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$90M pool in budget mix COUNCIL TO DISCUSS PROJECT DURING CAPITAL BUDGET TALKS NEXT WEEK

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF At least two Red Deer city councillors want to see an Olympic-sized pool built in the city in time for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

Councillors Paul Harris and Lynne Mulder introduced a joint motion on Monday calling for the city to put an aquatics centre in the city’s 10-year capital budget.

Council waived the usual two-week waiting period for a notice of motion to have the pool discussion along with the 2014 Capital Budget talks next Tuesday.

The estimated price tag for an Aquatics Centre comes in at about $90 million.

Harris said the timing is great because Red Deer is submitting a bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games that comes with sponsorship and grant opportunities and funding from the provincial and federal governments.

“It’s such a great opportunity because the games are coming,” said Harris. “This is the time to do it while our interest rates are low for any borrowing we need to do and to get those grants and sponsorships in place.”

Members of the 2019 Canada Winter Games Bid Committee are currently putting together the final touches on the city’s bid. The proposal does not include an Olympic-sized pool. Council decided to submit a bid where synchronized swimming would be hosted off-site in either Calgary or Edmonton.

Bids must be submitted to the Games Council by Dec. 20.

Lyn Radford, committee chairperson, said the city’s go-ahead on a new swimming pool would definitely

‘THIS IS THE TIME TO DO IT WHILE OUR INTEREST RATES ARE LOW FOR ANY BORROWING WE NEED TO DO AND TO GET THOSE GRANTS AND SPONSORSHIPS IN PLACE.’ — PAUL HARRIS COUNCILLOR

change the bid. Radford said the games are important for the community.

“If it’s the catalyst that brings a pool to our city that’s great too but it still has to be good for the community,” said Radford. “All decisions have to be good for the community as a whole.”

In 2011, city council approved Red Deer Rotary Recreation Park as the location for the facility featuring a 50-metre pool that would finally allow the city to host national competitions.

Harris said the community has been asking for an aquatics centre for several years and it is time the long awaited project becomes a reality.

He said the city is behind smaller cities like Lethbridge and Grande Prairie in terms of infrastructure.

“Do we want the city to be behind the eight-ball,” said Harris. “We’re talking 12 years away before we have a pool of this size under our current plan.”

The centre has been on the city’s long-term wish list for several years but has never been inked in the 10-year capital budget.

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HJ Cody Laker Landon Rosene looks for a way past Ardrossan Bison Arlis Gulde during the Alberta North Regional Tier III Provincial Final at the ME Global Athletic field in Lacombe on Monday night. The Lakers lost 21-14. Please see related story on B7.

SYLVAN LAKE Wildrose skeptical about independence Co-ordinator of provincial health advocates ‘WHAT THEY’VE DONE eyed for lake IS TRY TO APPEASE THE PUBLIC, THINKING THEY management DON’T KNOW ANY BETTER,

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Albertans may be getting healthcare advocates, but the Wildrose Party says putting them under the control of the health minister greatly limits their ability to help patients.

On Monday, the province proclaimed the Alberta Health Act, which establishes a health charter and sets out the province’s commitment to the principles of the Canada Health Act. A Health Care Advocate office will also be created where a Health Advocate, Seniors’ Advocate and Mental Health Patient Advocate will be consolidated.

Coincidently on Monday, a private member’s bill from Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle to create an independent seniors’ advocate was coming forward for second reading.

“What they’ve done is try to appease the public, thinking they don’t know any better, and they’ve created another employee of the government,” Towle, MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, said on Monday.

“My bill specifically asked for it to be independent. It asked for the ability to investigate. It asked for the ability to audit. But it also answered to the legislature, so to all parties. And it made its reports and its findings public.”

She said the province already had a Mental Health Patient Advocate who worked independently. Now the Tories are eliminating that advocate’s inde-

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AND THEY’VE CREATED ANOTHER EMPLOYEE OF THE GOVERNMENT.’ — KERRY TOWLE WILDROSE MLA

pendence.

Previously, when the province made the Child and Youth Advocate an independent officer of the legislature, the government said it was in the best interest of the children in care, Towle said.

“The exact same thing applies to seniors in care.”

The Health Care Advocate office comes on the heels of the province doing away with the Health Review Committee at the end of the last budget, she said. “(The Health Review Committee) could come unannounced and review a facility. They could actually, physically do the investigation themselves and the government eliminated that committee.”

Towle said health care will remain just as secretive as it is today and won’t guarantee improved care.

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Adding another employee to do that, who is not independent, does not help those clients who need the advocacy.”

The Alberta Health Act will come into force on Jan. 1, when government will appoint a Health Advocate.

The new office, including all advocate roles, will be fully operational by April 1.

The province says the three advocates were consolidated into the Health Advocate’s office to improve collaboration, reduce duplication and streamline administration.

Duties of the Health Advocate will include: ● Assisting Albertans in navigating the health system and linking patients and their families to providers or services. ● Receiving and referring complaints and requesting investigations through appropriate channels. ● Leading implementation, including education and public awareness, of the Health Charter.

The Seniors’ Advocate’s duties will include: ● Requesting inspections, investigations, and quality and safety assessments related to care provided in seniors’ facilities as laid out in Alberta law.

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A municipality-led committee wants to hire someone to oversee the management of Sylvan Lake.

A cumulative effects study is already underway for the popular lake destination to determine the impact of development and recreational activity on lake health.

The Sylvan Lake Management Committee wants to hire a co-ordinator to act as project manager for a management system for the lake. Also part of the co-ordinator’s duties will be to develop a baseline report for the lake, a plan to maintain water quality and to report regularly to the municipalities that make up the committee, including the Town of Sylvan Lake, Lacombe and Red Deer Counties and five summer villages.

It is expected to cost $40,000 to $50,000 to fund the position.

That makes up the bulk of the management committee’s proposed $60,000 budget for 2014.

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Campaign launched to keep students active at school

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A coalition of more than 60 organizations on Monday launched a nation-wide campaign to get schools to allocate at least an hour each day as physical activity time for students.

Called “Active at School,” the campaign is spearheaded by Canadian Tire and supported by the federal government.

Partner organizations comprise sports, health and wellness organizations, including the Canadian Olympic Committee and Nike.

The campaign was announced at Toronto’s Ryerson University by Canadian Tire CEO Stephen Wetmore, who said the coalition will spend the next three months speaking with provincial governments.

Wetmore said he hopes a “game plan” will be developed in the next 12 months.

“Then it’s a matter of going to every region, every school board, and specifically, sometimes, schools, to figure out what the exact program is,” Wetmore said.

Small-town schools may lack funding or equipment, he added, while urban schools may have different challenges, such as safety, due to the higher traffic.

It is hoped all schools will be on board by 2017, Canada’s 150th anniversary, though that is not a hard deadline, Wetmore said.

Youth inactivity is a growing problem, with one-third being obese and only 12 per cent meeting Health Canada guidelines for physical activity, Health Minister Rona Ambrose said at the announcement.

While physical activity is important for all ages, it is “absolutely crucial” for children, Ambrose said, adding that the Ottawa has spent more than $200 million in obesity-related research since 2006.

According to a study released in 2011 by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Public Health Agency, obesity costs the economy at least $4.6 billion a year.

The National Hockey League is one of the campaign’s partner organizations, and commissioner Gary Bettman said the NHL recognizes the importance of getting youth to be active, with numerous teams already running programs that encourage youth participation.

The partner organizations, the NHL included, can use their reach and visibility to get the message of staying active across, Bettman said.

“What’s not possible is to accomplish a goal if you’re just sitting around,” he said.

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CO-ORDINATOR: No cash from Alberta Environment Lacombe County council reviewed the request for $15,000 as its portion of the budget. Council opted to limit its support to the $10,000 it has been giving the management committee in past years. “$10,000 is what we’ve included in our budget for some time to assist the Sylvan Lake Management Committee,” said County commissioner Terry Hager on Monday. “Very rarely have they ever used the funding.”

The county takes no issue with hiring someone to oversee the lake plans — a recommendation made by the county itself previously.

“That wasn’t in question. What was in question was the amount, given that we’re putting other staff resources into it.

“Council felt it would stick with the $10,000.”

Last week, the Town of Sylvan Lake reviewed a similar request and agreed to provide $15,000. Red Deer County council will discuss its $15,000 request

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NASA’s Maven, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Monday in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The spacecraft will orbit Mars and study the planet’s upper atmosphere.

City has no plans to plow residential streets

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer is not planning to clean residential streets, although it is monitoring the situation.

A total of 20 cm of snow fell between Friday and Sunday morning.

City snow clearing crews were busy plowing bridges, and removing windrows and plowing around the hospital on Monday night.

Snow piles were also to be removed on hills, overpasses and arterial roads as the city continues to dig out from the latest storm.

“No parking” signs were put out in the downtown on Monday evening and snow removal is underway today. The remaining $15,000 would be divided among the Summer Villages of Norglenwold, Birchcliff, Half Moon Bay, Sunbreaker Cove and Jarvis Bay. Lacombe County’s decision doesn’t mean the position won’t be filled, said Hager. It may mean reducing the hours from the 20 hours per week originally suggested.

County council also expressed some frustration that Alberta Environment, which proposed the cumulative effects management plan, has not followed up with funding, he said. The province has provided resources, but not cash, through its Red Deer office.

“We think they should be partners in it.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

COUNCIL: Capital budget debate begins Nov. 26 In other council news: ● The 2014 capital budget will be debated starting at 9 a.m. on Nov. 26. Budget talks are expected to continue until 6 p.m. and then council will consider passing it. ● Riverview Park residents will now be able to connect to city services on an individual basis. The area which includes Heritage Ranch was annexed in 2009. Previously the city looked at provision of municipal services on a neighbourhood basis through the local improvement process. This change will al-

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today. By Friday or Saturday, crews expect to be tackling collector roads, such as bus routes and streets around schools.

Depending on the weather, that work can take about 20 days, said Greg Sikora, city public works manager.

There is no plan to do a full street clean at this point, he said.

Meanwhile, sanding crews will continue to hit icy spots and snow will be removed from sidewalks and transit stops.

Drivers are reminded to slow down around snow clearing equipment and leave at least two car lengths from plows and sanders. low residents to opt into the city’s services on an individual cost basis. Council directed administration to prepare a utility bylaw amendment that covers the service costs treating the area as one service area.

Application for the extension of water and sanitary mains to Cronquist Close will be part of the 2014 capital budget deliberations. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

ADVOCATES: Referring concerns, complaints ● Referring concerns and complaints to the appropriate channels. ● Providing information and referrals to seniors, their families, and caregivers regarding governmentfunded seniors’ health, continuing care, and social support programs and services. ● Providing public education on the rights, interests, and needs of seniors.

The Mental Health Patient Advocate’s responsibilities, which will continue according to Mental Health Act, will include: ● Investigating complaints and conducting investigations under the Mental Health Act. ● Assisting patients in understanding and exercising their legal rights under the Mental Health Act. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Families reflect on release of man convicted in Mayerthorpe RCMP shootings EDMONTON — The families of four Alberta Mounties gunned down in 2005 are reflecting as one of the two men convicted in the deaths gets out of prison.

Dennis Cheeseman’s statutory release date is set for today after serving two-thirds of a seven-year, two-month, 15-day sentence for manslaughter. But a source said his release would come one day earlier.

Colleen Myrol, mother of slain Const. Brock Myrol, said she hopes that Cheeseman, 29, will turn his life around.

She said she wants to forgive him, but she can’t just yet.

“I am compelled to forgive, because that is what I believe as a Christian; however, I can’t forget,” Myrol said from her home in Red Deer.

“I would like him to come to my door and knock on it and sit down and talk to me. To forgive, someone has to ask for forgiveness.”

Cheeseman and his brother-in-law, Shawn Hennessey, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for giving James Roszko a rifle and a ride the night before Roszko ambushed the RCMP officers on March 3, 2005, near the town of Mayerthorpe.

The Mounties had been guarding a hut on Roszko’s farm as part of a marijuana grow-op and automobile chop-

shop investigation.

Roszko was shot and wounded by another Mountie and then killed himself.

Rev. Don Schiemann, father of Const. Peter Schiemann, said he wishes Cheeseman well.

“I don’t harbour any bitterness or hatred toward him. To do so would mean to succumb to the same vile motivations which drove James Roszko to ambush and murder those — now known as the Fallen Four,” Schiemann wrote in an email.

“Rather, I look to the example of our Lord who prayed for those who crucified him: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”’

Schiemann is president of the Alberta-British Columbia district of Lutheran Church-Canada.

The other Mounties who died that day were constables Anthony Gordon and Leo Johnston.

Doreen Jewell-Duffy, Gordon’s mother, said it is hard to believe that Cheeseman will be free to live his life when all that is left to her are memories of her son.

“It is just that he gets to go home

and my son will never come home,” she said from her home in central Alberta. “He should serve his years the court had given him.”

Grace Johnston, constable Johnston’s mother, wrote a personal message to Cheeseman to express her feelings about his release.

His statutory release date is Dec. 29, 2015.

Cheeseman had applied for parole in 2011 while at Drumheller Institution, but was also denied. Earlier this year, he cancelled another parole hearing and opted instead to wait for automatic release.

A National Parole Board report earlier this year said Cheeseman, who is from the Barrhead area northwest of Edmonton, is bound to face public hostility when he COLLEEN MYROL, MOTHER OF SLAIN CONST. BROCK MYROL gets out.

The report said Cheeseman “Dennis, I hope you realize how was a model prison inmate, attending fortunate you are to have, in such a school and working as a cleaner. short time, your freedom back, even if It said he didn’t have a job lined up it is temporarily restrictive,” she wrote but plans to live with a relative until from her home in Lac La Biche. he can get his own place.

“I also hope that you never forget Cheeseman’s sister Christine is marthat you caused so much pain and loss ried to Hennessey. Messages left at her to so many that will never go away by home were not returned. you being a big part in taking the freeCheeseman is to get psychological dom, the life, of our son, a brother, an counselling and abstain from drugs uncle, from us forever.” and alcohol.

Hennessey, 34, the other man who He is not to associate with crimipleaded guilty to the crime, was sen- nals. tenced to 10 years and four months. He The conditions remain in effect unapplied for early parole from Grande til his entire sentence expires on April Cache Institution last year, but was 13, 2016. denied.

‘I WOULD LIKE HIM (DENNIS CHEESMAN) TO COME TO MY DOOR AND KNOCK ON IT AND SIT DOWN AND TALK TO ME. TO FORGIVE, SOMEONE HAS TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.’

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911 CALL FATALITY INQUIRY

Operator was argumentative, failed to follow procedure THE CANADIAN PRESS An inquest has heard how a 911 operator was argumentative and failed to follow proper procedures on a call with a northern Alberta woman who was moments later stabbed to death by her boyfriend.

Brenda Moreside made the emergency call in February 2005, asking police to remove her boyfriend, Stanley Willier, from her home in High Prairie, north of Edmonton. She told the operator the man didn’t have a key and had broken in through a window.

“But if he lives there, he can do whatever he wants, madam,” replied the operator, Yen Tran.

“Usually he’s allowed to live there, right? Are you just pissed off because he broke the window or what, Brenda?”

Moreside, 44, told the operator that she didn’t want to have to pay for the damage and wanted the man gone.

Tran asked if Moreside wanted the man charged and she said no because she didn’t want him to lose his job.

The operator then put Moreside on hold while she relayed parts of the conversation to a local officer. She returned to Moreside and told the woman police were going to call her back.

“Well, make it quick ... (he’s) trying to push through the door,” Moreside responded.

The call soon ended.

An officer did phone Moreside back, but did not go to her home. He has yet to testify at the fatality inquiry.

Twelve days later, acting on a tip, police found the woman in her bloody pyjamas, lying near the door of the home. She had been stabbed seven times.

Shelly Forbes, a supervisor at the RCMP’s call centre in Edmonton, testified Monday that

the operator who took Moreside’s call not only argued at times with the woman, but was also condescending and curt.

Tran “put a judgement” on the call and sounded “lackadaisical” when she summarized it for the officer, said Forbes. She said that Tran was unprofessional.

She should have asked Moreside other questions and should have done a database check of Willier, which would have revealed a previous assault complaint.

Most importantly, when Moresaid reported Willier was pushing through the door, the operator should have called the officer back to tell him there seemed to be urgency to the situation.

Tran admitted in an affidavit that her tone was dismissive and she used unprofessional language during the call.

She said she treated it like a vandalism complaint instead of a domestic violence issue and she wouldn’t make the same mistake today.

Tran was to be a witness at the week-long hearing, but court heard she is eight months pregnant and the stress of testifying might cause her to go into premature labour.

This is the first time details of the call have been made public. An internal RCMP memo about it was leaked to the media months after Moreside was killed.

Moreside and Willier had a tumultuous relationship, but had recently become engaged to be married, Sgt. Dave Brink told the inquiry. Moreside was upgrading her high school education and Willier often travelled to work on oil rigs further north.

On the night of Feb. 12, they went out partying. Moreside was turned away at the local Cozy Corner Pub. She’d been banned because of past behaviour at the bar, Brink said. Willier stayed at the pub until early the next morning. He left a voice mail for Moreside before heading back to their house.

“Hi, wife. I’m coming home,” said the message, which was played at the inquiry.

Brink said the man had no key and climbed through a window in the house that was already broken and covered in plastic. Willier told court at his trial that he passed out on a couch and Moreside came at him with a knife.

They struggled and he stabbed her, he said.

Toxicology tests showed Moreside had been drinking heavily before she died. She had also been using cocaine and prescription drugs.

Willier was originally charged with seconddegree murder. He later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 13 ½ years in prison.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Alberta government says it will match public donations up to a total of $500,000 to aid victims of the recent catastrophic typhoon in the Philippines.

Deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk said it was imperative to step up and help the Asian archipelago, which has more than 100,000 of its people living and working in Alberta.

“Many families and relatives of those victims are here among us in Alberta, as our neighbours (and) as our families,” said Lukaszuk, who held a legislature news conference Monday with representatives of the local Filipino community behind him.

He said the province will use gaming revenues to match money donated

to the Red Cross.

“These monies will provide some of the badly needed assistance that is now required in the Philippines.”

The announcement came just hours after the NDP said it would seek an emergency debate in the legislature on why Premier Alison Redford had not joined the federal government and other provinces to deliver aid.

New Democrat Leader Brian Mason said the $500,000 is “a little small” compared with up to $5 million the province has delivered to victims of other international disasters. Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on Nov. 8. About 4,000 people are so far known to have died and another 1,600 are missing.

About four million people have no food, water and shelter.

When you make influenza immunization an annual event, you protect yourself, your family, and our community.

Influenza Immunization FALL INTO THE ROUTINE Influenza Immunization is now available, free of charge, to all Albertans six months of age and older.

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Vaccinations dangerous?

IMMUNIZATION IS NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE — THE SCIENCE IS CLEAR There was a time when people didn’t have to wear seatbelts.

That was also when we all drove around in vehicles that didn’t have passenger side mirrors, and we could turn on our headlights when we darn well decided to.

Today, seatbelts are standard equipment, MARY-ANN as are mirrors BARR on both sides of the vehicle. And when the ignition turns over, the headlights come on automatically.

Why did things change? Well, scientific studies and analysis concluded it is safer to have seatbelts, side mirrors, and daytime headlights — they save a lot of money and, oh yes, lives. Better safe than sorry. Better safe than poor.

Better safe than dead.

This is actually a column about vac-

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cinations — similar to seatbelts because of all the lives and money saved.

I wonder, are people getting too smart for their own good, because they have a little bit of pseudoscientific information.

At one time we accepted that getting ourselves and our families vaccinated was a good thing. More people avoided all kinds of illnesses because they got vaccinated for diseases like measles, hepatitis, whooping cough and polio.

Over five or so decades, vaccinations became standard equipment.

It’s a new age now, where — largely because of the Internet — people are not so accepting. You can look anything up and find answers that suit your views. But you won’t find one modern medical association or body that suggests people should not get vaccinated. Still there seems to be a growing non-scientific movement that vaccinations are dangerous.

A few years, back bad science linked autism to vaccinations. The study has since been debunked and retracted.

I went to get a flu shot the other day.

I’ve done it for years. I’ve never had the flu.

The Public Health Agency of Canada provides some pre- and post-vaccine information.

In the pre-vaccination period of 1950 to 1954, the average annual rate of cases of poliomyelitis (polio) cases was 17.3 cases per 100,000 population, with a peak annual number of 1,584 cases. Between five and 10 per cent of those paralyzed by polio died. Fast forward to the post-vaccination period of 2000 to 2004, the average annual rate of cases was zero. The disease has been eliminated in Canada.

As for measles, which can lead to serious and sometimes fatal complications, the five-year pre-vaccine period between 1950 and 1954 in Canada saw an average annual rate of 369 cases per 100,000, with a peak annual number of 61,370 cases. This compares with a post-vaccine average annual rate of 0.2 cases from 2000 to 2004, and a peak annual number of 199 cases. Measles can result in hospitalization and is easily transmitted.

One last example (there are many others): looking at the numbers for mumps, the average annual pre-vaccine rate (1950 to 54) was 369 cases but

just 0.3 from 2000 to 2004 (post-vaccine).

The respective peak annual comparable numbers are 43,671 cases to 202.

Similar results are reflected globally.

Alberta Health is battling an unusual measles outbreak in Lethbridge area, trying to keep it from spreading, and encouraging people to be immunized.

About 30 cases have been reported and the cause has been traced to a child who visited the Netherlands.

Due to a strong travel pattern between Lethbridge County and Lacombe, a special measles immunization centre has also been established in Lacombe.

Some communities in Southern Alberta have immunization rates as low as 50 per cent, perhaps because of complacency or anti-vaccine sentiment.

Now the province is scrambling to stop an outbreak across the province.

Could this happen with all the other diseases that immunization has held at bay should vaccination rates decline?

Mary-Ann Barr is Advocate assistant city editor, She can be reached by email at barr@reddeeradvocate.com or by phone at 403-314-4332.

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Horrifying costume has no place at school or in Advocate Upon receiving the Nov. 1 Advocate and turning to the C section, I was truly horrified and disgusted to see the picture of the St. Patrick School student in her Halloween makeup.

Thankfully the principal did not allow this in school.

Would that the Advocate had similar discretion in printing such horror in the paper.

It shows a very sad state of mind when mutilation of living human beings has become something to imitate and celebrate.

Do our young people and parents realize that people in countries in the Middle East and Africa are actually suffering the horrible mutilations, torture, and death that are party material here? They suffer, simply for being Christians, or a minority ethnic group.

Instead of so much focus on death, how much better to celebrate with thankfulness that we live in a country that God has blessed above all others and (as yet) no war.

This (God’s blessing) will not continue if we even can celebrate evil.

Janey Collier Red Deer

Here’s a job, take it or leave it If the federal government is footing the bill for a jobs training program, shouldn’t it be able to dictate the terms of the program?

Well, that depends if the goal is to claim credit for the money spent and to control the program, as opposed to actually doing some wider good.

Now, if you propose to pay less and split the cost three ways, can you still dictate terms?

If you’re federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney, I suppose you can. All the more so if one the partners paying for this is business. When GREG business and federal conserNEIMAN vative ideology align, that’s pretty much an unstoppable force.

So the provinces complained last week that — once again — the dictatorial federal government tramples provincial rights and unilaterally imposes major changes to funding agreements. Yeah, that and five bucks will get you a latte.

Complaining about federal dictators didn’t help two years ago when the feds just up and announced that funding for health care would be capped, leaving the provinces to figure out for themselves what happens next.

The difference between the health announcement and the jobs deal is that while health-care costs are rising with little progress to show for it, the current Labour Market Agreement is actually working well.

For unemployed people, that is. Not so much for

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the feds, and for specific industries that can’t find people with the specific skills they need to make their industries grow.

The current agreement will expire in March. The new deal was broadly announced in the budget last spring.

But there was never a meeting between the federal government and the provinces to get into details, or to explain how this will work (or not, as the case may be).

Until just recently.

There was a recent meeting between the premiers and Kenney, which was described as “frosty.”

The provinces told Kenney he was destroying an existing formula that works very well, while Kenney just stuck to Conservative speaking points.

CBC News reports that with the existing agreement, the vast majority of participants are still employed in their provinces two years later.

In B.C., where 94,000 workers have gone through the federally-funded agreement, two-thirds are working. That province is already looking for 100,000 more skilled workers to build their liquefied natural gas pipelines and seaport.

In Saskatchewan, under the existing plan, fully 60 per cent of participants are aboriginal, who already live close to where that province’s new jobs will be located.

The provinces assert that aboriginals, youth, older workers needing to change careers due to layoffs, people on social assistance or who have been unemployed for a long time — these are the people who stand to lose most, if Kenney’s changes are imposed as proposed.

Tough beans, says Kenney. We already spend billions on aboriginals, the disabled, people on welfare, etc. If the provinces want an additional employment

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The new Canada Jobs Grant (better named and branded for the federal government) cuts $200 million from the existing $500 million agreement. It will require two matching funding shares from each of participating businesses and the provinces, for a total of $15,000 per participant.

So, for a maximum $5,000 investment, the feds can claim $15,000 worth of success — if the provinces choose to participate. If not, tough, says Kenney.

“If they don’t want to participate at all, then I’ve been clear that we will end up delivering a job grant directly in those provinces that do participate,” he said in an interview.

Reading from the usual script that vilifies all dissent, he says the existing programs merely turn most of their participants into habitual welfare recipients anyway.

The Canada Jobs Grant virtually guarantees you a job, says the government. That is, if you want a job requiring hard physical labour, some risk of serious injury or death if things go wrong, working 12-hour shifts round the clock in a cold, remote part of the country. But for serious, serious cash.

And once the pipelines and ports are built, you can apply for another grant to pursue that career you always wanted in anthropology, right?

Just as with the health funding announcement, the provinces will probably just have to take it. In Ottawa’s eyes, consultation and negotiation are highly overrated.

And anyone who doesn’t fit the federal cookiecutter is just a parasite, anyway.

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Ford blasts ‘coup d’etat’ WOUNDED TORONTO MAYOR LIKENS COUNCIL’S STRIPPING HIM OF POWERS TO KUWAIT INVASION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An extraordinary debate marred by chaotic scenes saw city council strip Rob Ford of more of his mayoral powers Monday, an act he compared to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and a declaration of war.

Blasting what he called a “coup d’etat,” Ford said voters should be able to pass judgment on him, not his fellow councillors.

“You guys have just attacked Kuwait,” Ford said in reference to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s invasion of the emirate in 1991.

“Mark my words friends, this is going to be outright war in the next election.”

At times it seemed as if violence would erupt in council chambers as a shouting match erupted between Ford, 44, and members of the public.

The besieged mayor then appeared to charge a heckler, but instead accidentally steamrolled a female councillor standing in his way, leaving her with a bruised lip.

The incident prompted yet another apology from Ford, who at one point was seen making drinking and driving gestures directed at a councillor police had warned about impaired driving.

The incidents formed a noisy backdrop to the unprecedented debate over neutering the already wounded mayor whose outrageous comments and behaviour have garnered international headlines and made him the butt of late-night talk show hosts.

Ultimately, however, as Ford quietly recused himself, council voted overwhelmingly to slash his mayoral budget and hand many of his duties — and his staff — to the deputy mayor.

Council had already passed a pair of motions on Friday stripping Ford of his ability to appoint key committee chairs or to exercise emergency powers.

Ford’s lawyer, George Rust-D’Eye, said he might seek an injunction against council’s decisions but he was still awaiting instructions.

City staff said they believed their actions, essentially in place until the next election in October 2014, would withstand any court scrutiny.

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (right) and his brother Councillor Doug Ford exchange words with people in the public gallery in the council chamber at city hall in Toronto on Monday.

Another lawyer, Duff Conacher, said council had chosen a “dangerously bad process.”

“Politicians judging politicians is always a bad idea,” said Conacher, founding director of Democracy Watch.

“They are all undermined by personal or partisan conflicts of interest and their decision-making processes are like kangaroo courts.”

Instead, he suggested, the province could put in place a sliding scale of mandatory suspensions for allegations and violations that would apply to all municipal politicians.

At the provincial legislature, Finance Minister Charles Sousa called the “antics” in Toronto distressing but

showed little appetite for any intervention.

“The last thing we want is for more disruption,” Sousa said.

For the first time, the Prime Minister’s Office weighed in, saying the government does not condone illegal drug use, “especially by elected officials while in office.”

Ford has previously admitted to smoking crack cocaine “in a drunken stupor,” but in excerpts of an interview aired on CNN’s “New Day” Monday, he admitted to having “smoked some crack sometimes.”

Ford told reporter Bill Weir he was “sick and tired” of the allegations, hence the admissions.

“I’m not going to run around and be phoney and lie,” Ford said.

“I’m not going to have someone try to blackmail me and say they got videos of this.”

The mayor said he hadn’t smoked crack in over a year and again denied he’s an addict.

Ford also boasted about his parenting skills in light of unproven allegations to police in court documents that he was with his children while severely intoxicated.

“I’m the best father around,” Ford told Weir.

On Sunday, Ford defied a request by the Toronto Argonauts to stay away from the football game.

A6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013

Canada ranks worst on climate policy AMONG INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES: REPORT year ago.

The annual UN climate conference is in its second week of talks as negotiators in Warsaw move toward developing a post-2020 international climate change regime.

is committed to establishing a fair and effective climate change agreement that includes commitments by all major emitters.”

According to the latest annual report by the Climate Action Network Europe and Germanwatch, Canada is starting from the back of the pack.

“As in the previous year, Canada still shows no intention of moving forward with climate policy and therefore remains the worst performer of all industrialized countries,” states the report, released Monday — CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT in Warsaw.

The comparative report, which has The goal is to deliver a new been compiled annually by enmodel at the 2015 summit in Par- vironmental activists since 2005, is. shows Canada at the bottom of “Canada is taking a leader- the industrialized world in terms ship role in international climate of emissions per capita, developchange efforts by focusing on de- ment of renewable energy and inlivering significant environmental ternational climate policy. and economic benefits for all CaLast month, Environment Cananadians,” Aglukkaq said in a gov- da’s own analysis showed Canada ernment press release marking slipped further away over the past her departure for Warsaw. year from meeting its 2020 green“The government of Canada house emissions targets.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq arrived at a climate change conference in Warsaw late Monday amid exceedingly low expectations.

A European report released to coincide with the United Nations conference ranks Canada 55th of 58 countries in terms of tackling greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of only Iran, Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia.

A Washingtonbased group, the Center for Global Development, issued a separate report Monday that ranked Canada 27th on the environment out of the world’s wealthiest 27 countries.

And a new national Environics Institute telephone poll in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation suggests public confidence in government as the lead actor in addressing climate change has slumped considerably — down six percentage points from the 59 per cent recorded a

‘AS IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, CANADA STILL SHOWS NO INTENTION OF MOVING FORWARD WITH CLIMATE POLICY AND THEREFORE REMAINS THE WORST PERFORMER OF ALL INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES.’

Plan to give injured vets priority for federal jobs faces bottleneck: ombudsman the adjudication, what documents will be used, and how long it will take, the ombudsman said.

He says the idea of veterans getting faster access to federal jobs “encouraging.”

The bill was introduced two weeks ago when the Conservatives faced rising public criticism over a growing number of wounded soldiers discharged before they have the 10 years service that gives them a pension.

Parent said the proposed legislation will create separate classes of veterans for federal priority hiring, a situation many in government and the veterans community have been striving to avoid.

“I believe that all medically releasing Canadian Armed Forces members should be treated the same way,” he wrote.

The notion that there is just one veteran, regardless of when they served and their circumstances, was at the heart of the rewrite of benefits for ex-soldiers in 2006 under the New Veterans Charter.

“However, the proposed legislation does not follow this approach,” Parent said.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government’s plan to bump injured ex-soldiers to the head of the federal job line could backfire and create a bottleneck for the very people it’s trying to help, says the veterans ombudsman.

Bill C-11 requires veterans’ cases to be adjudicated to determine whether the injury is related to service before they’re given statutory priority for jobs in the public service, Guy Parent said in an online blog.

“This could add additional red tape to the release process and potentially delay the ability to access priority hiring upon release,” Parent wrote.

The proposed legislation says a veteran will qualify to go to the front of the line only if the disability was the result of service.

Those medically released for nonservice-related reasons will not get priority.

There are other uncertainties, including whether National Defence or Veterans Affairs will do

“By elevating the priority for service-related medical releases, but not for non-service-related ones, it creates separate classes of veterans for priority hiring which will add an additional layer of complexity to an already overburdened system.”

A spokesman for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino said details of how the legislation will unfold are still subject to debate.

“The operational changes and improvements that would flow from this newly tabled legislation are currently being finalized by Veterans Affairs Canada and the Public Service Commission, and every effort is being made to ensure veterans have quick and efficient access once implemented,” said Joshua Zanin.

Cutting red tape for ex-service members has been an aim of the Conservatives, and Zanin says the legislation “complements” the government’s existing efforts.

Federal budget documents show 496 veterans were on the public-service priority hiring list in 2011-12, of which 158 were appointed to federal jobs.

Watchdog sniffing for the missing billions PBO ASKS PARLIAMENTARIANS TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF UNSPENT BILLIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s budget watchdog is asking MPs to get to the bottom of why the Harper government is spending billions less than it budgets for, or Parliament authorizes.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer says in a report that the government has been unable to, or not spent, about $10 billion — $700 per household on average — that the House of Commons has approved in each of the past three years.

The issue arises again, the PBO says, because the government is asking for an additional $5.4 billion to spend in the latest supplementary estimates and — given the record — it is unclear whether all, or any of it, is required.

“As suggested in the report, Parliament may want to examine whether all of the $5.4B sought in these supplementary estimates is actually required and, if so, what measures will be undertaken by departments and agencies to ensure that spending approved by Parliament occurs,” Frechette said.

The federal government had expected so-called “lapsed spending” to rise during the roll-out of stimulus budgets following the 2008-09 economic crisis, but that was supposed to start returning to more normal levels starting in the 2012-13 fiscal year. Instead it rose slightly to about $10 billion.

For the three years, lapses have averaged over 11 per cent of the total allotted spending, or about twice the average prior to the recession.

“It is not unusual for departments to lapse expenditure authorities — the law requires that departments do not exceed their authorities — so departments will try their best to come close to their expenditure limit without surpassing it,” said watchdog Jean-Denis Frechette.

“What is unusual in this instance is the size of the lapses and the consistent upward trend that we’ve seen over the past few years.”

The over-estimation of spending is reminiscent of the Liberal budgets of the early years of the last decade when then-finance minister Paul Martin routinely surprised MPs and Canadians with annual, oversized budget surpluses, which went to pay off the national debt.

Critics, including Conservative MPs, complained at the time that the government was taxing more than required to meet their obligations.

That is not the situation today, although Finance Minister Jim Flaherty last month reported the deficit in the year 2012-13 was about $7 billion less than it calculated, with the majority of the savings due to lapsed spending.

The minister has vowed to balance the budget in two years and recently tabled an economic update projecting a $3.7-billion surplus in 2015-16.

Eliminating the deficit in 2015 would allow the Conservative government to fulfil its 2011 campaign commitment to introduce partial income splitting for tax purposes — a budget measure that would cost about $2.7 billion in lost revenue — in time for the fall election, on the condition the budget is in the black.

The PBO has calculated that the Conservatives are on track to meet their deadline, in part because of spending restraint.

Lawyer who helped gang has sentence increased THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A British Columbia lawyer who became the “on-call intelligence officer” for a violent gang, feeding them information about police activities, has seen his sentence more than doubled by the province’s Appeal Court.

William Mastop, a lawyer in Vernon, B.C., was sentenced to one year in jail after admitting to helping a gang known as the Greeks.

Mastop provided the members with police search warrant documents, helped track down drug runners who had been arrested or who had talked to the police, and even took members of the gang to a local gun club for target practice.

The Crown appealed the one-year term, and on Monday the Appeal Court increased the sentence to

two-and-a-half years.

“The offence was only possible because Mr. Mastop actively used his status as a lawyer to gain information and material from the Crown and the police,” Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein wrote in a unanimous decision.

“He was a lawyer with specialized knowledge, in a unique position in the criminal justice system, who deliberately undermined the administration of justice.

His offence strikes deeply at the fabric of the criminal justice system and requires a significant deterrent sentence.”

Mastop, 46, provided information to members of the Greeks gang for almost two years beginning in August 2004, the court heard. He was paid a retainer of $200 a week.

The gang trafficked in cocaine and heroin in Ver-

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Denis Coderre said the illegal parlours — havens for prostitution and human trafficking — will be the target of a police crackdown and possible legislation that will include hefty fines.

Coderre told reporters following an unrelated news conference Monday that he wants an organized strike against the parlours.

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non, located about 300 kilometres northeast of Vernon in the Okanagan Valley, and five members were eventually convicted of three murders that took place in 2004 and 2005.

“He was their on-call intelligence officer,” wrote Stromberg-Stein.

In one instance, Mastop, who met Greeks leader Peter Manolakos in high school, provided the gang with police documents used to obtain search warrants for the home of two of the gang’s drug dealers.

The redacted documents made it clear the police had spoken with informants, but the informants weren’t identified.

Mastop took members of the Greeks to a Vernon gun club as his guests on two occasions, allowing them to use his guns. He also attempted to repair a high-powered rifle for a senior member of the Greeks, court head.

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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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A model poses next to a Hyundai Tucson on display at the Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2014, Hyundai says it will start selling a Tucson SUV powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. It will be the first mass-market vehicle of its type to be sold or leased in the U.S.

Hyundai to put hydrogen vehicle on market in 2014

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — For years, the joke in the auto industry was that a mass-produced car that runs on hydrogen was always a decade away.

That will change next year when Hyundai starts selling a Tucson SUV powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. It will be the first mass-market vehicle of its type to be sold or leased in the U.S. “These things are now ready for prime time,” John Krafcik, Hyundai’s North American CEO, said last week. His company plans to announce details of the new Tucson on Wednesday at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

Even as the industry focused on battery-powered and hybrid cars, automakers such as Hyundai, Honda and Toyota kept up research on fuel cells. Now they appear to have conquered obstacles such as high costs, safety concerns and a lack of filling stations. These vehicles could help the companies

meet stricter future fuel-economy standards.

Automakers have been dabbling in hydrogen-powered cars since the 1960s. General Motors announced a test fleet of hydrogen-powered Chevy Equinoxes in the mid-2000s, and Honda leased about two-dozen FCX Clarity models for $600 per month starting in 2005.

President George W. Bush allocated $1.2 billion for hydrogen research and said in his 2003 State of the Union address: “The first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen and pollution free.” But the program was largely scrapped by the Obama administration, which focused more on battery-powered vehicles.

Hyundai now is making Bush’s forecast come true, beating other auto companies to the mass market with Tucsons that have electric motors powered by a stack of hydrogen fuel cells. Hyundai plans to start selling the vehicles in Southern California and even-

tually spread to other areas as filling stations are built.

Hyundai says it has overcome safety and storage issues with a rear-mounted tank that has passed numerous crash tests without incident. As for filling stations, the California Air Resources Board says there currently are nine open to the public in the state. Legislators recently allocated about $200 million per year for 100 more, to be built by 2023.

Also at the Los Angeles show, Honda Motor Co. is scheduled to show off a fuel-cell concept vehicle, which it says hints at the aerodynamic design of the next generation fuel-cell vehicle to be launched in 2015. Further details weren’t available.

Toyota Motor Corp. is scheduled to unveil its own concept fuel-cell vehicle at this week’s Tokyo Motor Show.

That one also is likely for distribution in the mass market in 2015.

General Motors continues work on its fuel-cell vehicles.

Hobbema’s business community has become a lot more active in the past two years — thanks in large part to the efforts of a Toronto woman.

Heather MacTaggart has been spending about two out of every five weeks on reserve helping First Nations entrepreneurs. She’s been rewarded with 15 new businesses in Hobbema: a soup and sandwich delivery service, a hairdressing shop, a janitorial business, a taxi service, an auto-detailing service and a used furniture shop, among others.

“It is incredibly gratifying,” said MacTaggart.

“I do work I know is making a difference, every day.

“There’s nothing that feels better. I know for a fact that we have dramatically changed people’s lives.”

Those successful business people participated in Change it Up!, a program delivered by MacTaggart’s non-profit organization Classroom Connections. Through it, a small team of on-reserve coaches have been

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Beverly Dion, a Samson Cree Nation member who recently started Dion’s Furniture and Decor, praised MacTaggart for her success.

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The truth is, if Heather wasn’t here I wouldn’t have done it.”

MacTaggart started Classroom Connections in 1997, after working in marketing and communications positions, and doing consulting work.

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tional teaching methods.

First Nations people seemed good candidates for Classroom Connections’ services, and in 2009 Change it Up! was launched on the Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation south of Fort McMurray. Derek Bruno, a Samson Cree Nation councillor and a successful businessman, saw the potential of the program and helped MacTaggart.

By 2012, Samson Cree Nation had contracted Classroom Connections to deliver the program there. There, it was made available to members of other local bands, said MacTaggart.

“It’s mostly Samson members, but we have some Ermineskin people and some Louis Bull people as well.”

The program has also been offered at nearby Montana First Nation.

“The last five years I’ve spent a huge chunk of my time on reserve in Alberta,” said MacTaggart.

“I live in Toronto and I commute to Alberta.”

Bruno is pleased with the results, citing the need to address chronically high unemployment on his reserve.

“There’s no silver bullet to all this.

NEW YORK — Is the stock market due for a pullback?

The Dow Jones industrial average has surged 900 points since early October and crossed the 16,000-point threshold Monday. IPOs are hot again.

Small investors, stirred from their post-recession daze, are coming back to stocks. And it’s been more than two years since the market has had a significant slump.

Those trends have raised concerns of a stock bubble. They shouldn’t, money managers say, because even with the broader market’s 26 per cent jump this year, stocks aren’t overpriced yet.

“Stocks are not cheap, but that does not mean that the stock market is expensive,” says Russ Koesterich, chief investment strategist with Blackrock.

The ratio of stock prices to projected profits for companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index is 15, according to data from FactSet. That’s slightly below the average of 16.2 over the last 15 years and far below the peak of 25 in late 1990s and early 2000s.

Underneath the rally, most of the fundamentals of this market remain solid. Corporate profit margins are near historic highs and profits are expected to keep rising.

There are no signs the U.S. economy, which is still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession, will slip back into a downturn.

All that leaves investors with conflicting feelings.

Few see the stock market as attractive as it was at the beginning of the year, but fewer see an alternative where they should put their money.

Bonds are down 2.1 per cent this year, according to the benchmark Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index. Cash has a near-zero return in money market funds. Gold has dropped 24 per cent.

“It’s hard to say stocks are expensive when you compare them to any other asset class,” says Brian Hogan, director of equities at Fidelity Investments.

“The other options are simply not attractive.”

Bubble or no, there are some signs that stocks are getting pricey.

Individual investors have been returning to the market, often a sign that stocks are reaching their peak. Individual investors poured $167 billion into stock mutual funds this year, according to data from Lipper. In comparison, large institutional investors like hedge funds, pension funds, endowments and insurance companies have only put in $111 billion.

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Liberty Crossing Centre has been sold to an Edmonton-based real estate investment trust.

Melcor REIT (TSX: MR.UN) confirmed on Monday that it’s purchased the shopping centre on the southeast corner of Lantern Avenue and Liberty Street, in Red Deer County. Existing tenants on the 4.72-acre site are Ashley Furniture Homestore, Wolverine Guns & Tackle, Canadian Closet, SML Entertainment and The Hideout restaurant and pub.

A news release issued by Melcor said the purchase price was $13.2 million and the deal scheduled to close Dec. 3.

“We are excited to enter Red Deer with the acquisition of Liberty Crossing,” said Darin Rayburn, CEO of Melcor REIT. “This property complements our portfolio and expands our retail offering to the growing Red Deer market, an important geographic and economic connector in Alberta.”

Operating since May, Melcor REIT owns, manages and leases retail, office and industrial properties in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. With Liberty Crossing, its portfolio grows to 29 properties with approximately 1.69 million square feet of leasable area.

Liberty Crossing Centre has been under the control of a restructuring officer since August 2012.

That’s when the property’s owner, Liberty Crossing Limited Partnership (LP), and related companies obtained court-ordered protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Liberty Crossing LP purchased Liberty Crossing Centre in October 2008 from Avenir Diversified Income Trust for $14.2 million, with $9.3 million of this amount coming from First Calgary Savings & Credit Union Ltd. and the balance from other sources.

Liberty Crossing LP was part the Harvest Group of Companies, which raised more than $266 million from investors between 2004 and 2010, with Liberty Crossing LP generating $7.5 million from 222 investors, according to an affidavit filed by Harvest founder and Liberty Crossing LP director Ronald Aitkens in connection with the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act application.

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A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013

MARKETS OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 93.95 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.97 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.83 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.42 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.65 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.68 Cdn. National Railway . 117.59 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 156.32

Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.18 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.20 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.00 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 39.87 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.78 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.70 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.62 General Motors Co. . . . . 38.57 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.14

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Resource stocks pushed the Toronto stock market lower Monday as commodities failed to find traction from Chinese economic reform announcements.

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 24.5 points to 13,458.06.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.14 of a cent to 95.86 cents US as doubts about when the Fed might start tapering its US$85 billion of monthly bond purchases pushed the greenback lower.

New York markets put in a lacklustre performance following a strong start when indexes hit some notable milestones amid hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve won’t soon reduce monetary stimulus.

The Dow Jones industrials closed up 14.32 points to 15,976.02 after having crossed the 16,000 threshold for the first time, while the S&P 500 index declined 6.65 points to 1,791.53 after earlier moving past the 1,800 level. The Nasdaq came within as handful of points of breaching the 4,000-point mark but closed 36.9 points lower at 3,949.07.

There was relief on markets after Janet Yellen, who is slated to become the next Fed chairman, made it clear during confirmation hearings last week that she supports the Fed’s low interest-rate policies.

The focus on the Fed will pick up mid-week with the release Wednesday of the minutes from the Fed meeting late last month when the central bank judged the American economy still too weak to start tapering its asset purchases.

That meeting did nothing to lessen the uncertainty surrounding when the Fed might move, particularly as its sounded more positive about the U.S. economy.

Those bond purchases have kept bond yields low and encouraged people to buy into equities, resulting in a big stock boom on many markets this year.

Markets also found support Monday from China’s announcements of more details about its economic and social reform program, including opening state industries to greater competition, loosening its one-child policy and abolishing labour camps.

China’s leadership has faced pressure to update its economic model after growth slowed to a twodecade low in the second quarter.

Meanwhile, China is studying new ways to measure its economy. The proposed revision could boost the size of the country’s estimate of its gross domestic product, which rose 7.7 per cent over the first nine months of the year from a year earlier.

The gold sector led decliners, down about 2.15 per cent as December bullion faded $15.10 to US$1,272.30 an ounce. Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) lost 47 cents to C$18.43.

The energy sector was down 0.82 per cent and the December crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange shed 81 cents to US$93.03 a barrel, its lowest close since May 31. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) gave back 47 cents to C$33.63.

The base metals component drifted 0.79 per cent lower with December copper down two cents at US$3.15 a pound. HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) gave back 10 cents to C$7.93.

Financials led advancers, up 0.54 per cent with Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF) ahead 54 cents to $37.43.

Fairfax Financial Holdings (TSX:FFH) has signed a deal to buy 51 per cent of the company that operates the Keg steakhouse chain restaurants for an undisclosed sum. Keg Restaurants Ltd. pays a royalty on sales to Keg Royalties Income Fund (TSX:KEG.UN) which holds trademarks and other intellectual property

used by the restaurant chain. Fairfax stock slipped 97 cents to $426.88 while Keg Royalties units gained 10 cents to $16.26.

Industrials were also positive with Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) ahead a penny to $4.65 as the transportation giant secured deals at the Dubai Airshow from two companies for its Q400 turboprop that could potentially be worth up to US$423 million. But the company has yet to announce any orders for its new CSeries aircraft at the event.

Bombardier announced the sales a day after Boeing (NYSE:BA) won orders worth almost US$100 billion for its planned 777X long-haul airliner.

Monday’s weak showing followed solid gains on the Toronto and New York markets last week that left the TSX up about 8.5 per cent for the year so far and the Dow ahead 22 per cent.

Mokhtari said it seemed likely markets can hold onto those advances.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,458.06 down 24.50 points TSX Venture Exchange — 921.79 down 12.28 points TSX 60 — 776.05 down 1.24 points Dow — 15,976.02 up 14.32 points, record high S&P 500 — 1,791.53 down 6.65 points Nasdaq — 3,949.07 down 36.90 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.86 cents US, up 0.14 of a cent Pound — C$1.6803, down 0.28 of a cent Euro — C$1.4088, down 0.08 of a cent Euro — US$1.3505, up 0.12 of a cent Oil futures: US$93.03 per barrel, down 81 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,272.30 per oz., down $15.10 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.029 per oz., down 59 cents $708.23 per kg., down $18.97 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 921.79, down 12.28 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 136.11 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 5.70 lower $483.20; March ’14 $5.00 lower $492.40; May ’14 $4.70 lower $500.50; July ’14 $4.40 lower $506.50; Nov. ’14 $4.90 lower $510.00; Jan ’15 $4.10 lower $513.10; March ’15 $4.00 lower $512.30; May ’15 $3.90 lower $507.10; July ’15 $3.90 lower $504.30; Nov ’15 $3.90 lower $500.50; Jan. ’16 $3.90 lower $500.50.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 491,400 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 491,400.

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LIBERTY: Stores close Three stores in Liberty Crossing Centre — The Bedroom Shoppe, The Living Room and Kitchen and Patio — closed in 2009. Aitkens said this undermined the income-generating potential of the property.

After exploring the possibility of refinancing the shopping centre, Liberty Crossing LP’s restructuring officer concluded that a sale was the best option.

The Melcor REIT deal should net nearly $13 million, although less than $3 million is expected to be available for Liberty Crossing LP investors after the claims of First Calgary Savings & Credit and other creditors are paid.

A majority of Melcor REIT’s shares are held by Edmonton’s Melcor Developments Ltd. — an active developer in the Red Deer area. Current Melcor Developments projects include Clearview Market Square, McKenzie Industrial Business Park and several residential subdivisions. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

MENTOR: More plans “But it’s quite possible that part of the solution may be at hand in the entrepreneurial movement that Change it Up! is tapping into.”

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 99.95 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.65 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.45 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.74 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.45 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.05 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.57 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 61.80 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.22 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.87

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.43 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.21 First Quantum Minerals . 18.85 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.20 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.93 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.11 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 33.86 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.44 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.17 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 29.21 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 80.74 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.33 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.49 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.62 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 33.63 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.05

Canyon Services Group. 10.93 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.51 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.780 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.53 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.78 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.45 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 54.33 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.74 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 30.77 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.51 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 8.51 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.480 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 9.81 Precision Drilling Corp . . 37.13 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 12.72 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.38 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.84 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 58.61 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 73.74

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.74 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.01 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.80 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 34.34 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.04 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.90 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.49 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 67.60 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.86 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 92.93 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.64 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.48 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.43 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.88

Alaska looking at equity stake in TransCanada pipeline

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, Alaska — An Alaska official said Monday the state is looking at taking a multibilliondollar equity stake in a major natural gas pipeline project as a way to protect its interests and help make the long-hoped-for project a reality.

Natural Resources Commissioner Joe Balash said Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration views a potential equity stake of 20 per cent to 30 per cent favourably. But he said any level of participation would depend on legislative buyin and the terms the companies pursuing the project are willing to accept.

Assuming the project costs $45 billion — a figure at the lower end of the range previously announced by the companies — the state would be looking at $9 billion to $13.5 billion for such a stake.

Balash said he’s hoping that range narrows significantly over time as the idea gets more scrutiny.

The option stems from a report commissioned by the state to see how Alaska could protect its royalty interest and ensure it receives the maximum value possible for its natural gas.

The North Slope’s three major players — Exxon Mobil Corp., BP and ConocoPhillips — are working with TransCanada Corp. to advance a liquefied natural gas project that would be capable of overseas exports.

The proposed line would run 800 miles from the slope to southcentral Alaska and could cost from $45 billion to more than $65 billion, according to company estimates.

The companies haven’t committed to building it and have repeatedly said they needed competitive, predictable and durable terms on oil and gas taxes and royalties.

Alaskans have long dreamed of

a gas line as a way to create jobs, provide energy for residents and shore up revenues as oil production declines.

While there have been fits and starts over the years, state officials believe the current project has momentum, and Balash said it’s reaching the point where the state needs to start making decisions about its terms.

Black & Veatch Corp., in its report for the state, found that changes to Alaska’s royalty and tax structure and to the project’s cost structure could improve the economics of the project and make it more competitive.

Balash said it’s premature to say whether there will be gas tax legislation during the next session, which starts in January, but he said some legislators and others are expecting to have that discussion then.

He said he considers a royalty reduction “one of the worst things we can possibly do,” since it’s through the royalty that the state gains benefit to the treasury or in terms of energy for Alaskans.

He said the other alternative might be reducing taxes, but he said a reduction now might not be considered a reasonable level of taxation later, when the project gets underway.

The study found an equity stake could be more beneficial to the state than a mere reduction in fiscal take and could create more transparency in the project, greater alignment of economic interests among the companies and the state, — ALASKA NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSIONER and allow the state JOE BALASH to have influence in granting outside parties access to the line.

Balash said the project ecoIt would not necessarily guarnomics seem “fairly good overall,” antee a vote in the decision-makthough he said levels of govern- ing process, though, the study ment take might be a little high said. and company returns a bit short Larry Persily, the federal coof what they might expect in other ordinator for Alaska natural places. gas pipeline projects, said hav“While we may have some work ing the state as an equity owner to do on the details, like I said be- could lessen the risk to the other fore, we don’t think we need to go partners and make a difference. down the road of big concessions,” But he said that alternative is not he said, adding that “big conces- without its own risk to the state, sions” might be a relative term. such as possible construction deThe state has already commit- lays and cost overruns. ted up to $500 million to TranHe said the markets and abilsCanada for reimbursable costs ity to deliver gas at a competitive associated with advancing a proj- price also will be important for ect, and Parnell has said the state the project’s fortunes. is willing to make commensuBP Alaska spokeswoman Dawn rate, proportional steps with the Patience, who had not yet seen companies to keep the project on the report, said the company sees track. an equity stake by the state as an The Legislature at some point important consideration. will have to revisit the issue of gas “Certainly, it’s going to take evproduction taxes, which was left erybody working together, includunresolved during the recent re- ing the state of Alaska, to make write of the state’s oil tax law. the project feasible,” she said.

‘WHILE WE MAY HAVE SOME WORK TO DO ON THE DETAILS, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, WE DON’T THINK WE NEED TO GO DOWN THE ROAD OF BIG CONCESSIONS... BIG CONCESSIONS MIGHT BE A RELATIVE TERM.’

MacTaggart is now working on a complementary program that would provide ongoing support to aboriginal business people. Called MentorNation, it would see volunteer business coaches from across Canada working online with First Nations people.

“What we realize is that when Change it Up! entrepreneurs are successful and people start businesses, they need mentors. And I can’t physically keep mentoring everybody myself.”

Classroom Connections is currently raising money for MentorNation, with hopes of introducing it in Hobbema as a pilot project next year. If all goes well, mentors will be recruited in hopes of expanding the program across the country.

Additional information about Change it Up! and MentorNation can be fond online at www.changeitup.ca. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

INVESTORS: Some are bearish When stocks are valued using an adjusted price-to-earnings ratio developed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, they seem even more expensive. S hiller’s adjusted price-to-earnings ratio averages out the S&P 500’s earnings over 10 years, to smooth out the volatility that comes from the booms and busts. Using Shiller’s formula,

stocks are currently trading at 24.4 times their previous 10 years’ worth of earnings, well above the historic average of 16.5 going back to the year 1881.

A few Wall Street professionals remain bearish and think stocks are due to fall by 10 per cent or more.

“I think a lot of what’s driven the market higher recently is simply momentum,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer with BMO Private Bank. Ablin thinks stocks are “10 to 15 per cent overvalued” at their current levels.

Then there’s the elephant that won’t leave the room: the Federal Reserve.

The Fed has been buying $85 billion in bonds each month in an effort to keep interest rates low and stimulate the economy. Those purchases have pushed up bond prices and made stocks more attractive in comparison.

The Fed was supposed to start pulling back, or “taper” its purchases, in September. But the central bank surprised investors by voting to delay that move. It isn’t expected to change

course until early 2014, at the earliest.

Critics say the stimulus has driven too many people into stocks and inflated prices.

Janet Yellen, who has been nominated to lead the Fed starting next year, told the Senate Banking Committee last week that the Fed will keep a close eye on the issue, but said stocks “are not in bubble territory.”

Still, now may not be the time to jump into stocks, at least in the U.S. Few investors expect the market’s gains in 2014 to come close to this year’s.

Analysts at Barclays Capital expect the S&P 500 index to reach about 1,900 by the end of 2014, roughly 6 per cent above its current level. Analysts at Goldman Sachs are less optimistic.

They see the index closing at 1,850 by the end of 2014.

Not all parts of the market are overvalued, according to some investors.

Bank stocks are among the cheapest in the S&P 500, based on the ratio of their price compared to projected profits.

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Better forecasts, more warnings BRIEFS saved lives in late-season tornadoes UN declares today WORLD World Toilet Day

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The lack of access to a decent toilet is no joke for a third of the world’s people, but a matter of life and death.

Some 2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation, the United Nations says, and more than 1 billion practice open defecation — a problem that contributes to countless deaths from preventable diseases.

“We must break the taboos and make sanitation for all a global development priority,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in declaring Tuesday to be the inaugural World Toilet Day. Each year, more than 800,000 children under 5 die from diarrhea, the U.N. says, many due to poor sanitation.

WASHINGTON, Ill. — When a cluster of violent thunderstorms began marching across the Midwest, forecasters were able to draw a bright line on a map showing where the worst of the weather would go.

Their uncannily accurate predictions — combined with television and radio warnings, text-message alerts and storm sirens — almost certainly saved lives as rare lateseason tornadoes dropped out of a dark autumn sky. Although the storms howled through 12 states and flattened entire neighbourhoods within a matter of minutes, the number of dead stood at just eight.

By Monday, another, more prosaic reason for the relatively low death toll also came to light: In the hardest-hit town, most families were in church.

“I don’t think we had one church damaged,” said Gary Manier, mayor of Washington, Ill., a community of 16,000 about 140 miles southwest of Chicago.

The tornado cut a path about an eighth of a mile wide from one side of Washington to the other and damaged or destroyed as many as 500 homes. The heavy weather also battered parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and western New York.

Back in Washington, Daniel Bennett was officiating Sunday services before 600 to 700 people when he heard an electronic

“Apocalyptic’ storm floods parts of Sardinia ROME — Italian news reports say a violent rainstorm that flooded entire parts of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia has led to the deaths of at least nine people.

Olbia Mayor Gianni Giovanelli told Sky TG24 early Tuesday that the city had been destroyed by the “apocalyptic” storm, with several dead and several missing.

Bridges were felled by swollen rivers and water levels reached 3 metres (yards) in some places.

Local newspaper L’Unione Sarda said the toll had reached nine dead, including one policeman helping to escort an ambulance when the car he was travelling in was involved in the collapse of a bridge in Dorgali. The city of Gallura was hardest hit with six dead, including three people whose car was swept away in the collapse of another bridge.

warning tone. Then another. And another.

“I’d say probably two dozen phones started going off in the service, and everybody started looking down,” he said.

What they saw was a text message from the National Weather Service cautioning that a twister was in the area. Bennett stopped the service and ushered everyone to a safe place until the threat passed.

A day later, many townspeople said those messages helped minimize deaths and injuries.

“That’s got to be connected,” Bennett said. “The ability to get instant information.”

In Indiana, Taylor Glenna heard emergency sirens go off and received an alert on his cellphone. A friend also called to warn him the storm was nearly upon him.

Glenna went outside, saw hail and heard a loud boom. He ran to his basement just in time.

On Monday, he was surveying the damage on crutches after suffering a leg injury when the wind knocked his home off its foundation.

“I would say we had pretty good warning,” Glenna said. “We just didn’t listen to it.”

Forecasting has steadily improved with the arrival of faster, more powerful computers. Scientists are now better able to replicate atmospheric processes into mathematical equations.

In the last decade alone, forecasters have doubled the number of days in ad-

vance that weather experts can anticipate major storms, said Bill Bunting of the National Weather Service.

But Bunting, the forecast operations chief of the service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. said it was not until Saturday that the atmospheric instability that turns smaller storm system into larger, more menacing ones came into focus.

That’s when information from weather stations, weather balloons, satellite imagery and radar suggested there was more than enough moisture — fuel for storms — making its way northeast from the Gulf of Mexico.

Despite Sunday’s destruction, 2013 has been a relatively mild year for twisters in the U.S., with the number of twisters running at or near record lows.

So far this year, there have been 886 preliminary reports of tornadoes, compared with about 1,400 preliminary reports usually sent to the weather service by midNovember.

Similar slow years were 1987 and 1989.

An outbreak like the one that developed Sunday usually happens about once every seven to 10 years, according to tornado experts at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

There were similar November outbreaks in 1992 and 2002, with the 1992 one being even bigger than this year’s, said top tornado researcher Harold Brooks at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, also in Norman.

Australian foreign minister takes Indonesia’s concerns over spying ‘exceedingly serious’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Tuesday her government took “exceedingly seriously” Indonesian concerns about allegations Australia tapped the phone of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and other senior figures.

Indonesia recalled its ambassador from Australia on Monday and ordered a review of bilateral co-operation following reports that Australian spies attempted to listen to his cellphone in 2009.

Australian Broadcasting Corp. and The Guardian reported that they had documents

from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden showing that the top-secret Australian Signals Directorate also targeted the phones of Indonesian first lady Kristiani Herawati and another eight government ministers and officials.

Bishop told reporters in India on Tuesday that she would not publicly discuss Australia’s espionage activities.

“We are aware of their concerns, and we take them exceedingly seriously, but I’m not going to comment on intelligence matters,” she said.

Indonesian Ambassador Nadjib Riphat Kesoema left the Australian capital Canberra on Tuesday morning for Jakarta, urging the Australian govern-

ment to come clean on the spying episode.

“I think a good explanation will be the best way ... to ease the problem,” Kesoema said.

The diplomatic spat is the second in less than a month between Indonesia and Australia stemming from Snowden’s revelations linking Australia with U.S. espionage.

It’s an early test for Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government, which was elected in September and is anxious to cement ties with it populous near-neighbour before the uncertainty of Indonesian presidential elections next year.

Australia wants to increase co-operation with Indonesia

to solve a politically sensitive problem of asylum seekers paying human traffickers to bring them by boat from the Indonesian archipelago to Australian shores.

Abbott on Tuesday declined to publicly comment in the diplomatic row for fear of inflaming the division in what he describes as Australia’s most important bilateral relationship.

“Obviously today may not be the best day in that relationship, but nevertheless we do have a very good and strong relationship with Indonesia,” Abbott told reporters. “It’s in no one’s interest to do anything or to say anything that would jeopardize that relationship and certainly I’m not going to.”

Dashboard camera shows police officer fire on minivan during traffic stop

Firefighters battle blaze at Chile’s Municipal Theatre SANTIAGO, Chile — A blaze has damaged the famed Municipal Theater in Chile’s capital.

A blanket of smoke poured from the majestic neo-classical structure Monday before the blaze was put out after about three hours. The fire began in a second-floor warehouse that stores costumes and props for a production of The Nutcracker. Damage to the main part of the theatre was still being assessed.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police records have identified the two New Mexico State Police officers involved in a routine traffic stop that turned to chaos with a teen physically confronting one officer and another officer firing shots at a minivan carrying children.

According to a police report, Officer Tony DeTavis pulled over the family of six for speeding near the northern New Mexico tourist town of Taos. A dashboard camera video shows driver Oriana Farrell disobeyed his orders and drove off. The 39-yearold Tennessee mother was pulled over again and the video shows two of her five children get out of the vehicle to confront DeTavis.

Records identified Elias Montoya as the officer who fired three shots at the van’s tire as Farrell tried to flee a second time. Farrell and her 14-year-old son were later arrested.

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Bipolar woman won’t Exotic pet trade fuels growth in wild cat sanctuaries take medication, LEADS TO INCREASE IN MAULINGS AND DEATH causing serious family trouble

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Dear Annie: My sister-in-law, on us, and we will have to pay for “Marie,” has been diagnosed as drinks at the party. I think this is bipolar, but doesn’t take any medi- just plain wrong. cation.

We are a small family and very For 25 years, it has caused seri- close. I have invited my brother to ous trouble. numerous dinners here over the Marie is a spiteful, evil, control- years. I suggested that we celebrate ling human being. You can’t find a his birthday with a family dinner single person in town with a kind at my house, and he said, “That is word to say about her. not going to happen.”

Her own daughters try I don’t know what to to keep their distance. think. — Party Pooper, My brother is afraid Santa Cruz to leave her and instead Dear Party: We are seeks the company of confused by the words other women. “hosting a party” when He’s had many affairs the guests are paying during their marriage. for everything.

All of the men he works Nonetheless, your with are aware of this brother can have the and even encourage it party of his choosbecause they see how ing in the location he awful his wife is. prefers, and you get to As brothers, we were decide whether or not MITCHELL always close, but Marie to attend. Determine & SUGAR has managed to sever how important it is our relationship. My for you to be there. If brother is not a healthy your brother would be man. He works extra hurt by your absence, hours in order to stay please go if you can afaway from home. His latest girl- ford to do so. friend is a beautiful, kind, sweet Dear Annie: This is for “Searchwoman. He adores her, but is ing for Answers,” whose wife of 11 afraid of what Marie might do. She years doesn’t want sex. She works has threatened to destroy his life in a profession, maintains a home, if he ever leaves her. Her threats runs five miles a day to keep herare real. self in shape and is raising three While we do not condone his young kids. I’d like to offer him my cheating, the family has witnessed insight of 73 years, 46 of which have his painful marriage. What can we been spent married to my wonderdo? — Brother to Brother ful wife.

Dear Brother: Marie should not Sex is like the frosting on a cake. be allowing her bipolar disease to It tops off a good thing. But frosting control her behaviour. without the cake is not satisfying.

It would help if your brother Those who marry in order to have could get her to see a doctor and an easy source of sex should work find a medication that works for out some other way to satisfy their her. needs. A marriage where sex is the If she refuses and your brother prime motivation will become teis truly afraid to leave because of dious and dull or will not last. her threats, this would be considMarriage consists of many ered emotional abuse. Suggest that things, some good, some bad. It is he contact the Domestic Abuse living day to day in a quiet routine.

Helpline for Men and Women (dah- It means that you have a close commw.org) at 1-888-7HELPLINE. panion with whom you can share Dear Annie: My older brother a sunset. Think before you throw will be 60 this year, and he and his in the towel on your marriage and friends are hosting a group party in give up the cake for the frosting. another state.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Over the past few decades, as an exotic pet trade boomed and Americans bought cute tiger cubs and baby monkeys, sanctuaries sprang up across the nation to take care of the animals that were abandoned when they reached adult-size or were no longer wanted.

The growth in both the number of wild cats as pets and the sanctuaries that rescued them has led to attacks.

Since 1990, more than 20 people have been killed by captive big wild cats at sanctuaries, zoos and private residences, more than 200 people have been mauled and 200-plus wild cats have escaped, according to one of the nation’s largest wild cat sanctuaries.

The latest death is head keeper Renee Radziwon-Chapman, 36, who was killed by a cougar at an Oregon sanctuary last week.

Experts say that because sanctuaries are largely unregulated and anyone can open one, there are no uniform safety protocols. And over-confidence or human error can lead to tragic consequences even among the most experienced of caretakers.

“It’s a risky business when you’re dealing with dangerous wild animals. You can’t leave any room for error,” said Vernon Weir, director of the Nevada-based American Sanctuary Association which certifies sanctuaries.

For decades, exotic animals have been imported into the U.S. and openly bred for the pet trade. Despite new laws that limit the trade in some states, people can easily buy an African rodent, a chimpanzee, or a baby leopard at a flea market or over the Internet.

Experts estimate the U.S. exotic pet trade is a multibillion-dollar industry.

Hundreds of sanctuaries have opened throughout the U.S. About 80 sanctuaries currently house big cats, the International Fund for Animal Welfare says. Only a dozen of them are certified or verified by two certifying organizations, the American Sanctuary Association and the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

There’s little governmental oversight.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the federal Animal Welfare Act, licenses facilities that exhibit animals — whether domestic or wild — or do research. And the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracks endangered species when they are bought and sold across state or U.S. borders and issues permits to facilities moving animals across state lines.

But neither agency keeps a tally on facilities or the total number of wild animals that are housed.

And no one sets rules for how sanctuaries operate.

As a result, safety procedures meant to protect staff and animals vary. Most sanctuaries develop their own protocols. The two certifying associations require safety standards, but in most cases don’t define

specific rules.

WildCat Haven, the Sherwood, Ore., sanctuary where the head keeper was killed on Nov. 9, was “verified” by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

Verification means the sanctuary satisfied 60 different standards, including safety.

The organization recommends “redundancy” when it comes to safety, its executive director Patty Finch said, meaning two lockout doors or two staff members present. “It won’t eliminate the risk factor, but can certainly reduce it,” Finch said.

Still, she said, risk is inherent in the job.

“You can have the best protocols in the world and something can still go wrong.”

WildCat Haven has good safety rules in place, Finch said.

Its safety manual specifies that a staff member can enter the main enclosure to clean or make repairs only after the animals are locked away in a smaller cage.

Two people must be present when animals are locked up. And a caretaker can’t be alone with an animal in the same space.

Sanctuary officials said RadziwonChapman apparently broke those rules: she worked alone, locked only one of three cougars in the smaller cage, and went into the main enclosure with the other two cougars.

The woman’s family said they don’t believe the wife and new mother broke any rules, and she had expressed concerns about working alone just days before the attack.

Carol Baskin, CEO of Florida-based Big Cat Rescue, which compiles data on big cat attacks and deaths throughout the nation, said locking animals into a smaller cage may not be enough.

At Big Cat Rescue, all cleaning and feeding is done from outside the cages using long poles with hooks.

“I think the vast majority of sanctuaries are not strict enough and have a tendency to perpetuate the notion that these animals can be handled safety if you’re trained properly,” Baskin said.

The fatal mistakes, experts say, usually happen due to human nature.

“There is a certain psychology at work when you work with these animals day in, day out,” said Weir of the American Sanctuary Association. “You begin to feel comfortable around them. But they’re still wild animals, you don’t know what can set them off, and the results can be tragic.”

The best way to stop the attacks, experts say, is to reduce the need for sanctuaries by the curtailing the exotic pet trade.

In recent years, new state laws and a ban on the trade in big cats across state lines as pets reduced the number of mauling and deaths, the data show. A few states instituted restrictions on ownership, breeding and sale of exotic pets — some banning the practice outright, while others requiring permits or liability insurance to keep such pets. Experts say proposed national legislation that would prohibit the private possession and breeding of big cats could further reduce the need for sanctuaries and the number of attack.

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The Moon continues to visit 22): You are daring and you curious Gemini today. It’s a faare manifesting yourself in a vourable time to learn somestraightforward manner about thing new by reading a book, our personal intentions. Othby pursuing a class or just ers see you as optimistic and by tuning into the grapevine. very inspiring to be around When Mars is in supporting alwith. You attract quite an imliance with Jupiter today, this pressive number of fans on grants us lots of confidence! your team.

When we dispose of this much LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): self-assurance, we also believe Pay special attention to your to be very close to achieving behaviour and your actions. success. New experiences enASTRO They may be affecting others courage us to explore beyond DOYNA right now in the wrong way. It our limits. Travel and exploration are very much emphasized SUN SIGNS is possible that you may carry excess anger which is hard to with this aspect making them validate or point out. Certain enriching and stimulating. issues are out of your control.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the forthcoming year Let go.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are will be finding equilibrium in your emotional upheavals. Distractions will ensure that expanding in your circle of friends or a team you being kept off your feet. It’s of the es- in which you may belong to will increase sence to your wellbeing to remain objective in number. Give others an idea about your and detached from individuals who are not leadership skills and your ability to lead a crowd. worth your time or your attention.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You ARIES (March 21-April 19): Efforts exerted now will be greatly rewarded. You are at the pinnacle of a financial success eiwalk on a straight line of successful endea- ther through an inheritance or through your vours and obstacles appear nonexistent. spouse’s earnings, which will reassure you.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You sion.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Discus- appreciate another person’s sense of inisions you hold now with a dear one will tiation and savoir-faire. After all, you like bring you high hopes about the current to be surrounded by individuals who are circumstances. Any steps you undertake competent and who are hungry for success will lead you into the right direction. A new just like yourself. International dealings may hobby will not only teach you how to assert bring you more than just good luck. yourself more, but to also learn from its enAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today tire experience. may bring news concerning a past tax situGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Try to make ation, the request of a loan or a credit settleamends now with one of your parents or ment. At work, the project you will get yourset your place right in the family sphere. self involved in will take on a larger scale.

Finances look bright right now. An excess Your job is mounting, but it it’s lucrative. flow of cash will urge you to invest in some PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are real estate venture or spend more gener- willing to let your partner be the guide in ously. your alliance as you are fully entrusting in CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are their leadership role. Their initiative skills feeling adventurous and audacious. Today, will prove to you that you can both attain you may run a few errands around your your reciprocal goals. neighbourhood or your community, all to prove in the end quite successful.

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Learn to be happier in the kitchen

If you want to cook smarter, experts recommend: ● Keep a copy of David Joachim’s “The Food Substitutions Bible” (Robert Rose, 2010) in the kitchen.

It’s an invaluable, reliable resource. ●Copy/print out your recipe. Post it at eye level by taping it to a wall cabinet or beneath a refrigerator magnet close to where you’re working. There’s less chance you’ll miss a step. ●Take the recipe with you when you shop. You’re more likely to come home with everything you need. ● If you tend to use lots of garlic, buy whole peeled cloves in bulk.

Transfer them to a tall, wide-mouthed glass jar, submerge them in canola oil, seal tightly and refrigerate indefinitely. (Olive oil will solidify in the cold.) ● Reach for the right size knife. Using a small one to chop small things can speed up prep time. ● Reorder the ingredients or steps to save time. There’s no need to chop everything beforehand if the first ingredients need to marinate or cook/ bake for a while; those minutes can be used to prep what’s next on the list. ● Sling a dish towel over your shoulder or tuck it into your belt. It’ll keep you from reaching for too many paper towels. ● Use a cutting board that’s large enough to house the piles of ingredients you prep. You’ll have fewer bowls to wash. ● Seat a large, freezer-safe zip-top bag inside a mixing bowl. As you work, toss in scraps that can be used to make broth.

You won’t have to wash the bowl. ● Cut vegetables and fruit to a similar size. They will cook evenly and, therefore, more efficiently. ● Invest in a heavy, enamel-on-cast-iron Dutch oven. Due to its ability to transfer and contain even heat, cooking in it might reduce the time it takes to finish a dish. ● Taste several times and add salt (or a suitable substitute) as the food cooks. The recipe might not specify that, but doing so will reduce the risk of ruining the dish by waiting until the very end to check the seasoning.

TIPS ● Using prepped cabbage from the grocery store salad bar cuts the chopping time. ● If you buy skin-on hazelnuts, their skins will crack as they toast.

Transfer them immediately to a dish towel and rub to remove the skins before cooling and chopping. ● Look for fresh, moist parsnips on the small side, with fairly smooth, root-free skin.

They might need only a thorough scrubbing instead of peeling.

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COOK BETTER BY COOKING SMARTER

To be happier in the kitchen, cook better by cooking smarter. Red Cabbage and Apple Salad.

BY BONNIE S. BENWICK ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Some people have a knack for cooking; some don’t. That is wisdom learned the hard way by culinary instructors I know, and a view that has become clear to me from fielding readers’ questions.

Now, that doesn’t mean those with less aptitude get a pass. Just about everybody ought to cook at home, for the reasons long touted: It’s cost-effective. It’s a lifelong skill.

It’s sociable. We all deserve to eat well.

When cooking becomes an effort that’s Sisyphean instead of satisfying, the thing to do — for everyone, really — is to aim for greater efficiency in the kitchen. That calls for critical thinking, organization and shortcuts.

The first step is a no-brainer, and perhaps that’s the hitch. When you are following a recipe, read it through with a critical eye. Comprehend the steps; do they make sense, or have you come across a better way to do the task at hand? Consider ingredient substitutions that might make the dish sing for you. Not all recipe headnotes flag steps that might require advance prep; nobody likes the surprise of a stop in the action to soak beans or pickle something.

Dianne Jacob reads a recipe, then visualizes what she’ll do. The food- and recipewriting coach and author of “Will Write for Food” (Da Capo, 2010) has helped improve 18 cookbooks in the past 17 years, objecting to chef-driven directions along the lines of “Roast a duck in the usual manner.”

“Just because the recipe says ‘Using a sharp knife . . .’ to peel an eggplant doesn’t mean I have to. I prefer a vegetable peeler,” she says. Then again, if a chef’s knife is the utensil you wield most comfortably, go with it.

Jacob says that organization does not necessarily entail mise en place, the French way of referring to a cadre of ingredients chopped and at the ready. It’s all too easy to season the gravy with pre-measured salt that was meant to be shared with the

RED CABBAGE AND APPLE SALAD MAKES about 3 servings Ingredients For the dressing 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice 1 1/2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar 3/4 teaspoon sherry vinegar 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons hazelnut oil Pinch kosher salt For the salad 2 medium Pink Lady apples 2 medium oranges, preferably navel 3 generous cups thinly sliced red cabbage 2 tablespoons chopped hazelnuts, toasted 2 tablespoons golden raisins 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 8 to 10 chives, finely chopped STEPS For the dressing: Whisk together the orange juice, vinegars, oils and salt in a mixing bowl to form an emulsified vinaigrette.

For the salad: Core the apple, then cut it into medium dice, adding the pieces to the dressing as you work.

Cut off the top and bottom of the oranges; stand on each one end. Working vertically around the oranges, one at a time, use a serrated knife to cut away and discard the

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Ingredients cook more efficiently when cut to uniform sizes. The onion and garlic in this skillet are unevenly cut, so cooking them is more of a challenge. meat.

“It doesn’t make sense to prep the garnish before you start the onions for a stew,” she says. But having some things done in advance works for her, especially with a multi-step recipe when she’s pressed for time. Jacob will marinate, shred, measure and even chop the night before.

Better yet, she reaches for the convenience of prepped produce at the grocery store. Sometimes that’s a more expensive exercise, but the trade-off works for her.

She buys the amount she needs and throws away fewer vegetables gone bad.

A looser form of mise en place is helpful, however. Oakland culinary instructor Linda Carucci gathers ingredients and equipment peel and white pith. Slice between the membranes to remove all the orange segments, letting them drop into the mixing bowl with the dressing and apple.

Add the cabbage, hazelnuts, raisins and 1/8 teaspoon each of the salt and pepper; toss to incorporate. Taste, and add the remaining seasoning as needed.

Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle with the chives; serve right away, or cover and refrigerate for up to 1 hour before serving.

PARSNIP SOUP WITH ORANGE AND GINGER MAKES about 4 servings Omit the tearful chopping work by using frozen chopped onion in this quick recipe; because this is a soup, the onion does not have to be defrosted before you toss it into the pan. For a lighter-colored soup, use a 5050 mixture of store-bought vegetable broth and water.

It can be served warm or cold.

Ingredients 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons unsalted butter 1 cup chopped onion 1 pound parsnips 1 large orange 1-inch piece ginger root 1 tablespoon flour 2 1/2 cups light-colored homemade or storebought, no-salt-added vegetable broth Kosher salt

as a second step, after reading the recipe.

“That goat cheese I had in the fridge. . . . I can make sure it’s good to use,” she says. “I don’t want to be surprised by less of something than I thought I had.”

The most important step Carucci has learned seems to fly in the face of saving time. “I rinse stuff off as soon as I use it,” she says. “It always takes me longer to clean up if I leave things all over the kitchen.” Once she measures out olive oil, its cup goes right in the dishwasher. In fact, she empties the dishwasher before she starts to cook.

As the owner of a small kitchen, I need to adopt that strategy.

1/2 cup water, or as needed 1/2 cup light cream STEPS Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.

Add the onion and cook for 5 to 8 minutes, stirring often, until the onion is softened but not colored.

Meanwhile, peel the parsnips, then cut them into small pieces of equal size. Grate the zest of the orange over the onion in the saucepan, then squeeze the juice of the orange into a liquid measuring cup.

Use a spoon to peel the ginger, then grate the ginger into the saucepan. Add the parsnips and the flour; stir to incorporate. Increase the heat to medium-high, stirring in the broth gradually so the flour doesn’t lump together.

Once the mixture comes to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes.

Working in batches, transfer ladlefuls of the mixture to a blender with the center knob removed from its lid so steam can escape. Place a paper towel over the opening.

Puree to form a smooth soup, then pour into a mixing bowl. Taste, and season with 1/8-teaspoon increments of salt until you can taste the individual ingredients. Repeat with the remaining mixture from the saucepan. If the soup seems too thick, add water as needed to achieve the desired consistency.

Pour the soup back into the saucepan and warm through over medium-low heat. Stir in the orange juice; taste, and add salt as needed.

At this point, the soup can be divided among individual bowls. Swirl equal amounts of cream into each portion. Or cool the soup completely (without the cream) and refrigerate until well chilled. Swirl equal amounts of the cream into each portion just before serving.

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Actor Keanu Reeves appears for a press conference to promote the 3-D film 47 Ronin in Tokyo, Japan, Monday.

Keanu Reeves in Tokyo to promote film 47 Ronin BASED ON TRUE JAPANESE STORY TOKYO — The director of the Keanu Reeves 3-D film 47 Ronin says he hopes his adaptation of a true Japanese story becomes a Hollywood blockbuster.

Film director Carl Rinsch, Reeves and co-stars appeared together in front of a Tokyo audience on Monday.

The film is based on an actual historical event during the Edo Period known as “Chushingura.”

It involved a lord who was wrongfully put to death and his followers — ronin — who sought revenge.

Rinsch said he took on the film subject and sat down with Keanu

Reeves about two years ago. They wondered how they were going to take on a popular Japanese tale and do it justice.

Rinsch said they decided to make the story their own, making “it a Hollywood blockbuster and see it through that lens.”

“These themes of revenge, loyalty, perseverance, were things we knew from the very beginning were universal,” said Rinsch, who is making his directorial feature debut with the film.

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada stars as the main supporting character, Kuranosuke Oishi, a leader of the men.

Sanada said that during the filming Reeves became more and more of a samurai, while the

character he played became more “wild” in style.

Sanada said Reeves and himself hoped to depict the friendship of two characters, which transcended borders and social positions, in the film.

Reeves said 47 Ronin is a story where people “share this journey to reclaim their land, their honour, their way.

It was very special to me to be part of it.”

Reeves, who grew up attracted to martial arts movies, makes his directorial debut this year with the martial arts action movie Man of Tai Chi. The film 47 Ronin premiers in Japan on Dec. 6 and opens in U.S. theatres on Dec. 25.

Noted Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick dies in Montreal of rare liver cancer MONTREAL — Peter Wintonick, a renowned Canadian documentary filmmaker with a career that spanned more than 35 years, was remembered Monday as a generous mentor who always found new ways to make socially engaging flims.

Wintonick, 60, was born in Trenton, Ont., but based in Montreal.

He died of a rare form of liver cancer.

“Peter was a mentor to me, was a mentor to a lot of people,” said Bob Moore, himself an award-winning producer at EyeSteelFilm where Wintonick was an executive producer.

“He was sort of one of the icons of cinema.

He was also one of the most generous people.

He brought everyone together but was also one of the most intelligent, astute minds in cinema and around the world.”

Wintonick was involved in more than 100 films and transmedia projects, one of the most notable being 1992’s Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, which looked at the life and ideas of the political activist and intellectual.

He co-directed the National Film Board of Canada-Necessary Illusions production with Mark Achbar.

The NFB describes that film as one of the most commercially successful documentaries in Canadian history.

Another of his films, Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment, which was released in 1999, took home seven awards including a Special Jury Award at the Banff World Media Festival.

He won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2006, a year after he was named Thinker in Residence by the premier of South Australia.

Wintonick also cofounded DocAgora, an event that explores new platforms and ways of funding socially engaging documentaries.

His latest film, Be Here Now, will be completed

by EyeSteelFilm, Moore said in an interview.

A fundraising effort is underway to help fi-

nance the film and pay Wintonick’s medical bills.

Moore said Wintonick was only diagnosed with cancer about a month ago and his health went into a rapid decline last Thursday.

“It’s been pretty intense as word got around,” Moore said.

“It has been an absolute explosion of love and warmth.

“Being so generous and considerate, he (Wintonick) didn’t really want to trouble people with the news at first.”

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NEW YORK — Notice anything different about Olivia Pope’s look this season on Scandal?

It’s still full of the very best designer labels, and her suits — a good chunk of her wardrobe — blend an aggressive edge with a sexy shape while staying professional.

But in Season 3, there’s a hint more colour, and many of the silhouettes are asymmetrical, showing her just a bit off-kilter. “Hopefully viewers will see the emotional reason to make these changes, and we’ve amped up the fashion, too, because we needed it for File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the story,” ex- Costume designer Lyn Paolo plains costume d e s i g n e r L y n poses with costumes for the ABC drama series Scandal.

Paolo.

Olivia has a full life and — just like everyone else — needs the right clothes for it, says Paolo, who talks about her favourite character on ABC’s hit inside-the-Beltway show (Thursdays at 8 p.m. ) as if she were real.

Kerry Washington, a fashion It Girl in her own right, plays Olivia, described by the network as a “professional fixer.”

The show has to buy the clothes and keep them because Paola is unsure if creator Shonda Rhimes will want to revisit a particular scene in a flashback.

As a result, Olivia’s closet is as big as the Manhattan Starbucks where Paola met a reporter.

Paola shops from the runway, at department stores, from windows and online.

When she was on vacation this past summer on a cruise, she fell in love with a fellow passenger’s outfit. She told the passenger the clothing tag was showing (it wasn’t) so she could “fix it” and steal a peek at the label.

Is there anything in that bulging Scandal closet that Paola would like to borrow? “I’m a uniform girl.

I dislike dressing myself. It’s all black and white in my closet — I wear whatever is easiest to get me through the day.”

She is, after all, dressing up to 80 people per episode. “We should call it ‘Scramble’ not ‘Scandal.”’

Olivia was easy, though. Paola had her look down before she knew Washington would be the star — and maybe even before Scandal was pitched as a pilot.

Paola, whose credits also include The West Wing and ER, says she keeps dozens of files on imaginary characters, cutting out photos and jotting down notes about what they would wear and stuffing them into folders.

One was “an African-American woman in light clothes and a custom Louise Green hat,” she said.

“I had an image of Diana Ross. I would have liked a bigger brim on the hat, but our sets are too dark and you couldn’t see Kerry’s face.”

Paola also works on Showtime’s Shameless, and her problem there is that the characters are supposed to have a gritty appearance, but Emmy Rossum, the most fashion-y of the cast, is a little modellike, she says.

“You’ll look at her and say, ‘She looks too good in that!”’

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Gull Lake wetlands proposed

United Way

TO FILTER POLLUTANTS MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE LAKE

Goal: $2.25 million

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10

Amount raised:

$1.405 million Per cent raised:

62%

Thank You!

INVEST IN PEOPLE Not-for-profit organizations will have the opportunity to “invest in people” through a returning grant program.

Devon Canada Corp. is offering $5,000 to such groups to help them fund employee or volunteer training programs or team building activities through its Investing in People grant. The grant’s broader purpose is to encourage innovative projects and activities.

Since its inception in 2008, the program has provided $250,000 in funding to a number of organizations.

For more details and to apply for the grant, go to www.investinginpeople. ca. The deadline for applications is Dec. 13.

A wetlands project has been proposed to filter pollutants making their way to Gull Lake.

The Gull Lake Water Quality Management Society has proposed the project, which would be developed at the southeast corner of the lake where a pair of streams flow into the lake.

“Excessive nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous can lead to eutrophication of the lake, which leads to an excessive amount of aquatic plant and phytoplankton growth,” says a funding request to Lacombe County council from society president Craig MacLeod.

The main sources of phos-

phorous are agricultural runoff and from lake bottom sediments, says the society.

MacLeod suggests the county could tap a fund that has been set up to cover the power costs of pumping water from the Battle River into Gull Lake to stabilize lake levels during dry years.

Pumping has not been required in recent years.

A budget for the wetland project and a specific funding amount has not been forwarded to council yet.

Sewage from residences and pollutants from recreational activities also contribute to lake problems, says MacLeod. The society wants the county to ensure that infill housing has updated septic tank systems.

“We are seeing seasonal

cabins with failing sewer systems being replaced by yearround housing that are using the same septic field systems the cabin used previously,” says MacLeod.

Council made no decision on the request at its council meeting last Thursday.

County commissioner Terry Hager said council wants to hear a presentation from the society and to hear whether residents near the proposed wetland project support the plan.

“Council would view it certainly differently if they didn’t have support,” he said. “We just wanted to make sure they had their other partners all lined up.”

Hager said he would not recommend the pumping fund be

used. It is shared by Lacombe and Ponoka Counties and the Summer Villages of Gull Lake and Parkland Beach. Approval would be required from all four to dip into the fund.

Draining that fund means municipalities would have to find significant amounts of money elsewhere in its budgets during a drought.

When pumping is needed, the bill will likely be higher than the amount set aside in the fund.

“The fact that we didn’t have pumping for two years doesn’t mean that money is all of a sudden freed up,” he said.

A spokesman for the society could not be reached for comment on Monday. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

POWER LINE WORK

MURDER TRIAL

Mental illness outlined

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

she and her 67-year-old baseball-bat-wielding husband tried to fight off robbers. The robbers were armed with a machete-style knife and a pistol and had come into their hotel looking for cash about 11 p.m.

The couple have owned the hotel for the past eight years.

Police also allege both suspects were involved in the robbery of Mac’s in Drumheller on Nov. 6.

The youngest sister of a man who was shot dead inside the family home described her family’s extensive history of mental illness in court on Monday.

Sasha Mock, 29, was called to testify for the defence in the trial of her brother, John Wayne Mock, who has admitted to firing the shots that killed another of her brothers.

Timothy James Mock, 33, died on Feb. 22, 2012, in the master bedroom of the main house on the family ranch, northeast of Consort.

John Mock, now 36, is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice Kirk Sisson and a jury of six men and six women.

Members of the jury have been asked to determine whether Mock is guilty of second-degree murder or if he can be held not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.

Questioned by defence counsel Darren Mahoney, Sasha Mock said John, Tim, their mother Maryetta and two of Maryetta’s brothers had been diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder.

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FUNDS FOR TREES The Central Alberta chapter of Pheasants Forever raised about $20,000 at a fundraising auction and banquet on Sept. 28 at Westerner Park. All the money raised will stay in Central Alberta, going towards tree planting and education. In the past 12 years, more than 380,000 trees have been planted by the local conservation group. In 2009, they also pledged to commit $20,000 a year for five years to the Olds College Botanical Gardens and Treatment Wetlands. The facility was constructed to address storm and grey water management in northern climates in support of Alberta’s Water for Life Strategy.

EPILEPSY AWARENESS November is epilepsy education month and the Central Alberta office of the Epilepsy Association of Calgary is looking to raise awareness about the neurological disorder. A session about epilepsy and how to assist someone during a seizure will be held at The Hub on Ross on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

The Hub is located at 4936 Ross St. Admission is free. To register or for more information, call Norma Klassen at 403-3583358 or email normak@ epilepsycalagary.com.

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-3144333.

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Linemen with the power line division of DNR Welding work to install new cables in the Gasoline Alley area. A cold winter day made for chilly work at the top of the poles no doubt.

Brothers arrested in robberies Two brothers have been arrested in connection with a string of robberies in Stettler and Drumheller.

The suspects were arrested in a Stettler motel about 10 p.m. on Thursday, Stettler RCMP said on Monday. Police received a number of tips after putting out a public call for information.

RCMP allege that Chase Gordon Donovan, 19, was involved in the robbery of a Stettler Fas Gas on Sept.

30.

It is also alleged he and his brother Cruise Daniel Donovan, 23, were involved in robbing the same Fas Gas on Oct. 11 and Stettler’s Royal Hotel on Nov. 12.

A 64-year-old woman suffered minor cuts when

ALTERCATION IN STETTLER

Social Credit leader says his party Man hears is the only social conservative one from wife in there was policy discussion, including how to deal with natural disasters like this year’s flooding.

“We really do need insurance against this,” The leader of the Social Credit Party says it said Skowronski.

“Of course, the private insurers really don’t is the only social conservative party left in Alwant to do that, so we’re thinking of working on berta.

“We now have four liberal parties: the Liber- a resolution that would stipulate the government als, Progressive Conservatives, Wildrose and should have a home insurance Crown corporation that would proAlberta Party, and one vide this kind of insursocialist party (NDP), ance to people in the and the only one true flood plains.” social conservative He said the cost of party is the Social the insurance would Credit,” said party be substantial, but if leader Len Skowronsomeone does not want ski. to be covered then the He pointed to the government would not Wildrose Party’s rebail them out in the cent annual general event of a flood. meeting and the fact it The floods were a shed some social conkey topic at the meetservative policies during. ing that meeting.

“They (the Conser— ALBERTA SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY LEADER “We see an opportuLEN SKOWRONSKI vative government) nity there to get some really didn’t seem to of these people to be prepared for such a disaster and some of come back to Social Credit.

“We are now the only social conservative party their response was overwhelming when you consider the cost,” said Skowronski. in Alberta.”

“I live in Calgary and we’ve had a peak in Despite the uninviting weather, enough people showed up for a quorum at the Social Credit high-end housing purchases because a lot of the Party’s annual general meeting on Saturday. people along the Elbow River and Bow River In Innisfail, the party of Earnest Manning and had multimillion-dollar houses and the govern‘Bible Bill’ Aberhart discussed its platform and ment is paying the whole shot for them to move to other places.

Social Credit’s future.

Although there were no resolutions — the policy convention is held in the spring — Please see PARTY on Page B2

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

‘WE SEE AN OPPORTUNITY THERE TO GET SOME OF THESE PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO SOCIAL CREDIT. WE ARE NOW THE ONLY SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN ALBERTA.’

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

Philippines A Red Deer man is breathing a sigh of relief after finally hearing his wife’s voice from the Philippines early Monday morning.

Tom Karashowsky, 55, said he received a phone call around 5 a.m. on Monday from his wife Jocelyn. She called from a relief area in Calbayog, where she was evacuated after the storm hit on Nov. 8. He said she and her children are OK but are very shaken.

“They are surviving on rice, noodles and water, all supplied by relief workers, which I am very grateful for,” he said.

“They tried to wait out the storm in the cement and block house but the water kept rising.

The roof blew off. A palm tree fell and destroyed one wall.”

Karashowsky said his wife and four-year old twins escaped to higher elevation and hugged a palm tree until help arrived.

Karashowsky said he is relieved his wife and her daughters are safe and they can replace everything they lost.

Jocelyn was waiting for her passport in order to come to Red Deer when Typhoon Haiyan hit on Nov. 8.

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HIV testing offered during AIDS Awareness Week

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

KNOW YOUR STATUS CAMPAIGN also available for other sexually transmitted diseases or blood-borne infections. Red Deer Primary Care Network Street Clinic, Alberta Health Services 49th Street Community Health Centre and CAANS partnered to organize the campaign.

Testing for the campaign will be available at the street clinic from Nov. 26 to 28, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Testing at the Teen and Young Adult Sexual Health Clinic at 49th Street Community Health Centre will be available during regular business hours — Monday, Thursday and Friday

Know Your Status testing campaign will run from Nov. 25 to 29 during Canada’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Week.

“Of the 71,000 people who are living with HIV in Canada, about 25 per cent of them don’t know,” Jennifer Vandershaeghe, executive director of Central Alberta AIDS Network Society, said on Monday.

“The majority of HIV infections are being transmitted by people who do not know their status. So we really want people to know their status.”

Testing is free and confidential, and

from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The office is closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m.

CAANS staff will be available during the campaign to provide support and information to clients.

Free and confidential testing is always available through family doctors, and at the street clinic and sexual health clinic.

Vandershaeghe said it’s important for people to get tested even if they aren’t in a high-risk group.

“People don’t necessarily tell doc-

tors everything about their personal lives. Doctors aren’t necessarily ready to hear or have the time to build that relationship where you feel comfortable about telling everything that you have done.

“It’s important for people to take that power for themselves and say, ‘No, I want to be tested. I want to know my status.’ ” In Alberta Health Services Central Zone, 11 people tested positive for HIV in 2012, 13 tested positive in 2011 and 12 in 2010.

Across the province, 241 people tested positive in 2012, 225 tested positive in 2011, and 204 in 2010. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC students study trade in Missouri

SOCKS DONATED

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Safe Harbour case manager Jenn L’Ecluse piles Donna Wells high with some of the 300 donated socks that were brought to the organization Monday. The United Way Sockey Night in Red Deer which took place at the Red Deer Rebels game November 15 brought in about 1,200 pairs of socks that have been distributed to the Safe Harbour, the Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society, Central Alberta AIDS Network Society, and the Canadian Mental Health Association. As of Monday the United Way Central Alberta has achieved 62 percent of its 2013 campaign goal raising $1,405,543 .

Three Central Albertans accused of poaching elk Three Central Albertans face numerous poaching charges for hunting elk at night west of Rimbey.

One 17-year-old youth from Rimbey and two adults from Alhambra face 14 charges under the Wildlife, Traffic Safety and Liquor acts.

Rimbey RCMP responded after a person contacted the police on Sunday at about 9:30 p.m. to a report of a suspicious truck driving on Leedale Road near Hwy 766 without any headlights on.

Shortly after, police stopped a truck driving on Leedale Road, where elk could be seen in the field by moonlight.

When an officer approached the vehicle, he saw the front passenger holding a spotlight with a loaded rifle in his possession.

The driver and back passenger also had loaded high-powered ri-

fles. Police allege all occupants of the vehicle had been drinking.

Police investigation later found the driver had allegedly shot at a bull elk from the roadway with a scoped rifle.

The shooting allegedly occurred near a residence at night while the passenger use a spotlight so the shooter could see the elk better.

RCMP did not know whether the bull elk was wounded. Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers were nearby and assisted the police in the investigation.

Police seized the truck, as well as the three rifles.

The driver had his licence suspended for 30 days.

According to the RCMP, these offences took place only 1.6 km from where two large bull moose were shot and left to rot last November. Only their antlers were

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MOTIVE: Drug related RCMP said the motive for the alleged crimes appears to be drug related.

As well, an arrest warrant was out for Cruise Donovan for allegedly urinating or defecating in public.

Chase is charged with two counts of robbery, three counts of wearing a disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence, and single counts of robbery using a firearm and assault.

Cruise is charged with two counts of robbery, two counts of wearing a disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence and aggravated assault.

Both have no fixed address and were arrested in a Stettler motel.

They were in Red Deer provincial court on Monday. They are scheduled to return to court on Nov. 28.

TRIAL: Bipolar episodes She said their mother experienced numerous episodes related to the disorder, which she believes played a role in the heart attack that took her life on Jan. 7, 2012, just weeks before the shooting.

Maryetta had been taken to hospital in Provost after suffering a “nervous breakdown” and died there of a heart attack, said Sasha Mock. John believed that the doctors had administered a drug that killed her, she said.

Sasha recalled that John, normally easygoing and friendly, also had a history of rages. The rages seemed to be triggered when people contradicted his opinion, and he would have no recall of what

taken. That case remains unsolved.

Charges against the three include hunting in a dangerous manner, hunting at night, discharging a firearm from a roadway, hunting while impaired and hunting on occupied land without permission.

Police have not yet identified the two adults.

The RCMP reminds those allegedly involved in criminal activity that any objects used to commit a crime will be seized as offencerelated property.

Rimbey Mounties and Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers are working in partnership to put an end to frequent poaching in the area.

Officers have approached landowners and asked them to immediately call police or Report a Poacher at 1-800-642-3800 to report suspicious persons or vehicles.

happened afterward.

“He would start yelling and he didn’t have any control over himself.”

Sasha described one incident several years ago in which John bashed through a plate-glass door after Tim stepped into a dispute between him and their father, Roy, and then locked him out of the house.

Their mother got John calmed down and he was booked to see a doctor, who sent him to Ponoka for treatment at the Centennial Centre.

Also called to testify for the defence, Consort RCMP Sgt. Colm Fitz-Gerald said he had known John Mock and his mother for about four years prior to the shooting. He had worked with them after John was charged with impaired driving.

Fitz-Gerald said the man he saw sitting quietly in the prisoner’s box on Monday was very different from the friendly and chatty person he had known before the shooting.

The trial continues today and is scheduled to run until Nov. 29. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

PARTY: Responsibility “It’s nice to help people, but I think there should be some responsibility for people building or owning houses in flood plains.”

Oil and gas revenues were also highlight for Skowronski, who said the province is not taking enough advantage of its wealth of resources.

“We’re losing more than $34 million a day by not upgrading the bitumen we’re exporting,” said Skowronski.

“We wouldn’t have to be cutting back, they say they want to cut back 177 nurses and so on. We could afford to have lots of nurses and doctors. They’re cutting back education and we shouldn’t have to.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer College business students headed from the Canadian West to the American Midwest earlier this month on a trade mission designed to help them better learn their future trade.

Five students in the business administration degree program at the school were part of the trade mission to Missouri, organized by Central Alberta: Access Prosperity (CAAP).

In their global business class, groups of students had each been paired with a local business, and with those businesses being part of the trade mission, five students were chosen to attend alongside those company representatives.

The students visited universities, businesses, corporations and research centres during the five days in Missouri.

Third year student Tabish Rizaey said the best part of the experience was the networking he was able to do with American students and business leaders.

“I really underestimated the power of networking. Going into businesses and actually touring their facilities, you get to know better.

It’s so much better than just looking at a website, emailing or Skyping,” he said.

Part of that experience was understanding the issues and challenges businesses face today and appreciating how economic development agencies operate.

“It was so much better than just sitting in class, learning,” said Rizaey,

who was partnered with Ponoka-based oilfield company Alberta Flares.

It was the first trade mission RDC students have been a part of, and it is something the college is hoping to make standard as part of its business program.

Donald School of Business dean Darcy Mykytyshyn said there are a few other CAAP trade missions coming up he hopes students can also be a part of.

“One of the things we’re focusing on is trying to ensure that we can introduce an applied element to our students’ experience . . . We’d like to give them a chance to get into the business world and try to take what they’re learning from us and put it into play,” he said.

Last month, two students from the school attended the World Business Forum in New York City, a huge summit that draws prominent CEOs and business executives. Mykytyshyn said the student trips are part of RDC’s effort to differentiate itself from other schools.

Sarah Olson, Ponoka’s economic development officer, said the trips offer the potential to create a solid working relationship between business programs and the world of economic development, which she said is rarely focused on post-secondary business education.

Agriculture, oil and gas, plant and animal science and manufacturing partnerships were some of the areas of common interest discussed on the trip. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Four nab Servus scholarships Four Central Alberta post-secondary students will receive $1,000 scholarships through the Servus Young and Free scholarship program.

The students, along with 26 others from across the province, were selected from 318 applicants and announced as winners on Nov. 13.

Taylor Lakusta-Wong of Lacombe, Jamie Calkins of Red Deer, Jordan Moos of Three Hills and Rebecca Burnand of Red Deer all won the scholarships thanks to their unique visions for the future and for having a minimum grade point average of at least 70 per cent.

To be considered for the scholarship, students were asked to submit a 90-second video or 300-to-500word essay describing a significant life lesson and how it will shape their world in the future. Submissions were then judged by a Servus panel.

Applicants had to be between the ages of 17 and 25 and attending a post-secondary institution in Alberta for the 2013-2014 academic year.

For more information, visit www.youngfreealberta.com.

Free Doctor Who celebration Red Deer fans of Doctor Who, the British sciencefiction TV series, can celebrate 50 years of memories on Saturday at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library. The free celebration runs from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium. There will be games, prizes and video trivia.

The BBC-produced show (the world’s longestrunning sci-fi series) that follows the adventures of a time-travelling alien turns 50 years old this month.

To recognize the milestone, Cineplex and BBC America are unveiling a 50th anniversary special film in 3D called The Day of the Doctor. This 75-minute movie includes behind-the-scenes bonus content exclusive to theaters. It stars Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper and John Hurt.

Participants at the library event who dress up as a character from the award-winning series will have their names entered in a draw for two tickets to The Day of the Doctor showing at Red Deer’s Galaxy Cineplex on Nov. 25 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Kim Whiting at the Red Deer Public Library at 403-342-9105.

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The help you didn’t ask for I finally broke. laying drop cloths upon their usuI began renovating — just small al recreation area. esthetic things like painting walls.

No forethought whatsoever.

But now have I the bug to keep Once I had begun, nothing was moving forward until to stop me, either. my 15-year-old home The poor kids were is in a completely new destined to watch condition. scratched DVDs in the Since having the dismal ambiance of the kids and moving into basement and having this home, I have wanttheir frazzled-looking ed to vamp it up. mother pick them up God knows it was in from school covered need of it. Putrid pink head to toe in a paint walls, stain encrusted called Warm Sand. blue carpets and not I became mad with to mention the closet obsession over the doors that fall easily paint, each stroke of the LINDSAY off their rollers. These roller causing me anxiare just a few examples ety as to whether the BROWN of what I’ve been livchildren were plotting ing with in the last five ME PLUS THREE to stick their grubby years. little hands anywhere I would have liked near its wet surface. I to wait until the babes were older dreamed of painting and the horto delve into this endeavour, thus rors that went along with it. less likely for them to ruin fresh One afternoon, while I was paint or new flooring. perched atop my kitchen cupUnfortunately, one bored-stiff boards cutting in the last of the afternoon I picked up a paint primer, I glanced down at what brush and began.

I heard to be my two-and-a-half This was my crucial blunder. I year old daughter. did not plan for the future, I did There she was covered in the not stop to think where I would paint of the accent wall — an exhave the kids play whilst wet paint tremely dark brown with slight unlay naked on the walls around dertones of red glinting through. them.

It was as though time stood still.

I never even thought about how That moment, that wretched modishevelled the house would be- ment could never be taken back. come when moving furniture and My first reaction was to jump

off the three-metre-high cabinet I crouched upon, but realized I would be no good to anyone with a broken back … or worse.

So instead I screamed in howling pitch, “Don’t move Sophie!”

This only frightened the poor child, causing her to turn and flee.

She ran straight into that wall covered in the same fresh paint as her body, direly smudging the effects of my hard work.

After attending to the child and calming her down, I asked why she had thought it was OK to get into the paint that I had clearly told her moments before not to go near. Her answer was simple, prophetic really: “Mama was busy and TV not working … I want to help Mama paint so TV can get back to normal.”

This sentence gives me two pieces of vital information.

One: my children watch far too much television when even they understand that the device doubles as a babysitter when I am busy.

And two: next time I decide to undergo renovations in my home, as well as setting up a suitable play room in the basement, I will also be making sure I am not the only adult in the house … just in case things get a little messy!

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

HELP FOR THE NEEDY

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Hundreds of frozen turkeys are shown before being handed out to Utah families at the Indian Walk-In Center in Salt Lake City. The average Turkey Day dinner will cost $49.04, or just 44 cents less in 2013 than it did in 2012.

Family tension may ease at holidays Question: My spouse with his in-laws (aldoesn’t get along with though that’s certainly my parents and siblings. something to hope and The situation has gotten pray for!), these are some so bad that he practical doesn’t even steps you can want to travtake to miniel to attend mize the holiour annual day stress.

Thanksgiving Question: celebration How can we at my parteach our ents’ home. daughter I’m tired of good probthe tension lem solving and dissenskills? Whension. Can you ever she ensuggest a solucounters a JIM tion? challenge, DALY Jim: All too such as putoften, family ting together gatherings that Legos, she are supposed quickly abanto be filled dons it and with love and runs to us for warmth end up turning help. into tense, uncomfortDr. Greg Smalley, Vice able confrontations.

President, Family MinYou may have re- istries: Teaching kids to signed yourselves to problem solve begins the fact that things will with parents modelling never be hunky-dory AND verbalizing how to between your husband solve common problems. and your family, but that Modelling alone is not doesn’t mean you can’t sufficient. take steps that might We must explain the lead to positive change. process we used to arFirst, you and your rive at the solution. husband need to sit down Instead of simply havtogether and discuss this ing your daughter watch problem rationally. you fix something around It’s vital that the two the house (or put togethof you come to a meeting er Legos), verbally walk of the minds over this her through the steps. issue. Interactions with Also, parents should extended family are an praise their kids when important and inevitable they attempt to solve part of every marriage. problems. I had a rotaThis is a fact that you’re tion in a children’s thergoing to have to face to- apeutic treatment center gether. Don’t let it create during my doctoral ina wedge between the two ternship and residency. of you.

One of the treatment Perhaps it would be goals was to foster better possible to work out a problem solving skills. compromise. For exam- Any time we noticed a ple, consider the option child working on a projof skipping certain big ect, we would say, “Nice family gatherings every problem solving. I like other year. how you. ...” We always This Thanksgiving, encouraged their atcould you tell your fam- tempts and explained ily that, while you appre- what they had done that ciate the invitation, you was positive. and your husband have It’s important to find decided to spend a quiet the balance between enholiday with your imme- couraging your kids to diate family? ask for help and simply T h i s m a y r e m o v e solving the problem for some of the stress and them. tension and make it easOne of the greatest ier for your husband to gifts we can give our chilface the family gathering dren is to teach them to next year. ask questions — but then You might also go allow them to wrestle ahead with your Thanks- with the solution. If we giving plans, but arrange immediately solve all of to stay at a local hotel their problems for them, rather than in your par- they won’t learn how to ents’ home. think through the probIf things become ab- lem solving steps. solutely unbearable for Finally, take advanyou or your spouse, you tage of teachable times can politely excuse your- w h e n y o u r c h i l d r e n selves and take refuge in make mistakes. You can the tranquility of your use this opportunity to hotel room. probe ways they could Again, the most im- have handled the situportant thing is that you ation differently to get and your husband agree more positive results. on the course of action.

Catch up with Jim Daly Short of a miraculous at www.jimdalyblog.com breakthrough in your or at www.facebook.com/ husband’s relationship DalyFocus.

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Building better, healthier boundaries “We teach people how to treat us.”

– Phillip C. (Dr. Phil) McGraw, American television personality, author and psychologist “I’m not doing it,” she declared. “You can do it if you want, but I’m not doing it!”

I looked up from my work. Rick was talking to one of his staff members and judging by the response (and volume) it was not being well received. I was surprised. Rick is a pretty easy going guy – gentle with critique and always generous with encouragement.

“The information on this form is incorrect,” he said his young, female staffer.

“That’s what I was given,” the woman replied. “Blame the account manager.”

“I’ve had this same issue,” Rick noted. “What I started doing is taking a few moments and confirming the addresses before I send the news releases out for printing and distribution.”

MURRAY “Maybe you have time for FUHRER that,” replied the staffer, “but I’m far too busy.”

“We’re all busy,” Rick said then paused for a moment to regroup. “If there’s an error, it comes back to this department and we’re the ones who look careless – incompetent.”

“So the (cursing) account manager gets off scot free and we enable his poor performance by just fixing whatever mistakes he happens to make – that’s great. That’s just (cursing) great.”

“It’s only enabling if no-one says anything,” re-

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plied Rick. “I will be speaking to him.”

“Oh that’s sure to fix everything,” replied the staffer, rolling her eyes.

“Just do it!” Rick said then turned and marched back to his office.

It was obvious some lines had been crossed and some boundaries trampled upon.

I read once that we teach people how to treat us.

We either teach people to treat us with dignity and respect or we don’t.

Accepting this statement as true, then we are partly responsible for the mistreatment that we get at the hands of someone else. We shape others’ behaviour when we teach them what they can get away with and what they cannot.

That statement bothered me for a long time. I felt that I had endured more than my share of boundary crossing and the idea that I was somehow responsible for it was debilitating. Since childhood, I had been hyper-aware of boundaries and wondered why others weren’t.

The best way to “teach” someone how to treat us is to establish healthy boundaries. People need to know when they are acting in a way that is unacceptable to us.

Boundaries define limits. Boundaries can be flexible, expandable or impenetrable depending upon the situation.

You know you need to set a boundary if you find yourself dealing with constant anger, complaining, disregard, disrespect or inappropriate comments.

For many of us, boundary-building is a relatively new and challenging concept.

Establishing boundaries is essential however to building healthy relationships whether they are business or personal. New York based psychologist and life coach, Dana Gionta, Ph.D. is an expert in the field of interpersonal relationships.

“Having healthy boundaries,” explains Gionta

“means knowing and understanding your limits.”

According to Gionta, step one is to identify our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual limits and it starts with some time spend in contemplation. It requires that we identify events or situations we can tolerate or accept and those that make us feel uncomfortable or stressed.

Says Gionta, “Our feelings help us to identify … our limits.”

Gionta suggests we gauge our feelings of discomfort or resentment on a scale of one to ten. When feelings pass six on the scale, we should ask ourselves why.

Chances are the spike in our feelings gauge result from a sense that we’re being taken advantage of or not appreciated. It may also come from a feeling that we’re not receiving the respect we believe we deserve.

“When someone acts in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable,” says Gionta, “that’s a cue to us they may be violating or crossing a boundary.”

Maintaining boundaries is easy with some people.

Chances are these people share a similar value system – maybe even a similar background.

Then there are people like Rick’s staffer at work.

Her apparent disregard for Rick’s authority may be owing to a bad attitude but just as likely, it’s the result of Rick’s inability to set and enforce healthy, appropriate and respectful boundaries. Keep in mind, you may be working or associate with someone who thinks that challenging someone’s opinion is a healthy and appropriate way of improving communication.

“Fear, guilt and self-doubt are big potential pitfalls,” says Gionta. If we fear the other person’s response or confrontation, we may be less likely to set and enforce boundaries.

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Rock Your Mocs campaign promotes celebration of Native American cultures

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Elementary school students in western New Mexico are wearing their moccasins. So are students at Northern Arizona University, Purdue and the University of Michigan.

On the Cherokee Nation, there’s a waiting list for Friday’s moccasin-making class. And on a military base in Afghanistan, a soldier ties a beaded cross around her boot to symbolize her moccasins.

Friday was “Rock Your Mocs” Day. Coinciding with Native American Heritage Month in the U.S., the social media campaign started

by New Mexico student Jessica “Jaylyn” Atsye has gone global.

The 21-year-old Laguna Pueblo member says the idea was simple — to set aside one day each year to wear moccasins to celebrate the cultures of Native Americans and other indigenous people.

“When someone asks you, ‘What do your shoes represent?’ or ‘What’s the story behind your moccasins?’ there can be endless de-

scriptions,” she said. “They show who you are. They’re an identifier.

They can bring unity.”

Moccasins historically were the footwear of many Native American tribes.

Though their basic construction was similar throughout the country, the decorative elements including beadwork, quillwork, painted designs, fur and fringes used on moccasins varied from one tribe to another.

Indian people often could tell each other’s tribal affiliation simply from the design of their shoes, according to the non-profit group Native Languages of the Americas.

Observers say the Rock Your Mocs campaign is helping to fuel a resurgence of Native pride.

By Friday morning, a flurry of photographs had been posted on a Facebook page Atsye set up for the movement.

On Twitter and Instagram, Rock Your Mocs hashtags showcased hundreds of images, from simple deerskin wraps to knee-high versions adorned with colorful beadwork.

Then there were the mukluks lined with fur, like the ones being

worn Friday by Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa from North Dakota who runs the Beyond Buckskin blog.

“Moccasins can be worn and appreciated by anybody. That’s what’s really cool about it,” she said. “It’s like you’re wearing these pieces of art. They’re all unique.”

Metcalfe and others said “Rock Your Mocs” is a chance to educate more people about indigenous cultures. In recent months, the headlines have focused on controversies over the Washington Redskins team name and backlashes against Native American-inspired fashion designs that many in Indian Country have found in poor taste.

Atsye said she wants to get away from the “whole racial thing.”

“The only way we’re going to be able to succeed is to move forward and forget all of that,” she said, outlining a string of trying times in Native American history.

“We can’t change that. That happened in the past. Let’s focus on the things that we can change today.”

Couple who abandoned adopted son will face prosecution

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI, Ohio — An Ohio prosecutor said Friday he will pursue abandonment charges in cases similar to his latest in which authorities say a couple gave their 9-year-old adopted son to child welfare officials after raising him from infancy.

Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser said similar cases have been handled in the past within the children services agencies and domestic courts. And while that’s appropriate, he said, criminal charges should also be considered.

“There has never been a focus on the criminality of merely abandoning a child,” he said in an interview.

“That stops immediately. There is a legal consequence.”

The suburban Cincinnati couple indicted this week on charges of nonsupport of dependents turned themselves in Friday night, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said. Cleveland Cox, 49, and wife Lisa, 52, were released on $10,000 bond each and were due in court Nov. 27. The Coxes didn’t return telephone calls to their home.

Butler County authorities say

the parents left the boy with the children services agency Oct. 24, after saying he was displaying aggressive behaviour.

A sheriff’s report in August said the adoptive mother said the boy had threatened the rest of the household with a knife. The couple has two other children.

Attorney Adolfo Olivas, appointed by the court to protect the child’s interests, has said that the boy is hurt and confused and that he is now receiving help that the parents should have gotten for him.

A national adoption advocacy leader said adoptive parents not only have strong parental rights, they have binding legal obligations.

“I think that’s something the great majority of adoptive parents recognize,” said Chuck Johnson, an adoptive father and president of the National Council for Adoption. “That’s what we want.”

Comprehensive national statistics aren’t available on failed adoptions, or dissolutions, but Johnson said they are “extremely rare” in cases in which the child has been raised from infancy.

While still rare, they are more likely to occur in cases in which older children have been adopted, he said.

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ESTEEM: Do we deserve to have boundaries?

Depending upon our self-esteem, we may even wonder if we deserve to have boundaries at all.

Here is a technique you may find valuable: state out loud what actions upset you and precede the emotion elicited with “I feel.” By saying, “When you speak to me in that tone of voice (action), I feel hurt (emotion),” we are being clear, direct are taking ownership of the feeling.

Of course, it’s not enough to create boundaries; they need to be expressed and clarified meaning we need to speak up and stop assuming. Even though we know intellectually that people aren’t mind readers,

He said the majority of an estimated 400,000-plus children in foster care across the United States had biological parents unwilling or unable to care for them and “occasionally, that happens with adoptive parents, too.”

Some adoption advocates are concerned that the prospects of criminal charges and negative publicity could hurt efforts to find good parents for children in need.

“Everybody tries, but sometimes it doesn’t work out,” said lawyer Susan Garner Eisenman of Columbus, who focuses on adoption and child welfare issues. “(Prosecutions) could have a chilling impact on adoption. And that’s the concern.”

There is a growing push among advocates for more post-adoptive services and support, especially for parents willing to take on special needs children.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services spokesman Benjamin Johnson said that of some 12,000 Ohio foster children, nearly 400 are in county care or custody after having been adopted. But many reasons other than abandonment can explain why a child is no longer with an adoptive family, he said.

Those include sexual assault or the parents’ deaths.

we may still expect others to know what hurts us.

It’s important to communicate with the other person when they’ve crossed a line. To talk about boundaries and then not stand firm will teach others to disregard our statements and declarations.

“Boundaries aren’t just a sign of a healthy relationship,” says Gionta. “They’re a sign of self-respect.

So give yourself the permission to set boundaries and work to preserve them.”

Before expecting others to treat you with dignity, first treat yourself with dignity and respect. Never give anyone the opportunity to mistreat you. If you’re not being treated the way you desire, then find out why. Be honest and forthright with yourself and others.

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when (I know) there are footprints on the moon.”

— Author Unknown Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

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Jessica Atsye of Laguna Pueblo, the creator of Rock Your Mocs, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Atsye’s social media campaign has gone global with Native American and indigenous people from as far away as New Zealand participating.

TORONTO — Lung cancer kills more Canadians each year than any other malignancy, but the disease receives a disproportionate amount of research and donation dollars compared with far less deadly cancers, says a national advocacy organization.

Lung Cancer Canada says the disease causes more than 28 per cent of Canadian cancer deaths — more than those from breast, colon and prostate cancer combined — but receives only seven per cent of cancer-specific research funding and 0.1 per cent of charitable cancer donations.

Dr. Natasha Leighl, an oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, said the reason lung cancer gets so little respect is the stigma surrounding tobacco use — and the mistaken belief that all cases of lung cancer result from smoking.

But Leighl said at least 15 per cent of people who get lung cancer never smoked and some develop it through exposure to radon gas or industry-related carcinogens like asbestos.

And recently, the World Health Organization fingered air pollution as a major cause of lung cancer.

“As someone who works in this area, I’m always so surprised that Canadians are so supportive of other smoking-related diseases like heart disease and stroke, and yet lung cancer seems to bear all the blame associated with smoking,” she said Thursday.

“I think it’s important to realize that a growing number of people with lung cancer are people who smoked as teenagers and then quit when they were very young.

There’s a growing number of never-smokers with this disease, and this is something that really affects all Canadians and is definitely worth people supporting, irrespective of the smoking issue.”

In fact, one in 12 Canadians is at risk for lung cancer in their lifetime — both smokers and never-smokers alike, said Leighl, who is also president of Lung Cancer Canada.

About 25,000 Canadians are diagnosed annually with lung cancer and an estimated 20,000 die each year from the disease, said the organization, which is calling for a national screening program, increased research funding and greater access to new life-prolonging drugs.

Dr. Peter Ellis, an oncologist at McMaster University’s Juravinski

Cancer Centre, said that despite the grim toll taken on women by lung cancer, the disease “isn’t even recognized” in fundraising events like the annual Weekend to End Women’s Cancers.

“We need to change that,” Ellis told a briefing on the state of lung cancer in Canada on Thursday.

Other cancers, among them colon and breast cancer, are influenced by lifestyle choices such as poor diet and lack of exercise, but patients with those malignancies aren’t typically exposed to the stigma attached to lung cancer.

Indeed, those dealing with lung cancer say they often feel isolated because of people’s reactions to their diagnosis. Typically, they say, it begins with: “Oh, I never knew you smoked!”

Roz Brodsky was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004 at age 45, not long after she had quit smoking. Like many in her generation, she said she started smoking as a teen because she thought it was “glamorous” and she got hooked.

When some people learned she had lung cancer, they either “recoiled with horror or asked ’Do you smoke?”’ instead of asking if she was OK, said Brodsky of Thornhill, Ont. She said she found it difficult, in a society where women with breast cancer get so much support with numerous pink-ribbon fundraising efforts, that there was not even a support group for people with lung cancer in a city as large as Toronto.

Now 55 and cancerfree, Brodsky said she worries about young people who have never smoked mistakenly believing they have no risk of lung cancer because of its connection with smoking.

“The way lung cancer is portrayed ... it lulls non-smokers into a false sense of security.”

Despite lung cancer’s lack of clout in the fundraising arena, Leighl said doctors and researchers are making strides forward in earlier diagnosis and treatment.

The five-year survival rate has risen to 18 per cent from about 14 per cent a decade ago, and there have been a number of breakthroughs in understanding what drives the development of lung cancer at the molecular level.

That’s led to new drugs, such as Tarceva, which target genetic abnormalities within cancer cells. Other drugs, which are in clinical trials but available for doctors to prescribe, act to help the immune system recognize and kill cancer cells.

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Flames ground Jets in shootout

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 5 Jets 4 SO WINNIPEG — Rookie Sean Monahan admitted he wasn’t very good in the shootout while playing junior last season.

But now that he’s in the NHL, the Calgary Flames centre showed big improvement in that department by scoring the winner in the eighth round of a 5-4 shootout victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.

It was a goal that halted Calgary’s (7-11-3) six-game winless streak, and it marked the first shootout goal of Monahan’s young NHL career.

“My first year in junior, I was alright (in the shootout),” said Monahan, who had played with the Ottawa 67s.

“Last year, I wasn’t too good so I was kind of nervous there, but I felt good once I got off the ice.”

Monahan, who also had an assist, scored low on goalie Al Montoya’s blocker side.

“I went down the wide side and it’s a move I usually try to do in practice and fortunately enough it worked,” he said.

Juri Hudler had given Calgary a 4-3 lead with less than four minutes left in the game, but the Jets didn’t let up as centre Bryan Little tied it 4-4 with six seconds left.

With Montoya on the bench for the extra attacker in the final 30 seconds of regulation, the Jets (10-10-3) swarmed goalie Reto Berra and Little put a rebound in an open side of the net.

Montoya, who was playing so starter Ondrej Pavelec could have a break, stopped 24 shots in regulation and five in overtime. Berra was barraged by 47 shots, including three in overtime, for his second win of the season.

Michael Cammalleri scored his team-leading ninth goal of the season on the power play for Calgary and added an assist. T.J. Brodie also had a goal and assist and Lance Bouma scored shorthanded.

Michael Frolik, Olli Jokinen and Dustin Byfuglien also scored for Winnipeg. Byfuglien added an assist and Grant Clitsome and Blake Wheeler

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Calgary Flames’ goaltender Reto Berra stops Winnipeg Jets’ Blake Wheeler as he battles with Lee Stempniak for the puck during second-period NHL action in Winnipeg Monday. each had a pair of assists.

Winnipeg saw a four-game home winning streak halted, but are 4-2-1 in their last seven games.

“That was a pretty strange game in my books,” Jets coach Claude Noel said.

“I thought either team could have won it any time. We chased the game, not only from a goals standpoint, but I thought it was pretty wild in a lot of ways.

“I was wondering how it would go. I wasn’t settled all night. There was no point that I was comfortable.”

Calgary coach Bob Hartley echoed his bench counterpart.

“If that one was not exciting for them, it sure was for me,” Hartley said of the capacity crowd of 15,004 at the MTS Centre.

“We made it interesting, we made it tough on us, but at the end we found a way to win so big two points.”

After Bouma’s short-handed goal at 11:17 of the third period made it 3-2, Byfuglien tied the game with 7:50 left, scoring his fifth goal in as many games on the power play off a rebound.

But Calgary regained the lead when Hudler blasted a shot from the top of the face-off circle that cut by Montoya with 3:26 left in regulation.

“I think we gave up some point-

blank opportunities, way too many quality chances,” Jets captain Andrew Ladd said.

Hartley was impressed with the way Berra reacted to Little’s late tying goal.

“He’s a very proud young man,” Hartley said.

“And despite the fact that he gave the equalizing goal late in the game, he never lost his focus.

“What to say about his performance? I rarely saw a goalie give four goals and play that well.”

Calgary hosts Columbus on Wednesday and the Jets take on the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.

Stampeders pack up earlier than expected

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders carried the contents of their lockers to their cars at McMahon Stadium with mixed feelings Monday.

A good season, yes, but as star running back Jon Cornish pointed out, people will remember this year’s Grey Cup winner before they remember Calgary’s 14-4 record in the regular season.

“The (Stampeder) teams that were 15-3 back in the ’90s, who is going to remember those teams?” Cornish said outside the locker room.

“I had no clue those teams existed prior to us coming close to the record because we didn’t win championships those years. For me I’m getting older and I care about my legacy.

“I understand that winning championships is part of the game in the CFL. Those are the guys who are remembered.

For me, this really emphasizes what next year means.”

The Stampeders were in a next-year mindset because of a 35-13 loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the previous night’s West Division final at McMahon. The Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats will play in Sunday’s Grey Cup in Regina.

Calgary carried the season’s best record into the playoffs and was a Grey Cup favourite as the next-closest teams were

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Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Drew Tate, leaves the clubhouse after cleaning out his locker a day after losing the CFL West Final to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, in Calgary, Monday.

11-7. The Stampeders ranked No. 1 in many statistical categories. Cornish won his second straight season rushing title and is a double nominee for the league’s Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian awards.

Offensive lineman Brett Jones is a finalist for rookie of the year, defensive end Charleston Hughes for the defensive player award and kicker Rene Paredes for the special teams player trophy.

It’s the first time Calgary has finalists for five major awards and those will be announced Thursday in Regina.

Calgary won games despite a three-man rotation at quarterback in the middle of the season because of injuries and constantly plugging holes at other positions for the same reasons.

But the best team in the league at protecting the football chose the wrong game and the wrong opponent to sudden-

ly develop a case of the drops.

Seven turnovers against the Roughriders, who led the CFL in takeaways this season, was Calgary’s undoing. Saskatchewan jumped out to a 22-6 lead, which gave them the luxury of running the ball a lot against a Stampeder defensive line missing two premiere tackles with knee injuries.

“Going into the game, if I was scripting it, I would have liked to have seen my offence on the field more than their offence and that way keeping our defence on the sideline,” Calgary coach John Hufnagel said. “I didn’t really want the script to be them having a lead and having the ability to have patience with their running game.

“The turnovers partially created that scenario we didn’t want. When you play good football teams in big games, you need to protect the football.”

Hufnagel completed the second season of a five-year contract extension signed when the NHL’s Calgary Flames bought the team in the January, 2012.

Initially hired prior to the 2008 season, the Stampeders have gone 73-34-1 in the regular season under Hufnagel as coach and GM. The Stampeders have played in two Grey Cups during his tenure and won it in 2008. Calgary’s playoff record with Hufnagel is 5-5.

He says he has about 14 players entering free agency this off-season, with defensive

back Juwan Simpson and receiver Mo Price among them.

But the more pressing matter for the Stampeders is which quarterback Hufnagel will choose to protect in the expansion draft Dec. 16?

Calgary can hide only one from the Ottawa Redblacks when protected rosters are submitted Dec. 9. Kevin Glenn, Drew Tate and Bo Levi Mitchell all started and won games for Calgary this season and all three are still under contracts.

When asked Monday if he’d made a decision on which quarterback to protect, Hufnagel said no, but that expansion-draft meetings would start immediately.

Tate was anointed Calgary’s next starting quarterback when the Stampeders traded Henry Burris to Hamilton in January. 2012. But the brittle Tate hasn’t been able to string together starts because of various injuries over two seasons.

Kevin Glenn came to Calgary in the Burris trade as insurance and has posted a 20-8 record and a 2-2 playoff record. The 33-year-old veteran struggled in his last three games for Calgary, however, and Hufnagel has to look to the future of the franchise.

Bo Levi Mitchell, 23, won his three starts. He also came off the bench for an injured Glenn in the third quarter against Montreal in July and threw a pair of touchdowns in the win.

Riders staying focused despite hype about Grey Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders say they can stay focused amid the hype of playing the Grey Cup on home turf in front of their notoriously rabid fans.

Hundreds of fans took to the streets in downtown Regina after the Riders beat the Calgary Stampeders in the CFL West Division final and earned a spot in the Grey Cup. Riders running back Kory Sheets got a first hand glimpse of the enthusiasm after the flight back from Calgary late Sunday night.

“You know, it was funny, me and Terrell Maze were walking through the house last night, somebody stopped their car and got out and was screaming and yelling. It was like ’Congratulations. Yay!’ And then they just got back in the car and pulled off,” Sheets said with a laugh at a news conference Monday in Regina.

“I’m expecting a lot of that this week.”

Sheets, who signed with the Riders in February of 2012, has never been in Saskatchewan when the team has made it to the Grey Cup. In fact, he says

he hasn’t played in a championship game outside of high school.

He says he’s getting advice on how to handle the situation from veteran players such as quarterback Darian Durant.

“Darian was telling me last night it’s going to be crazy, just might as well soak it all up,” said Sheets.

The Roughriders will face the Hamilton TigerCats in this year’s championship game, which will be played Sunday at Mosaic Stadium.

This will mark the third time Saskatchewan has hosted the Grey Cup, but the first time the Riders will play in the big game at home. It will also be the last Grey Cup played at Mosaic Stadium, which will be torn down when a new stadium is built for the 2017 season.

Riders head coach Corey Chamblin says players and coaches both know they can’t let this week become a distraction.

“The team’s been pretty focused,” said Chamblin.

“We’re staying in the hotel. I’ll do a good job of curfewing the guys and making sure their mindset’s there, and staying on their butts and making sure that we practise the right way. But this is a focused group and I think they understand that we’ve come

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through a lot to get here and don’t let anything derail us now.”

Before the West final, Chamblin said he was preparing as though it was “just the next game.”

The coach said Monday that his perspective hasn’t changed.

“The biggest thing, like I said, is not getting caught up in all the hype and the things that go around the game,” said Chamblin.

“There’ll be some new guys that are not used to it, but for the most part, that locker-room, they’ve all been in Grey Cups and they understand it and they understand what it takes to win it.”

The Riders last won the Grey Cup in 2007, but were finalists in ’09 and ’10.

Sheets, who rushed for 177 yards and a touchdown in the 35-13 West final win over the Stampeders, says the fans will bring a hometown advantage on Sunday.

“This is not a neutral site and it’s not going to be a neutral site game,” Sheets said. “Our fans are going to be crazy and if they’re not in the game, they’re probably going to be standing outside watching the game from the fences. I’m expecting it to be loud and crazy and the 13th man to show up in our favour.”

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Alberta Midget League Chrysler Division W L T GF UFA 10 6 1 53 Cal Royals 9 4 2 47 Red Deer 8 3 2 52 Cal Buffaloes 8 5 1 56 Lethbridge 5 9 2 39 Cal Flames 3 9 3 46 Cal NStars 1 11 3 39 Dodge Division W L T GF Sher Park 9 1 3 57 Edm CAC 9 4 3 59 Leduc 9 4 3 49 Lloydminster 9 3 1 52 Edm SSide 8 5 3 53 St. Albert 8 6 2 41 Edm MLeafs 6 89 1 40 Grande Prairie 4 8 4 47 Edm K of C 4 10 3 50 Fort Sask 3 11 1 41

Okotoks High River Med Hat Coaldale Banff Cochrane

Heritage Jr. B League Northern Division W L T OTL GF 10 3 0 0 50 9 3 0 0 62 8 4 0 1 66 7 5 0 1 61 6 6 0 2 58 5 9 0 1 61 0 12 0 0 35 Southern Division W L T OTL GF 11 4 0 0 65 9 6 0 0 76 8 8 0 1 71 7 9 0 2 61 7 7 0 0 49 6 8 0 1 52

Fort Sask Innisfail Bentley Stony Plain Okotoks

W 4 4 4 3 2

Stettler Blackfalds Mount’view Red Deer Three Hills Airdrie Ponoka

GA 51 36 29 37 49 52 61

Pts 21 20 18 17 12 9 5

GA 37 43 39 38 55 35 57 56 69 67

Pts 21 21 21 19 19 18 13 12 11 7

GA Pts 33 20 46 18 50 17 52 15 55 14 70 11 92 0 GA Pts 51 22 57 18 63 17 74 16 70 14 54 13

Chinook League L T OTL GF GA Pts 2 0 2 32 29 10 2 0 1 18 19 9 1 0 0 22 9 8 3 0 2 29 28 8 4 0 0 22 38 4

Western Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 26 15 9 0 2 97 77 Prince Albert 23 13 8 2 0 79 74 Regina 24 13 11 0 0 73 81 Brandon 23 12 11 0 0 81 84 Saskatoon 26 9 14 1 2 85 108 Moose Jaw 27 7 16 2 2 65 96 Central Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 23 15 5 3 0 89 63 Edmonton 23 14 8 0 1 85 55 Calgary 22 12 6 1 3 72 73 Kootenay 24 12 10 2 0 70 70 Red Deer 23 11 11 0 1 64 71 Lethbridge 24 3 17 2 2 61 118 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 19 15 2 0 2 81 46 Victoria 24 13 10 0 1 57 61 Vancouver 24 10 11 2 1 73 85 Prince George 26 9 13 1 3 72 102 Kamloops 23 6 14 2 1 63 89 U.S. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Portland 24 17 5 1 1 118 74 Everett 23 15 4 4 0 78 61 Spokane 23 15 7 0 1 89 61 Tri-City 25 13 10 0 2 72 67

Pt 32 28 26 24 21 18 Pt 33 29 28 26 23 10

Pt 32 27 23 22 15 Pt 36 34 31 28

Seattle 23 12 8 1 2 78 86 27 Note: Any win is worth two points; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Sunday’s result Calgary 3 Moose Jaw 2 Monday’s results No Games Scheduled.

Tuesday’s games Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Everett at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Everett at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP 23 23 22 23 22 23 22 16 23 7 16 16 21 16 10 18 23 20 21 16 5 18 20

Bleackley Dieno Fleury Volek Bellerive Maxwell Gaudet Sutter Johnson Pawlenchuk Musil Polei Doetzel Chorney Charif Nell Mpofu Fafard Dixon Stockl Burman Bear Bartosak Goaltenders

G 10 8 4 7 6 5 3 4 3 4 2 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

MP 1155 240

Bartosak Burman

A 15 11 11 7 8 6 8 4 5 3 5 3 4 0 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 GA 55 13

Pts 25 19 15 14 14 11 11 8 8 7 7 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 0 0 0

PIM 13 11 4 7 19 10 26 20 25 0 19 16 36 8 2 4 9 54 46 7 0 23 2

SO GAA 1 2.88 0 3.25

+/2 -1 0 -2 -2 -3 -11 -4 2 5 -2 0 7 -1 1 -2 -3 -6 -2 -6 — 0 —

Sv% .916 .894

Western Hockey League Leaders CALGARY — Western Hockey League statistics (through Nov. 18): SCORING G A Pt Holmberg, Spo 25 30 55 Petan, Por 13 35 48 Bjorkstrand, Por 18 24 42 Winquist, Evt 17 23 40 Reinhart, Ktn 10 28 38 Aviani, Spo 20 15 35 Descheneau, Ktn 18 15 33 Scherbak, Sktn 14 19 33 Black, SC 15 17 32 Gordon, SC 13 19 32 Burns, SKtn 12 20 32 Leier, Por 17 14 31 GOALTENDING (Minimum 420 minutes played) W L Vollrath, Vic 5 2 Jarry, Edm 13 7 Cooke, Kel 12 0 Lotz, Evt 10 3 Williams, Spo 12 5

OT 1 1 2 1 0

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

GAA 2.06 2.08 2.09 2.31 2.34

SO 0 3 2 2 1

.700 .400 .200 .100

252 227 193 129

220 226 276 318

Pct .636 .400 .400 .400

PF 275 216 208 192

PA 206 245 212 238

Pct .900 .900 .400 .400

PF 232 398 194 228

PA 138 255 246 222

PF 276 274 192

PA 260 258 256

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 20 14 6 0 28 Boston 20 13 6 1 27 Toronto 20 12 7 1 25 Detroit 21 9 5 7 25 Montreal 21 10 9 2 22 Ottawa 20 8 8 4 20 Florida 21 5 12 4 14 Buffalo 22 5 16 1 11 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 21 13 8 0 26 Washington 21 12 8 1 25 N.Y. Rangers 20 10 10 0 20 Carolina 21 8 9 4 20 New Jersey 20 7 8 5 19 N.Y. Islanders 21 8 10 3 19 Columbus 20 7 10 3 17 Philadelphia 19 7 10 2 16

GF 64 57 57 54 52 58 46 41

GA 50 37 47 60 45 62 70 68

GF 59 69 42 40 42 61 52 35

GA 48 59 50 59 49 68 57 48

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 21 14 3 4 32 78 61 Minnesota 21 13 4 4 30 55 44 St. Louis 19 13 3 3 29 66 46 Colorado 19 14 5 0 28 59 41 Dallas 20 11 7 2 24 58 56 Winnipeg 23 10 10 3 23 61 66 Nashville 20 9 9 2 20 46 63 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 23 15 6 2 32 72 59 San Jose 21 13 3 5 31 72 50 Phoenix 21 14 4 3 31 73 66 Los Angeles 21 14 6 1 29 58 46 Vancouver 22 11 8 3 25 56 58 Calgary 21 7 11 3 17 59 79 Edmonton 22 5 15 2 12 53 83 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

B6

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Sbisa Ana (cross-checking) 13:18, Perry Ana (holding) 19:14.

Third Period 1. Pittsburgh, Gibbons 1 (Malkin, Glass) 3:52 2. Pittsburgh, Sutter 4 (Maatta, Gibbons) 4:54 3. Anaheim, Getzlaf 11 (Lovejoy, Perry) 5:20 4. Pittsburgh, Crosby 10 (Malkin, Vitale) 7:56 Penalties — Vitale Pgh (interference) 5:34, Penner Ana (holding) 18:18.

Shots on goal Anaheim 12 5 11 — 28 Pittsburgh 3 12 12 — 27 Goal — Anaheim: Fasth (L,2-2-1); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W,12-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Anaheim: 0-1; Pittsburgh: 0-3.

Bruins 4, Hurricanes 1 First Period 1. Boston, Smith 3 (Soderberg, Eriksson) 2:31 (pp) 2. Boston, Soderberg 2 (Seidenberg, Smith) 10:24 3. Carolina, Ruutu 1 (E.Staal, Bowman) 19:55 Penalties — Tlusty Car (slashing) 1:29, Caron Bos (slashing) 15:54.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Tlusty Car (hooking) 4:47, Boychuk Bos (tripping) 12:55, Campbell Bos (delay of game) 13:52.

Third Period 4. Boston, Boychuk 1 (Krejci, Lucic) 10:29 5. Boston, Lucic 9 (Iginla) 19:49 (en) Penalty — Seidenberg Bos (slashing) 3:27.

Shots on goal Boston 5 11 14 — 30 Carolina 8 6 10 — 24 Goal — Boston: Rask (W,11-5-1); Carolina: Ward (L,2-3-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Boston: 1-2; Carolina: 0-4.

Flames 5, Jets 4 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalty — Peluso Wpg (tripping) 1:16.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Cammalleri 9 (Stempniak, Monahan) 9:01 (pp) 2. Winnipeg, Frolik 5 (Clitsome, Byfuglien) 11:11 3. Calgary, Brodie 2 (Russell, Cammalleri) 15:24 Penalties — Smid Cgy (high-sticking) 6:03, Clitsome Wpg (tripping) 8:43, Hudler Cgy (delay of game) 11:37, Stajan Cgy, Smid Cgy, Ladd Wpg, Byfuglien Wpg (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 4. Winnipeg, Jokinen 4 (Setoguchi, Clitsome) 8:16 5. Calgary, Bouma 2 (Stajan) 11:17 (sh) 6. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 5 (Wheeler, Little) 12:10 (pp) 7. Calgary, Hudler 7 (Brodie, Baertschi) 16:34 8. Winnipeg, Little 12 (Kane, Wheeler) 19:54 Penalties — Byfuglien Wpg (tripping) 5:11, Butler Cgy (tripping) 10:45.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Wheeler Wpg (cross-checking) 4:30, Little Wpg (misconduct) 5:00.

Shootout Calgary wins 3-2 Calgary (3) — Colborne, goal; Hudler, miss; Cammalleri, miss; Stempniak, goal; Brodie, miss; Baertschi, miss; Russell, miss; Monahan, goal. Winnipeg (2) — Setoguchi, miss; Ladd, goal; Jokinen, miss; Wheeler, goal; Frolik, miss; Scheifele, miss; Kane, miss; Byfuglien, miss.

Shots on goal Calgary 6 9 13 5 — 33 Winnipeg 11 23 10 3 — 47 Goal — Calgary: Berra (W,2-4-1); Winnipeg: Montoya (SOL,2-2-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 1-5; Winnipeg: 1-3.

Sunday’s Games Columbus 4, Ottawa 1 Washington 4, St. Louis 1 Los Angeles 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Chicago 5, San Jose 1 Minnesota 2, Winnipeg 1 Dallas 2, Vancouver 1 Monday’s Games Calgary 5, Winnipeg 4, SO Boston 4, Carolina 1 Pittsburgh 3, Anaheim 1 Tuesday’s Games St. Louis at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

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

Ottawa at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Florida at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Minnesota at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Calgary, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Monday’s summaries Penguins 3, Ducks 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Football CFL Playoffs Sunday’s results Division Finals East Hamilton 36 Toronto 24 West Saskatchewan 35 Calgary 13 Sunday, Nov. 24 101st Grey Cup At Regina Hamilton vs. Saskatchewan, 4:30 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 3 0 .700 254 N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 183 Miami 5 5 0 .500 213 Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 236 South W L T Pct PF

PA 195 268 225 273 PA

7 4 2 1

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

W 7 4 4 4

Kansas City Denver Oakland San Diego

W 9 9 4 4

3 0 6 0 8 0 9 0 North L T 4 0 6 0 6 0 6 0 West L T 1 0 1 0 6 0 6 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 6 5 0 .545 Dallas 5 5 0 .500 N.Y. Giants 4 6 0 .400

Washington

3

New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta

W 8 7 2 2

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

W 6 6 5 2

W Seattle 10 San Francisco 6 Arizona 6 St. Louis 4

7 0 South L T 2 0 3 0 8 0 8 0 North L T 4 0 4 0 5 0 8 0 West L T 1 0 4 0 4 0 6 0

.300

246

311

Pct .800 .700 .200 .200

PF 288 238 187 214

PA 183 135 237 292

Pct .600 .600 .500 .200

PF 265 282 258 240

PA 253 267 239 320

Pct .909 .600 .600 .400

PF 306 247 214 224

PA 179 178 212 234

Thursday’s Game Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 27

Sunday’s Games Chicago 23, Baltimore 20, OT Oakland 28, Houston 23 Buffalo 37, N.Y. Jets 14 Tampa Bay 41, Atlanta 28 Pittsburgh 37, Detroit 27 Philadelphia 24, Washington 16 Cincinnati 41, Cleveland 20 Arizona 27, Jacksonville 14 Miami 20, San Diego 16 Seattle 41, Minnesota 20 New Orleans 23, San Francisco 20 N.Y. Giants 27, Green Bay 13 Kansas City 17, Denver 27 Open: Dallas, St. Louis Monday’s Game New England at Carolina, 6:40 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21 New Orleans at Atlanta, 6:25 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 5 7 .417 — Toronto 4 7 .364 1/2 Boston 4 7 .364 1/2 New York 3 6 .333 1/2 Brooklyn 3 7 .300 1

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Orlando Washington

Indiana

Southeast Division W L Pct 7 3 .700 6 4 .600 5 6 .455 4 6 .400 2 7 .222 Central Division W L Pct 9 1 .900

GB — 1 2 1/2 3 4 1/2 GB —

Chicago Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee

6 4 3 2

3 7 6 7

.667 .364 .333 .222

2 1/2 5 1/2 5 1/2 6 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 9 1 .900 — Houston 7 4 .636 2 1/2 Dallas 7 4 .636 2 1/2 Memphis 5 5 .500 4 New Orleans 4 6 .400 5

Portland Oklahoma City Minnesota Denver Utah

Northwest Division W L Pct 9 2 .818 7 3 .700 7 4 .636 4 6 .400 1 11 .083

GB — 1 1/2 2 4 1/2 8 1/2

0

4

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 8 3 .727 7 3 .700 5 4 .556 5 7 .417 2 7 .222

GB — 1/2 2 3 1/2 5

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

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

Boston at Houston, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Miami at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Indiana at New York, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Portland at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Boston at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Portland 118, Toronto 110, OT Memphis 97, Sacramento 86 L.A. Lakers 114, Detroit 99 Monday’s Games Portland 108, Brooklyn 98 Chicago 86, Charlotte 81 Oklahoma City 115, Denver 113 Dallas 97, Philadelphia 94 Golden State 98, Utah 87 Memphis at L.A. Clippers, late

Curling Canadian Mixed Curling Championship OTTAWA, Ont. — Standings and results Monday after the seventh draw from the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship (Nov. 16-23 at the Rideau Curling Club; all times Eastern): Province (Skip) W L Quebec (Fournier) 4 1 Alberta (Moulding) 4 1 Northern Ont. (Robert) 3 1 Saskatchewan (Meachem) 3 1 New Brunswick (Robichaud) 3 1 Ontario (Heggestad) 3 1 B.C. (Switzer) 2 3 Nova Scotia (Harris) 1 3 Manitoba (Grassie) 1 3 N.L. (Oke) 1 3 P.E.I. (MacDonald) 1 4

NWT (Moss)

Sunday’s results Second Draw Nova Scotia 8 Northwest Territories 3 Alberta 8 P.E.I. 5 Quebec 8 B.C. 4 Northern Ontario 9 Newfoundland & Labrador 2 Third Draw New Brunswick 5 Northern Ontario 2 Saskatchewan 7 Nova Scotia 5 Ontario 9 Newfoundland & Labrador 6 Manitoba 8 Northwest Territories 3 Fourth Draw Alberta 10 Saskatchewan 5 Quebec 5 Manitoba 3 New Brunswick 7 P.E.I. 4

Giants sign Tim Hudson to two-year deal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Hudson is headed back to the Bay Area.

The San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $23 million, two-year contract with the free-agent pitcher, who began his career with Oakland. Hudson had a physical Monday, and the team said the deal is pending the results.

Hudson made his major league debut with the Athletics in 1999 and went 92-39 in six seasons with Oakland, where the right-hander teamed with Mark Mulder and Barry Zito to form a successful “Big Three.” The 38-year-old Hudson went 8-7 with a 3.97 ERA in 21 starts this season for Atlanta. His season was cut short by a broken right ankle that required surgery. The Braves declined to make a qualifying offer to Hudson, who won 49 games during the previous three seasons.

“I’m pumped,” Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt said by text message. “Great signing for us. Competitor and innings eater. Knows how to win!”

B.C. 8 Ontario 6 Monday’s results Fifth Draw Newfoundland & Labrador 6 Northwest Territories 5 Northern Ontario 9 Nova Scotia 2 Sixth Draw Ontario 6 Quebec 4 New Brunswick 7 B.C. 3 Alberta 8 Manitoba 4 Saskatchewan 10 P.E.I. 4 Seventh Draw B.C. 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Northern Ontario 9 P.E.I. 8 Quebec 7 Northwest Territories 4 Alberta 11 Nova Scotia 2

LOCAL

BRIEFS Red Deerian Fischer back-stops Team Alberta to bronze medal Carissa Fischer, who played bantam boys hockey and with the Red Deer Sutter Fund major bantam girls Chiefs, backstopped Team Alberta to a 6-5 win over Team Quebec in the bronze medal game of the recent Under 18 Women’s Hockey Championship.

Earlier in the tournament, Fischer turned aside 32 shots in a 1-0 win over Ontario Red and was named MVP of the game.

Fischer is in her third year in the Junior Hockey League with the major junior Warner Warriors of the Warner Hockey School.

Red Deer midget A teams battle to a draw The Red Deer Can-Pro Chiefs and West Country Chiefs battled to a 3-3 tie in midget

Tuesday’s games Fifth Draw, 8 a.m.

Northern Ontario vs. Quebec Alberta vs. Northwest Territories Nova Scotia vs. B.C. Newfoundland & Labrador vs. P.E.I. Sixth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. Northwest Territories Nova Scotia vs. Ontario Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Saskatchewan Manitoba vs. Northern Ontario Seventh Draw, 5 p.m.

P.E.I. vs. Manitoba B.C. vs. Saskatchewan Alberta vs. Ontario New Brunswick vs. Quebec

A hockey league action during the weekend.

Jack Wakefield scored twice and Keaton MacDonald once for Can-Pro with Bryn Flanagan finishing with 30 saves.

Mitchel Terrio, Dallas Johnson and Michael Lougheed connected for West Country with Cole Peters making 15 saves.

Kusiek scores 18 to lead Carstar past Grandview All-Stars Carstar got 18 points from Cameron Kusiek and 16 from Darryl Hemstreet in downing the Grandview All-Stars 69-61 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday.

Tom West and Chris Girvan had 11 points each in a losing cause.

In other action the Secret Runs edged Alken Basin Drillers 70-68, the Orangemen beat the Dream Team 125-77 and Wells Furniture won by default over the Rusty Chuckers.

Mitchell Keenan led the Secret Runs with 17 points while Diego Mensivor had 22 for the Drillers.

Jarrett Hart pumped in 58 points for the Orangemen.

Today

● High school volleyball: Central zone 4A semifinals: Notre Dame girls at Hunting Hills, Hunting Hills boys at Lindsay Thurber, 6 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Sheraton Red Deer vs. Dream Team, The Secret Runs vs.

Triple A Batteries, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday

● High school volleyball: Central zone 4A finals: Teams and sites, times TBA. ● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Woody’s RV vs.

Alken Basin, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● College basketball: Camrose Augustana at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● High school volleyball: Central zone 4A finals: Teams and sites, times TBA. ● WHL: Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Portage College at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Lloydminster at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Rockyview at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Major midget female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Taber at Sylvan Lake, 1 p.m.; Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 1 p.m. ● WHL: Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Spruce Grove at Olds, 8 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Banff at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer TBS, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre; Medicine Hat White at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major midget female hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Bowling Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday-Club 55 plus High single: Bill Dunlop 300. High triple: Dunlop 711.

Monday Mixed High single: Marcel Serre 302. High triple: Serre 688.

Tuesday Mixed High single: Juila Stadelman 285. High triple: Harvey Von Hollen 781.

Wednesday-Club 55 plus High single: Robert Doll 255. High triple: Doll 543.

Wednesday Mixed High single: Jill Clark 298. High triple: Mitzi Anderson 772.

Thursday Morning Ladies High single: Joan Crawford 243. High triple: Crawford 599.

Thursday Mixed High single: Holly Harris 266. High triple: Harris 749.

Monday Scratch League High single: Don Ware 337. High quad: Shelby Chrest 1,098.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers High single: Rogan Clark 97.

Bowlasaurus High single: Jonathan Holford 91.

Peewees High single: Sylis Gray 148. High double: Gray 241.

Bantams High single: Emma Jean Ostrikoff 250. High triple: Ostrikoff 646.

Juniors High single: Aurora Crockford 285. High triple: Brendan Innes 728.

Seniors High single: Kennedy Chrest 208. High triple: Chrest 591.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned C Rickard Rakell to Norfolk (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Activated G Cam Ward from injured reserve.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Ryan Hartman on a three-year contract.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned F Travis Morin to Texas (AHL). Recalled D Aaron Rome from Texas.

MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled G Darcy Kuemper from the Iowa (AHL). Reassigned G Johan Gustafsson to Iowa.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Placed G Evgeni Nabokov on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 16.

Recalled G Anders Nilsson from loan to Bridgeport (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F Brandon Mashinter to Hartford (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Recalled G Parker Milner from Stockton (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Recalled F Stephen MacAulay from Wheeling (ECHL).

NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Reassigned F Norm Ezekiel to Utah (ECHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled F Wade Megan from Cincinnati (ECHL).

ECHL BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Released F Jake Morley.

Central Hockey League DENVER CUTTHROATS — Signed G Casey Sherwood. Announced G Kieran Millan and D Daniel Maggio were recalled by Lake Erie (AHL) and F A.J. Gale was recalled by Manchester (AHL).

WICHITA THUNDER — Signed F Matt Kirzinger and F Alexandre Carrier.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 B7

Lakers bounced from provincials SYLVAN LAKE LOSES TO ARDROSSAN IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TIER 3 SEMIFINAL

NFL

Newton leads Panthers over Patriots THROWS THREE TD PASSES IN SIXTH STRAIGHT WIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Panthers 24 Patriots 20 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As the Carolina Panthers celebrated their sixth straight win, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots were left wondering why a penalty that could have saved them on the final play was wiped out.

Cam Newton threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Ted Ginn Jr. with 59 seconds left and Carolina held off New England 24-20 Monday night when officials picked up a flag in the end zone on the final play.

Newton drove the Panthers 83 yards on 13 plays for the go-ahead touchdown, but the Patriots had a chance at an improbable comeback when Brady moved New England to the Carolina 18 and fired into the end zone on the final play.

The pass was intercepted by safety Robert Lester, but officials threw a flag after it appeared linebacker Luke Kuechly had interfered with tight end Rob Gronkowski by grabbing him with both hands. The officials quickly gathered together and waved off the flag.

“There was no explanation given to me. Officials ran off the field. I didn’t see anything,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “It was the last play of the game. There was a flag thrown and then the game was over.”

An angry Brady sprinted over to two officials to argue the call as they walked off the field.

“He was kind of weaving in and out of there. I didn’t really want to throw it over his head and out of bounds, so I was a little indecisive,” Brady said. “It wasn’t a great throw. No excuses. Should have been a better throw.”

Meanwhile, the Panthers celebrated.

“We had good pressure and our safety Robert Lester was in good position to make the play,” coach Ron Rivera said.

Brady was 29 of 40 for 296 yards and one touchdown.

Newton completed 19 of 28 passes for 209 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran seven times for 62 yards in what will go down as one of his best games a pro.

After the game, Rivera called it a “gutsy effort.”

“It wasn’t our best defensive effort, but it was one of our better offensive efforts,” Rivera said. “It was good for our guys to win a game like this.”

Carolina’s win came eight days after a 10-9 victory over reigning NFC champion San Francisco.

The Panthers entered the fourth quarter with a 17-10 lead, but Stevan Ridley made up for an earlier fumble with a 1-yard touchdown run and the Patriots took a 20-17 lead with 6:32 left when Stephen Gostkowski slipped a 26-yard field goal just inside the left upright.

Carolina came right back down the field and Newton hit the speedy Ginn on a hitch route. Ginn escaped Kyle Arrington along the left sideline and outraced Logan Ryan to the left pylon for his third touchdown of the season.

Newton gave Carolina a 17-10 lead in the third quarter on an 81-yard touchdown drive that took more than 8 minutes off the clock and featured a scramble in which the third-year quarterback avoided four tacklers and turned a potential 20-yard sack into a 14-yard gain and a first down.

Newton completed all seven passes on the drive for 77 yards finding Greg Olsen at the right pylon with 2:10 left for his second touchdown pass, putting the Panthers back in front.

“Cam did the things he needed to do to put us in position to win the football game,” Rivera said. “It has a lot to do with his maturity that we have talked about.”

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

HJ Cody Laker Kade Garrity is tackled by Ardrossan Bisons Cole Christianson and Gage Marr during the Alberta North Regional Tier III Provincial Final at the ME Global Athletic field in Lacombe on Monday night. expected to be as good, but they responded. We’re proud of them.”

Selk completed seven of 15 passes for 66 yards, including four to Josh Barrie for 43 yards. Bisons quarterback Kyle Boyko threw for 202 yards, with Brett Enns hauling in a pair of balls for a teambest 60 yards.

Brooks was Ardrossan’s

leading rusher with 99 yards.

Sylvan Lake was penalized for 95 yards, as opposed to 40 for Ardrossan. ● Earlier in the day at MEGlobal Athletic Park, the top-ranked Rimbey Spartans skinned the Breton Cougars 56-24 in the north regional sixman final and will take on the Edmonton Millwoods Christian Royals in the provincial

championship game Friday at 11 a.m. at Calgary’s Shouldice Park.

Millwoods, ranked third in the province, defeated the Caroline Cougars 53-26 in the south final during the weekend. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Bryzgalov practises with Oilers, hopes to earn another chance in NHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Ilya Bryzgalov enjoyed spending five months with his family, away from the rigours of pro hockey, but he checked into Edmonton on Monday hoping to prove he belongs in the NHL. The 33-year-old Russian netminder was signed to a one-year, $2-million contract by Edmonton earlier this month, after the Philadelphia Flyers bought of the final seven years of his nine-year $51-million contract in June.

After his first practice with the Oilers, the eight-year NHL veteran said he didn’t want to comment about whether he’s in shape.

“I’ve only had my skates on one week and we’re in the process of working, but it’s going to be dayby-day decision,” he said. “It’s not just up to me, depends on coach, too.”

He said it was a “good practice” but admitted it will take him some time to readjust to the speed of the NHL after five months away and playing just two games for the AHL’s Oklahoma City Barons, where he gave up five goals on 25 shots his first game and one goal in 25 shots his second outing.

“The first game I felt a little bit clumsy, was not comfortable with lots of players skating back and forth in front,” he said. “By second game I felt better. If you want to play you have to continue

to prove you’re good enough. You have to prove every day.”

Oilers coach Dallas Eakins hasn’t decided when Bryzgalov might play, saying it will depend on two key factors: Bryzgalov’s conditioning and the play of goaltender Devan Dubnyk.

“I’m comfortable when he’s comfortable,” Eakins said of Bryzgalov.

“A lot will have to do if Dubs can keep rolling like he is. Dubs is going lights out, Dubs gets the net.” Eakins said he will speak to Bryzgalov every day to gauge where he’s at in terms of conditioning and when he thinks he’s ready to play.

“He’s a veteran guy, he knows his body and he’ll know when he’s ready,” said Eakins. “If he wants to play the next day then he will be a consideration.”

When it came to signing Bryzgalov even though he had been out of hockey for five months, Eakins said the main concern he had was “do we think he can stop the puck?

“I wasn’t concerned with anything other than can he stop the puck? He’s shown in the past he can. He’s been on championships (2007 Stanley Cup with Anaheim) and I think he’s shown too that when he’s had a difficult time he’s been able to rebound so we will see.”

Eakins said he’s not concerned about Bryzgalov’s reputation for

WORLD CUP OF GOLF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — The World Cup this week will offer a glimpse of what to expect when golf returns to the Olympics at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Individual stroke play and world rankings will determine who plays and, for the most part, players will carry the flag of their countries on their golf bags. After that, the similarities begin to fade.

The World Cup begins Thursday at Royal Melbourne and will have its traditional team component — the Olympics will not have a team competition — and the situation involving Britain and Ireland is much different. That’s raised a bit of a quandary for Rory McIlroy: Which country will represent in 2016 in Brazil — Britain or Ireland?

At the Olympics, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete as Britain. But at the World Cup, England, Scotland and Wales will com-

saying odd and sometimes controversial things and the goaltender himself asked that he be judged on his time in Edmonton, not his past.

“You have a great opportunity to have me here and at the end of the season judge for yourself, not from the people who say something because they might be bringing some personal feelings,” he told a media horde, adding he didn’t want to comment on what happened in Philadelphia.

Eakins said he finds Bryzgalov to be a “very intelligent man, an interesting man. Whatever happened is in the past. He seems so far past it.”

As for being bought out and being paid $23 million over the next 14 years, Bryzgalov said that was not difficult to accept.

“Not at all,” he said.

“It’s out of my control if they decide to buy me out. I just have to accept it and move on. I had a great time. I don’t have much opportunity to spend time with my family. Had such a great, quality time. Usually it’s a two-month break (between seasons) now I pretty much had five months I spent with my kids.”

The Oilers put goaltender Jason LaBarbera on waivers to make room for Bryzgalov.

Defencemen Justin Schultz and Philip Larsen are both questionable for the Oilers game at home Tuesday against Columbus.

pete as separate countries. To muddy the waters a bit more at the World Cup, the tradition is for Ireland and Northern Ireland to compete as Ireland.

McIlroy is not competing at Royal Melbourne this week, and is confident it’s still his choice which nation he plays for in Rio. For the international players who are at the World Cup the rules are more cut and dried, and use the same rankings format that will be in place to determine Olympic places.

Players in the top 15 on the Official World Golf Ranking gain access to the World Cup, with the exception that there will be no more than four players for any country. After the top 15, up to two players are allowed per country until the field of about 60 is filled.

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Bisons 21 Lakers 14 LACOMBE — The Sylvan Lake Lakers could only wonder what might have been.

With the ball on the 25-yard line of the Ardrossan Bisons and needing less than a yard on a third-down play with two minutes remaining in the game, Lakers quarterback Skylar Selk was nailed for a slight loss. The Bisons took over, ran out the clock with a grinding ground game and held on for a 21-14 victory in a provincial tier 3 high school football semifinal Monday at MEGlobal Athletic Park.

The sixth-ranked Bisons will face the No. 2 Cardston Cougars in the Alberta final Friday in Calgary.

“I think we needed a foot.

We didn’t get it and just before the play I said to my coaches ‘if we don’t get this we probably don’t deserve to win’,” said Lakers head coach Jeremy Braitenback. “We didn’t make it but I don’t think it just came down to that. There are other plays that make a game and we didn’t make them and they did, especially in the second half.”

The Lakers jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter on scoring runs of eight and 52 yards by Landon Rosene — who rushed for 250 yards in total — and a pair of converts from Aden Smaill.

But a lack of discipline on the part of the Lakers helped the Bisons rally for a pair of

second-quarter majors on a 16-yard run by Riley Brooks and a one-yard push by Mitchell Stevens.

Ardrossan scored the go-ahead touchdown when Brooks dove over the line from one yard out with 1:50 left in the third quarter and the Lakers couldn’t find a way back.

“We were not disciplined, especially in the first half,” said Braitenback. “We kind of had them on the ropes when it was 14-0 and I think penalties let them back in the game.

That gave them the momentum and they just carried it through the second half.”

Rosene, who set up the Lakers’ late opportunity with a 43-yard gain on a hook-andladder play, felt that his club simply gave the game away.

“I just felt like we screwed up after the second quarter. We just went downhill,” he said. “We just collapsed.

We got too cocky I think.”

Despite the setback that ended their season, the Lakers could take solace in the fact they were Central Alberta League finalists — losing to the Hunting Hills Lightning in the championship game— and also advanced to the second round of the tier 3 provincials with a 30-26 win over the host St. Paul Lions Nov. 9.

“It wasn’t a bad year, but I’d rather be going to the final,” said Rosene, who carried the ball 23 times.

“I think we exceeded a lot of people’s expectations,” added Braitenback, “We had strong teams the last couple of years and these guys weren’t

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WILLIAMS Dorothy (Dot) Eldean Dorothy (Dot) Eldean Williams passed away p e a c e f u l l y o n S a t u r d a y, November 16, 2013 after a lengthy illness at the Hardyview Manor, Grand Forks, B.C. Dot was born November 2, 1928 in Westerose, Alberta to Carl and Ebba Hagen. Dot met her husband Bob (Robert) Williams in Calgary and they married on February 15, 1952. They were able to celebrate their 61st anniversary together. Shortly after they married, the two of them moved to Fon du Lac, Saskatchewan where she was blessed with two children - Laurie and Carl. In 1958, they moved to Dawson City, Yukon where Jacqui was born. The Yukon was their home until 1971 when another opportunity presented itself in Yellowknife. They retired to Christina Lake B.C. in 1983 and lived in their dream home with further moves to Winfield, B.C., Grande Prairie, A.B., Salmon Arm, B.C. and finally to Red Deer where they made their permanent home. Dot was a socialite in her time and enjoyed nothing more than a good game of bridge. With her competitive edge she excelled at curling, enjoyed square dancing and was up for any challenge presented to her. Her early days were isolating but again, she rose to the occasion. When freezeup came, they were without mail for 3 months, receiving 9 bags of mail on December 23. There were letters, Christmas cards, parcels and newspapers. Her last contact with anyone from the south was the supply boat in the fall. Eggs and oranges were a real treat. She said she baked the best bread out of a wood cook stove. Each spring, the health nurse would arrive and Dot would heat water for her while she washed the heads of the local natives on their veranda. She was a pioneer for women headed north and paved the way for others. With her humble farm beginnings she learned how to raise a fabulous garden and grow flowers where none had grown before. The pantry was always stocked with home canning. Her and her children’s wardrobe boasted of home sewn clothing which she updated as the seasons changed.

Her invitations for coffee always included home-baked cookies or cakes. She made time for people in her life and afforded each and everyone she touched a lending ear, advice if it was called for or just a laugh or two. Mom, you will be missed. She was predeceased by her parents, Carl and Ebba Hagen, and husband Bob. She is survived by her sisters; twin sister Doris (Ted Knowles), Bernice (Norm Lund), Marion Dietrich, Joyce (Al Carder), Darlene (Leo Fontaine), brothers; Charlie - “Chubby” Hagen (Sylvia) and Kels Hagen (Gertie). Her children; Laurie (Russ Esson), Carl Williams (Mary Ann) and Jacqui (Darby Reber) as well as grand children; Dayna, Brad, Blair, Cheryl, Joe, Cole, Garret and Drew and one great grand-daughter, Abby. A celebration of life with be held in the near future at Christina Lake, B.C. Donations in Dorothy’s name are gladly accepted to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada. Alzheimer Society of Canada 20 Eglinton Avenue West, 16th Floor, Toronto, ON, M4R 1K8 www.grandforksfuneralhome.ca “Family Serving Family”

SILVERSIDES Bertha May Silversides, born June 6, 1909, entered into her heavenly rest November 13, 2013 at the age of 104.

She is lovingly remembered by her niece and caregiver Pearl (Brock) Henwood. Memorial service will be on November 21, 2013 in Three Hills, AB, at the Evanglican Missionary C h u r c h a t 2 : 0 0 p . m . We thank you for the wonderful support during this time.

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BLAGEN Linda Evelyn May 30, 1951 - Nov. 13, 2013 Linda Evelyn Blagen (nee White), 62, of Trochu, Alberta passed away on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at Red Deer Regional Hospital. Born in Davidson, Saskatchewan, Linda was a dedicated nurse and loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She is survived by her sister Shirley Hodgson (Calgary), her brothers Ken White (Colorado) and Ron White (Calgary), her son Ervie Blagen (Edmonton) and grandchildren Kayla and Liam, and her son Jeffrey Blagen (Delburne) and grandson Seth. She was predeceased by her husband, Ronald Ervie Blagen (January 3, 1992). A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2013 at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street in Red Deer at 1:00 pm.

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KAISER 1923 - 2013 Edward Daniel Kaiser of the Valley Center District, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at the age of 90 years.

He was born in April of 1923 on the family farm to Robert and Beatrice. Ed lived all his life there and prided himself with his garden, greenhouse, various tractors and his van.

He enjoyed aerobics, carpet bowling, family get-togethers, bible study and attending church. Ed will be lovingly remembered by his sister Sylvia Prince; numerous nieces and nephews, great and great great nieces and nephews. Ed was predeceased by his parents; brothers Robert, James (Sylvia), Richard (Florence); sisters Enid (Joe) Kendall, Rosemary ( B i l l ) Wa r d a n d B e a t r i c e (George) Glover. He was also predeceased by brothersin-law Jack Prince and Art Bower; niece Julia Bodnaruk and special nephew Robert Prince. A Memorial Service to celebrate Ed’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.. For those wishing to do so, memorial donations may be made directly to the Canadian Bible Society, 10 - Carnforth Rd, To r o n t o O N M 4 A 2 S 4 .

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PYETT Russell It is with saddened hearts and heavy souls that we, the family of Russell Louis Pyett, announce his sudden passing, on Friday, November 15, 2013, at the age of 87 years.

Russell was a man that touched many lives with his genuine love and caring soul.

He was happiest when making others smile and bringing giggles to their lives. Russell’s will live on in each of us and will be missed each and every day. Thank you for the memories you have given each of us. Russell was very proud to have served his country in both WWII and the Korean War. He leaves to mourn the love of his life and wife of 60 years Elnora, his children; Ronald (Barb), Kathleen, and Lorraine (Brian), his granddaughters; Gaylene and Amanda (Matthew), and great grandchildren; Birgit, Jenny, Scott, and Damon, his sister Rosemarie, his brother Keith, and a huge extended family and friends. Russell will also be missed by his special cat, RB. He was predeceased by his precious son Stan in 2009, his adored granddaughter Jolene in 2004, his parents; William and Kathleen, his brother Stan, and his sister Patricia. If there’s one thing everyone knew, it’s that we were always loved by Russell. A Celebration of his tremendous life will take place at the Church of the Nazarene (West Park), 3920 57 Avenue, Red Deer, on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Donations in Russell’s name may be made directly to The Children’s Wish Foundation, 271, 339 50th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 2B3, or to a charity of your choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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Obituaries NORTHEY Doris Katherine (née Bennett) June 19, 1928 - Nov. 13, 2013 In her 85th year, in the small hours of a lovely winter morning, Mom released her tenacious hold on life, along with her wonderful spirit. Her daughter, Gail, held h e r h a n d . To t h e e n d , M o m reminded us all that she was a proudly independent woman and taught us all how to move through life’s joys and disappointments with a lovely smile and a positive, questioning outlook. Doris was raised on her parents’ farm, John and Elsie Bennett, in the Knee Hill Valley area east of Innisfail.

She attended rural schools and often rode to the Calder school on horseback. She attended high school in Red Deer (Class of ‘47) and was a member of the L.T.C.H.S. Hall of Fame. Doris received her teaching certificate from the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, and her first teaching experiences were at Cottonwood #2 west, then at Clarendon, east of Innisfail for two years. On July 19, 1950, she married Chester Vernon Northey and moved to his family’s farm in the Balmoral district east of Red Deer. Doris lived in the family home, built by her husband and father-in-law until August of this year. Mom and Dad raised a large family, and Doris was always busy cooking, sewing, gardening, canning and tending to the mixed farming operation. She was an active and responsible member of many organizations, but her true passion was being a member of the Alberta and Federated Women’s Institutes. Doris accepted and enjoyed all levels of responsibility with the AWI, eventually becoming President and travelling to local, provincial, national and international conferences in Europe, South Africa and Tasmania. Alongside many wonderful WI colleagues, Doris shared this special fellowship until the last meeting of the Balmoral WI, which was held in her house, after more than 85 years of history in the community. Doris loved belonging to the community; she loved all the social activities and readily participated, lead, volunteered, mentored and organized so many events for local organizations, such as Cubs, Scouts, 4-H, museums, safety city and various volunteer boards. Doris was also an active “station wagon” mom, often seen shuttling her children and their friends to countless ball games, hockey, skiing and social events. Her true love was to spend time down by the river on property the Northey’s had owned for 111 years. In 1972, she retired from teaching, her last post was River Glen School. She began a new career, working at the Red Deer and District Museum. She was on staff for almost 23 years and loved programming events for the children, youth and adults of this community. In fact, many school children first learned about Christmas celebrations the old-fashioned way by attending her events. As she once wrote, “The rewards that one receives come from the people that you work with, and those who share your challenges.” Doris was predeceased by her husband Vernon, son Douglas, her parents John and Elsie Bennett, sister Norma, and brother Bill Bennett. Surviving Doris are her six children Brian (Val), Bob (Jeanette), Garry (Cindy), Debbie (Donna), Gail (John) Gillis and Greg. Doris was so proud of her grandchildren Kristina (Kyle) Horne, Trever Gillis, Michelle Northey, Carter Northey and Garrett Northey. Doris is also survived by her loving and supportive brothers, Wilfred (Marg) Bennett, little brother Freddy (Florrie) Bennett and a special and kind sister-in-law Donna Bennett.

The Funeral Service for Doris Katherine Northey will be held at Gaetz United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., where Doris has been an active member for 63 years. Following the funeral tea, interment will take place in the family plot at the Red Deer Cemetery. Donations may be made to the Sunnybrook farm in hopes of restoring further projects. On behalf of Doris, thanks to everyone who participated in her care over the last years. Particular thanks go to those who took the time to know her in the context of her entire long and rich life, and not simply the small chapter that constituted her demise. The family’s gratitude, like hers, is heartfelt.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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ELEMENTS is looking for PARTSOURCE 5 retail sales reps. selling REQUIRES season gift packages and F/T PARTS PRO personal care products in Work with flexible schedule.

Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Please apply at 6722 50th Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + Ave or fax 403-309-0354 bonus & comm. FT. No or email: ps791@partsource.ca exp. req`d. Please email PARTSOURCE elementsreddeer@gmail.com REQUIRES FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN P/T DELIVERY DRIVER is looking for 5 SALES Flexible hrs., evenings and REPS, selling shoes & weekends. Knowledge of apparel, at our Parkland city an asset. Please apply Mall. 4747 67 St. Red at 6722 50th Ave or fax Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus 403-309-0354 or email: & comm. F/T Position. No ps791@partsource.ca exp. req’d. Email Precast Concrete Plant in Flurriesrd@gmail.com Blackfalds, AB, is looking SCOTTYS ESSO in Red for an experienced Deer seeking food counter overhead crane attendants. FT, PT & operator Weekends. $10-11/hr. to join an enthusiastic and Training provided. Apply in person to 5 Reichley Street rapidly expanding company.

All applicants must be or by email to flexible for hours and scottys.esso@shaw.ca.” dedicated due to a SOAP Stories is seeking 5 demanding production F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, schedule. Benefits are selling soap & bath paid and lots of overtime. products $14.55/hr. + Own transportation to work bonus & comm. Beauty is needed. Wage will be cert. req’d. Location based on experience, Parkland Mall - 4747 67th attitude, and desire to St. Red Deer. email commit to long term premierjobrdbto@ employment. Please fax gmail.com resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & com- applications, but only those selected for an interview mission. Ft No exp. req`d. will be contacted.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to TOO MUCH STUFF? premierjobrd@gmail.com Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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reception@vikingprojects.ca FAX: 403-782-6856 3413 – 53 Ave. Lacombe, AB T4L 0C6 Website: www.vikingprojects.ca

Cosmos Community Support Services Ltd.

830

850

Join our award winning team and grow with us!

Residential Support Worker Full Time/Part Time/Casual

Sales & Distributors

Management experience, time management and problem solving skills, experience in community, seniors, hospitality and demonstrated record of effective communication with seniors and staff.

Nursing background an asset. Starting wage: To be negotiated based on experience.

Submit resumes: Email: georg.rath@ THE RUSTY PELICAN is connectingcare.ca Only successful applicants now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at will be notified. all stations.

MUST HAVE: Restaurant/ • 2-3 yrs. post secondary Trades education.

Hotel • 2-5 yrs. training • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

DAD’S PIZZA • Provide references F/T P/T COOK The hourly rate will be Apply at East 40th Pub. $13.10 per hour.

3811 40th Ave. Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. A growing, well established Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 JOSE JOSE LATIN ASME fabrication or Call 403-347-1414 RESTAURANT IS HIRING!! facility is recruiting for or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Looking for a Senior Piping/ WAITRESS/WAITER and COOKS HELPER Vessel Draft-Person Please drop off your Candidate must demonstrate resume at #9 7110-50 Ave proficiency with AutoCAD or call 403-986-5673 Knowledge of Inventor & Compress.

Proven record of The Tap House Pub & Grill successful projects. req’s full and part time Strong computer skills, cooks. Apply with resume Technical aptitude and at 1927 Gaetz Avenue Problem solving between 2-5 pm. capability are required.

We offer above industry wages and comprehensive Sales & LUCKY’S LOUNGE benefit package. located in Jackpot Casino, Distributors Please email resumes to requires Experienced careers@fusionpro.ca F/T or P/T Servers. or fax 403-347-7867 1693338 Alberta LTD Please apply in person at o/a Portable iMassagers Central Alberta Exteriors is 4950 47 Ave. Hiring Salespersons looking for experienced No phone calls please Parkland Mall, Red Deer, siding installers. Must have AB. Good English and POST-TIME LOUNGE own transportation, tools communication skills, is now accepting resumes and equipment.

Customer service oriented.

P/T Kitchen help, Call 403-346-0500 for F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Evenings & weekends more info.

Weekends Salary - $14.00 /hr Apply w/resume Start your career! e-mail: Reachiesales 3731 50 TH AVE. @gmail.com See Help Wanted No phone calls please.

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Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Q TEST INSPECTION LTD.

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

800

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our growing Team in the following positions:

770

Oilfield

331323L23

Farm Work

Central Alberta Greenhouses Ltd Greenhouse Laborers required for our greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, Alberta.

Responsibilities include transplanting, watering, handling and caring for plant material and preparation of orders. This position is labor intensive and entails working in a cold/hot environment.

Laborers are required to work a minimum 40 hours per week and must be available to work different shifts, 7 days a week.

Positions are available starting Early March and last till late June. No previous work experience or qualifications are required. Starting wage is $10.03/hr.

Please email resume to kevcag@telus.net or fax resume to 403-885-4147 (Attn. Human Resources).

Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0.

COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY WORKER fast paced, physical workplace $11/hour. Bring resume to Mustang Laundry, 6830-59 Avenue or email mustanglaundryreddeer@ gmail.com DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS & EQUIPMENT INSTALLERS Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca F/T SERVICE DRIVER wanted for Little Jons Portable Toilet Services.

Benefits. O/T in summer.

Drivers abstract req’d. sales@littlejons.ca or fax resume to 403-342-6179 FIREPLACE installers req’d. Call John 780-993-2040 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013

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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 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

880

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Help

IMMED. POSISTION for F/T owner/operator Courier. for local delivery company.

Small pick-up or mini van would be the ideal vehicle.

Reply w/resume by fax: 403-342-7636 or email denw70@hotmail.com Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

ORKIN CANADA is looking for enthusiastic individuals to start a new career. This individual must be well organized with excellent customer service skills.

Position includes generous salary, performance bonuses, commission package, company vehicle, benefits and opportunity for advancement.

Interested applicants can send resumes to hr@orkincanada.com

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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.

Household Furnishings

WANTED

Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill full-time

880

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Help

880

Misc.

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Misc. for Sale

LUBE RACK TECHNICIAN

1760

CROKINOLE board 26” req’d for busy dealership. across, metal frame Service & Automotive w/checkers $25; wine experience an asset, racks, chrome plated, but will train a motivated, holds 12 bottles ea. responsible individual. $10/ea; 2 table centres Full time position with made of pine cones and benefits and good working candle $8/ea; wood bar conditions. shelf 5’L $5; med. size Drop off resume Attn: roaster, blue enamel $6; Service Manager or email: large deer antlers on shield bert.rumsey@telus.net $60, 3 small deer antlers on shields $15/ea.

403-314-2026 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino LARGE SLEEPING BAG, $15.

BREADMAKER (still in box!) $30.

403-347-5316 NEWSPAPER LINCOLN 225 WELDER CARRIERS with new helmet $175.

403-314-0804 REQUIRED LOVESEAT, pink & white stripes, ideal for bedroom, For afternoon exc. cond. $150.; 3 wool delivery accent matching carpets, once per week clean will sell separately, $50. for all 3.

403-352-8811 In the towns of: POTTERY, soup set with urn & ladle, 4 bowls, Blackfalds casserole dish & salad Lacombe bowl w/4 plates, like new.

Ponoka $150. set of 12 suitcases, Stettler like new $25. for both; glass canister, gal. size with silver cover $10.

Call Rick 403-352-8811 for more info Simonize pressure car 403-314-4303 washer $25 obo; VHS movies $1/ea. 403-347-6183 P/T CASHIER, week nights 4 pm -8 pm. Apply TABLE, round 40” wooden, w/4 legs, 4 matching with resume to Highland chairs, light color, exc.

Green Value Drug Mart. cond. $160.; 5’x7’ wool carpet, light green with matching oval, exc. cond. $40. 403-352-8811

1840

Dogs

P.B. Border Collie Pup. From exc. working stock.

1st shots & dewormed. $200. 403-429-0519 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

If you have a passion to succeed in a stimulating work environment with excellent wages we would like to hear from you. This position will be responsible for the movement of finished product through the distribution system while ensuring product integrity, and superior customer service.

As the successful candidate, you will have a minimum grade 12 education, forklift experience, and be able to work shifts.

AGRICULTURAL

THE NORDIC

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals

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Looking Lo king ing g for a

1500-1990

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

EMPLOYED gent 40-55 needed to share rent of 2 bdrm. furn. suite in 4 plex, avail. immed. rent $500 403-896-7471 LOOKING for F. roommate 55 yrs. or younger. Red Deer. after 1 pm. 403-986-1903

3090

ROOM in quiet home. $450. Call 403-350-7799

3140

Warehouse Space

3030

3190

EquipmentHeavy

Employers:

1590 1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1. Alberta Flares 2. Baker Hughes Oil & Gas Job Fair 3. Canyon Technical Services Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 4. CASA Energy Services 5. EVRAZ 9 a.m. - Noon 6. G4S Secure Solutions Alberta Works Centre 7. High Artic Energy Services nd 8. Nabors Production Services 2 Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer 9. Pacific Valve Services Inc. 10. Quinn Constructions Ltd Bring your resumé 11. Redcore Enterprises Ltd For more info, call 403-340-5353 12. Source Logistics Ltd 13. Tarpon Energy Services Ltd

1640

Tools

327180K18-19

FREE standing Ryobi table saw, first $100 takes it.

Call 403-346-4263

Firewood

homes

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

1520

LINED JEAN JACKET Size 46, $20.403-347-5316

job? ?

1660

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

Employment Training

Manufactured Homes

4140

50% SHARES in Cheer’s Neighborhood Pub. Call Jack or Leanne 403-341-9966 or 403-357-9363

FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Terrie 403-340-0225

900

YOUR CAREER IN

BUSINESS

CHILDRENS clothing store $39,000 403-782-7156 403-357-7465

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Legal Administrative Assistant Marketing Coordinator Insurance Advisor Business Administration Hotel & Tourism Management

We currently have a position available at our Innisfail, AB plant.

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

MILL OPERATOR If you have a passion to succeed in a stimulating work environment with excellent wages and benefits we would like to hear from you. This position is responsible for the accurate mixing of ingredients as per formula in accordance with the Production Schedule and the proper unloading and storage of raw ingredients.

1710

FRIDGE, 4’ 6” tall, Clary, Works good. $175. obo.

403-314-0804

Household Furnishings

331424K16-19

317696I13-L27

Auctions

1720

GREEN leather reclining love seat $500 , 2 matching reclining leather chairs $250/ea. 403-341-3524

Misc.

Help

880

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

PUBLIC WORKS DEPT MAINTENANCE WORKER Equipment operation & maintenance Perform labour & other maintenance duties assigned

• Minimum grade 12 education • Sound knowledge of maintenance & operation of equipment • Sound knowledge of construction and maintenance practices • Valid class 5 Alberta Drivers License • Ability to work independently when required • Must be physically able to perform the duties of the position • Must accept and be trainable in First Aid and WHMIS Level one Water Distribution/Waste Water collection Operator preferred or willing to acquire certificate in future. The position requires the incumbent to be on an on-call schedule and work a 40 (forty) hour week, regardless of weather conditions. Salary dependent on qualifications and experience.

Closing date: open until suitable candidate hired A more detailed job description can be viewed on the Village of Alix Website at:

No phone calls please Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

www.laebon.com

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

1530

ACREAGE & ESTATE ESTATE of GORDON PURDY – New Norway, AB & GUEST CONSIGNORS SALE SITE: MONTGOMERY AUCTION SALES CENTER 1 Mile North of Blackfalds, AB, 2 Miles East on Lakeside Sargent Road

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2013 @ 10:00AM Selling 2006 Kubota L3400 Compact 4x4 Tractor, w/ROPS & Kubota LA 463 FEL – 235 Hr, Allis Chalmers 5015 4x4 Garden Tractor, AC 48” PTO Rotor Tiller Buhler Farm King 60” Finishing Mower, 1992 Ford F150 Custom Ext Cab Long Box - 172,000 Km, 1997 Ski Do Summit 500, Lawn & Garden Items Household Furniture, Antiques & Other Items, 1960’s Large Wood Hand Carved Statue Of Coal Miner By Rob Griffel.

TOM & NETTIE PETTMAN - MARKERVILLE, AB Selling Montana 3840 Compact Tractor 4x4 w/3 PT, FEL – 637 Hr, Acreage & Lawn Care Equipment , Shop Equipment, Tools, Antiques & Misc., Off Road Motor Bike and Machine & Fabrication Equipment – 1 Ph ALSO CONSIGNED LIQUID MANURE EQUIPMENT: 2006 NUHN Magnum 6500 Vacuum Liquid Manure Spreader, S/n 06101 Model VM6525, 2006 HUHN 11S S-Tine Liquid Manure Injector , 2007 NUHN L8 x 50Ft Lagoon Liquid Manure Pump SKID STEER & ATTACHMENTS: 2005 BOBCAT 185 Skid Steer, Backhoe Attachment for Skid Steer, Grapple Fork Attach for Skid Steer, Tree Spade Scoop for Skid Steer, TRAILERS: Titan 12” T/A Dump Trailer, 12 Ft Wood Trailer, QUANTITY of LUMBER 330947K19

www.montgomeryauctions.com

Auctioneers & Sales Management (403) 885-5149 1-800-371-6963 Box 939, Blackfalds, AB DON MONTGOMERY

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

4 Black steel rims, 16”, 5 on 114.3 bolt pattern, great for use on spare winter tires Asking $125 for all.

Call 403- 346-4263

5190

Auto Wreckers

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

Locally owned and family operated

5050

Trucks

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

5240

Misc.

Automotive

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

Advocate Now!

★

2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires. $16,900.

FIRM! 403-346-9816

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

ICCA Auctioneer

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

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services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617 GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Health Care

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: This is a good quality auction of great merchandise. Please take advantage of this opportunity. See Pics and More information on website www.montgomeryauctions.com LUNCH AVAILABLE SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS CASH/CHEQUE/C/CARD 10% BUYERS FEE VIEWING: FRI. NOV 22/13 9AM- 4PM REMOVAL: BY WED. NOV.27@ 3PM

330252K21

villageofalix.ca Resumes can be either mailed to the Attention of Assistant CAO: Village of Alix, Box 87, Alix, T0C 0B0 or email: bcretzman@villageofalix.ca

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

5100

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Contractors

Laebon Homes 346-7273

Call Today (403) 347-6676

Motorhomes

2004 FLEETWOOD Discovery Cat diesel, 4 slides, new Winegard Dome tv’s, tires, batteries, 2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 floor, lifetime motorhome membership, 2011 Equidr. red, 403-348-2999 nox Blue Ox hitch, auto 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., brake system, loaded and 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 ready to go south.

403-343-2722 403-391-1796 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., 403-352-6995

4020

Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Household Appliances

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net MORTGAGE money right now. Private person. Never any fees. Your best deal.

Call now! Dave 780-475-2897

MASON MARTIN HOMES

LOGS

2009 DODGE Grand Caravan SXT 106,000 kms, DVD, stow n’ go seats, pd, heated seats, remote, more, exc. cond, 1 owner senior driven, $14,750 403-887-2464

5030

Cars

2008 FORD F150. $10,000. 403-741-6844

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

5070

Vans Buses

CALL:

Houses For Sale

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

4010

Newly Reno’d Mobile

Homestead Firewood

For over 100 years, Nestle Purina PetCare Company has dedicated itself to creating innovative, nutritious products – all designed to enhance the well being of pets. Nestle Purina PetCare is the world’s largest producer of dry dog food and softmoist and dry cat foods, as well as being a leading producer of cat box filler in Canada and the United Sates. In Canada, Nestle Purina’s leading brands include Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Pro Plan, Purina One, Fancy Feast, Friskies and Purina MAXX.

Realtors & Services

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, loaded, conversion, new duramax installed from GM, 170,000 kms., $39,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4x4, quad, gold , c/w topper, 2 sets of tires. Exc. cond. $6000 firm. 403-304-2118

3040

AFFORDABLE

Qualifications:

3080

Roommates Wanted

CLASSIFICATIONS Rooms FOR RENT • 3000-3200 For Rent WANTED • 3250-3390

1840

stuff

Clothing

Duties:

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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ANTIQUE wooden clothes wringer $45.

Antique wooden rocking chair $125.

Call (403) 342-7908.

Village of Alix

Businesses For Sale

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

3 BDRM. main floor, approx 1000 sq.ft. Shared Laundry. APPROX. 4900 sq. ft. bay, $1000 + utils. 403-660-7094 heated, (2) O/H. 14’ doors, front windows, room for mezzanine. 403-318-4848 Condos/ SMALL / LARGE SPACES Townhouses -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

Office 2 BDRM ground floor 45+ 400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615 condo in Lacombe.

5 appl, Supplies balcony, covered parking, PHONE BOOKS Mobile Earn extra money for 25 LEGAL size file holders, bsmt storage. $1000/mo.

Avail. immed. 780-484-0236 Lot Christmas by delivering the fits legal file cabinet all for new Yellow Pages Phone $10 403-314-2026 3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townBooks into Sylvan Lake, MOBILE HOME PAD, in house in well kept condominium Stettler & Red Deer.

Red Deer Close to Gaetz, complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. Must have own vehicle.

2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

5 appls & fenced yard.

This is door to door delivery. Cats Terrie 403-340-0225 Tenants must be over 40 Can start immediately, no w/references & quiet living. selling involved, part time. FREE TO LOVING HOME. Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo.

Resorts & Call 1-800-661-1910 4 male golden orange 3 mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627 Cottages old kittens, litter trained. Very WEEKEND/NIGHT dispatcher req’d. immedi- playfiull. Despertately need WANT TO RENT OR BUY loving home. 403-782-3130 ately. Knowledge of Red 4 season cabin with land.

KITTENS (2) SIAMESE Deer essential. Will require 1-403-443-8469 (1) BALINESE & good verbal and written (1) BURMAN communication skills. Fax $50/ea. 403-887-3649 resume to 403-346-0295 KITTENS, friendly, cuddly needs good home. FREE! FOR RENT: Modern 2 7 mos. old. 403-782-3031 Bedroom, 2 bathroom condo in PONOKA, close to school and hospital Incl 5 appliances. $1400/m Dogs CLASSIFICATIONS excl utilities. Contact Letje @(403)392-0565 4000-4190 letjvorster@yahoo.com CLASSIFICATIONS

Antiques & Art

As the successful candidate, you will have a minimum grade 12 education, and be able to work shift work (12 hours).

Please send your resume to: Nestle Purina PetCare 5128 – 54th Street, Box 6160 Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1S8 Attention: Human Resources Fax: (403) 227-4245 E-mail: InnisfailHR@purina.nestle.com Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

3370

FORKLIFT OPERATOR (Term Contract)

Government

3060

Suites

5050

Trucks

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Terrie 403-340-0225

1830

We currently have a position available at our Innisfail, AB plant.

Please send your resume to: Nestle Purina PetCare 5128 – 54th Street, Box 6160 Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1S8 Attention: Human Resources Fax: (403) 227-4245 E-mail: InnisfailHR@purina.nestle.com Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada

1 BDRM. $875. No pets, utils. incld. 403-343-6609

4090

Manufactured Homes

MORRISROE MANOR

1800

For over 100 years, Nestle Purina PetCare Company has dedicated itself to creating innovative, nutritious products – all designed to enhance the well being of pets. Nestle Purina PetCare is the world’s largest producer of dry dog food and softmoist and dry cat foods, as well as being a leading producer of cat box filler in Canada and the United Sates. In Canada, Nestle Purina’s leading brands include Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Pro Plan, Purina One, Fancy Feast, Friskies and Purina MAXX.

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

1210

REIKI HEALING BY KYLE! onespiritwellness.com 403-598-2292

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

FANTASY

Misc.

Services

1290

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving Central AB. 403-318-4346

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

UNWANTED House & Yard Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

Painters/ Decorators

1310

PRO-PAINTING & REPAIRS 403-304-0379

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Snow Removal

1380

MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 TCM & Lensen Therapy Cover all insurance 8 am-9 pm 4606-48 Ave 403-986-1691

ENVIROMASTERS is now offering residential snow removal. Single time removals or monthly contracts. 403-343-7381 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Yard

1430

VII MASSAGE Care #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its RESIDENTIAL SNOW BEST! CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-986-6686 403-352-4034 Come in and see why we are the talk Central Alberta’s Largest of the town.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 B11

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

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LUANN Nov. 19 1995 — The CFL’s Baltimore Stallions beat the Calgary Stampeders 37-20 in 83rd Grey Cup game.

1991 — Canada signs UN-sponsored agreement to cut emissions of volatile organic compounds — solvents that kill plants and combine with nitrous oxides to form ozone.

1966 — Quebec’s Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA

champ.

1949— Canadian dollar devalued by l0 per cent, endorsing idea from 1884 conference.

1869 — The Hudson’s Bay Company owners approve the deed of surrender of their Rupert’s Land territory to Canada. The terms are £300,000 cash, land around HBC posts and one-20th of the Prairie fertile belt (some 2.8 million hectares of farmland); to come into effect on Dec. 1.

1866 — Vancouver Island, which had been a separate colony, becomes part of British Columbia; due to financial crisis.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

Solution

HEALTH

B12

TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 2013

Lungs don’t die when you do AIR LEFT INSIDE KEEPS THEM FROM DETERIORATING RIGHT AWAY, DOCTORS HOPING TO USE EXTRA TIME TO BOOST TRANSPLANTS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they’ll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set.

It’s a little-known twist of nature — your lungs can live on for a while after you die.

The air left inside keeps them from deteriorating right away as other organs do.

An innovative experiment now aims to use that hour-ormore window of time to boost lung transplants by allowing donations from people who suddenly collapse and die at home instead of in a hospital.

“There aren’t enough lungs.

We’re burying them,” said Dr. Thomas Egan of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who is leading the project. “It turns out your lungs don’t die when you do.”

This is a new frontier for transplants.

Today, registered organ donors don’t get to fulfil that last wish if they die outside of a hospital. The U.S. doesn’t have a system to recover their organs quickly enough. It can be an added shock to grieving families, and a waste of potentially good organs that might ease transplant shortages.

“The general public does not understand how hard it is to become an organ donor.

They assume if they sign their card, when they die, then it will happen,” said bioethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University’s Langone Medical Center. “Only 2 to 3 per cent of people die in circumstances that let them be organ donors.”

The new study in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina is trying to change that, focusing on lungs because Egan’s research suggests they last the longest.

Here’s how it works.

Someone collapses with cardiac arrest. Emergency workers exhaust attempts at CPR. If the driver’s license lists the person as a registered donor, the local organ recovery agency tracks down nextof-kin for permission to participate in the research.

If that happens within about an hour of death, then workers pump a little air into the lungs to preserve them while the body is transported to an operating room for organ recovery.

Workers wheeled a cooler bearing the first set of lungs donated in the experiment into Egan’s lab for the next crucial step — determining if they’re really healthy.

Inside the science fictionlooking domed machine, a ventilator slowly filled the lungs. They resembled a turkey awaiting roasting. Some black speckles on the outside didn’t worry Egan. They’re a sign of city living, or maybe earlier smoking. It’s deeper inside that counts.

Egan infused them with a special fluid that flows like blood normally would. This socalled ex vivo lung perfusion preserves the lungs even longer. It can tell if they transfer oxygen properly or help spot signs of disease. Egan also peeked inside with a broncho-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lungs donated as part of research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, sit inside a machine as they’re ventilated and tested to see if they are healthy enough to transplant. It’s a little-known twist of nature: your lungs can live on for a while after you die. The air left inside keeps them from deteriorating right away like other organs. Now an innovative experiment aims to use that hour or more window to boost lung transplants by allowing donations from people who suddenly collapse and die at home instead of in a hospital. scope, looking for abnormalities.

These lungs didn’t pass the test because Egan found some early disease. But they did show it was possible to get a donation in time to try.

Lungs that do pass will be transplanted into patients willing to take a chance on these nontraditional organs, as part of the study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

“That would be the greatest thing, to be able to breathe normal,” said Lisa Bowman, 51, of Union Grove, N.C. Bowman has been on the waiting list for new lungs for two years after a rare genetic disease gradually damaged her own until, she says, it became like “breathing through a pinhole.” She hopes Egan’s research will help her find a match more quickly.

Some previous U.S. attempts at out-of-hospital donation of another organ, kidneys, didn’t pan out because of logistical hurdles. But transplant specialists are watching this newest experiment closely, saying that if it works, it eventually could open the way to many more donations — not just lungs but maybe other organs, too.

“We’ve had a number of very disgruntled family members that wanted to donate (a loved one’s organs) and weren’t able to,” said Dr. Jeffrey Punch, transplant surgery chief at the University of Michigan.

Spurred by that family reaction, in a few months, his team plans to try recovering kidneys from cardiac arrest victims who are rushed to the emergency room but can’t be saved and turn out to be registered donors.

In North Carolina, Egan’s study likewise will try to recover lungs from people who die in the ER as well as in the community.

Today, the vast majority of donated organs come from people who suffer a severe injury and are hooked to a ventilator for days, even weeks, until doctors determine they are brain-dead. Machinery keeps blood and oxygen flowing until surgeons can collect organs deemed healthy enough.

What about registered donors who collapse with cardiac arrest at home, the office or the gym — and efforts at CPR fail? Experience overseas shows it’s possible to take quick steps to preserve and recover their organs. Doctors in Spain have transplanted kidneys, livers and lungs from these unconventional donors.

France has reported some success with kidneys.

In the United States, more than 6,000 people died last year while awaiting one of those organs.

Lungs are in particularly short supply. Only 15 per cent to 20 per cent of donated lungs are usable, often because complications during the donor’s hospitalization damaged

them. Just 1,700 lungs transplants are performed each year, compared with nearly 11,000 kidney transplants from deceased donors.

Egan, a cardiothoracic surgeon, said doctors don’t even suggest the possibility of a lung transplant to thousands who might benefit because there aren’t enough donors.

Yet the Institute of Medicine has estimated that as many as 22,000 people a year who die outside of hospitals could be potential organ donors if scientists settle some ethical and practical questions.

Buying time to recover those organs means doing some things not normally done to dead bodies, noted bioethicist Caplan, and that can mean ventilating lungs or filtering blood to the kidneys.

How will grieving families react? Is it possible to tell who’s a registered donor, and find next-of-kin, in time to try?

New York City studied kidney donations after at-home deaths in 2011.

Dr. Stephen Wall of Bellevue Hospital Center said community and religious groups met with researchers and were interested.

But study rules restricted which deaths were eligible, and researchers had just 20 minutes to get initial family permission. In six months, nine deaths were considered but didn’t qualify, often be-

cause the deceased hadn’t previously registered as an organ donor, Wall said. New York is among states with low donor registration rates.

Wall’s team is considering trying again with lungs, because of the longer time window.

Lung cells don’t depend on blood flow for oxygen, Egan explained. When the heart stops beating, they use what oxygen is left in the air sacs and airways.

For how long? In a series of experiments with animals, Egan showed lungs stay viable for an hour, or four hours if they are ventilated, before they’re cooled to await transplant.

That ventilation is one key to the $4 million, three-year study, because when emergency workers exhaust attempts at CPR and declare someone dead, they typically leave behind the breathing tube inserted in the person’s throat. That makes it simple to restart ventilation to preserve the lungs, Egan said.

“If we can get the lungs ventilated within an hour, and then removed within an hour or two and cooled, we think they’ll work just fine,” he said.

Kidneys don’t have as long a survival window. But in Michigan, Punch has a similar preservation plan: Insert a few tubes near the kidneys to filter blood to them until they’re recovered.

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