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Avid Saskatchewan Roughriders fans Randy and Amber Stonehouse are very excited about their trip to the Grey Cup this weekend.

RIDER PRIDE FAR AND WIDE

‘IT’S GOING TO BE EMOTIONAL, THIS GAME, BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN PLAYING THERE FOR (OVER 100 YEARS) ON THAT PIECE OF DIRT’

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Randy Stonehouse knocks on wood. Thayne Dilts crosses his fingers.

After making their predictions, the diehard football fans want to make sure only good luck is flowing from Red Deer to their beloved squads set to face off in the 101st Grey Cup in Regina on Sunday.

Neither man remembers too well the last time the Saskatchewan Roughriders met the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the big game — Dilts was barely three in 1989 and some heavy imbibing on that game day fogs Stonehouse’s recollection — but both will be fixated on the action on Sunday, hoping their preferred teams will lay claim to the hallowed trophy.

That 1989 final is regarded as one of the best championship games in Canadian football history — particularly among Rider fans — when the Kent Austin quarterbacked-Riders won 43-40 on a last-second field goal by ‘Robokicker’ Dave Ridgway.

Green is the colour for Stonehouse, almost the only colour. In his wardrobe are some 30 Roughriders jerseys and, as he says, rare are the days when he isn’t wearing a green garment emblazoned with some stalks of wheat and a giant S. The jerseys make up but a small part of his collection of memorabilia he estimates is worth $10,000.

He possesses the autograph of nearly every famed Rider — Ron Lancaster’s is just about the only

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absent — and in his ‘man cave/Riders shrine’ there is everything from shiny Roughrider loonies and team stamps to green-specked Roughriders pancake mix and custom-made steel poles used to play the outdoor party game Beersbee.

Rider fans are a famously fanatical bunch, but only Stonehouse can claim the Twitter handle @diehardriderfan.

And when Rider quarterback Darian Durant was fined by the league earlier this season for swearing in a Twitter response to a fan, Stonehouse immediately sprung into action.

“Within 20 minutes I was down at the bank opening up a trust fund to start a collection to pay the fine,” said the 39-year-old originally from Melfort, Sask.

Although Austin’s perfect record in Grey Cup games — the current coach of the Ticats has been involved in four title games, winning as a quarterback and as a coach with the Riders — does concern him, Stonehouse is expecting the Green and White will win comfortably (Saskatchewan 39 Hamilton 23, for the record) in their first Grey Cup on home turf and the last to ever be held at the century-old Mosaic Stadium, more lovingly still known by flatlanders as Taylor Field.

“It’s going to be emotional, this game, because they’ve been playing there for (over 100 years) on that piece of dirt. The stars have all aligned for this, it seems.”

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Canadian Football League commissioner Mark Cohon touches the Grey Cup as he exits the stage after giving his state of the league address to media on Friday in Regina. The Saskatchewan Roughriders will face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday in the 101st Grey Cup.

Michener supporters rally at PC convention Michener Centre supporters turned the heat up during a chilly, noisy rally on Friday outside the PC’s annual convention.

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BRIEFS Company hired to put out landfill fire burning near Medicine Hat MEDICINE HAT — Officials say they are finally ready to start trying to extinguish a landfill fire that has spewed toxic smoke into Medicine Hat, Alta.

Mayor Ted Clugson said on Friday afternoon that officials with Cypress County, in consultation with the city, have hired Hellfire Suppression Services, a company specializing in landfill fires.

The fire at the Westar dump has been burning since Monday.

Earlier in the week, officials said it was simply not possible to try and get inside the area to put the flames out.

Medicine Hat and the surrounding area has been under an air quality advisory since Thursday.

Alberta Health Services said while there is a noticeable smell of smoke in Medicine Hat, air quality monitoring being done by a mobile unit has shown no significant health risk.

Two more electronic air quality monitoring devices will be strategically added in Medicine Hat on Saturday.

People with sensitivities and pre-existing respiratory conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart problems and asthma have been told they could notice a worsening of symptoms.

On Wednesday, officials in Cypress County declared a state of emergency and ordered nine homes evacuated due to the fire.

They said at the time that air quality in the area had deteriorated to the point that it was considered “a serious life safety hazard.”

The cause of the fire remains unknown.

Domestic dispute ends in deadly crash after RCMP chase down highway REDCLIFF — An investigation is underway into an apparent domestic dispute that ended in a deadly crash east of Brooks.

Police say they got a 911 hang-up call on Friday morning from a woman in distress in Medicine Hat.

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A Festival of Trees volunteer sprinkles sparkles on a fresh arm cast worn by Tristan Thompson, 6, of Red Deer. The Festival of Trees continues in Red Deer at Westerner Park with doors open to the public 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Fundraising efforts this year will go to enhance patient care and services in Diagnostic Imaging, Urology and Operating Room at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. Over the past 19 years of the Festival in Red Deer, $9,515,513 has been raised. For information on the festival, go to www.reddeerfestivaloftrees.ca.

Police went to the home and forced their way inside, but didn’t find anyone.

However, the condition of the home led them to believe someone was in serious danger.

A suspect vehicle was identified with a man and woman inside, but though police tried to stop it the male driver kept going and RCMP took over the pursuit.

Eventually, the suspect vehicle collided with a semi.

Sources told Global News the two people inside the car were killed.

The driver of the semi — a man in his 30s — was taken to hospital in Medicine Hat with non lifethreatening injuries.

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GREY CUP: ‘I was never sold on (Henry) Burris coming to Hamilton’ Dilts sees that star alignment a little differently when he makes his prediction. The Tabbies will win, he believes, in a game that will not be determined until the final minutes.

Ticat fans are a rare breed in these parts, and as a supporter he does not have the benefit of finding team paraphernalia in store after store like Rider fans do. But even so, sitting in a Ticats shirt in his work office decked out with Hamilton logos, the Lacombe native says his fandom is intense.

“I think (Ticat fans) are the east Rider fan nation.

It doesn’t matter if they’ve got a crappy season or a winning team, they always seem to be out in massive flocks to cheer for them,” said Dilts, 26.

His Hamilton hankering was born through the team winning the first CFL game he ever remembers watching, the 1999 Grey Cup. Since then “it’s been a long 14 years,” he says with a sad laugh, with only two playoff wins before 2013 and a very ugly 1-17 record in 2003.

But thanks to the contributions of a slew of former Riders, he thinks the 2013 team has hit its stride at the perfect time. Slotback Andy Fantuz and kicker Luca Congi, who were coached by Austin on Saskatchewan’s 2007 Cup-winning team, are now with the Ticats and ‘Smilin’ Hank’ Henry Burris will be serenaded with chants of ‘Heeeenry!’ when under centre at his old stomping grounds.

“I was never sold on Burris coming to Hamilton,” said Dilts, referencing concerns about the QB’s playoff record, “But these last couple years he’s shown that he’s hungry for another (Grey Cup) because he knows his years in the league are pretty much done.

I think he definitely has that drive to say ‘All right, one more. One more game.’ ” Transplanted Hamiltonian Dave Megee agrees.

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Saskatchewan Roughriders fans Jerry and Jim Sutherland hold a football signed by all three Rider Grey Cup winning quarterbacks. The football was signed by Ron Lancaster in 1966; Kent Austin in 1989 and Kerry Joseph in 2007. After the Grey Cup on Sunday, the Red Deer brothers hope Rider QB Darian Durant will add his signature.

With the team’s fan song Oskee Wee Wee “burned into the back of (his) brain” Megee will be watching a team he thinks is due for a big win.

“On paper Saskatchewan is definitely the better looking team, but this team, they fought hard from the beginning. I think they’re hungrier. I think they want it more. ... They’re not going to stop fighting. It’s going to be a World War Three on that field,” he said, perhaps with Oskee Wee Wee’s last line “Tigers. ... Eat ’em RAW!” on the mind.

While Dilts and Megee will be watching the game from warm Central Alberta homes, Stonehouse will be head to toe in Rider gear — everything except underwear — attending his sixth consecutive Grey Cup game. During that streak, there have been two instances of Rider-related heartbreak, most harshly felt in 2009, when the ‘13th man’ turned from being one of the team’s biggest assets to causing its ruin.

In that Grey Cup, Montreal missed a game-winning field goal. Saskatchewan should have won it

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Hamilton Ticat fan Thayne Dilts poses next to the Grey Cup. Dilts predicts the Tabbies will win in a game that will not be determined until the final minutes. then but the Riders were penalized for having an extra man (13 players instead of 12) on the field. The Alouettes didn’t miss the second time.

“The first three months (after the 2009 game), I bet you twice a week he would wake up screaming ‘Thirteen men?! Are you kidding me? Thirteen men?!,” said wife Amber, an Albertan who adopted Gainer and the gang upon dating Randy.

Sunday’s game will be Amber’s first at Mosaic Stadium, and she has streaked her hair green for what she expects will be a Saskatchewan 33 Hamilton 26 game.

Saskatchewan, with a 3-15 overall record in the title game, has the worst Grey Cup winning percentage among CFL teams; Hamilton is 8-10 all time. The last two Grey Cups have been won by teams playing at home — B.C. in 2011 and Toronto last year. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Michener supporters rally TURN UP HEAT ON TORIES AT ANNUAL CONVENTION

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BRIEFS Three Central Albertans chosen to sit on AUMA board of directors Three Central Albertans have been chosen to sit on the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association board of directors at the annual conference on Friday in Calgary.

Third-term Red Deer city Coun. Buck Buchanan and Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie were elected as directors to represent cities under 500,000. Christie was also chosen as a vice-president of the 2013-2014 AUMA executive committee.

Clive Mayor Anita Gillard was elected to represent villages.

Each year a new AUMA president is elected. The other 15 members of the board serve two-year terms.

Longtime Grande Prairie Coun. Helen Rice was elected as president.

Two suspects arrested in Deer Park break and enter Two suspects were arrested after police were called to a break and enter in progress at a Deer

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About 150 people demonstrated outside the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer on Friday to protest the provincial government’s decision to close Michener Centre. Inside the Sheraton, the Alberta Progressive Conservative party is holding its annual convention this weekend.

“They understand Michener. Their voices, to me, actually speak stronger because they are very familiar with what Michener is, represents and has done for many individuals.”

He said Michener families just want what was promised in the Moving Ahead report in 2008. It said that no resident would be forced to leave the centre and as the population declines, the north side would be closed and residents would be moved to buildings on the south side.

Instead, Friends of Michener say they were blindsided by the closure announcement in March.

“We’ve always said we want a compromise. We always just wanted to be at the table, the society, to have our voice heard, to sit down and come up with a

plan,” Lough said.

This week the NDP revealed documents they say show the provincial government hired a public relations firm “to fabricate a rationale” for the closure of Michener Centre a month-and-a-half after the closure was announced.

“I just think it’s a sad statement that we couldn’t have an open and honest discussion,” Lough said.

He hoped the partnership between Jablonski and the AUPE will open up dialogue with the province.

“The step Ms. Jablonski has taken has created that first step, I think, which we’re pleased with.”

Jablonski and the AUPE are still determining the number of residents that could live on the south site. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Park condominium complex in Red Deer on Thursday.

City RCMP were called about 10 p.m. to condominiums on Duston Street. One suspect was arrested at the scene.

A second fled in a Dodge pickup hauling a trailer.

After abandoning the truck, the suspect fled on foot and was tracked down using a police dog team. Police confirmed the truck was stolen in Sylvan Lake and the trailer in Ponoka.

The third suspect fled on foot and has not yet been found.

Anyone with information is asked to Red Deer RCMP at 403-3435575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 (TIPS) or go online to www.tipsubmit.com.

away, the man went to the driver’s door and ordered the woman to leave the vehicle. He and Johnstone then drove off together.

Garnet Colby Mcinnes, 22, is scheduled for a series of trials to be held next year on charges arising from the March 15 incident as well as other offences alleged to have occurred later on.

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Woman fined $400 for role in carjacking A woman arrested in connection with a carjacking near Blackfalds earlier this year has been fined $400 for being an occupant of a stolen vehicle.

Samantha Johnstone, 23, pleaded guilty before Judge Gordon Yake in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday to the charge, laid in connection with her role in a carjacking on March 15, 2013.

Court heard that Johnstone and two men were travelling together near Blackfalds when their SUV collided with another vehicle at about 7:45 p.m.

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Michener Centre supporters, hopeful about keeping beds open at the facility, turned the heat up during a chilly, noisy rally on Friday outside the Progressive Conservatives annual convention in Red Deer.

On Thursday, Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees made public their idea to keep some south side buildings at the facility for developmentally disabled people open to residents, in addition to the centre’s group homes.

The province has not approved the plan.

“We’re very pleased Mary Anne has stepped forward to speak on behalf of the families. We’ve always felt that she understands our needs. Whether the government will listen, we’ll have to see. I believe a compromise can be reached,” said society president Bill Lough earlier on Friday.

In March, the province announced that buildings on the north and south sides will close and residents relocated. Fifty of them, who are medically fragile, are to be moved to seniors care facilities.

Of the 224 people still living at Michener, 104 will be supported in 23 Michener Services residential group homes.

Since then the AUPE, which represents Michener workers, the Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Centre, Red Deer city council, and many more Central Albertans have been lobbying for the centre to stay open.

On Friday, the intersection at 32nd Street and Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer was filled with about 150 people who braved the cold in blue T-shirts waving “Keep Michener Open” signs on Friday.

The rally, held outside the PC’s annual convention at the Sheraton Hotel, was to send a loud and clear message to the provincial government that they’re making a mistake, said AUPE president Guy Smith, as the crowd chanted “Hey, ho! Redford’s got to go!”

“We’re doing this for the residents of Michener, for them to be able to remain in a caring, loving environment where they thrive,” said Smith.

NDP leader Brian Mason, who called the decision to close Michener shameful, was one of the speakers present during the rally.

Earlier this week Jablonski presented a petition with 15,744 signatures to the Alberta legislature to keep Michener Centre open. Last spring, opposition parties presented 8,500 signatures.

Lough said the province may argue the petition has been driven by the union, or that those 24,000 Albertans are limited to Central Alberta, but he said those are the people who understand what Michener means to residents and their families.

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From the left, Inspector Roy Beaton RCMP retired, Class of 1956; Neil Grahn, Class of 1981, and Jeremy St. Lewis, Class of 1989 were inducted into the Lindsay Thurber Hall of Fame Friday during a ceremony at the Memorial Centre.

Fate of robbery suspect in hands of the judge

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF An Edmonton judge must now decide whether the man who was in court before him during the past week is the same man who robbed a Red Deer bank 14 months ago.

Dustin Aaron Clark, 36, has been on trial before Justice Dennis Thomas in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, accused of an armed robbery at the Servus Credit Union’s Taylor Plaza branch on Sept.

13, 2012.

In her final arguments on Friday morning, Crown prosecutor Jillian Brown said Clark should be found guilty on the lesser offence of robbery, because there was no evidence that he actually had a gun.

Defence counsel Andrew Phypers argued that his client should be acquitted because the evidence provided during the trial does not clearly connect him with the offence.

Throughout the trial, Thomas heard that police identified a man nicknamed Lips as the culprit, which led them to investigate Clark.

While the accused man may also be known as Lips, the witnesses who were asked to identify him did not provide sufficient evidence to identify him as the man who committed the robbery, said Phypers.

and Mr. Wright, and we will do everything to make sure the investigation proceeds and those who acted improperly are held accountable.”

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Harper dodges, but Tory senators support Liberal bid to study meddling OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper dodged questions Friday about alleged attempts by his people — including the party’s top bagman — to meddle in and even quash an independent audit of Sen. Mike Duffy’s contested expenses.

But Harper’s own Conservative senators appear to want to lend the issue more scrutiny. RCMP files made public this week included emails from Harper’s staff and interviews from key players describing how they sought to cut short the work of auditing firm Deloitte in order to avoid any damning statements on Duffy.

Members of Harper’s staff appeared to receive inside information about the audit even before senators who sit on the committee that was studying Duffy’s expenses.

Duffy and Nigel Wright, Harper’s former chief of staff, face police allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. No charges have been laid.

At an in-camera meeting Thursday, sources say Liberal Sen. George Furey put forward a motion to summon Deloitte’s auditors before a meeting next week of the internal economy committee. All Conservatives present — including Harper’s former Senate leader, Marjory LeBreton — voted in favour of the motion.

Other Conservative senators have said publicly they’re disturbed to learn of the extent to which the Prime Minister’s Office was meddling in Senate affairs.

When asked Friday what the apparent efforts to influence an independent audit say about the culture in the PMO, Harper avoided the issue.

“There are two individuals who are responsible and who are under investigation,” Harper told a news conference in Winnipeg.

“As we said from the outset, they are Mr. Duffy

A compelling story of hardship and sacrifice during the exploration of Canada’s Arctic is being told at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

The travelling exhibit Expedition Arctic, from the Canadian Museums of Civilization and Nature, opens today. It tells of a massive expedition to the high Arctic that involved more than 140 scientists and explorers from across Canada and around the world.

This included Inuit people, Canadians from every province, and crew members from the U.S., Denmark and even Fiji.

This Canadian government-funded expedition would ultimately lead to the loss of 17 lives from 1913 to 1918, while explorers and scientists were trying to establish our country’s sovereignty of the North, and bring a greater knowledge of northern terrain.

The trek was led by Manitoba-born explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, whose party ended up mapping previously unidentified Arctic Islands and carrying the Canadian flag to the High Arctic.

Red Deer museum executive director Lorna Johnson believes the story is very timely, given concerns about climate change, conditions of northern life, resource exploration, and Canada’s sovereignty.

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Feds launch studies of gun industry, environmental impact of lead bullets OTTAWA — The federal government is launching an “in-depth” study of the country’s civilian firearms industry as part of a program to combat gun crime and weapons smuggling and trafficking.

A request for proposal seeking research bids was posted this week by Public Works.

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Brown argued that one of her witnesses, a customer in the branch at the time of the robbery, made very good observations and was later able to pick Clark’s face out of a photo lineup.

Another witness said he clearly recognized the robber photographed by security camera as the man he knows as Lips, said Brown.

Phypers argued that the same witness said one of the faces in the photo lineup bore a resemblance to Lips, but he was not absolutely certain that it was him in the photo.

Phypers then raised questions about the techniques used by the police officer who showed the lineup photos.

“Did he even identify the person who he knew as Lips, or did he just write on the back of the photo what the officer asked him to write?” said Phypers.

He said another of the Crown’s witnesses picked out a completely different person from the photo lineup.

Thomas said after hearing from both lawyers that he would like to have some time to ponder his decision, which he plans to render in Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench later this year.

He adjourned the decision to Dec. 20, stating that it may be brought forward earlier if a date is available. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford said she’s proud of what the Progressive Conservatives have achieved this year and is “looking forward” to the next election in 2016.

The statement lead to a standing ovation from her caucus members on stage behind her as she gave her official leader’s address for the party’s annual convention on Friday night at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer.

“Alberta values are Progressive Conservative values. We create opportunity. We reward hard work and we share our success with the world,” she said to the crowd of over 1,200 party members.

She went on to state Alberta is a society where children thrive, communities are safe, quality public health care and social services are accessible, industries are encouraged to succeed and innovate and where the environment will be there for future generations.

“That’s what guides us as Progressive Conservatives and what guides me and it’s what Albertans have trusted us to deliver on.”

Thanking everyone in the room, the 48-year-old leader amassed rounds of applause and cheers as she told the crowd they and their “unwavering” support are the reason the party won in 2012 and “the reason we will win again.”

She also recognized how Albertans and the government came together during the devastating summer floods.

“Early on I made a commitment that we will be there every step of the way to help families to rebuild and protect communities from the threat of future floods and we continue to deliver on that promise.”

Redford said she will never forget a group of seniors she met from downtown Calgary who were being accommodated at Olds College during the floods and were supported by volunteers in the community for weeks.

“We came together as we always do as Albertans and nothing made me more proud to be the premier.”

She called attention to the province’s booming economy, noting it will “outpace” the rest of Canada this year and next.

“We are first in population growth. We are first in job growth. We are first in entrepreneurship and we are first in economic growth. Our economy thrives because we have the lowest taxes in Canada and as your premier I will keep it that way.”

The province’s success didn’t happen by chance, Redford said.

“This is the result of 42 years of sound Progressive Conservative leadership in Alberta.”

She also talked about the zero increase in government spending this year when compared to last year’s numbers, a plan to build the savings in the heritage fund to $24 billion by the next election, opening family care clinics and constructing new roads as well as expanding on existing ones.

The convention continues today with Redford and her party members debating policy resolutions and fundraising issues as well as holding a mandatory party leadership vote.

Redford said she believes this weekend marks her 25th PC convention. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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U.S. marks 50th anniversary of JFK assassination

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — A half-century after rifle bullets cut through a presidential motorcade, the city that has long struggled with its own wounds from the Kennedy assassination paused Friday to honour the fallen leader, remembering a young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be “linked in tragedy.”

On the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings presided over a solemn ceremony at the exact time and place where the president was gunned down in an open-top limousine. It was the first time the city had organized such a large event, issuing 5,000 free tickets and erecting a stage with video screens.

“We watched the nightmarish reality in our front yard,” Rawlings told the crowd in Dealey Plaza, just steps from the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor onto the motorcade. “Our president had been taken from us, taken from his family, taken from the world.”

Sombre remembrances extended from Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, with moments of silence, speeches by historians and, above all, simple reverence for a time and a leader long gone.

Two generations later, the assassination still stirs quiet sadness in the baby boomers who remember it as the beginning of a darker, more cynical time.

“A new era dawned and another waned a half-century ago, when hope and hatred collided right here in Dallas,” Rawlings told the crowd that gathered under grey skies and in near-freezing temperatures.

The mayor said the slaying prompted Dallas to “turn civic heartbreak into hard work” and helped the city mature into a more tolerant, welcoming metropolis.

The slain president “and our city will forever be linked in tragedy, yes,” Rawlings said. “But out of tragedy, an opportunity was granted to us: how to face the future when it’s the darkest and uncertain.”

Historian David McCullough said Kennedy “spoke to us in that now-distant time past, with a vitality and sense of purpose such as we had never heard before.”

Kennedy “was young to be president, but it didn’t seem so if you were younger still,” McCullough added. “He was ambitious to make it a better world, and so were we.”

Past anniversaries have been marked mostly by loose gatherings of the curious and conspiracy-minded, featuring everything from makeshift memorials

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People gather before a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Friday at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. President Kennedy’s motorcade was passing through Dealey Plaza when shots rang out on Nov. 22, 1963. to marching drummers and discussions about others who might have been in on the killing.

The mayor unveiled a plaque with remarks the president was supposed to deliver later that day in Dallas. Rawlings’ comments were followed by a mournful tolling of bells and a moment of silence at the precise time that Kennedy was shot.

In Dallas, the dreary weather was far different from the bright sunshine that filled the day of the assassination. But that didn’t stop crowds from lining up hours before the ceremonies began.

Drew Carney and his girlfriend, Chelsea Medwechuk travelled from Toronto to attend the ceremony. Like many of those in attendance, they wore plastic ponchos to ward off the rain.

At 25 and 24, respectively, they were born a quarter-century after Kennedy died. Carney, a high school history teacher, said he became intrigued

with Kennedy and his ideals as a teenager.

“It filled you with such hope,” he said.

Elsewhere, flags were lowered to half-staff and wreaths were laid at Kennedy’s presidential library and at a waterfront memorial near the family’s Cape Cod compound.

Shortly after sunrise, Attorney General Eric Holder paid his respects at Kennedy’s recently refurbished grave at Arlington National Cemetery, where a British cavalry officer stood guard, bagpipes played and a flame burned steadily as it has since Kennedy was buried.

About an hour later, Jean Kennedy Smith, 85, the last surviving Kennedy sibling, laid a wreath at her brother’s grave, joined by about 10 members of the Kennedy family. They clasped hands for a short, silent prayer and left roses as a few hundred onlookers watched.

Supermarket roof collapses in Norwegian wins Latvia, at least 47 killed world chess championship

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIGA, Latvia — Hordes of shoppers were picking up food after work in the Latvian capital when an enormous section of the supermarket’s roof caved in. Firefighters rushed in to save them, only to be crushed themselves when a second part of the roof collapsed.

The death toll from the rush-hour disaster Thursday evening at the Maxima supermarket in Riga rose to 47 on Friday, including three firefighters, police said. Spokesman Toms Sadovskisk said the death toll is expected to go even higher, and that six of the dead were still unidentified.

Another 35 people were injured, 28 of them hospitalized, including 10 firefighters struck just as they entered the unstable building, the Fire and Rescue Service said.

It was the largest tragedy for the Baltic state since it regained independence in 1991. Latvia’s government declared three days of mourning starting Saturday.

The rescue agency could not say how many people might be trapped under the rubble in the densely populated, working-class neighbourhood between downtown Riga and the city’s airport.

The reason for the collapse was still not known, but rescue and police officials said workers had been building a garden on the roof as part of the supermarket’s original design. Riga Mayor Nils Usakovs told reporters that large bags of earth and sand

on a weak spot on the roof could have caused the collapse.

An enormous crater-like hole gaped in the supermarket’s roof, while building materials were still stacked on the remaining sections.

Rescue workers kept up their round-the-clock search for possible survivors as darkness fell on Friday, periodically turning off all equipment and asking the relatives of missing people to call so they could pinpoint ringing phones. Dozens of firefighters carefully sifted through the rubble.

Rescue agency spokeswoman Viktorija Sembele said the search for survivors was proceeding slowly, since both the rubble and the remaining sections of the roof were fragile and could easily collapse further if the wrong piece was moved.

About 500 square meters (5,300 square feet) of the roof collapsed, the rescue service estimated, destroying large sections of the store’s high walls and nearly all its front windows.

Several large construction cranes gingerly hauled metal slabs and other debris from the central hole, while bulldozers cleared paths into the store. Sembele said approximately one-third of the rubble still needed to be removed.

The building was completed in November 2011.

The Lithuania-owned Maxima was reportedly renting the space.

Maxima officials refused to comment, saying they would release a statement later.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI — The world of chess has a new king, and it’s a 22-year-old who is as much at home posing for fashion shoots as he is pushing pawns.

Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the chess world championship Friday, becoming the first Western player since Bobby Fischer to hold the title.

Carlsen, a former child prodigy who has already been on a list of the world’s sexiest men and has moonlighted as a model, defeated defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India in a title match that was the game’s most highly anticipated in decades.

A draw in Game 10 gave Carlsen the necessary 6 ½ points to clinch the win, having won three of the previous games with no losses.

The victory fulfilled the lofty expectations that have been placed on Carlsen since he became a grandmaster at 13 — the second youngest in history.

“I really hope that this can have some positive effect for chess, both in Norway and worldwide,” Carlsen said after clinching the title. “The match was shown on television and I know a lot of people who don’t play chess found it very interesting to follow. And that’s absolutely wonderful.”

Death toll rises above 5,000, expected to go higher MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from one Roxas said the situation was stabilizing, with of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above major roads on Samar and Leyte cleared of debris 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recov- and some banks, grocery stores and gas stations now ery efforts are beginning to take hold, Philippine of- open. ficials said Friday.

More troops and police have been brought to the Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said 4,919 people region from other parts of the country to beef up law were killed on Leyte, Samar and nearby islands in and order. the Eastern Visayas region. Civil defence chief EduThe airport in Tacloban, the regional hub, and its ardo del Rosario said 290 others died in other parts seaport are operating. of the central and southern Philippines.

“There is no more looting,” he said. “We are now The regions were battered two weeks ago by fierce heading to recovery and reconstruction.” winds and tsunami-like storm surges from Typhoon Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the PhilipHaiyan, locally called Yolanda. pines on Nov. 8 and quickly barrelled across its cenDel Rosario said there were 1,611 people still tral islands, packing winds of 235 km/h and gusts of missing. up to 275 km/h, with a storm surge of six metres.

“That is the sad record of Yolanda’s passage through our country,” Roxas said. But he added that “The worst is over.”

He likened the region to a patient that has been moved out of the emergency room into an intensive care unit.

“We have overcome the most difficult part,” he said. “In the first week we can say we were in the emergency room . . . this second week we are now in the ICU, still critical but stabilized.”

He said the hard-hit Leyte provincial capital of Tacloban reported 1,725 dead. “I believe this number in Tacloban city is not yet final,” he said.

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Did I mention I wrote a new book?

LANDING IN THE PLACE WHERE FICTION AND AUTOBIOGRAHY MEET So get this: today is exactly one the thousands of lights in City Hall month before Christmas Eve Eve! And Park for most of the winter. if that isn’t enough to roast your turIn fact, a couple of stories from key, it means it’s just one month and Finding Time and from the pages of two days until Christmas day itself! this very Advocate Hay’s Daze column And now all of us are alsomehow show up once ready positively buried up again in A Christmas in to our jingle bells in snow, Parkvale, as well as some and we’re all spending way seriously scholarly sectoo much time trying to tions such as Chapter 4 shovel tunnels through sideKinda Makes you Wanna walks and slumping around Spit or Chapter 8 Mukluks like Hunchbacks of Notre at Eaton’s and a Horse at Dame with sore backs. To Kresge’s, or perhaps Chapeven consider digging out ter 13 A Golden Cherub the ladder to put up ChristStatue Thingy and the mas lights on the house — if Amazing Big Loader. we can find it (the house) As you can see, this is in all this snow — would pretty intellectual stuff.

HARLEY turn anyone into a certified Growing up and throwing HAY Grinch. snowballs and chasing So, of course, this somedumb girls and getting how got me reminiscing positively electrified about about the good old days in Christmas when you’re in Parkvale where I grew up. Not that Grade 5 — this is pretty much as close I’ve grown all the way up even yet to Einstein as I get. obviously, but Parkvale was where I So whilst piecing together this little spent my misspent youth, and every story for the past year or so, I often Christmas time always makes me think pretended I was writing by looking up about those way-back days when the random quotations about Christmas, earth was white and dinosaurs roamed just to get in the old Christmas spirit around Gaetz Avenue and Ross Street when it’s, like, April or July and a long throwing snowballs at each other. So way from tinsel and popcorn balls. I that’s why, of course, I wanted to menlike to collect quotations, like some tion a new book. people collect salt and pepper shakI mean, where else can I shameers, or velvet art featuring Elvis, or lessly schlep my latest ramblings to my garden gnomes.

31 faithful readers than to barefacedly I found that there were heartfelt use this very column to mention (just quotations for people who wear their in passing) that I have a new fictional hearts on their sleeves, like: “The autobiographical-type novel called An- perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas other Time — A Christmas in Parkvale. trees are perfect.” (Charles N. BarAnd this one has some pictures in it nard). Or: “Love is what’s in the room and everything! with you at Christmas if you stop openIt takes place in the fictional year ing presents and listen.” (Attributed to of 1963 (way way before my time?) and a seven-year-old named Bobby). features the mostly true goings-on Or some melancholy ones for those of three 10-year-old buddies during of us who seem to feel a little heartthe month of December leading up to hurt this time of year: “Christmas is a Christmas Day. These are the same time when you get homesick — even characters — Smitty, Chip and Marty — when you’re home. (Carol Nelson). who romped around in the novel FindAnd: “There’s nothing sadder in ing Time (Harley Hay 2010), and who this world than to awake Christmas show up again and bounce off the walls morning and not be a child.” (Erma of South School, and the Paramount Bombeck).

Theatre and the Red Deer Arena with And for the ones who like to levitate enough Christmas excitement to power with a little levity, a few of my Ho Ho

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Ho personal favourites for a Saturday morning smile: “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” (George Carlin). And: “What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” (Phyllis Diller).

Or how about: “The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.”

(Joan Rivers). And of course, there’s this variation on a classic: “The Supreme Court ruled they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington D.C. It wasn’t for religious reasons — they couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.” (Jay Leno).

So in the spirit of that complicated jolly/melancholy/magical mayhem that is Christmas, I figured a visit to the 1963 version of the good old quaint and funky downtown neighbourhood of Parkvale might be fun, and maybe even bring a tear to the eye the way only a rock-hard ice snowball smack in the face can (see Chapter 1: The Illegal Ice Ball Incident).

And if you remember when a box of Black Magic chocolates had those aweinspiring hazelnut trio and wavy nougat sweetmeats and everyone played table hockey instead of Nintendo (see Chapter 6: Black Magic Table Hockey) or if you survived at least one unforget-

table spectacle known as the annual School Christmas Concert (see Chapter 11: Pa Rum Pa Pum Pum), come on down to the little book party at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on Friday Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m., or drop into Sunworks downtown on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 1 p.m. and get a book signed.

I’m sure someone there would be more than happy to sign stuff. And in a week or so Chapters and Coles will also have fresh copies of Another Time — A Christmas in Parkvale, collecting some proverbial dust on the shelves.

As we all know from the chronic Canadian Tire commercials on TV and all the seasonal elevator music saturating the very air that we breathe, Christmas is coming faster than a runaway toboggan.

So if you have a present or two you need to send to someone you love (perhaps a nice little Christmas book?), remember what TV talk show icon Johnny Carson said: “Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”

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

Chaos in Libya: a mess that won’t soon fade A little over two years after the former Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, was captured and killed by rebel militiamen outside the town of Sirte, the Libyan state is teetering on the brink of collapse. A dozen militia organizations have more authority than the central government, and if ordinary civilians protest at their arbitrary rule they get shot.

That happened in Benghazi, in the east of the country, in June, when 31 peaceful demonstrators were shot dead and many others wounded while protesting outside the barracks of the Libyan Shield Brigade.

It happened again in Tripoli just last week, when a militia brigade from Misrata that has been roosting in the GWYNNE capital for the past two years DYER used heavy machine-guns on unarmed civilians who were demanding that it go home, killing 43 and wounding hundreds.

In between, there have been some 80 assassinations of senior police and government officials.

Last month the prime minister, Ali Zeidan, was kidnapped by gunmen of the Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room group. Almost all the east and the south of the country are controlled by militias who have seized the main oilfields and ports.

Oil exports, the country’s only significant source of revenue, have dropped from 1.4 million barrels per day last summer to only 200,000 bpd. Deprived of most of its income, the government will run out of

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money to pay its employees next month — including the militias that harass it, for it pays them off, too.

And once the militias are no longer getting their protection money, things may get even worse in Libya.

That’s the bad news in Libya, but it all follows logically from the nature of the five-month war that overthrew Gaddafi in 2011. It was not the militias that defeated him; it was NATO’s air power, which relentlessly bombed his troops and strong-points.

But since the Western countries, haunted by their experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, had no wish to put troops on the ground, it was the militias who collected the victory.

The militias now have 225,000 members in a country of only five million people. Only about one-10th of the militiamen actually fought in the war, but in a country with 40 per cent unemployment it’s the best job going, so they do not lack recruits. And from the beginning what passes for a national government in Libya, lacking any army or police of its own, hired the militias to enforce its authority. As a result, they have become the real authorities.

What government there was at the centre has now largely disintegrated. There was a reasonably free election in 2012, but most of those elected represented tribal, ethnic or regional interests, and they have now mostly withdrawn from the national Congress in disgust, leaving the Muslim Brotherhood as the dominant influence in the government even though it lacks broad support in the country. So the disintegration continues.

The eastern half of the country, Cyrenaica, with 80 per cent of the oil, is now in practice a separate entity, run by militias that demand “federalism” but really mean independence. Prime Minister Zeidan warned in August that “any vessel not under contract to the National Oil Company that approaches

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the (oil) terminals (in Cyrenaica) will be bombed,” and so far none has dared to — but that means nobody gets the income.

It is a truly horrible mess.

Could this have been avoided?

Probably not. After 42 years of Gaddafi’s brutal rule there was no civil society in Libya that could support a democratic government and effectively demand respect for human rights and an end to corruption. Foreign occupation might have supplied some of the necessary skills to run a modern state, but would have been violently rejected by Libyans.

Besides, there were no foreigners willing to take on the job.

You have to start from where you are. Libya is taking much longer than the optimists expected to get to where it needs to be: a democratic state that respects its citizens and enforces the law impartially. At the moment it’s not even heading in that direction: Zeidan worries that it might become “an Afghanistan or a Somalia.”

Probably not. The country’s oil wealth can only flow, whether to the warlords or to the citizens, if there is a reasonable degree of peace and order.

That is a powerful incentive to cooperation, even if much of the negotiation seems to be done with guns.

And there is a kind of civil society emerging in Libya now: those crowds of protesters that the militias massacred were actually evidence that it exists.

It will be years more before the Libyans manage to sort themselves out, but in the end they probably will. They will probably remain a single country, too, although a highly decentralized and federalized one.

But it’s very bad now, and it will probably get worse before it gets better.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Betting on future as a petro-state BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF THE WORLD ADOPTS A CLEANER ENERGY STRATEGY? For oilsands hawks, the latest World Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency has some heartening news — not only will oil prices continue to rise through to 2035 but the global demand for oil is growing, most notably in Asia.

So if pipelines, especially the Northern Gateway Pipeline to the B.C. coast, can be built then increasing volumes of oilsands oil can flow to markets where demand is soaring.

But there are three considerations that should make us cautious about betting on Canada’s future as a petro-state.

First, there is still untapped potential for significant substitution away from oil (for example, natural gas DAVID for trucking and, later, autoCRANE mobiles, or the shift to gas from oil in chemical plants), second, technological advances can erode the need for oil (such as advances in electric vehicle and hydrogen fuel cell technology), and, third, the urgent need for global action on climate change, accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy, which means reducing our use of oil.

The IEA report contains three scenarios for future oil demand — the Current Policies Scenario, which is business as usual and not relevant today; the New Policies Scenario, which extrapolates the impact of recent policies and “the anticipated impact of the

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cautious implementation of declared policy intentions,” which is the report’s base case; and the 450 Scenario, which is the energy path we would have to follow if the world was to “have a 50 per cent chance of limiting the long-term increase in average global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius.”

This is the target agreed to by Canada and other countries at a 2010 Cancun, Mexico, summit and is seen as the maximum temperature increase the world can handle without serious disruption to human life.

Under the New Policies Scenario, world oil demand would grow from 87.4 million barrels a day in 2012 to 95.4 million barrels a day by 2020 and 101.4 million barrels a day by 2035.

By 2030, Canada could be producing 5.7 million barrels a day, an important contribution to future global oil needs.

But under the 450 Scenario — which may be more likely if the world achieves agreement on a new climate change action plan by 2015, the target set

by Canada and other countries — world oil demand would rise temporarily to 91.1 million barrels a day by 2020, but then fall sharply to 78.2 million barrels a day by 2035.

As the IEA underlines, “there is a growing disconnect between the greenhouse-gas emissions trajectory that the world is on and one that is consistent with a 2 degrees Celsius climate goal.”

Energy accounts for more than two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, so clearly any serious strategy to lower the threat to humankind from drastic climate change has to target the energy sector.

The New Policies Scenario doesn’t cut it.

It achieves just 30 per cent of the cumulative savings needed to be on a trajectory that’s consistent with the 2 degrees Celsius target, the IEA warns.

So big changes likely lie ahead.

Moreover, these adjustments in the sources and uses of energy will have to take place in a world where from now to 2035 the world’s population will grow by one-quarter, the world economy will more than double, and, under the New Policies, scenario, world energy demand will grow by a third.

Nonetheless, the 450 Scenario is “technically feasible” but “intensive action prior to 2020, the year in which a new international climate agreement is due to come into force, is essential,” the IEA warns.

The best way to achieve cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases would be through a carbon tax, which would price carbon on a rising scale over time, providing an incentive for businesses and consumers to factor in the carbon tax when making purchase decisions while also providing an incentive for entrepreneurs to push technology development since the carbon tax would create a market for their discoveries.

Likewise, clean tech would have to be a key part of our innovation strategy.

The math doesn’t lie. So if the world is to limit the average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius — which it surely has to do avoid climate crises for the next generation — then it has to cut its use of oil. The future would seem to lie with those who can develop the clean energy solutions, not those who want to create a petro-state.

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

ignorance of the rules, hose the Canadian people to the tune of about half a million dollars.

After vigorous denials and blame-shifting, they were finally suspended without pay, but only for two years and they get to keep their pensions which many executives can only dream about.

And now, of course, we have the Rob Ford fiasco.

In a conversation on Skype with a friend in New Zealand, chuckles were to be had on the buffoonery going on in Toronto, which is being reported around the world.

And this man stays in office even with the media offering up unproven accusations, which will eventually destroy the man guilty or not, but where there is smoke. ...

With our sense of well-being and our affluence, we not only fell asleep, we fired our watchdogs that needed watchdogs!

Now we have many shameful issues to deal with, we are taxed to the tune of millions of dollars in payouts, useless and ignored investigating committees and a government stalled in running the country because the opposition delightfully and like slobbering bulldogs, keep them too busy defending themselves.

I work in an environment with a lot of people who have been convicted of minor crimes. Because of these convictions, they have lost everything, maybe serving time in prison. But a lot of these crimes do not even compare with the theft and corruption and lies and belligerence we face from our elected officials.

If you think that these people downtown do not know what is going on, you are hiding your head in the sand.

During a discussion on the Senate issue, the words of one person in particular say it so succinctly: “I served four months in jail and lost my job and eventually my house, vehicle, everything; all for the sake of $1,000 that I stole.

I know I did wrong, and I even offered to pay it back, but the judge was bent on making an example of me I guess.”

So now we find ourselves living in one of the most beautiful countries in the world that at one time had a very enviable reputation, but now has become the butt of jokes and a laughing stock.

Top that off with a two-tiered justice system that originally was not meant to be and you get what we have to deal with.

It makes me wonder why we would allow a person into a position of governing without enough mental capacity to understand a few basic rules; sort of makes you question the appointer.

It does, though, give me an insight as to why a lot of people look to a life of crime to try to get ahead; from what I have seen so far, it pays!

The alarm bells are ringing to wake us up, and we have a choice: wake up and take these situations in hand, or hit the snooze button one more time.

I think I’ll read Harley Hay’s column; I could use a good clean laugh, besides, it hurts to be cynical.

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

Canada must wake up, deal with shameful issues When Lester B. Pearson became prime minister of Canada, little did anyone realize that he would eventually give Canada an enviable image in the world.

In his efforts to make us a peacekeeping nation, I think in a way he was trying to make Canada the nonEuropean Switzerland.

Pearson’s government made a lot of questionable and controversial decisions, but eventually Canada’s image became one of a country where peace and prosperity were paramount, making it very desirable to wartorn countries where people were constantly in a state of upheaval.

In the ensuing years, even though we were forced to CHRIS go from a peacekeeping to a peace-forcing nation, the SALOMONS world continued to look to Canada as a desirable place in which to raise a family and live in comparative peace.

But we fell asleep!

For more years than I care to remember, the dominant news stories other than huge natural disasters have been one scandal after another; both private and political.

The scandals are bad enough, but what happens after is even worse.

Take a good look at some of the majors in this field.

Brian Mulroney, eventually caught in a lie, was allowed to keep the monies awarded him and is now not only exonerated but is sought after as a political news consultant.

Conrad Black, after shafting many people, giving Canada the finger, and renouncing his citizenship, is now accepted once again and is co-host on a television show because he is such a smart man; definitely not through apologies or integrity.

I’m not sure at this point if he has his citizenship back or not.

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Learn from Winnipeg’s crime reduction strategy INTEGRATED SOCIAL SERVICES AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CAN HELP PREVENT CRIME

BY RICK LINDEN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In the recent federal throne speech, the Harper government proposed a law to ensure that people like Paul Bernardo will never get out of jail.

Sounds good — except the truth is that he, and others like him, will almost certainly never get out of jail under current laws anyway.

In other words, it was nothing more than symbolic legislation that plays well to the general public.

Wouldn’t it be better if the government put its energies behind supporting initiatives that would actually make Canadians safer?

Communities across the country are not waiting on the federal government and are doing just that. Winnipeg is a case in point.

Between 1991 and 2010, the crime rate in Canada’s nine largest cities declined by a whopping 50 per cent.

In Winnipeg, the reduction was only 25 per cent, much of which was due to an 85 per cent decline in car theft.

Violent crime and community safety have remained significant challenges for Winnipeg.

But a new a new crime reduction strategy called Block by Block could significantly change this.

The province of Manitoba, the city of Winnipeg, and the Winnipeg Police Service have developed partnerships with a broad range of social agencies and community groups that will establish one of North America’s most comprehensive community safety and wellness initiatives, literally tackling the issues Block by Block.

Three factors give Block by Block a good chance of being successful: integrated social service delivery; crime prevention through social development; and a new policing strategy.

First, Block by Block focuses on prevention and early intervention, modelled on Prince Albert, Sask.’s Community Mobilization program. Prince Albert has reduced its once-soaring crime rates by over 40 per cent, and has also seen reductions in emergency hospital admissions and social service referrals.

Winnipeg’s program will bring together a broad range of agencies to deliver services to those at highest risk and in greatest need.

Consider a 3 a.m. police response to a troublesome party house.

The police called EMS to take an unconscious woman to the hospital.

The police supervisor then had to decide what to do with three girls at the party in their early teens.

No social agencies were open that late at night and he didn’t want to de-

tain them because their only offence was underage drinking.

He spent considerable time trying to locate a responsible adult to look after them.

This call involved three police cars and two EMS vehicles and police had no means of following up to ensure the same problems didn’t arise at the same house the next day.

Block by Block will enable the police to work with other agencies to deal with problems like this one.

First, service delivery will be co-ordinated through a Hub, a group including community agencies, child welfare, health, addictions, education, police and probation.

This group will co-ordinate services to individuals and families.

The Hub’s goal is to intervene at an early stage before problems become serious.

Second, Block by Block will focus on crime prevention through social development.

The LiveSAFE initiative is focused on improved housing, better access to wellness services, neighbourhood beautification and improved infrastructure.

Finally, a new policing strategy will better serve the area.

The Winnipeg Police Service will work with the community to deal with the issues underlying criminal behav-

iour because they know they cannot arrest their way out of the city’s problems.

The police are part of the Hub and are partners in LiveSAFE. The police service is also implementing a Smart Policing Initiative, focusing on hot spots — places with a high incidence of crime and disorder — and on high-risk individuals, rather than simply responding to calls for service.

This approach has been proven effective elsewhere.

Reduced crime is one of the anticipated outcomes of Block by Block, but there may be other benefits, such as reduced emergency hospital admissions, reduced family service referrals, better educational outcomes and higher employment rates.

Other communities are implementing similar initiatives that will have real impact on safety.

The federal government can carry on with its window dressing, while communities across the country are rolling up their sleeves and getting things done.

Rick Linden is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca and teaches criminology at the University of Manitoba. He is also the Chair of the Manitoba Police Commission. This column was supplied

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A fellow traveller examines a giant starfish up close while snorkelling near El Cielo in Cozumel. Our guide said that El Cielo means “Heaven,” but he likes to call it “Hollywood,” because it’s where the stars hang out. He was referring to giant starfish like the one pictured here.

A STAR IN THE CARIBBEAN

LEFT: All-inclusive resorts are popular with tourists visiting Mexico and there are well over a dozen big-name resorts on the tiny island of Cozumel. We stayed at the Occidental Grand Cozumel and enjoyed the all-you-can-eat buffet that was included.

RIGHT: The white sand beaches of Cozumel are a wonderful place to relax — when you get tired of snorkelling.

J

ust off the southern shore of Mexico’s largest Caribbean island is a place locals refer to as “Hollywood,” because “it’s where the stars hang out.” The stars they are referring to are not of the celebrity type — they are the underwater variety.

Since the 1960s when Jacques Cousteau declared the area’s waters to be one of the most spectacular diving sites in the world, travellers have come from around the globe to view the marine life off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico and as I floated above a group of giant starfish lining the sandy ocean floor, I could see what the excitement was about.

DEBBIE The name Cozumel OLSEN comes from the Mayan name for the island, “land of shallows,” and the Mayan name still fits today. Although we were snorkelling far from the shoreline in a place called El Cielo, the water was very shallow — in some places, it was just waist deep.

To the Mayans, Cozumel was a sacred place.

The Mayans believed the island was home to Ixchel, the Mayan goddess of fertility and of the moon. The first Mayan settlement is believed to have been established in about 300 AD, but Mayans living on the mainland used to sail to the island on pilgrimages hoping to receive favour from Ixchel.

Even today, Mexican couples travel to the island hoping for special blessings — or so I was told by a Mexican employee at a mainland hotel who claimed to have conceived her first baby on the island.

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Like many visitors to Cozumel, we arrived by ferry. The island is a 45-minute journey from Playa Del Carmen and makes a great day trip or weekend excursion when you are staying in the

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Cozumel is an island off the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. It is 48 km long and 16 km wide and is the third largest island in Mexico.

TO THE MAYANS, COZUMEL WAS A SACRED PLACE. THE MAYANS BELIEVED THE ISLAND WAS HOME TO IXCHEL, THE MAYAN GODDESS OF FERTILITY AND OF THE MOON . . . . MAYANS LIVING ON THE MAINLAND USED TO SAIL TO THE ISLAND ON PILGRIMAGES HOPING TO RECEIVE FAVOUR FROM IXCHEL. Mayan Riviera or Cancun. The ferry terminal juts out from el Malecón, the promenade that lines the waterfront of the small city of San Miguel.

Exploring the interesting shops in San Miguel and walking along the broad sidewalk of el Malecón is a pleasure that should not be missed, but it did not take long before we were on our way to the Occidental Grand Cozumel Resort, our home base during our short visit to Cozumel.

Since snorkelling was one of the main objectives of our visit, the Occidental Grand Cozumel was a good choice Its location near the Palancar Gardens Reef, and its excellent onsite dive shop, make it a good bet for those who come to the island to see the marine life.

After settling into our comfortable room and grabbing a bite to eat, we were ready for our first snorkel excursion. We began our snorkel at El Cielo, a shallow dive site that is noted for its abundance of starfish.

Peering through the snorkel mask, I could see several large starfish on the sandy bottom and our dive guide, Juan, dove down and carefully picked one up so everyone in our small group could have a closer look.

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LEFT: Our guide, Juan, retrieved a large starfish from the ocean floor so that we could have a closer look. Afterwards, he carefully returned it to roughly the same spot on the sandy ocean floor.

RIGHT: The Occidental Grand Cozumel has three swimming pools, including a kids pool, and offers a wide variety of land and water sports, including tennis, kayaking, water polo, windsurfing and snorkelling. The onsite dive shop offers snorkelling and diving excursions.

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COZUMEL: A fertile hideaway The next stop on the tour was a place called the Colombia Shallows. This beginner dive and snorkel site is seldom visited by tour companies and features large coral formations that rise up to 10 metres above the sandy ocean floor.

This snorkel site is located near the Colombia Lagoon, so cool, fresh water sometimes mixes with the warmer ocean water and this decreases visibility.

The upside is that you get to see fish and sea turtles that are relatively undisturbed. At this site, I saw numerous fish and a large hawksbill sea turtle, a critically endangered sea turtle that nests on the shores of the island.

Our final stop was at the Palancar Reef, a spot that features a sheer drop with towering rock spires, coral formations and cliffs covered with sea fans.

Our guide dropped us at a spot up from the current and we floated effortlessly along the abyss, watching

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BY CAROL PATTERSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Sometimes you have to reframe information before you take action.

With almost three million insect species, you might not believe the Amazon rainforest — sometimes called Amazonia — is a major tourism attraction. I got more excited about visiting when I reframed mosquitoes as not just annoying travel companions, but as important pollinators or bird food. With over 20 per cent of the world’s bird species, there is a real need for insects in Amazonia!

The chance to see colourful parrots, macaws or hummingbirds was one reason I ventured into the Amazon.

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They live in only three Amazonia rivers systems so seeing one requires luck and a location where the otters are known to frequent.

Sandoval Lake Lodge in southeast Peru near the Bolivian border fits the bill, but getting there takes effort. I flew to the frontier town of Puerto Maldonado — a place General Motors forgot.

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donado, I boarded a motorized canoe for a 30-minute cruise down the Madre de Dios River.

“Please put your lifejackets on,” our guide directed as we pulled away from shore. “The law requires it, but if we capsize you will be eaten by piranhas or caimans, so really the life-jackets are just for your remains!”

I appreciated his humour or his honesty — his deadpan delivery left me wondering if he was kidding — and was relieved when we arrived at the entrance to Tambopata National Reserve and the start of a threekm hike.

A buff-looking porter pushed a rickshaw laden with our small duffle bags down the muddy, rutted trail while our group picked its way through the rainforest, swatting bugs and enjoying the bird song.

When we reached Sandoval Lake, we boarded a dugout canoe for the final leg.

The porter who pushed our luggage over the bumpy path paddled us across the lake, making my fitness routine look lame in comparison.

Sandoval Lake Lodge offers basic accommodation with electricity a few hours of day, mosquito nets over the beds, and a common longhouse-style ceiling providing only visual barriers between rooms.

I felt I was in an episode of The Waltons each evening as I overheard fellow travellers bid each other goodnight and begin to snore. By morning, I was ready to explore outdoors.

The pre-dawn tour

Photos by CAROL PATTERSON/freelance

Above: No motorized boats are allowed on Lake Sandoval.

Middle: Giant river otters live in family groups of parents and their young offspring.

At left: Hammock siestas are popular in the afternoon. with guide Javier Huayaban turned up a screech owl and an opossum slinking home from his night adventures.

As dawn broke, it was time to search out a wood lick — trees with the minerals that parrots and macaws need for digestion.

We slinked through the forest, careful not to scare off our quarry, and then ruined the effect as our cameras sounded like machine guns, shooting thousands of pictures as we tried to capture the effect of these birds, their feathers as bright as flying crayon-boxes.

We no longer noticed the clouds of mosquitoes.

Knowing I was looking for otters, Javier mentioned that a porter had spotted them near the lodge. As the afternoon sun faded, we headed out in the catamaran — powered by the world’s fittest porters — and got lucky. We found the otter family frolicking near their den, helping the youngest member climb logs and sharing a fish.

Much of their diet is piranha so adults must teach the youngsters how to fish without get-

ting bitten. Otters also show their young how to avoid the black caiman, the largest predator in the Amazon.

I had seen the caimans lurking near the lodge jetty, but on this day they were elsewhere and the otters were free to frolic and display the agility that earned them the nickname ‘river wolf.’

I was still scratching

mosquito bites, but I no longer cared.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 2013

Rebels squander two-goal lead

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Pats 4 Rebels 3 (SO) There’s something about a two-goal lead that doesn’t agree with the Red Deer Rebels.

For the third time in four WHL home games dating back to Oct. 30, the Rebels coughed up a two-goal cushion Friday at the Centrium. The Regina Pats were the beneficiaries this time, rallying for a 4-3 shootout win in front of a recorded gathering of 4,650.

And how about those second periods?

“Second periods are what’s hurting us. It’s been that way all year for us and I can’t really pinpoint why it’s happening,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We’re not the same team in the second periods as we have been in the first periods.”

The Rebels were outscored 3-1 in the second frame and really weren’t that good in the first, either, yet held a 2-0 lead at the first intermission despite being outshot 14-4.

The Pats battled back to gain a 3-3 tie through 40 minutes and following a scoreless third period and overtime stanza, Boston Leier scored the lone goal of the shootout to give the visitors the extra point.

While the Rebels directed 30 shots at Pats netminder Dawson MacAuley, they struggled defensively.

“We had a lot of turnovers tonight, 18 in our own zone in the first two periods and they have some forwards who can make plays,” said Sutter. “We were just losing battles along the boards and throwing pucks away.”

The Rebels didn’t record their first shot of the evening until 13:22 of the opening frame — and were being outshot 11-0 to that point — but made their next two shots count, as Adam Musil flipped a rebound over MacAuley and Dominik Volek scored from the point after taking a drop pass from Rhyse Dieno.

The second goal was reviewed for close to 10 minutes as the puck exited sideways through the net.

Chandler Stephenson beat Red Deer netminder Patrik Bartosak with a backhand two minutes into the second period, but Brooks Maxwell restored the Rebels’ two-goal lead five minutes later, taking a great feed from Dieno and racing in on a breakaway.

The Pats, however, pulled to within

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Red Deer Rebel Adam Musil checks two Regina Pats players into the corner boards in his own zone during first period action at the Centrium on Friday. one on Geordie Maguire’s fifth goal of the season at 8:17 and Dyson Stevenson sniped a power-play equalizer at 12:02, beating Bartosak on the short side with a slap shot from the faceoff circle.

Red Deer controlled the overtime, with the puck seldom leaving the Pats zone, but MacAuley stopped all five shots he faced.

“We got to overtime and we were fine,” said Sutter. “But five-on-five we have to be better.”

The setback dropped Red Deer’s home-ice record to 4-6-0-2. The Rebels are 7-6-0-0 away from the Centrium.

Since recording four wins in succession, the Rebels have now dropped two straight, both at home.

“We were getting our game going here after coming home off our road trip but we’ve got back to some of our old habits again,” said Sutter. “I can’t really pinpoint what it is. Maybe there’s distractions, I don’t know, but we have to find a solution to it because we’ll be in tough to make playoffs if we can’t be better than that at home.

“You have to win games at home and you have to be above a .500 hockey team at home, and right now we’re two

games below .500. There are reasons for it and we have to try and find solutions. We’re talking to the kids and trying to work through it, but they seem to be struggling right now.”

The Pats directed 40 shots at Bartosak, who came up with a series of big saves but also gave up two goals that he seldom allowed last season.

Still, he was the reason the Rebels got to overtime despite being heavily outshot in the opening period and 4030 overall.

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RDC, Augustana split hoop games

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 90 Vikings 58 The RDC Kings have enough talent to win against most teams in the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League even when they have the odd letdown.

Such was the case Friday as the Kings letdown in the third quarter, but were simply the better team, rolling to a 90-58 victory over the Camrose University of Alberta, Augustana Vikings at RDC. “We are talented enough to cover up some of the mistakes we make . . . things we’re still working to get better,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “Today we still won by 30 points, but it was a step backwards in terms of execution and mental toughness. We need to do a better job of that.

Next weekend we’re facing Medicine Hat, the No. 6 team in the country, and if we have those mental breakdowns like today we could see ourselves losing our first game of the season.”

The Kings, who are ranked second in Canada, led 51-32 at the half, but started rushing themselves on offence and standing around under their own basket in the third quarter, which the Vikings took advantage of to narrow the gap to 15. The Vikings outscored RDC 19-15 in the third quarter, but

once Pottinger got his point through to his troops, the Kings stormed out in the fourth quarter and outscored the visitors 24-7.

The Kings did get several solid performances with Lloyd Strickland and Clay Crellin leading the way offensively and Reece Gavin defensively.

Strickland finished with 20 points, seven rebounds and two assists while Crellin had 20 points and eight boards.

Gavin chipped in with five points, but was especially dominant on defence.

“Reece played a tough defensive game and is a gamer,” said Pottinger.

“With us missing Rob (Pierce) this semester, Reece picks up a lot of the little things Rob usually gives us.”

The Kings were also missing Mari Peoples-Wong, who is one of the team’s top two-way players.

“He injured his back early in the week and probably could have played, but we wanted to rest him so he was ready for next week,” said Pottinger.

Ashaunti Hogan added 14 points for the Kings while Lee Danderfer had 20 points and Taylor Foreman 12 for the Vikings.

Vikings 83 Queens 48 The Vikings, who came in ranked fourth in the country, has simply more depth, experience and size than the Queens.

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Red Deer College Queen Dedra Janvier lays up a shot through traffic against the Augustana Vikings during college basketball action at Red Deer College on Friday.

Riders left tackle can’t wait for championship fight

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The pressure of his first championship fight has Xavier Fulton about as fazed as a jab from a featherweight.

The second-year Saskatchewan Roughriders left tackle doubles as a boxer in his free time and has been training in the sweet science since 2009 when he was a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Three fights later — he’s already a Golden Gloves champion and undefeated at 3-0 — and Fulton knows what to expect in the lead-up to his first Grey Cup game on Sunday.

“It was the worst nerves I ever had a

it was just horrible,” he said of his debut fight. “But literally as soon as I got hit the first time, that’s when it all just snapped back. I just relaxed, got comfortable and blacked out everything else around me.

“Just like in football. After the first hit, the nerves are gone.”

Fulton says he’s also a better offensive lineman for his trouble, improving his timing, hand eye co-ordination and overall conditioning.

“Cardio is a huge thing,” he said. “If you can go five three-minute rounds, a football game? That’s a breeze.”

Fulton is one of 11 projected starters and 25 players overall on the Riders’ 42-man roster for the title bout with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to have never played in a Grey Cup game.

He was acquired from the Edmonton Eskimos prior to the 2012 season and established himself as Saskatchewan’s starting left tackle.

This year he was part of an offensive line that allowed 47 quarterback sacks, third-least in the CFL. The Ticats by contrast allowed more sacks than anyone in 2013 at 65.

“You seen when one guy was missing, the line kind of faltered and didn’t do as well as they usually do,” said Saskatchewan tailback Kory Sheets who, like Fulton, will play in his first Grey Cup. “When we’ve got all our guys fresh and healthy it’s the best line in the CFL.” The Roughriders allowed Hamilton to break through for just three sacks in their two previous meetings this sea-

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son, while the offensive line also made space for Sheets to run for 130 and 140 yards as Saskatchewan won both games by a combined score of 69-20.

“They’ve been totally amazing,” said Sheets. “They’ve kept my body healthy this season as opposed to last year.

Most of the time I don’t even ice after because I’m so fresh. Everybody’s going ’Sheets, are you OK? You’re getting a lot of carries.’ But I’m only getting tackled by guys that are 170 (pounds) or 185 so that doesn’t really hurt.”

Sheets boasted often this season about being the best running back in the league and ultimately finished second to Jon Cornish with 1,598 yards.

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Kings catch up after slow start, beat Voyageurs QUEENS SHUTOUT BY GRANT MACEWAN

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 5 Voyageurs 3 PENHOLD — The RDC Kings weren’t prepared for what the Portage Voyageurs presented offensively in their Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League meeting at the Penhold Regional Multiplex Friday.

In fact it took the Kings close to 50 minutes before they took control of the game.

“We did what we wanted in the third period, but the first period we were slow out of the gate and the second period was fairly even,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper following a 5-3 victory over the Voyageurs.

“They have some high-calibre offensive players and came out using a stretch offence which caught us off-guard. They must have had three or four breakaways in the first period.”

The Kings changed their forecheck in the middle stanza, going to more of a trap, to eliminate the long pass.

“We tried to plug it up a bit and it started to change the game a bit,” added Keeper.

The Voyageurs grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first period on a goal by Jory Geddes with the Kings Mike Marianchuk tying it at 1:45 of the second period.

The Kings took a 3-1 lead in the third on goals by Carter Page at 3:19 and Clayton Petrie at 4:55. However, the Voyageurs got goals by Connor Lowe-Wylde at 7:11 and Spencer Samuel at 10:01 to tie it.

Riley Point put the Kings ahead for good at 14:47 on the power play and Neil Landry notched the final goal at 15:13.

Mike Salmon finished with 34 saves for the Kings, who had 45 shots on Kirby Halcrow.

“The nice thing was we found a way to win against a good team that has offensive strength and speed.”

The Kings, 11-4, visit Portage today in Lac La Biche.

Meanwhile, the RDC Queens lost 3-0 to the Grant MacEwan Griffins in Edmonton, just 24 hours after winning 3-0 over the Griffins. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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REBELS: Face Cougars next “We’ve show a lot of resiliency and a lot of character in being able to come back from deficits,” said Regina assistant coach Josh Dixon. “We just came off a big six-game road trip and we were able to come back in some of those games.

“It certainly is nice to get the two points and nice to find ways to win, but at the same time that’s not a formula for success. We felt both of Red Deer’s first-period goals were preventable and had we blocked shots and stuck with our man we would have prevented them. It’s nice to come back but we don’t want to be digging ourselves a hole.” ● Leier was the lone player to score in the shootout. Bartosak stopped Morgan Klimchuk, while MacAuley denied Red Deer shooters Matt Bellerive, Conner Bleackley and Dieno . . . The Rebels return to action tonight at the Centrium versus the Prince George Cougars, who thumped the Oil Kings 8-3 Friday at Edmonton. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

COLLEGE: Queens under too much pressure The Vikings have eight players with three or more years of experience while the Queens have two.

“We watched the film this week and I thought we matched up fairly well with them, but when we got out there, we had a fourth year player and they had a fifth, we had a second and they had a fourth

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Florida Panthers goalie Tim Thomas, left, is scored on by Calgary Flames’ Joe Colborne during second period NHL action in Calgary Friday. ward Shawn Matthias, but it went right to Hayes, who shot it into a wide-open net.

Goc scored at 14:01 of the third to force overtime when he outwaited Berra before snapping a shot that snuck under the Calgary goalie’s left arm and into the net.

Notes: Prior to being recalled from the AHL on Thursday, Blair Jones put up eight goals and 13 assists for a team-

leading 21 points in 16 games with the Abbotsford Heat. a T.J. Galiardi, who has gone 20 games without scoring a goal, was a healthy scratch for the Flames.

It was the fifth consecutive game for the Flames against a team that had played the night before. Calgary has been in 14 one-goal games this season going 7-3-4.

Lindsay Thurber volleyball teams off to provincials

BY ADVOCATE STAFF It was a perfect night for the Lindsay Thurber Raiders.

Both the LTCHS boys and girls advanced to the provincial high school 4A championships with straight-set victories at LTCHS Friday.

The LTCHS girls opened with a 25-15, 25-17, 25-16 victory over the Hunting Hills Lightning with the boys edition of the Raiders following with a tough 2927, 26-24, 25-19 win over the Notre Dame Cougars.

Both teams won the best-of-three zone final 2-0.

“I was very pleased with our performance, we were consistent the whole way,” said Raiders girls’ head coach Kirsten DeZutter. “It was an excellent team effort and a good way to head into the provincials.”

Meanwhile, the LTCHS boys found the Cougars even tougher than Thursday when they also won 3-0 at Notre Dame.

“They passed a lot better, served better and simply played a higher level of volleyball,” said Raiders head coach Terence McMullen.

“But we also played at a higher level, which they forced us to do.”

In the end McMullen felt the Raiders height advantage was a difference.

“We made less mistakes and played tougher after 20 points,” he said. “As well I though they tightened up a bit in the third set after it was 17-17.

“But we earned everything we got and it was a great win and prepared us for the provincials.”

The provincials open Thursday at the Saville Centre in Edmonton. All the provincial championships, from 1A-4A, will be held at the Centre.

NFL suspends foul-mouthed referee

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ASHBURN, Va. — An NFL game official was suspended Friday for one game without pay for making “a profane and derogatory statement” to a Washington Redskins player, an incident that has led to a call for NFL players to stop using the N-word on the field and in the locker room.

The league announced Friday that umpire Roy Ellison will not work an NFL game this weekend as punishment for words directed at left tackle Trent Williams late in the second quarter of the Redskins’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

The National Football League Referees Association issued a statement Friday evening saying that it will file a grievance, that the suspension was a rush to judgment without hearing Ellison’s side of the story.

Williams said he was called vulgar names — although not the N-word — by Ellison and did nothing to provoke it. A replay from the second quarter shows Ellison gesturing at Williams while walking backward just before a snap, with Williams, quarterback Robert Griffin III and tight end Niles Paul turning to look back at the umpire. Redskins coach Mike Shanahan was among those who supported Williams, saying: “You just can’t use that type of language to get your point across.”

But John Wooten, chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, group that includes minority coaches and officials, said his organization spoke to game officials who said that Ellison was responding after Williams directed the N-word at Ellison. Both Williams and Ellison are African-American. The incident, or a fifth, that’s a big difference,” said Queens head coach Mike Woollard. “They are the fourth ranked team in the country and they showed it.

“They pressured us harder than any team we’ve faced this season. They made us rush some stuff we usually take care of and we missed a lot of layups because of their pressure. As well we made way too many turnovers.

“Then again this was a good barometer of where we want to be and we need to continue to improve and hopefully get another crack at them later in the season.”

Kelsey Lund led the Vikings with 26 points while Kari Kubinec added 18. Jessica Foley led the Queens with 10 points while Mozanga Ekwalanga added nine and Carly Hoar eight.

RDC hosts Medicine Hat Friday and Saturday. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

RIDERS: Team game But this week the bravado, like the weather, has been absolutely frozen.

“This is a team sport and right now this is a team game,” said Sheets, or someone who looked eerily like him. “That personal stuff is going to be cut off right now.”

The Roughriders practised Friday at Mosaic Stadium in temperatures that dipped to -32 C with

coming in the wake of allegations involving racially charged texts allegedly sent by Richie Incognito to a Miami Dolphins teammate, led the alliance to issue a statement imploring all NFL players to stop using the racial slur.

“I think that we all understand clearly that in terms of supporting Roy, we’re not in any way condoning his reaction to what happened,” Wooten told The Associated Press. “There’s no question in our mind what provoked all of this, that there was a disrespectful communication going on between Trent and an Eagle player. They were using the N-word along with all other type of profanity, and the Nword is what caused Roy to say, ’Hey, you need to be more respectful.”’

Wooten, 76, said Williams then directed the profanity at Ellison.

“There is no question in my mind that Trent said this to Roy, and I don’t question that,” said Wooten, who noted that he has not spoken to Ellison directly.

“And that’s what, with Incognito and all this stuff and the N-word and how it’s used in the locker room, that caused us to say, ’Hey, let’s put an end to this.”’

Wooten, who played nine seasons in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns and Redskins, said Ellison should have thrown a flag on Williams instead of escalating the exchange.

In announcing the suspension, the NFL said that “game officials are expected to avoid personal confrontations with players and be respectful of players and coaches at all times.”

Michael Arnold, NFLRA legal counsel, said Ellison is an accomplished 11-year veteran who is highly respected.

the windchill.

The adverse conditions sent the team indoors to warm up for a few minutes midway through practice.

Hamilton meanwhile took advantage of the indoor facilities at Moose Jaw’s Yara Centre, where Saskatchewan held practice Wednesday.

“I can’t use them words,” said linebacker Tyron Brackenridge, asked to describe Friday’s conditions. “I can’t even describe how cold it is.”

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Calgary 4 Florida 2 (SO) CALGARY — Sean Monahan scored the game-deciding goal in the sixth round of the shootout to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers on Friday.

Joe Colborne had a goal and an assist in regulation for his first multiplepoint game with the Flames (8-11-4) since being acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the off-season for a fourth round pick in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Sven Baertschi and Blair Jones also scored for the Flames, who have now collected points in three straight games going 2-0-1 in that span.

Playing in his sixth straight game in net for the Flames, Reto Berra stopped 23 shots to improve his record to 3-42 in his first NHL season. Berra also stopped Florida forward Nick Bjugstad in the sixth round of the shootout to preserve the victory after Monahan scored.

Tom Gilbert, Jimmy Hayes and Marcel Goc scored for the Panthers (6-13-5), who finished up their five-game road trip with a 2-2-1 record.

Veteran goalie Tim Thomas, who played in his eighth straight game for the Panthers, finished with 21 saves.

Neither team mustered a shot on net until 5:41 of the first period when Thomas easily stopped and smothered a point blast off the stick of Calgary defenceman Chris Butler.

Brian McGrattan had the best scoring chance of the opening period for the Flames when he one-timed a pass from Mikael Backlund that hit a de-

fenceman’s stick and deflected up and over the Florida net.

The Panthers took a 1-0 lead at 15:14 of the first on Gilbert’s first goal of the season. Bjugstad won the faceoff back to Gilbert, who let go a shot from the point through traffic that fooled Berra and found the back of the net.

Early in the second period, Berra stood his ground to make a shoulder save to turn aside a slap shot fired his way by Bjugstad.

At the nine-minute mark of the second period, Colborne scored his third of the season to pull the Flames even. Lance Bouma did a good job of forechecking to force Florida defenceman Mike Mottau to turn the puck over.

The puck bounced off of Calgary forward David Jones right to Colborne, who wired a perfect shot from the slot into the top corner over the outstretched glove of Thomas.

Baertschi then broke out of a 15-game goal-less drought when he scored a power-play goal at 12:04 of the second to put the Flames up 2-1. Thomas gave up a big rebound of a point shot by T.J. Brodie that was tipped by Colborne and the puck bounced right to Baertschi, who swatted it into the back of the net.

Jones gave Calgary a 3-1 lead at 5:40 of the third when he converted a feed from Bouma for his first goal in his first game of the season with the Flames.

Just 82 seconds later, Hayes took advantage of a turnover by Berra to score his first of the season to pull the Panthers within a goal. Berra ventured out of his net in an attempt to poke check the puck away from Florida for-

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today

● 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. ● Bantam football provincials: Tier 2 final — Calgary Bulldogs at Lacombe, 11:30 a.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park; Tier 3 final — Calgary Colts vs. Edmonton Millwoods, 2:30 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● 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.

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● 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.

Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with LHP Mike Zagurski on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Announced INF Scott Sizemore elected free agency.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Named Brandon Hyde bench coach, Gary Jones third base/infield coach, Bill Mueller hitting coach, Mike Brumley assistant hitting coach and Jose Csatro quality assurance coach. Promoted director of amateur scouting Jaron Madison to director of player development and national and regional crosschecker Matt Dorey to director of amateur scouting.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with RHP LaTroy Hawkins on a one-year contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Traded RHP Burke Badenhop to Boston for LHP Luis Ortega.

NEW YORK METS - Sent RHP Hansel Robles outright to Las Vegas (PCL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Traded 3B David Freese and RHP Fernando Salas to the L.A. Angels for OFs Peter Bourjos and Randal Grichuk.

American Association AMARILLO SOX — Signed LHP Brian Smith.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined New York coach Mike Woodson $25,000 for public criticism of officiating.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Washington CB E.J. Biggers $21,000, Chicago CB Zack Bowman and New England OT Marcus Cannon $15,750 and Tennessee LB Akeem Ayers $7,875 for their actions during last week’s games. Suspended umpire Roy Ellison one game for words directed at Washington OT Trent Williams during Sunday’s game.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed DT Tracy Robertson from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed WR Griff Whalen to the practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed WR Kyle Williams on injured reserve. Signed WR Chad Hall.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed DT Ricky Lumpkin to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Released DE Brandon Moore from the practice squad. Signed DE Damik Scafe to the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed CB Tramaine Brock to a four-year contract extension through 2017.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Released S Corey Lynch. Claimed DB Micah Pellerin off waivers from Dallas.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Elias Lindholm from Charlotte (AHL). Reassigned F Chris Terry to Charlotte.

DALLAS STARS — Traded F Lane MacDermid to Calgary for a 2014 sixth-round draft pick.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Brett Connolly to Syracuse (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed W Connor Brown to a three-year, entry-level contract.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Dmitry Orlov to Hershey (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Reassigned D Zach Redmond to St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Zach Bogosian on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 15. Activated D Mark Stuart.

American Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Signed W Matt Viola to an SPHL contract.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Traded F Philippe Cornet to Charlotte for F Adam Brace and assigned Brace to Cincinnati (ECHL).

Central Hockey League ARIZONA SUNDOGS — Signed G Chris Rawlings to a five-game contract.

ST. CHARLES CHILL — Signed F Andrew Conboy.

WICHITA THUNDER — Waived F Matt Kirzinger.

LACROSSE Major League Lacrosse COLORADO MAMMOTH — Named Dallas Eliuk goaltenders coach.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Exercised contract options on Gs Matt Lampson and Daniel Withrow; Ds Chad Barson, Eric Gehrig and Tyson Wahl; Ms Bernardo Anor, Ethan Finlay, Kevan George, Justin Meram, Shawn Sloan, Ben Speas and Tony Tchani; and Fs Ryan Finley and Aaron Schoenfeld. Declined contract options on Ds Drew Beckie, Glauber and Kyle Hyland; D/M Danny O’Rourke; M Konrad Warzycha; and F Jairo Arrieta.

Soccer ENGLISH FOOTBALL STANDINGS English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Arsenal 11 8 1 2 22 10 25 Liverpool 11 7 2 2 21 10 23 Southampton11 6 4 1 15 5 22 Chelsea 11 6 3 2 18 10 21 M. United 11 6 2 3 18 13 20 Everton 11 5 5 1 14 10 20 Tottenham 11 6 2 3 9 6 20 M. City 11 6 1 4 28 12 19 Newcastle 11 5 2 4 15 16 17 West Brom 11 3 5 3 12 12 14 Aston Villa 11 4 2 5 11 12 14 Hull City 11 4 2 5 9 14 14 Swansea 11 3 3 5 15 15 12 Cardiff City 11 3 3 5 9 15 12 Norwich 11 3 2 6 9 21 11 West Ham 11 2 4 5 9 11 10 Stoke 11 2 4 5 10 14 10 Fulham 11 3 1 7 10 19 10 Sunderland 11 2 1 8 8 22 7 Crystal Palace11 1 1 9 6 21 4 Today’s Games Everton vs. Liverpool, 1245 GMT Arsenal vs. Southampton, 1500 GMT Fulham vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Hull City vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. Norwich, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Chelsea, 1730 GMT Sunday’s Games Manchester City vs. Tottenham, 1330 GMT Cardiff City vs. Manchester United, 1600 GMT Monday’s Games West Brom vs. Aston Villa, 2000 GMT Saturday, Nov. 30 Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT Cardiff City vs. Arsenal, 1500 GMT Everton vs. Stoke, 1500 GMT Norwich vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Fulham, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. West Brom, 1730 GMT

B6

SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 2013

Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 28 15 10 0 3 99 81 Prince Albert 25 14 9 2 0 81 79 Regina 25 14 11 0 0 77 84 Brandon 26 13 12 1 0 90 97 Saskatoon 27 10 14 1 2 90 110 Moose Jaw 28 8 16 2 2 70 97 Central Division W L OTLSOL 16 6 3 0 13 6 1 3 14 11 2 0 14 9 0 1 11 12 0 2 3 19 2 2

GF GA 96 70 75 73 83 79 88 63 70 79 65 126

Pt 35 30 30 29 24 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 21 16 3 0 2 86 53 Victoria 26 15 10 0 1 63 63 Vancouver 26 10 11 4 1 78 92 Prince George 28 10 14 1 3 80 108 Kamloops 24 6 15 2 1 64 91

Pt 34 31 25 24 15

Medicine Hat Calgary Kootenay Edmonton Red Deer Lethbridge

Everett Portland Spokane Tri-City Seattle

GP 25 23 27 24 25 26

Pt 33 30 28 27 23 20

GP 26 24 24 26 24

U.S. Division W L OTLSOL 18 4 4 0 17 5 1 1 16 7 0 1 14 10 0 2 12 8 1 3

GF 88 118 94 74 81

GA 68 74 65 68 90

Pt 40 36 33 30 28

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

Friday’s results Moose Jaw 5 Prince Albert 1 Saskatoon 5 Lethbridge 2 Kootenay 7 Brandon 3 Prince George 8 Edmonton 3 Regina 4 Red Deer 3 (OT) Everett 4 Medicine Hat 3 Spokane at Portland Kelowna at Tri-City Kamloops at Victoria Seattle at Vancouver Today’s games Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Everett at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

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

Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

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

Sunday, Nov. 24-Thursday, Nov. 28 No Games Scheduled.

Friday, Nov. 29 Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 7 p.m.

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

Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Saskatoon at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Pats 4, Rebels 3 (SO) First Period 1. Red Deer, Musil 3 (Dixon, Johnson) 15:08 2. Red Deer, Volek 10 (Dieno, Bellerive) 16:58 Penalties — McCoy Reg (roughing, fighting), Dixon RD (roughing), Fafard RD (roughing, fighting) 6:20.

Second Period 3. Regina, Stephenson 9 (Stevenson) 1:58 4. Red Deer, Maxwell 6 (Dieno) 6:50

5. Regina, Maguire 5 (Gay, Sinitsyn) 8:17 6. Regina, Stevenson 13 (Gay, Stephenson) 12:02 (pp) Penalties — Stevenson Reg, Sutter RD (roughing) 5:56, Dixon RD (checking to the head) 11:01, Christoffer Reg (hooking) 13:12, Burroughs Reg (roughing) 13:46.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Mumby Reg (holding) 5:33, Dixon RD (tripping) 8:15.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout Regina wins 1-0 Regina (1) — Klimchuk miss, Leier goal. Red Deer (0) — Bellerive miss, Bleackley miss, Dieno miss.

Shots on goal by Regina 14 11 13 2 — 39 Red Deer 4 11 10 5 — 30 Goal — Regina: Macauley (W,14-7-0); Red Deer: Bartosak (SOL,10-9-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Regina: 1-3; Red Deer: 0-3.

Referees — Chris Crich, Fraser Lawrence. Linesmen — Cody Huseby, Michael Roberts.

Attendance — 4,650 at Red Deer, Alta.

Silvertips 4, Tigers 3 First Period 1. Everett, Pufahl 9 (Leedahl, Aasman) 1:22 2. Medicine Hat, Cox 6 (Lewington) 13:25 3. Everett, Winquist 19 (Stadnyk, Mueller) 18:32 Second Period 4. Everett, Winquist 20 (Hayer, Pufahl) 5:20 5. Everett, Sandhu 12 (Hayer, Winquist) 5:31 6. Medicine Hat, Valk 10 (Cox, Sanford) 18:36 7. Medicine Hat, Valk 11 (Bredo, Sanford) 19:12 Third Period No Scoring.

Shots on goal by Everett 13 9 10 — 32 Medicine Hat 11 10 5 — 26 Goal — Everett: Lotz (W,13-3-1); Medicine Hat: Wapple (L,8-3-1).

Cougars 8, Oil Kings 3 First Period 1. Prince George, Bourke 11 (Fiddler, McNulty) 6:47 2. Prince George, Witala 15 (Wilson, Tkatch) 7:22 Second Period 3. Prince George, Witala 16 (Tkatch, Wilson) 4:16 4. Prince George, Fiddler 8 (Forsberg, Bourke) 4:49 5. Prince George, Fiddler 9 (Bourke) 6:10 (sh) 6. Edmonton, Pollock 8 (Irving, Samuelsson) 7:14 (pp) 7. Prince George, Bourke 12 (Fiddler) 8:39 (sh) 8. Prince George, Wilson 6 (Tkatch) 15:03 Third Period 9. Edmonton, Irving 5 (Kulda, Petryk) 1:32 10. Prince George, Fiddler 10, 9:04 (pp) 11. Edmonton, Moroz 16 (Samuelsson, Sautner) 19:07 Shots on goal by Prince George 12 14 8 — 34 Edmonton 15 11 16 — 42 Goal (shots-saves) — Prince George: Zarowny (W,3-8-2); Edmonton: Santos (L,1-2-0)(17-11); Dea (8:39 second, 17-15).

Ice 7, Wheat Kings 3 First Period 1. Kootenay, Zborosky 4 (Alfaro, Peel) 8:04 2. Kootenay, Martin 6 (McPhee, Chynoweth) 18:18 Second Period 3. Kootenay, Reinhart 11 (Descheneau, Bozon) 5:03 4. Kootenay, Reinhart 12 (Descheneau, Murray) 9:25 5. Kootenay, Cable 5 (Zborosky) 9:59 6. Brandon, Quenneville 4 (McGauley, Nejezchleb) 13:22 7. Brandon, Pilon 4 (Bukarts, Hunter) 16:14 (pp) Third Period 8. Brandon, Lindgren 5 (Hawryluk, Quenneville) 5:07 9. Kootenay, Cable 6 (Vetterl, Philp) 10:37 10. Kootenay, Reinhart 13, 13:41 (sh)

Shots on goal by Brandon 7 10 14 — 31 Kootenay 13 7 8 — 28 Goal (shots-saves) — Brandon: Papirny (L,7-6-1) (18-13), Tai (10:25 second, 10-8); Kootenay: Hoflin (W,7-6-0).

Blades 5, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Wong 10 (Sheen, Topping) 12:46 Second Period 2. Saskatoon, Sherbak 15, 0:42 3. Saskatoon, Zajac 5 (Sherbak, Hebig) 4:15 (pp) 4. Saskatoon, Stovin 7 (Valcourt, Burns) 19:59 (pp) Third Period 5. Lethbridge, Wong 11 (Walters, Sayers) 5:02 (pp) 6. Saskatoon, Sherbak 16 (Zajac, Craig) 8:38 7. Saskatoon, Valcourt 12, 18:58 (en) Shots on goal by Lethbridge 11 14 16 — 41 Saskatoon 14 17 11 — 42 Goal — Lethbridge: Boes (L,2-16-4); Saskatoon: Moodie (W,7-9-2).

Warriors 5, Raiders 1 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, White 7 (Forsberg, Chirva) 3:36 2. Moose Jaw, White 8 (Brown, Chirva) 4:07 3. Moose Jaw, Brown 9 (Point, Forsberg) 11:05 (pp) 4. Moose Jaw, Benoit 4 (Uhrich, Eberle) 13:15 5. Moose Jaw, Benoit 5 (Uhrich) 19:00 Second Period 6. Prince Albert, Gardiner 10 (Winther) 14:12 (pp) Third Period No Scoring.

Shots on goal by Prince Albert 6 16 13 — 35 Moose Jaw 17 5 7 — 29 Goal (shots-saves) — Prince Albert: Cheveldave (L,11-7-2)(13-10), McBride (11:05 first, 16-14); Moose Jaw: Paulic (W,4-13-4).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 22 14 6 2 30 61 Tampa Bay 23 14 8 1 29 67 Toronto 22 13 8 1 27 64 Detroit 23 10 6 7 27 58 Montreal 23 12 9 2 26 61 Ottawa 22 8 10 4 20 63 Florida 24 6 13 5 17 53 Buffalo 24 5 18 1 11 43 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 23 15 8 0 30 67 Washington 23 12 10 1 25 71 New Jersey 22 9 8 5 23 48 N.Y. Rangers 22 11 11 0 22 46 Philadelphia 21 9 10 2 20 44 Carolina 22 8 10 4 20 43 Columbus 23 8 12 3 19 56 N.Y. Islanders 23 8 12 3 19 66 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 23 15 4 4 34 85 St. Louis 21 15 3 3 33 73 Colorado 21 16 5 0 32 68 Minnesota 23 14 5 4 32 61 Dallas 21 11 8 2 24 60 Nashville 22 11 9 2 24 52 Winnipeg 24 10 11 3 23 64 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 25 16 6 3 35 76 San Jose 22 14 3 5 33 77 Phoenix 22 14 4 4 32 76 Los Angeles 23 15 6 2 32 64 Vancouver 24 12 8 4 28 64 Calgary 23 8 11 4 20 64 Edmonton 24 7 15 2 16 64

GA 41 61 53 65 49 71 80 76 GA 51 66 53 54 51 63 71 77 GA 69 49 45 53 59 65 72 GA 63 51 70 50 63 84 84

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

Friday’s Games Calgary 4, Florida 3, SO

Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Montreal 3, Washington 2 Vancouver 6, Columbus 2 Anaheim 1, Tampa Bay 0, OT Today’s Games Carolina at Boston, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 5 p.m.

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

N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

New Jersey at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Ottawa at Carolina, 3 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Flames 4, Panthers 3 (SO) First Period 1. Florida, Gilbert 1 (Bjugstad) 15:14 Second Period 2. Calgary, Colborne 3 (Jones) 9:00 3. Calgary, Baertschi 2 (Colborne, Brodie) 12:04 (pp) Third Period 4. Calgary, Jones 1 (Bouma, Backlund) 5:40 5. Florida, Hayes 1, 7:02 6. Florida, Goc 6 (Bergenheim, Gomez) 14:01 Overtime No Scoring.

Shootout Calgary wins 3-2 Florida (2) — Huberdeau, miss; Barkov, miss; Boyes, goal; Fleischmann, goal; Bjugstad, miss; Hayes, miss. Calgary (3) — Colborne, miss; Hudler, goal; Jones, miss; Cammalleri, goal; Stempniak, miss; Monahan, goal.

Goal — Florida: Thomas (SOL,5-7-1); Calgary: Berra (W,3-4-2).

Canadiens 3, Capitals 2 First Period 1. Montreal, Moen 1 (Bournival, White) 8:53 2. Montreal, Desharnais 1 (Gorges, Markov) 11:53 3. Montreal, Briere 4 (Gorges, Emelin) 13:40 (pp) 4. Washington, Ovechkin 18 (Carlson, Brouwer) 19:37 (pp) Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 5. Washington, Ovechkin 19 (Carlson, Grabovski) 12:27 Goal — Montreal: Budaj (W,4-1-0); Washington: Neuvirth (L,2-3-1).

Penguins 4, Islanders 3 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 10 (Crosby, Malkin) 4:04 (pp) 2. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 11 (Neal, Martin) 7:55 (pp) Second Period 3. N.Y. Islanders, Vanek 6 (Okposo, Martinek) 1:46 4. Pittsburgh, Malkin 4 (Neal, Jokinen) 6:25 5. N.Y. Islanders, McDonald 2 (Cizikas) 11:33 6. N.Y. Islanders, Vanek 7 (Okposo, Tavares) 12:54 Third Period 7. Pittsburgh, Crosby 12 (Dupuis, Kunitz) 18:44 Goal — N.Y. Islanders: Poulin (L,3-7-0); Pittsburgh: Zatkoff (W,2-2-0).

Canucks 6, Blue Jackets 2 First Period 1. Columbus, Calvert 1 (Chaput) 2:47 2. Vancouver, Sedin 8 (Edler) 19:44 Second Period 3. Vancouver, Kassian 5 (Richardson, Stanton) 12:05 4. Vancouver, Sedin 5 (Sedin, Kesler) 13:59 5. Vancouver, Edler 3 (Higgins, Santorelli) 14:15 Third Period 6. Vancouver, Sedin 6 (Sedin, Stanton) 9:05 7. Columbus, Anisimov 6 (Nikitin, Savard) 16:58 8. Vancouver, Welsh 1 (Stanton, Weise) 19:31 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (L,7-10-2); Vancouver: Luongo (W,10-6-4).

Football Baltimore Cleveland West

CFL Playoffs Sunday, Nov. 24 101st Grey Cup At Regina Hamilton vs. Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

NFL 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 Indianapolis 7 3 0 .700 252 Tennessee 4 6 0 .400 227 Houston 2 8 0 .200 193 Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 129 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 7 4 0 .636 275 Pittsburgh 4 6 0 .400 216

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego PA 199 268 225 273 PA 220 226 276 318 PA 206 245

4 4

6 6

0 0

.400 .400

208 192

212 238

W 9 9 4 4

L 1 1 6 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .900 .900 .400 .400

PF 398 232 194 228

PA 255 138 246 222

PF 276 274 192 246

PA 260 258 256 311

PF 305 238 187 227

PA 196 135 237 309

PF

PA

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 7 0 .300 South W L T Pct New Orleans 9 2 0 .800 Carolina 7 3 0 .700 Tampa Bay 2 8 0 .200 Atlanta 2 9 0 .200 North W L T Pct

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

6 6 5 2

4 0 4 0 5 0 8 0 West L T 1 0 4 0 4 0 6 0

W Seattle 10 San Francisco 6 Arizona 6 St. Louis 4

.600 .600 .500 .200

265 282 258 240

253 267 239 320

Pct .909 .600 .600 .400

PF 306 247 214 224

PA 179 178 212 234

Sunday’s Games Minnesota at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Miami, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Indianapolis at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Seattle Monday’s Games San Francisco at Washington, 6:40 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by BETONLINE.ag.; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday CAROLINA at Miami 4.5 41 Chicago at St. Louis Pick 45.5 NY Jets at BALTIMORE 4 40 Jacksonville at HOUSTON 10 43 Minnesota at GREEN BAY 5 44.5 Pittsburgh at CLEVELAND 1 41.5 Tampa Bay at DETROIT 9.5 48.5 San Diego at KANSAS CITY 5 41.5 Tennessee at OAKLAND 1 41.5 Indianapolis at ARIZONA 1 45 Dallas at NY GIANTS 2.5 46.5 DENVER at New England 2.5 56 Monday SAN FRANCISCO at Washington 5 47.5

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Milwaukee

2 9 .182 8.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE

Utah

1

13 .071

11

Philadelphia at Indiana, 5 p.m.

New York at Washington, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Brooklyn, 12 p.m.

Chicago at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

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

d-division leader d-Indiana d-Miami Atlanta d-Toronto Chicago Charlotte Philadelphia Orlando Detroit Washington Cleveland Boston New York Brooklyn

W 11 9 8 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 3 3

L 1 3 5 7 5 7 8 7 8 8 9 10 8 9

Pct .917 .750 .615 .462 .545 .462 .429 .364 .333 .333 .308 .286 .273 .250

GB — 2 3.5 5.5 4.5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7 7.5 8 7.5 8

d-San Antonio d-Portland Oklahoma City d-Golden State Dallas L.A. Clippers Houston Minnesota Memphis Phoenix New Orleans Denver L.A. Lakers Sacramento

W 11 11 8 8 9 8 8 8 7 6 6 5 5 4

L 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 7

Pct .917 .846 .727 .667 .692 .615 .615 .571 .538 .500 .500 .455 .417 .364

GB — 0.5 2.5 3 2.5 3.5 3.5 4 4.5 5 5 5.5 6 6.5

Friday’s Games Philadelphia 115, Milwaukee 107, OT Phoenix 98, Charlotte 91 Toronto 96, Washington 88 Indiana 97, Boston 82 Atlanta 96, Detroit 89 Minnesota 111, Brooklyn 81 San Antonio 102, Memphis 86 New Orleans 104, Cleveland 100 Dallas 103, Utah 93 Portland 98, Chicago 95 Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 830 p.m.

Today’s Games Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Curling CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP OTTAWA — Final Standings and results Friday after from the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship (Nov. 16-23 at the Rideau Curling Club; all times Eastern): Province (Skip) W L x-Alberta (Moulding) 9 2 y-Saskatchewan (Meachem) 9 2 t-Ontario (Heggestad) 8 3 t-New Brunswick (Robichaud) 8 3 Quebec (Fournier) 7 4 Nova Scotia (Harris) 6 5 Manitoba (Grassie) 5 6 P.E.I. (MacDonald) 5 6

Northern Ont. (Robert) NWT (Moss) B.C. (Switzer) N.L. (Oke)

4 2 2 1

7 9 9 10

x — clinched berth in final; y — clinched berth in semifinal; t — played tiebreaker.

Friday’s results Draw 17 Manitoba 11 Nova Scotia 5 Ontario 7 Northwest Territories 4 Saskatchewan 9 Northern Ontario 2 New Brunswick 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 3 End of round robin

Ontario 7 P.E.I. 6 (extra end) Manitoba 10 B.C. 3 New Brunswick 9 Alberta 4 Saskatchewan 7 Quebec 5 Draw 16 Alberta 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 5 Nova Scotia 7 Quebec 6 P.E.I. 9 Northwest Territories 5 Northern Ontario 7 B.C. 5

Tiebreaker Ontario 9 New Brunswick 8 PLAYOFFS Semifinal Saskatchewan vs. Ontario, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s results Draw 14 Northwest Territories 7 Northern Ontario 5 Saskatchewan 5 New Brunswick 3 Nova Scotia 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 2 Ontario 10 Manitoba 2 Draw 15

Today’s game Final Alberta vs. Saskatchewan-Ontario winner, 12 p.m.

Golf CME GROUP TITLEHOLDERS At Ritz Carlton Golf Resort (Tiburon Golf Club) Naples, Fla. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,540; Par: 72 Second Round Sandra Gal Sun Young Yoo Gerina Piller Pornanong Phatlum Cristie Kerr Morgan Pressel Hee Young Park Anna Nordqvist Azahara Munoz Jennifer Johnson Natalie Gulbis Inbee Park Shanshan Feng Lexi Thompson Amy Yang Chella Choi So Yeon Ryu Meena Lee Mo Martin Ayako Uehara Sandra Changkija Rebecca Lee-Bentham Michelle Wie Lydia Ko Moriya Jutanugarn Angela Stanford Lizette Salas Catriona Matthew Mika Miyazato Karrie Webb Karine Icher Juli Inkster Suzann Pettersen Stacy Lewis Brittany Lang Jenny Shin Jodi Ewart Shadoff Na Yeon Choi

64-69 68-68 71-67 70-68 69-69 71-68 69-70 66-73 72-68 71-69 70-70 68-72 66-74 66-74 73-68 71-70 70-71 69-72 69-72 69-72 67-74 65-76 72-70 71-71 70-72 74-69 71-72 70-73 70-73 70-73 69-74 69-74 72-72 71-73 68-76 73-72 72-73 71-74

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

133 136 138 138 138 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 145 145 145

Candie Kung Stacy Prammanasudh Cindy LaCrosse Jane Park Jessica Korda I.K. Kim Ilhee Lee Hee Kyung Seo Alison Walshe Irene Cho Mi Jung Hur Carlota Ciganda Pernilla Lindberg Ai Miyazato Brittany Lincicome Hee-Won Han Caroline Hedwall Beatriz Recari Dewi Claire Schreefel Jeong Jang Eun-Hee Ji Paula Creamer Chie Arimura Katherine Hull-Kirk Hanna Kang Paola Moreno Caroline Masson Brooke Pancake Jacqui Concolino Austin Ernst Mindy Kim

71-74 71-74 69-76 68-77 74-72 72-74 69-77 74-73 74-73 73-74 73-74 72-75 72-75 69-78 68-79 75-73 74-74 72-77 68-81 77-73 75-75 74-76 73-77 73-78 74-78 74-78 77-76 72-81 81-73 73-82 76-81

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145 145 145 145 146 146 146 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 148 148 149 149 150 150 150 150 151 152 152 153 153 154 155 157

ISPS HANDA WORLD CUP At Royal Melbourne Golf Club (Composite Course) Melbourne, Australia Purse: $7 million (Individual); $1 million (Team) Yardage: 7,024; Par: 71 Second Round Team United States Denmark

137-137 137-140

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274 277

Australia Japan Portugal Scotland Canada France Thailand Brazil England Philippines South Africa Finland Germany South Korea Ireland Sweden Italy Spain Chile Argentina China Netherlands New Zealand India Individual

143-138 143-138 140-142 141-143 141-144 145-140 143-142 144-143 144-143 144-143 147-141 142-147 144-145 141-148 147-143 148-143 151-141 148-144 149-144 149-146 152-145 150-147 154-144 154-147

Thomas Bjorn, Denmark 66-68 Kevin Streelman, United States66-69 Ricardo Santos, Portugal 69-69 Jason Day, Australia 68-70 Stuart Manley, Wales 67-72 Hideto Tanihara, Japan 72-67 Martin Laird, Scotland 67-72 Matt Kuchar, United States71-68 Oscar Fraustro, Mexico 74-67 Tony Lascuna, Philippines 70-71 Gregory Bourdy, France 72-69 K.J. Choi, South Korea 67-74 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand71-70 David Hearn, Canada 70-71 Anirban Lahiri, India 72-70 Danny Willett, England 69-73 Vijay Singh, Fiji 73-69 Ryo Ishikawa, Japan 71-71 Francesco Molinari, Italy 75-67

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281 281 282 284 285 285 285 287 287 287 288 289 289 289 290 291 292 292 293 295 297 297 298 301

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134 135 138 138 139 139 139 139 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142

Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain73-69 — Adilson da Silva, Brazil 72-71 — Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 71-72 — Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark71-72 — Graeme McDowell, Ireland72-71 — Branden Grace, South Africa73-70 — Peter Hanson, Sweden 72-71 — Adam Scott, Australia 75-68 — Alexandre Rocha, Brazil 72-72 — Roope Kakko, Finland 72-72 — Brad Fritsch, Canada 71-73 — Jose-Filipe Lima, Portugal 71-73 — Prayad Marksaeng, Thailand72-72 — Victor Dubuisson, France 73-71 — Maximilian Kieffer, Germany73-71 — Mikko Korhonen, Finland 70-75 — George Coetzee, South Africa74-71 — Stephen Gallacher, Scotland74-71 — Chris Wood, England 75-70 — Marcel Siem, Germany 71-74 — Mark Tullo, Chile 74-72 — Angelo Que, Philippines 74-72 — Wu Ashun, China 77-69 — Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium70-76 — Brendon de Jonge, Zimbabwe74-72 — Fabian Gomez, Argentina 72-75 — Espen Kofstad, Norway 72-75 — Felipe Aguilar, Chile 75-72 — Shane Lowry, Ireland 75-72 — Siddikur Rahman, Bangladesh73-75 — Tim Sluiter, Netherlands 76-72 — Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 77-71 — Bae Sang-moon, South Korea74-74 — Jonas Blixt, Sweden 76-72 — Mike Hendry, New Zealand75-73 — Robert-Jan Derksen, Netherlands 74-75 149 Rafael Cabrera Bello, Spain75-75 — Matteo Manassero, Italy 76-74 — Tim Wilkinson, New Zealand79-71 — Liang Wenchong, China 75-76 — Gaganjeet Bhullar, India 82-77 —

142 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 145 145 145 145 145 146 146 146 146 146 147 147 147 147 148 148 148 148 148 148 — 150 150 150 151 159

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 B7

101ST GREY CUP

Cohon says league must remain prudent with new TV deal REGINA — These are heady times for the CFL. It has a new contract extension with Reebok, one of its teams (Winnipeg) moved into a new stadium this year with another (Hamilton) scheduled to do so in 2014, the same time expansion Ottawa will return and play at a refurbished facility Lansdowne Park.

And revenues will increase dramatically next season when a new television agreement kicks in.

But with the CFL’s collective bargaining agreement set to expire prior to the start of training camp, commissioner Mark Cohon preached the importance of financial responsibility Friday at his annual state of the league address.

“Clearly our future is bright and I’m confident about it,” Cohon said. “We can continue to grow and build that modern and innovative CFL but only if we resist that temptation of going back to the old, reckless financial ways of the CFL.” In March, the CFL and TSN agreed to a five-year broadcast agreement reportedly worth $43 million annually, more than 2 ½ times the existing deal which expires at season’s end. The financial boost will mean increased payments from the league to its teams.

But money will undoubtedly be a hot-button topic when the CFL talks turkey with the CFL Players’ Association, which will want the league’s $4.4 million salary cap to increase significantly. Past negotiations have traditionally been amicable but could heat up when it comes to dividing up the financial pie this time around.

“We have a great amount of respect between our two organizations,” Cohon said. “We have a good working relationship, we’re very transparent in terms of them understanding our businesses, our challenges, the opportunities.

“We’ll negotiate a fair and reasonable deal that is in the best interests of our teams, players and fans . . . We must remain prudent and smart about our business.”

In the late 1990s, the CFL nearly folded and endured several lean years despite signing a then-record $15.6-million, three-year TV deal with Carling O’Keefe (1981-’83).

Cohon said despite the CFL’s growth, challenges remain. They include: continuing to put the Toronto Argonauts on sound financial footing; Winnipeg servicing a long-term debt; the Saskatchewan Roughriders investing $50 million into a new facility slated to open in ’17; and expansion Ottawa managing a long-term investment at Lansdowne Park.

“The league must invest in new technologies to make sure we’re talking to our fans wherever they may be,” Cohon said. “These are some of the examples and challenges we have as we grow.”

Ottawa will take a significant step towards stockpiling its roster with the CFL expansion draft Dec. 16. The existing eight teams will be forced to protect a certain number of players, with the Redblacks then allowed to pick from those left unprotected.

However, fans won’t know which players are and aren’t protected because teams won’t have to divulge that information. That’s drawn the media ire and Cohon explained the decision Friday.

“We need to protect that relationship between the players and coaches,” Cohon said. “My job is to protect the integrity of the game . . . I’m agreeing with the wishes of our coaches and players on that front.”

CFL GMs will also face having to make key decisions in February about free agents without a clear indication regarding what the salary cap will be because a new collective bargaining agreement won’t likely be signed until June.

“That’s why they’re smart coaches and good business people,” Cohon said. “(It’s) part of the challenge of this timing with the CBA.” Highlights of Cohon’s presentation included: — Ratings this year on TSN were up 4.3 per cent from last year and 3.6 per cent on TSN and RDS combined.

— Corporate sponsorship is at the second-highest level ever, exceeded only by last year when the CFL celebrated its 100th Grey Cup celebration.

— League merchandise is up seven per cent overall.

— With Hamilton playing its home games at 13,000-seat Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ont., CFL attendance dipped four per cent to an average of 27,017. Excluding the Ticats’ home figures, overall attendance increased 1.5 per cent to an average of 28,963.

— The CFL is contemplating having Ottawa and Hamilton open ’14 on the road to give both extra time to ensure their stadiums are ready to go.

One suggestion for boosting attendance has been for the CFL to kick off its season a few weeks earlier in June although that could put the league in direct competition with the NHL during the Stanley Cup playoffs.

“Our biggest revenue for teams comes through people in the stands,” Cohon said. “We’re open to exploring it if it makes sense on the business front.

“It’s all down to a business case for us.”

Southern Ontario continues to be a focal point for the CFL, although there’s optimism with the Ticats seeing as they’re moving into a new stadium.

Earlier this year, it was announced the Argos will leave Rogers Centre following the 2017 season, putting the franchise on the clock to find a new venue.

Tim Leiweke, the president of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, has said the Argos “are part of the conversation” about sharing a revamped BMO Field with Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC. While a move to BMO would seem to make the most logical sense, Sen. David Braley, who owns the CFL franchise, says several municipalities are interested in building a stadium for his team to play in.

“The Argos have a great opportunity ahead of them,” Cohon said. “That solid deadline is allowing David Braley, and with the support of the league, to have smart conversations with the city and with municipalities about the future of the Argos.

“I do believe we will find a home for the Argos in the coming years.”

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Members of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats stretch during an indoor practice Friday in Moose Jaw. The Tiger-Cats will face the Saskatchewan Roughriders Sunday in the 101st CFL Grey Cup.

Ticats keeping close eye on weather

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Kent Austin is no different than the 44,000-plus fans headed to Mosaic Stadium for the Grey Cup on Sunday. He’ll be checking the Weather Network before he goes.

“I might do that a few times a day,” the Hamilton coach said with a chuckle. “Yeah, I do. That’s the honest answer. Of course I do.

“You have to prepare, right? And if it’s going to be wet or it’s going to be high gusts or whatever, we want to be prepared for that. We don’t want to just show up and go ’Gee, it’s 60 klicks in our face. What are we going to do?’

We have to have a plan. That’s part of our job.”

After two very chilly practices outdoors in Regina, the Tiger-Cats opted to bus 70 kilometres west to Moose Jaw to train indoors Friday at the YaraCentre.

Back in the Saskatchewan capital, the mercury plummeted to -25 C — which felt like -34 with the wind chill.

It should be warmer come game-day Sunday. The forecast calls for a daytime high of -1, feeling like -6.

Kickoff at Mosaic Stadium is 5:30 p.m. local time, with an expected temperature of -2 or -3.

Some Tiger-Cats looked uncomfortable in the frigid conditions at the stadium Wednesday — Thursday’s session there was closed — but the team seems to have since made a point of downplaying the weather.

Austin said the two practices at the Mosaic Stadium had served their purpose, with players told to gauge what kind of clothing they needed.

“I said earlier in the week that you have to use the first couple of practices to determine your gear,” he said.

Gay dominant in fourth quarter

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Grizzlys down Bobcats

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rudy Gay skipped shootaround Friday morning, choosing to stay in bed in hopes of beating the flu bug.

But by the time the game started, the Toronto Raptors forward felt even worse.

And, for three quarters, it showed as Gay shot a woeful three-for-13 from the field. However, he had 11 points in the final 12 minutes of play as Toronto used a dominant fourth quarter to defeat the Washington Wizards 96-88 to remain in first place in the Atlantic Division.

Toronto trailed Washington 70-66 heading into the final quarter, but Gay hit all three field goal attempts in the fourth and added five free throws to lead the Raptors to victory.

“There was no stopping me. I was going to play,” said Gay. “I was out of breath and the sort of things that happen when you’re sick but I had to push through it for my team.

“In the fourth quarter, I just let it come to me and it got a lot easier.”

Gay’s 11-point fourth quarter gave him 17 for the night, tied for team high with DeMar DeRozan, as Toronto (6-7) won for the second straight time to stay atop the NBA’s Atlantic Division.

“He struggled a little bit early but when it was down the stretch, he came through for us,” head coach Dwane Casey said of Gay, who was booed in the third quarter by the 18,671 in attendance for his poor shooting performance and a couple of turnovers. “He was a little weak from the flu but he gutted it out.

“He could have easily mailed it in or checked out but he fought through it and gave us 17 big points.”

Toronto scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter to wrest the lead back from Washington. The Raptors outscored the Wizards 21-9 over the opening 7:34 of the final period and 30-18 overall.

It was a dramatic turnaround from the third quarter when the Wizards (4-8) outscored Toronto 32-15, turning a 13-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead going into the final quarter.

Washington point guard John Wall, who had a game-high 37 points, scored 18 in the quarter.

“Teams are going to go on runs,” said Toronto forward Tyler Hansbrough, who had eight points and six rebounds off the bench.

“As we continue to grow, we can’t have lapses where it carries over and have a hangover until the

“Some of the mistakes that I’ve seen in the past with players, especially the skill guys, is they either over-dress or they under-dress. You have to find the right balance. And you need to use your practice to do that ... Same thing with your footing. You have to try different shoes and different cleats to get your footing proper.

“That’s the reason why you practise.

It’s no different than running plays — it’s to get yourself prepared in every area as a football player to play at your best come game time.”

Linebacker Jamall Johnson says the Ticats will be out on the field “sleeveless and doing our thing.”

“Once you get out on the field and you start playing, you get your adrenalin going, nothing else matters,” he said.

“The cold, you black that out and block it out. And all those outside factors that you can’t control you don’t want to worry about it.

“We’re going to go out and do our thing no matter what the weather.”

Fellow linebacker Simoni Lawrence was downplaying the cold.

“Ice melts off of us,” he joked.

Unlike his coach, Hamilton kicker Luca Congi won’t be consulting the Weather Network. He says it often doesn’t reflect the stadium conditions, which can change depending on location and design.

“Mosaic, it depends on the day, it depends on the time of the game,” said Congi, no stranger to Regina conditions after five seasons as a Roughrider.

“Winds can be worse than anywhere else in the country. Or it can be pretty calm. It just depends on the day.

“Either way, you make your reads of the wind on that given day and keep focusing on your fundamentals and your technique.”

OLDS — Dustin Gorgi scored at 15:30 of the third period to give the Olds Grizzlys a 3-2 win over the Lloydminster Bobcats in an AJHL game viewed by 450 fans Friday at the Sportsplex.

The Grizzlys led 1-0 after one period on a goal

by Austin Kernahan and Chris Gerrie made it 2-0 midway through the final frame. Tanner Dunkle and Taylor Mulder replied for the visitors three minutes apart, setting the stage for Gorgi’s winner.

Netminder Ethan Jemieff stood tall for Olds with a 37-save performance. Sean Kuehn stopped 18 shots for Lloydminster.

The Grizzlys host the Spruce Grove Saints tonight at 8 p.m.

Bulldog Scrap metal scrapes 4 point win together Bulldog Scrap Metal got 20 points form Daniel Bobik and 18 from Devin Bennett in a 74-70 win over Triple Threat in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Thursday.

Brandon Wetmore had 13 points and Ian Abbs 12 for Triple Threat.

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Toronto Raptors’ Amir Johnston hangs from the hoop after dunking against Washington Wizards during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Friday. fourth quarter.

“We’ve got to keep on moving and that’s what happened.”

The Raptors, who shot 47 per cent from the field on the night, featured a balanced attack, with six players finishing with double figures in points. Jonas Valanciunas had 11 points and 13 rebounds.

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It is strongly recommended that you always use the buddy system and never snowmobile alone.

Getting Unstuck Getting stuck in deep snow can be a common occurrence for avid snowmobilers and is not normally an emergency — but could be if you’re riding alone or overexert yourself while trying to get your snowmobile unstuck.

You may be able to prevent getting your snowmobile stuck by learning how to read the type of snow you’re riding on. Your heavy snowmobile can easily sink if the snow is loose, light, or deep powder. Keep your engine RPM’s and power high enough in these snow conditions to maintain momentum, but don’t overpower the machine to cause the snowmobile’s track to spin out and result in your getting stuck. It can sometimes be more effective in loose snow to lightly ‘feather’ the throttle rather than trying to overpower with

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Former mayor Morris Flewwelling spoke about the growth of the Red Deer and District Community Foundation.

Celebrating National Philanthropy Day Photos contributed This month, the Red Deer and District Community Foundation marks the 24th year of National Philanthropy Day on Nov. 14, an event aimed at strengthening the quality of life in Red Deer and Central Alberta as a whole. The foundation celebrated National Philanthropy Day by having a wills and estates workshop at Red Deer College City Centre Stage.

David Brant, from Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass, Barristers and Solicitors, spoke about the

legal aspect of creating a wills and succession plan.

The donor appreciation evening was held at the Snell Auditorium in the Red Deer Public Library, where former mayor Morris Flewwelling spoke about the genesis and growth of the foundation and his wife Hazel spoke about the importance of the annual Women of Excellence event and the recognition of women who serve as mentors in the community.

Doug Anderson, president of Peavey Industries, and his wife Erin and children, spoke about the impor-

Doug Anderson, president of Peavey Industries, and his wife Erin and children, spoke about the importance of the foundation and family philanthropy.

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tance of the foundation and family philanthropy.

Some grant recipients also talked about the impact of the grants they’ve received, including Butt-Ugly AntiTobacco Society, Alberta Easter Seals from Edmonton, Waskasoo Environmental Education Society and Safe Harbor Society for Health and Housing.

National Philanthropy Day is held every year on Nov. 15 to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that have bettered their communities’ quality of life.

Foundation chief executive officer Kristine Bugayong emcees the Nov. 14 event.

David Brant, from Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass, Todd Nivens, program director Barristers and Solicitors, spoke about the legal aspect of creating a for the Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, speaks. wills and succession plan.

Hazel Flewwelling spoke about the importance of the annual Women of Excellence event and the recognition of women who serve as mentors in the community.

LOCAL HOME

FRONT CHRISTMAS TREE PERMITS Those looking to spruce up their homes with the smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree can buy permits from the province. For $5.25 plus GST, you can buy a permit to cut down up to three Christmas trees.

Permits are available through several Central Alberta private retailers, including UFA Farm and Ranch Supply Store, in the Burnt Lake Industrial Park; Wolverine Guns and Tackle, in Gasoline Alley; Sportsman’s Den, 7667 50th Ave.; Caroline Supplies; Race Trac Gas in Nordegg; Canadian Tire in Rocky Mountain House,; Pudgee’s Food and Gas in Rocky Mountain House, and Rolf’s Groceries.

Trees on Crown land may be cut, however they should not be removed from areas near ranger stations, viewpoints and turnouts; Jumping Pond Demonstration Forest Area; recently reclaimed sites and recreation areas, campgrounds, provincial parks, natural areas or private land. Maps of where to cut trees and information can be found at www.srd.alberta.ca.

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Man jailed for grow-op ROCKY MAN GETS 27 MONTHS FOR MARIJUANA PLANTATION

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A Rocky Mountain House man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for trying to supplement his income by growing marijuana.

Daniel Richard Dejong, 34, was arrested at his acreage in Clearwater County on Feb. 8, 2012, after calling RCMP to help resolve a domestic dispute.

Represented by Red Deer lawyer Will Willms, Dejong pleaded guilty on June 3 to a single charge of producing drugs in what Justice Dennis Thomas termed a “major grow

operation” during sentencing in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Friday.

Crown prosecutor John Lee said police responding to Dejong’s call were advised by another man who lived on the property that he was growing pot in one of the outbuildings.

Investigators could smell the odour of fresh marijuana coming from a vent, said Lee. Inside, they found 959 plants in various stages of production, as well as a number of plants that had been harvested and were hung to dry.

Police estimate the operation was capable of generating an annual income of $1 million,

said Lee. Willms said his client, along with his wife and children, came from Ontario to seek economic opportunities in Alberta and that Dejong was successfully operating a plumbing business in Rocky.

The grow-op was established in an effort to relieve financial pressures, said Willms.

He described Dejong as well educated and highly capable of being a contributing member of society.

Invited to address the court, Dejong sniffled as he described his remorse.

“There’s a lot of people that have been negatively impact-

Snow clearing expands

DUCK RESCUED

SKI FILMS AT SCOTT BLOCK For two nights, the Scott Block Theatre will show this year’s best ski and snowboard films as part of the second annual Pursuit Ski and Snowboard Film Festival. On Nov. 28 and 29 at the downtown theatre, at 4816 50th Ave., the films will air with doors opening at 6 p.m. and the movies starting at 7. All proceeds go towards the Mountain Access Program, which will help send deserving people out for a day of skiing or snowboarding in the mountains this winter.

Tickets cost $15 for one night or $25 for both. They can be purchased online at www.pursuitfilmfest.ca, at the Pursuit Adventure Centre at 4738 Ross St., or at the door.

RINGETTE CELEBRATION After 50 years of ringette in Canada, the local sports group has a lot to celebrate. On Dec. 14, at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School, at 321 Lindsay Ave., you can celebrate the sport with Red Deer Ringette from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For the donation of a toy or item to the food bank, you can enjoy the alumni game, outdoor ringette games, beef on a bun and other games. For more information, contact Gail Taylor at gail.taylor@ rdcrs.ca.

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ed in the wake of the choices I have made,” he said.

Thomas said the remorse and guilty plea were factors in sentencing, as was Dejong’s record, albeit dated, of previous drug convictions.

Noting that Dejong spent three months in jail after his arrest, Thomas sentenced him to an additional 27 months. He accepted Willms’ request and recommended that the time be served at Bowden so Dejong can be close to his business and children. He is also prohibited from having firearms for the rest of his life. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate. com

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A female mallard was quickly rescued on Friday afternoon after it flew into a snowbank at an intersection near Taylor Drive and 43rd Street. Jordi White (right), 46, of Red Deer saw the duck fly into the snow at about noon while he was stopped at the intersection. He said the duck was very cold and weak, but uninjured. After making some calls, he drove it to the home of Red Deer animal rescue volunteer Judy Boyd (left). They posed for a quick photo before Boyd was on the road to transport the mallard, along with a rescued bald eagle, horned grebe and a few other ducks, to Medicine River Wildlife Centre, near Spruce View, where injured wildlife are treated and released back into the wild.

For information on how to help injured wildlife, contact Medicine River Wildlife Centre at 403-7283467 by email at info@mrwc.ca or visit www.medicineriverwildlifecentre.ca.

City crews will begin tackling the collector roadways that run through residential areas in Red Deer on Monday.

Greg Sikora, Public Works Department manager, said these are the roads that allow people to drive out of their local or residential roads onto the arterial roadways.

Sikora said the phones have been ringing off the hook with complaints about the city’s snow removal. He said the city is technically going into the residential areas but they are not attacking the small local roads.

In the city’s snow and ice policy, a residential area is defined as a local roadway that is the second smallest road class.

The largest road class is arterial, followed by collectors, local roads and lane ways.

“We’re really mounting up an aggressive campaign for our Priority 4, which are those collectors in residential areas, on Monday but we are already starting today (Friday) adjacent to green spaces where we have some drifting,” said Sikora.

“We are basically pushing that snow up selectively in areas that we have some access issues.” Priority 4 also includes residential collector roads on bus routes and residential streets adjacent to schools.

Two crews will work six days a week, excluding Sundays, with one starting in Sunnybrook South and working north and another starting in the Woodlea and Waskasoo areas and working south. Depending on the weather, this portion is expected to take less than 20 days.

No parking signs will be placed in Priority 4 areas on Sunday to let residents know to remove their vehicles before streets are plowed. If vehicles are left parked on signed streets, they will be ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense. This work is expected to wrap up by Dec. 10.

Between two and four cm of snow was expected to fall Friday. Today’s high should be -3C and the forecast calls for 2C on Sunday, with no further snow.

Power providers at odds over ruling’s impact

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A member-owned electricity utility is heralding a recent arbitration ruling as another victory in its battle for consumer choice.

FortisAlberta had filed a dispute challenging the rights of Equs Rural Electrification Association Ltd. to provide service to six customers in three rural residential subdivisions, including a property owner in Ponoka County. The other customers are in the Onoway area.

In a unanimous ruling, a three-adjudicator panel upheld Equs’s right to be the electricity service provider to the customers and said none of them had to transfer to FortisAlberta, said Equs CEO Patricia Borne.

“We believe this will prevent (FortisAlberta) from making frivolous arbitrations.”

Bourne said FortisAlberta has filed a number of arbitrations against the association, which serves about 11,300 members in more than a dozen counties, including Central Alberta’s Red Deer, Lacombe, Ponoka, Mountain View, Kneehill and Clearwater Counties.

“This one in particular was important because they were trying to prevent us from building a distribution system at the request of our members unless there was

an energized meter at the end of the line,” said Bourne.

FortisAlberta’s contention was that Equs could not build a line to a home not already drawing electricity. That would mean Equs could not build infrastructure in subdivisions not yet developed or to customers who didn’t immediately need power, such as snowbirds.

In the case of the Ponoka County landowner, he wanted to install a new line because he was considering subdividing his land.

FortisAlberta argued that was not allowed under a 1997 agreement with Equs because there was no customer at the end of the line nor was it to be used for agricultural activity.

The power company has a different take on the ruling and its significance. “We were perplexed, quite frankly, at (Equs’s) assessment of that arbitration decision,” said FortisAlberta Jennifer MacGowan.

“For us, the arbitration decision really reaffirms that Equs REA remains subject to limited eligibility criteria when it comes to who they can serve as part of the operating agreement we have with them.”

According the decision, Equs can serve farms and large acreages, said MacGowan.

Other customers are to be served by FortisAlberta.

If there is a change in the potential eligibility of the customer, such as a subdivision

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that creates a new parcel of less than 10 acres, it would trigger an automatic REA eligibility assessment.

FortisAlberta said the ruling supports that once it is determined a property is registered as a subdivision, the company has the automatic right to serve that property.

Bourne said Equs has spent more than $3 million in the last few years in its legal skirmishes with FortisAlberta.

A major battle is looming over the 1997 agreement, which Equs wants terminated.

“We are going to arbitration on a new agreement, hopefully very soon. We’re just working on that now.”

An arbitration notice was filed last May. In the face of FortisAlberta opposition, Equs went to the courts to have an arbitrator appointed.

MacGowan said FortisAlberta doesn’t believe an arbitration hearing is the right forum to deal with the service dispute.

“We believe that this is a public policy issue with regards to the operation of the electricity system in rural Alberta.”

FortisAlberta’s stance is that the issue “really needs to be discussed as part of a bigger conversation as opposed to a decision by an arbitrator,” she said.

The company is working with the province’s retail market review committee and the Federation of REAs and other stakeholders to reach long-term solutions. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Religious liberty and sexual liberation TERRY MATTINGLY

RELIGION ate, backed by a coalition that ranged from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Christian Legal Society.

Only five years later, another similar effort failed.

“We had gone from 97-3 to partisan gridlock ... and disagreement over religious liberty has only gotten worse since that time,” Laycock told the Newseum audience.

He was speaking the day after addressing the U.S. Supreme Court on yet another tense case about public prayer. The key change, he said, is that there has been a violent legal and political clash between gay rights and the rights of religious conscientious objectors.

At this point, it may be too late to find a compromise that would protect citizens on both sides of this constitutional firefight.

One crucial problem, he explained, is that conservative religious leaders have been “so focused on entirely defeating” same-sex marriage bills that they have paid little attention to religious-liberty exemptions “until they have been totally defeated and then, of course, it is too late. They have no leverage. They have nothing to bargain with.”

Meanwhile, as the gay-rights cause has gained momentum, its leaders have grown increasingly bold. More than a few liberals, said Laycock, not only want to seize sexual freedoms, but to force religious objectors to affirm their choices and even to pay for them. Some on the left, he said, are

now “making arguments calculated to destroy religious liberty.”

Consider, Laycock said, language used by state Sen. Pat Steadman of Denver, as he fought for a civil unions bill in the Colorado Senate last February. What should liberals say to those who claim that their religious liberties are being violated?

“I’ll tell you what I’d say — get thee to a nunnery,” he said, in debate recorded on the Senate floor.

“Go live a monastic life, away from modern society, away from the people you can’t see as equals to yourself.

Away from the stream of commerce where you might have to serve them, or employ them, or rent banquet halls to them. Go someplace and be as judgmental as you like. Go inside your church, establish separate water fountains, if you want.”

This was provocative language, but this gay leader was using arguments now common in American politics, said Laycock.

It’s too soon to predict the death of religious liberty in America, as it has been known and defended for generations, he said. But the current trends are sobering.

“Maybe compromise will prevail yet,” he concluded. “Maybe the judges will do their jobs and protect the liberty of both sides.

But the tendency of both sides to insist on a total win — liberty for them and not liberty for the other side — is a very bad thing for religious liberty.”

Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.

Contact him at tmattingly@cccu.org or www.tmatt.net

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

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Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Rev. Valentine Owens www.cslreddeer.org

FIRST BAPTIST

November 24 • 9:00am, 11:00am or 6:30pm

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

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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA

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AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

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

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

6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Ministries 7:00p.m.

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

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

The Anglican Church of Canada Sunday, Nov. 24

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

“The Place Of The Skull”

43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave.

403-346-6036

SUNDAY WORSHIP

“A Church For All Ages”

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Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

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

11:00 a.m.

ST. LUKE’S

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402

“Old Church Blessing a New World”

26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road) Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Rev. Bert deBruijn Everyone Welcome!

Balmoral Bible Chapel 403-347-5450

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

10:30 am Worship Service

UPCOMING EVENTS The Little Black Dress Affair will be presented by Deer Park Alliance Church on Dec. 6, 7 to 10 p.m. The evening features visiting, games, purse swap, door prizes, Christmas vendors, specialty coffees, appetizers, desserts, and Michele from Cheeky Coutures Fashion Consulting with models and advice on dressing all body types. Advance tickets cost $10 and must be purchased by Dec. 2.

Visions Country Gospel presents a Country Gospel Christmas Concert at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, Dec. 7, 7 p.m. Tickets cost $15 each from the church, 403-346-3798, or from Sharon, 403-3471044, or at the door.

9:00 am Communion Service 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Jared Ott “Wisdom on the Job” Ephesians 6 Verses - 5-9

Sunday, November 24

WEDNESDAY Multi Church Seniors Luncheon will be offered on Nov. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Living Stones Church Fellowship Hall. The cost is $8 per person at the door. Phone 403-347-7311. The guest speaker will be Dr. Paul Vallee on the topic of Israel and India.

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SUNDAY Help the Philippines benefit concert, Nov. 24, 6 p.m. at First Church of the Nazarene will feature Red Deer Filipino Choir, Potter’s Clay Quartet, and The Banksons who will donate their time and talents. Silent auction. Free admission. Free will offering will be collected. Phone 403-346-2597.

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Celebrant: Noel Wygiera

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Family Friendly Worship with Eucharist Sunday School & Refreshments Thurs. 2:00 pm Eucharist

Children’s Sunday School 2 1/2 - Grade 5 www.balmoralchapel.ca

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

Sunday, Nov. 24

GOOD SHEPHERD 40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Marc Jerry Worship

Sunday 10:30 a.m. with Holy Communion

Morning Prayer

Wednesday 9:30 a.m.

Everyone Welcome

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

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

“Inheritance of Light” www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m.

“Stories and Songs of Faith” Babyfold, ToddlerToddler Room, Room SundaySunday Club Club www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, www.sunnybrookunited.org

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Cultural changes unleashed by the sexual revolution are affecting how millions of Americans understand religious liberty, according to University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, speaking at a recent Newseum symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It doesn’t help that disputes about the free exercise of religion have increasingly turned into bitter partisan battles pitting Republicans against the majority of mainstream Democrats.

What is happening? It helps to remember that churches were on the winning side of the American Revolution, he stressed, and that fact has shaped America ever since.

“What if we had a new revolution in our time? The sexual revolution that began in earnest in the ’60s carries on with the current front about same-sex marriage” and contraception, said Laycock.

Religious groups have “persistently been on the losing side” of this revolution. ... In each of the remaining sexual issues - abortion, same-sex marriage, contraception, sterilization, emergency contraception — every one of those issues has this fundamental structure: What one side views as a grave evil, the other side views as a fundamental human right. ... And for tens of millions of Americans, what religious liberty now does is empower their enemies.”

Only 20 years ago, it was possible for left and right to find common ground on key religious liberty issues. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House and by a 97-3 vote in the Sen-

LOCAL EVENTS

ENTERTAINMENT

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SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 2013

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Alice played by Julia Van Dam and Jessica Bordley as the Red Queen run a scene from the Red Deer College Theatre Studies production of Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Curious in a contrary land RDC ADAPTATION OF ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS IS DELIGHTFUL In the Looking Glass world magi- opened on Thursday isn’t about to let cally created this week on that happen. the Red Deer College Arts No way, and in the word Centre stage, Alice discovof Tweedle Dum: “Nohow!” ers she has to run forward In fact, when the Red in order not to fall back.

Queen advises Alice “ReHer new acquaintance, member who you are!” she the White Queen, rememmight have saved her royal bers things best that happen breath. the week after next. And Unlike some overwhile one can’t help growing whelmed, intimidated or older, according to a snapplain scared Alices in othpish Humpty Dumpty, “two er stage productions of the can!”

Lewis Carroll literary clasSuch nonsense might sic and its sequel, this AlLANA make a lesser girl forget ice is exactly as sure of her herself, but the unflappable opinions as are most deterMICHELIN seven-and-a-half-year-old mined seven years olds. heroine of the entertaining This imaginative musiRed Deer College Theatre cal adaptation by Jim DeStudies musical production Felice and Larry Reese has of Alice Through the Looking Glass that a rather fanciful, straight-up vision

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that’s neither dark and creepy as the 2010 Alice in Wonderland movie starring Johnny Depp, nor dripping with Disney syrup.

Alice (played here by an amiable Julia Van Dam) is very much like Carroll must have originally envisioned his young heroine to be — a capable and curious young miss who takes everything in stride, from a bread-andbutter-fly that flutters past, to a knight with a droopy lance, or a giant egg with a rotten disposition.

Van Dam’s Alice might dress in a flouncy pink skirt, but she won’t settle for being a mere princess — she wants to be queen. And all she has to do to attain her golden crown is to reach the eighth square of a giant chess game before dark.

The well-placed, one-and-a-halfhour production, creatively directed

by Lynda Adams, with music arrangements by the talented Morgan McKee, will be a delightful experience for the young, or young at heart — especially the visually stunning first half.

It starts with a shadow screen that messes, quite appropriately, with actors’ sizes. As soon as Alice goes through the looking glass, she meets a series of memorable characters who are more quirky than scary — such the Tweedles Dee and Dum and a talking gnat.

And the spinning chess board set and costumes, respectively by Cindi Zuby and Angela Dale, are bursting with colour and innovation. (The costumed crow is particularly spectacular.)

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All Hearts for Harmony APPRECIATION FOR THE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY OF A CAPPELLA SINGING BRINGS 35 WOMEN TO A HALL EVERY WEEK

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The sheer power of the voice unadorned by music made Anna Kendrick’s soulful rendition of You’re Going to Miss Me When I’m Gone from the movie Pitch Perfect such a hit with teenage girls that the song was catapulted up radio play lists.

That same appreciation for the strength and beauty of a cappella singing brings 35 Central Alberta women to a Red Deer church hall every week. Dedicated singers travel from as far as Ferintosh and Carstairs to rehearse with the Hearts of Harmony barbershop group and fill the Davenport Church of Christ with four-part harmonies most Monday nights.

Everything from Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah to gospel songs, Josh Groban’s You Raise Me Up to the Judy Garland standard You Made Me Love You is on the local group’s playlist.

But these days the singers are also rehearsing some seasonal selections for their Remembering Christmas concert on Saturday, Nov. 30, with a guest performance by Calgary’s Alberta Gold Chorus at Red Deer’s Living Stones Church.

Don’t count on it being a stuffy affair: Lyrics to the novelty song Twelve Days After Christmas involve french hens getting turned into chicken soup, and are accompanied by neck wringing hand gestures from the Hearts of Harmony members.

“I’ve been singing all my life, but I’ve learned more in nine months singing with this group than in all those years of singing before,” said Sandy MacGregor, of Ferintosh, one of the group’s enthusiastic members.

Part of that instruction has centred on showmanship — lifting your face into a smile, shaping your vowels properly, standing straight with the right body language.

“We learn to breathe better and hang on to our phrases so they are finished, not cut off,” said Ev Robertson, who at 82 is the group’s oldest member.

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Under the direction of Sheryl Brook, the Hearts of Harmony rehearse at the Davenport Church of Christ in Red Deer.

She’s also the mother of Hearts of Harmony’s music director, Sheryl Brook of Stettler, but is the first to admit that Brook did not learn everything she knows from her.

“She’s taken a lot more courses and (does) coaching all over the province.”

Brook, former director of choruses in Wainwright and Calgary, has been a member for 34 years of the Sweet Adelines, a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing barbershop harmony through education and performances.

The Hearts of Harmony has been a Sweet Adelines charter member for the past 11 years, although the Red Deer-based chorus has been around since 1998.

Brook recalled “falling in love” with four-part harmonies as a young woman of 20. “It was a special sound just made by voices.”

After joining her first chorus, she was also smitten with “the enthusiastic, inquisitive people it attracts. ... Groups have always been welcoming and supportive, Brook added.

Perhaps more young women have been turned on to a cappella singing because of the popularity of Kendrick’s performance in Pitch Perfect.

But Brook believes those who are exposed to the “special,” all-vocal sound of four-part harmonies often get hooked.

“The beauty of our concerts is you can bring anybody — from children to elders and everybody in between — and a lot of our biggest fans are under four!”

Paula Wilde, one of the group’s longest-serving members, recalled being very busy with other pursuits, but finally caving to a friend’s pressure to join the group in 2002 because “who can turn down har-

mony? I can’t. I’ll be here until they kick me out, or I go deaf.”

With a wide vocal range, Wilde started out singing lead, but by necessity switched to the contralto part because of a shortage of lower-register singers.

Brook described four-part harmony singing as having the melody line within the middle registers — with lower altos providing harmony and higher sopranos providing the “sparkle” on top.

“If you think church singing is too high for you, then you could sing our lead (part),” she said.

Sarah Grass is one of the group’s newest members, having passed a short audition three weeks ago.

Before moving here with her Alberta boyfriend last summer, the 25-year-old former New Brunswick resident said she went online to make sure there was an a cappella chorus in Central Alberta that she could join to make the transition easier.

“I sang with the Elm City Echoes back home,” she explained.

“I’ve always liked singing, but it’s harder to sing on your own than with a wonderful group of women,” added Grass, who’s still finding her confidence singing lead, but finds other group members very welcoming.

“All the songs are so catchy and it’s really relaxing. It’s only my third week here (and) already it feels like home.”

Tickets for the 2 p.m. Remembering Christmas concert are $15 ($5 for children from five to 12 years) by calling Judy at 403-342-7842 or Darlene at 403-2275448.

For more information about the group, call Sheryl at 403-742-4218. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Bixby showcases new songs Having launched his country music career at the tender age of 17, Jaydee Bixby said “I still feel like a work in progress” at 23.

That description was, therefore, perfect for his third album, Work in Progress, which includes four tunes co-written

by Bixby and a cover of Conway Twitty’s It’s Only Make Believe.

“I started writing some of the songs in 2009 or in 2010, and I wasn’t ready to finish them then,” said the Central Alberta singer, who performs on Saturday, Nov. 30, at Cowboys bar in Red Deer. The tunes “sat in the shadows until I was ready to look at them again with a different set of eyes.”

Bixby fine-tuned some of the lyrics, improved a few rhyme schemes, and “removed some things that weren’t necessary — it was like having two chimneys in a house.”

But he believes the end product was worth the wait — and work.

“I’m very happy with it,” said Bixby, who particularly likes Walk You Home, which draws on high school dating experiences. He believes a lot of listeners will relate to “spending six months working yourself up to talking to a girl, then being so overjoyed, so happy, to have the opportunity to walk her home.”

The song works because of a “pure and simple” beat, which Bix-

by finds reminiscent of songs such as The Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand.

The Drill offers more complexity, in terms of its working man theme.

It’s dedicated to the memory of Bixby’s brother-in-law, who suffered a fatal heart attack while transporting co-workers to an oilfield job site.

Even though he must have been in a lot of pain, he managed to steer his vehicle away from traffic before losing consciousness and the other guys survived, said the singer, who was inspired to write about highway travel and other hazardous aspects of Prairie work life.

Weight of the World is a traditional country song that deals with everyday problems that sometimes just seem to pile up, said Bixby. “It’s about wishing. It’s like saying, ‘I wish I could tell you it’s all going to be OK. ...’ ” Bixby has faced some personal ups and downs and reality checks since achieving runner-up status on Season 5 of Canadian Idol in 2007, when he beat third-place contestant, pop star Carly Rae Jepsen.

Jepsen, of course, is now a Juno-winning, Grammy-nominated household name since releasing the international hit Call Me Maybe.

Bixby, who kept in touch with her for a few years after the show (“Carly and I both played at the Vancouver Olympics, and later we went out for coffee,” he recalled) is “so glad” for

Contributed photo

Jaydee Bixby performs on Saturday, Nov. 30, at Cowboys bar in Red Deer her big-time success.

At the same time, Bixby admitted that he would love to find that “one song in a lifetime” that would really ignite his career.

The singer now spends part of the year in Blackfalds and the other half in Vernon, B.C. He recently started his own record label, Black Sheep Productions, to release Work in Progress, which follows his previous albums, Easy to Love (2010), and Cowboys & Cadillacs (2008).

Bixby said he wanted to be completely behind all the music he puts out, and on top of every part of the process. “If something goes wrong, then I want to be responsible

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ALICE: Genius stands out Most importantly, the genius of Carroll’s words stands out in this adaptation — as does much of his verse, with Walrus and the Carpenter, A-Sitting on a Gate and the Fish Riddle turned into songs by Reese (the RDC Motion Picture Arts instructor proves with these tunes written in 1974 that he could have had a promising music career).

The only difficulty is the second half of the play doesn’t measure up to the excitement and tension of the first. But that’s more of a scripting problem and not something the young actors have any control of.

The cast is uniformly good — especially Van Dam, the only actor who doesn’t juggle two to four different parts.

Jessica Bordley and Collette Radau are most winning as the somewhat

bossy Red and White Queens. Dustin Funk is a standout as the Gnat and Humpty Dumpty. Jessie Muir and Jennifer Suter are a riot as the perfectly spherical Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and Jake Tkaczyk puts in solid performances as the Storyteller and White King.

All in all, Alice

Through the Looking Glass will immerse audience members from age four to 104 into a converse, contrary world where anything is possible — and for an hour and a half, it will be a fine place to be.

The play runs to Nov. 30. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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DELIVERY MAN (PG) (COARSE LANGUAGE,MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; MON-THURS 7:20, 10:00 THE BOOK THIEF (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES WED-THURS 6:40, 9:40 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) (DISTURBING CONTENT,BRUTAL VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 3:50, 7:10, 10:25; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25; MON-THURS 6:35, 9:40 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) (DISTURBING CONTENT,BRUTAL VIOLENCE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:00 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN,CRUDE CONTENT) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 5:35, 7:55, 10:15; SAT 12:40, 3:00, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15; SUN 12:40, 3:00, 4:05, 7:25, 10:15; MON-THURS 7:40, 10:10 FREE BIRDS 3D (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED SAT-SUN 1:50 HOMEFRONT (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,BRUTAL VIOLENCE,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) WED-THURS 7:15, 9:50 DOCTOR WHO: THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR 3D () MON 7:30, 9:45 WWE SURVIVOR SERIES - 2013 () SUN 6:00 BARNEY’S GREAT ADVENTURE (G) SAT 11:00

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Local artist Kwetny’s abstracts chosen for Canadian embassy show in Greece SHOW CELEBRATES CANADA’S ATHENS EMBASSY’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Abstract impressions of Red Deer are showing in an exhibit in Greece featuring Canadian women artists.

Five paintings by Red Deer artist Galia Kwetny were chosen for the group show that celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Canadian embassy in Athens.

Getting international attention for her work is exciting for Kwetny, personally, but is also a coup for Red Deer, said the local artist, whose large abstracted pieces were displayed in a solo show last winter at the HarrisWarke Gallery.

Sheltered, a Kwetny painting in the Athens exhibit, shows the aerial pattern of the Red Deer River and has the map of Red Deer scratched into the orange “oil field” background.

The work is so titled because of the shelter belts around local farm fields, and also because Kwetny said she “feels sheltered here.”

The artist of Jewish background emigrated to Alberta with her husband and children from Israel, after first leaving Russia.

Kwetny’s paintings have also been exhibited in Calgary’s Esker Foundation Gallery, and she believes it

was this gallery’s curator who suggested she be included among the Canadian female artists spotlighted in Greece.

The Lure of the Local: Women Artists in the Canadian Land(scape) exhibition opened at an Athens gallery on Nov. 5, and will be running until Jan. 11.

Kwetny, who attended the show’s opening reception, along with dignitaries including former governor general Michaëlle Jean, said, “It was amazing!

To participate in this show was a true honour.”

Work by Galia Kwetny is part of a show featuring the art of Canadian women.

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Vince Vaughn in a scene from Delivery Man. He fails to measure up to the lead in the francophone version of the film, Patrick Huard. looking at Oscar and Felix from The Odd Couple.

Compare, too, the scenes where Huard and Vaughn meet a severely disabled son in a nursing home, played in both films by Sébastien René (the only onscreen Starbuck alumnus). In Starbuck, Huard seems genuinely affected; in Delivery

Man, Vaughn seems like he’s choosing the best camera angle for a feelgood moment.

It’s not all Vaughn’s fault that Delivery Man fails to fully deliver.

His comic co-stars Bobby Moynihan and Chris Pratt give it their best, but they can’t beat the film’s other big impedi-

ment: It’s built around a funny story that’s already been told, not that not ago.

It’s hard to tell the same joke twice. There’s really just one too many offspring in this scenario, and it’s Delivery Man. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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The movie has been prettified and Disneyfied so that all the rough edges are sanded off. Jokes about masturbation and stud bulls, a big part of Starbuck, have been dialed way down.

So has Vaughn. He’s usually a mile-a-minute talker, but not here. This is both a good and bad thing. It’s good to see him trying a different tempo, but his more laconic demeanour robs the film of energy.

Unlike Huard, who will do anything for a laugh, Vaughn seems reluctant to play David as the unshaven schlub he really is. Google the posters for Starbuck and Delivery Man; it’s like

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Can a relationship New website tries to bring the surprise be started with back to gift giving a one-night stand?

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Right now, kind, loving and committed men are becoming single every single day. Your job is to meet them, trust them, love them and be fantastic.

Dear Harlan; I haven’t been in a relationship in about three years.

During those three years, I’ve had time to reflect and learn things about myself as an individual.

I want to be in a relationship but am not too sure I’m at my best.

So should I still work on myself, or is it OK to start looking again and take small risks? — Confused and Conflicted Dear Confused; If we all waited to be our very best before dating, we’d be single our entire lives.

Working to be your best is a never-ending process. I’ve been married 10 years, and I’m still working.

You absolutely should date while you’re working on yourself.

That’s how you grow in a relationship.

All you need to remember is that you are deserving, and are worthy of the very best kind of love. Don’t date so you can be rescued from being single; date to find someone who adds to your life.

Make sure you have friends, professionals and people in your corner who can support, love and always be there for you while dating.

If you do meet someone, continue to work to be your very best, inside and outside the relationship.

Look for someone who wants to be his or her best.

Who knows? You two can work together to encourage each other to become even better. If you find yourself with a person who is threatened by you working to be your best or who discourages you, find someone better.

As long as you never stop working on you, you find it easier to spot the wrong people and keep the right ones.

Dear Harlan; So, my boyfriend and I have been dating for a little more than a year.

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He told me that during those three months he’d been with three girls.

And by “been with,” I mean sex.”

I forgave him, knowing that I also dated a few people during that time period.

Yet I can’t seem to shake the feeling of

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NEW YORK — Count Cynthia Gibson among gift recipients not interested in being surprised.

“Most of the time it’s a disappointment, and I’m one of those people who don’t hide their emotions very well,” said Gibson, in Los Angeles. “The best gift is getting what you want.”

Natalie Caine begs to differ. She has a holiday ritual with some women friends: They do a surprise giveaway of something they have at home and want to pass on. Life is busy enough, she said, without having to hunt down your own gifts.

And besides, what about the magic?

“We already have too many to do lists,” said Caine, a fellow Angeleno. “Let’s enjoy bringing out our creative surprise giver and take a chance it is well received.”

Welcome to gifting 3.0, when we can — and do — make our own dreams come true with a click or a list or a trip to the mall.

That sounds just fine to Gibson.

“A lot of people regift,” she said. “If they didn’t like it, what makes them think that I would like it?” And gift cards?

“That’s for the lazy.”

While gift registries, online and off, abound, along with old-fashioned list-making that you just turn over to mom or Santa, a couple of new websites are looking to bring back the surprise while also pleasing the picky, like Gibson.

According to the 2009 book “Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays,” by economist Joel Waldfogel, buying gifts is a lousy allocation of resources due to the ignorance of givers about

Andrew Swick, who recalled a particularly vexing Christmas for one loved one in 2002.

That’s when his sister and site co-founder, Rebecca, unwrapped three identical volumes of Robert Frost poems she had coveted. The sentiment was in the right place — and then some.

“She had emailed out a wish list of ideas that people could get her,” he said. “Then she came up with this idea. It was really designed to organize and stop that duplicate gift problem without ruining the surprise.”

Attorney Dave Howard in Round Rock, Texas, uses the site with his wife, daughter, his daughter’s boyfriend and his 22-year-old granddaughter. For years they kept their lists on a piece of paper, stuck to the refrigerator. It was inefficient as family members grew and flew the coop and led sometimes to duplicate gifts.

“Now, we can share our ideas of surprise gifts with one another,” he said. “They can’t see the things that are secret.”

Group registries are ready made for Christmas, when so much buying and so many lists are in play, Swick said from Houston. At his site, which has a Pinterestlike interface, you can also add a gift suggestion to a person’s list and let them see it.

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wanting to vomit every time I see one of those girls or think about my boyfriend with them.

Help? — Feeling Sick Dear Feeling Sick; Why did you need to forgive him?

You were broken up.

He didn’t do anything wrong. In fact, he told you the truth.

He didn’t have to be so brutally honest. This guy must really love and respect you.

He must be with you for a reason. Clearly, he wants to be with you. He chooses you.

He’s been with other women and still wants to be with you. Appreciate that he wants you.

These girls represent your own fears and insecurities.

The truth is that you don’t want to lose this guy and you’re scared of getting hurt again.

Being alone makes you want to vomit, not the fact that he was with other women.

Instead of looking at these girls and feeling sick, look at yourself and figure out why you’re so painfully insecure.

Any guy you meet will have a history; your history is all that you can control.

The harder you work to feel better about you (and this will take work), the less you’ll want to vomit when you see other women.

In fact, it will just be a reminder that he chooses you.

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Dear Harlan; Can a serious relationship be started with a one-night stand?

I recently had one and want it to be more. Does it have a chance? — One Nighter Dear One Nighter; If someone gets pregnant, it will be a long-lasting, serious relationship.

If there’s lingering itching and burning, that can be serious too.

The way to see if it’s a good relationship is to get emotionally naked during daylight hours while sober. Go on a date. See if you can have a good time without getting naked. See if you actually like this person.

See if you trust this person.

The sex part is easy.

Liking and trusting is how serious relationships happen. But a date is the best place to start.

Dear Harlan; Why is it that men, including yourself, cannot give a straight answer to the question posed by “Fantastic Single”?

Her question is this: Why do men express interest in women and get their hopes up, only to come to a screeching halt? We would really like to know.

We are intelligent women. We have done everything to meet that special someone — thrown parties, asked our friends if they know anyone available, joined clubs, committees and special interest groups, attended religious services and gone on Internet dating sites — all to no avail.

We can be upfront, reserved or aggressive. It does not matter. When we meet a man with whom we feel a connection, we become hopeful.

We exchange email addresses or phone numbers, and suddenly he stops answering. We just want to know why?

Why do they stop? If they are not interested, why get our hopes up? Or if they lose interest, why aren’t they man enough to say so?

And if you have no explanation, just say so.

Do not insult our intelligence by telling us to do the same old things over and over again.

We are fantastic, not stupid! — Fantastic in the ‘Burgh Dear Fantastic; I gave you a very straightforward, honest answer.

You didn’t like it.

Why does this happen? It’s for the same reasons women don’t give fantastic men what they want. Some lose interest. Some are in relationships. Some get scared, bored or are big liars.

If you want to find out, ask the ones who have hurt you (if they’re willing to talk).

Truthfully, you’re better off looking in the mirror for answers. If you are doing everything right to meet someone and you’re still not getting what you want, then you need to make some changes.

Meeting the right man is as much about being in the right state of mind as it is being in the right place with the right people. Men don’t want to date someone who is bitter and distrusting of men.

We want someone who is hopeful, passionate and vulnerable.

Maybe you move too fast. Maybe you expect too much too soon. Maybe you’re just meeting the wrong men.

Focus on changing your approach. Change where you look, how you look, who you look with. Doing the same old things with a fresh new attitude and new approach is NOT the same old thing.

the true preferences of their giftees. He estimated that about $12 billion a year in the U.S. and $25 billion a year worldwide is misallocated on giving at the holidays.

That is one reason Jessica Jessup decided to co-found Giftovus.com in San Diego, Calif. At Giftovus, a recipient puts together a list that loved ones can pluck from, if desired, while talking things over on a group page without the giftee seeing their activity.

So, for example, if a gift recipient lists “bike,” her group can drill down together, picking each other’s brains on colour and style, Jessup said.

“A lot of other sites are focused on just pulling off of a list,” she said.

“We found among our own experiences and talking to other people there’s definitely a group that wants to contribute their own ideas and personal touches to a gift.

When people get back to that surprise, they realize what they’ve missed.”

At CheckedTwice. com, giftees can create groups and share lists in one place. It allows for “secret gifts” to be added to lists by anybody in the group, hidden from the view of the list-maker but visible to everybody else. There’s a comment area as well.

“You still get the thrill of surprise when you rip into the wrapping paper,” said co-founder

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The U14B Red Deer Resistance Ringette team won gold in the Airdrie Ring of Fire Tournament, Nov. 9 to 11. They won three of their four round robin games and won the gold medal game in a nail-biter by scoring the winning goal with a few seconds left.

This Red Deer girl’s hockey team recently won a tournament in Fort Saskatchewan. Members of the team included Alexa Roberts, Avery Wlasichuk, Brielle Guhl, Brooke Korenchuk, Camryn Judson, Chloe Becher, Emma Meraw, Halle Graham, Hannah Kelley, Jessie Briggs, Joy Cochrane, Megan Gehring, Meryssa Woodridge, Morgann Brewster, Sydney Monaghan, Tace EnsBuchacher, and Kailey Melanson-Landry.

Essay about seniors driving gets mixed reviews Dear Annie: I want to thank you for a ball. printing the essay “Dead at Seven,” Maryland: I have to take issue with

by Paul O. Ketro, M.D., about the dan- the good doctor describing senior drivgers posed by senior drivers who don’t ers as a “growing danger” on the road. know when to give up their licenses.

That’s pure emotional hogwash. As For more than a year, I a senior driver, I am far have been trying to tell my more careful than I was 60 mother that it isn’t safe for years ago. her to drive any longer, and I am far wiser, as well, for the most part, I’ve kept and more aware of every her out of the car. danger on the street. Yes, She often states that she my reaction time may be a is going to drive herself, but bit diminished, but that’s when she read that essay, why I no longer use the fast she said to me, “I guess I’m lanes. not going to drive my car If a child were to run inanymore.” to the street, he and his parYou two are a blessing, ents had better hope and and I’m convinced you’ve pray that the car that hits MITCHELL saved a life. — S. him belongs to a watchful, & SUGAR Dear S.: Thank you, but slower-moving senior and not everyone thinks we’re not to my 30-year old son such a blessing. who can’t take his foot off Many older drivers were the gas. upset about this essay, claiming young Iowa: That article got me thinking drivers cause more accidents. True. about one of the golfers in my league But young drivers generally improve who is nearly blind. We have to watch their driving skills over time, whereas where he hits the ball. older drivers can develop problems After leaving the course, we saw with reflexes, cognition and vision. him doing 45 when the speed limit was While most senior drivers tend to 70. be more cautious because of this, some When he went to renew his license, refuse to recognize or deal with incipi- he flunked the vision test and then told ent problems. And regular testing to us that he was thinking of driving withrenew one’s license varies from state out a license. to state.

In my state, one must take a driver’s The point of the essay is to help driv- test every two years after the age of ers over 65 be more aware of changes 70. I am now 78 and spend six months in their driving skills and be willing to a year in Florida where drivers only address them. need to renew every six years. Some Read on for more: older people don’t realize they have a From Salem, Mass.: Capability, not problem. age, should be the topic. I am 93, in Florida: I am fuming about this esgood health with fast responses, and say. He did not mention the thousands I’m a defensive driver. who are killed by pot-smoking, texting, I drive below the speed limit in the daydreaming and drunk adults of all right lane, away from the lane-chang- ages. I am 90 years old and have been ers and speeders. I also drive with my driving for 65 years. Take my driving right foot on the accelerator and my away from me, and they may as well left foot on the brake to eliminate hit- wrap me up completely. I will know ting the gas by mistake and plowing when I am endangering myself and into people or buildings. others.

Florida: What I got out of “Dead at Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Seven” is that parents should teach Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editheir kids not to run into the street tors of the Ann Landers column. Please after a ball or anything else, that kids email your questions to anniesmailbox@ should be taught to stop on the curb comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, and look both ways to see whether it is c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, safe to cross or go into the street after Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Sunday, Nov. 24 Saturday, Nov. 23 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Miley Cyrus, 21; Vincent Cassel, 47; James Katherine Heigl, 35; Karine Vanasse, 30; Stephen Merchant, 39 Toback, 69 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Leo Moon THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon shines through flamboyant Leo today. Wher- brings along a wholehearted zest for life.

Pride should not get in the way ever Leo goes, it leaves a mark and decide how we feel deep behind either through generous down inside. gestures, bold statements or A square between the Sun just through its authentic honand Neptune denotes that we esty. The Lunar Leo makes a may believe that the grass is spectacular trine with the Sun greener on the other side. and Uranus. This trio promises Reality is hard to see now a fun-loving kind of day! Venus as fogginess disturbs our view. sings melodious tunes with seriFeeling fearful or doubting our ous Saturn. This celestial combo own willpower may want us to shows that appreciation in life escape our everyday life into a comes through commitment, fantasy world. dedication and trustworthiness.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today In other words, our love matures ASTRO is your birthday, you may expethrough responsibility and mutual rience a change within your proeffort.

DOYNA fessional realm, which will also HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today make your daily routine more is your birthday, you will bathe interesting. yourself in lots of fun this year.

It is important to not let your There is a massive likelihood that you will be travelling quite frequently in emotions dictate for your future goals. As the upcoming months. Your voyages will take long as you stay objective and compromisyou all the way through exotic escapades. ing, you should be able to float on stable These experiences will be spontaneous and waters.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You may be rewarding.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is a tempted to make some unhealthy decisions fabulous day to go out and socialize. You when it comes to expanding your life. Travel are feeling self-assured, radiant and ready could prove tricky or challenge your own to take on the next move. You are confident, beliefs.

Do something fun for yourself or a dear but watch for overconfidence though. It’s a great time to start planning the destination of one. Creative activities will bring you much encouragement. your next vacation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your attenTAURUS (April 20-May 20): This day favours all types of agreements as others will tion goes towards domestic affairs where be more willing to compromise and help you. conversations may not be light in nature. You Love relationships and business affairs will seek out reassurance from your partner, but become more reliable and honourable. An not even they seem available at this time.

Turn your energy towards education or exolder person may give you valuable advice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Compromis- ploring a topic of your interest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your thoughts ing with others might prove to be rather difficult now. You encounter opposition and dis- may be inclined to turn into personal issues. agreements. Soon enough, relationships will Therefore, others will find you self-defensive become smoother and easier to deal with. A and perhaps, more quarrelsome. If you cannot progress in your errands today, postpone sense of companionship will soon emerge.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the first them for another time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your conpart of the day, you will desire a connection with others. You will feel more outspoken cern is channelled directly to your sense of and sociable. Later on, you will crave more wellbeing and safety.

You may find that whatever makes you intensity and privacy. Overall, you will feel in an excellent disposition with a great sense of comfortable and at peace with yourself is not necessarily the same as for your sugar pie. humour.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It is a marvellous Open your heart, but especially, open your time to go out and mingle. You feel free-spir- mind.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may tend to ited and in an excellent state. Your aura may attract a potential admirer. This new affair over-idealize your partner thus making you may have a foreign flavour to it. What a sud- more susceptible to making false illusions about your object of adoration. Your percepden sense of liberation and excitement!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Private, un- tion is lacking in objectivity and it can make disclosed agreements will harmonize your you doubt your romantic decisions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As long as inner being. You will suddenly gain more from your partner’s revenue or your partner you don’t fall back into negative thinking or is willing to align or assist you financially. let yourself be stuck in the past, this should Whatever it is, it will boost your emotional be relatively a quiet day doing your usual businesses. If you feel that you are not in the wellbeing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your home same train of thought as others, just agree to life has a more evolved and reinforced feel- disagree.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You seek the ing to it. You feel that you are living on solid foundations and that your investments are company of others or somewhere where you well worth your effort and your time. Real could mingle around a circle with familiar facestate commitments should go exceptionally es. You may find that someone in your group well now. may be willing to offer you more support than SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Count to your own family. Reach out. ten before you speak what is on your mind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love and You are more than likely to act rashly and money can prove to be a tricky game today. according to your unpredictable moods. You Stay away from splurging as you may experiare strongly opinionated today and others ence wrongful transactions or misallocation might find it intimidating. Remember, your of money. As vigilant as you usually are, you words can heal or they can wound. should not have problems being just a tad SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You more watchful. might be tempted to make an impulse purSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You chase today. You feel like spending. It’s not are dazed with a cloud of incertitude, which that it is not typical of a Sagittarius to act on stems from feelings of inadequacy. Even in the spur-of-the-moment, but, putting some the most familiar places, you might be feeling thought into it today won’t hurt your wallet like a total stranger. If you are the artist type, either. this is a great day for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A wave may reconnect with old friends and estab- of nostalgia may hit you today leaving you lish solid ties with them. Your expectations puzzled. Don’t let past memories get the best are realistic and you believe that anything is of you and leave you entangled into some achievable at this time, be it materialistic or unwanted emotions. Aloofness and rationalromantic. Your desires feel tangible. ity will work better for you today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Finish AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have old tasks early today or just catch up on your many dreams, yet today, you may feel as sleep. Later on, you will appear prominently if you are far from reaching one of them in in the picture and in full force. Take the day particular. Don’t let someone close dictate or to think about yourself and about your well- reflect how you feel today. being. Good times are waiting for you!

You know best what you need and what PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep your makes you who you are. head high and concentrate on your future PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s goals. Do not neglect your health and imple- an air of incertitude that hunts you. Circumment wholesome changes to your routine. stances may be such that you don’t know The more you keep your lifestyle in check, which path to embark on now. Instead of the more secure and reassured you will be in blaming yourself for feeling so fearful or lost, the long-run. concentrate on some artistic endeavour.

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Dime made a difference FRANK O’DEA WENT FROM ALCOHOLIC PANHANDLER TO CO-FOUNDER OF THE SECOND CUP

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Frank O’Dea has made a lot of money in his life.

But 10 cents stands out in the mind of the co-founder of the Second Cup coffee chain.

O’Dea had hit rock-bottom in 1971 when, at 23, he was an alcoholic panhandler on the streets of Toronto. A passer-by gave him a dime, and he used it to call a support group.

“I often think of that dime,” said O’Dea, who went on to defeat his alcoholism, and become a successful businessman and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

“On that dime, the rest of my life was changed.”

O’Dea shared his story with about 450 people at the Festival of Trees Business Lunch on Friday. He described how he discovered alcohol when he was 13, and by the age of 21 had been kicked out of his Montreal home.

His circumstances continued to spiral downward until he was living in flophouses and begging money for booze.

“Two other guys and I would work the street. We’d get 99 cents — which was the price of a bottle of wine — and we’d take that bottle of wine back to the alleyway beside the flophouse in which we were living and we’d drink that wine.”

With persistent thoughts of suicide, he resolved to call for help. Six months later, he’d recovered sufficiently to put on a cheap suit and look for work.

“I went and knocked on doors and knocked on doors, and after a while somebody took a chance and they hired me as a salesman.”

O’Dea was selling construction equipment in southwestern Ontario when, in 1974, he met Tom Culligan. The two men were working together on a federal election campaign, and decided to go into business together.

Both 29 and single, they obtained the Canadian rights to a plastic coin-sorter, which they pitched by mail to Catholic churches.

“As food in the fridge went down we sent out more mail, and that was our bookkeeping system.”

Soon after, they decided to open a coffee store in a Scarborough mall.

“It was a disaster,” recalled O’Dea, explaining that coffee was far less popular then than it is today.

“Coffee consumption was declining at 14 per cent a year.

“In fact, our biggest competitor in 1975 was Taster’s Choice — arguably not coffee at all.”

It was a Baskin Robbins ice cream shop that inspired a turn-around. After considering the idea of offering free coffee samples, O’Dea and Culligan decided instead to boost their prices.

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Frank O’Dea, who went from alcoholic panhandler to co-founder of the Second Cup coffee chain, shared his story at the Festival of Trees Business Lunch on Friday.

“It worked like a charm,” said O’Dea. “People lined up and never went away.”

“When we premium-priced the coffee, we changed the relationship between the coffee and the customer. It was now no longer about a beverage, it was now about a treat.”

The partners grew Second Cup into a national business, with O’Dea eventually selling his interest to Culligan and starting another successful business — on-site document destruction company Proshred Security.

Much of O’Dea’s Red Deer presentation focused on his non-profit pursuits, most notably his role in starting Street Kids International and the Canadian Landmine Foundation. He described how both initiatives have helped countless children, but resulted from almost random encounters and moments of inspiration.

Their common theme, he said, was “hope, vision and action.”

O’Dea suggested that Festival of Trees, which was started 20 years ago to support the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, had similar roots. He called the festival “one of the finest fund-raisers that I’ve ever seen.”

Donating time and money to help others, said O’Dea, is the true measure of one’s success in life.

“I think that the most important thing that we’ve got to know when we lay down the last (time) is that our journey has indeed made a difference: made a difference in other people’s lives; made a difference in our country and our world.”

Festival of Trees continues today and Sunday at Westerner Park. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Prospects for higher interest rates slimmer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A major drop in the price of gasoline and declines in several other goods and services pushed down Canada’s inflation rate to 0.7 per cent last month, adding further justification to the Bank of Canada’s reluctance to raise interest rates any time soon.

October’s inflation rate was down four-tenths of a percentage point from September and the lowest level since May. On a monthly basis, overall prices in October were down 0.2 per cent from September.

Both declines were twice as large as economists expected.

Analysts said the soft inflation reading supplied

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ample justification for the Bank of Canada’s decision last month to jettison a tightening bias on monetary policy which had been in place for 18 months.

At the time, governor Stephen Poloz explained that he was concerned about slack in the economy, a message he reinforced this week in saying he disagreed with an OECD opinion that Canadian interest rates might need to be raised as early as late 2014.

Many now don’t expect the Bank of Canada to raise its key short-term rate from a very low 1.0 per cent until mid-2015.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said October’s low inflation reading is worthy of attention but added it’s too early to start worrying about actual deflation, a period of widespread price declines.

Deflation can be economically distructive.

It increases the real level of debt held by firms and households at a time when profits and income are likely to be flat. As well, it could lead to consumers delaying purchases because they expect prices to fall further, pressuring producers to lower prices and wages.

Porter said the risk of deflation is relatively low but can’t be dismissed when the inflation rate is near one per cent.

“The concern would be if it starts to head even lower. Then we get too close to deflation for comfort and that can be a tough circle to get out of,” Porter said.

“If something else came along and hit the world economy, we could be stuck with real deflation.”

mission.

Attendees are asked to register in advance. They can do this, and obtain more information about the meeting, by going to the commission’s website at canola.ab.ca, and clicking on About ACPC and then Events.

403-342-8653 or klewis@rdcounty.ca.

About 450,000 Albertans use well water for household purposes.

Rifco donates $50,000 to Haitian Children’s Aid Society

Workshop offers information on wells

Lacombe to host regional canola meeting Lacombe will play host to a regional canola meeting on Tuesday.

Scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lacombe Memorial Centre, the meeting will feature industry experts talking about how to maximize profitability, modernization of the Canadian Grain Commission, global canola markets, and market outlook and strategy. There will also be an update on the programs and activities of the Alberta Canola Producers Com-

Central Albertans who rely on wells for their water supply can pick up some important tips at a Dec. 5 workshop at the Crossroads Ag Society Hall at Pine Lake.

The session, which will start at 5 p.m., will provide information about groundwater, water quality and quantity testing, well protection, well maintenance and water sampling. There is no cost to attend the event, which will be hosted by Red Deer County and presented by the Working Well Program, but preregistration is requested. This can be done by contacting Ken Lewis at the Red Deer County Office at

Rifco Inc. (TSX.V-RFC) and its staff have donated $50,000 to the Haitian Children’s Aid Society this year.

Employees with the Red Deer-based company raised $27,500 through events ranging from a charity golf tournament to bake sales, with Rifco making up the balance.

The society provides food, shelter, medical care and other assistance to children in need in Haiti.

It supports an orphanage in Mirebalais, which was badly damaged in the 2010 earthquake. Since then, Rifco and its staff have raised $127,000 to help rebuild the facility.

Employers not required to provide bereavement leave Dear Working Wise: I saw your recent article and thought that you would be able to answer my question regarding the rules for paid leave in Alberta.

My father passed away this weekend and I would like to know what Alberta’s labour laws say about bereavement leave.

My wife works on contract.

She is paid for stat holidays, but does not have other benefits. I thought it was a law that companies have to give employees time off for a death in the family.

CHARLES My company gives five days STRACHEY for an immediate family member. Is my wife entitled to time WORKING WISE off, or is it at the discretion of her company? — Somber Son

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Dear Somber: Please accept my sincere condolences on the passing of your father.

Alberta’s Employment Standards do not require employers to provide paid or unpaid bereavement leave. However, I can understand why you might assume that employers are required to offer bereavement leave, since so many employers voluntarily choose to do so.

Alberta companies choose to offer bereavement leave because grieving employees are more likely to be distracted and unable to concentrate at work.

They may show up because they are expected to, but will be less effective and may be at greater risk of injury at work.

This loss of productivity and workplace safety is sometimes referred to as presenteeism. According to the Harvard Business Review article, Presenteeism: At Work — But Out of It, presenteeism can cut productivity by a third or more and may actually cost an employer more than absenteeism.

Like other preventive health and safety programs,

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an effective bereavement policy is proactive. Offering support to grieving employees is not only compassionate, it can also save time and resources.

Employers can support bereaved employees by acknowledging their grief and establishing an effective bereavement policy.

A tip sheet for managers and supervisors who are interested in establishing a bereavement policy, and supporting their grieving staff, is available on the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) website at alis.alberta.ca. The tip sheet is called Employers: Helping Your Employees Cope With Loss.

Grieving In The Workplace: Coping With Loss is an ALIS tip sheet for employees and co-workers. It covers how grief can affect you, how to work through grief, how co-workers can support you, and what not to say to a grieving co-worker.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 93.51 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.47 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.62 Blackberry . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.51 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.72 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.57 Cdn. National Railway . 118.87 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 159.04 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.82 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.94 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.99 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 39.66 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 44.35 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.92 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.56 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.63 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.26 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.18 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.23 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 69.83 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.99 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.59 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.12

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.56 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.92 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 62.82 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.81 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.88 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 17.21 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.54 First Quantum Minerals . 18.40 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.31 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.72 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.93 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.88 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 2.50

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 100.00 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.95 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.50 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.15 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.56

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 29.31 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 82.91 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.91 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.50 Calfrac Well Services . . . 32.50 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.82 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.35 Canyon Services Group. 11.48 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.99 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.18 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.99

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed flat on Friday to cap off a lacklustre week as concerns about the future of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary stimulus helped weigh on the TSX. The S&P/TSX composite index edged up 3.01 points to 13,478.34, led by rising industrial and financial stocks.

The Canadian dollar was off the worst levels of the day amid data showing a better than expected read on retail sales and very low pressure on prices.

But the loonie still finished down 0.03 of a cent to 95.02 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that October retail sales rose one per cent, much higher than the 0.3 per cent gain that economists had expected. But excluding autos, sales were flat against an expected 0.2 per cent rise.

On the inflation front, the agency reported that consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 0.7 per cent in October, down from 1.1 per cent in September and lower than the 0.9 per cent rate that had been expected.

U.S. indexes were up, with both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 finishing at fresh record highs.

The Dow was ahead 54.78 points to 16,064.77 and the S&P 500 climbed 8.91 points to 1,804.76. The Nasdaq was 22.49 points higher at 3,991.65.

The small advance came a day after the Dow industrials closed above 16,000 for the first time amid data showing that jobless insurance applications are back almost to where they were before the Great Recession.

At the same time, there was another round of concern about stimulus after minutes

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.01 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 54.50 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.09 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 30.78 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.31 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.82 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.76 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.460 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.00 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.96 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.64 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.76 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.49 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 59.89 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.01 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.93 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 34.57 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.94 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.34 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.44 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 67.80 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.37 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 93.12 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.58 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.50 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.04 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.73

from the Fed’s latest meeting suggested the U.S. central bank will start reducing its US$85 billion of monthly bond purchases in coming months. The content of the minutes may have come as a surprise to markets after Janet Yellen, who is slated to become the next Fed chairman, had expressed strong support for low interest rate and bond buying policies during her confirmation hearing last week.

This third round of quantitative easing has kept interest rates low to support a slow but steady economic recovery in the U.S. but also propelled money into higheryielding stocks.

The Dow industrials are up 22 per cent year to date.

If it holds those gains through December, the Dow will have had its best year since 2003.

And notwithstanding concerns about Fed taper-

ing, many analysts think the American markets still have room to grow.

“Fundamentals are still strong across the board (and) in the U.S., we’re seeing earnings growth still decent,” said Kevin Headland, director, portfolio advisory group, Manulife Asset Management.

The TSX is only up a bit over eight per cent on the year.

The TSX ended the week flat as slides in miners, particularly gold stocks, cancelled out rising financial and energy stocks.

The Dow was up 0.64 per cent amid data showing that jobless insurance applications are back almost to where they were before the Great Recession.

The industrials sector led advancers Friday, up 0.5 per cent and Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) gained $1.10 to C$118.87.

Financials were also positive with Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) ahead 26 cents to $20.37 after earlier hitting a new 52-week high of $20.50.

The gold sector had been up as much as two per cent in the morning but ended up down about one per cent to lead decliners. The sector is by far the worst TSX performer, down over seven per cent this week and about 47 per cent year to date as low inflation and the rising probability of Fed tapering have lessened gold’s allure as a hedge.

“There are no new fundamentals supporting a dominant move higher in gold,” Headland said, adding that “inflation numbers are coming out fairly low, fairly benign.”

“There is even dreaded talk of potential deflation (but) I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

December bullion climbed 50 cents to US$1,244.10 Friday, but was still down 3.4

OTTAWA — An appetite for new vehicles powered Canadian retail sales higher in September, the third consecutive monthly increase, but the excitement didn’t extend to the mall.

Overall retail sales were up one per cent for the month, well ahead of the 0.3 per cent that had been expected by economists, but would have been relatively flat without motor vehicles and parts.

The September results came as sales at new car dealers climbed five per cent, the largest monthly gain since January 2009, and sales at parts dealers rose 4.1 per cent.

“Strong employment gains, rising consumer confidence and a bustling housing resale activity have stoked the appetite for big-ticket purchases, giving a boost to retail sales in recent months,” CIBC economist Emanuella Enenajor said.

“But with many of those factors set to downshift, retail sales could slow, with consumers making a

Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.02 cents US, down 0.03 of a cent Pound — C$1.7074, up 0.51 of a cent Euro — C$1.4258, up 0.81 of a cent Euro — US$1.3548, up 0.73 of a cent Oil futures: US$94.84 per barrel, down 60 cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,244.10 per oz., up 50 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.816 per oz., up 9.5 cents $701.38 per kg., up $3.05 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 $2.70 higher $492.70; March ’14 $2.50 higher $501.90; May ’14 $2.10 higher $509.10; July ’14 $1.70 higher $514.40; Nov. ’14 $2.10 higher $516.90; Jan ’15 $2.00 higher $520.00; March ’15 $2.40 higher $521.00; May ’15 $3.40 higher $520.10; July ’15 $3.40 higher $517.30; Nov ’15 $3.40 higher $513.50; Jan. ’16 $3.40 higher $513.50.

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.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 574,280 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 574,280.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,478.34 up 3.01 points TSX Venture Exchange — 932.15 up 5.43 points TSX 60 — 777.49 down 0.02 point Dow — 16,064.77 up 54.78 points S&P 500 — 1,804.76 up 8.91 points Nasdaq — 3,991.65 up

Retail sales rose 1% in September: StatsCan

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per cent for the week, and Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) faded 58 cents to C$17.21.

The base metals component fell 0.8 per cent while December copper rose two cents to US$3.21 a pound.

Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX:TRQ) dropped 20 cents to C$4.47.

The energy component was down 0.2 per cent with January crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange off 60 cents at US$94.84 a barrel. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) was 44 cents lower at C$34.82.

On the corporate front, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld Ontario rules banning big pharmacies from selling their own private-label generic drugs, saying the province’s 2010 decision to ban the practice was consistent with its efforts to ensure transparent drug pricing.

Shoppers Drug Mart (TSX:SC) and Rexall challenged the province because they wanted to be able to sell their own lower-priced generic versions of big-name drugs. Shoppers shares slipped 19 cents to $58.92.

In the U.S., Intel fell $1.36, or 5.39 per cent, to US$23.87, after the company said Thursday that it expected revenues to be flat next year. Analysts had expected a small increase.

Eurozone ministers asked to justify spending plans

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS, Belgium — Finance ministers from nations using the euro currency met Friday for the first time to critique each other’s spending plans for next year.

The gathering in Brussels was supposed to help reduce the chances for a repeat of the government overspending and miscalculation that plunged much of Europe’s economy into recession. European Commissioner Olli Rehn said over-optimistic economic forecasting has been a “major vice” plaguing European governments in the past.

At their closed-door meeting, the finance ministers addressed criticisms that the European Union’s executive branch issued last week of each country’s proposed 2014 budget. Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands, who chaired the session, told a news conference afterward that the discussions among colleagues had been respectful but “direct.”

In a communique, the ministers said five countries whose 2014 budgets were deemed at risk of not complying with EU growth and stability rules —Malta, Spain, Italy, Finland and Luxembourg — expressed their “full commitment” Friday to make the needed adjustments, or said they have already begun to do so.

less meaningful contribution to GDP in the quarters ahead.”

Gains were reported in six of the 11 subsectors, accounting for 55 per cent of retail trade.

Sales at building materials and garden equipment and supplies dealers were up 0.8 per cent, while health and personal care stores were up 0.2 per cent.

Gasoline station sales rose 0.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, sales at food and beverage stores fell 0.3 per cent on lower grocery and supermarket sales.

Clothing and clothing accessories sales were down 0.6 per cent and electronics and appliance stores saw sales fall 1.1 per cent.

Retail sales rose in nine provinces in September, with Ontario up one per cent, Alberta up two per cent and Quebec up 0.7 per cent.

Prince Edward Island, which saw sales fall 0.3 per cent, was the only province to post a drop.

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Developments in Queens Business Park boost building permits A pair of big developments in Queens Business Park accounted for more than a third of Red Deer’s building permit values last month.

The city issued a $5.4-million permit to RBW Consulting Ltd. for an industrial shop and a $4.6-million permit to Tricon Developments Inc. for a truck wash, both in the industrial subdivision west of Hwy 2. These helped boost Red Deer’s October permit value total to $27.9 million — well below its October 2012 tally of $65.8 million, which was inflated by the $53.8-million expansion of Red Deer’s wastewater treatment plant.

Last month’s permits included $11.1 million for residential projects and $6.4 million for commercial work, which were up from the October 2012 numbers of $6.7 million and $1.1 million respectively. Total industrial permits values fell to $10.4 million from $56.3 million.

Red Deer’s cumulative permit values for the year were $213 million as of Oct. 31, down from $235.6 million to the same point in 2012. Residential construction had slipped to $95.4 million from $99.3 million, industrial projects were down to $31 million from $55.7 million, and industrial permits had dropped to $50.2 million from $70.2 million. However, permit values for public projects were up to $36.4 million, as compared with $10.4 million for the same 10 months in 2012.

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Whimsical holiday settings DEBBIE TRAVIS

HOUSE TO HOME Setting the table for holiday parties is a great occasion to allow your whimsical side to escape.

Along with the fabulous food treats, the table should offer good cheer and panache.

Decide on an overall theme; would you like to have a simple, spare look or a happy cluster of patterns and accessories?

The most elegant table is often the simplest — pure white linen, plain rimmed china, polished silver and sparkling crystal always make company feel pampered.

But sometimes more is called for and there are many elements to play with, to mix and mingle for a dynamite display.

Start with a tablecloth or mats if you prefer the tabletop to show.

This is the background layer onto which you place everything.

A single colour or tone on tone design will allow your serving pieces to stand out.

Take stock of your inventory of plates and linens and how you might build on what you have.

Dishes don’t have to match, but look best if

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Left: Not your everyday salt and pepper set by William Bounds, this pair has an art deco edge that’s fun and fanciful.

they are the same weight or thickness.

Patterns can also differ, connected by a motif or colour.

Accessories, including candles, salt and pepper shakers, a water pitcher, and condiment dishes add interest and even surprise.

One of the most enduring patterns is the simple stripe.

It can go anywhere,

pair up with any style and switch moods according to its shape and shade.

Fivestripes.com shows their flair for stripes on everything from candles, cups and spoons to carpets and carry bags.

The Ana candles started them off, with striped tapers and Carousel Pillars, shown here in ivory, sienna and peacock.

If you fancy a little

art deco style, William Bounds has a series of salt and peppers beautifully lacquered in stripes (and a few polka dots too).

The Pep Art twin set in black and white looks great on any table, fun for the kitchen and fine for a feast.

Dear Debbie: My daughter has a large mirror that she wants to hang on the wall above her couch.

It’s a quality mirror, but the frame needs to be updated.

I would like to paint it to look like frames I have seen that are silver, but

when you look closely you can see small brush strokes in black and other shades.

Can you tell me how to create this elegant look?

Thanks. — Lori Dear Lori: What you are describing is a patina of silver rather than a matte silver finish.

Paint the frame with a base coat of black or dark grey, then stipple on the silver paint over the dry base.

You need to use very little.

You can use a stencil brush, which is flat ended or a normal bristle brush, but hold it with

the flat tip to the surface.

Let the first layer of silver dry, and then stipple on more silver until you see just a tiny bit of black underneath. It really is very easy.

Practise first on a spare board until you are pleased with the result.

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Cost-cutting tips for home decorating or daily life Heading out last weekend to headOK, so they’re pricier, but use about line the Sudbury Women’s Show, we 80 per cent less electricity than stanoffered style guidance to an army of dard bulbs. hungry ladies with an appeAnd turn off lights that tite for chic — albeit affordaren’t in use. It’s a no brainable — home counsel. er, perhaps, but we know Preaching from our lecfrom experience how easy terns at the United Steelit is to roam room to room workers Hall, we heard the and leave lamps blazing. same question over and over If we’re doing it, you’re again: “How do I save money doing it, too. on the decorating front withWhile you’re at it, turn out sacrificing style?” off that TV before your reWhile spooling through tire (instead of leaving it on high-impact visuals (where standby) and do the same client budgets were maxed), with your computer. Every we noticed that, as much as little bit helps, right?

COLIN & our glossy armoury temptIt’s also good practice to JUSTIN ed oohs and ahs, it was the turn down your thermostat rooms conspired on tighter 24/7; even one degree will budgets that attracted the affect savings of up to 10 biggest response. per cent. And your water Ever sensitive to the financial cli- heater? Regulate it to 49 to 51C and mate, we hope it makes for interesting watch those savings mount. reading today, as we touch upon even Be mindful, too, of your kettle. We more ways to conserve your dollars. only ever boil as much as we need; This done, we’ll swoop back into that way we don’t waste cash or send familiar territory with a furniture mini unnecessary carbon dioxide into the miracle: the transformation of a dis- atmosphere. Fancy a solitary cuppa? carded baby change unit into a Vegas- Put a third of a litre in your boiler and inspired cocktail cabinet — the very prepare for a faster, cheaper brew. It subject that sent our Sudbury audi- really is that simple. ence into cash-saving orbit.

In our Glasgow home, built in 1835, we have an original overhead airer, which dries clothes quickly, working on the principal that heat rises, so we rarely turn on our tumble drier.

Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent alternatives.

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HOME: Not like Scrooge, just sensible Canny Scots? Aye, all the way to the piggy bank.

As cottagers, we’ve just instructed a complete course of draft-proofing, with sponge and brush seals around the doors and windows in our northern bolthole.

Work instructed and commencing next week, we anticipate considerable savings as Mother Nature’s icy breath blows relentlessly against our cabin.

We’re not playing Scrooge, you understand, we’re just being sensible. And mindful of the environment, to boot.

Long-term outdoor wood finishes

Water, water, everywhere

See the potential Try to see into the future past the colour, condition and state of furniture castoffs.

Think potential.

This piece, for example, waited years to be freed from its dull shackles.

Sure, its bones were good but the dated faux mahogany appearance was out of step with its owners.

But we had a plan.

And a vision.

First things first: we sanded the gloopy varnish to smooth out imperfections.

(Tip: use rough sandpaper to break through before swapping for a lighter gauge for intricate corners and detail.)

Build up colour: Several light coats will endure better than one heavy coat, so take your time and build colour slowly.

(Tip: a small foam roller is the best way to create a perfect finish, aided by a small brush to catch intricate areas.)

We also applied a pearlized protective top coat with a gentle lustre.

Heavy metal: Studded like Elvis’s jackets, the bar has a fun, stand-out quality.

Upholstery tacks, carefully applied, add light catching detail and frame out sections of self-adhesive vinyl used to cover each door surface.

Glass class: The application of glass adds a modern feel, which protects the top surface while reflecting bottles in the same way a gantry would in a real bar.

A five-mm gauge brass rod, secured in place by drilling small side holes, creates a stabilizer for bottles.

For custom mirrors try http://accessglassinc.com/ accessglassinc.com.

Context: The provision of context is important where interior design is concerned — positioning your piece where it seems most relevant makes sound sense.

A great talking point at parties, our clients’ new bar now resides next to the fireplace.

With the addition of botanical prints above and a harp back chair to the side, the vignette comes alive.

However you plan saving money, whether cost-cutting as described at the top of our column, or upscaling as witnessed by our before and after, one thing’s for sure: with the holidays approaching, you’ll have more money to spend on festive decorations.

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts on television and in print.

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HOUSEWORKS Question: What do one-time exterior wood treatments look like after a few years of exposure?

You’ve written about these before but I’m nervous about what happens as they age long-term.

Answer: There are two non-toxic, wooddarkening products on the market that I’ve tested and written about, beginning in 2002 — Eco Wood Treatment and Lifetime Wood Treatment.

Both are similar products that come as a powder you mix with water.

Applied to wood with a brush or sprayer, the tea-coloured liquid makes the surface darken by chemical reaction to a kind of olive grey colour beginning about 30 minutes after application.

Over time, this darkening does take on a naturally weathered look, except that the weathering is more even in colour and less blotchy than if you had originally applied nothing.

Eventually the result is a more even and refined barnboard kind of effect.

Not everyone likes this appearance, but some find it quite attractive.

The fact that you never have to maintain the surface in any way after initial application is a nice advantage, too.

Converting an attic Question: How can I find a contractor to renovate my attic into livable space?

You’ve written about this recently and it sounds great, except I can’t find anyone to do the work.

Answer: Unused attic space is the diamond-inthe-rough for many Canadian homes, but not every attic can be turned into a finished zone.

Part of your problem might be the design of your roof structure.

Older homes with steep roofs and rafters are easy to convert, while low-slope roofs made with trusses can’t usually be converted into a finished attic space.

How many contractors have you approached?

Have any of them actually looked inside your attic?

It may be that you’ve just approach people who are too busy or in-

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Cedar shingles two years after application of Eco Wood Treatment. experienced, so be sure to ask why any new contractors say no.

The hazards of renovating a home Question: What materials in an older house could be hazardous?

We’re planning to renovate a home built in the late 1950s and would like your opinion on possible harmful materials.

Answer: Until 1978, household paint could contain lead, so your home almost certainly has lead paint. That said, it’s not considered

a problem unless you’re scraping or sanding it.

Lead paint covered by non-lead paint is considered safe as long as it doesn’t get airborne or ingested.

If you’d like to know the state of old paint for sure, you can buy a simple lead test kit.

Swab on some liquid, and depending on how it changes colour, it indicates the presence or absence of lead.

Many people unknowingly strip lead paint from old trim, stairs and built-in cabinets, but precautions are required to stay safe.

Other areas of potential danger include trace amounts of asbestos in

loose-fill vermiculite insulation, as well as the insulation applied around any hot water heating pipes that might be in your home.

Warming a cold, old floor Question: Why isn’t my newly-insulated floor warm? We had the underside of the main floor on our 100-year-old house sprayed with foam insulation, but we’ve still got cold feet. Would the floor get warmer if we had the stone basement walls sprayed?

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If you respect water, your bills will, over time, be reduced.

Invest in a programmable timer bar to take advantage of off-peak tariffs, and run dishwashers and washers (full, of course) during these periods.

Shower, where possible, instead of bathing (to conserve about 50 per cent of the water) but remember that a power shower can dispatch the same as a bath if you stay under that jet for more than five minutes.

Turn off faucets as you clean your teeth. A running tap as you brush costs much more than a little on-and-off tap action.

Clean surfaces with vinegar or baking soda instead of hot water and expensive cleaning products.

We’d caution, though, that you dilute vinegar 50/50, as the smell can be overpowering.

Launder clothes and linens in cold water to save up to 40 per cent of energy versus washing in hot.

We can attest that, if you use good-quality, lowtemperature detergent, results will be more than satisfactory.

But these are merely a snapshot of what you can do to cut domestic bills.

For more, go to http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/homenrcan.gc.ca or http://actionplan.gc.ca/page/saveenergy-save-money-make-differenceactionplan. gc.ca In the meantime, sit back, relax and enjoy today’s makeover: the cash-saving reversion of a discarded baby change station.

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Among the most popular — and dramatic — 3-D products for the home are lights, whether ceiling pendants, table lamps or floor lamps.

Belgium’s .MGX by Materialise, a pioneer in 3-D printing, is known for museum-quality, futuristic designs. Among the most popular is the Bloom table lamp (about $2,600), a flower-bud inspired design with joints that you can expand or collapse to release or contain light, says marketing manager Katrien Vandenplas.

Shapeways offers dozens of lamps created by some of the site’s more than 11,000 “shop owners,” or designers. The honeycomb-inspired Veroni lampshade, for instance, costs as little as $15 and comes in a variety of colours and materials ranging from the standard plastic to raw metal and steel.

Wall hangings Statement pieces for your walls run the gamut in the 3-D printing world.

Shapeways’ ethereal Whales ($48) lends modern sophistication with its airy rendition of two swimming whales crafted from white plastic. They almost seem to spring off the wall. Florida-based Proton 3D Studio offers a little kitsch with a Pop Art-like plastic Pi symbol ($21) and the word “geek” crafted in orange plastic script lettering ($24).

Sweden’s Kredema Design has one of the more “off the wall” home-decor products: a three-dimensional wallpaper that rolls out away from the wall to form shelves, magazine holders and even lampshades. Made from sheets of acrylic and wallpaper, the Off the Wall collection is available by special order only.

you can design or find just about anything homerelated using 3-D printing technology.

Shapeways recently added glazed ceramic to its list of materials, making it possible to craft personalized plates, mugs, salt and pepper shakers, and other items for the table.

Blogger and tech consultant Michael Sitver designed some personalized coasters in about 90 minutes using a 3-D CAD software called Autodesk Inventor.

He printed them up at Shapeways’ website.

“This is a great project for beginners,” says Sitver, of Weston, Conn. “because designing it doesn’t take too much work, but it helps beginners get acquainted with the tools involved and the process.”

He calls his new coasters a “wonderful conversation piece.”

Furniture It might sound like a tall order, but it’s possible to craft tables, chairs and other furnishings with 3-D

printers as well.

They’re not cheap though, at least not yet.

A day bed crafted from white nylon plastic will run you nearly $20,000 on Shapeways, while .MGX by Materialise offers several chairs, stools and tables that look more like works of art than something to sit on. They also run into the thousands.

But there’s a lot that’s still possible with this burgeoning technology, especially as it gets cheaper and more accessible.

“When kids are exposed to this technology, they don’t even blink an eye when something is printed,” Vandenplas says. “When they are older, 3-D printing will fit into their lives much like the Internet and smartphones fit into our lives today.”

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The printers, which now cost as little as $300, use lasers to blast out layer upon layer of plastics or other materials, forming 3-D objects.

And if you don’t have the time, money or inclination to invest in a 3-D printer of your own, there are hundreds of websites selling lights, coasters, sculptures, furniture and even wallpaper crafted by 3-D printers.

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The only way to make the upstairs floor warmer now is to install some kind of supplemental infloor heating above the spray foam.

Trouble is that’s disruptive and expensive. I wish there were some other option I could suggest, but I’m afraid there isn’t.

Insulating the basement walls, then adding heat to the basement would have made a world of difference to your comfort levels before you had the floor sprayed, but it won’t help now.

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FLORENCE Jagger Noah 2012 - 2013 Jagger Noah Florence of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta on Monday, November 18, 2013 at the very tender age of 1 year and 8 months. Born on February 23, 2012 in Edmonton, Jagger was diagnosed with a severe congenital heart defect, clotting disorder and no spleen. Though having all these complications, he was always happy and had an obvious will to live and love for life, even after numerous surgeries. Throughout his short time here with us, he touched many people’s lives and had the ability to show everyone to not take life for granted. Jagger will forever be lovingly remembered by his parents, Tyler and Lauren Florence and his grandparents, Geordie and Debbie Florence and Dwight and Connie Daniels, all of Red Deer. Jagger will also be missed by extended family and family friends.

“EXPECT MIRACLES EVERYDAY” A Funeral Service will be held at CrossRoads Chapel, S.W. corner of Hwy. 2 and 32nd Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. Interment will take place at Alto Reste Cemetery. In honor of Jagger, his family would be grateful if memorial donations were made directly to Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, 1502 College Plaza, 8218-112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2C8.

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HUSTON Hilda Greta Greta passed away peacefully Friday, October 11, 2013 surrounded by her loved ones. Greta was born in Red Deer, Alberta to Alfred and Hilda Heywood. Mom met her husband Keith while both were serving in the RCAF; they married in 1945. Mom was grad of Olds College with a nursing degree and dedicated her life to nursing.

Greta was predeceased by her parents Alfred and Hilda Heywood; husband Keith; son-in-law Tom; daughter-inlaw Sheila; and special grandson James. She is survived by sons: Gerald (Nancy) and family, Wayne (Maxine) and family, Howard (Judy) and family, Ken (Cynthia) and family; daughters: Jodi and family, Cheri and family, Rose Huston, Divana Huston; and special niece Lorraine and family; 23 grandchildren; and 23 great grandchildren.

A celebration of Life was held on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at St. George’s Anglican Church in Enderby, BC. Mom was very proud of her family and called them her shining lights. Her final message was for everyone to find happiness above all else.

WILLIAMS Loretta Williams passed away peacefully on November 22, 2013. Loretta was born on March 13th, 1959 in Calgary, Alberta. Loretta is survived by her loving daughter, Shayla, her nieces Amanda and Halley and many close friends.

She was predeceased by her parents William and Barbara Christensen and her loving son Kailen. Loretta was a kind and unique person of great integrity. She had many amazing talents and shared them with those she loved.

She lived for her children, always giving them the very best she could. Loretta will be sorely missed by her dear friends and family, yet we know she has rejoined her sweet son and the rest of her family in a place of eternal love and peace. Loretta will live on forever in our hearts.

WYLLIE Mrs. Anne Mar. 8, 1930 -Nov. 16, 2013 Mrs. Anne Wyllie (nee Mady) slipped peacefully away on November 16/2013 at St. Joseph Auxiliary Hospital in Edmonton at the age of 83 years. This marked the end of a fulfilled and virtuous life.

She leaves, to mourn, her daughters Elaine (Syd Pallister), Paula (Jim Reiser) sons Bob (Elaine Maloney) and Mark (Joanne Wyllie) as well as her beloved sister Mildred Stecyk of Saskatoon, in laws; Loraine Wear of Concord, California and Russ Wiley of Saskatoon. Anne was blessed with 10 grandchildren, 1 great grandson, 2 great granddaughters as well as many nieces, great nieces and great nephews. She also leaves behind many dear friends, most notably in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

She was predeceased by infant son Ricky in 1960 and husband George in 2008.

Anne was born in 1930 in Kindersley, Saskatchewan the daughter of Ukrainian immigrant farmers (John and Mary Mady) and grew up and attended school in Glidden.

Despite not speaking English when she started school, she persevered to become an honours student. Anne met her husband, George, who was also from the Kindersley area (Brock) and they wed in 1952. They moved to Edmonton, then Rimbey, where they grew a business and a family, before retiring back to Edmonton. Anne’s early introduction to agriculture helps to explain her near magical effect on all that grew inside and outside of her home. She was consumed with all things involving friends and family and had an undying interest in politics and world affairs. She was always keen to speak on all topics with friends, family, or even strangers. Anne’s family wish to invite all to attend a memorial reception celebrating her life to take place on Sunday December 1, 2013 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Riverbend Community Center (258 Rhatigan Rd. East) in Edmonton.

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BOOKKEEPING CLERK req;d for Go Tire Inc. in Red Deer. Email resume to: mabel@mygotire.com TRUE-LINE Contracting is hiring in their Accounting Department for a maternity leave position. Interested candidates may apply with Resume & References to: TRUE-LINE CONTRACTING LTD. 140, 4731-61st Street, Red Deer, AB Fax: 403.340.0100

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DUSSOME Frank Feb. 20, 1934 - Nov. 19, 2013 Frank was born February 20, 1934 in Dunrae Manitoba to Francis and Roseanne Dussome, after a courageous battle with cancer he passed away November 19, 2013. He will be sadly missed by his best friend and wife Connie; his daughter Pauline and Rob Carswell; stepson Bob Bayrack; stepdaughter Diane (Dayne) Moran; grandchildren Jessica (Nick), Jamie (JP), Jennifer (Jay), and Lucas; great grandchildren Cayden, Preston, Payton, Lincoln, Coleman and Pheonix; brother Roy (Delores); sister Phyllis; brother-in-law Gordon (Elaine) Dunn; sister-in-law Diane Dunn; several nieces and nephews and so many wonderful friends. Frank was predeceased by brothers To m , J i m , E u g e n e , a n d Louie; sisters Mary and Annie; brothers-in-law Ron, M y l e s , a n d Te r r y D u n n .

Frank was a foster parent to 17 children. Frank worked road construction driving an Euclid until 1957 when he had his legs ran over by a caterpillar. In 1962 he started working for Woodwards Stores for 21 years. From here he tried something new, selling RV’s for Canadian Leisure and later at Bucars, he loved this, but after many leg operations Frank was forced to retire in 1995.

Frank had many interests including curling, pool, bowling, horse shoes, dancing, and playing cards. He loved getting together with friends playing guitar and singing. In 2009 along with his friends Bob Pedersen, Marie Lamb and Doris Sowa played military whist at the senior summer games in Airdire, they brought home the gold medal. A celebration of Frank’s life will be held at the community Centre at Waskasoo Estates Mobile home park on November 29, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. We so appreciate all the help and care from the home care people. And Dr. Brodie who visited Frank on a regular basis. We would like to thank the wonderful people at the hospice for making Franks stay so comfortable with exceptional care. Anyone wishing to make a memorial donation in Frank’s name can be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer T4R 3S6.

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

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Parkland Youth Homes is a non-profit, dynamic, learning organization that is passionate about providing quality service to youth and families in the Red Deer area. We are seeking qualified, motivated individuals to fill the following positions:

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Heywood Holmes & Partners LLP is looking for experienced personal tax staff to help manage the 2014 season. You should have a proven understanding of personal tax with knowledge of CRA processes.

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LOOKING FOR BOILER OPERATORS with tickets for work in Central Alberta and Northeastern BC. Submit resumes to info@gtchandler.com or fax to: 403-886-2223

Q TEST INSPECTION LTD.

Now has immediate openings for CGSB Level II RT’s and CEDO’s for our winter pipeline projects. Top wages and comprehensive benefit package available.

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Skilled & adept in pressure vessel & piping design.

Candidate can demonstrate proficiency with AutoCAD/ AutoCAD Inventor, compress & has proven record of successful projects.

Strong computer skills & technical aptitude is req’d.

We offer above industry wages & comprehensive benefit package.

Please email resumes to careers@fusionpro.ca or fax 403-347-7867

WILD ROSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS invites applications for a temporary (one year)

Assistant Transportation Manager position in Rocky Mtn House. Class 2 Driver’s licence with S endorsement required, as well as knowledge and experience in the Pupil Transportation industry. Please visit the Employment Opportunities page of www.wrsd.ca for position and application details.

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

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JOURNEYMAN REFRIGERATION MECHANICS 4 Day/40 Hour Work Week

Petrochemical Facility in the Red Deer Area The ideal candidate will require the following for this position: • Specific experience in preventative maintenance and building checks • Work experience on advanced controls; electric, pneumatic, DDS systems • Compressor and heat pump change outs • Well organized with good time management skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Computer literate Starting at $40.24/hour STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

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RED DEER BINGO CENTRE IS NOW HIRING CONSCESSION COOKS 2 positions avail. 35-40 hrs/wk. Exp. pref. Must be 18 yrs or older. Email: ognib@telus.net or apply in person to 4946 53 Ave.

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

VIETNAMESE GARDEN RESTAURANT NOW HIRING! 2 permanent F/T Food Service Attendants, salary starts @ $11.00/hr., 40 hrs/wk & 1 F/T permanent Food Service Supervisor @ $13.50/hr., 40 hrs/wk.

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F/T LINE COOKS NEEDED Cooks start at $15./hr Must be willing to work varying shifts and weekends. Must have reliable transportation. Apply in person to Sandy at Glenn’s Restaurant on Gasoline Alley or phone for an app’t. 403-346-5448.

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Portable iMassagers Hiring Salespersons Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB. Good English and communication skills, Customer service oriented.

F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $14.00 /hr e-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com

RAMADA INN & SUITES REQUIRES ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred.

Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433

ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com

WILD ROSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS invites applications for the position for

French Immersion Teaching Assistant

for Pioneer Middle School in Rocky Mtn House, approx 30 hrs/week.

French Language skills required. Please visit the Employment Opportunities page of www.wrsd.ca for position and application details.

REQUIRES F/T PARTS PRO Work with flexible schedule.

Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403-309-0354 or email: ps791@partsource.ca

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REQUIRES P/T DELIVERY DRIVER Flexible hrs., evenings and weekends. Knowledge of city an asset. Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403-309-0354 or email: ps791@partsource.ca

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters Carpenters Helpers For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

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TEACHER, Crestomere School For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

Owner Operators & Company Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

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First Choice Collision seeking Journeyman Technician for our car & light truck division. Successful candidate must have Canadian Red Seal and/or Alberta Completion of Apprenticeship Certificate.

Starting flat rate wage of $29.00/hr plus monthly bonus is available. Blue Cross benefit package available after 3 months of successful employment with our company. Fax resume to (403)343-2160 or drop off in person.

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We require: Caterpillar and Komatsu experience, strong diagnostic and electrical experience, knowledge with Electronic Technician and SIS programs.

Successful candidates must be able to work independently in a busy environment, be flexible and work well with others. Driver’s license, H2S Alive, First Aid/CPR are required. A dual heavy equipment and automotive ticket is an asset.

Candidates must go through pre-employment drug testing.

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Wage starting at $22.41/hour The ideal candidate will require the following: • Hold a high safety focus with adherence to safety standards • Possess basic carpentry skills • Ensure all scheduled training is completed • Maintain high housekeeping standards • Able to receive and follow directions on all aspects of work related fields • Possess basic computer skills • Good communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills • Team Player

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Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary Alberta.

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide handson training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

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WINTER START GED PREPARATION Jan. 14 or Feb. 10 STARTS Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) DEER PARK AREA Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

73 Papers $439/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

ARE you looking for a seasonal full time delivery driver position? We are looking for a safe exp’d and professional Class 1 or Class 5 driver. Common sense, a positive attitude and a clean drivers abstract will be a definate asset.

Typically this position is Mon. - Fri. but can include some weekends. Rate of pay depends on exp.

Please contact Shayne at Central Alberta Green House Ltd. 403-885-4606 Ext. 330 or fax resume to 403-885-4147 email. acct2cag@telus.net

CARRIERS NEEDED ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close

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SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Close

HVAC Service Person required. SHEET Metal Installer required with residential and retro-fit experience.

Attractive wages and benefits. Great hours. e-mail: brad@ comfortecheating.com or Fax resume to: 403-309-8302

Adamson Ave. / Arthur Close INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

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MECHANICAL FOREMAN NEEDED FOR SHOP IN LACOMBE. Duties include: Servicing diesel company vehicles and fabricating. Please fax resume to: 403-342-7447.

MILLARD Trucking Ltd. is looking for a Licenced Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. The successful applicant must be able to work well in a high paced environment. We offer a great working environment, very competitive wages and performance based bonuses. All interested persons are invited to apply to: Millard Trucking Ltd. Box 960 Sundre, Alberta T0M 1X0 Fax: 403-638-4987 Email: jmillard@enerchem.com

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BLACKFALDS

JOB FAIR - HIRING ALL POSITIONS

for full-time permanent shop positions We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca

Academic Express

Lamont Close

with several years experience working with on-off road earthworks equipment.

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DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

NEED EXPERIENCED Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Full Time.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

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Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

See full details at www.GCSenergy.ca

Email or fax resume to:

WOLF CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS invites applications for the following position:

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

Journeyman HE (off road) Mechanic needed for Red Deer shop

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Central Alberta Exteriors is looking for experienced siding installers. Must have own transportation, tools and equipment.

Call 403-346-0500 for more info.

Netook Construction Ltd. is a heavy equipment contractor based out of Olds, Alberta.

We are seeking a

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. Attention: Human Resources Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: hr@studon.com

SCOTTYS ESSO in Red Deer seeking food counter attendants. FT, PT & Weekends. $10-11/hr.

Training provided. Apply in person to 5 Reichley Street or by email to scottys.esso@shaw.ca.”

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & apparel, at our Parkland Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus & comm. F/T Position. No exp. req’d. Email Flurriesrd@gmail.com

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Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, for new team members to join an enthusiastic and selling soap & bath growing company. products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty Concrete finisher cert. req’d. Location needed to perform detailed and quality finishTHE RUSTY PELICAN is Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email ing as well as other related now accepting resumes for premierjobrdbto@ tasks, minimum 5 years F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at gmail.com experience. All applicants all stations. must be flexible for hours MUST HAVE: and dedicated due to a • 2-3 yrs. post secondary SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps.

Selling demanding production education. s o a p & b a t h p r o d u c t s . schedule.

Own transporta• 2-5 yrs. training tion to work is needed.

• 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Wage will be based on • Provide references Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. experience, attitude and The hourly rate will be Red Deer. email resume to willingness to commit to $13.10 per hour. premierjobrd@gmail.com long term employment.

Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. Please fax resume to Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 403 885 5516 or email to or Call 403-347-1414 Teachers/ k.kooiker@ or Fax to: 403-347-1161 eaglebuilders.ca Tutors Thank you to all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be notified.

APPLY: Please submit your resume and references by November 30 via fax to 403-343-8805 We wish to thank everyone for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

850

820

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T or P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Has an immediate opening for an

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CALL 309-3300

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Human Resources Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

810

Sales & Distributors

Tuesday, November 26 • 11 - 5 pm Blackfalds Multiplex, 5302 Broadway Avenue

www.bostonpizza.com/en/careers/

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Restaurant/ Hotel

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

880

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Highland Green

DEERPARK AREA Doran Cres., & Dunn Cl. Area $65/mo.

ALSO Doran Cres. & Doan Ave, Area $64/mo.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

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Hill Cres & Hermary St. Normandeau Niven St. & Newton Cres.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info 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 JANITORIAL Co seeking a f/t com/window cleaning sup for RD and area. Req: fluent in written and oral english, 2-3 years exp in a supervisory role,clean driving record, criminal record check, job physically demanding.

Benefits after 3 mos. $19/hr Fax resume 403-342-1897 mail to #4, 4608-62 St. RedDeer, AB. T4N 6T3 CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS & EQUIPMENT INSTALLERS Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

BOWER AREA

For afternoon delivery once per week

WAREHOUSE / DELIVERY MANAGER Family owned and operated since 1974, Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada.

The Company currently has an immediate opening for a Warehouse/ Delivery Manager at our Red Deer location.

In the towns of:

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

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SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Nov. 21 & 22 Thurs. & Fri. 2 - 5 Nov. 23 & 24 Sat. & Sun. 1 - 5 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

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classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1720

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

Handyman Services

1200

Massage Therapy

1280

Personal Services

1315

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Health Come in and see Care why we are the talk of the town.

REIKI HEALING BY KYLE! www.viimassage.biz onespiritwellness.com

1210

403-598-2292

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d)

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1290

(FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving

FANTASY

UNWANTED House & Yard Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

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

Central AB. 403-318-4346

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

PRO-PAINTING & REPAIRS 403-304-0379

LOOKING TO SHARE the HOLIDAYS with a new love?

They are a call away.

Call 403-886-4733 Sincere Connections PSYCHIC HEALER Send first name ONLY and nature of illness to Box 1070, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9. Gratuities will not be accepted.

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

Yard Care

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034

1760

8.5 HP 4 cycle 24” snow blower, $600 403-343-0306 from 5 pm-7 pm 403-343-0306 CROKINOLE board 26” across, metal frame w/checkers $25; wine racks, chrome plated, holds 12 bottles ea. $10/ea; 2 table centres made of pine cones and candle $8/ea; wood bar shelf 5’L $5; med. size roaster, blue enamel $6; large deer antlers on shield $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 LOVESEAT, pink & white stripes, ideal for bedroom, exc. cond. $150.; 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean will sell separately, $50. for all 3.

403-352-8811 MTD 3 HORSPOWER 21” SNOWBLOWER. 2 cycle. (Oil & gas mix.) $175. 403-302-0987 POTTERY, soup set with urn & ladle, 4 bowls, casserole dish & salad bowl w/4 plates, like new. $150. set of 12 suitcases, like new $25. for both; glass canister, gal. size with silver cover $10.

403-352-8811 Simonize pressure car washer $25 obo; VHS movies $1/ea. 403-347-6183

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

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Terrie 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

Houses For Sale

4020

ONE bdrm. ADULT only apt. close to college, $780/mo., avail. immed. no pets 403-877-3323

SUITE FOR THE BUDGET MINDED

You can save thousands!

Helping sellers sell for a low set fee. No advance fee.

Money back guarantee.

THE NORDIC

104x353 lot in the heart of Sylvan Lake. Excellent location for future development. $449,900.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3080

LOOKING for F. roommate 55 yrs. or younger. Red Deer. after 1 pm. 403-986-1903

Rooms For Rent

Brand new fully developed Penhold bi-level.

3 bdrm, 3bath. Fireplace. $379,900.

3090

Mountview: fully furn bdrm $500/$250. Working Male only. Call 403-396-2468

3140

4 bdrm., 2 bath in Bentley.

Open concept oak kitchen.

Beautifully landscaped. $199,999. 403-877-5052 4900 sq. ft. bay, heated, OPEN HOUSE (2)O/H.14’ doors, windows, Sun. Nov. 24th 2-4 p.m. room for mezzanine. 403-318-4848 edmakrd@telus.net

Warehouse Space

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Mobile Lot

3190

Mature Mountview!

4 bdrm. 2 bath, single garage. Gas fireplace. $284,900. 403-350-6817

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Terrie 403-340-0225 PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Resorts & Cottages

Springbrook 3 bdrm.

Unique kitchen, across from park. $244,900

3370

WANT TO RENT OR BUY 4 season cabin with land.

1-403-443-8469 Very showy fully developed duplex with oversized garage. $249,900.

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Realtors & Services

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

4010

3030

1700

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

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1100

Cats

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Contractors

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Suites

UTIL ITIES INCLUDED Bsmt SUITE 2 bright bdrms, 1 bath. Shared laundry. Great location!

25 LEGAL size file holders, On Ross St. in Eastview. $950 INCL UTIL Avail fits legal file cabinet all for NOW. No pets. N/S. $10 403-314-2026 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-896-8552

Office Supplies

1840

GREEN leather reclining love seat $500 , 2 matching reclining leather chairs $250/ea. 403-341-3524

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

TABLE, round 40” wooden, w/4 legs, 4 matching chairs, light color, exc. cond. $160.; 5’x7’ wool carpet, light green with matching oval, exc. cond. $40. 403-352-8811

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Overseeing & managing the day to day operations KITTENS, friendly, cuddly needs good home. FREE! of the warehouse • Interviewing, hiring, & 7 mos. old. 403-782-3031 developing employees • Planning, assigning & directing work Dogs • Addressing complaints & resolving problems Eagle Builders in BlackNEWSPAPER P.B. Border Collie Pup. • Analyzing & implementing falds, AB is looking for From exc. working stock. process improvements CARRIERS hard working, motivated 1st shots & dewormed. † individual to fill a full-time REQUIRED $200. 403-429-0519 Requirements: precast concrete erecting • Minimum 3 years direct laborer position To deliver experience in all aspects at our company. Must be of warehouse operations Travel 1 day a week in physically fit as this labourer • Ability to plan & execute Packages position requires constant BOWDEN warehousing strategies heavy lifting and involves • Above average superTRAVEL ALBERTA fast paced, on the job visory skills Alberta offers Please call Debbie training. Applicant must be • Excellent leadership, SOMETHING at 403-314-4307 able to travel and must communication & time for everyone. have reliable transportation management skills Make your travel to and from work as well The Red Deer Public • Organized & efficient plans now. as a valid class 5 driver’s School District • Ability to handle large license. All meals and Invites applications for the volumes of product hotel expenses are paid position of: Temporary † when out of town. SucPermanent Sub Caretaker Trail offers a comprehensive cessful applicant must (December 10, 2013 compensation and benefit provide an up to date driv- June 10, 2014 ) and for the plan, including Flex days. ers abstract. Construction position of Sub Caretaker. experience an asset. Full Start Date: To be If you are looking for a benefits provided. Starting AGRICULTURAL determined challenging and rewarding wages based on experiRegular Work Days: career as a Warehouse / CLASSIFICATIONS ence. Fax resumes to Monday - Friday Delivery Manager, please 403 885 5516 , must flag 2000-2290 Regular Work Hours: submit your resume to: attn: Craig or e-mail to Variable hours resume@trail-appliances.com c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

Required knowledge, or by fax at (403) 212-7661. education, abilities and Please indicate LABORERS wanted for Horses skills are as per the Job ‘Warehouse / Delivery snow removal. Must be Description (available from Manager’ able to obtain a criminal Human Resources). Pay on the subject line WANTED: all types of records check rate is per the current of your fax/email. Security horses. Processing locally 403-506-8928 collective agreement with checks will be conducted in Lacombe weekly. or fax 403-886-5814 C.U.P.E. Local 1012. on successful candidates.

403-651-5912 For more information about the Red Deer Public Employment School District, visit our web site at: Training www.rdpsd.ab.ca Looking for reliable Deadline for applications will be Noon on December newspaper carrier 3, 2013. Application forms for 1 day per week TRAINING CENTRE may be forwarded to 4747CLASSIFICATIONS delivery of the OILFIELD TICKETS 53 Street, Red Deer, AB Industries #1 Choice!

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Central Alberta Life T4N 2E6. Fax: 403-342“Low Cost” Quality Training 3780 or email: WANTED • 3250-3390 in the town of 403.341.4544 umanresources@rdpsd.

24 Hours ab.ca INNISFAIL A current criminal record Toll Free 1.888.533.4544 Houses/ check and child intervenR H2S Alive (ENFORM) Duplexes Packages come tion check will be required R First Aid/CPR of new employees. We ready for delivery.

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 R Confined Space thank all applicants for No collecting. bath, new paint & carpets R WHMIS & TDG their interest but advise & deck at 7316-59 Ave. that only those selected for R Ground Disturbance Avail. to over 40 tenants.

Contact Quitcy at an interview will be contacted. R (ENFORM) B.O.P. No pets. Off street parking 403-314-4316 R D&C (LEL) for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, THE WEST PARK #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627 (across from Totem) COMMUNITY N. END 3 bdrm. duplex, 1 ASSOCIATION up/2 down, 2 full baths 1 is hiring an attendant up, 1 down, 5 appls, for the activity centre† blinds, in floor heating in for the skating season.† bsmt, n/s, no pets $1600.

This part time, temporary Shane/Mellanie 403position would be LUBE RACK 346-4585 to view mid-December to March, TECHNICIAN SYLVAN LAKE private 1 weather depending.† req’d for busy dealership. bdrm., bedding, cable All shifts are evenings & Service & Automotive CLASSIFICATIONS incld’s all utils. $700./mo. weekends. Applicants experience an asset, 403-880-0210 1500-1990 must be 18 years or older.† but will train a motivated, Basic first aid would be an responsible individual. asset, but training can be Full time position with Condos/ Equipmentprovided. Duties include benefits and good working running the concession Townhouses Heavy conditions. stand, snow clearing, Drop off resume Attn: & some cleaning.† 2 BDRM ground floor 45+ TRAILERS for sale or rent Service Manager or email: Starting wage is $12/hour. Job site, office, well site or condo in Lacombe. 5 appl, bert.rumsey@telus.net Outgoing, friendly, responsible balcony, covered parking, storage. Skidded or individuals should apply with bsmt storage. $1000/mo. wheeled. Call 347-7721. a resume & a cover letter to: Avail. immed. 780-484-0236 WPCA, P.O. Box 22061, 3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townRed Deer, AB. T4N 6X4 house in well kept condominium Please note, only applicants Firewood complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. requested for an 5 appls & fenced yard. interview will be contacted.

AFFORDABLE Tenants must be over 40 Homestead Firewood w/references & quiet living.

WANTED: Casual help Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. for snow shovelling in 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627 central area in Red Deer.

403-598-9250 or 341-5806 LOGS EXECUTIVE CONDO Semi loads of pine, spruce,

by RD HOSITAL! WEEKEND/NIGHT tamarack, poplar.

Gracious open concept. dispatcher req’d. immediPrice depends on location.

2 bdrm, 2 full baths. Balcony. ately. Knowledge of Red Lil Mule Logging PHONE BOOKS 7 appls, built-in TV Deer essential. Will require 403-318-4346 Earn extra money for w/sound system! HEATED good verbal and written Christmas by delivering the Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner hardwood floors. Adults communication skills. Fax new Yellow Pages Phone BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / ONLY. NO PETS, Avail resume to 403-346-0295 Books into Sylvan Lake, del. Lyle 403-783-2275 DEC 1st. $1465 & Gas & Stettler & Red Deer.

Power., SD $1465 Must have own vehicle.

WOODYNOOK PALLETS, Hearthstone 403-314-0099 This is door to door delivery. looking for pallet Builders, Health & Or 403-396-9554 Can start immediately, no Payday every Fri. Must Beauty selling involved, part time. have own transportation.

MODERN TOWNCall 1-800-661-1910 Bob 403-596-9181 INVACARE hospital bed HOUSE in ANDERS w/side rails, mattress, used Bright 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, 5 mo, new $1995 asking Unfin. bsmt w/laundry, $1000 403-356-2941 deck. No pets. N/S. $1575 & UTIL; SD $1575; Avail DEC 1st!

Household Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Furnishings Or 403-896-8552

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

CLASSIFICATIONS

1010

1760

KITTENS (2) SIAMESE (1) BALINESE & $50/ea. 403-887-3649

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Tour These Fine Homes

4622-49 AVE. BENTLEY $199,999. Sun. Nov. 24th 2-4 p.m. Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

880

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Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Open House Out Of Red Deer

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WESTPARK AREA

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Donlevy Ave. & Danielle Dr. area. $185/mo

880

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

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2 BDRM. apt. in a +18 bldg on a quiet street downtown. $149,900. 347-4931 HelpU-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

NEW CONDO

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

Acreages

4050

4020

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820

You can save thousands!

Helping sellers sell for a low set fee. No advance fee.

Money back guarantee.

BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231

CLIVE -Won’t Last!

RISER HOMES

3 Bdrm., 2 bath 1200 sq.ft. bi-level on 62x140 lot. $250,000. Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree.

Lloyd 403-391-9294 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

Acreage with art studio awaiting your imagination.

3.09 acres of lush trees and 2 homes. $549,900

Buffalo Lake. 3/4 acre with lake views, 4 bdrm, 3 bath. $334,900. 403-741-6190

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

Beautiful views overlooking scenic river valley. Only 6 miles from Red Deer on pavement.

Starting at $249,000

ONLY ONE! GREAT FAMILY RISER HOMES 4-Plex in Oriole Park New 2300 sq.ft. developed Economical! 3 bdrms,1.5 baths, 4 appls. This is a ‘Must See’! Avail DEC 1st. $1125 & Gas & Elect.

No pets. N/S. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

Suites

3060

4 Level Split 4 bdrms., 3 bath, walk-out.

In McKay Ranch in new Blackfalds.

A MUST SEE! W/ ROOM FOR THE GROWING FAMILY. $340,000.

Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree.

Lloyd 403-391-9294

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, rent & s.d. $800 no pets, 403-348-7445

4090

Manufactured Homes RISER HOMES BLACKFALDS

4 bdrms. 3.5 baths, GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. front att. garage. 2 storey. apartments, avail. immed, Indoor/outdoor fireplace, rent $875 403-596-6000 hardwood, tile, house-wide deck & many more upgrades.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Please phone Lloyd at SUITES. 25+, adults only 403-391-9294 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 for all the details. $437,900 incl. legal fees, appls., GST, front sod & tree.

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

6 quiet fenced acres with beautiful view. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 yrs old. $277,900. 587-729-3009

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

INNISFAIL mobile. 3 bdrm, 2 bath. Fireplace. Lrg rented lot. $49,500. Help-U-Sell RD 403-342-7355 MUST SELL

By Owner.

Terrie 403-340-0225

Businesses For Sale

4140

CHILDRENS clothing store $39,000 403-782-7156 403-357-7465

5050

Trucks

2008 FORD F-250 XL 4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms., $26888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

ESTABLISHED GARBAGE BIN RENTAL BUSINESS. Retiring.

403-341-5866 evenings.

Out Of Town Property

4170

2 BDRM. 700 SQ. FT. on 6000 sq. ft. R2 lot in Stettler, new roof, furnace, hot water tank and windows $89,000 net rent $775/mo.

403-340-2727

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5030

Cars

2009 VW Golf, manual, 90,000 km. Winter pkg, $11,500. 403-391-1770

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, loaded, conversion, new duramax installed from GM, 170,000 kms., $39,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

5070

Vans Buses

2009 DODGE Grand Caravan SXT 106,000 kms, DVD, stow n’ go seats, pd, heated seats, remote, more, exc. cond, 1 owner senior driven, $13,500 obo 403-887-2464

Motorhomes

2004 FLEETWOOD Discovery Cat diesel, 4 slides, new Winegard Dome tv’s, tires, batteries, floor, lifetime motorhome membership, 2011 Equinox Blue Ox hitch, auto brake system, loaded and ready to go south.

403-343-2722 403-391-1796

5190

Auto Wreckers 2008 BMW X5 3.0si AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof, $27,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy 2005 LEXUS ES 330 FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms, $15,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

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5100

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

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Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

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5040 PUBLIC NOTICES

2008 GMC Yukon XL Denali AWD $18,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90485 kms, $19,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 CADILLAC Escalade AWD, lthr., $15,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Trucks

5050

2006 DODGE Dakota, quad cab, 4.7L, 4 wheel drive SLT. Loaded, s/b. Fleat sides, Wrangler tires 85%, 109,000 km $7900. 403-505-3113

Estate of WILLIAM ALLEN WRIGHT who died on September 15th, 2013 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by December 10th, 2013 with Klaus G. Ruschin, Barrister and Solicitor at #201, 5005 Gaetz Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta. T4N 4B2 and provide details of your claim.

Public Notices

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 D9

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Wife of detained American implores North Korean government to release him

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of YVONNE LORRAINE JOHNSON who died on October 23, 2013

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by December 23, 2013 with Christopher R. Warren Warren Sinclair LLP at 600, 4911 - 51 Street Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6V4 Fax: (403) 343-6069 and provide details of your claim.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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Offers under seal will be received by the Owner located at 232 Main Street, Three Hills AB T0M 2A0 before 12:01.00 pm, local time, on the 12 day of December 2013 for: Kneehill County Shop Second Floor Development Project Description: Development of the second level of the office area in the shop building into offices, washrooms, work spaces, and a meeting room. The second level is approximately 512sm.

Bid Documents for stipulated price work are available upon confirmation as a PDGP member or receipt of refundable deposit of $100 on or after November 22, 2013, from the office of: Sherri Turpin Architect, Suite 200, 4836 - 50 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X4, Phone: (403) 348-2013.

Sub-contractors will close directly to the General Contractors.

Documents may be viewed at the offices of the Red Deer Construction Association, as well from CoolNet Alberta @ www.COOLNet.ab.ca. and from CoolNet Edmonton at www.COOLNetedmonton. ab.ca, the Alberta Purchasing Connection, and at the Kneehill County office, main counter.

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85-YEAR-OLD VETERAN TAKEN IN OCTOBER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PALO ALTO, Calif. — The wife of an 85-year-old veteran detained in North Korea implored authorities on Friday to let her husband return to his anxious family and end what she called a “dreadful misunderstanding.”

“We have had no word on the state of his health, whether or not the medications sent to him through the Swedish Embassy in North Korea have been delivered or why he was detained,” Lee Newman said in a prepared statement released in California.

Meanwhile, North Korean officials told the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang that they were holding an American but did not confirm it was Newman, who was pulled from a plane on Oct. 26 while preparing to leave the communist nation after a 10-day tour.

The Swedish Embassy is negotiating on a daily basis on behalf of Newman because the U.S. has no diplomatic ties to North Korea, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington.

Until his planned departure, Newman’s trip had seemed positive, with postcards describing good times and knowledgeable guides, Lee Newman said in her statement.

“The family feels there has been some dreadful misunderstanding leading to his detention and asks that the (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) work to settle this issue quickly and to return this 85-year-old grandfather to his

anxious, concerned family,” she said.

David Thompson at Juche Travel Services’ London office said in an email that Newman and his companion had booked a private tour through the agency, and arrangements were handled in North Korea through the Korea International Travel Co., the state-run tourism office.

“Mr. Newman had in place all necessary and valid travel documents to take his tour,” Thompson said.

Newman has been described as an inveterate traveller and long-retired finance executive. His son, Jeffrey Newman, said his father wanted to return to the country where he spent three years during the Korean War. It’s unknown why he is being detained, but his father’s travelling companion Bob Hamrdla said Newman earlier had a “difficult” discussion with North Korean officials about his experiences during the war, according to Jeffrey Newman.

Hamrdla, who lives in the same 11-story Palo Alto retirement apartment building as the Newmans, has led more than 40 travel programs to Central Europe for Stanford University.

By agreement with the Newmans, Hamrdla declined an interview.

North Korea has detained at least six Americans since 2009, including two journalists accused of trespassing and several missionaries accused of spreading Christianity.

Kenneth Bae, a KoreanAmerican missionary and tour operator, has been detained

for more than a year.

Newman doesn’t fit the pattern of the other detained Americans.

In recent years, thousands of Americans have safely visited North Korea, including tourists, researchers, relief workers, professionals and many people who still have family in that country.

“In principle, travel from the U.S. to North Korea is possible and certainly not illegal, but the actual flow of people is influenced heavily by the state of relations between North Korea and the U.S. at any given time,” said Ramsay Liem, whose parents are from North Korea.

In a new film Memory of Forgotten War, Liem and his wife document the reunification of Korean Americans with their families in North Korea.

Some observers have speculated that Newman may have been mistaken for a Korean War Silver Star recipient also named Merrill Newman.

But Jeffrey Newman says there were no signs that was true. And in Oregon, the other Merrill Newman, 84, was mystified.

“I have no idea why this guy was detained and whether they had Googled — like anybody else can — the name and found me and thought this guy was me or whatever,” said the Beaverton, Ore.-based Merrill Newman.

Kim Dong-jil, a South Korean professor who is deputy director of Peking University’s Center for Korean Peninsular Studies, said a low profile by the U.S. government and media could lead to Newman’s quick release.

FCC chair says no technical reason to ban in-flight cellphone calls

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A day after setting off an uproar among travellers opposed to in-flight phone calls, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Chairman backtracked, saying he personally isn’t in favour of calls on planes.

The role of the FCC, he added, is to advise if there is a safety issue with using phones on planes. He said there is “no technical reason to prohibit” the use of mobile devices on planes.

“We understand that many passengers would prefer that voice calls not be made on airplanes. I feel that way myself,” chairman Tom Wheeler said in a Friday statement.

The decision to allow calls will ultimately rest with the airlines, Wheeler emphasized.

Just three weeks into his job, Wheeler struck a nerve with travellers Thursday when he said it was time for the agency to review “our outdated and restrictive rules” about mobile services on airplanes.

The rules have been in place for 22 years. A tentative agenda

for the FCC’s Dec. 12 meeting, posted Thursday, listed the proposed revision. It was the first the public heard of the change.

Wheeler seemingly underestimated the public outrage and media attention that such a move would generate.

“It struck a nerve ... their phones have been ringing,” said Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, a consumer advocacy group. “It’s a lot of attention for an agency that usually doesn’t get that much attention.”

By Friday afternoon, Wheeler’s language was much more subdued.

The new message: “The job of the FCC with respect to this issue is limited to issues related to communications technology.”

Wheeler emphasized that “our proposal does not impose any requirement that airlines should provide voice connectivity.”

And to hammer home the point, the word “not” was un-

derlined.

Requests for an interview were declined by his spokesman.

Prior to joining the FCC, Wheeler spent more than three decades working in telecommunications, including stints as the head of lobbying groups for cable TV and the wireless phone industry.

“Yesterday, he sounded like the wireless lobbyist that he was, advocating for a position long held by the cellular companies, which is that people should be able to use voice on airplanes. Today, he sounds more like someone serving the public interest,” said Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio, a long-time opponent of permitting airline passengers to make cellphone calls during flights.

Most airlines have said they would study the issue and survey their customers. Delta Air Lines was the only carrier to outright reject voice calls, regardless of what the FCC decides.

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