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Red Deer Advocate TUESDAY, NOV. 12, 2013
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Lest we forget BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Rev. Don Lewis, padre for Branch 35 of the Royal Canadian Legion, looked to the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah for a message to the masses gathered for Remembrance Day services inside the Red Deer Arena on Monday. He spoke of the endea- TRADITION UNFOLDS vour, the courage and the AT WAR MEMORIAL A3 endurance of those who had been exiled from their homes, drawing parallels with those who have been called to duty in battles around the world, from Passchendaele to Korea, from Sicily to Afghanistan. “We are called to remember the approximately 150,000 young Canadian men and women who have
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battles, but in whose hearts and minds and bodies this morning the wars are still raging,” said Lewis, pointing to the ongoing struggle of those who live with the effects of battle, including post-traumatic stress.
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Co-op membership and a newspaper subscription have paid massive dividends for a Red Deer couple. Their big challenge will be how to divvy up the prize — a $3,000 gift card for Central Alberta Co-op stores. Glenda Stoller’s name was the last drawn from the 12 finalists in the 2013 Great Grocery Giveaway, an annual contest put on by Central Alberta Co-op and Red Deer Advocate. Offered a grand prize of $1,500, entrants were told that their prize would double if the winners were Advocate subscribers — and they were, publisher Fred Gorman told the finalists gathered at Deer Park Co-op in Red Deer for the draw on Saturday morning. Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/ Stoller said she and Advocate staff her husband, Mark, live Glenda Stoller of Red near the store, and they Deer selects a few apples have been Co-op memafter being named grand bers and Advocate subprize winner in the Great scribers for years.
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given their lives in the struggle, the ongoing struggle, for freedom and justice in the world,” said Lewis. But remembrance does not stop there, he said. Canadians are also called to honour and thank those who still suffer today and those who are now on active duty, he said. “We are called to remember those who fought for those very same values and who were not killed in
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Wreaths were laid in honour of those whose lives were lost at war during the Remembrance Day service at the Red Deer Arena on Monday.
BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Attendance was up by an estimated 20 per cent at the 30th edition of Agri-Trade, which wrapped up on Saturday, says the show’s general manager. Dianne Smirl, who has taken the reins from founding manager Patrick Kennedy, said on Sunday that she won’t have any precise numbers until next month, after figures have been audited. Unofficially, however, numbers are stronger than last year, when about 40,000 people passed through the turnstiles at Red Deer’s Westerner Park, occupied entirely by Agri-Trade during the four days of the show. Those numbers may have been higher, but attendance last year was affected by a bad storm on the first two days, said Smirl. Changes to this year’s show, including moving the former Home Happenings section out of the Salons and replacing it with Market Place, located in the Harvest Centre, did affect traffic for those exhibitors, she said. Calgary-based Peter Tsai, who sells Panasonic massage chairs, said traffic at his booth was down by 50 per cent from previous years. However, Tsai anticipates that more people will attend the Market Place as they become accustomed to the change. He said better signage would have helped. Smirl said people will need a couple of years to get used to the move. Elnora-area farmer Jim Wood, now in his second term as mayor of Red Deer County, said while cruis-
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Jacob Aellen, left, and his brother Emery of Elnora take a seat in the cab of a Case 620 Quadtrac tractor at Agri-Trade over the weekend. ing the aisles on Saturday that he felt “like a kid in a candy store.” Wood said Agri-Trade is where progressive farmers come to get better. “I just come to see what’s new. The neat thing is you come out here to compare, and all the different manufacturers are here.” Red Deer County sponsors Agri-Trade, maintains an exhibit at the show and is involved indirectly as a member of the Westerner Exposition Association.
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Exhibit profiles plucky porker An artful dodger who was immortalized in bronze is now iconified on the walls of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Story on PAGE A7
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