at Great Chief Park.

The Red Deer Hornets will kick action off at 11 a.m. in the Tier IV peewee semifinals against the Stony Plain Blue Bombers while the Calgary Colts and Red Deer Notre Dame Jr. Cougars meet in the Tier III bantam semifinal at 1:30 p.m.

The Lightning, who are ranked fourth, have one loss on their record this season while the Falcons, who won the Big Rock League, come in at 10--0.

The Falcons have won the Tier

fifth-ranked Cold Lake Royals at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Tier IV North semifinal.

The winner hosts the winner of the Sexsmith Sabres and the Lloydminster Holy Rosary Knights contest.

Down south, the top-ranked Drumheller Titans meet the Canmore Wolverines and the Bow Valley Bobcats face the Willow Creek Cobras.

Lacombe will also be busy Saturday. The peewee Tier III semifinal between the Edmonton Mustangs and the Lacombe Explosion goes at 11 a.m. with the bantam Tier II semifinal between the West Edmonton Raiders and the Lacombe Raiders is set for 1:30 p.m. The Northern 6-Man semifinal between the top-ranked and undefeated Rimbey Spartans and the Holy Redeemer Rebels of Edson goes at 4 p.m.

In Tier IV bantam semifinal play the Hunting Hills Jr. Lightning travels to Lethbridge to face Lethbridge Jr. Bulldogs.

SCOREBOARD Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Prince Albert 19 11 6 2 0 67 Swift Current 20 11 8 0 1 71 Regina 19 10 9 0 0 54 Brandon 18 9 9 0 0 61 Saskatoon 19 7 10 0 2 69 Moose Jaw 20 6 10 2 2 48 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 17 11 3 3 0 67 Calgary 18 10 5 1 2 63 Edmonton 19 11 7 0 1 70 Kootenay 18 9 7 2 0 54 Red Deer 19 7 11 0 1 49 Lethbridge 19 2 14 1 2 45

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 16 12 2 0 2 70 41 26 Victoria 20 10 9 0 1 46 52 21 Prince George 20 7 9 1 3 55 73 18 Vancouver 20 7 11 1 1 57 76 16 Kamloops 19 6 11 1 1 52 66 14 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 19 14 4 0 1 92 61 29 Everett 17 12 3 2 0 60 43 26 Spokane 19 13 6 0 0 74 51 26 Seattle 18 11 5 0 2 66 63 24 Tri-City 21 11 8 0 2 61 54 24 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Tuesday’s results Kootenay 3 Calgary 1 Kamloops 4 Red Deer 1 Edmonton 3 Vancouver 0 Wednesday’s results Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 3 (OT) Spokane 5 Medicine Hat 4 (OT) Regina 5 Lethbridge 2 Tri-City 3 Portland 2 Kelowna 6 Red Deer 2 Edmonton 5 Victoria 0 Everett 3 Kamloops 1 Thursday’s games Saskatoon at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Rockets 6, Rebels 2 First Period 1. Kelowna, Chartier 4 (Franko, Schmidli) 3:09 2. Kelowna, Bowey 6 (Bell, Kirkland) 5:30 3. Kelowna, Stadel 8 (Severson, Merkley) 7:06 (pp) 4. Kelowna, Severson 5 (Heffley, Rigby) 13:35 Penalties — Sutter RD (slashing) 5:30, Bear RD (tripping) 10:39, Fafard RD (10-minute misc.) 19:18.

Second Period 5. Red Deer, Maxwell 4 (Dieno) 16:59 Penalties — Doetzel RD (fighting), Bowey Kel (fighting) 0:24, Heffley Kel (holding) 4:18, Gatenby Kel (interference) 13:41.

Third Period 6. Red Deer, Volek 6 (Mpofu, Dixon) 2:15 7. Kelowna, Rigby 1 (Baillie) 5:50 8. Kelowna, Franko 5 (Severson, Bowey) 8:14 (pp) Penalties — Gaudet RD (tripping) 6:50, Maxwell RD (delay of game) 7:40, Schmidli Kel (Embellishment) 9:43, Bellerive RD (hooking) 15:09, Dixon RD (roughing), Rigby Kel (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:20, Fleury RD (double roughing), Nell RD (roughing), Sutter RD (roughing), Heffley Kel (roughing), Kirkland Kel (roughing), Martin Kel (roughing), Dixon RD (fighting), Yorke Kel (fighting) 19:34.

Shots on goal Red Deer 8 8 2 — 18 Kelowna 16 12 16 — 44 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 6-8-0); Kelowna: Cooke (W, 10-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-3; Kelowna: 2-6.

Oil Kings 5, Royals 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Pollock 6 (Samuelsson, Petryk) 4:50 2. Edmonton, Kulda 5 (Samuelsson, Corbett) 7:58 (sh) Second Period 3. Edmonton, Carroll 1 (Eller, Bauer) 2:44 Third Period 4. Edmonton, Benson 1 (Bauer, Eller) 4:20 5. Edmonton, Samuelsson 9 (Petryk) 14:08 Shots on goal Edmonton 15 12 15 — 42 Victoria 9 6 6 — 21 Goal — Edmonton: Jarry (W, 11-6-0); Victoria: Polivka (L, 8-8-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 0-3; Victoria: 0-4.

Chiefs 5, Tigers 4 (OT) First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Eisenschmid 3 (Butcher, Owre) 2:02 2. Spokane, Aviani 16 (Holmberg) 9:31 (sh)

3. Medicine Hat, Sanford 10 (Vannelli, Cox) 15:38 (pp) 4. Spokane, Whittingham 3 (Proft, Gow) 18:31 Second Period 5. Spokane, Aviani 17 (Holmberg, Helewka) 7:43 (pp) Third Period 6. Medicine Hat, Koules 4 (McVeigh, Vannelli) 3:23 7. Medicine Hat, Cox 3 (Vannelli, Sanford) 3:39 8. Spokane, Helewka 9 (Gow) 13:57 (pp) Overtime 9. Spokane, Holmberg 19 1:58.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Spokane 13 6 14 3 — 36 Medicine Hat 13 10 11 1 — 35 Goal — Spokane: Williams (W, 11-4-0); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (LS, 6-2-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Spokane: 2-6; Medicine Hat: 1-6.

Thursday’s Games Florida at Boston, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

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

Dallas at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

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

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

Pats 5, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Regina, Zgraggen 2 (Stephenson, Maguire) 3:46 2. Regina, Klimchuk 8 (Burroughs) 15:43 (sh) 3. Regina, Klimchuk 9 (Zgraggen, Williams) 18:16 Second Period 4. Regina, Klimchuk 10 (Sinitsyn, Leier) 4:18 (pp) 5. Lethbridge, Duke 1 (Blomqvist, Topping) 15:44 (pp) Third Period 6. Regina, Gay 3 (Zgraggen, Klimchuk) 9:33 7. Lethbridge, Blomqvist 5 (Topping, Sayers) 18:44 (pp) Shots on goal Regina 20 15 11 — 46 Lethbridge 9 10 13 — 32 Goal — Regina: Macauley (W, 10-6-0); Lethbridge: Boes (L, 2-11-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Regina: 1-2; Lethbridge: 2-6.

Wednesday’s summaries Predators 6, Avalanche 4 First Period 1. Nashville, Stalberg 1 (Wilson, Ekholm) 13:12 2. Colorado, Parenteau 5 (Duchene) 15:23 3. Nashville, Smith 3 (Wilson, Ellis) 19:04 (pp) Penalties — McGinn Col (charging, roughing), Bourque Nas (roughing) 17:33.

Second Period 4. Colorado, O’Reilly 5 (Parenteau, Duchene) 2:15 5. Nashville, Gaustad 3 (Forsberg) 3:14 6. Nashville, Wilson 2 (Ellis, Josi) 6:47 (pp) 7. Colorado, Stastny 5 (McGinn) 13:37 Penalties — Parenteau Col (tripping) 5:51, Josi Nas (interference) 10:48, Nas Bench (too many men) 16:11, Johnson Col (misconduct) 20:00.

Third Period 8. Colorado, Duchene 10 (McLeod, Sarich) 4:23 9. Nashville, Wilson 3 (Stalberg, Legwand) 7:34 10. Nashville, Bourque 1 (Legwand) 19:42 (en) Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Nashville 10 9 9 — 28 Colorado 9 10 12 — 31 Goal — Nashville: Hutton (W, 4-1-1); Colorado: Varlamov (L, 8-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Nashville: 2-2; Colorado: 0-2.

Broncos 4, Raiders 3 (OT) First Period 1. Swift Current, Gordon 10 (Heatherington) 4:51 2. Swift Current, Debrusk 3 (Black, Merkley) 12:52 Second Period 3. Prince Albert, Busenius 5 (Braid, Draisaitl) 9:08 4. Swift Current, Sanvido 9 (Black, Honka) 16:27 (pp) 5. Prince Albert, Gardiner 9 (Hart, Winther) 19:23 Third Period 6. Prince Albert, Morrissey 7 (Busenius, Cheveldave) 14:47 Overtime 7. Swift Current, Black 9 (Gordon) 3:27.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Swift Current 13 14 8 4 — 39 Prince Albert 9 11 5 2 — 27 Goal — Swift Current: Laurikainen (W, 7-7-0); Prince Albert: Cheveldave (LS, 9-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Swift Current: 1-4; Prince Albert: 0-4.

Blackhawks 4, Jets 1 First Period 1. Chicago, Toews 8 (Sharp, Keith) 17:29 2. Chicago, Kane 9 (Seabrook, Keith) 19:54 Penalties — Kane Chi (hooking) 4:38, Toews Chi (hooking) 14:33.

Second Period 3. Chicago, Pirri 3 (Smith) 18:02 Penalties — Ladd Wpg (tripping) 2:51, Tangradi Wpg (tripping) 11:43.

Third Period 4. Chicago, Sharp 4 4:00 5. Winnipeg, Setoguchi 3 (Jokinen, Byfuglien) 8:40.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 11 7 7 — 25 Chicago 12 11 5 — 28 Goal — Winnipeg: Montoya (L, 2-2-0); Chicago: Crawford (W, 9-2-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2; Chicago: 0-2.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 14 10 4 0 20 Toronto 15 10 5 0 20 Detroit 16 9 5 2 20 Boston 14 8 5 1 17 Montreal 16 8 7 1 17 Ottawa 15 5 6 4 14 Florida 15 3 8 4 10 Buffalo 17 3 13 1 7 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 16 11 5 0 22 Washington 15 8 7 0 16 N.Y. Islanders 15 6 6 3 15 N.Y. Rangers 15 7 8 0 14 Carolina 15 5 7 3 13 Columbus 14 5 9 0 10 New Jersey 14 3 7 4 10 Philadelphia 14 4 9 1 9

Rangers 5, Penguins 1 First Period 1. NY Rangers, McDonagh 3 (Boyle) 18:08.

2. NY Rangers, Stepan 4 (Zuccarello, Kreider) 19:13.

Penalties — Moore NYR (interference) 5:27.

Second Period 3. NY Rangers, Boyle 1 (Richards, Stralman) 13:10.

4. Pittsburgh, Letang 3 (Kunitz, Malkin) 14:34 (pp).

5. NY Rangers, Callahan 4 (Richards, Hagelin) 15:38.

Penalties — Hagelin NYR (hooking) 1:07, Orpik Pit (interference) 4:53, Girardi NYR (tripping) 10:45, Pouliot NYR (closing hand on puck) 14:13, Kunitz Pit (cross-checking, roughing) 19:23, Zuccarello NYR (roughing) 19:23.

Third Period 6. NY Rangers, Brassard 3 (Dorsett) 9:57.

Penalties — Callahan NYR (goaltender interference) 1:08, Vitale Pit (interference) 3:31, Richards NYR (cross-checking) 16:31, Adams Pit (crosschecking), Glass Pit (fighting, cross-checking), Dorsett NYR (fighting, slashing) 19:15, Bortuzzo Pit (slashing) 19:56.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 12 8 9 — 29 NY Rangers 9 11 5 — 25 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (L, 10-3-0); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 5-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Pittsburgh: 1-6; NY Rangers: 0-4.

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GA 35 36 41 28 34 48 53 53

GF 49 50 47 31 29 34 26 22

GA 38 42 50 41 45 40 42 39

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 14 12 2 0 24 46 25 Chicago 16 10 2 4 24 56 43 Minnesota 16 9 4 3 21 43 35 St. Louis 13 9 2 2 20 47 31 Nashville 15 8 5 2 18 37 44 Dallas 15 7 6 2 16 40 44 Winnipeg 17 6 9 2 14 40 51 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 17 13 3 1 27 57 42 San Jose 15 10 1 4 24 57 32 Phoenix 17 11 4 2 24 56 53 Vancouver 17 10 5 2 22 48 44 Los Angeles 15 9 6 0 18 43 40 Calgary 15 6 7 2 14 43 54 Edmonton 16 4 10 2 10 40 62 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 4, Winnipeg 1 Nashville 6, Colorado 4 Anaheim 5, Phoenix 2

Ducks 5, Coyotes 2 First Period 1. Phoenix, Doan 6 (Ribeiro, Ekman-Larsson) 4:25.

2. Anaheim, Lindholm 1 (Perreault, Smith-Pelly) 15:00.

Second Period 3. Phoenix, Stone 3 (Moss, Hanzal) 12:40 (pp).

4. Anaheim, Getzlaf 7 (Fowler, Bonino) 15:36 (pp).

5. Anaheim, Perry 10 (Lindholm, Getzlaf) 19:58.

Third Period 6. Anaheim, Fowler 1 (Bonino) 10:08 (pp).

7. Anaheim, Cogliano 3 (Penner) 18:58 (en).

Shots on goal Phoenix 9 9 8 — 26 Anaheim 10 11 8 — 29 Goal — Phoenix: Smith (L, 9-3-2); Anaheim: Hiller (W, 7-2-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Phoenix: 1-4; Anaheim: 2-4.

CFL Playoffs Sunday, Nov. 10 Division Semifinals East Montreal vs. Hamilton (at Guelph, Ont.), 11 a.m.

West B.C. at Saskatchewan, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 17 Division Finals East Hamilton-Montreal winner at Toronto, 11 a.m.

West Saskatchewan-B.C. winner at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 2 0 .778 234 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556 169 Miami 4 4 0 .500 174 Buffalo 3 6 0 .333 189 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 6 2 0 .750 214 Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 173 Houston 2 6 0 .250 146 Jacksonville 0 8 0 .000 86 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 6 3 0 .667 217 Cleveland 4 5 0 .444 172 Baltimore 3 5 0 .375 168 Pittsburgh 2 6 0 .250 156 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 9 0 0 1.000 215 Denver 7 1 0 .875 343 San Diego 4 4 0 .500 192 Oakland 3 5 0 .375 146

PA 175 231 187 236 PA 155 167 221 264 PA 166 197 172 208 PA 111 218 174 199

PF 257 225 203 141

PA 209 231 253 223

PF 216 204

PA 146 106

Thursday

● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs.

Wells Furniture, Monstars vs. Bulldog Scrap Metal, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● College basketball: Lakeland at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Blazers at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Southwest at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Leduc at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Badlands at Sylvan Lake, 6 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 7 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; High River at Ponoka, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m.

Saturday

● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary

Sunday

Deer TBS, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre; Badlands at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Stettler, 2 p.m.; Airdrie at Blackfalds, 3 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 2 p.m.; Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Maple Leafs at Red Deer, 3:15 p.m., Arena.

● Peewee AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red

JUNIOR B HOCKEY BLACKFALDS — The Blackfalds Wranglers scored five unanswered third period goals to down the Ponoka Stampeders 7-4 in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action Tuesday.

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Eli Falls made 47 saves in goal for Ponoka while Conner Zenchuk made six and Thomas Isaman, who came in in the second period, made 18.

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Sunday, Nov. 10 Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

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

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Carolina at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

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

Houston at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Cleveland, Kansas City, N.Y. Jets, New England Monday, Nov. 11 Miami at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by BETONLINE.ag; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday WASHINGTON at Minnesota 1 49.5 Sunday Oakland at NY GIANTS 7.5 44 SEATTLE at Atlanta 6 44.5 Buffalo at PITTSBURGH 3.5 43 CINCINNATI at Baltimore 1.5 44 DETROIT at Chicago 2.5 50 Philadelphia at GREEN BAY 1 47.5 St. Louis at INDIANAPOLIS 9.5 44 Jacksonville at TENNESSEE 13 41 Carolina at SAN FRANCISCO 6 42.5 DENVER at San Diego 7 57 Houston at ARIZONA 1 41 Dallas at NEW ORLEANS 6.5 53 Monday MIAMI at Tampa Bay 2.5 41

2 3 .400 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 3 1 .750 Minnesota 3 2 .600 Portland 2 2 .500 Denver 0 3 .000 Utah 0 5 .000 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 4 1 .800 L.A. Clippers 3 2 .600 Phoenix 3 2 .600 L.A. Lakers 2 3 .400 Sacramento 1 3 .250

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Tuesday’s Games Miami 104, Toronto 95 Brooklyn 104, Utah 88 Indiana 99, Detroit 91 Charlotte 102, New York 97 Phoenix 104, New Orleans 98 Dallas 123, L.A. Lakers 104 San Antonio 102, Denver 94 Houston 116, Portland 101 Atlanta 105, Sacramento 100 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 98, L.A. Clippers 90 Washington 116, Philadelphia 102 Indiana 97, Chicago 80 Charlotte 92, Toronto 90 Boston 97, Utah 87 Golden State 106, Minnesota 93 Milwaukee 109, Cleveland 104 New Orleans 99, Memphis 84 San Antonio 99, Phoenix 96 Oklahoma City 107, Dallas 93 Thursday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Miami, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Placed F Jordin Tootoo on waivers.

MINNESOTA WILD — Reassigned F Carson McMillan to Iowa (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS Assigned Fs Louis Leblanc and Martin St. Pierre to Hamilton (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled RW Cam Janssen from Albany (AHL).

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“Now I’m embarrassed about that,” he chuckled.

The 40th anniversary edition of the Canadian “But I was just excited.”

Vold, who won the Ponoka Stampede, came into Finals Rodeo kicked off in Edmonton in fine style, complete with retro western wear and the return the CFR in second spot, despite being out for the last half of the season. His Wednesday night payof the 1974 champions. But Central cheque put him back into the number one Alberta cowboys stole the show when spot for Canada in the bareback riding. it came to capturing the cash in the In the tie-down roping, Curtis Cassidy of opening round Wednesday.

Donalda snagged his calf right out of the box, The most excited cowboy of all was but then sizzled through his tie, to claim top Ponoka’s Jake Vold. The bareback ridhonors with an 8.1 second run. That was fast er hadn’t competed at a rodeo since enough for first, and an $11,467 boost to his the Calgary Stampede in July, where rodeo account. he badly injured his arm in the open“I’m getting old, I need to try and go fasting round. But his dedicated rehabilier,” laughed the 35-year-old, who has won tation efforts paid off. He came out Canadian titles in both the roping and steer on a Calgary Stampede horse called wrestling.

Muffled Cries to flash his spurs and “There’s all these young guys that aren’t click for 87.25 points, worth first place DIANNE even twenty yet!” and $11,467.

“I just backed in like I would on any pracFINSTAD “Recovery had its ups and downs,” tice calf at home, and went at ‘em, and tied admitted Vold. “It was very frustrating him down, and hoped for the best.” for me. But you kind of learn from it, Cassidy credits plenty of practice for getand really it was a huge mental chalting him tuned up for this week, plus his lenge for me. I think I prepared the proper way the father Greg, also a Canadian champion, bought him last few months.”

“This is a dream come true to come back here and about thirty head of practice calves.

“It doesn’t matter what performance it is here, win the opening round of the CFR.” you can win a lot of money. So you’ve got to go at ‘em Vold was able to get on a couple of practice horses to test out his arm, and dust off his bareback riggin. every night like it’s a one-header. To get the ball rollBut the ultimate test was when he nodded his head ing on a good note, it helps for sure.”

Cassidy also takes over the leading position in the at Rexall Place.

“I knew I had a good one, but honestly, I’ve been Canadian standings with the go-round win.

Bull rider Devon Mezei makes his home in Big nervous all day, just not sure how things were going to go, or if I was prepared enough. But it all worked Valley now, and he did the cowboy community proud out and I’m glad. It felt awesome. I was pretty ex- as one of only three CFR competitors to make the cited in the middle of the ride, I knew things were whistle on opening night, with an 86.75 mark on the Kesler bull Grand Slam, for his big payday. going good.”

The $11,467 moved him from eleventh place in the Vold is typically a pretty low key cowboy, but he

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standings all the way up to third. Tanner Girletz of Bowden stays in first, despite getting bucked off.

Taking first in the team roping Wednesday was the duo of Tyrel Flewelling of Lacombe and his college student partner Kolten Schmidt of Barrhead.

They roped in 4.7 second to pick up $5660 apiece, and move into third spot, behind overall Canadian leaders Clint Buhler and Brett McCarroll.

The fastest steer wrestling time was posted by B.C.’s Clayton Moore, who narrowly missed qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo as well. Moore was 3.4 seconds, for his $11,467 payoff, which took him to the front of the line in the Canadian standings.

Saddle bronc riding went to the 2009 Canadian champion, Chet Johnson. But he won the first round on the great horse Get Smart owned by the Northcott family of Caroline.

“I was actually a little nervous,” said the Wyoming cowboy about the 86.75 point performance. “I’ve seen that horse this year just annihilate some guys. I mean that’s a bucking little son of a gun. I knew I just had to get going, and get going fast. I didn’t ride him that pretty, but he’s bucks so hard, he gets a lot of the points. It was a big relief once I got off.”

Defending Canadian barrel racing champion Lisa Lockhart of South Dakota posted the fastest time of the night with a 14.629 second run, winning the $11,467 and overtaking first in the standings.

Big Valley’s Zeke Thurston had the best novice saddle bronc ride of the night, and the 74 mark earned him $1200. Kody Lamb of Sherwood Park won novice bareback riding with a 74.50, while Griffin Smeltzer of Claresholm was the only steer rider with a qualified ride, to win the round with a 76.

It was also a very special night for a Rocky Mountain House family when steer wrestler Gerald Hays was presented with the prestigious Cowboy of the Year award.

The second performance of the Canadian Finals Rodeo goes tonight at Rexall Place at 7:00 pm.

OLYMPIC PRE-TRIALS CURLING Henderson breaks out Gushue earns sloppy win at of slump to help Bobcats Road to the Roar showdown slip by Raptors

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Bobcats 92 Raptors 90 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Gerald Henderson didn’t tinker with his shot after making just 31 per cent from the field in his first four games this season.

“I started out the first three games horribly shooting-wise, but looking at my shots with Coach, I shot all good shots — shots that I regularly shoot — they just weren’t falling,” Henderson said.

That all changed Wednesday night. Henderson broke out of his mini-slump with a season-high 23 points, and the surprising Charlotte Bobcats defeated the Toronto Raptors 92-90.

Henderson had made only 15 of 49 shots in the first four games since signing an $18 million, three-year contract in the off-season. But he hit six of his first seven against Toronto and finished 10 of 17 from the field.

Bobcats coach Steve Clifford never lost faith in Henderson.

“Everything he does on the floor makes sense to me, on both ends of the floor,” Clifford said.

“He’s a prideful guy and he wants to win. He’s not going to blow a set. Everything he’s supposed to do, he does.”

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 14 points to help the Bobcats win on back-to-back nights.

They beat the Knicks in New York on Tuesday.

Second-year guard Jeffery Taylor continued to give the Bobcats (3-2) quality minutes off the bench, scoring 13 points.

Josh McRoberts added 13 points and five assists.

Rudy Gay led the Raptors with 20 points. Jonas Valanciunas had 12 points and 10 rebounds.

The Raptors had a chance to steal this one.

They were trailing 9290 when DeMar DeRozan drove the lane, but his shot was rejected by

Bismack Biyombo and the Bobcats grabbed the loose ball with 27 seconds remaining.

“I should have tried to be more aggressive,” DeRozan said. “At least tried to make the ref make the call. I’ll take that. I’m kind of upset at myself for that decision, that I tried to kind of shy away from the contact.”

Toronto didn’t foul the Bobcats on their final possession, and when Henderson’s long 3-pointer hit off the rim there wasn’t enough time for Toronto to corral the loose ball and call timeout.

“Yeah, I was surprised” they didn’t call timeout, Henderson said.

The Bobcats have won five straight home games dating to last season.

Charlotte shot 75 per cent from the field in the first quarter to build a 32-18 lead. Henderson led the way, knocking down six jumpers in the opening 10 minutes, most of those around the top of the key.

The Raptors appeared to be playing off Henderson, daring him to shoot.

The former Duke star responded again and again, going 7 of 10 from the floor in the first half.

“Our approach in the first quarter was very unlike us,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “We

did not play the way we did the last three quarters. This is a great learning lesson for us.

Never leave winning the game to the last couple of possessions.”

Charlotte cooled off considerably in the second quarter and the Raptors fought back to tie it 53-all at halftime behind nine points from Tyler Hansbrough and a pair of 3-pointers from DeRozan.

With Kidd-Gilchrist on the bench with five fouls, Taylor and McRoberts picked up the slack in the third. After blowing a 16-point first-half lead, Charlotte got a boost from McRoberts, who turned the momentum of the game with a solid stretch that included a dunk, a 3-pointer and two no-look passes for easy baskets.

The Raptors struggled at times with turnovers, committing 13 that led to 18 Bobcats points.

Kemba Walker, who came in averaging more than 18 points per game, had a quiet night.

He played after an MRI on his shoulder Wednesday revealed no damage from a collision Tuesday night with Metta World Peace. Walker finished 2 of 13 from the field for five points but said after the game his shoulder felt fine.

KITCHENER, Ont. — Brad Gushue overcame a sloppy game to beat Jake Higgs 10-4 at the 2013 Capital One Road to the Roar Olympic pre-trial curling tournament Wednesday.

Gushue scored four in the second end, stole three in the fifth and two more in the sixth against Higgs, from Glencoe, Ont. The victory moves Gushue’s St. John’s, N.L., rink into Thursday’s Aevent final against John Morris’s team from Kelowna, B.C., and Vernon, B.C. Both rinks will play for a berth in Saturday afternoon’s page playoff A-B game.

Gushue said his team did just enough to get past Higgs.

“It was a comedy of errors by both teams,” said the 2006 Olympic goldmedallist. “Fortunately we made them try some pressure shots, and they didn’t pull through. But it was not a well-curled game by either team.”

Morris advanced with a 10-5 win against Greg Balsdon of Elgin, Ont. Even in a triple-knockout competition, Gushue said he isn’t taking anything for granted against Morris.

“If you win, you’re in great shape,” said Gushue. “You get two cracks (at a Trials berth), and if you lose, you drop

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Balsdon and Higgs dropped to the B-Event with the losses.

The women’s A-event final Thursday will feature former world champion Kelly Scott of Kelowna taking on Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie, with a berth in Saturday’s A-B final on the line.

Scott stole back-to-back points in the sixth and seventh ends to beat Krista McCarville of Thunder Bay, Ont., 6-5.

Sonnenberg broke open a 4-4 game through seven ends by scoring one in the eighth, stealing one in the ninth and three more in the 10th for a 9-4 win over Laura Crocker of Edmonton.

In women’s B-event play, Tracy Horgan of Sudbury, Ont., was a 12-7 winner over Winnipeg’s Barb Spencer.

Spencer had taken a 5-3 lead by scoring four in the fifth end, but Horgan immediately bounced back with four in the sixth and never trailed again.

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Players say game won’t be safer without fighting Montreal’s George Parros and Toronto’s Colton Orr kicked off the 2013-14 NHL season by dropping the gloves twice, but the second time, one man ended up in the penalty box and the other in the hospital.

It was opening night in the NHL, and the debate over fighting’s place in the game was already raging.

Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Ray Emery fuelled the fire last week when he skated the length of the ice to fight an unwilling combatant in Braden Holtby during a third-period brawl.

Any time fighting is in the spotlight, the conversation moves toward abolishing it at the sport’s highest level. The discussion could continue for years before it’s gone for good, but some in the hockey world do believe that fighting will eventually become a thing of the past.

“It’s a different world today. Things are changing,” said Hall of Fame defenceman Bobby Orr. “That new fan we’re trying to attract, they don’t want violence. ... (But) that fear of getting beat up is a great deterrent.”

Fighting’s elimination may not be imminent, even after Parros’s concussion and a societal shift away from the acceptance of line brawls like the Flyers and Washington Capitals engaged in last week. But rock ’em sock ’em hockey isn’t the norm anymore, and it’s becoming increasingly possible to imagine the NHL without fighting.

“Some people would probably like it,” Buffalo Sabres tough guy John Scott said. “It’d be a little more skilled and flowed and probably less hitting and more transition play, probably like games in Europe.”

In European leagues and tournaments regulated by the International Ice Hockey Federation — like the Olympics — fighting is punishable by ejection along with a five-minute major penalty. Going that route in the NHL, and perhaps considering suspensions, would prevent, or at least drastically reduce, ugly incidents related to fisticuffs. But there’s no guarantee that it would make hockey safer. Many players and hockey officials argue that eliminating fighting will lead to a chippier game.

“The fact of the matter is I think this game is safer with fighting in it,” said Brian Burke, the Calgary Flames’ president of hockey operations. “The amount of fighting in the game has been reduced dramatically, and that’s a good thing. It’s not going to go up, but I think it’s a central part of player safety.”

In recent years the NHL has taken steps to improve player safety, mainly related to head shots. Rule 48 made hits to the head illegal, and suspensions increased to serve as a deterrent.

Fighting doesn’t carry the same standard.

There were no rules in place to suspend Emery beyond a game misconduct and 29 penalty minutes, even if the league doesn’t support a player landing a dozen punches to an opponent’s head.

But the NHL has taken steps to reduce fighting without banning it. The instigator rule was instituted in 1992 to punish players who clearly initiate fights, leaving the bench to join an altercation carries an automatic 10-game suspension and so-called “staged” fights are becoming less popular.

“I was happy when (staged fighting) was gone because that was just a waste of time, that doesn’t change momentum. People have moved past that,” said Bob Kelly, a member of the Flyers’ “Broad Street Bullies” teams of the 1970s.

“Two players collide, get up and want to have a fight, there’s nothing wrong with that whatsoever.”

That seems to be the

consensus around the league. Current players would have to support rule changes that increase the punishment for fighting, and despite the recent public outcry most are in favour of keeping it. A 2011 NHLPA/CBC poll found that 98 per cent of players were against abolishing fighting.

Sabres captain Steve Ott fears that it would lead to so-called “rat” players taking over the game, while Chris Neil of the Ottawa Senators figures there will be more illegal stick work.

“I think there would be a lot more guys running around, a lot more high-sticks, a lot more hits from behind,” Dallas Stars centre Shawn Horcoff said.

Of course there would be fewer injuries from fights, like the concus-

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sion Flyers winger Steve Downie suffered in a bout against the Capitals’ Aaron Volpatti.

“Obviously stuff like that will be out of the game if there’s no fighting,” said Jared Boll of the Columbus Blue Jackets, who had the thirdmost fighting majors in the NHL in 2013. “But I think you’d see more just by people being dumb on the ice and running around and knowing that they don’t have to face anyone or answer the bell if they do something stupid.”

One of the common defences for fighting is that it’s always been part of the game. But whether players and fans like it or not, it’s not nearly as prevalent as it was decades ago, which partially has to do with the salary cap and teams prioritizing speed and skill over pugilism.

Through Tuesday, just 82 of 225 games played this season have included at least one fight, according to HockeyFights. com. There were a total of 30 in 86 playoff games last spring, and seven of

same effect.

“Eventually the knuckles on the helmets just wore guys down and made them less effective as fighters,” Emrick said.

“Now that we’ve adopted the face shields for all guys coming in, and we had 73 per cent of the players wearing face shields a year ago, eventually that evolutionary process, I think, will continue to where there won’t be much fighting at all.”

Beginning this season, all incoming players and those with 25 or fewer games of NHL experience were forced to wear visors. Previously a player with a visor could be given an extra penalty for initiating a fight, but now it’s a two-minute minor if fighters remove their helmets before a fight.

Commissioner Gary Bettman called it “purely a safety issue because we don’t want players getting hurt needlessly.”

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“Basically fighting doesn’t exist anymore.

It’s just about basically gone,” Kelly said.

“Watching these guys play the game, the Stanley Cup finals have been outstanding. It’s just hard skating, and nobody fights in playoffs anyways. You get the odd one here or there. To me, it’s pretty well gone as far as anything substantial out there.”

NBC Sports broadcaster Mike Emrick has charted fighting statistics for 25-plus years and estimated that the Flyers had 85 fights in 86 playoff games from 1982 to 1989.

Emrick noted the grandfathering of helmets in 1979 caused the number of fights to decline dramatically in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and the implementation of visors could have the

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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013

SAME HANDS, DIFFERENT HIERARCHY

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The leadership of the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division board is staying in the same hands, but with a different hierarchy.

Second-term trustee Guy Pelletier was elected as the division’s new board chair on Tuesday after having served as vice-chair for the last three years. Adriana LaGrange, who had been board chair, will now be vice-chair.

“I feel like I’ve developed the experience and understanding of the division that I can offer something for the leadership of the board. We’re a fairly small group and Adriana did an excellent job for us,” said Pelletier, 47.

At its first meeting since the Oct. 21 election, the board, featuring four holdovers from the last term and one newcomer, sought to further deal with space

constraints at Notre Dame High School by amending a request for modular classrooms for the school.

The last board had requested six modulars for city schools for the 2014-15 school year — including two for Notre Dame — and Tuesday requested two more for the high school.

If the province approves the request for four modulars for the high school, they would be placed east of its main structure, as the limit for attachable modulars has already been reached.

Pelletier said the board is hopeful the province will reverse its recently-implemented policy on funding modulars, which requires school divisions to cover half the costs of transportation and installation of the units.

“But that doesn’t change our need. We need the space, and if we need to tap into our reserves to find a way to pay for it, that’s what we’ll do,” he said.

The board also added a clarifying pre-

amble to its new immunization policy which will, for the first time, allow the human papillomavirus vaccine to be administered to local Catholic students within their schools. Pelletier said it is likely those vaccines will be offered later this school year.

And the board opted to extend superintendent Paul Mason’s contract until 2018.

Mason has been with the division since 2007 and was named superintendent two years ago.

Board chairs were also recently chosen in other Central Alberta school divisions.

There will be no changes to the chair and vice-chair positions within Wolf Creek Public Schools, as Trudy Bratland and Bob Huff were re-elected to serve in the roles.

Bratland — whose ward covers Rimbey, Bluffton and Crestomere — remains as chair while Lacombe/Blackfalds representative Huff, a former chair, will spend another term as vice-chair.

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Red Deer Clothing Bank volunteers Margery Gill, left, and Carole Christensen-Ili sort through some of the almost 2,000 articles of clothing donated to the Coats for Kids campaign this year.

Coats, mitts and gloves, touques, snow pants and other items for infants to adults have been received at the Red Deer Clothing Bank and more items are expected later this week. Several Red Deer dry cleaners have been accepting the items since Oct. 11 during the annual Red Deer Christmas Bureau project.

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CORRECTIONS ● An article in Monday’s Advocate contained some incorrect information.

The Korean Veterans Association will have their Remembrance Day service starting at 10:50 a.m. on Nov. 11 at the City Cenotaph at Veterans Park. ● A story in Friday’s Advocate had incorrect information. A regular Remembrance Day service will not be held at the Clive community hall on Nov. 11. Residents of Clive interested in attending a service on that day can go to Lacombe, Ponoka or Mirror. Clive will host a special ceremony on Nov. 13 during the official unveiling of the Clive Veterans Memorial.

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Information session set into proposed power line

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF An information session is set for Wednesday on a power line project for the Red Deer area that has drawn objections from some West Park residents.

Several families in the Wiltshire Boulevard previously expressed concern that AltaLink’s preferred route would mean cutting through a stand of mature trees. They fear the transmission line will be an eyesore and lower property values.

Bob Stevenson said a number of residents want to see the line buried for the short distance needed to preserve the trees.

Failing that, a better route should be explored, although alternate paths suggested by residents have been rejected by the company previously.

Stevenson said he and a number of his neighbours have filed written submissions against the project.

“We’re doing as much as we can,” he said.

Stevenson said he’d like to see the power company’s plans go to a public hearing “if that’s what it takes.”

reviewing the project and the opportunities available for filing a submission or applying for interAlternative routes suggested by venor funding for experts or legal residents have been rejected by counsel.

“We can’t discuss the merits of the company, they say. the application,” he said.

The small detour from the exBefore making a decision, the isting right-of-way was required, says AltaLink, because a resident commission will look at both the built a garage under the power preferred and alternate routes proposed and will determine line in the 1970s. which is in the public interest.

“They look at environmental, economic and social impacts of proposed lines and substations.”

Law said just because a route is preferred doesn’t mean that will be the route — ALBERTA UTILITIES COMMISSION approved and encour(AUC) SPOKESMAN JIM LAW aged.

“I think sometimes people assume AltaLink does not want to build that the preferred route is almost guaranteed to be chosen. That is a new line over an existing home.

The West Park section is part not so.”

The AUC will approve, approve of a 71-km line overhaul planned with conditions or deny an applifrom Benalto through Red Deer to cation.

Nova Chemicals at Joffre.

A public hearing will likely be Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) spokesman Jim Law said ordered if there is “any signifithe information session will give cant or unresolved concerns,” residents an opportunity to view he said.

Another stage of the project plans and find out how they can will see new substations built in provide input, for or against, the project. Written submissions must Ponoka, Innisfail and Didsbury be provided to the AUC by Nov. as well as about 35 km of lines in those areas.

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‘THEY LOOK AT ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF PROPOSED LINES AND SUBSTATIONS.’

Law said AUC officials will be on hand to discuss the process for

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Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

FATAL COLLISION

Bail hearing postponed The man accused in fatal impaired driving collision in Red Deer remains in custody as his bail hearing was postponed for a week on Wednesday.

Tyler James Wilson, 18, of Brooks now faces two charges in relation to the early Saturday morning incident.

Crown Prosecutor John Baharustani withdrew the initial single count of impaired driving causing death and replaced it with two charges, one of impaired driving causing death and one of dangerous driving causing death.

Jonathon David Wood, 33, of Red Deer was killed when the taxi he was a passenger in was hit from behind.

According to the RCMP, an Alberta Gold taxi was stopped facing north on 30th Avenue and 32nd Street at about 3:30 a.m. when it was rear-ended by a truck travelling north.

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BRIEFS Mother of slain Mountie to represent all moms who lost to war The mother of one of the RCMP officers killed at Mayerthorpe in 2005 will represent all mothers who have lost people to war at the Sylvan Lake Remembrance Day ceremony.

Doreen Jewell-Duffy, of Red Deer, was chosen to lay a wreath for all mothers who have lost to war. Her son, RCMP Const. Anthony Gordon, was one of four Mounties killed in the line of duty near Mayerthorpe.

She also said an RCMP officer will lay a wreath at the Red Deer Ceremony in honour of the four Mounties.

The Sylvan Lake ceremony takes place at the Mutliplex, 4823 48th St., starting at 10:30 a.m. while the Red Deer main ceremony takes place at 10:45 a.m. at the Red Deer Arena, at 4725 43rd St., both on Monday.

New reeve and deputy reeve for Lacombe Country

Beattie will return for his third straight year as reeve and Patricia McKean will serve her third consecutive year as deputy reeve.

Ponoka County reeve will be Paul McLauchlin and deputy reeve is Bryce Liddle.

Stettler woman wins Inspiration Award A Stettler woman was one of 10 recipients of an Inspiration Award handed out by the province last week.

Judilonne Beebe received the com-

mendation for her years of work combatting family violence and inspiring others to take action on the matter.

Beebe is the executive director of the Association of Communities Against Abuse based in Stettler, which offers long-term counselling to adults and children who were victims of child abuse.

Throughout her career, Beebe has been a child and youth care counsellor, social worker, foster parent, and community awareness co-ordinator.

She presently serves as the chairperson for the Camrose Women’s Shelter as well.

Alberta school trustee sorry for tweets that were racist, homophobic, sexist

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMROSE — A newly elected school trustee in rural Alberta is apologizing for sending tweets that were racist, homophobic and sexist.

James Andre said Wednesday that he never should have sent the remarks and they don’t represent his views.

He has since shut down his Twitter account, which used the handle “hotone1963.”

“I’m deeply sorry for what happened,” said the 50-year-old husband and grandfather.

“I don’t want people to get an impression of me, because that’s really not me.”

Andre said most of the comments were jokes he retweeted to his friends and he sent them out before he won his seat on the Battle River School Board on Oct. 21. Based in Camrose, the board is responsible for an area southeast of Edmonton He retweeted several jokes from The Funny Racist.

Some of the jokes denigrated black people, made reference to Auschwitz and gay sex. One called singer Miley Cyrus a prostitute.

“I found them funny so I just retweeted them,” said Andre.

“They’re offensive. There’s no

doubt about it and it’s something that I should have thought of before I retweeted them.”

He admits not all of the comments were retweets. Some tweets were his own.

“Watching black people on maury povich ... not hard to tell the porch monkey gene still run wild,” he tweeted.

even had its first official meeting yet. More on the tweets may be discussed at a meeting on Nov. 14.

Earlier this year, three Toronto firefighters lost their jobs over comments they made on social media, including sexist posts on Twitter. Kris Wells with the University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies sent the province a letter last week saying Andre is not fit for public office, especially in a position responsible JAMES ANDRE for the education of children.

“His pattern of tweets clearly indicate that this is not a simple mistake in judgment or one-time occurrence,” Wells said. Andre said he hopes to meet with Wells and convince him that he is a good guy.

Andre said he decided to run for trustee because others encouraged him to do so and he wanted to give back to the community.

He signed up with Twitter less than a year ago, and said he has learned a valuable lesson.

“The thing that people should realize is that when you tweet something on Twitter, it’s there for the entire world to see.

“And think twice before you tweet anything. You never know who may be reading it and who may find it offensive.”

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Alberta’s Education Minister Jeff Johnson called the tweets “completely unacceptable.”

He said someone from his department would soon be meeting with the board’s members to discuss proper conduct.

He wouldn’t say whether he thinks Andre should be forced from the job. Johnson said he was leaving that up to the board to decide.

Board chair Kendall Severson said the group is getting legal advice on whether Andre can be removed from his position.

Six of the eight board members are new, including Andre, who is a former maintenance worker with the school division in Killam,.

Severson said the board hasn’t

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BOARD: Some returned Two trustees who served as chair and vice-chair during their first terms in Wild Rose Public Schools will again serve in the posts.

Nancy McClure, representing Drayton Valley, remains as board chair, while Dixie McLeod of the Rocky Mountain House ward remains as vice-chair.

For Clearview Public Schools, Ken Checkel and Dave Goodwin were re-elected as chair and vicechair, respectively.

Checkel represents the ward that covers Coronation and Brownfield, while Goodwin is one of two trustees for Stettler.

The Red Deer trustee for the Greater North Central Francophone School District No. 2, Nicole Lorrain, was chosen as the division’s Catholic vicechair.

The division is one of only five blended Catholic/ public educational authorities in the province.

Leadership roles were previously determined for the Red Deer Public and Chinook’s Edge school divisions. Bev Manning (chair) and Cathy Peacocke (vicechair) will lead the Red Deer Public board.

Colleen Butler as chair and Ron Fisher as vicechair remain in their roles for Chinook’s Edge. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Wilson appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday, standing about 1.8 metres (six feet) tall with blond hair and swelling around his eyes, he stood in the prisoner’s box.

He quietly responded to Judge Gordon Yake asking him if he understood the charges.

Wood’s family was also in court Wednesday, taking up an entire row of seating in the courtroom.

Wilson has hired Lorne Goddard of Red Deer as defence counsel.

Goddard asked that the bail hearing be moved to next week as he was just recently hired.

Wilson will next appear again in court on Nov. 13.

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Ottawa proposes database of terrorism incidents THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government wants to create a publicly accessible database of Canadian terrorism incidents.

The web-based tool would be aimed at helping policy-makers and researchers identify trends and patterns in extremist behaviour.

No such comprehensive Canadian database exists, says a recent federal outline soliciting bids from interested parties for a contract to host and begin building the electronic repository.

“Every researcher must start from scratch in accumulating the same materials, and some researchers have a proprietary approach to the information they collect and do not share it with others,” says the outline.

The government has set aside about $130,000 over two years to get the project started. It would be up and running by March 15, 2015.

It is part of an overall federal effort to bolster understanding of terrorism after the commission of inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing noted there is limited Canadian research to draw upon. International research tools, such as the Global Terrorism Database, have an incomplete listing of Canadian incidents and do not necessarily flag them in an easy-to-find manner, the outline notes.

The Canadian database would cover incidents from at least 2005 onward, incorporating source materials such as court documents and media coverage, in both English and French.

It would include a description of the terrorist incident as well as time,

location, ideological motivation, weapons used and whether the event was a hoax.

Free access to the database would ensure that graduate students and researchers at non-governmental organizations would not only be able to use the information, “but also be encouraged to contribute data based on their research,” the outline adds.

The government says the database would also be used by Public Safety Canada and its federal partners — not to track individuals, but as evidence for policy and program development.

There have been Canadian data collection efforts in the past, but most have ceased, a Public Safety official told members of the Cross Cultural Roundtable on Security — a federal sounding board and liaison group.

The new database could initially pull together information from previous initiatives by Public Safety, Carleton University in Ottawa, the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont., and the University of Baltimore.

Among the potential research Public Safety sees emerging from the database: ● Patterns in the “ramping up” or decline of certain types of activities by terrorist groups, networks or movements over time; ● Are these crimes more likely to occur on anniversaries, on certain days of the week or in particular months in the year? ● Examination of geographic trends and transnational patterns affecting Canada; ● How terrorism and national security issues are portrayed in the media.

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The need for the project was approved by the AUC in April of 2012.

“That was based on projected growth in the Red Deer area,” he said, adding upgrading was needed to ensure reliability.

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She also represented Alberta on a national committee that developed a training resource on addressing family violence in the home.

As the bio accompanying her award recognition states, Beebe “has been a key player in bringing psychoeducational group programming to men, women and children involved in, or affected by, family violence in the Stettler area.”

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Lacombe County will have a new reeve and deputy reeve.

Paula Law will replace Ken Wigmore as reeve and Brenda Knight was elected deputy reeve.

Both Law and Knight were elected to their second terms in the last municipal election.

In the County of Stettler, Wayne Nixon was unanimously elected by council for a fourth year as reeve.

The deputy reeve position is rotated among council members every eight months.

Clearwater County Reeve Pat Alexander was re-elected by council and deputy reeve will be Earl Graham.

In Mountain View County, Bruce

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City of Red Deer roads crews have been busy since the weekend clearing up a large dump of snow that hit the city. Here a grader operator grinds away an icy surface on 39th Street on Tuesday.

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Remembering forgotten veterans 28 HEROES FOCUSES ON EXPLOITS OF CANADIAN KOREAN WAR PLATOON BESET BY ENEMY BATTALION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Before bullets flew, the taunts exploded.

“I heard a voice shouting: ‘Canada boy, tonight you die!”’ Korean War veteran Ed Mastronardi says, recalling the night of Nov. 2, 1951 in the new History special 28 Heroes.

“And I shouted back: ’Come and get it! As it turned out it was a full attack.

And I had 28 men.”

Director Paul Kilback says the battle of Song-gok Spur — which saw a small Canadian platoon fight a battalion of 800 Chinese soldiers — is a little-known conflict from Canada’s forgotten war that should be much better recognized.

“It always struck me that it’s not in any of the history books,” Kilback says of the extraordinary battle, in which Mastronardi’s determined unit fought against all odds to maintain a key outpost in the face of repeated Communist attacks.

“Even for the people who do know about (the Korean War), Kapyong is the big thing or it’s Hill 355 and never have I seen anything but a paragraph about this action. And it’s one of the greatest kind of, in my opinion, one of the incredible small actions of any military history.”

Kilback came across the story while working on another documentary about the Korean War that introduced him to Mastronardi.

He returned to Mastronardi years later to do 28 Heroes, which creates a moment-by-moment portrait of a relentless assault that haunts the former lieutenant to this day.

In the special, the white-haired Ottawa resident pauses as he looks over a tattered sepia-tinged photo he recovered from one of the Chinese soldiers he shot.

Depicted are two men in uniform, staring straight into the camera.

“I keep it just to remind me,” he says. “There’s two sides to the war.”

Although eager to tell his story, Mastronardi seemed to have the hardest time relaying that heart-rending an-

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Canadian war veteran Lt. Ed Mastronardi is shown. Mastronardi appears in the Korean war documentary 28 Heroes. ecdote, says Kilback, who spent about four hours with him and three hours with another veteran, Red Butler.

“You know, he’s proud of what he did, he’s proud he served his country and he’s a very proud man about being a good soldier and keeping his men alive but I think he also struggles with the fact that he killed people as part of it,” says Kilback, whose other directing credits include Greatest Tank Battles and Battlefield Mysteries.

“It was his job, and he knew it was his job and he did it well, he did it efficiently, but you can tell that he has some regrets in that sense. That these are not just some faceless enemies, ‘This is actually another human being who is there for the same reason I’m there, they’re just protecting their home and their family. And I killed them.’ ” The documentary includes an interview with Chinese company commander Li Yinjun, who Kilback says was just as eager to share his story.

“He was very proud of what he did, he believed in what they were fighting for, he continues to to this day,” says Kilback, who relied on a Chinese

production company to track down the veteran and ask scripted questions.

“It’s interesting how different but how the same they can all be. And that’s why we felt it was important that we had at least a Chinese perspective onto what it’s like to fight in Korea.”

The battle killed hundreds of Chinese soldiers, and just one of the Canadian defenders. About half of the Canadians were wounded.

The incredible story is not widely known, says Kilback, in large part because for many years the general public seemed to express little interest in learning the ugly details of Canada’s third deadliest conflict.

More than 26,000 Canadians served in the three-year war, and of those, 516 Canadians died in service, according to Veterans Affairs.

Kilback notes he had trouble tracking down survivors from the battle of Song-gok Spur. But he was surprised to suddenly be contacted by Butler, who was a private at the time of the conflict.

The Manitoulin Island resident caught wind of the project through the Royal Canadian Regiment and said he

had photos to share.

“We’re like, ‘Are you crazy? You were there? We need to talk to you!”’ says Kilback, who shot the doc’s dramatic recreations at CFB Meaford near Owen Sound, Ont., using actual Canadian soldiers as his actors.

“We were about to finish editing the film and then we found him and then I re-edited the film once I found him.”

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, and the Canadian government has declared 2013 the Year of the Korean War Veteran.

28 Heroes premieres Monday.

Also debuting on History this weekend is the documentary Sector Sarajevo on Sunday, which recounts a brutal Canadian peacekeeping mission to Sarajevo in July 1992.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the Canadians were sent into a volatile war zone where they managed to secure the airport and bring in aid.

Under constant fire, they endured snipers’ bullets and standoffs with warlords, eventually breaking the rules of peacekeeping by fighting back.

Meanwhile, a second season of War Story airs Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

This year, stories include: Canadian servicemen who survived Japanese slave labour camps in the Second World War; Canadian airmen imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp; twin stories of the Vietnam War, told by Canadian volunteer combat veterans and U.S. draft resisters; and first-hand experiences of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Other programs on the schedule include Dieppe: Uncovered, D-Day to Victory, Passchendaele, The Great Escape: Secrets Revealed and Storming Juno.

Mastronardi also appears in Global’s investigative news magazine “16x9,” which airs a commemorative special Saturday recounting his story as well as that of a 90-year-old woman who risked her life to save others in the Second World War and a man who spent 42 years behind bars in Stalinist Russia during the Cold War.

Florida Georgia Line wins 2; Musgraves wins new artist THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Keith Urban, right, and Miranda Lambert, perform at the 47th annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, in Nashville, Tenn. after their mild feud over song trends in Nashville.

They joked about Juliette Hough’s misguided blackface Halloween costume, urging Darius Rucker to start his own feud with the singer.

They skewered Obamacare to a Nashville audience that roared with approval.

Then, they brought out the guys from the hit show Duck Dynasty and

parodied Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, with Willie

Robertson doing a little twerk for Underwood.

Swift tied Florida Georgia Line with two trophies after her Highway Don’t Care collaboration with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban won musical event and music video of the year before the show began. Lee Brice’s I’d Drive Your Truck, about a fallen soldier whose father still drives his truck, won song of the year.

Swift later performed a sombre, acoustic version of her hit “Red” with Vince Gill, Alison Krauss and Sam Bush.

And Jason Mraz joined Hunter Hayes for a stroll around Bridgestone Arena while performing Everybody’s Got Sombody But Me. Swift is nominated for her third entertainer of the year award, the night’s top honour. She also is still up for album of the year and female vocalist.

And though it won’t show on her official tally for the night, the 23-year-

old pop star will be presented with the CMA’s Pinnacle Award.

The award goes to artists who take country music to a worldwide audience.

Garth Brooks is the only previous winner; he won in 2005.

With smart songwriting, a progressive bent and a strong sense of self like country’s other top women, Musgraves made an auspicious mainstream country debut this year with her album Same Trailer Different Park.

She’s up for album, female vocalist, new artist and single of the year.

And she scored two song of the year nominations for co-writing Lambert’s hit Mama’s Broken Heart and her own Merry Go ’Round.

Meanwhile, veteran George Strait was going for his third entertainer of the year award as he retires from the road.

Voters could easily make an argument for any of the five entertain-

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NASHVILLE — Florida Georgia Line was experiencing the power of a song at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night, taking two early trophies thanks to the overwhelming popularity of Cruise.

With their mothers in attendance, the duo of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley scored single and vocal duo of the year.

Their quick tally was more proof the so-called bro country movement is the sound of the moment in mainstream country.

FGL kicked off the show performing a fistpumping medley with Luke Bryan, and very quickly returned to the stage to take the trophy for single of the year for their Cruise remix featuring Nelly.

They also played the new song Round Here.

Meanwhile, Kacey Musgraves — who, along with Taylor Swift, led all nominees with six — won the new artist trophy, besting a field including Florida Georgia Line.

“This first year for me has just been undescribable,” said Musgraves.

Hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley got the show going on a jovial note as they took the stage with their opening skit, first joking about feuds in music.

They got Bryan and Zac Brown to hug it out

er of the year nominees.

Strait is the sentimental choice.

Swift’s popularity has helped expand the boundaries and fan base of country music.

Blake Shelton is a five-time nominee who only seems to get more popular.

Jason Aldean is about due for the award as a major architect of country’s modernization and a touring titan.

And Bryan is arguably country’s hottest star after winning the rival Academy of Country Music’s entertainer trophy in April.

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Bobby Volesky, ag product manager with Intelligent Agricultural Solutions of Fargo, N.D., demonstrates his company’s acoustic-based blockage and flow monitor for air seeders at Agri-Trade on Wednesday. Intelligent Agricultural Solutions is among a number of exhibitors showcasing products in the Technology Pavilion.

Cutting-edge technology a big draw at pavilion

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Dairy farmers from generations past would shake their heads if they visited the DH&P Supplies & Equipment Ltd. booth at AgriTrade.

The Blackfalds-based business is promoting some cutting edge technology at Red Deer’s 30th annual agricultural equipment exposition — technology that’s about as far removed from three-legged stools and milk pails as you can get.

“You can go fully robotic, so you sit at your desk all day and everything happens for you,” said Chris Culp, a salesman with the company.

He described how in today’s automated dairies, operators rarely lay a hand on their cows.

“Basically, they milk themselves,” said Culp of the animals’ interation with computer-controlled, automatic milkers. “They go in when they want to go in and get milked.”

The milk production of each animal is monitored, as is its feed consumption. If something appears amiss, a text is sent to the farmer.

Culp contrasts such systems

with earlier labour-intensive dairy operations.

“You’d chase them all in and spend three hours milking and then another two hours with the chores, and then you could go home at 9 o’clock at night, or whatever.”

DH&P Supplies & Equipment is one of the businesses located in Agri-Trade’s Technology Pavilion, an area devoted to innovative ag products.

Dianne Smirl, the show’s manager, said she wanted to concentrate such exhibits together this year. She explained that many producers — especially younger ones — attend Agri-Trade to see new and innovative technology.

A designated pavilion makes this easier.

Regina-based Farmtronics is showcasing some of the latest precision farming products in the Technology Pavilion. Most utilize satellite-based global positioning systems.

“What you can do with them is unbelievable, really,” said Dave Carpenter, a sales rep with the company.

Farmers operating precision

farming equipment need only establish a line and then manually turn at the end of the field — responsibilities Carpenter anticipates will eventually disappear.

“I don’t think it will be that many years and they’ll be doing it all remotely.”

Kim Keller, co-founder of Saskatoon’s Farm At Hand, was pitching a “multi-platform, cloud-based farm management program” that can be operated on a smartphone.

“It allows farmers to keep track of what they’re doing in their fields: their seeding, spraying, harvest activities; what’s in their bins, their grain bags, their contracts, their deliveries, as well as equipment management.

“It’s seed-to-sale management.”

A partner with her brother and parents in a 10,000-acre Saskatchewan grain farm, Keller gets inspiration for ongoing improvements to Farm At Hand from her own day-to-day ag operations.

“I find when I’m on-farm I get a lot of my ideas. I become my own customer.”

Not far from Keller’s display, Bobby Volesky was showing off some unique technology in wireless blockage monitoring systems for air seeders.

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OTTAWA — Two new independent reports are playing down the benefits of the recently concluded free trade deal with Europe, casting doubts on the Harper government’s contention that it is key to Canada’s economic prosperity.

The reports from Capital Economics and, most recently, the Royal Bank, predict the agreement, called CETA, will be a net benefit for Canada but that the gains are still too early to determine, or will be modest.

“It’s political so there’s lots of hype around the deal,” said David Madani, chief economist with the private-sector research firm Capital Economics in Toronto.

“Most people understand that Canada’s trade with the EU (European Union) is small so it’s not going to have a huge benefit. Assuming it is ratified, it’ll benefit Canada but the benefit will be very small.”

The government continues to quote a joint study on the impact, conducted five years ago, projecting a possible $12 billion boost to economic activity in Canada — $16 billion for the EU — and the creation of about 80,000 jobs. In a response, a spokesman for Trade Minister Ed Fast said that, if anything, the joint study underestimated the gains.

“We believe that it’s the current numbers that are modest, and that the benefits of expanding the export opportunities for Canadian businesses with this preferential access to the lucrative European Union market will be even more widespread,” said Rudy Husny, Fast’s press secretary.

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Fall Into Winter starts at iHotel Area consumers have a chance to get a jump on their Christmas shopping this Saturday at the Fall into Winter trade show at Red Deer’s iHotel.

Being held for the second consecutive year, Fall Into Winter will involve approximately 50 exhibitors representing a variety of products and services, said organizer Melissa Flinn. In addition to items like candles, jewelry, clothing and cosmetics, there will also be things like life insurance and mortgage services, she said.

“It’s a little bit of everything, actually,” said Flinn, comparing the mix to what you find at Red Deer’s Public Market.

Some of the exhibitors operate out of stores, but the majority are home-based, she said.

“Trade shows are very popular for home businesses, and it’s a great way to get your name out there and to get customers and sell your product.”

Flinn organizes a similar trade show in the spring, called Spring into Summer. That event was held this year and in 2012.

Fall into Winter will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will feature a number of raffles in support of the Red Deer Christmas Bureau.

Online super buyers leading the way EXPECTING DISCOUNTS AND FREE SHIPPING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Consumers have become more demanding shoppers online, expecting discounts and free shipping with a group of younger shoppers called “online super buyers” leading the way, says an e-commerce survey.

Almost two-thirds of Canadians — 63 per cent — say they opted to shop online in the last six months to save money, according to the survey by market research firm The NPD Group. The survey says fashion accessories, footwear and electronics were consistently the top sellers.

While Canadians may accept full price when they buy in a store, they are bargain-driven online.

“The perception is that online is sort of like a clearance centre, if you will, and people just expect that they’re going to get a price discount,” said The NPD Group’s fashion industry analyst Sandy Silva.

Silva said the idea that prices should be lower on websites may have spilled over from the travel industry’s shift to online in recent years and consumers increasingly searching for the best vacation deals.

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“all kinds of stuff” — such as beauty products, clothes, games, toys and digital downloads, Silva said. They want lower prices and are the strongest influencers of Canadian e-commerce trends, the survey found.

“When you’re looking at the millennial consumer they’re trained to be really quick on searching various websites and demanding things right away at the best prices,” said Silva.

Marta Tryshak considers herself an online super buyer and said there’s “absolutely nothing” she wouldn’t buy online.

“I’ve bought groceries online,” said Tryshak, 25, a website creator who has been shopping online for five years and finds prices more competitive.

Overall, online retailers offer more variety, she said.

“You can log on and go shopping at 3 o’clock in the morning,” said Tryshak, who launched the lifestyles website WithLoveGabrielle.com in 2008.

“The store never closes.”

A lack of free shipping and returns are a deal breaker for Tryshak because she said consumers are already paying for the product and it should be part of the service they get.

The survey found that free shipping is a big factor with 85 per cent of those asked saying that it would encourage them to buy more online.

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Shopping online at sites such as Amazon, seen here Wednesday, November 6, 2013 continues to be a growing trend. Almost two-thirds of Canadians say they opted to shop online in the last six months to save money.

But consumers who are 55 and over are still apprehensive about shopping online and shipping costs remain a barrier for them, the survey found.

As for online shopping, women and men have their own habits.

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But Silva said Canadian retailers need to have both websites and stores with so many other retailers coming into Canada from the U.S. and beyond.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher Wednesday amid positive earnings news and hopes that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates to help a weak economy recover.

The S&P/TSX composite index was up 18.7 points to 13,380.41, with added strength from the mining components.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.37 of a cent to 95.99 cents US amid strong housing data. Contractors took out $6.5 billion worth of building permits in September, up 1.7 per cent from August and much higher than the 0.7 per cent rise that had been expected.

U.S. indexes were mainly higher as the Dow Jones industrials ran up 128.66 points to an all-time high of 15,746.88. The Nasdaq fell 7.92 points to 3,931.95 while the S&P 500 index gained 7.52 points to 1,770.49.

Hopes rose Thursday that the European Central Bank would announce a rate cut to a record low of 0.25 per cent after the EU’s statistics office said that retail sales across the 17-country eurozone fell 0.6 per cent in September from the month before.

Markit, the financial information company, revealed that its Eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index, a broad gauge of economic activity, faltered in October.

The index slipped from a 27-month high of 52.2 in September to 51.9 points last month, although the October figure was revised up from the initial estimate of 51.5. Although it was above the 50 threshold indicating expansion, the figures suggest the European recovery lacks strength and is vulnerable to setbacks.

“It’s going to be a long arduous process digging out from under sovereign debt and all the other issues they face there,” said Bob Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse.

“The likelihood is they have passed the worst in Europe, not that it’s going to be easy, but that’s probably the case and I think they have to be nurturing this very carefully and the ECB moves will be part of that.”

The ECB holds its regularly scheduled interest rate meeting on Thursday.

On the earnings front, autoparts company Magna International’s (TSX:MG) quarterly revenue was up 13 per cent to US$8.3 billion. However, net income fell from last year, dropping to US$319 million, or $1.39 per diluted share, from $390 million a year ago amid restructuring charges.

The results beat analyst expectations and its shares rose $1.21 to $90.19.

“I think the real story here was the top line, the sales,” added Gorman.

“You have a situation in which Magna is getting more out of each vehicle that is constructed. In contrast with many, many companies which are having a really tough time increasing the revenue number much, Magna really stands out here.”

Oil and gas producer Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM) posted a quarterly US$45 million loss from operations, or four cents per share, up from a loss $36 million or four cents per share a year earlier. Its shares slipped 34 cents to C$12.48.

Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) says its adjusted earnings in the third quarter rose to $278 million or 34 cents a share, which was up four per cent from a year earlier but a penny short of analyst estimates. Its shares rose 76 cents to $46.56.

Molson Coors Brewing’s (TSX:TPX.B) (NYSE:TAP) quarterly net income dropped to US$121.8 million on large European charges, but its profit increased 7.7 per cent to US$268.1 million, beating analyst expectations. Total sales decreased two per cent to US$1.17 billion. In New York, its shares rose 68 cents to US$54.69.

Commodity prices improved and gold stocks led advancers, up about 1.27 per cent while December gold rose $9.70 to US$1,317.80 an ounce.

Goldcorp (TSX:G) gained 28 cents to C$26.25.

The base metals sector gained 0.9 per cent while December copper

slipped two cents to US$3.25. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) was ahead 26 cents to C$28.97.

The energy sector was off 0.47 per cent while December crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained $1.43 to US$94.80 after data showed inventories grew less than expected last week, rising by 1.6 million barrels, against the 2.5 million that had been expected.

Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:PWT) shares plunged $1.89, or 16.25 per cent, in heavy trading of 6.2 million shares after the Albertafocused oil producer signalled it’s preparing for another transitional year as it pares down its portfolio.

Penn West also issued a flurry of announcements earlier, including a third-quarter financial report that mostly met or beat analyst estimates and a plan to sell $1.5 billion to $2 billion of assets before the end of 2014.

Traders also looked ahead to other key U.S. economic data coming out this week, including third-quarter economic growth figures Thursday and the U.S. government’s October employment report on Friday.

The data from both reports will help the Federal Reserve decide if the economy is strong enough to allow the central bank to start tapering its monthly US$85 billion of bond purchases.

Market highlights TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,380.41 up 18.70 points TSX Venture Exchange — 941.23 down 4.38 points TSX 60 — 769.81 up 1.16 points Dow — 15,746.88 up 128.66 points, record high S&P 500 — 1,770.49 up 7.52 points Nasdaq — 3,931.95 down 7.92 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.99 cents US, up 0.37 of a cent Pound — C$1.6752, down 0.27 of a cent Euro — C$1.4084, down 0.06 of a cent Euro — US$1.3519, up 0.46 of a cent Oil futures: US$94.80 per barrel, up $1.43 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,317.80 per oz., up $9.70 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.701 per oz., up 17.3 cents $761.99 per kg., up $5.56 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 941.23, down 4.38 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 133.14 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $3.00 lower $482.20; Jan. ’14 $3.80 lower $490.70; March ’14 $3.80 lower $499.00; May ’14 $3.50 lower $505.20; July ’14 $3.40 lower $511.10; Nov. ’14 $3.60 lower $516.90; Jan ’15 $3.60 lower $519.80; March ’15 $3.60 lower $520.20; May ’15 $3.60 lower $514.70; July ’15 $3.60 lower $511.90; Nov ’15 $3.60 lower $508.10.

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.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 440,100 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 440,100.

General Motors Co. . . . . 36.59 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.52 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.70 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.90 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 64.75 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.15 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.33 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.16 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 96.95 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.30 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.15 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.50 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.50 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.22 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.03 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 62.60 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.16

DETROIT — Volvo has realized that safe is better than sexy.

After several years adrift, as it changed owners and flirted with sexier ads, the Swedish automaker is in the midst of an $11 billion turnaround plan that it hopes will nearly double worldwide sales to 800,000 by 2020.

It is building new plants in Sweden and China, introducing new vehicles and developing its own infotainment system that it says will be less distracting.

The company is also hiring a new ad agency and working on a bolder message emphasizing Volvo’s reputation for safety.

One idea that could make it into the company’s ads: Volvo’s internal goal of having no deaths or serious injuries in

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Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.49 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.36 Canyon Services Group. 11.33 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.52 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.790 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.44 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.99 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 93.22 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 54.40 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.90 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.76 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.44 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.66 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.74 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.550 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.84 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.69 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.48 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.16

Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.75 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.68 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.16 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.95 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.96 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 33.00 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.34 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.37 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.15 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 66.95 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.71 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 91.38 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.31 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.18 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 35.43 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.96

Twitter hires Barclays to supervise IPO trading

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — When Twitter goes public on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, it will trade under the supervision of Barclays Capital.

Barclays Capital said Wednesday the social media company has hired the bank to be its “designated market maker,” a critical role when a stock first starts trading on the NYSE. Twitter’s stock is expected to debut on Thursday.

A DMM supervises the trading of a company’s stock. He or she is an experienced trader in charge of ensuring that buying and selling go smoothly. If trading becomes volatile, the DMM can step in and buy shares using his or her firm’s own money.

DMMs are especially important the day a company goes public, because the DMM co-ordinates between Twitter, the company’s investment banks and NYSE’s floor traders to get a stock trading.

Every NYSE-listed has a DMM. DMMs, previously known as specialists, are unique to the NYSE. If technical problems arise, the NYSE uses DMMs to bypass electronic trading systems, allowing humans to trade a company’s stock.

That is not possible on all-electronic stock exchanges such as the Nasdaq.

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Chief Executive Officer at Twitter, Dick Costolo gives a speech at the Cannes Lions 2012, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France. When Costolo took charge in 2010, Twitter’s revenue was $28 million. This year, it’s on track to be more than $600 million.

The Nasdaq’s trading system had technical problems during Facebook’s IPO last year, which led to trading delays and problems with orders.

Barclays’ role as Twitter’s DMM does not mean it is in charge of the entire IPO process.

That role falls to Twitter’s investment banks: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.

Barclays is the NYSE’s second-biggest market-making firm, representing more than 700 companies on the floor of the exchange.

The British company acquired the business when it bought parts of Lehman Brothers after that firm’s bankruptcy in Sept. 2008. Barclays has since added other firms to its DMM business.

Popular Heady Topper beer closes Vt. retail site after neighbours’ complaints

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WATERBURY, Vt. — A Vermont microbrewery that makes one of the world’s best beers plans to close down its retail operation to head off the trouble that’s brewing with its neighbours.

Customers lined up at The Alchemist brewery on Tuesday to buy cases of Heady Topper, the double IPA that Beer Advocate magazine recently ranked No. 1 out of the top 250 beers in the world.

The hoppy concoction is so popular — sales have grown from 30 barrels a week to 180 a week in the two years since the brewery opened on the outskirts of Waterbury — that owners Jen and John Kimmich plan to shutter their retail operation on November 15 to avoid a neighbourhood dispute.

“We’ve had complaints from neighbours,” Jen Kimmich said.

“We would have had to fight to keep on going ...

We decided to close down before it turns into a large legal battle.”

The couple plan to re-open the retail outlet as soon as possible and is actively looking for other locations in Waterbury, Kimmich said. While the retail end of the business is closing for now, the brewery will continue operating and will keep its staff of 25, she said.

Volvo plots return to the U.S. market next year

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WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.56

new Volvo cars by 2020.

Volvo doesn’t currently know how many people die each year in its cars, since most countries don’t keep that data.

But it says independent studies in Sweden have shown that Volvo passengers are several more times likely to escape injury after a crash.

During a recent U.S. trip to visit its dealers here, Volvo’s top executives said the brand’s ads have strayed from Volvo’s traditional strengths and emphasized different things depending on where they ran.

In 2010, for example, Volvo ran North American ads positioning the S60 sedan as “naughty” to attract young buyers, but it just confused people who knew the brand for its innovative safety features.

“Our strength is what we have built over decades,” marketing chief Alain Visser said.

The Alchemist has become a jewel in the frothy crown of Vermont microbreweries that had spawned a new sort of beer tourism, in which connoisseurs from around the world would come to sample prizewinning brews of Lawson’s Finest Liquids in Waitsfield, the Shed in Stowe, Hill Farmstead in Greensboro and others.

Even a temporary closure was a disappointment to fans stopping by the shop Tuesday.

“It’s a sad situation, it really is,” said Andy McLenithan of Manchester in southern Vermont, who with his co-worker Scott Senecal had driven an hour out of their way on the trip home from building a baseball diamond in St. Johnsbury to stop at the Waterbury brewery.

Andy Ferko of nearby Bolton said he had known the Kimmichs since he used to stop by at the Alchemist, the restaurant they owned on Waterbury’s Main Street until it was closed two years ago by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene.

“I come to Waterbury to go to the hardware store, the grocery store,” Ferko said. Visiting with the Kimmichs as he stocked up on Heady Topper was “kind of a little social visit, too.”

Ferko said his wife, Mags Bonham, was losing an outlet for her artwork, including earrings in the shape of hops kept in a display case next to the main beer counter.

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AGRI-TRADE: Tech pavilion good idea Ag product manager for Intelligent Agricultural Solutions of Fargo, N.D., Volesky described how his company has developed an acoustics-based monitor that uses sound rather than optical or infrared sensors to detect blockages in seed manifolds. If one occurs, the seeder’s operator receives a visual and audible warning via WiFi, on an iPad. Volesky thinks Agri-Trade’s Technology Pavilion is a good idea.

“A lot of other shows do that too. It’s a way to get people who are interested in this kind of stuff in the same area.”

Keller agreed.

“If someone is coming in looking at some new technology, they come here and they can find it all, instead of trying to find it scattered throughout the show.”

Younger producers tend to drive the adoption of innovative technology, noted Carpenter.

“They’re not as scared of the new technology as a lot of the older generations, because they grew up using it.”

And they often convince their parents to change, added Culp.

“A lot of the older farmers still like the old ways, but their sons and daughters are starting to look into robotics and go the high-tech route.”

Volesky pointed out that many of those veteran farmers still have considerable sway when it comes to adopt-

ing new advances.

“It’s still the older guys who are writing the cheques a lot of the time, so they have to buy into it as well.”

Volesky added that it’s important suppliers show that there is value in their new products.

“You can’t just have something that looks cool; you have to be able to place a dollar value on it and it be something that makes their life easier.”

Agri-Trade started on Wednesday and continues through to Saturday at Westerner Park.

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TRADE: Benefits down the road RBC economist Laura Cooper says it is difficult to verify the claims, given the lack of details in what has been announced.

She concludes, in a five-page analysis issued to clients on Wednesday, that while there are potential benefits for the economy down the road, “there will be little noticeable economic impact for Canada over the short-term.”

A big reason for tempering expectations, say the reports, is that current trade volumes between Canada and the EU are modest. In 2012, Canadian exports totalled about $463 billion, but only $41 billion went to the EU, so even a 20 per cent boost to the volume will be a modest increase in the overall economies of both.

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SOUTHWELL Alexander Alexander Southwell of Red Deer, Alberta passed away on Saturday, November 2, 2013 at the age of 20 years.

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* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 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.

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives.

Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com 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 LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers for areas including Sask. and US. Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

LOOKING FOR 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

Caregivers/ Aides

Oilfield

800

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.

WANTED

EXPERIENCED

CLASS 3

VAC/steamer Truck driver.

Lacombe area, HOME EVERY NIGHT. Fax resume to 403-704-1442

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

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.

Professionals 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.

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.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

SERVICE RIG

810

HERITAGE FAMILY SERVICES

is accepting resumes for a temporary full-time Family Support Worker in Red Deer AB, to commence Dec 1/13. This is a 2-3 month position and involves development of treatment plans, client and family support, report writing. Must be highly organized team player with strong interpersonal and report-writing skills.

Degree/diploma in Human Services is preferred.

Vehicle required. Salary 3431/mo.

Please submit resumes to: Human Resources Heritage Family Services 300 4825 47 St Red Deer AB T4N 1R3 Fax 403-343-9293 Email donna@ heritagefamilyservices.com For more information call 403-343-3422. Closing Date: Nov 14/13

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER

Is seeking FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $14.00/hr.

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc.

Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety stardands $14.00/hr.

All positions are Shift work & weekends Fax Resume to: 780-702-5051

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests * Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $ 14.00/hr HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms public areas pool etc. * Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards $ 14.00/hr All positions are Shift Work & weekends Fax resume 780 - 702-5051 JOSE JOSE LATIN RESTAURANT IS HIRING!!

Looking for a WAITRESS/WAITER and COOKS HELPER Please drop off your resume at #9 7110-50 Ave or call 403-986-5673

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 TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced Snubbing Operators.

Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com fax 403-844-2148

VERSATILE ENERGY

Growing Central AB. Prod.

Testing Co. is accepting resumes for Exp. Supervisors, Night Operators & Operators. Positions are safety sensitive. A valid Driver’s Licence, H2S and First Aid Tickets are req’d.

Successful Applicants will be notified. Please fax resume with current tickets to (403)887-0343 or email: hr@versatileenergy.ca

710

Immediate Opportunity.

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to amie@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

$12.25/hr.

To provide Food & Beverage service, handle cashiering, arrange and setup the outlet. maintain cleanliness and hygiene.

Kitchen Helper

operating as

The successful candidate will demonstrate a creative approach for elevating internal stressors as well as a unique approach to teach self-help skills to a person with ADHD / Asperger’s.

The young gal is an avid reader; she uses her computer independently. She likes the outdoors, enjoys being around animals, especially horses and visits her family farm regularly.

The individual will pay Room & Board.

Part of the hiring process demands proof of a current Criminal Record check prior to starting.

Catholic Social Services will facilitate an orientation session to the Approved Home Program and ongoing monthly training is offered as well.

The monthly tax-exempt remuneration for the successful candidate is $ 488.00 per month.

Interested applicants please contact:

MCDONALD’S RESTAURANTS

of Ponoka, Lacombe, Stettler and Red Deer (Gasoline Alley East and West) are now hiring FULL TIME AND PART TIME Food Counter Attendants.

Basic duties include making food and serving customers.

All stores are 24 hours, except Stettler, which has extended late night hours and applicants must be willing to work flexible shifts, including evening, weekends and nights shifts.

Students, stay home moms, retired persons, we offer part time flexibility to fit your lifestyle, as well as scholarship programs for students. Wages range from $10.50 to 11.00 per hour and we will train.

Benefits are included and we offer opportunities for advancement. Apply in person at the store, on line at cbay22.telus.net or mail resume to 4419 Hwy 2A, Ponoka, AB, T4J 1J8

DAD’S PIZZA

329880K9

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 Start your career!

See Help Wanted THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations.

MUST HAVE: • 2-3 yrs. post secondary education.

• 2-5 yrs. training • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

• Provide references The hourly rate will be $13.10 per hour.

Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161

Cook

$14.00/HR. To prepare and cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen and maintain hygiene follow recipes, assist in receiving and storing

CAMERON BAY HOLDINGS INC.

As an Approved Home proprietor you will provide ongoing training and support in addition to daily structure in a positive supportive home environment for a young adult female diagnosed with ADHD , Asperger’s and Mild Developmental Disability.

This young gal completed college in 2013 and is now working part time. She is very involved in Special Olympics both locally and internationally.

Catholic Social Services 403 347-8844 ext. 2917

REBEL METAL FABRICATORS DRAFTSPERSON

$11/hr To clean kitchen following safety and hygiene standards. Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery and glassware items.

Clean floors.

Assist in prep.

All positions are Shift Work & Weekends.

Fax resume 780-702-5051

Catholic Social Services is offering a rewarding opportunity with the Approved Home Program.

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

F/T P/T COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Sales & Distributors

830

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Portable iMassagers Hiring Salespersons Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB. Good English and communication skills, Customer service oriented.

F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $14.00 /hr e-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com

DOTS

DESIGNER WEAR is hiring for P/T positions.

Must be able to work wknds. & holidays. Retail experience an asset.

Apply in person w/resume 4952 50 St. Red Deer ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & apparel, at our Parkland Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus & comm. F/T Position. No exp. req’d. Email Flurriesrd@gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com

Sales & Distributors

830

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

Trades

850

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

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

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

Concrete finisher

JOURNEYMAN Electricians and

Instrument Hands

req’d. for work in Central Alberta. Oilfield exp. an asset. Please forward your resume to jobs@ nexsourcepower.com or fax 403-887-4945

Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic needed to manage and maintain a fleet of 20 trucks; $45/hour.

Fax resume to 403-786-9915 or email tksindustries@hotmail.ca

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.

Mechanic Position 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.

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

•

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

The position will break DRILLERS HELPER down as follows: 60% repairs and main- with class 3, air. All safety tickets required. tenance on rental equipment 15% on heavy trucks Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town. and trailers Fax resume with drivers 10% on light duty trucks abstract: 403-748-3015 10% on fabrication 5% paperwork and program management Truckers/

ELECTRICIANS

With Commercial exp.

Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

Drivers

860

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Required Immediately Parts Delivery Driver Must possess clean drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some warehouse work and some heavy lifting is required.

The company offers full benefit package for this full time position.

Please email or drop off resume.

ARTIC TRUCK PARTS #3-6540 71 ST Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 (P)403-348-0999 (F)403-348-5198 Email to: ron.cain@ nfleetsolutions.com

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

880

Misc.

Help Central AB based trucking company requires

Academic Express

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

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 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

850

Clark’s

WINTER START GED PREPARATION Jan. 14 or Feb. 10 STARTS Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed)

PLUMBING & HEATING CORP.

Service Plumbers & HVAC Technicians NEEDED!!!

Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced Residential, Commercial and Industrial Plumbers and HVAC Technicians for both our Bonnyville and Lac La Biche Locations.

Various Shifts available (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket and H2S • be experienced in Service work • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Driver Licence and Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages,10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages, Cell phones, Company Truck. We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

DEER PARK AREA Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA

Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

Rowell Cl. Reichley St. & Robinson Cres. area.

115 Papers $616./mo Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

800

www.trican.ca

Class 1 or 3.

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 driver’s abstract @403-309-0846 or erebhahn@ performanceenergy.ca or drop off at 5, 7957 Edgar Industrial Way, Red Deer.

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Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

WATER WELL

•

860

Truckers/ Drivers

to join an enthusiastic and LOCAL freight company rapidly expanding company. req’s P & D body job driver All applicants must be for Red Deer/Edmonton run. flexible for hours and Fax resume and driver’s dedicated due to a abstract to Rocky Fast demanding production Express 403-845-2432 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 Performance Energy email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca. We thank Services Inc. is seeking exp’d all applicants for their N2 & Cement applications, but only those Operators, bulk selected for an interview driver’s with a valid will be contacted.

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

with Ag experience for our Red Deer location.

This individual will also act This is a fast-paced as the shop foreman and environment and ideal insure that the shop is kept candidate would be able clean and organized. to work with minimal This position will be home supervision, have the 95% of the time. ability to take initiative and On average 2-3 nights a consistently demonstrate month out of town. exceptional customer service. Regular Schedule, 5/2 or 10/4 Competitive Wages, Benefits, FUTURE AG INC. Dedicated Service Truck.

“People You Can Count On”, Applicant must have a is offering the opportunity clean Driver’s Abstract to grow in your career with a thriving company.

To apply please email We offer an exemplary your resume to: benefits package, hour, Gerry@oilbossrentals.com annual work boot or fax to 1-866-914-7507 reimbursement, RRSP plan, sick days, monthly bonus Something for Everyone and continuous professional Everyday in Classifieds 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, TRUE POWER ELECTRIC forward your resume to: Requires Future Ag Inc. Attn: Barry Box 489 QUALIFIED Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 2nd year to Fax 403-342-0396 JOURNEYMAN hr@futureag.ca

Trades

850

overhead crane operator

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Agricultural Technicians and/or • Journeyman Heavy • • Duty Mechanics

LOCAL Construction Company now hiring EXPERIENCED CLASS 1 DRIVERS. Please fax resumes to 403-347-6296

Trades

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for an experienced

Requires

BUSY sheet metal company requires INSTALLER for residential new housing.

Must have experience, own tools and valid driver’s license. Immediate position. Please fax resume to: 403-309-8302 or e-mail: info@ comfortecheating.com CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for SCHEDULING / SERVICE MANAGER 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 @carpetcolourcentre.com or drop off at Carpet Colour Centre, 1100, 5001 - 19 Street Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1

850

Trades

328905K9

Oilfield

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

in

Johnstone Park

...Join our Team!

Jones Cres. & Juniper Close

Mustang Acres

Scan to see Current Openings

6940 63 Ave.

327937K1-30

Normandeau

WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

Nyman Cres.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Nov. 7, 2013 D3

880

Misc.

Help

Misc.

Help

880

880

Misc.

Help

Children's Items

1580

KIDS WOODEN PLAYHOUYSE FURNITURE - Free. 403-342-5609

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

DEERPARK AREA Doran Cres., & Dunn Cl. Area $65/mo.

ALSO Doran Cres. & Doan Ave, Area $64/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA 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.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Allan St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St.

Canada Malting Company

POSITION TITLE: Elevator Operator LOCATION: Niobe, Alberta POSITION SCOPE: Reporting to the Elevator Manager, the Elevator Operator is responsible for receiving and loadout of grain in a safe, efficient, and traceable manner.

RESPONSIBILITIES: General • Bin grain varieties and trace • Loadout grain varieties and trace • Safe operations in all weather conditions • Elevator maintenance and housekeeping • Other routine duties as assigned SKILLS & EXPERIENCE: General • Familiarity with agriculture • industry • Mechanical aptitude • Ability to work • independently • Some physical demands EDUCATION: Minimum Grade 12 COMPENSATION: A competitive compensation and benefits package will be provided.

CONTACT: Interested applicants should forward a cover letter and resume by end of day Friday November 16, 2013 Tanya Idt Human Resources - CMC tanya.idt@ canadamalting.com 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.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Clothing

MEN’S WINTER BIB OVERALLS. Size Large. $40.

Boots, size 12. $40.

Large jacket, $50.

403-342-5609

INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

PANT Suit, black, Evan Picone, sz. 10, like new. $25. 403-314-9603

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

EquipmentHeavy

Ingram Close / Inglewood Dr. Ibbotson Close Ireland Cres.

LANCASTER AREA

LUBE RACK TECHNICIAN

req`d for busy dealershop.

Service & Automotive experience an asset, but will train a motivated, responsible individual.

Full time position with benefits and good working conditions.

Drop off resume Attn: Service Manager or email: bert.rumsey@telus.net

SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Sutton Close VANIER AREA Voisin Close

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.) in:

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316 DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold 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.

LABORERS wanted for snow removal. Must be able to obtain a criminal records check 403-506-8928 or fax 403-506-5814

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

COUCH, CHAIR & FOOT STOOL. All Matching. Yellow & Gold print. Good cond.

No stains or tears. $50.

403-342-6943 after 7 p.m. or 403-347-2374 during the day.

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

WANTED P/T CASHIER, week Antiques, furniture and nights 4 pm -8 pm. Apply estates. 342-2514 with resume to Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

WOOD STEREO CABINET. - Free. 403-342-5609 REG COX FEEDMIXERS Req’s F/T In Service Shop, exp’d with farm equipment Stereos and the ability to weld.

TV's, VCRs Apply fax 403-341-5622

1730

Seeking Purchasing Administrator Responsibilities include: Manage input & tracking of purchase orders - present for review, obtain necessary approvals, and submit to vendors & proof vendor order confirmations.

Administering price lists, organizing & gathering promotional information from vendors & stores & generating monthly sales reports.† Post-secondary education or equivalent experience relating to procurement an asset.

Strong computer skills, with proficiency using Microsoft Office and proven ability to create and maintain complex analysis reports in spreadsheets.

Attention to detail, multitask oriented, strong communication & superior organizational, time management & problem solving skills required.† Remuneration based on education and experience.

Excellent benefits.† APPLY NOW! Email resume to careers@chatters.ca Fax resume to 1-888-409-0483 Online @ www.chatters.ca SERVICE DRIVER wanted for Little Jons Portable Toilet Services Drivers abstract required greg@littlejons.ca or fax resume to 403-342-6179 THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

1720

CHEST of drawers, 3 night tables $100 obo for all, or buy separately 403-347-0104

Highland Green Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

6’ NEXT TO NEW OFFICE DESK. Light caramel colour. $100. 403-347-7405

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

wegot

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Building Supplies

1550

CEDAR Clad solid core wood door, 24” wide with frame. Asking $100.

403-227-2976

KITTENS (2) SIAMESE (1) BALINESE & (1) BURMAN $50/ea. 403-887-3649

1840

Dogs

PS2 with 10 games; $50. firm; Pioneer speakers 150 Watts each. $50 obo. older XBox with 15 games $75. obo.

403-782-3847 STEREO, mini Phillips 5 disc. $55. obo; X Box 360 games (10) $10. each.

403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

3030

1860

SPACEMATE Gold treadmill $100 403-309-3117

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050 3060

2 BDRM. APT. downtown. $800/month. No pets, N/S Ph: 403-346-0824.

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

1760

2190

25 BOOKS (250 pages) full of illustrations only of masterpieces of natural crafts & cloths. $200 for all.

403-347-7405 CANON K920 copier with metal stand, exc. cond. $100; Wooden slider, rocking chair w/ottoman; $100. 403-352-8811 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino DISHES & misc. items, 1 box, all items good cond. $20. 403-314-9603 INDOOR/OUTDOOR ELECTRIC HEALTH GRILL. $45. 403-347-8726 LOOKING FOR WRAP GIRLS. Must be passionate about helping others, self motivated & hard working.

No exp. required.

Call or text Jaclyn at 403-396-8504 or email: keepfitgirl@hotmail.ca LOVE seat, pink & white stripe, ideal for bedroom, exc. cond. $150; commercial black office chair with adjustments, $40. glass canister, gallon size with silver cover $10; 403-352-8811

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

PONOKA: 2 bdrm. ($700), 1 bdrm. ($680) blinds, heat water, fridge, stove. Adult building, no smoking, no pets. 403-783-2786 Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom suites perfect for all walks of life. Cat friendly. Plaza Apartments: 1(888)7849279 rentmidwest.com

THE NORDIC

3090 3140

APPROX. 4900 sq. ft. bay, heated, (2) O/H. 14’ doors, front windows, room for mezzanine. 403-318-4848 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

3030

LEGACY ESTATES Best Adult Retirement Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury condo unit. $800 + utils.

Call Joe 403-848-0266

Organs

1790

WANTED: wild meat and beef for greyhound diets.

Freezer burnt ok,749-3242

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Businesses For Sale

Misc.

Automotive

4140

HAIR SALON FOR SALE. Owners retiring. Large well established clientele.

403-358-2470

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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 Bonneyville 4 dr., 403-352-6995

VIEW 3190 ALL OUR PRODUCTS

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

GUARANTEED DELIVERY If your paper is wet, torn or missed, call our Circulation Dept. and we’ll gladly replace your paper.

CALL 314-4300

PUBLIC NOTICES

4000-4190

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

6010

Public Notices

CLASSIFICATIONS

4010

5240

at www.garymoe.com

homes

Realtors & Services

5200

5040

2007 TOYOTA FJ Cruiser, C Package, auto., loaded 75,000 kms. $18,900. Very nice, trades considered.

403-598-0682

STORESMART SELF-STORAGE NOTICE OF SALE Goods shall be sold by public auction (sale conducted by Lakeland Auction Services) on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2013 at 1:00 p.m., at StoreSmart Self-Storage, 29 McKenzie Crescent, Red Deer County, Alberta, to satisfy outstanding charges for self-storage rental incurred by the following: GRAHAM JONES ROGER BAJZAROWICZ RALPH MORRIS ANDREW MONTAGUE

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

Contractors

1100

1130

WA N T E D : S t . A n d r e w s Presbyterian Church in In- Eavestroughing nisfail is looking for an organist or pianist for Sun- VELOX EAVESTROUGH day morning service.

Cleaning & Repairs.

403-227-3604 ask for Ann Reasonable rates. 340-9368

1810

4090

Manufactured Homes

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

1000-1430

DALE’S Home Reno’s GUITAR Amplifier, Rocker Free estimates for all your RX-100, 7 Watt, Asking reno needs. 403-506-4301 $50. obo. 403-227-2976 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Piano &

Pets & Supplies

NEW CONDO

5190

Auto Wreckers

CLASSIFICATIONS

SEALY Posterpedic Pillow Accounting To p d b l . m a t t r e s s a n d frame $400; like new water cooler $50 403-782-6757 INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

WORK BOOTS, (2) new with oilfield service size 10/11 safety toe, companies, other small insulated $55 ea.; businesses and individuals BOOTS, (2) sz. 10/11 RW Smith, 346-9351 new, insulated, $30. ea.

403-887-4981

1770

4040

wegotservices

POTTERY soup set with urn and ladle, bowls, casserole dishes and plates, brand new wash a gift, $150; 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean, will sell separately. $50. for all 3. 403-352-8811

Musical Instruments

Condos/ Townhouses

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Mobile Lot

5110

UPDATED 1331 sq.ft. home Fifth Wheels in Mountview. $404,000.

On Red Deer Kijiji 4464 34 Street.

2010 40 FOOT CEDAR 403-350-6926 CREEK 5TH WHEEL, THREE SLIDES,LOADED www.laebon.com ASKING $39,000.00 OBO. Laebon Homes 346-7273 PH 403-843-7295

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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

Condos/ Townhouses

2008 Ram 1500 Reg/Cab Short Box SXT Sport. Ph. 587-877-0960

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Houses/ Duplexes

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

TIMOTHY & Brome square MOBILE HOME PAD, in bales, great for horses, apRed Deer Close to Gaetz, prox. 60 lbs. put up dry 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. and covered, $5/bale 2 ELECTRIC fireplaces, alSharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 Sylvan area.

403-887-2798 most new, 20” x 13” x 24” $75, 27” x 15” x 24” $100 403-227-4188 2011 24” YARDWORKS snow blower $500; Sears Everlast elliptical, new $350 403-340-3344

2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires. $17,900. 403-346-9816

MORRISROE MANOR

Warehouse Space

2000-2290

Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

1443 SQ. FT. CONDO. Great location.

SOLD SOLD

ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436

CLASSIFICATIONS

MASON MARTIN HOMES

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Rooms For Rent

AGRICULTURAL

5050

Trucks

3040

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

BODY Solid equip. Pd. $1800. Asking $750 obo., Great cond. 403-597-3958 Cash Only

2001 CHEV Venture, 161,000 kms., good shape, clean, N/S. $1900. obo.

403-352-2339

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, CONTACT JIM @ 403-396-6247 Available 2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ Dec. 15, jim@reversion.ca 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888.

Manufactured 348-8788 Sport & Import Homes FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, Newly Reno’d Mobile prices, address, owner’s FREE Shaw Cable + more phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer $950/month www.homesreddeer.com Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Suites

Sporting Goods

5040

SUV's

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

ORIOLE PARK

F1B GOLDEN DOODLES, black now but will brindle as they get older. Non shedding, well handled, long time breeder. $900.

Delivered to Alberta.

Text 306-521-1371 or call 306-792-2113 www.furtettishfarm.ca

4020

Houses For Sale

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

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Dec 1 403-304-5337

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Household Furnishings

In the towns of:

IN DESPERATE NEED OF A RESCUE. Must find h o m e f o r 8 - 1 0 y r. o l d black/white spayed F, kind of grumpy, crippled with stiff back leg and on occassion can’t find litter box ASAP. Must find home or be put down 403-783-5493

AFFORDABLE

1710

For afternoon delivery once per week

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

Homestead Firewood

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner MATURE CARETAKERS BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 for 32 room motel in Forestburg, AB. Couple preferred. Handyman work, exp. in motels and computer Household knowledge 1-604-725-4448 Appliances email: jmann47@gmail.com OVER the range microwave oven $100; GE electronic stove self cleaning oven w/convection $7403-318-3676 NEWSPAPER

CARRIERS REQUIRED

4 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. Mother can go too.

403-782-3031

1660

LOGS

Logan Close Lawford Ave / Leonard Cres.

Firewood

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Ladwig Close Lord Close

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

1590

COAT, long camel, women’s, with hood, sz. M. $15. 403-314-9603

Allsop Ave / Allsop Close

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ARE you looking for a seasonal full time delivery driver position? We are looking for a safe exp’d and professional Class 1 or Class 5 driver. Common sense, a positive attitude and a clean drivers abstract will be a definate asset.

Typically this position is Mon. - Fri. but can include some weekends. Rate of pay depends on exp.

Please contact Shayne at Central Alberta Green House Ltd. 403-885-4606 Ext. 330 or fax resume to 403-885-4147 email. acct2cag@telus.net

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

278950A5

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

1830

Cats

Condos/ Townhouses

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ARROW WOODWORKING Specializing in counter tops, cabinetry & basic home repairs. Free Estimates.

403-346-7915, 877-5876 ATT’N: Looking for a new sidewalk, help on small jobs around the house, such as small tree cutting, landscaping, painting or flooring?

Call James 403-341-0617 GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

Massage Therapy

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

UNWANTED Yard & House Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

Painters/ Decorators

1310

PRO-PAINTING &

VII MASSAGE REPAIRS 403-304-0379 #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Seniors’ Pampering at its BEST! Services 403-986-6686 Come in and see HELPING HANDS Home why we are the talk Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, of the town. cooking - in home, in facility. www.viimassage.biz We are BETTER for

1372

Executive Touch Misc.

Massage (newly reno’d) Services (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650 TCM & Lensen Therapy Cover all insurance 8 am-9 pm 4606-48 Ave 403-986-1691 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

1280

1290

CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

Yard Care

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving Central AB. 403-318-4346

403-352-4034 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

WHAT’S HAPPENING

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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013

Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

CRAFTS OF REMEMBRANCE

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday School’s Out: Despicable Me Minion Madness Party on Nov. 8, 2 to 4 p.m. for children ages eight and up will feature the movie, games, activities, snacks and more at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library in the Children’s Department. Phone 4034-346-4688.

Jam and dance at Royal Canadian Legion in Lacombe will be held on the second and fourth Friday of each month from 7 to 10 p.m. Next sessions will be Nov. 8 and 22. Admission $2. Free coffee served. Contact Henry at 403-789-3738.

What a Girl Wants — Ladies Only Gourmet Breakfast and Fashion Show — in support of Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter will be held at Bower Place Shopping Centre on Nov. 8 from 7 to 9 a.m. Tickets are $40 each or $150 for a table of four. To find out more, see www.cawes. com or phone 403-318-2321. The theme is Little Black Dress.

Soroptimist International of Central Alberta Guys in Ties Girls in Pearls 25th Birthday party fundraiser event, Nov. 8 at Black Knight Inn starting at 6 p.m. Guys break out those funny ties. Girls string some beads or pearls. Nonformal event. Tickets cost $80 per person, or $600 for a table of eight. Buffet dinner, door prizes, best dressed table prizes, contests, barter bucks, duelling DJs, and more. Proceeds support women and girls locally and globally. For tickets, contact dolly.2@hotmail.com, lrienguette@hotmail.com, 403348-9707.

Cottonwood-Gordon Agricultural Society Christmas Craft Sale will feature artist Maryanne Styner, Ukrainian egg painter, and other artisans and crafters presenting their quilting, jewelry, baking, photography, art, ceramic paintings, specialty teas, sewn clothing, and more on Nov. 8 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the hall just south of Innisfail, take overpass 13 miles west on Cottonwood Road, just past RR. 30. Door prizes. Lunch available with donations to the Christmas Bureau. Call Sharon at 403-2272489, Linda at 403-224-2273, or Lucille at 403-350-1490.

Nu2U Thrift Store in Olds is open Tuesday to Friday from noon to 5 p.m. at 5030 51 St. The store offers furniture, home decor, housewares, antiques, collectibles, and more. Phone 403-556-3279. Profits go to community initiatives.

Heritage Ranch Winter Night Lights Tours are available.

See www.heritageranch.ca for the details and to book a tour, or phone 403-347-4977.

Innisfail Public Library hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Phone 403-227-4407.

Saturday Chess Club is offered in the children’s department at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch on Nov. 9 from 2 to 3 p.m. Children ages eight years and up, from beginners to experienced players are invited. On alternate weekends, chess sets are available to borrow for practice with other chess lovers in the library. Phone 403-346-4688.

Senior Citizens Downtown House musical jam session are held the second Saturday of each month at 1:30 p.m. Next session Nov. 9. Admission $2.50. Phone 403-346-4043.

MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Nov. 9 session is called R is for Remember with artist Carlene La Rue. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405.

Free with admission.

Helping Hands Harvest Gala in support of Victim Support Society will be held on Nov. 9 at Black Knight Inn. Tickets are $75 each or $600 for a table of eight. There will be raffle draws, auctions, and entertainment by Randi Boulton and The Band Porter, as well as live painter, Lewis Lavoie.

Tickets available from Black Knight Tickets. Donations greatly appreciated. Tax receipts available. To find out more, phone 403-392-2412.

Ponoka Senior Drop-In Centre jam session will be cancelled on Nov. 9. Phone Linda at 403-783-8461.

Twist and Twirl scarf workshop will be featured at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Nov. 9 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Alix Wagon Wheel Museum will be open Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Remembrance Day, with a bake sale at 10 a.m.

Soap and Slipper Workshop will be offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Nov. 9, 1 to 4 p.m. Learn how to make two great stocking stuffers in one informative workshop. All materials provided. Pre-registration required Nov. 7. Cost is $15 for Nature Centre members or $17 for non-members (plus GST).

Phone 403-346-2010 to register.

Annual Judy Schweitzer Curl for a Cure Funspiel in support of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) will be held on Nov. 9 at Michener Hill Curling Club Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii will be presented by Cow Patti Theatre Company running Nov. 14 to Dec. 15 at Lacombe Golf and Country Club. Dinner and Brunch Theatre shows available. Shows on the following dates will support the following local charities: Nov. 14 — Ponoka Hospital Foundation; Nov. 20 — All That Jazz — Let the Children Dance; Nov. 23 — Father Lacombe Knights of Columbus; Dec. 4 — Rotary Club of Lacombe Daybreak; Dec. 5 — Medical Mercy of Canada; Dec. 7 — Ponoka Air Cadets. Phone 403-782-3956, after hours and weekends 403-304-6329, 403-784-2294 or theatre@ cowpatti.com.

Kerry Wood Nature Centre offers two children’s workshops next weekend. The Kids’ Christmas Present Workshop will be on Nov. 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. for children ages seven to 12 years, and features a nature walk, and making a crafty gift with all materials supplied for a cost of $15 for Nature Centre members, and $17 for non-members (plus GST). Registration required by Nov. 14. The Kids’ Winter Bird Feeding Workshop takes place on Nov. 17 starting at 2 p.m. and is intended for children ages six to 13 years who are interested in learning about common winter birds, and building a bird feeder to take home. The cost is $7 for Nature Centre members and $8 for non-members (plus GST).

Adults must accompany child(ren). Pre-registration is required. For both programs phone 403-346-2010 to register.

Red Deer Hospice Gala 2014 will take place on Jan. 17 at Sheraton Hotel starting at 6 p.m. New this year is a chance to cook with celebrity chefs Massimo Capri and Michael Bonacini, and the opportunity to cook on stage with the chefs. Canadian Country Music nominated Jo Hikk will provide the music following the dinner. Tickets on

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer and District Museum and Art Gallery visitor services employee Rosie Townsend holds up a poppy at the museum this week. On Saturday, the museum will host its weekly MAGnificent Saturdays session, which is titled R Is For Remembrance. The family-oriented craft day from 1 to 4 p.m. will have a Remembrance Day theme and is an event for the whole family. starting at 10 a.m. Cheer on the curlers and support the ALS Society with 50/50 draws, and raffles. Phone 403-302-9689 to find out more.

Central Alberta Vintage Motorcycle Group Annual Ride for Children leaves Precision Cycle at 1 p.m. on its way to Red Deer Food Bank on Nov. 9. All proceeds — food and money — will go to the food bank. Contact John at 403-3475900 (days).

Red Deer Runners meet at the Red Deer Recreation Centre every Saturday at 9 a.m., and Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Distances and routes vary between 8 and 12 km. After the Saturday run, the group meets at City Roast, and at Original Joe’s after the run on Wednesday. See www.reddeerrunners. org

Monday Red Deer Remembrance Day ceremony will be at 10 a.m. at Red Deer Arena.

Korea Veterans Association Remembrance Day ceremony will be at 10:50 a.m. at Veterans Park.

Tuesday Get that eBook — teens 12 to 18 years are invited to learn how — Nov. 12, 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. at Dawe Branch or Red Deer Public Library. Please bring your wifi-enabled mobile device.

Winter Art in the Garden show and sale will be held at Parkland Garden Centre in conjunction with the garden centre’s Annual Christmas Preview evening on Nov. 12 from 5 to 8 p.m. Works of local artist Suzanne Le Beau, other artists and musicians and much more will be featured. Admission by donation to Red Deer Food Bank Society. Phone 403-3465613.

The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $17 for new members and $12 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit www.centralalbertamopar.ca/ The Parkland Cross Country Ski Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7:30 p.m. The next meeting will be Nov. 12. Novice to experienced cross country skiers welcome. Visit parklandxskiclub.org or phone 403-346-1311.

Wednesday Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. A documentary film will be shown on a variety of issues from the environment to history and anything in between, and then discussion will follow, facilitated by a staff member.

The Gatekeepers will be shown on Nov. 13. Free. Phone 403-

346-2100.

Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is Nov. 13. Presentations on epilepsy are available for organizations. Phone 403-358-3358 or email normak@epilepsycalgary.com.

Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. The next dates are Nov. 13 and 27. For more information, call 403-749-2047 and 403-749-3361.

Ponoka United Church Thrift Shop is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come in and shop for the whole family. For more information call Mary at 403-783-5030, or Jessie at 403-783-8627.

Drop-in Time for Twos is offered on Wednesdays from 11 to 11:45 a.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch Children’s Department. Busy two year olds and their parents and caregivers are invited to join in rhymes, songs, books, and puppets to keep both their minds and their bodies moving. Afterwards, play and interact using age appropriate toys, puzzles, books and craft materials. Phone 403-346-4688.

Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with Badlanders II is on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

Norwegian Laft Hus is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit the butikk, enjoy lefse, and much more at the log house with the sod roof behind the Red Deer Recreation Centre, south of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Contact norwegianlafthus@ gmail.com, 403-347-2055.

Thursday, Nov. 14 That Tween Thing is offered at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch on the second Thursday of each month from 4 to 5 p.m. Tweens ages nine to 12 years are invited to games, crafts, food and prizes on the theme of It’s All Fund and Games in the Snell Auditorium on Nov. 14.

Crafty Creators Coffee Shop for adults and teens aged 16 years and up will be offered Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Learn a new craft or bring your own in to work on. Enjoy a coffee/tea/hot chocolate.

Jewelry makers workshop will be held on Nov. 14.

After School Club is offered on Thursdays at 3:30 to 5 p.m. for teens and tweens to take part in games, movies, music and more at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch.

S’no Joke! Winter Crafts will be the theme on Nov. 14. Phone 403-341-3822.

Red Deer TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets Thursday nights at the Elks Lodge, 6315 Horn Street. Weekly weigh in from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. with program to follow at 7 p.m. Low membership and weekly fees. Drop in for a free session or call Jo-Anne at 403-347-3939.

Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Nov. 14, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Country Express Band. Admission is $7.

Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS sale now for $200 at www.reddeerhospice. com, or 403-309-4344. Sponsorship opportunities are also available.

Hearts of Harmony presents a barbershop a capella concert — Remembering Christmas — Nov. 30 at Living Stones Church. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. with the performance at 2 p.m. Costs are $15 for ages 13 years and up, and $5 for ages 12 to five.

Contact Judy at 403-342-7842, or Darlene at 403-227-5448.

Heart Wise, a free, three-hour group session offered by Alberta Health Services, will be held on Dec. 13 from 9 a.m. to noon at Bethany CollegeSide. Nutrition and food service professionals will share their knowledge and guide discussions to help individuals manage their heart health. To register, call 1-877-314-6997.

Reel Movie Mondays continues at Carnival Cinemas on Nov. 18 with Fruitvale Station (14A), Dec. 2 with Parkland — 50 Years after JFK’s assassination (PG), Dec. 16 with The Art of Steal — with Canadian comedic content. Packages of five tickets are $35 for members or $45 for non-members.

Single tickets are $8 for members or $10 for non-members. Memberships and tickets can be purchased in advance from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery by calling 403-3098405.

Klaglahachie Fine Arts Society presents Sound of Music on Nov. 29, 30, Dec. 1,

6, 7, 8, 13 and 14 at Ponoka United Church.

Tickets now on sale. Call 403-783-4087.

Benalto Christmas Sale and Cookie Walk now offering table rentals for the sale on Nov. 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Benalto Community Hall. Costs are $15 per table. To book tables phone 403-746-5494 or 403-3409441. Hosted by Benalto Royal Purple supporting community projects, and food counter hosted by Benalto Shadow Riders Horse Club.

Teen Empowerment Day will be celebrated on Nov. 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Red Deer College Cenovus Learning Commons in Red Deer. Youth ages 13 to 17 years are invited to hear speakers Madison Fertig — Miss Teen Red Deer, AJ Mahoney — high school teacher, Chad Olsen — on the impact of drinking and driving, Lyle Cheney — on martial arts and self defence, and Shane Feldman — Toronto speaker, actor, humanitarian, activist, leader, teenager, and Darren Jacklin — how to stay positive and much more. Full details and registration at http://TeenEmpowermentDay.eventzilla.net Weight Wise free interactive workshops led by Alberta Health Services professionals will be offered to local residents at the Education Room at Bethany CollegeSide.

Workshops run Oct. 7 to Dec. 16 and are suitable for people aged 17 years and over.

Family members are welcome to attend. Not suitable for pregnant women. Participants are

welcome to attend all or some workshops.

For details, topics, and to register, phone 1-877-314-6997.

Stettler Social Society supper and dance is held on the third Thursday of every month from Sept. to June at Stettler Legion Hall. Live bands each time. Dance from 5 to 6 p.m. Hot supper from 6 to 7 p.m. Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets at the door cost $17.50 per person, or $10 for dance only. Phone 403-742-5640. All ages welcome. The Five Plus One band will be performing on Nov. 21.

Target Senior Falls workshop will be held on Nov. 19 at CrossRoads Church. Registration is $10, and includes lunch. Contact Safe Communities Central Alberta at 403346-8101, or scca@telus.net to register.

Red Deer Chamber Singers Annual Renaissance Music production will be presented on Nov. 28 and 29 at The Chalet at the Westerner Park. The Dessert Night presentation will he on Nov. 28 at a cost of $25 per ticket, with doors opening at 7 p.m., and the concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Feast Night presentation will be Nov. 29 for a cost of $65 per ticket, with the doors opening at 6 p.m., and the concert beginning at 6:30 p.m.

While the music is primarily Renaissance-era related, there will also be a mixture of carols and some contemporary music. Contact Diane at 403-347-6567, or getpacking@hotmail.com, to purchase tickets. Enjoy the 20th anniversary production!

Mountview/Sunnybrook Community Association Annual General Meeting will be on Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m. at Mountview Skate Shelter. The association is also seeking volunteers to supervise the skate shelter on weekday evenings, or be part of the executive committee. Contact Roberta at 403-3470024.

Listings open to cultural/non-profit groups. Fax: 341-6560; phone: 314-4325; e-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com by noon Thursday for insertion following Thursday.

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HOROSCOPES Thursday, Nov. 7 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Morgan Spurlock, 43; Earl Boen, 68; Jason London, 41 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: A gorgeous day is ready to present itself to us. As long as you are a fan of intensity and passion, this day will turn out to be quite hot and sizzling! The Moon in Capricorn unites with Pluto denoting great concentration powers. Moreover, the Sun, Mars and Saturn’s presence will allow us to carry on and remain ASTRO purposeful and determined on our DOYNA road ahead. When Venus greets Neptune in the sky today, there is little left to our imagination when it comes to love.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, a highly intense year will unravel for you. New faces will enter your life and your social sphere will pick up greatly. Many of the occurrences that you will develop throughout the year will tend to feel fated in a way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are determined to get ahead in life and prove higher ups of your mastery skills.

There is a remarkable motivation and drive that pushes you to do your job properly and quite diligently. Nothing intimidates you now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Look at life from another angle and allow yourself to experience more than you are accustomed to. There is an entire world waiting for you out there, but you have to be very willing and daring to embark on this discovery journey.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your everyday tasks increase in number. There is a higher than usual obligation that seems to push you to accomplish more in less time. This responsibility will not be an impediment to achieving results. You will manage to multi-task successfully.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Aside a head-to-head episode with your boss, your day should go very smoothly. Your interactions prove intense and you may find yourself firmer with others. Any sales negotiations or public speaking will get you the attention you seek.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is a do-it-yourself kind of day for you. You will exhaust most of your efforts into a pile of duties or give it all in a fitness routine. Improved habits and a judicious lifestyle will give you great health benefits.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Conversations with a loved one may prove intense and serious. At this time, you will put a greater emphasis on your relationship and on your common goals. You strive to get tangible results, not only sweet promises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are content spending more time around the house and familiar grounds. During this time, you will find yourself looking for creative ways to beautify your space. You seek more light and colour in your everyday life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are able to express yourself with greater creativity and a more soft-spoken language. The manner in which you present yourself matter to you a lot and you will expect the same kind of diplomatic behaviour from others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is quite a lot of action going there behind the scenes. You may be having confidential talks with someone who is willing to help you. It is imperative for you not to overly trust just any random individual at this time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are a go-getter and your motivation is apparent. There is no doubt that you want to go far in your aspirations and you are determined to give it all it takes. Much of your effort is put into higher learning and improving your knowledge in a certain field.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may try to conclude something of great importance in your life. A past lover may suddenly reappear into your life leaving you hopeful and dreamy. Enjoy while it lasts, but don’t forget to wake up when you need to face reality.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your social circle expands and you may encounter someone that will spark your interest.

A friend may become more than just a platonic relationship.

Your tolerance for others increases and you may idealize them more than you should.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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LONDON — Wool’s wool is missing.

Police in southwest England appealed for help Tuesday in tracking down thieves who made off with 160 sheep from a field near the village of Wool. Police say the sheep were stolen

Parents don’t want to control son, they just worry Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our 80s. We ankle injury, evaluate your potential heart attack, have three wonderful kids, all married, who live or determine whether you are having a stroke or nearby. We have always been close. whether your laceration needs stitches.

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Dear Mother: Some children understand a parent’s I consider myself an introvert. I get along well fears and will call regularly, not only so Mom and with many people, but it never becomes more than Dad don’t worry, but also to check and make sure the an acquaintanceship. I was in a needlework group parents are OK. But not all kids think this way. Your for 15 years and never truly fit in. I am involved in son interprets this as “controlling,” although that is my church, but have not made any friends. I suspect not the intent. He otherwise seems to be a good son, it may have to do with reading body language. I can’t so please try to compromise. interpret the signals I’m getting and don’t realize Some people avoid phone calls because they re- when I need to make the next move. quire an actual conversation. Perhaps he or his wife Counseling didn’t supply any revelations. Over would be willing to send a group text or email to time, I have come to enjoy being alone. I love my both sides of the family, including you or one of your husband’s company, but I sometimes wish I had other children, who could then let you know he’s out someone to go shopping with. — Not Quite Lonely in of town. Ask whether this would work better for him. Virginia (Facebook is not a good way to do this — strangers Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and can learn that your house is unoccupied.)

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between Saturday and Monday, and that the thieves would have needed a large vehicle to move the woolly haul.

Constable Adam Taylor says all of the sheep were electronically tagged.

He is urging anyone who has witnessed suspicious activity — or been offered sheep “in unusual circumstances or for very low prices” — to come forward.

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