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It’s going to be a cold one BLIZZARD EXPECTED TO SLAM AREA

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Ava Ball, 2, pulls her little brother Tommy during an afternoon of tobogganing at Bower Ponds on Sunday. Father Dave and big sister Samantha look on in the background. The family, who recently moved to Red Deer from British Columbia, wanted to get some sled time in before the blizzard hit.

Heavy snow and gusting winds are called for in today’s forecast, setting the scene for what could be a bone-chilling week.

Environment Canada changed a winter storm warning issued for Red Deer and area to a fullfledged blizzard warning on Sunday afternoon. A low pressure system in British Columbia moved over into Alberta, bring-

ing a thick curtain of flakes on Sunday evening, expected to continue well into this afternoon, said Environment Canada meteorologist Denis Thibodeau.

Ten to 15 cm were expected overnight as the blizzard developed and at least another 5 to 10 cm this morning.

According to Environment Canada, some areas in Central Alberta could see about 30 cm by Tuesday.

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Shipbuilder accused of security breach RCMP ARREST MAN SUSPECTED OF PLOTTING TO SEND CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO CHINESE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Outside contractors with inside knowledge of sensitive and secret Canadian military information are becoming more ubiquitous in the age of leaner defence budgets and could pose an emerging security risk, a defence expert says.

Qing Quentin Huang, 53, was arrested Saturday and accused of plotting to send clas-

sified information on Canada’s shipbuilding strategy and marine sovereignty to the Chinese. He will appear in court on Wednesday to answer to the allegations he faces.

Employed by Lloyd’s Register, Huang, who is a Canadian citizen, would have had access to intimate details of new warship designs, most notably the Conservative government’s marquee Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship program.

Such information on the ship’s capabilities and mod-

est weapons systems would be of particular interest to the Chinese, which have shown a heightened curiosity about Canada’s Far North and its potential resources wealth, said Dave Perry, a defence researcher at Carleton University and the Conference of Defence Associations.

Lloyd’s Registry was asked to review and validate the patrol ships’ design, according to a 2012 internal defence slide deck briefings, obtained by The Canadian Press under the

Access to Information Act. The company, in a written statement Sunday, confirmed its involvement in the project, and said it had just begun working as sub-contractor for Irving Shipbuilding Inc., which is the federal government’s go-to yard for construction of navy combat ships.

Yet, the British firm with deep roots in the shipping industry stretch back to the 1700s said Huang, structural design appraisal engineer, “did not have security clear-

ance and was therefore not involved in any work nor did he have direct access to any classified or controlled information pertaining to (arctic ships) or (national shipbuilding procurement strategy).”

Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding rushed Sunday to counter the perception that the program, which has been praised politically, had become leaky.

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Charity checks in CHARITY CHECKSTOP NABS OVER $23,000

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Ray Montroy of Wetaskiwin dishes out a handful of change to Vicki Raines and David Neil, volunteers at the annual Charity Checkstop on Saturday along Taylor Drive.

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Red Deer’s annual Charity Checkstop raked in tens of thousands of dollars in cash donations as well as a truckload of toys and food on Saturday after taking over a portion of Taylor Drive near 32nd Street.

Drivers passing by pulled into the left lane to toss bills and coins into volunteers’ extended buckets, backing up the northbound traffic for short periods of time.

After the first hour, volunteers had already gathered $5,500 and approxi-

mately $23,400 was collected in total from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It’s a little short of last year’s checkstop that pulled in $24,000 but Teresa Kutynec, Christmas Bureau president, said she couldn’t be more impressed.

“We had an amazing number of volunteers this year. There must have been about 30 of them out there at one point . . . I’m overwhelmed by the generosity of Central Albertans; it was a big weekend with the bazaar at the Westerner and the Festival of Trees just finished but they’re still out there giving.”

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Hostage-taking ends peacefully

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A hostage taking at an Edmonton jail ended Sunday with no injuries.

Alberta Justice and Solicitor General spokesman Dan Laville says an inmate who took another inmate hostage at the Edmonton Remand Centre on Sunday has given himself up.

Laville says the hostage was unharmed and the aggressor and staff members were also not injured.

Police said an inmate held another

person in a cell and hostage negotiators were called in.

Laville says a weapon was involved, but said he wouldn’t divulge details because of a pending police investigation.

He says staff took action when they noticed an inmate acting suspiciously.

“It turned out an inmate was threatening to assault his cell mate.

In the end, through the efforts of staff to de-escalate the situation, and with the assistance of Edmonton police, the aggressor gave himself up,” Laville said.

Laville did not have information about what charges either of the inmates were facing before the incident.

He said police were reviewing the situation to determine what charges might be laid regarding the hostage taking.

Earlier this year, prison guards across Alberta walked off the job illegally in a labour dispute that began over safety concerns at the new Edmonton Remand Centre.

The government forced them back to work with a court order, which included heavy fines for the union.

The province also fired some of the employees.

“In general, in terms of the relationship between the centre staff and the centre management, both groups are working more and more together to help make sure the centre is as safe as it can possibly be both for inmates and for staff,” Laville said.

“Today’s incident was an example of the training that staff receive and how they use the training very well and did a great job of de-escalating the situation.”

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Kamryn Pearson of Lacombe walks along the top of a windrow of snow at the ME Global athletic field in Lacombe evening during the city’s attempt to break the world record for the largest human Christmas tree.

According to officials at the scene the 890 people who poured onto the field broke the previous record. See related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

CHECKSTOP: Proceeds to be split All proceeds from the event are split equally between the Red Deer Food Bank, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Women’s Outreach and the Christmas Bureau. The funds are crucial to help finance the groups’ activities and fill the bins for those in need during the holidays.

The Checkstop, running for over 15 years, kicks off Christmas and highlights the true meaning of the season, said Darcy Ouellet, a checkstop organizer and the fund development officer at the Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society.

“It’s heartwarming to see so many people stop and so many volunteers out there. We have nice weather this year. The last few years have been brutally cold and people still came out,” Ouellet said.

“One woman stopped and asked if we take debit. Then she came back afterwards with cash. Another stopped and opened her trunk and it was just full of toys. Others hand out hundred dollar bills. The volunteers are so enthusiastic. They’re smiling, dancing, waving. It’s fun and people care about it,” Kutynec said.

Caroline Glass hopped out of her truck during the Checkstop and scooped up two plush brown bears the size of a large dog to plunk down into a volunteer’s arms.

She then pulled down the tailgate and pulled out a big cardboard box of

COLD: Record low temperatures are possible

SECURITY: Information tightly controlled “Security of information surrounding the AOPS project, and all NSPS programs is tightly controlled at Irving Shipbuilding,” said Kevin McCoy, the yard’s president. “We adhere to all security protocols required by our customers.”

If Huang did not have access to classified information, the question becomes what was so sensitive that the

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RCMP had to swoop down on him within days of learning about his activities, defence experts wondered.

Perry said that two decades of budget cuts at National Defence, especially in the acquisition branch, have meant that technical evaluations are now often subject to third-party, independent reviews, which involve the sharing of sensitive and classified information.

Huang’s arrest comes just as the Harper government was putting to rest a scandal involving spying on the navy.

Earlier this year, a former naval intelligence officer was convicted of passing top secret information to the Russians.

In that case, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was tipped off to the activities of former sub-lieutenant Jeffery Delisle and waited months before bringing in the RCMP to build a criminal case.

toys and games that took two volunteers to lift.

“Every child should have a gift at Christmas,” she said. “I come every year.”

Joan McIntyre, a volunteer with MADD, has been coming to the Checkstop for the past 15 years to help collect donations.

“It’s tradition and a great opportunity to help out a vast amount of charities as well as create awareness for them,” McIntyre said.

The Checkstop originally started out as a RCMP initiative to fundraise for charity and grew into an agencyrun event last year.

RCMP members were still on site to help out and manage traffic.

The Stuff A Bus program was also underway on Saturday at Parkland Mall, raising funds and donated items for the Food Bank and Christmas Bureau.

The program broke a record for its 11th annual season, raising over $47,000 compared to the $42,000 raised last year. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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Temperatures are expected to hit -13C as a high this afternoon.

Thibodeau said the snowfall and winds should die down by late Tuesday morning.

A blanket of cold air will follow close on the storm’s heels however.

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“You’re probably looking at -28C, -30C with wind chills in the morning on Tuesday,” Thibodeau said.

Wednesday brings the slight possibility of breaking a record dip on the thermometer as the overnight low is estimated to hit -31C. The region’s record for Dec. 4 is -33.9C. “You probably won’t break a record but it will definitely feel like it,” Thibodeau said.

“On the plus side, I don’t see any wind in the week’s forecast.”

The frosty, messy weather is nothing new for Central Alberta around this time of year and the region has already withstood a massive dump of snow.

November was colder and pelted with more powder than usual, said Thibodeau, but the numbers didn’t break any records.

A total of 62.5 cm fell last month, while the mean average for snowfall in Red Deer during November is 16.9 cm.

The average temperature for the month this year was -8.9C while the historical norm typically sits at -5.4C. The average high was -3C and the average low sunk to -14.7C for November 2013. The norm over the years for the region’s high is -0.4C and -11.2C for the low.

The warmest day of the month was Nov. 1 at 9.4C — no where near the day’s record of 20.6C in 1978.

The coldest day clocked in at -32.2C on Nov. 20, missing its record of -37.2C in 1946.

The closest Red Deer came to smashing a record was on Nov. 5 with a low of -23.3C. The record for that day is -24.6C, set in 2003.

Red Deer’s warmest day on record for the month was 22.8C on Nov. 4, 1975 and the most frigid weather took place on Nov. 1, 1982 when temperatures plummeted to -38.4C. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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City studies use of outdoor rinks OFFICIALS PREFER OUTDOOR ICE BEING AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE AT ALL TIMES

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF With the 69 outdoor rinks across Red Deer beginning to open, hockey groups in the city will be heading outdoors to make use of the plentiful ice for practices.

While those hockey teams will be wanting to ensure that the ice is available for when they have scheduled their practices, though, the city is hoping impromptu shinny games will always be possible for Red Deerians wanting to lace up their skates.

Last week the city convened a meeting with community associations around Red Deer that run the city’s outdoor rinks, and for 20 of those rinks, the shelter buildings next to the ice surface.

The goal of the gathering was to find out from the different community associations how they handle situations where groups request the ice or building they run.

Though the city long ago gave community associations the responsibility for managing facilities, Kay Kenny, recreation superintendent, said the city would prefer outdoor ice being available to all comers at all times.

“We want to make sure that the intended use of tice to half-ice, and when we get into a scrimmage spontaneous use for individuals in communities is situation we’ll just invite and play everybody. preserved,” said Kenny.

“It really is community ice. It’s not meant for an As it is now, some community associations do organization, it’s meant for the community. From our allow for hockey perspective, we regroups to speak for ally have to be cogice or the associated nizant of that and buildings — and for make sure we’re not the most part, bookaffecting community ings are free — and needs,” he said.

Kenny said that Some teams withpractice can continin Red Deer Minor ue for this year.

Hockey hold outdoor But she added practices as well, es— KAY KENNY, RECREATION SUPERINTENDENT pecially among the when the city reviews its philosoyounger divisions. phies and policies relating to community use of Joanne Mahura said while finding enough indoor ice fields and facilities, a clearer direction favouring time for all of RDMH’s teams remains a challenge, impromptu usage may be set. this year’s situation is no worse than in past years.

Red Deer Pond Hockey makes use of community Part of the reason for that fact is that work on the outdoor rinks quite often during the winter.

Kinsmen A rink in Morrisroe was completed two While it schedules practices and games on the ice, months earlier than expected, allowing it to reopen president Jason Chilibeck said the group is not rigid at the beginning of November. about its use.

The $1.58 million project saw a new concrete “If there are children from the community that floor, including a new ice-making system, installed. want to go ahead and skate, we will drop our pracmfish@reddeeradvocate.com

‘WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INTENDED USE OF SPONTANEOUS USE FOR INDIVIDUALS IN COMMUNITIES IS PRESERVED.’

CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW Lauren Whitebear; right, and Darci Kellar show off their elaborate bead work during the Christmas Craft show on Saturday at the Hub on Ross. All proceeds went towards the Spirit Seekers youth program run by the Red Deer Native Friendship Society.

Photo by RENEE FRANCOEUR/ Advocate staff

RDC, Poplar Ridge students team up on books

High-risk offender surrenders ADVOCATE STAFF A high-risk, violent sex offender is in police custody after giving himself up on Sunday.

Dean Zimmerman turned himself in to Red Deer RCMP around 8:50 a.m.

He was arrested on his outstanding Canada-wide warrants for breaching his recognizance.

Zimmerman, 47, was convicted of

sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm, and sexual assault with a weapon and forcible confinement in three separate cases between 1998 and 2006.

He was released in April from Bowden Institution after having served 34 months on six counts of breach of recognizance for keeping the peace, failure to comply with an order, and fraud under $5,000.

He was set to appear before a Justice of the Peace later on Sunday.

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The initiative was guided by Barb Hanson, who teaches part-time in the college’s education department after retiring from the role of principal at Poplar Ridge last year.

It received praise from students and administrators for building confidence and encouraging creative collaboration and relationship building between soon-to-be teachers and students.

“For our students, it has made them feel confident in their ability to write and interpret what they are reading,” said Poplar Ridge vice-principal Claire Funk, “It allowed them to share the experience of a book they were enjoying with someone else, and to reflect on that reading in a variety of ways.”

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Participants in the collaborative project look at one of the novel study interpretations on display at an open house at Poplar Ridge School.

Grade 5 and 6 students at Poplar Ridge School got some major help with their book reports recently thanks to a collaboration with Red Deer College.

The elementary student-to-college student project matched pupils from the two schools together for a novel study.

Forty-one teams — made up of a Poplar Ridge student and a fourth-year student in the Bachelor of Education program — corresponded each week as they mutually worked their way through a novel they chose to study together.

The students then met for the first time at an open house earlier this week at which the teams displayed interpretations of their novel studies they had made. These interpretations included things like papier mâché characters and treasure chests full of letters.

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Silencing the protesters Early November marked the 18th anniversary of the tragic murder of outspoken writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues by the Nigerian government.

Saro-Wiwa and the others had waged a long campaign to stop multinational oil company Royal Dutch Shell from drilling in DAVID the lands of the SUZUKI Ogoni people in the Niger delta.

Nigerian military harassed and intimidated members of the Ogoni community for years because they opposed Shell’s drilling program. SaroWiwa and his colleagues defended their communities and local environment from a notoriously toxic industry.

In November 1995, a special court established by the military government illegally detained and tried them on spurious charges. Convicted without due process, they were executed 10 days later, despite enormous international outcry.

Sadly, this is not an isolated occurrence.

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A recent report by human rights organization Global Witness documents the murders of more than 700 environmental and indigenous-rights activists over the past decade — more than one killing a week, on average. They reviewed databases, academic studies and news reports, and consulted with the United Nations and other international agencies.

They found citizens are often harassed, intimidated, beaten up, sexually assaulted and sometimes killed for opposing endangered wildlife poaching, illegal logging, dams and activities of foreign mining companies — including some Canadian firms.

I experienced this reality in 1988 when we interviewed rubber tapper Chico Mendes about his battle to save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil for The Nature of Things. He was assassinated two weeks later. The following year, Kaiapo Chief Paiakan asked me to help stop a dam proposed for Altamira, Brazil.

My wife, Tara, and I helped raise $70,000 for a demonstration, and the World Bank was persuaded to withdraw its project loan. Paiakan was then subjected to death threats. We brought him and his family to Vancouver until the danger subsided.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records, such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the

Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet surprisingly, most attacks on environmentalists have been in countries such as Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines, with democratically elected governments, independent judiciaries and other institutions intended to protect their citizens’ rights to voice concerns about the environment without facing harassment, intimidation and violence.

These countries have also signed international agreements to protect human rights, like the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

As the recent incarceration of 28 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists by Russian authorities clearly demonstrates, human rights are vulnerable at a time when governments aggressively promote the interests of corporations over a healthy environment, and are willing to use heavy-handed tactics to ensure people who disagree don’t stand in the way.

In this latest case, Russian special operations forces arrested the Greenpeace International activists, including two Canadians, Alexandre Paul and Paul Ruzycki, for attempting to hang a banner off the side of an oil rig in Arctic waters. They were peacefully protesting Russian company Gazprom’s plans to drill for oil in one of the most ecologically sensitive regions of the planet, and raising awareness of the consequences of climate change. For speaking out in defence of the Arctic,

they were imprisoned for two months under difficult conditions and all but one were only recently released on bail. They now face the possibility of long, harsh jail sentences if found guilty on trumped-up charges of piracy and hooliganism.

Although leaders of the Netherlands, Brazil and Germany called for release of their nationals and other members of the Arctic 30, Prime Minister Steven Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird have so far been silent. You can sign letters at Greenpeace.ca asking Baird to bring the Canadians home and Greenpeace. org asking Russian embassies to urge their government to drop the charges.

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too — especially if they’re poor and indigenous.

We must remember the sacrifices of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Chico Mendes and hundreds of other advocates and defend people’s rights to peacefully speak out for the environment, without fear of intimidation, arrest and violence.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Faisal Moola. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki. org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Railway ignores motorists On Nov. 5, I had a difficult railway crossing incident with Canadian National Railway at the Joffre crossing on Hwy 815.

At the end of 1,600-km trouble free trip, I came to the said crossing at 10:10 p.m. to find the highway blocked by stationary railway cars.

One vehicle was stopped before I arrived. Not being familiar with any nearby alternatives, and with the secondary roads unplowed from the winter’s first heavy snowfall, and with a potential mechanical problem, I decided to wait it out.

After an unbelievable half-hour wait with no movement of the cars and with considerable frustration, I decided to call information to see if I could get a phone number for CN. There was one, and when I called there was a way to contact CN Police. The officer called dispatch, who talked to the crew. The officer said there was a rail crew working in the area (must have been at the Joffre plant) and within about 12 minutes the train was gone and I was able to proceed at 10:52 p.m. — a 42-minute wait.

Who knows how long it was there before I got there, and who knows how long it would have been there if I hadn’t found a way to rouse some action?

It is possible that this is a common occurrence.

The car waiting behind me was driven by a young lady from Joffre. She simply shut off her car, laid her seat back and went to sleep.

A total of three of us were waiting and at least three parties left the site.

The regulations for railway crossings are that the trains cannot block the road crossing for more than five minutes after a car has stopped at that crossing.

There is obviously a very definite problem with CN’s thinking and practice. What if there were emergency vehicles involved and someone’s life was on the line? There’s got to be a push back against such wanton disregard of the travelling public.

When talking to Transport Canada officials, they were very aware of these issues and are happy to have incident reports, such as this one. They would like legislation with more teeth and incident reports such as this will assist with pressure on the government to consider such legislation.

If anyone is aware of such happenings, please give me a call.

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Public works staff deserve better I’ve got to say, I’m very disappointed in many of my fellow Central Albertans. I’m quite tired of hearing about how our public works people aren’t doing their jobs, how they’re not working hard enough, fast enough ,etc. I’d like to invite Central Albertans to take a break from their self absorption and think about what they are saying.

Take a look around your office, shop or garage, wherever you happen to work. Imagine months worth of work piled around you. Next imagine every member of your community coming into your place and work and saying in disgust and anger, “Why isn’t all of this work done!?” “This work need to be done now!” “I don’t care if you don’t have enough time or staff to get this done, it needs to be taken care of!”

And not only are they saying it to you, they are saying it publicly, to everyone you know.

Can you get a month’s worth of work done in a week? Especially when there is more work being piled onto it as you get it done?

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by The Red Deer Advocate Ltd. Canadian Publications Agreement #336602 Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Fred Gorman Publisher John Stewart Managing editor Richard Smalley Advertising director

Who are any of you to say that someone is doing a bad job when you know nothing about it? Yes I know your street isn’t plowed, there are ice ridges in the streets and you’ve gotten stuck. But our public works people are working hard, they are trying to get to you.

So perhaps next time instead of making a snide remark about someone else’s work, think of the person in the plow, and muster your patience, because they are trying to get to you and they don’t deserve the treatment they’re getting.

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Medicine River doing great work On Nov. 8, while out for a walk with my dog, we happened upon a cat sitting on the side of one of the range roads east of the city. It was apparent that the cat was in distress, as it made no move to run off as we got closer.

I immediately texted my neighbour, requesting a telephone number for Medicine River Wildlife Centre. Earlier that week, I knew they had been called regarding a young moose, which appeared injured in one of the fields, along 39th Street as Medicine River Wildlife had sent out someone immediately to investigate. Recognizing this, I asked her for the telephone number and information to see if they would assist with the cat we had just came across.

I telephoned their office and left a message. In the meantime, I went back to my house, gathered up a warm blanket and picked up the cat from the side of the road. I also telephoned Piper Creek Vet clinic and made arrangements to have it examined. Shortly after arriving home with the cat, I received a call from Carol at Medicine River Wildlife, advising they would be sending out a volunteer to pick up the cat and have it taken to a veterinary.

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Later that evening, the volunteer came out. In examining it, she explained the cat was badly dehydrated and starved and wasn’t sure it could be saved.

I was fine with that, knowing it was off the road and would die a death with dignity, as opposed to freezing to death and being exposed to coyotes.

I would like to publicly thank Carol and her volunteers at Medicine River for their dedication and hard work in assisting with injured, orphaned and compromised wildlife and animals. According to their website, they treat close to 1,300 animals annually.

As Carol explained, their focus is to rehabilitate and release injured, and orphaned wild animals across this province. However, she and her group have been assisting more and more with situations much like the one I had come across on our range road.

In this fast-paced world where decisions are made based on finances and rationality, it is nice to know that there are organizations that truly care and take action.

This group is currently upgrading their 22-yearold facility, which will house a state of art wildlife hospital and an education centre. They are able to secure provincial and federal grants; however these funds, like many grants, must be matched with money that is raised through the public.

I hope when you consider gifting, you consider this facility and the work they do. I certainly have.

The rehabilitation and education they will be able to provide is greatly needed.

Please go to their website and obtain more information on their project (www.mrwc.ca).

Thank you again to Carol and her terrific staff: your work and dedication is greatly appreciated and needed within our province. Thank you for caring!

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A former Montreal professor who gunned down four academics at his university has lost his court bid to force prison authorities to give him a second winter parka.

Valery Fabrikant, 72, serving a life sentence for murder, argued he needed the extra clothing because of his age.

“He claims that elderly people need more clothes in the winter than younger and healthier individuals,” according to Federal Court Judge Andre Scott.

Fabrikant was an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University known for his disruptive behaviour against students, staff members and other academics.

He was facing dismissal when, in August 1992, he went into the engineering department with guns and ammunition in his briefcase and opened fire.

He killed four academics and wounded a secretary.

Currently incarcerated at Que-

bec’s Archambault Institution, Fabrikant grieved that the prison was refusing to providing him with adequate winter clothing.

He claimed to have received two parkas at every other institution where he had been incarcerated, and so his rights to two parkas were “grandfathered.”

The grievance was rejected in August last year under “regional procedure 885 of the Quebec region,” which stipulates one parka for each inmate every three years.

Fabrikant asked Federal Court to review whether the decision was reasonable.

“The norms described in this instruction are flexible,” Fabrikant argued. “They can be changed according to special need (sic) of specific prisoners, especially elderly and sick prisoners.”

At his hearing, Fabrikant claimed the officers who nixed his grievances were “not well educated” and could not properly interpret applicable legislation, policies and procedures.

Scott rejected that argument.

Fabrikant also said he had a heart condition that makes him

feel the cold more harshly than other inmates.

He said a doctor had prescribed a second parka in the past but claimed to be unable to find the original prescription.

In response, prison authorities argued Fabrikant failed to file reliable evidence to show he required a second parka, or that he needed to walk outside in the winter to improve his health.

They also said he had never been officially provided with a second parka, nor had he been authorized to have one in his possession.

In his decision, Scott rejected Fabrikant’s claim he had acquired rights or legitimate expectations to a second parka.

The judge also said the inmate had provided no medical evidence showing his heart condition warranted an exception to prison policies.

“The applicant has not convinced this court that the decision was unreasonable; consequently this application for judicial review is dismissed,” Scott said.

The battle lines for the next election could very well be taking shape as a new poll suggests Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have solidified their lead over the governing Conservatives.

Taken in the aftermath of last week’s four federal byelections, The Canadian Press HarrisDecima survey indicates Liberal support is at 34 per cent, down slightly from the 37 per cent recorded the week before.

The Conservatives are hovering at a consist 26 per cent, while New Democrats putter along at 24 per cent.

Pollster Allan Gregg says the latest numbers not only reinforce the split byelection results last Monday, but demonstrate a significant shift is underway in terms of both the Conservatives and Liberals.

“What you have is two things happening at the same time,” said Gregg.

“You have the Liberal core constituency is com-

ing back to where they always were and over the last year you’ve seen a fairly significant erosion of the Conservatives’ core constituency.”

He says traditional Liberals — the so-called professional class and women — are returning to the fold, while stalwart Conservatives — men and rural voters — appear to be wavering and expressing disappointment with the Harper government.

Gregg says some of the disenchantment might be related to the Senate spending scandal, but he says he believes the trend is more long-term and could lead into the next election in 2015.

Revelations of illegitimate expense claims, an RCMP investigation and allegations of a cover-up in the prime minister’s office involving Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff and ex-Conservative senator Mike Duffy have rocked the government on a daily basis since the spring.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau told CTV’s

Question Period on Sunday “there’s reason to be optimistic” and that voters are connecting with his party’s message of support for the middle class and transparency in government.

The public is frustrated, but he cautioned there’s still a long way to go before the next election.

“What we have to be careful of is not to read too much into byelections (that are) two years away from any general election, but certainly we’re pleased with the kind of response we’re getting from right across the country,” Trudeau said.

The latest poll involved 2,000 people and is considered accurate plus or minus 3.1 per cent 19 times out of 20.

There is a bit of a silver lining in some of the regional numbers for the NDP, Gregg said.

Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair remains a formidable political figure in Quebec, the NDP’s base of support, and the party continues

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — A 16-year-old snowboarder has died on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver after falling and hitting a tree.

The Brazilian exchange student was boarding with friends when he ventured off the main trail and fell about nine metres, said RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong.

He said the boy was with a teen from the family he was living with and about three others when he became separated from the group.

Staff at the mountain tried to find him but heavy fog and sleet prevented them from doing a thorough search, De Jong said.

A North Shore Search and Rescue team was immediately contacted and located the snowboarder just after midnight.

The teen was in cardiac arrest but attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, De Jong said.

“It’s very devastating,” he said, adding the boy’s family has been contacted in Brazil and will arrive in Canada to identify his body and transport it home.

The inexperienced boarder was not wearing a helmet, and that may have been a contributing factor in his death, De Jong said.

“It’s a very strong reminder for all of us to wear a helmet.”

RCMP and the coroners service are continuing to investigate the death.

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to poll above its traditional range of 18-20 per cent.

“What the numbers say to the NDP is that they are going to have to differentiate themselves if the Liberals look like the most obvious alternative to the Conservatives in an environment where the electorate has said two things; one traditional Liberals have said I’m going home and traditional Conservatives are saying I’m pretty disappointed with these guys,” Gregg said.

The latest survey also comes against a backdrop of Conservative MP Michael Chong’s bid to reform the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act. On Thursday, he will introduce a private members bill that would mean leaders serve at the pleasure of caucus, not the party. It would also empower caucus to expel undesirable MPs and take away the leader’s right to sign nomination papers, giving the authority to local riding associations.

VANCOUVER — A female priest has been elected as the new bishop for an Anglican diocese that serves the Vancouver area and the Sunshine Coast.

Rev. Melissa Skelton was elected Saturday on the third ballot, with four nominees remaining.

The Seattle priest was among eight candidates for bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster and replaces the diocese’s eighth bishop, Michael Ingham, who retired in August after 20 years at the helm.

Skelton is the first female bishop to head the diocese and will be ordained in March.

The Diocese of New Westminster became the centre of controversy in 2003, when it decided to bless same-sex unions.

The issue led several conservative Anglican leaders around the world to break ties with the diocese, one of 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada.

B.C. man calls police during home invasion, gets arrested due to warrants KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A man in B.C.’s Interior who called police to report a home invasion is now in custody himself, after RCMP officers discovered he had several outstanding warrants.

The Mounties were called Saturday night to a home in Kamloops, where a man reported that four or five men wearing black ski masks were attempting to kick down his front door.

Police say the man sprayed the would-be assailants with bear spray through a broken window, prompting them to flee on foot.

A police dog team wasn’t able to locate the suspects, but officers didn’t go away empty handed.

While at the scene, the RCMP officers discovered the resident of the home had outstanding warrants for uttering threats, assault and possession of a firearm.

He was arrested and is expected to remain in custody until a court appearance on Monday.

Cliff Chadderton of War Amps dies

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Cliff Chadderton, who served as chief executive officer of The War Amps until 2009, has died and the Prime Minister said Canada has lost a “great man.”

Chadderton was 94.

The War Amps announced Chadderton’s death in a statement and said he was recognized both nationally and internationally as an influential developer of innovative programs and services for war, civilian and child amputees, and as founder of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program.

Chadderton was a D-Day veteran and lost part of his right leg in October 1944 while in command of a company of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, battling for the Scheldt Estuary in Belgium and Holland.

Following the war, he held several positions in The War Amps before his appointment as executive secretary (later chief executive officer) of the Association in 1965. He was also Chairman and, at the time of his passing, Honorary Chairman, of the National Council of Veteran Associations.

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Celebrating light in the darkest days of winter, the Red Deer Vasa, Swedish Lodge 733, is holding a celebration next month.

Santa Lucia, a traditional celebration of light, will be held on Dec. 8 at 2:30 p.m. at The Chalet in Westerner Park, at 4847A 19th St. There will be a candlelight procession led by singer Olivia Smith, followed by a short program, coffee and special Swedish food.

A silver collection will be at the door. For more information, call 403-3475303 or 403-347-1518.

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POKER RALLY RAISES CASH Outlaw Eagle’s fifth annual Brazeau Poker Rally held on Sept. 7 raised a record $15,095 to help people with cancer. Last year, the boating rally on the Brazeau River pulled in about $12,000.

All the money raised will go to the Canadian Cancer Society. This year, between 50 and 60 boats took part in the event hosted by Outlaw Eagle Manufacturing Ltd. in Red Deer County.

ELNORA CHRISTMAS MARKET Plenty of presents can be discovered at the Christmas market at the Elnora Community Hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Lunch will be served all day and customers are encouraged to bring an item for the local food bank. For more information, call 403-7732270.

CORRECTIONS ● A brief in the Nov. 19 Advocate had some incorrect information about money raised by the Central Alberta chapter of Pheasants for Life. A total of $5,000 was pledged for each of four years (20092013), resulting in a total donation of $20,000 to Olds College Botanical Gardens and Treatment Wetlands. ● A brief in Friday’s Advocate had some incorrect information about which building Urban Market is buying in the village of Clive.

Urban Market is buying the building now occupied by the Neighbourhood Revitalization Association.

The Alberta government is taking steps to improve services for multiple sclerosis patients across the province.

A new strategy, The Way Forward: Alberta’s Multiple Sclerosis Partnership, was revealed to the public on Nov. 25.

Two days later, Novartis Pharmaceutical Canada Inc. announced it would partner with the province and invest $1.2 million into MS research in Alberta.

Alberta has one of the highest rates of MS in the world with almost 15,000 living with the disease, an immune-mediated disorder of the brain and spinal cord.

A cure has yet to be determined. The Way Forward is a plan to further integrate services to provide for a more co-ordinated system of care when it comes to MS. This means better service for rural patients, such as those isolated in northern Alberta, said Judy Gordon, who sits on the board of directors for the Alberta division of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

“We’ve got to make sure all patients have access to services. Sometimes it’s hard for those in certain remote locations to even access a neurologist. These are things we’re looking at with this new plan,” said Gordon, the former mayor of Lacombe and also a former MLA. “We also have to empower patients so they can go on the net and research themselves because there’s a lot of good information out there.”

Gordon was diagnosed with MS in 1998.

She was co-chair of the Multiple Sclerosis Society committee that worked on The Way Forward and is currently chair of the government community relations committee.

Gordon said she’s “very, very happy” with the new strategy.

“Many people with MS have to access different sectors within the government.

They need to talk about housing and then they need to talk about disability funds, for example. So we’re looking to co-ordinate these kinds of supports across the ministries and different levels of government, like a GPS for patients to find their way through the government for the services they need. The Way Forward is a partnership.”

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Lorraine Evans-Cross, regional director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Central Alberta Chapter says she is delighted with the new strategy that will enhance health research and improve co-ordination for MS patients.

The strategy will also promote more partnerships “with industry and among MS organizations, the health system and government for optimal research and evaluation,” according to the ministry of health.

MS clinical practice guidelines are already being developed to make sure they are used consistently throughout the province. A patient navigation system and information resources for employers are also currently being established.

“This is the first time a provincial government has partnered with a provincial MS society,” said Health Minister Fred Horne. “We have a lot of MS resources but they’re not connected very well . . . Patients were having to tell their same story over and over.”

Many partners were involved with creating the strategy, including the Red Deer MS clinic and various chapters of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

“The Way Forward is really going to address the inequities in service,” Lorraine Evans-Cross said, regional director of the MS society’s Central Alberta chapter. “We

have a good working relationship with our local MS clinic and we’re going to continue to work and enhance that.”

Evans-Cross also mentioned the chapter will be hiring a new community outreach co-ordinator in January.

“This person will be going out into the Central Alberta areas asking people what are the services they’re looking for, what is missing and how we as a society can address those as part of moving forward,” she said.

There has been a community outreach co-ordinator before at the chapter but this time the role will extend out into Drumheller and Wetaskiwin — areas that were not previously covered.

About 340 out of every 100,000 Albertans have been diagnosed with MS compared to the entire country that has around 240 cases for every 100,000 Canadians.

For more information about The Way Forward, visit www.health.alberta.ca/documents/The-Way-Forward-MS-Partnership. pdf. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Youth help seniors, earn for future TEENS SHOVEL SNOW

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Austin Trohan of Red Deer has been shovelling snow for seniors for the last two years.

The energetic 16 yearold said it’s about “doing good deeds for others” and is also an opportunity to save some cash for a car of his own one day.

“When I get to be that age, I hope there’s someone around to shovel my drive,” said the Hunting Hills High School student.

Trohan heard about the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre’s YES (Youth Enabling seniors) program, which bolsters snow removal services for seniors, through his mother, Christina.

Last year he had seven clients. This year he has 11 and is expecting a few more as winter kicks into high gear.

“November has been a good month. . . I have a few hundred saved up. I call them up even if there’s only a couple inches that’s fallen, because it can freeze over

and be icy.

“They all really appreciate it . . . I spent a couple hours chipping away at the ice on one driveway and the couple were really impressed and happy with the job.”

The YES program, now in its second year, helps ensure Red Deer seniors who want and need help clearing their walkways and driveways get just that.

The Golden Circle has been able to stay on top of snow removal for seniors through adult volunteers and the YES program but executive director Monica Morrison said they could always use more hands.

“We’re continuously recruiting snow shovellers,” Morrison said. “It’s always a challenge finding people; it’s supply and demand.”

So far all 220 seniors on the list have been matched through the Golden Circle with a snow shoveller.

“But when people start hearing about snow storms coming, the phones start ringing

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Austin Trohan, 16, of Red Deer scoops up a load of snow to carve out a path. Trohan participates in the Golden Circle’s YES program and shovels snow for seniors all winter. again.

“That happened during the last snowstorm and the people stepped up and made themselves available,” Morrison said.

YES took over from the previous Snow Angels program, which was in partnership with the city and encouraged citizens to keep sidewalks ice and snow free for seniors.

Morrison said Snow Angels “just wasn’t working.”

With YES, the youth can choose to either volunteer their time or opt to be paid by the clients for $15 an hour.

“It’s not all volunteer based.

“In fact, it’s minimal volunteer. It’s more about having an opportunity to make some money while doing good for the community at the same time. We do also provide subsidies for snow shovelling for those clients who are eligible.”

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College students have also been recruited into the YES program, Morrison noted, taking off some pressure.

“It’s also creating opportunities for employment agencies and people with special needs.

We’ve been able to hook up with some local high schools and their special needs classes. People can be independent, provide a service to the community and make some money.

“It’s a win-win situation all around.”

For Trohan, it’s a great part-time job but he said he couldn’t do half of the work if it wasn’t for his father, Corey, who drives with him to the clients’ houses and helps out shovelling here and there.

“We do it together and have fun. It’s about helping others out and a great way to instill the value of hard work in him,” Corey said. “We want the seniors in our community to be safe, too. Ice and heavy, uneven snow piled up can lead to slipping and broken bones.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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SUNDRE FLOODING

Mountain View County has been given the green light by Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen to seek the necessary permits to build a berm on the Red Deer River to hold back flood waters.

While it is not a guarantee of funding for the expected multimillion-dollar project, Reeve Bruce Beattie sees it as a positive sign the province recognizes the flood peril south of Sundre.

“I look at that as a bit of an encouragement that if we get the engineering right that we may be able to do the work with Sundre,” said Beattie. “I’m pleased that there is a recognition that we need some mitigation.”

The province has already come through with significant cash related to flooding problems in the area.

Earlier this fall, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development approved spending up to $50,000 on engi-

neering work and a cost benefit analysis for proposed flood mitigation measures, such as berms.

Another $50,000 was awarded for engineering work to figure out the best way to handle flooding problems at Water Valley, where a bridge has been washed out three times. Another $850,000 was approved to fix problems.

The money is expected to come out of $110 million for flood mitigation announced

by Transportation Minister Ric McIver recently.

About $40 million will go towards fixing sites damaged by the June flood, including Cougar Creek in Canmore and Hwy 758 at Bragg Creek.

The remaining $70 million will be spent over three years on protecting high-priority sites susceptible to flood damage.

Those will be determined after an assessment that takes into account the impor-

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tance of the local highway and terrain.

South of Sundre, the work required is likely a berm and possibly “scalping” or the removal of loose gravel from the river to allow water to flow down its natural channels more freely.

The latest engineering report will provide a better estimate of costs, but previously Mountain View County asked for up to $2.5 million to extend a berm system southwest of Sundre.

Among the concerns in Sundre is the bridge over the Red Deer River, which is a vital link for the community.

Sundre Mayor Terry Leslie said the town has met with provincial staff and are still working out the details on future measures.

“We are working closely with County of Mountain View council and staff on this project as it is so vital to everyone in the community,” he said in an email.

“We are glad to see the announcement ... and action before the next flood season in June is expected by all residents affected.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Banks expected to boost dividends IN OTHERWISE STEADY FOURTH QUARTER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Some of Canada’s biggest banks are expected to raise their dividends this week as they look towards what’s appears to be another year of steady growth in 2014.

The five largest banks are scheduled report fourthquarter earnings before the week ends, beginning on Tuesday with Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO), which hasn’t increased its dividend since the first half of this year.

That makes it a ripe candidate for a modest dividend hike, said Barclays analyst John Aiken, who also expects both CIBC (TSX:CM) and the smaller National Bank (TSX:NA) to boost their payouts this time around.

“We see little reason to believe that fourth-quarter earnings will generate much downside pressure as we forecast that average core earnings growth will be positive,” he said in a note.

Canadian banks have made a habit of raising their dividends twice a year since the economic downturn.

While the rest of the major players upped their payments in the third quarter, even they could deliver a surprise increase, suggested Brad Smith, senior financial services analyst at Stonecap Securities.

“You can’t count out Royal, Scotia and TD, all of which increased their dividends last quarter,” he said in an interview.

“I think in some respects they don’t want to get into a

lockstep dividend expectation.

I think they want to mix it up.

I’d say it’s a very low probability, but not a zero probability.”

Dividends will be a highlight in what’s otherwise characterized as an encouraging, but unsurprising, earnings season for the banking sector, which is wrapping up the financial year ended Oct. 31.

Much attention will be focused on what bank executives have to say about next year, including whether they think the Bank of Canada will keep its trend-setting rate at a low one per cent, where it has been since late 2010 due to weak global economic conditions.

“I don’t think we’re going to get a rate hike next year,” said Gareth Watson, vice-president, investment management and

research at RichardsonGMP. That echoes the sentiment of a growing number of economists who say the move won’t be made until 2015.

Watson said he anticipates the banks will maintain their steady earnings growth of five to 10 per cent for next year.

Bank stocks have been climbing in recent months helped by optimism about the Canadian financial industry’s position in the global economy relative to their international competitors. Since January, the TSX financials sector has risen more than 20 per cent, while all of the banks touched fresh 52-week highs in November.

“We expect generally good fourth-quarter results, with several potential tailwinds benefiting the banks,” said

Gabriel Dechaine, an analyst at Credit Suisse.

He pointed to momentum in the wealth management operations as one area of strength.

Executives at several banks have said in recent months that a major focus will be placed on their wealth management divisions, which house the financial planning operations and portfolios for both average investors and high-net worth individuals.

Most of the banks report later in the week, with National Bank due on Wednesday and TD Bank (TSX:TD), Royal Bank (TSX:RY) and CIBC scheduled for Thursday.

Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) wraps up the season when it reports on Friday.

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This photograph provided by the a University of New Haven, and taken by a microscope set to 10-times magnification, shows a marijuana leaf covered with mould. The school, located in West Haven, Conn., is developing a new method to identify contaminants in marijuana using DNA profiling and analysis

New method developed to test marijuana for mould

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The microscope at the University of New Haven, set at 10-times magnification, shows a marijuana leaf covered with dozens of tiny bumps. It’s mould, and someone, somewhere could be smoking similarly contaminated pot and not have a clue.

Heather Miller Coyle, a forensic botanist and associate professor at the university, says all sorts of nasty things not visible to the naked eye have been found in marijuana — mould, mildew, insect parts, salmonella and E. coli, to name a few.

That’s why Coyle and her students earlier this year began developing a new process to detect contaminants in marijuana through DNA profiling and analysis. The aim is to be able to identify potentially harmful substances through a testing method that could make the analysis easier and quicker for labs across the country in the developing indus-

try of marijuana quality control testing.

Twenty states and Washington, D.C., now allow medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation, and Washington state and Colorado have legalized the recreational pot use. Connecticut and Washington state already require testing and other states are doing the same, spawning a testing industry.

“If there’s no certification ... it’s like saying we don’t check our meat for mad cow disease,” Coyle said. “That’s our goal as a private university, to develop the tools to address or mediate this issue.”

A number of labs around the country are testing marijuana for contaminants using different methods, many of which have been around for decades and used to test other plants, including food crops, for harmful substances.

The health effects of marijuana tainted with mould, pesticides and other contaminants aren’t clear, said Mason Tvert, a Coloradobased spokesman for the Marijua-

na Policy Project in Washington, D.C. The project was founded in 1995 to lobby for the reduction or elimination of penalties for marijuana use.

“Although we have not seen significant problems with tainted marijuana in the past, we should certainly be taking steps to make sure it’s not a problem in the future,” Tvert said. “We have never seen a death solely associated with marijuana use. The same certainly can’t be said of alcohol and other drugs.”

Food and Drug Administration records from 1997-2005 show no cases in which marijuana was the primary suspected cause of death, but the drug was listed as a secondary suspected cause contributing to 279 deaths.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in July that an “epidemic” of synthetic drug use has caused rising numbers of deaths and emergency room visits.

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NEW YORK — Did stores shoot themselves in the foot?

Target, Macy’s and other retailers offered holiday discounts in early November and opened stores on Thanksgiving Day. It was an effort to attract shoppers before Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally kicks off the holiday shopping season.

Those tactics drew bigger crowds, but failed to motivate Americans to spend.

A record 141 million people are expected to shop in stores and online over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend that ends Sunday, up from last year’s 137 million, according to the results of a survey of nearly 4,500 shoppers conducted for The National Retail Federation.

But total spending is expected to fall for the first time ever since the trade group began tracking it in 2006, according to the survey that was released on Sunday. Over the four days, spending fell an estimated 2.9 per cent to $57.4 billion.

Shoppers, on average, are expected to spend $407.02 during the four days, down 3.9 per cent from last year. That would be the first decline since the 2009 holiday shopping season when the economy was just coming out of the recession.

The survey underscores the challenges stores have faced since the recession began in late 2007.

Retailers had to offer deep discounts to get people to shop during the downturn, but Americans still expect those “70 per cent off” signs now during the uneven economic recovery.

Stores may have only exacerbated that expectation this year. By offering bargains earlier in the season, it seems they’ve created a vicious cycle in which they’ll need to constantly offer bigger sales to get people to spend.

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Peace Hills Insurance CEO named Alberta Venture Business Person of Year Alberta Venture magazine has named Peace Hills Insurance president and CEO Diane Brickner its 2013 Alberta Business Person of the Year.

Peace Hills Insurance is owned by Samson Cree First Nation of Hobbema, although its head office is in Edmonton. It has branch offices in Calgary, Vancouver and Manitoba, and has operated since 1982. It now has 200 employees and annual revenues of $200 million.

Brickner has led the company since 1990.

She will be featured in the December issue of Alberta Venture, and will also be honoured at a luncheon in Edmonton on Jan. 23.

Mortgages come with many options With interest rates beginning to rise, consumers are scurrying to get into the real estate market.

The Canadian Real Estate Association predicts that home sales in the country will hit almost 450,000 in 2013, just a fraction below last year. Home sales in September posted a small increase of just under one per cent over August.

So much for the predicted meltdown of the housing market!

Buying a home is one of the largest investments that most people make in their lives.

With the high cost of real estate today — the average cost of a home in Canada now is about $375,000 — it’s important for consumers to fully unTALBOT derstand the financial commitment they’re making when BOGGS they purchase a home.

“Home ownership is a major goal for many Canadians,

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and in today’s market it is especially important that prospective buyers understand home-financing options in order to manage their overall monthly costs, assess the flexibility they will need and help plan for the future,” said Farhaneh Hague, director of mortgage advice at TD Canada Trust.

Before signing on the dotted line, home buyers should consider how to structure their mortgage so it works best for them.

There are a number of benefits to putting a larger down payment on your home. A down payment of more than 20 per cent of the purchase price means you don’t have to obtain mortgage insurance, which includes paying a premium calculated as a percentage of the mortgage and is paid up front or by adding it to the mortgage’s principal.

The larger the mortgage balance, the higher the monthly payments, so eliminating or decreasing the insurance premium can result in significant savings.

First-time home buyers can take advantage of the federal government’s Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP), which allows you to withdraw up to $25,000 in a calendar year from your registered retirement savings

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plan (RRSP) to buy or build a qualifying home for yourself or for a related person with a disability.

Your RRSP contributions must remain in the RRSP for at least 90 days before you can withdraw them or they may not be deductible for any year.

Generally, you have to repay all withdrawals to your RRSPs within a period of no more than 15 years.

You will have to repay an amount to your RRSPs each year until your HBP balance is zero. If you do not repay the amount due for a year, it will have to be included in your income for that year.

Low interest rates aren’t the only factor to consider when choosing a mortgage. There are many other options, such as a fixed or variable interest rate, open or closed term, and other repayment features.

With a fixed rate mortgage, the interest rate and monthly payments don’t change during the term of the mortgage and you know how much will be paid off at the end.

With a variable mortgage, however, interest rates may fluctuate.

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Sisters, from left, Sophia, Meghan and Hanna Sonenberg of Lincoln Neb., make their way into the Nebraska Furiture Mart in Omaha Neb., Friday. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the nation’s biggest shopping day of the year.

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MORTGAGE: Options If they go down, more of the monthly payments are applied to the principal and the mortgage is paid off faster. If rates rise, more of the payments are applied to the interest.

With a closed mortgage you agree to a term of anywhere from six months to 10 years or more. A closed mortgage has conditions when it can be renegotiated or refinanced, and there may charges for renegotiating or paying off the mortgage early.

Open mortgages often are for shorter terms and can be paid off at any time without prepayment charges.

While it offers greater repayment terms, the interest rate for an open mortgage may be higher than for a closed one.

Some mortgages offer other flexibility features, such as making prepayments when you can and then reducing your monthly payments or taking a payment vacation for a short period.

You can pay off your mortgage faster and save money on interest by choosing a shorter amortization period, making accelerated weekly and biweekly payments instead of monthly payments, and making prepayments up to a percentage of the original mortgage each year.

“Buyers choose a home because it fits their lifestyle needs and a mortgage should pass the same test,” said Haque.

“Until it’s paid off, a mortgage will become a part of a homeowner’s life and home buyers need to ensure the terms of their mortgage match their plans now and for the future.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

PESTICIDES: Threats One study released earlier this year, however, found that pesticide residues on cannabis are transferred to inhaled marijuana smoke, possibly posing a “significant toxicological threat.” The study was done by The Werc Shop, an independent testing lab for medical cannabis in Pasadena, Calif., and published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Toxicology.

Marijuana can develop mould from an inadequate drying process or poor storage conditions after harvesting. It can also become tainted with E. coli and other dangerous substances by being near farm animals.

Coyle will be developing a new method for creating DNA profiles of biological contaminants found in marijuana including mould, viruses, fungi and bacteria. The profiles could then be compared with DNA profiles of organisms kept in a database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information — a division of the National Institutes of Health.

“What we’re trying to do is put the information together in a user-friendly format,” Coyle said. “Having some better technology in place is a good thing.”

The university’s work also will include identifying whether cannabis material is real marijuana or a synthetic version comprising non-marijuana herbs sprayed with THC, the compound that gets users high.

The University of New Haven’s work is an extension of the law enforcement-related marijuana DNA profiling the school has done over the past five years under a $100,000 grant from the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program. The school created a marijuana DNA profile database that has helped federal authorities determine where illegal pot growers and dealers got their product.

FRIDAY: Deal fatigue That’s because shoppers who took advantage of “holiday” deals before Thanksgiving may have deal fatigue and are cautious about buying anything else unless it’s heavily discounted.

“The economy spoke loud and clear over the past few days,” said Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equities strategist at Belus Capital Advisors.

“We are going to see an increase in markdowns.”

The combined months of November and December can account for up to 40 per cent of retailers’ revenue. At least a dozen major retailers — most of them for the first time — opened on Thanksgiving instead of on Black Friday, which is typically the biggest shopping day of the year.

Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and other retailers said on Friday that Thanksgiving crowds were strong.

But the early start appeared to pull sales forward.

Black Friday sales fell 13.2 per cent from the previous year to $9.74 billion, according to Chicago-based technology firm ShopperTrak.

But combined spending over Thanksgiving and Black Friday rose 2.3 per cent to $12.3 billion compared with a year ago.

When Congress passed a law in 2009 effectively banning mail-order deliveries of cigarettes, it was expected to snuff out entrepreneurs on New York’s Indian reservations who were selling millions of cartons, tax-free, to consumers in high-tax states.

But the law, called the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act, didn’t stop everybody.

As recently as last spring, one group of about 20 website operators on Seneca Nation territory was still delivering 1.7 tons of untaxed cigarettes a week to destinations around the U.S., according to shipping records obtained by lawyers for New York City as part of a civil racketeering lawsuit.

The city’s efforts are part of a wider legal battle involving the ability of states to tax cigarettes sold on Indian reservations, where tribal leaders have long maintained that the state has no authority to tax anything sold on their territory.

Depositions and court documents show that after the new law barred anyone from shipping cigarettes through the Postal Service, and major delivery companies like FedEx and UPS separately agreed to end deliveries, some reservation-based distributors simply turned to new networks of logistics and shipping companies to reach their customers.

Buyers still weren’t required to pay taxes. Some sites never asked buyers to prove their age, or even provide a real name. A few retailers proudly advertised that they would help protect tax scofflaws.

“NO STATE TAXES, NO REPORTS to anyone EVER and NO Surprise Tax Bills,” boasted one site, Nativeblend. net. “The USA Federal PACT Act is in

effect, but we beat it legally.”

New York City took the unusual step last month of suing a Virginia-based delivery company, Lasership Inc., that had helped the reservation shops deliver cigarettes into the city without charging consumers the required tax of $5.85 per pack. The suit seeks $80.6 million in penalties.

That suit followed an earlier one against a Buffalo company, Regional Integrated Logistics, that helped a consortium of Seneca businesses set up a new distribution network after the PACT act took effect in July of 2010.

“We want to make it clear to the entire shipping community that anyone who participates in these illegal delivery sales into New York City will be subject to liabilities,” said Aaron Bloom, one of the attorneys handling the case for New York City.

Paul Joyce, a lawyer for Regional Integrated Logistics, said the company “never knowingly violated any law” and had stopped all cigarette deliveries permanently in response to a court injunction last spring. A lawyer for Lasership declined to comment. Those two lawsuits were the latest in a string that have left the once-booming reservation cigarette businesses reeling, and questioning their future.

Just a few years ago, an estimated 170 cigarette distributors on New York’s reservations were collectively purchasing many millions of cartons of name-brand cigarettes each year from state-licensed wholesalers, then reselling them to buyers eager to avoid sky-high taxes.

But that flow of branded cigarettes such as Newport and Marlboro largely stopped after an earlier round of litigation and a change in state policy forced licensed wholesalers to halt sales of untaxed cigarettes to tribal businesses.

Cantor Gaming enters Chinese gambling market with lottery club THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Cantor Gaming is the latest Las Vegas-based gambling company to move into the Chinese market.

The sports betting and mobile gambling company announced this week that it will help operate a lottery club in the large northern city of Tianjin, along with partners Global Entertainment Investment & Management Co. and the Tianjin Welfare Lottery club.

Cantor will provide infrastructure and technological know-how, and will allow the club to offer wireless wagering, as opposed to paper-based betting.

Cantor is advertising the new 80,000-squarefoot club as a stylish place with mah jong parlours, private dining rooms, and lounges, as well as lottery games.

Casino games are banned in mainland China. Only the tiny gambling enclave of Macau allows favourites like baccarat and slot machines.

But executives say the Cantor Club will match the luxurious atmosphere of a traditional casino.

“We are proud to provide Cantor Club with the very best, most sophisticated technology systems that match this premier, world-leading venue,” CEO Lee Amai-

tis said in a statement.

China offered a limited number of gambling licenses in the early 2000s, and companies that did not have the foresight to compete for them now find themselves shut out of the world’s largest gambling market and looking for other ways to lure Chinese customers.

Cantor Gaming is Nevada’s largest sports book operator, and was the first company licensed by state regulators to manufacture and operate a mobile gambling system. The company provides gambling technology to Celebrity Cruises, and has also done business in the Bahamas.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw some riders from toppling cars and swiftly raised questions about whether excessive speed, mechanical problems or human error could have played a role.

Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the New York City borough of the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, all seven cars and the locomotive had lurched off the rails, and the lead car was only inches from the water. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the second-biggest U.S. commuter railroad, which had never experienced a passenger death in an accident in its 31-year history.

Joel Zaritsky was dozing as he travelled to a dental convention aboard the train. He woke up to feel his car overturning several times.

“Then I saw the gravel coming at me, and I heard people screaming,” he told The Associated Press, holding his bloody right hand. “There was smoke everywhere and debris. People were thrown to the other side of the train.”

In their efforts to find passengers, rescuers shattered windows, searched nearby woods and waters and used pneumatic jacks and air bags to peer under wreckage. Officials planned to bring in cranes during the night to right the overturned cars on the slight chance anyone might still be underneath, National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener said.

The agency was just beginning its probe into what caused the derailment, and Weener said investigators had not yet spoken to the train conductor, who was among the injured.

Meanwhile, thousands of people braced for a complicated Monday morning commute, with shuttle buses ferrying passengers to another line.

Investigators were due to examine factors ranging from the track condition to the crew’s performance.

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An Amtrak train, top, traveling on an unaffected track, passes a derailed Metro North commuter train, Sunday, in the Bronx borough of New York. Officials are standing on a curve in the tracks where the Metro North train derailed.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the track did not appear to be faulty, leaving speed as a possible culprit for the crash. The speed limit on the curve is 30 mph (48 kph), compared with 70 mph (113 kph) in the area approaching it, Weener said.

Authorities did not yet know how fast the train was travelling but had found a data recorder, he said.

One passenger, Frank Tatulli, told WABC-TV that the train appeared to be going “a lot faster” than usual as it approached the sharp curve near the Spuyten Duyvil station. Nearby residents awoke to a building-shaking boom. Angel Gonzalez was in bed in his high-rise apartment overlooking the rail curve when he heard the roar.

“I thought it was a plane that crashed,” he said.

Mike Gallo heard the same noise as he was walking his dog. He looked down at the tracks, saw injured people climbing out of the train and “knew it

was a tragedy right away.”

Within minutes, dozens of emergency crews arrived and carried passengers away on stretchers, some wearing neck braces. Others, bloodied and scratched, held ice packs to their heads.

Three men and one woman were killed, said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the railroad. Eleven of those hurt were believed to be critically injured and another six seriously hurt, according to the Fire Department.

Three of the dead were found outside the train, and one was found inside, authorities said. The victims’ names had not yet been released.

Cuomo, in a telephone interview with CNN, said the scene “looked like a toy train set that was mangled by some super-powerful force.”

As deadly as the derailment was, the toll could have been far greater had it happened on a weekday, or had the lead car plunged into the water.

Ukrainians stage largest anti-government rally since Orange Revolution KIEV, Ukraine — A protest by about 300,000 Ukrainians angered by their government’s decision to freeze integration with the West turned violent Sunday, when a group of demonstrators besieged the president’s office and police drove them back with truncheons, tear gas and flash grenades.

Dozens of people were injured.

The mass rally in central Kyiv defied a government ban on protests on Independence Square, in the biggest show of anger over President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a political and economic agreement with the European Union.

The protesters also were infuriated by the violent dispersal of a small, opposition rally two nights before.

While opposition leaders called for a nationwide strike and prolonged

peaceful street protests to demand that the government resign, several thousand people broke away and marched to Yanukovych’s nearby office.

A few hundred of them, wearing masks, threw rocks and other objects at police and attempted to break through the police lines with a front loader. After several hours of clashes, riot police used force to push them back.

Dozens of people with what appeared to be head injuries were taken away by ambulance. Several journalists, including some beaten by police, were injured in the clashes.

Opposition leaders denounced the clashes as a provocation aimed at discrediting the peaceful demonstration and charged that the people who incited the storming of the presidential office were government-hired thugs.

Several opposition leaders, including world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, walked over to Yanu-

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late into the evening and some were preparing to spend the night on the square.

The demonstration was by far the largest since the protests began more than a week ago and it carried echoes of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when tens of thousands came to the square nightly for weeks and set up a tent camp along the main street leading to the square.

The opposition leaders urged Ukrainians from all over the country to join the protests in the capital.

“Our future is being decided here in Kyiv,” Klitschko said.

Ukrainian lawmakers meet Monday for consultations and planned to hold a parliament session Tuesday. The opposition is hoping to muster enough votes to oust Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s Cabinet after several lawmakers quit Yanukovych’s Party of Regions in protest.

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Some protesters then headed to Yanukovych’s residence outside Kyiv, but their cars were stopped by police.

Speaking before the vast crowds on Independence Square from the roof of a bus, the opposition leaders demanded that Yanukovych and his government resign.

“Our plan is clear: It’s not a demonstration, it’s not a reaction. It’s a revolution,” said Yuriy Lutsenko, a former interior minister who is now an opposition leader.

Chants of “revolution” resounded across a sea of yellow and blue Ukrainian and EU flags on the square, where the government had prohibited rallies starting Sunday.

Thousands of protesters remained

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Choirs unite as Winter Voice Four local choirs will unite to hold a Winter Voice concert Friday evening in Red Deer.

The Choral Singers Unite Society is presenting its annual Winter Voice concert, featuring Soliloquy, the ihana youth choir, Brioso children’s choir and It’s Time a cappella vocal ensemble.

The concert of seasonal and diverse music from various eras will be held at 7 p.m. at Living Stones Church.

Soliloquy, ihana and It’s Time regularly participate in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Music Festival in Banff, where It’s Time was featured as one of the showcase concerts for the past two years.

As well, ihana recently participated in the invitation only Voices West youth choral festival in Vancouver. The group was also invited to sing as part of the Distinguished Concerts series in New York City, but the timing did not work.

Tickets are $15 from any member of the choir, or by contacting choir director Lisa Ward at 403-3093032. Tickets will also be available at the door.

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Tre plots next move FORMER GO-GO STAR AND CURRENT WALE SIDEMAN

It’s the end of August in downtown Washington and everything feels wrong. Instead of approximating an armpit, the temperature is a perfect 76 degrees. The faded storefronts that recently lined these blocks have been reincarnated as alien condos.

Walker “Tre” Johnson rolls down the driver’s-side window to get a better look. Clad in a T-shirt, designer cargo shorts, Nike sandals and black gym socks, he appears slightly dismayed, but ultimately relaxed.

When friends give him a hard time about those “slippers” on his feet, he likes to reply with a cool smile: “I’m at home everywhere in this town.”

But this town looks different after three summers in Atlanta.

That’s where the baby-faced singer currently resides, the hiphop industry nucleus where he’s been helping D.C. rap star Wale shore up his blooming career.

Back home in Washington, fans know Johnson by his stage name, Tre, and as founder of the beloved go-go band UCB. His perpetual touring doesn’t allow for frequent homecomings, and a drive through D.C.’s gentrified streets can trigger complicated pangs of nostalgia.

“It’s good that the city changed like it did,” Tre says. “But I feel like a lot of that struggle made us who we are today. It built character.”

He’s en route to a rehearsal in suburban Maryland where he’ll help iron out the set list for Wale’s autumn tour — a coast-to-coast victory lap after the rapper’s third album, The Gifted, debuted at No. 1 on Bill-

hearsal in a D.C. basement in the summer of 1996, Tre knew he wanted to sing. Melody had been coursing through his genetic code.

His father, who died when Tre was two years old, had sung in various local R&B groups and his grandmother had performed on Washington jazz circuit. His first musical memories: singing in nursery school alongside Christopher Barry, son of then-Mayor Marion Barry.

In his adolescence, he earned immaculate report cards from Archbishop Carroll High School, where he’d spend his after-school hours either playing football or playing gigs with UCB. “I’m going to school with thousands of dollars in my pocket,” he says of the band’s early success.

“I was growing up way too fast.”

The band’s popularity was almost instantaneous, but it attracted a rough crowd that personified the violent stereotypes that had dogged gogo music since the ‘80s.

Fights at UCB shows became all too common.

(Concerned for their own safety, some band members performed while armed.) Teens eager to dance would end up getting hurt.

“It used to [upset me] because it was a lot of my friends that were doing the hurting,” Tre says. “It’s your cousins or your friends beating up the people who are paying to see you.”

They tried to escape the violent culture of their respective neighborhoods and quash the brawling at their shows by hiring Douglas Carter, an eductor and former executive director of Mayor Barry’s Youth Initiatives Office, to be the group’s manager.

“They were a group of at-risk kids that were really on the edge,” Carter says today. “I told them

all those behaviors had to stop. And they really bought into it. Especially Tre. . . . Any task I gave him, he grabbed it and went running with it.”

But trouble followed the band. In 2003, while he was finishing up his degree in political science at Morgan State University, Tre was shot in the leg after a gig. He was out of the hospital quickly, but knew UCB needed to make a drastic change.

“We wanted our music to be a reflection of our audience — college girls, people with jobs, people doing something with their lives,” Tre says.

That shift finally came in 2005 with the release of Sexy Lady, a go-go anthem that matched a riff from the System’s 1987 slow-jam, Don’t Disturb This Groove, with Tre’s pleading refrain: “Sexyyy ladyyy . . . gimme your number, girl!”

To promote the song, the band pressed up 7,000 CDs and canvassed area nightclubs for more than a year.

Sexy Lady became the band’s hallmark — a massive hit on the campus of Howard University and then on local airwaves. It also led to a fateful connection at a downtown nightclub.

Tre remembers hanging around the DJ booth at Platinum one night, doling out CDs. “And this kid walks up to me saying, ‘You Tre, right?

Man, I grew up on y’all!’”

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Attendees rushed to put out the flames with fire extinguishers to no avail.

“All of us at Universal are heartbroken,” Universal Pictures, which has released the Fast & Furious franchise, said in a statement. “Paul was truly one of the most beloved and respected members of our studio family for 14 years, and this loss is devastating to us, to everyone involved with the ’Fast and Furious’ films, and to countless fans.”

His Fast & Furious costar Vin Diesel posted a photograph of him and Walker arm-in-arm on Instagram with the message: “Brother I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless.”

Walker rode the Fast & Furious franchise to stardom, starring in all but one of the six action blockbusters, beginning with the first film in 2001.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed Los Angelesnative brought California surfer good-looks and an easy, warm charm to the popular street-racing series.

The son of a fashion model and a sewer contractor, Walker grew up in a working class, Mormon household in Glendale, Calif.

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board’s album chart in June.

As Wale’s backing troupe, UCB gave the rapper’s campaign for national stardom a huge boost four years back.

But the band unraveled on the way up, splintering for good in early 2011.

Today, UCB alums drummer Eric Curry, keyboardist Glenn Cobb and bassist Rashad Young continue to tour with Wale. Tre plays multiple roles: collaborator, songwriter, adviser, hypeman, foil and friend.

“I think he’s one of the most talented people I know, period,” Wale says of Tre. “And I know people from Lady Gaga to Jay Z.” So where should Tre steer that talent next?

The singer says he’s still haunted by how close UCB came to introducing go-go’s hyper-local rhythms to the rest of the planet. But he can also envision a career spent happily penning songs and pulling strings behind the scenes.

Since he learned everything growing up on these streets, maybe he’ll find some answers zooming around town in the silver Chrysler Pacifica he bought his mom a few years back.

So he zips past Howard University Hospital, where he was born on Valentine’s Day 1981 — and where he was treated after being shot outside of a UCB gig in the summer of 2003.

Past his mother’s old duplex where he stored his clothes in a garbage bag. Past the intersection where he lost his first friend to gun violence at the age of 12.

“Some people have 50 friends in their life,” Tre says. “I lost 50 before I could vote.”

Before music promised him a better life, it was a way to stay alive.

When UCB — originally called Uncalled 4 Band — held its first re-

A fiery car crash north of Los Angeles has killed 40-year-old Paul Walker, the star of the Fast & Furious movie series, and one other person in the vehicle.

Deputies found a Porsche Carrera GT engulfed in flames when they responded to a report of a collision Saturday afternoon in the community of Valencia, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Two people who were found in the car were pronounced dead at the scene.

Walker’s publicist Ame Van Iden confirmed the actor’s death. A statement on Walker’s Facebook page said he was a passenger in a friend’s car, and that Walker was in the area to attend a charity event for his organization Reach Out Worldwide.

The Sheriff’s Department said that speed was a factor in the crash.

The Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported that the Porsche crashed into a light pole and tree and burst into flames.

The fundraiser, to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan, took place at a nearby racecar shop.

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Rebels can’t ride Broncos ERASE TWO-GOAL DEFICIT BUT RUN OUT OF FIREPOWER IN CLOSE LOSS TO SWIFT CURRENT

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Broncos 4 Rebels 3 SWIFT CURRENT — The Red Deer Rebels held down the fort in the first period, but didn’t have enough ammo down the stretch to avoid a 4-3 Western Hockey League loss to the Swift Current Broncos Saturday.

“We had an awful first period,” said Rebels GM/ head coach Brent Sutter. “We were on our heels, we were soft. We were fortunate to be tied 1-1. Patty played great again.”

Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak, the first star of Friday’s 2-1 win at Medicine Hat, made 18 firstperiods saves as the visitors were outshot 19-4 in the first 20 minutes.

Red Deer was a much-improved team over the final two periods, but Jay Merkley’s 12th goal of the season at 10:56 of the third period snapped a 3-3 tie and stood up as the winner. The goal came just 21 seconds after Conner Bleackley, with his 12th, pulled the Rebels even.

“After a poor first period, we got going in the second and third periods and were right in it,” said Sutter.

Colby Cave staked the Broncos to a 1-0 lead with a power-play tally 4:29 into the contest. Wyatt Johnson replied for the Rebels nine minutes later.

Merkley and Julius Honka gave the home squad a two-goal cushion with goals at 1:47 and 8:28 of the

second period, but Rhyse Dieno got one back for Red Deer before the intermission, taking a feed from Dominik Volek and scoring a short-handed goal.

Johnson joined Bleackley and Dieno on a forward line after Brooks Maxwell was assessed a game misconduct after being engaged in an early second-period fight with Zac Mackay, who was also kicked out.

Dieno and Bleackley each picked up an assist for a two-point evening.

“That line was really good for us,” said Sutter.

“But I just thought we had some other guys who struggled. This was a big game for us, we had a chance to get right up into the top eight (in the Eastern Conference) and we didn’t do so.

“Again, it comes down to what we’re expecting from the player as coaches . . . the accountability and responsibility as far as how we need these guys to play.”

Defencemen Kayle Doetzel and Kolton Dixon were the Rebels top plus/minus players at plus-3 and plus-2. Bleackley and Adam Musil were the only other Red Deer plus players, with both finishing at plus-1.

Bartosak finished with 42 saves. Landon Bow stopped 20 shots for Swift Current in front of 2,152 fans at the Credit Union i-Plex.

The Rebels return to action Wednesday at 7 p.m. against the visiting Prince Albert Raiders. ● Sutter flew to Toronto Sunday morning for a Hockey Canada press conference today regarding the announcement of the national junior team’s final selection camp roster.

At the request of Sutter, the Canadian team head coach, only 28 players will be invited to the camp, a relatively meagre number in comparison with past years. The 2014 World Junior Hockey Championship is scheduled for Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Malmo, Sweden. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilers get comeback win over Stars DUBNYK RELIEVES INJURED BRYZGALOV TO GET WIN IN SHOOTOUT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oilers 3 Stars 2 DALLAS — The Edmonton Oilers made the most of limited offence and both parts of their goalie tandem.

Jordan Eberle and David Perron scored in the shootout, and Devan Dubnyk come on in relief of injured goalie Ilya Bryzgalov in the Oilers’ 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars on Sunday night.

“It’s nice to get a win,” Perron said, “mostly with the shot total that was tonight (Dallas 45, Edmonton 32). We greased one out.”

Dubnyk stopped two of three shots in the tiebreaker.

Dallas’ Kari Lehtonen failed to make a save in the shootout after stopping 30 shots through the first 65 minutes.

“Things weren’t really going our way for the first half of the game, so you knew there was going to be some shots,” Dubnyk said. “I thought we responded pretty good to it.”

Edmonton’s Ales Hemsky scored 5 seconds before the second period ended, and Andrew Ference fired in a slap shot with 5:07 remaining in regulation to tie it again.

Ryan Garbutt scored two goals, including a short-handed tally that gave Dallas a 1-0 lead in the second period. He also put the Stars ahead in the third.

“It’s obviously pretty important to have good shootouts,” Garbutt said. “We’ve had (Rich) Peverley scoring goals in the last two games, but we need more guys stepping up when we’ve got the opportunity.”

Garbutt nearly had a hat trick but he was stopped on a breakaway attempt by Bryzgalov with 3:41 left in the second.

Garbutt collided with Bryzgalov, who left with an upperbody injury and didn’t return.

“That line and (Garbutt) have played well,” Dallas coach Lindy Ruff said. “He had eight shots and he skated well. He could have had four goals tonight. He’s creating

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Edmonton Oilers left wing David Perron scores a goal against Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen during a shootout in an NHL game Sunday, in Dallas. The Oilers won 3-2. them himself with his speed.”

Bryzgalov, who made 28 saves, trailed 1-0 when he came out.

Edmonton coach Dallas Eakins praised both of his goalies.

“Both those guys, and especially (Dubnyk) coming in the way he did, they were a real catalyst for our team,” he said.

“To come in off the bench, it’s never easy. You’ve been sitting there for a long time, and then to make especially those saves in tight, that kept us going.

“When your goaltending’s good it allows you to hang around in the game. They could have easily been first or second stars or second and third, which would have been maybe a first in the NHL.” The Oilers improved to 2-1 in shootouts. The Stars dropped to 3-3, including two straight losses in the tiebreaker.

Ruff said there was a difference between Friday’s 2-1 loss to Chicago, which owns the NHL’s best record, and

Sunday’s defeat against the seventh-place team in the Pacific Division.

“This was a lot more frustrating,” he said. “There was glorious opportunities to put it away. We’ve got to bear down better and make sure we finish on some of those opportunities.”

Edmonton’s other shootout win was on Oct. 7, when Eberle scored the deciding goal against New Jersey.

Garbutt put the Stars in front in the second period

when he stole the puck near the Edmonton blue line, skated in alone on Bryzgalov, and put a backhander into the upper right corner of the net.

The unassisted goal came at 11:37, just 1 second before Dallas’ Jordie Benn was to come out of the penalty box. It was the Stars’ second short-handed goal this season.

Garbutt has five goals this season, and 10 in 76 NHL games.

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Raider boys cap solid season with provincial volleyball title

BY ADVOCATE STAFF EDMONTON — The Lindsay Thurber Raiders put together a season that can only be called golden.

The Raiders, who were ranked No. 1 for most of the season in the Alberta 4A boys’ volleyball division, put together a perfect run during the Golden Anniversary of the Alberta high school championships at the Saville Centre.

The Raiders captured the first-ever 4A boys’ championship for Red Deer with a 25-21, 24-26, 25-20, 25-17 victory over the Bev Facey Falcons of Sherwood Park Saturday evening.

The Falcons and Raiders battled most of the season for the top ranking in the province with the Falcons taking over the top rung from the Raiders in the final couple of weeks.

However, in the end it was the LTCHS squad that proved to be deeper when it counted the most.

“I think we have a similar level of talent, but ours is spread out a bit more,” said Raiders head coach Terence McMullen. “This was a total team effort. Some of our guys didn’t play as much as others, but when they was counted on they came in and did exactly what we asked of them. And they were always supporting the guys on the court.”

Parker Cook was one such player, who came off the bench in a tight situation in the final and slammed home a point from the right side, and Jarrett Zilinski came up with 10 digs.

“Every time they came through,” said McMullen, who was able to run a diversified offence.

“Matt (setter Graham) was able to spread the ball around, using everyone on offence.”

McMullen gave credit to Grade 10 middle blocker Ben Holmes for an outstanding effort against the Falcons sixfoot-nine middle blocker.

“A tremendous effort. He did such a great job it opened up our outside hitters,” said McMullen, whose team may have won the match in the third set.

“We went on a roll against their best rotation with all their big hitters in the front,” he said. “That seemed to frustrate them and we carried that momentum into the fourth set. We took control, going up 21-11, and then put it away.

“I couldn’t be more proud of a group of guys. This has been years in the making. I’ve coached some of these kids since they were in U14. They put together an undefeated season in Grade 9 and won the JV program with a lot of them in Grade 10. Last year we lost in the zone playoffs to Hunting Hills and that was probably good for us. It taught us things about putting in the effort to learn the game.

“This was rewarding and to make it even better not only are these kids outstanding athletes, but outstanding

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people. They respect the game and respect their opponents.”

While the Raiders needed a strong effort against the Falcons they needed even more against the Edmonton Christian Lions in the semifinal, winning 25-20, 25-22, 19-25, 16-25, 18-16.

“We played well the first two sets, but they never gave up and kept coming at us, while I think we let down a bit,” said McMullen. “But late in the fourth set we went on a bit of a run and that carried over to the fifth set. We were back into it and executed when we needed to.”

Meanwhile, the Notre Dame Cougars won the consolation title with a 15-25, 25-20, 15-10 win over the Foothills Falcons of Okotoks.

The LTCHS Raiders also won the consolation title on the 4A girls’ side, beating Holy Trinity of Edmonton 2521, 27-29, 15-11.

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Late goal lifts Flames past Kings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flames 2 Kings 1 LOS ANGELES — Michael Cammalleri has done his best to keep his Calgary Flames teammates going in the right direction despite a youthful roster and a host of injuries.

Saturday night, he was in the right spot at just the right time.

Cammalleri scored his 10th goal of the season with 23 seconds remaining, and the Flames pulled out a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.

Eight of Calgary’s nine wins have been by one goal, including shootout victories over Winnipeg and Florida.

“The wins haven’t been as frequent for us as we would have liked, for sure,” said Cammalleri, the first Calgary player to reach double digits in goals.

“We have a lot of respect for a good opponent across the hall, knowing that they’re comfortable knowing how to win those types of games. We’re still learning how, so this feels good. It was a special weekend for us because we had our dads here with us.”

Cammalleri beat Ben Scrivens with a short backhander from the edge of the crease after getting the puck from Mikael Backlund.

The veteran centre spent his first five NHL seasons with Los Angeles.

“Cammalleri is a killer. Every game that he plays is like a home game for him,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said.

Blair Jones had a short-handed goal during a 5-minute penalty kill in the second period for Calgary.

Karri Ramo made five of his 21 saves during the Kings’ long power play, helping the Flames end the Kings’ club-record streak of 11 consecutive games in which they gained at least one point in the standings.

Ramo was 4 ½ minutes away from his first NHL shutout when Justin Williams tied it with his 200th regularseason goal.

He played a carom off the right

boards in the neutral zone after a clearing pass by defenceman Jake Muzzin, then carried the puck into the Flames’ zone and took a 40-foot wrist shot that glanced off defenceman Shane O’Brien’s stick and over Ramo’s right shoulder.

“Sometimes when a team ties it up late in the game like that and you counter with quick momentum, it almost catches them by surprise because they expect the momentum to come their way,” Cammalleri said.

“We tried to keep aggressive and stay after it and keep making plays, and Backs made a good play to find me in front of the net.”

Calgary defenceman Ladislav Smid received a boarding major and automatic game misconduct at 14:26 of the second period for shoving Dwight King face-first into the glass deep in the Calgary zone as the Kings forward tried to beat Cammalleri to a loose puck.

King went to the bench with a cut near his right eye, and his teammates suddenly had their 5-minute power play.

But it backfired on the Kings, as the Flames responded with their fifth short-handed goal of the season.

“The funny thing is, when they got that five-minute major, we went to the bench and said: ’Hey, boys, we’re going to come out of this one-nothing.”’ Cammalleri said.

“You get that feeling sometimes, because sometimes a team gets a fiveminute power play and gets a little lackadaisical.”

Calgary defenceman TJ Brodie tried to slap the puck out of his zone and partially fanned on it, but it had enough momentum to slide into the Kings’ end and Scrivens fell down chasing it to his left.

Paul Byron took possession behind the net and passed it out to Jones as he was knocked down from behind by defenceman Drew Doughty.

“I spent a lot of time playing the penalty kill down in Abbottsford (of the AHL). So once I got on the ice, I

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Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo catches the puck during the second period of an NHL game against Los Angeles Kings, Saturday, in Los Angeles. had to seize the opportunity,” Byron said.

“I just jumped on the ice for a change and saw that he slipped, so I put pressure on them and saw Jones out of the corner of my eye. I slipped it to him and he put it in the back of the net.”

Scrivens, who stopped 18 shots, was 5-0-3 with a 1.34 goals-against average

and two shutouts in his previous eight starts. But the disappointment of that goal stung him.

“Stuff happens. It is a game on ice,” Scrivens said. “I was trying to get out there, play the puck and help the defencemen out. That was my plan, but I had an unfortunate break catching an edge and they were fortunate enough to capitalize on it.”

Martin wins opening match at Olympic curling trials “But we didn’t do much wrong, so not great, not bad,” he said. “Course we’d rather win the first game than lose it, but we’re not going to hang our heads.

You can’t in this event.”

Stoughton, 50, is playing in his fifth Trials and has said this is his last crack at trying to earn an elusive berth to an Olympics.

Martin was relieved to beat McEwen.

“Holy smokes, what a game,” Martin said. “Well, that’s the ice, right. It’s just perfect so every shot’s makeable.”

There’s a fine line between the competitors.

“One different shot and Mike wins, and then we don’t,” Martin said.

“That’s the way it’s going to be here all week.

There’s going to be game’s just like that all week and it’s just going to be a real dog fight for the whole time.”

Three of Manitoba’s four rinks lost their first games, with Jennifer Jones the only victor after she put up a commanding 10-2 win over fellow Winnipegger Chelsea Carey.

Jones scored six in the sixth end.

“If we could score a six in every game, obviously I would be pretty excited,” Jones said. “It’s a long week but a short week.

“It’s a pretty short round robin from what we’re used to so you don’t want to get behind the eight ball early.”

It wasn’t the only lopsided game as Edmonton’s Val Sweeting defeated reigning Scotties champ Rachel Homan of Ottawa 10-3.

In closer matchups, Ontario’s Sherry Middaugh defeated Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton 5-3 and Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie, Alta., beat Edmon-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Glenn Howard kept his sense of humour after losing his opening game at Sunday’s Canadian Curling Trials.

“I guess we’re not going undefeated,” Howard said with a wry grin after losing 8-6 to John Morris of Vernon, B.C. The four-time world champion from Penetanguishene,Ont., wasn’t the only veteran skip to fall on the first day of the Trials, which will select Canada’s men’s and women’s teams for next year’s Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie team upset hometown favourite Jeff Stoughton 7-4.

Reigning Olympic champion Kevin Martin had a duel against Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen, but the Edmonton skip finished with a 5-3 victory.

Toronto’s John Epping was also victorious when he got by Calgary’s Kevin Koe 9-8.

“They’re probably going to be in it at the end of the week so that’s a big first win,” said Jacobs, 28, a runner-up at this year’s world championships.

His team led from the beginning and widened the gap 4-1 after a double takeout in the fifth end scored two.

Even though the two-time world and three-time Brier champion Stoughton is beloved by local fans, the knowledgeable crowd of 10,214 at MTS Centre cheered in appreciation of Jacobs’ tough shot.

“That extended the lead nicely and I think just kind of boosted everyone up a little bit,” Jacobs said.

Stoughton said his rink didn’t put enough pressure on Jacobs.

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OILERS: Big goal Dallas had 18 shots in the first period, but couldn’t score against Bryzgalov.

In the second, the Oilers finally broke through against Lehtonen, who had shut them out in Edmonton on Nov. 13.

Jones sent a pass from the top of the right circle to Hemsky in front. Lehtonen stopped Hemsky’s first attempt, but Hemsky poked in the rebound. The Oilers had been scoreless in 108 minutes against Lehtonen.

“It was just kind of a loose puck battle and I wanted to go in hard just to win it,” Jones said. “The puck squirted out behind us, and I just turned and threw it there.

“It’s kind of been my mentality all throughout hockey, just get pucks there. It was a big goal for us late in the second to tie it up.”

NOTES: Eakins wouldn’t elaborate

on Bryzgalov’s injury. “I’ve got to keep this under wraps until we check him out a little further,” he said. . Center Tyler Seguin, leading Dallas with 12 goals, missed his first game this season because of concussion-like symptoms resulting from a hit during Friday’s game against Chicago. . The Stars failed to score on four power plays, including 9 seconds with a 5-on-3 advantage late in the first period. Dallas is the only NHL team with fewer than 10 power-play goals. Seguin has two of the Stars’ nine. The team is 1 for 37 at home and 9 for 86 overall. . The Oilers were 0 for 6. Their two first-period power plays followed Stars bench minors for too many men on the ice.

GOLDEN: Satisfied “Obviously we would have liked to have done better, but we’re satisfied with the consolation title,” said Raiders head coach Kirsten DeZutter, who has four provincial 4A girls’ titles to her credit.

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ton’s Heather Nedohin 8-6.

Carey, curling without third Kristy McDonald who was out with the flu, said she wasn’t letting the loss get to her and felt they played well, including alternate Breanne Meaken.

“We were just the wrong side of the inch,” said Carey. “My last rock picked in three and we were just off on everything after that.”

Jones may be one of the most successful curlers in Canada, but she has never managed to even come to winning an Olympic berth. She failed to make the playoffs in her previous two attempts in 2005 and 2009.

Homan said there were one too many picks in her loss.

“It’s always a little bit different from tournament to tournament. We’re just kind of learning the ice and getting a feel for it and next game we’re going to come out a lot stronger,” Homan said.

For Sweeting it was, well, sweet. The 26-year-old has only been in one Scotties and is far from being a favourite in the trials.

“Everyone likes a good underdog, so if that’s us, that’s totally fine with me,” she said. “We were a little fortunate in the beginning of that game ... I struggled early, I don’t think my team did.”

Even the veteran curlers were a little star struck with the appearance at the trials of actor Will Ferrell, in character as anchorman Ron Burgundy.

“We were fooling around with him and it was pretty cool,” Jones said.

Ferrell donned a kilt, entertained fans and did a little colour work with veteran TSN curling broadcaster Vic Rauter.

Martin was happy for the extra exposure.

downed the Strathcona Lords of Edmonton 3-0 in the final. ● The 3A girls saw both the Lacombe Rams and H.J. Cody Lakers of Sylvan Lake lose in the quarter-finals.

The Rams lost 28-26, 13-25, 9-15 to Ardrossan and the Lakers dropped a 3-25, 21-25 decision to St. Albert Christian.

Eagle Butte of Dunmore downed St. Albert 25-22, 14-25, 20-18 in the final.

Louis St, Laurent of Edmonton won the 3A boys’ title with a 25-20, 25-17 win over Barrhead. ● Central Alberta Christian High School Knights of Lacombe lost 2518, 24-26, 11-15 to Immanuel Christian of Lethbridge in the 2A boys’ bronze medal game.

Earlier the Knights lost 23-25, 21-25 to Calgary Christian in the semifinals.

Calgary went on to down Rundle College of Calgary 25-19, 25-16 in the final.

Spirit River beat Strathcona Tweedsmuir of Okotoks 25-14, 25-20 in the 2A girls’ final. ● Coronation lost 15-25, 18-25 to Bawlf in the 1A boys’ semifinal, then downed Grand Trunk of Evansburg 2520, 20-25, 16-14 in the third-place game.

Bawlf beat Senator Gershaw of Bow Island 25-21, 23-25, 15-12 in the final.

The 1A girls division saw Acme stop H.A. Kostash of Smokey Lake 26-24, 2521 in the final.

Bawlf took third with a 25-11, 25-23 win over Ecole Heritage of Falher. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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SCOREBOARD Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 31 17 11 0 3 109 91 Prince Albert 28 17 9 2 0 101 91 Regina 28 15 12 1 0 90 97 Brandon 29 14 13 2 0 104 111 Saskatoon 30 10 17 1 2 98 127 Moose Jaw 31 8 18 3 2 79 116 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 28 17 8 3 0 103 77 Edmonton 27 17 9 0 1 98 67 Calgary 26 15 7 1 3 82 76 Kootenay 29 15 12 2 0 89 86 Red Deer 28 13 13 0 2 80 85 Lethbridge 29 3 22 2 2 70 139

Pt 37 36 31 30 23 21 Pt 37 35 34 32 28 10

Saturday’s results Swift Current 4 Red Deer 3 Regina 6 Moose Jaw 1 Prince Albert 5 Brandon 4 (OT) Edmonton 5 Kootenay 1 Vancouver 5 Prince George 3 Everett 5 Saskatoon 1 Seattle 6 Victoria 3 Kelowna 3 Kamloops 2 (SO) Tri-City 2 Spokane 1 (SO) Sunday’s results Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 1 Portland 6 Saskatoon 5 Edmonton 3 Lethbridge 2 Seattle 5 Spokane 1 Tuesday’s games Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Kootenay at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Lethbridge at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Broncos 4, Rebels 3 First Period 1. Swift Current, Cave 16 (Black, Martin) 4:29 (pp) 2. Red Deer, Johnson 5 (Bleackley, Dixon) 13:47 Penalties — Lernout SC (elbowing) 1:07, Sutter RD (interference) 3:08, Bleackley RD (roughing), Leth SC (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 6:22, Charif RD (holding) 10:30.

Second Period 3. Swift Current, Merkley 11 (Cave) 1:47 4. Swift Current, Honka 11 (Merkley) 8:28 5. Red Deer, Dieno 10 (Volek) 17:36 (sh) Penalties — Maxwell RD, Mackay SC (fighting, game misconduct) 0:13, Charif RD, Odgers SC (fighting) 2:56, Mpofu RD, Shmoorkoff SC (fighting) 5:58, Fafard RD, Lernout SC (fighting) 8:24, Black SC (elbowing) 11:42, Sutter RD (roughing) 15:44.

Third Period 6. Red Deer, Bleackley 12 (Dieno, Musil) 10:25 7. Swift Current, Merkley 12 (Black, Heatherington) 10:56.

Penalties — Lernout SC (checking from behind) 19:30.

Shots on goal Red Deer 4 11 8 — 23 Swift Current 19 16 11 — 46 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (L,11-10-2); Swift Current: Bow (W,8-2-1).

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

Sunday’s summaries Hitmen 4, Tigers 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Doty MH (fighting), Rissling Cgy (fighting) 12:43, Becker MH (roughing), Padakin Cgy (roughing), Rissling Cgy (interference) 18:47.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Padakin 7 (Fazleev, Roach) 3:42 2. Calgary, Mahon 1 (Lang, Draude) 16:03 3. Calgary, Chase 15 (Harmsworth, Thomas) 19:55 Penalties — Brassart Cgy (roughing) 13:01.

Third Period 4. Calgary, Chase 16 (Brassart, Roach) 3:07 (pp) 5. Medicine Hat, Owre 8 (Butcher, Becker) 15:31 Penalties — Shinkaruk MH (high-sticking) 1:09, Thomas Cgy (interference) 1:16, McVeigh MH (high-sticking) 2:09, Lewington MH (fighting), Mahon Cgy (fighting) 8:53, Chase Cgy (interference) 9:27, Padakin Cgy (slashing), Padakin Cgy (game misconduct) 20:00.

Shots on goal Medicine Hat 13 12 15 — 40 Calgary 12 11 6 — 29 Goal — Medicine Hat: Wapple (L, 8-4-1); Calgary: Driedger (W, 9-6-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Medicine Hat: 0-3; Calgary: 1-2.

Oil Kings 3, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Baddock 2 (Bertolucci, Benson) 4:00 2. Edmonton, Pollock 10 (Kieser, Petryk) 10:50 Penalties — Irving Edm (tripping) 1:07, Sheen Let

(roughing) 12:05, Walter Edm (fighting), Ramsay Let (fighting) 15:00, Baddock Edm (hooking) 15:14.

Second Period 3. Lethbridge, Ramsay 8 (Sheen) 6:14 4. Edmonton, Kulda 8 (Lazar, Mayo) 13:26 (pp) Penalties — Baddock Edm (tripping) 2:36, Moroz Edm (charging) 10:22, Watson Let (holding) 12:44, Carroll Edm (fighting), Folk Let (fighting) 16:10, Corbett Edm (cross-checking) 19:40.

Third Period 5. Lethbridge, Duke 2 (Wong, Olynek) 11:18 (pp) Penalties — Kulda Edm (kneeing) 11:00, Derko Let (slashing) 16:25.

Shots on goal Edmonton 18 14 12 — 44 Lethbridge 7 5 9 — 21 Goal — Edmonton: Jarry (W, 16-7-0); Lethbridge: Boes (L, 2-18-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 1-3; Lethbridge: 1-6.

Winterhawks 6, Blades 5 First Period 1. Portland, Bjorkstrand 22 (Pouliot, Petan) 19:37 2. Saskatoon, Revel 8 (Sherbak, Craig) 19:48 Penalties — Clayton Sas (hooking) 6:59, Schoenborn Por (hooking) 9:49, Clayton Sas (slashing), De Leo Por (roughing) 18:44.

Second Period 3. Saskatoon, Revel 9 (Sherbak, Craig) 0:17 4. Saskatoon, Burns 13 (Sherbak) 2:42 5. Saskatoon, Burns 14 (Sherbak, Valcourt) 11:40 6. Portland, Petan 16 (Bjorkstrand, Leipsic) 15:37 (pp) 7. Portland, Petan 17 (Leipsic, Leier) 18:45 (pp) Penalties — Leipsic Por (roughing) 4:51, Craig Sas (interference) 5:17, Sas Bench (served by Millar, too many men), Nikkel Sas (hooking) 8:49, Nogier Sas (cross-checking) 13:47, Nemecek Sas (holding) 18:16.

Third Period 8. Portland, Petan 18 (Leipsic) 1:42 9. Saskatoon, Valcourt 13 (Revel, Burns) 5:46 (pp) 10. Portland, Petan 19 (Leier, Leipsic) 13:48 (pp) 11. Portland, Bjorkstrand 23 (Leipsic) 19:40 Penalties — Bittner Por (checking from behind) 5:07, Nikkel Sas (tripping) 12:21.

Shots on goal Saskatoon 4 8 4 — 16 Portland 14 21 18 — 53 Goal — Saskatoon: Moodie (L, 7-11-1); Portland: Burke (W, 18-4-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Saskatoon: 1-3; Portland: 3-7.

Thurnderbirds 5, Chiefs 1 First Period 1. Seattle, Lipsbergs 18 (Henry, Troock) 11:11 (pp) Penalties — Elliot Sea (roughing), Bobyk Spo (roughing) 2:47, Delnov Sea (roughing), Proft Spo (roughing) 8:59, Oneschuk Spo (holding) 9:51, Hickman Sea (fighting), McIntosh Spo (fighting) 11:20, Eansor Sea (delay of game) 14:13, Yakubowski Sea (roughing), Proft Spo (roughing) 19:10.

Second Period 2. Seattle, Troock 10 (Delnov, Theodore) 12:06 Penalties — Hauf Sea (roughing) 2:27, Hascic Spo (checking from behind) 5:08, Hauf Sea (tripping) 7:33, Hauf Sea (interference) 16:52, Playfair Spo (interference) 19:31.

Third Period 3. Seattle, Delnov 14 (unassisted) 5:58 4. Seattle, Barzal 5 (Henry) 10:41 (pp) 5. Seattle, Henry 3 (Barzal, Theodore) 10:59 (pp) 6. Spokane, Whittingham 6 (Bechtold) 11:27 Penalties — Wardley Sea (interference) 2:55, Bobyk Spo (interference) 9:08, Bobyk Spo (roughing) 9:08, Lipsbergs Sea (10-minute misconduct), Wedman Spo (10-minute misconduct) 10:59, King Spo (high-sticking) 17:56.

Shots on goal Seattle 19 12 15 — 46 Spokane 12 10 7 — 29 Goal — Seattle: Myles (W, 8-4-0); Spokane: Hughson (L, 3-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Seattle: 3-6; Spokane: 0-5.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 27 18 7 2 38 Detroit 28 14 7 7 35 Tampa Bay 26 16 9 1 33 Montreal 27 15 9 3 33 Toronto 27 14 10 3 31 Ottawa 27 10 13 4 24 Florida 27 7 15 5 19 Buffalo 28 6 20 2 14 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 28 18 9 1 37 Washington 27 14 11 2 30 N.Y. Rangers27 14 13 0 28 New Jersey 27 11 11 5 27 Philadelphia 26 12 12 2 26 Carolina 27 10 12 5 25 Columbus 27 10 14 3 23 N.Y. Islanders27 8 15 4 20

GF 75 78 76 73 75 78 59 48

GA 55 73 66 57 73 90 91 85

GF 86 82 60 59 57 57 67 72

GA 64 78 66 64 63 78 80 93

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 28 20 4 4 44 102 76 St. Louis 25 18 4 3 39 89 57 Colorado 25 19 6 0 38 76 52 Minnesota 28 15 8 5 35 68 67 Nashville 27 13 11 3 29 62 75 Dallas 25 12 9 4 28 70 73 Winnipeg 28 12 12 4 28 73 80 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 26 18 3 5 41 92 60 Anaheim 29 18 7 4 40 91 77 Los Angeles 27 16 7 4 36 70 58 Phoenix 26 15 7 4 34 85 84 Vancouver 29 14 10 5 33 77 77 Calgary 26 9 13 4 22 70 93 Edmonton 28 9 17 2 20 73 95 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 3, Nashville 2, SO Colorado 3, Minnesota 2, SO San Jose 4, Anaheim 3, SO N.Y. Rangers 5, Vancouver 2 Boston 3, Columbus 1 Montreal 4, Toronto 2 Pittsburgh 5, Florida 1

New Jersey 1, Buffalo 0, OT Washington 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT Chicago 5, Phoenix 2 Calgary 2, Los Angeles 1

Today

● Women’s basketball: Young Gunns vs.

The Bank, Shooting Stars vs. Spartans, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., River Glen; Xpress vs. Triple Threat, Funk vs. Storm, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Rampage vs. Big Ballers, 7:15 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton 3, Dallas 2, SO Vancouver 3, Carolina 2 Detroit 4, Ottawa 2 Monday’s Games Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday

● WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Wells Furniture, The Secret Runs vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Tuesday’s Games San Jose at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s summaries Oilers 3, Stars 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Dal Bench (too many men) 3:59, Dal Bench (too many men) 9:20, Schultz Edm (holding) 12:18, Eberle Edm (high-sticking) 17:59, Schultz Edm (goaltender interference) 19:50.

Second Period 1. Dallas, Garbutt 4 (unassisted) 11:37 (sh) 2. Edmonton, Hemsky 5 (Jones, Gagner) 19:55 Penalties — Daley Dal (hooking) 5:29, Benn Dal (slashing) 9:38.

Third Period 3. Dallas, Garbutt 5 (Roussel, Fiddler) 3:45 4. Edmonton, Ference 2 (Perron) 14:53 Penalties — Belov Edm (boarding) 7:52, Daley Dal (interference) 10:10, Garbutt Dal (slashing) 16:01.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — none Shootout Edmonton wins 2-1 Edmonton : Eberle goal, Perron goal.

Dallas : Benn miss, Peverley goal, Chiasson miss.

Shots on goal Edmonton 9 10 7 6 — 32 Dallas 18 12 13 2 — 45 Goal — Edmonton: Dubnyk (W, 7-11-1); Dallas: Lehtonen (LO, 10-5-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-6; Dallas: 0-4.

Red Wings 4, Senators 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Samuelsson Det (interference) 6:39, Det Bench (too many men) 9:51.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Franzen 7 (Kindl, Alfredsson) 8:22 2. Detroit, Miller 3 (Tatar, Kronwall) 11:13 3. Ottawa, MacArthur 8 (Michalek, Phillips) 14:14 Penalties — Smith Det (holding) 5:40, Michalek Ott (holding) 11:39.

Third Period 4. Detroit, Miller 4 (Smith, Helm) 1:58 5. Ottawa, Zibanejad 8 (Karlsson, Smith) 18:39 6. Detroit, Alfredsson 7 (Abdelkader, Kronwall) 18:57 (en) Penalties — Smith Det (slashing) 8:26.

Shots on goal Detroit 10 10 3 — 23 Ottawa 10 14 8 — 32 Goal — Detroit: Gustavsson (W, 7-0-1); Ottawa: Lehner (L, 4-5-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Detroit: 0-1; Ottawa: 0-4.

Canucks 3, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Kesler 11 (Garrison, Sedin) 3:24 (pp) 2. Vancouver, Sestito 2 (Garrison, Dalpe) 15:48 Penalties — Sestito Van (fighting), Harrison Car (fighting), Bowman Car (boarding, roughing), Bieksa Van (roughing) 2:18, Komisarek Car (delay of game) 3:13, Booth Van (tripping) 6:44.

Second Period 3. Carolina, Staal 5 (Hainsey, Dwyer) 0:39 4. Carolina, Gerbe 6 (Staal, Faulk) 0:49 5. Vancouver, Kesler 12 (Hansen, Higgins) 1:16 Penalties — Sedin Van (high-sticking) 6:37, Richardson Van (unsportsmanlike conduct) 10:10.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Kesler Van (boarding) 1:15, Stanton Van (interference) 10:11, Dvorak Car (holding) 13:20.

Shots on goal Vancouver 9 10 11 — 30 Carolina 4 17 10 — 31 Goal — Vancouver: Lack (W, 3-2-0); Carolina: Ward (L, 4-5-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 1-3; Carolina: 0-6.

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PA 261 248 310 307

New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta

W 9 9 3 3

PA 274 267 352 323

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

PA 216 235 278 297 PA 317 214 277 300

PA 303 281 297

W 7 6 5 3

W Seattle 10 San Francisco 8 Arizona 7 St. Louis 5

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PF 305 285 217 261

PA 196 157 285 340

Pct .583 .500 .458 .292

PF 326 323 294 289

PA 287 332 305 366

Pct .909 .667 .583 .417

PF 306 297 275 279

PA 179 197 247 278

Thursday’s Games Detroit 40, Green Bay 10 Dallas 31, Oakland 24 Baltimore 22, Pittsburgh 20 Sunday’s Games Minnesota 23, Chicago 20, OT New England 34, Houston 31 Indianapolis 22, Tennessee 14 Jacksonville 32, Cleveland 28 Carolina 27, Tampa Bay 6 Philadelphia 24, Arizona 21 Miami 23, N.Y. Jets 3 San Francisco 23, St. Louis 13

Sidney Crosby, Pgh Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Alex Steen, StL Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Patrick Kane, Chi John Tavares, NYI Henrik Zetterberg, Det Alex Ovechkin, Wash Corey Perry, Ana Joe Thornton, SJ Chris Kunitz, Pgh Logan Couture, SJ Henrik Sedin, Van Patrick Marleau, SJ Erik Karlsson, Ott Bobby Ryan, Ott David Backes, StL Bryan Little, Wpg Jonathan Toews, Chi Daniel Sedin, Van Joe Pavelski, SJ Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Phil Kessel, Tor Martin St. Louis, TB Anze Kopitar, LA Jamie Benn, Dal

G 13 7 20 13 16 11 11 21 15 4 14 9 7 12 7 13 12 12 12 10 9 6 14 10 7 7

A 23 28 11 18 14 19 19 8 14 25 13 18 20 14 19 12 13 13 13 15 16 19 10 14 17 17

Pts 36 35 31 31 30 30 30 29 29 29 27 27 27 26 26 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 24 24 24 24

Atlanta 34, Buffalo 31, OT Cincinnati 17, San Diego 10 Denver 35, Kansas City 28 N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 17 Monday’s Game New Orleans at Seattle, 6:40 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 5 Houston at Jacksonville, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8 Atlanta at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Washington, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Miami at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at New England, 11 a.m.

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

Tennessee at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

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

Monday, Dec. 9 Dallas at Chicago, 6:40 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Today New Orleans at SEATTLE 5.5 47.5

Curling Canadian Curling Olympic Qualifying WINNIPEG — Round robin schedule for the Roar of the Rings tournament, the Canadian curling Olympic-qualifying tournament, Dec. 1-8 at the MTS Centre: MEN Sunday’s results First Draw Kevin Martin 5 Mike McEwen 3 John Epping 9 Kevin Koe 8 John Morris 8 Glenn Howard 6 Brad Jacobs 7 Jeff Stoughton 4 Monday, Dec. 2 Second Draw, 12:30 p.m.

John Epping vs. Glenn Howard; Mike McEwen vs.

Brad Jacobs; Jeff Stoughton vs. Kevin Martin; John Morris vs. Kevin Koe. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Third Draw, 7:30 a.m.

Jeff Stoughton vs. John Epping; Kevin Martin vs.

Kevin Koe; Brad Jacobs vs. Glenn Howard; Mike McEwen vs. John Morris.

Fourth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Kevin Koe vs. Brad Jacobs; John Morris vs. Jeff Stoughton; John Epping vs. Mike McEwen; Glenn Howard vs. Kevin Martin.

Wednesday, Dec. 4 Fifth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Brad Jacobs vs. John Morris; Glenn Howard vs Mike McEwen; Kevin Koe vs. Jeff Stoughton; Kevin Martin vs. John Epping.

Thursday, Dec. 5 Sixth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Glenn Howard vs. Kevin Koe; John Epping vs. John Morris; Kevin Martin vs Brad Jacobs; Jeff Stoughton vs. Mike McEwen.

Friday, Dec. 6 Seventh Draw, 7:30 a.m.

John Morris vs. Kevin Martin; Jeff Stoughton vs.

Glenn Howard; Mike McEwen vs. Kevin Koe; John Epping vs. Brad Jacobs.

End of round robin WOMEN Sunday’s results First Draw Sherry Middaugh 5 Stefanie Lawton 3 Val Sweeting 10 Rachel Homan 3 Jennifer Jones 10 Chelsea Carey 2 Renee Sonnenberg 8 Heather Nedohin 6 Monday, Dec. 2 Second Draw, 7:30 a.m.

Rachel Homan vs. Renee Sonnenberg; Chelsea

Wednesday

● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Camrose at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday ● Peewee AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena; Spruce Grove at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Ramada, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● WHL: Portland at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Exhibition hockey: Bentley Generals vs. RDC Kings, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Elks, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

Thursday

● College basketball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Dream Team vs.

Monstars, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Orangemen, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m; Cranbrook at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

● Peewee AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer TBS, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:15 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Rusty Chuckers, The Secret Runs vs.

Monstars, Gord Scott Nissan vs. Woodys RV, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. Carstar, Wells Furniture vs. Dream Team, Alken Basin Drillers vs. Triple A Batteries, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 6 10 .375 — Boston 7 12 .368 1/2 Philadelphia 6 12 .333 1 Brooklyn 5 12 .294 1 1/2 New York 3 13 .188 3

Miami Atlanta Washington Charlotte Orlando

Indiana Chicago Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 14 3 .824 9 9 .500 8 9 .471 8 10 .444 6 10 .375

GB — 5 1/2 6 6 1/2 7 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 16 1 .941 7 8 .467 7 10 .412 5 12 .294 3 13 .188

GB — 8 9 11 12 1/2

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 12 6 .667 10 8 .556 9 8 .529 9 8 .529 4 11 .267

Saturday’s Games Washington 108, Atlanta 101 Cleveland 97, Chicago 93 Brooklyn 97, Memphis 88 Minnesota 112, Dallas 106 Houston 112, San Antonio 106 Utah 112, Phoenix 104 Milwaukee 92, Boston 85 Sunday’s Games Denver 112, Toronto 98 Indiana 105, L.A. Clippers 100 Detroit 115, Philadelphia 100 Golden State 115, Sacramento 113 Miami 99, Charlotte 98 Oklahoma City 113, Minnesota 103 New Orleans 103, New York 99 Portland at L.A. Lakers, late

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 14 3 .824 — Houston 13 5 .722 1 1/2 Dallas 10 8 .556 4 1/2 New Orleans 8 8 .500 5 1/2 Memphis 8 8 .500 5 1/2

Monday’s Games Orlando at Washington, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Chicago, 6 p.m.

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

Houston at Utah, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Portland, 8 p.m.

Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 13 3 .813 Oklahoma City 12 3 .800 Denver 10 6 .625 Minnesota 9 10 .474 Utah 3 15 .167

Tuesday’s Games Orlando at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Denver at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

GB — 1/2 3 5 1/2 11

GB — 2 2 1/2 2 1/2 6 1/2

NHL Scoring Leaders

Football

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 7 5 0 .583 329 Philadelphia 7 5 0 .583 300 N.Y. Giants 5 7 0 .417 237

MONDAY, DEC. 2, 2013

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 24 19 3 0 2 96 58 40 Victoria 30 18 11 0 1 80 71 37 Vancouver 29 12 11 4 2 94 104 30 Prince George 31 11 16 1 3 90 123 26 Kamloops 28 6 18 2 2 69 108 16 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 28 20 4 4 0 94 69 44 Portland 28 20 5 2 1 140 91 43 Spokane 29 17 10 0 2 107 87 36 Seattle 29 16 9 1 3 106 106 36 Tri-City 30 15 12 1 2 81 80 33 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 3 0 .750 322 Miami 6 6 0 .500 252 N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 189 Buffalo 4 8 0 .333 267 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 8 4 0 .667 285 Tennessee 5 7 0 .417 264 Jacksonville 3 9 0 .250 174 Houston 2 10 0 .167 230 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 4 0 .667 292 Baltimore 6 6 0 .500 249 Pittsburgh 5 7 0 .417 263 Cleveland 4 8 0 .333 231 West W L T Pct PF Denver 10 2 0 .833 464 Kansas City 9 3 0 .750 298 San Diego 5 7 0 .417 279 Oakland 4 8 0 .333 237

B3

Carey vs Heather Nedohin; Val Sweeting vs. Stefanie Lawton; Jennifer Jones vs. Sherry Middaugh.

Third Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Val Sweeting vs. Jennifer Jones; Stefanie Lawton vs. Renee Sonnenberg; Heather Nedohin vs. Sherry Middaugh; Chelsea Carey vs. Rachel Homan.

Tuesday, Dec. 3 Fourth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Heather Nedohin vs. Val Sweeting; Sherry Middaugh vs. Rachel Homan; Renee Sonnenberg vs.

Jennifer Jones; Stefanie Lawton vs. Chelsea Carey.

Wednesday, Dec. 4 Fifth Draw, 7:30 a.m.

Renee Sonnenberg vs. Chelsea Carey; Jennifer Jones vs. Stefanie Lawton; Rachel Homan vs.

Heather Nedohin; Sherry Middaugh vs. Val Sweeting.

Sixth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Jennifer Jones vs. Rachel Homan; Val Sweeting vs.

Chelsea Carey; Sherry Middaugh vs. Renee Sonnenberg; Heather Nedohin vs. Stefanie Lawton.

Thursday, Dec. 5 Seventh Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Chelsea Carey vs. Sherry Middaugh; Heather Nedohin vs. Jennifer Jones; Stefanie Lawton vs. Rachel Homan; Val Sweeting vs. Renee Sonnenberg.

End of round robin

Golf Emirates Australian Open Sunday At Royal Sydney Golf Club Sydney Purse: $1.15 million Yardage: 6,939; Par: 72 a-amateur Final Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland Adam Scott, Australia John Senden, Australia Bryden Macpherson, Australia Rhein Gibson, Australia Mark Brown, New Zealand Jason Day, Australia Matthew Jones, Australia Nathan Holman, Australia Adam Bland, Australia Ashley Hall, Australia Leigh McKechnie, Australia Max McCardle, Australia James Nitties, Australia Alistair Presnell, Australia David McKenzie, Australia Nick O’Hern, Australia a-Brady Watt, Australia Stuart Appleby, Australia Jamie Arnold, Australia Mahal Pearce, New Zealand Rod Pampling, Australia Richard Green, Australia Adam Crawford, Australia Matthew Griffin, Australia a-Ryan Ruffels, Australia Mathew Goggin, Australia Cameron Percy, Australia Steven Bowditch, Australia Michael Long, Australia Tim Wilkinson, New Zealand Kalem Richardson, Australia Geoff Ogilvy, Australia Aaron Baddeley, Australia Scott Arnold, Australia Jason Norris, Australia Peter Lonard, Australia Robert Allenby, Australia

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Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - Placed DB Sanders Commings on injured reserve. Promoted LB Josh Martin from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Placed D Stephane Robidas on injured reserve. Recalled D Jamie Oleksiak from Texas (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Joe Piskula from Milwaukee (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES — Signed F Gilbert Brule to a one-year, two-way contract.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned C Michael Latta to Hershey (AHL). Recalled G Philipp Grubauer and D Dmitry Orlov from Hershey.

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalleed D Teddy Ruth from Cincinnati (ECHL).

Sunday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed D Adam Larsson on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 23.

Recalled F Tim Sestito from Albany (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled F John Albert from St. John’s (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Agreed to terms with D Mike Banwell on a professional tryout contract (PTO).

Central Hockey League ARIZONA SUNDOGS — Waived G Brad Fogal.

Signed G Chris Rawlings.

COLLEGE FLORIDA — Fired offensive coordinator Brent Pease.

IOWA STATE — Fired offensive co-ordinator Courtney Messingham.

WYOMING — Fired football coach Dave Christensen.

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Chiefs blow lead in loss to St. Albert The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs blew a 3-1 first-period lead Saturday and dropped a 4-3 Alberta Midget Hockey League decision to the host St. Albert Raiders.

Scoring for the Chiefs were TJ Brown, Jordie Lawson and Tyler Steenbergen, while Jayden Sittler made 19 saves in a losing cause. The Chiefs fired 43 shots at Raiders netminders Patrick Gora and Patrick Dea. Red Deer, which fell to 104-2, will host the Calgary Buffaloes Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena.

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Robinson leads Nuggets past Raptors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Nuggets 112 Raptors 98 TORONTO — Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey knows his starters can not play the entire game.

But after Sunday’s loss to the Denver Nuggets, he probably wishes they could.

The Nuggets reserves came off the bench to outscore their Raptors counterparts 72-16 as Denver pulled away in the fourth quarter for a comfortable 112-98 win before 16,290 fans at Air Canada Centre.

“Our bench has got to give us something,” Casey told reporters after Toronto (6-10) lost its third straight.

“Our guys (starters) can’t play for 48 (minutes), so we’ve got to get production from our bench.

“The guys coming in have got to develop a toughness, a resilience of getting stops.

And, it starts on the defensive end. In the second half, they shot it well but we didn’t make them feel us.”

The 72 bench points conceded is the worst in Raptors’ history, exceeding the 69 points surrendered to the Chicago Bulls in a loss on Jan. 25, 2006.

Diminutive guard Nate Robinson led the way for Denver (10-6) with 23 points off the bench.

The 5-foot-9 veteran hit five three-pointers on the afternoon, including back-to-back

shots from beyond the arc with just over two minutes to go, as the Nuggets coasted to their sixth straight win.

In addition to Robinson’s team-high 23 points, three other Denver players had doubledigit point totals off the bench, including Timofey Mozgov with 16, Darrell Arthur with 14 and Jordan Hamilton with 10.

Rudy Gay led the way for the Raptors with 23 points. Jonas Valanciunas had 18 points and 11 rebounds.

Finishing 1-3 on their longest home stand of the season, the Raptors now head out West for the next week, visiting the Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers.

“Personally, I’m frustrated.

Period,” said Toronto guard DeMar DeRozan, who finished with 17 points. “We’ve just got to figure it out and turn it around on the road.

“It’s correctable but we shouldn’t have to keep doing the same thing over and over before we realize that we are doing something wrong. We have to understand what we’re doing out the gate and correct it.”

Casey shuffled his line-up, inserting Tyler Hansbrough into the starting rotation in place of a struggling Amir Johnson. And, the initial results were positive, as the Raptors came out flying, opening up a 15-point lead eight minutes into the first quarter on the strength of a swarming

defence and some deadly accurate field goal shooting.

DeRozan hit his first four shots and Lowry sunk his initial two attempts from beyond the three-point arc.

But the Nuggets went on a 13-4 run over the final 3:56 of the first quarter to cut the lead to 31-25.

Denver led 47-45 at the half and had a 76-72 lead after a see-saw third quarter that featured four lead changes.

In addition to lamenting his bench being outplayed, Casey also said the Raptors didn’t pass the ball enough.

“We had only 18 assists, they had 29,” he said. “And, that’s where it starts in the offensive end.

“We talked about the defensive end but the offensive end, we’ve got to start trusting the pass.”

Gay said despite three straight losses, the Raptors are not getting down on themselves.

“If we want to win, we have to make the right adjustments,” he said.

“Let’s not get crazy,” Gay said when asked if there might need to be some dramatic shake-up with the team. “They hit some tough shots and we made them hit some tough shots. We made them move the ball around, which is our defensive principle. We can’t look at ourselves like we are just terrible.

“We made some strides today but we can be better.”

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Toronto Raptors’ Jonas Valanciuna, right, shoots over Denver Nuggets’ Jordan Hamilton during second half NBA action in Toronto on Sunday.

Falcons top Bills in annual game at Toronto after Dre Kirkpatrick ripped it away from tight end Antonio Gates after a reception at the Cincinnati 25, the Chargers’ third turnover.

Ten plays later, Green split the defence for an easy touchdown, with safety Eric Weddle and cornerback Marcus Gilchrist only able to watch.

FALCONS 34, BILLS 31 TORONTO (AP) — Matt Bryant hit a 36-yard field goal 3 minutes into overtime in Buffalo’s annual “home” game in Toronto.

Falcons safety William Moore set up the decisive score in a back-and-fourth game by forcing a fumble on Buffalo’s second play from scrimmage. He punched the ball out of the arms of Bills tight end Scott Chandler.

Cornerback Robert McClain also forced a fumble on the Bills’ final possession of regulation, when he knocked the ball out of the hands of receiver Stevie Johnson at the Falcons 30 with 20 seconds left.

Steven Jackson scored twice, including the tying 1-yard plunge with 1:28 left for the Falcons (3-9), who snapped a five-game skid and won for the first time in six road games this season.

Fred Jackson scored twice for Buffalo (4-8).

BRONCOS 35 CHIEFS 28 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Peyton Manning threw for 403 yards and five touchdowns, four to Eric Decker, and the Denver Broncos held off a furious rally to beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-28 Sunday and seize control of the AFC West.

Decker had eight catches for a career-high 174 yards for the Broncos (10-2), who moved a game clear of the Chiefs (9-3) in the division. With four games left, Denver also holds the tiebreaker by virtue of two wins over Kansas City in the last three weeks.

Jamaal Charles had 93 yards rushing for the Chiefs, and capped a 17-play drive with a 1-yard touchdown run with 6:32 left in the game to close within a touchdown.

After forcing a punt with 3:32 remaining, Kansas City used three long pass plays to move deep into Broncos territory. But Alex Smith’s pass to Dwayne Bowe in the end zone on fourth-and-4 with 1:45 left fell incomplete.

PANTHERS 27, BUCCANEERS 6 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton threw for 263 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score, and the Panthers earned a franchise-record eighth straight regular-season victory.

Newton threw touchdown passes to Brandon LaFell and Ted Ginn Jr. and “Superman” leaped over the pile for another score as the Panthers (9-3) outgained the Buccaneers 426-206.

The Carolina victory sets up a huge showdown next Sunday night with New Orleans with first place in the NFC South on the line.

Newton ran for 68 yards and overcame two interceptions. The third-year quarterback has thrown for 13 touchdown passes and run for five scores during the Panthers’ current win streak.

Carolina’s defence came in allowing the fewest points in the league and flexed its muscles again, forcing two turnovers and sacking rookie Mike Glennon four times to snap a three-game winning streak for Tampa Bay (3-9). Glennon had thrown a touchdown pass in an NFL record eight straight games to start his career.

BENGALS 17, CHARGERS 10 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andy Dalton threw a goahead, 21-yard touchdown pass to wide-open A.J. Green late in the third quarter and the AFC Northleading Bengals (8-4), coming off their bye, kept a two-game lead over Baltimore.

San Diego (5-7) lost the momentum it gained with a thrilling comeback win at Kansas City a week earlier and saw its playoff hopes dwindle after its fourth loss in five games.

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Carson Palmer threw for 302 yards and three TD passes, but also had two interceptions and lost a fumble as the Cardinals (7-5) had their four-game winning streak snapped.

Foles picked up where he left off in November, when he was the NFC’s Player of the Month and tied an NFL record with seven TDs in a game. Foles finished 21 of 34 for 237 yards against a defence ranked eighth.

Foles set a team record for most passes without an interception (233), breaking Michael Vick’s mark of 224 set in 2010. He also moved within one TD pass of tying Peyton Manning’s mark of 20 and zero interceptions to start a season.

PATRIOTS 34, TEXANS 31 HOUSTON (AP) — Tom Brady threw for 371 yards and two scores, and Stephen Gostkowski made two long field goals in the fourth quarter.

The Texans’ franchise-record skid reached 10 games. Gary Kubiak coached from the sideline for the first time since suffering a mini-stroke Nov. 3. He missed one game before working the last two games from the booth.

New England overcame a 24-point first-half deficit last week to beat the Broncos 34-31 in overtime. The Patriots (9-3) trailed by 10 at halftime in this one and the lead changed five times in a wild second half.

New England tied it with a 53-yard field goal and took a 34-31 lead with another one from 53 with about three minutes left.

Ben Tate ran for 102 yards and three touchdowns for the Texans (2-10), who haven’t won since Sept. 15.

It was the first 100-yard rushing game since 2011 for Tate, who has been slowed with four broken ribs.

The victory ended a three-game road skid for the Patriots, who have won 16 of their last 17 December games.

GIANTS 24, REDSKINS 17 LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Eli Manning completed 22 of 28 passes for 235 yards, and Justin Tuck had four sacks to help shut down Robert Griffin III in the second half, leading New York over Washington.

Andre Brown had a pair of touchdown runs, including a 1-yarder early in the fourth quarter that put the Giants ahead for good.

Griffin was 16 for 17 at halftime, but he went 8 for 15 in the second half, and the Redskins managed only 95 total yards after halftime. The win keeps the Giants (5-7) two games behind NFC East leaders

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49ERS 23, RAMS 13 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anquan Boldin caught nine passes from Colin Kaepernick, and Michael Crabtree made his long-awaited season debut six months after Achilles tendon surgery. Kaepernick threw for 275 yards and Frank Gore ran for a 3-yard touchdown as the reigning NFC champion Niners (8-4) boosted their position in the playoff picture.

Crabtree had a 60-yard catch, while Vernon Davis hurdled into the end zone on a 17-yard reception.

With Hall of Famer Jerry Rice in the house, Boldin made six of his receptions in the first half on the way to his second-most productive game of the year behind his 13-catch performance in the opener against Green Bay. Phil Dawson kicked three field goals, and San Francisco’s swarming defence rattled Kellen Clemens and the Rams (5-7) all day.

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VIKINGS 23, BEARS 20, OT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Blair Walsh’s 34-yard field goal with 1:43 left in overtime gave the Vikings the victory after both teams missed kicks in the extra period.

Adrian Peterson rushed 35 times for 211 yards for the Vikings (3-8-1), who tied Green Bay the previous week. Peterson had two 11-yard runs on the final drive to get well within range for Walsh, who missed a 57-yard try earlier in overtime.

Walsh had to kick that one because Rhett Ellison was called for a 15-yard face-mask penalty to wipe out a 39-yard make by Walsh that would’ve ended the game. The Bears (6-6) then reached the 29-yard line, but coach Marc Trestman called for a field goal on second-and-7. Robbie Gould’s 47-yarder went wide.

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COLTS 22, TITANS 14 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Adam Vinatieri, the best clutch kicker in NFL history, tied his career high with five field goals, including a 49-yarder to give the Colts the lead for good late in the third quarter.

Surprise starter Donald Brown scored on a 4-yard touchdown run with 1:56 left, giving Indianapolis (84) a three-game lead in the AFC South with four to play. It owns the first tiebreaker thanks to a season sweep of the Titans (5-7).

Vinatieri, who will be 41 later this month, bailed out the Colts, also tying his career high for field goals in a half (four) and equaling Jason Elam’s NFL record for 100-point seasons (16).

Without him, the Colts might be lamenting their first back-to-back losses since December 2011. Instead, they were celebrating a renaissance of sorts.

The league’s oldest kicker also made field goals of 47, 48, 45 and 37 yards, and the Colts’ defence, which was so good early in the season, forced four turnovers on a day the offence struggled yet again.

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Wild game sees Kings fall to Rattlers

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Rattlers 120 Kings 114 It was the wildest game seen at RDC in many a year, and one that RDC Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger doesn’t want to see again.

“You can’t give up 120 points and expect to win and really, win or lose this was a loss for us,” he said following a 120-114 loss to the Medicine Hat Rattlers in Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League play at RDC Saturday afternoon.

“We didn’t defend or execute. We didn’t come to play and they saw a chink in our armour last night (an 8266 RDC win Friday) and exploited it today.”

It was also a game ruined by the officials, who decided they would be front and centre, calling 64 fouls, including a number of technicals. Teams shot 94 free throws, and even that number seemed low, with the Rattlers hitting 39 and RDC 31.

“It was tough in the fourth quarter as it became a game with a lot of whistles and free throws and it’s tough to get a roll going when that happens,” added Pottinger, who didn’t want to blame the officials.

“But really I’ve never seen a team shoot that many free throws.”

Despite falling behind by 14 in the fourth quarter, the Kings never gave up and had the margin to within two twice. In fact they outscored the Rattlers 43-35 in the final quarter.

“We never expected to go through the season undefeated and this is definitely part of the learning process,” said Pottinger.

“They’re a good team, but I think we started to believe some of our own hype with the rankings (second in Canada) and the fact we were undefeated.

We were sleep walking and you can’t win like that.

“The win by Med Hat does breath some life into teams we’ll face in the second half of the season. Last year we lost at home to SAIT and then were 6-4 in the second half as other teams believed they could beat us, so I expect a tough second semester.

“Still in the long run I welcome this as we need more tough games to get us battled tested.”

The Kings have one more test before they enter the Christmas break as

they host SAIT Thursday in a makeup game from Nov. 16 that was postponed because of poor road conditions.

“We need that to go into the break on a winning note,” added Pottinger.

The Kings had six players in double figures with Clay Crellin had 25 points, Mari Peoples-Wong 24, Jacob Cusumano 18, Ashaunti Hogan and Lloyd Strickland 14 each and Matt Johnson 10. Antonio Holmes had 37 points and Michael Cutright 28 for the Rattlers.

Rattlers 62 Queens 55 For the second day in a row the Queens played the Rattlers tough, but couldn’t put together four consistent quarters, eventually losing 62-55.

The Queens fell behind 32-25 at the half after trailing 17-13 in the first quarter. They were outscored 16-15 in the third quarter, but held a 15-14 edge in the fourth.

“It was a tough, physical game,” said Queens head coach Mike Woollard.

“I thought we controlled the ball better today and battled hard, but they’re one of the better defensive teams in the league and put a lot of pressure on you. They swarmed our bigs, not allowing them much time or space.”

Still both Desirae Paterson and Jessica Foley turned in strong efforts, despite being mauled at times inside.

Paterson finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds while Foley had 12 boards and nine points.

“I thought that was one of the best games of the year for Desirae,” said Woollard.

The Queens still had 23 turnovers, but forced the Rattlers into 21.

“We did a lot of good things,” added Woollard. “We took some good shots, although at times we still didn’t move the ball like we would have liked. But it’s a process and we’re going in the right direction.”

The Queens have been without point guard Manesha Sidhu for close to a month, but she’s expected back on Thursday.

Still Sidhu and Griffin are rookies and Hoar didn’t play the point last season.

“So really we’re young at the point, but it will be nice to have Manesha back so she can get that experience,” said Woollard.

Mozanga Ekwanlaga added 11 points for the Queens while Mary-Jean Ritchie had 14 for the Rattlers. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

MINOR HOCKEY Major bantam AAA Jeremy Klessens fired three goals to lead the Rebels White over the Rebels Black 7-2 in an Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League game Sunday featuring both Red Deer teams.

The winners got single goals from Tyrell McCubbing, Dylan Scheunert, Joel Ray and Jarrett Brandon. Dayton Playford and Seth Stratton scored for the Rebels Black.

Winning netminder Dawson Weatherill made 25 saves. Shae Herbert stopped 38 shots at the other end.

The two clubs combined to stage a Christmas toy/ food drive during the game.

On Saturday, the Rebels white were 6-4 losers to the host Spruce Grove Saints and the Rebels Black were dumped 7-2 by the visiting Calgary Flames.

Josh Tarzell tallied twice in a losing cause at Spruce Grove. Ray and Scheunert also scored for the Rebels White, who got a 36-save outing from Duncan Hughes while being outshot 42-27.

Brad Helofs and Elijah Funkhouser accounted for the Rebels Black goals in the loss at the Arena. Red Deer netminder Justin Travis turned aside 60 shots.

Minor midget AAA Landon MacKenzie netted the lone goal for the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs in a 4-1 loss Saturday to the host Calgary Bruins.

Reid Money made 30 saves for the Chiefs, who held a 42-34 advantage in shots.

On Friday, the Northstar Chiefs knocked off the Aero Equipment Chiefs 5-3 in an all-Red Deer contest.

Luke Coleman potted two goals for the winners, who got singles from Donte´ Nowell, Reed Engman and Ryan Chambers. Lane Congdon made 31 saves for Northstar, while Aero Equipment goaltenders Graydon Larson and Justin Travis combined to block 28 shots.

Kings’ errors helped Vikings get win RDC HOCKEY

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Vikings 6 Kings 3 PENHOLD — RDC Kings head coach Trevor Keeper was anything but happy with his defence, following a 6-3 loss to the University of Alberta, Augustana Vikings in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play at the Penhold Regional Multiplex Saturday.

Not that all six goals were the defencemen’s fault.

In fact they weren’t, but Keeper wasn’t pleased with the way they moved the puck out of their zone.

“They use the same forecheck system as we do and it’s designed to create turnovers,” he said. “I wasn’t happy with the way we managed the puck on our break outs and it gave them scoring opportunities.”

The biggest blunder came at 11:18 of the second period with Camrose up 3-2. The RDC defencemen passed the puck from behind his net into the slot onto the stick of the Vikings Adam Johnson, who was robbed by Mike Salmon, but shovelled the rebound home.

All three RDC goals came on the power play and while they finished with 31 shots they didn’t create as much as Keeper would have liked.

“Our forwards never had the puck to be able to attack,” he said. “We were turning the puck over way too much in our zone. We had a good power play, but overall we weren’t supporting the puck, not calling for passes and our D men weren’t reading the play.

They panicked with the puck and were putting it in places where it wasn’t safe.”

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE Chris Neiszner scored once and added two assists as the Bentley Generals downed the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs 5-2 in a Chinook Hockey League game Sunday.

Also scoring for the Generals, who led 2-1 after one period and 3-1 after 40 minutes, were Connor Shields, Don Morrison, Sean Robertson and Brett Robertson.

Landon Jones and Brett Holmberg replied for the Chiefs.

Travis Yonkman turned aside 31 shots for the winners. Chiefs netminder Jim Watt made 27 saves.

Bentley and the Innisfail Eagles were each 2-0 during the weekend, with the Generals also defeating the host Okotoks Drillers 3-2 Saturday and the Eagles posting 3-1 and 5-4 victories over the visiting Stony Plain Eagles and host Fort Saskatchewan Friday and Saturday.

Scott Kalinchuk potted the winner at 10:39 of the third period at Okotoks. Curtis Austring and Neiszner scored unanswered first- and second-period goals for the Generals, before Jesse Todd connected twice to

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RDC Queen Sarah Williamson throws a shot over a Medicine Hat College Rattler during league play between the two team at RDC on Saturday.

pull the Drillers even in the final frame.

Bentley directed 36 shots at Okotoks netminder Todd Ford.

Winning goalie James Reid made 37 saves.

Chad Ziegler’s shootout goal was the winner for Innisfail Saturday at Fort Saskatchewan.

The Chiefs led 4-1 before the Eagles rallied with a pair of second-period goals from Chris Neurauter, setting the stage for a third-period marker from Darryl Laplante.

Travis Dunstall also scored for the Eagles, while Jonathan Larose stopped all 20 shots he faced after replacing Bryce Luker, who made six saves on 10 shots before being pulled. Blake Grenier looked at 41 shots in the Chiefs net.

Neurauter also tallied twice in Friday’s win at home. Pete Vandermeer notched the other goal for Innisfail, which trailed 1-0 after one period on a goal by Stony Plain’s Gerrit Weller.

Larose blocked 15 shots for the win. Wade Waters made 28 saves for the visitors.

The Kings trailed 3-0 in the first period on a trio of suspect goals. Kenny Bradley opened the scoring at 5:27 on the power play, on a shot from the right circle that got past starter Kraymer Barnstable on the short side. Johnson made it 2-0 at 12:24 of the period when Barnstable got caught out of the net.

He was then replaced by Salmon, who was beaten on a bouncing shot by Tanner Korchinski from the Camrose end at 19:42. Salmon came out of the net to play the long clearing shot and the puck took a pair of crazy bounces past him into the net.

“That set the tone for the game,” said Keeper.

“We’ve alternated our goaltenders all season and they’ve been the best tandem in the conference . . . it was one of those games.”

The Kings looked as if they would come back in the second period as Clayton Petrie scored with a two-man advantage at 5:07 and DJay McGrath tipped in a Kirsten Odendaal point shot at 6:35. Johnson made it 4-2 before Riley Simpson tipped in a Blair Mulder shot at 16:16.

Mathew Foster made it 5-3 at 18:09 on a shot from the slot, that beat Salmon low to the glove side.

The Kings battled in the third period, but Foster put the icing on the cake with an empty net goal at 19:42.

“The guys showed good character as they battled to the end,” said Keeper, who saw his team finish the first half of the season at 13-5. “It was a good first half. We may have over achieved, but we’ll still be in second place and as long as we’ve learned not to have these type of games back-to-back or once the playoffs get here, we’ll be fine.” ● Barnstable faced 13 shots and Salmon 25 . . .

The Kings play the Bentley Generals in an exhibition game Saturday at 7:15 p.m. in Penhold, then will break for Christmas . . . They play 14 games the second semester.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Kolton Gillett fired two goals and Justin Corbett added one — all in the second period — as the Red Deer Vipers got past the visiting Airdrie Thunder 3-1 in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action Saturday.

Anthony Hamill stood tall in the Vipers net, turning aside 39 shots. The hosts fired 35 shots at Airdrie goaltenders Connor Darowski, who started, and Kade Taplin.

The Red Deer penalty killers were superb as Airdrie was zero-for-13 on the power play.

The Vipers were one-for-eight with a man advantage.

In other Heritage League weekend games: ● The Stettler Lightning outscored the host Coaldale Copperheads 2-0 in the second

period Saturday but were 8-2 losers.

Scott Ternes and Adam Ternes were the Lightning snipers. Jeff Skaley made 31 saves for the visitors, who were outshot 39-35. ● The Ponoka Stampeders traveled to Banff Sunday and came out on the short end of a 4-2 score to the Bears. Details were unavailable. ● On Friday, the visiting Blackfalds Wranglers fired 37 shots at High River Flyers netminder Cam Howell but dropped an 8-5 decision.

Scoring for the Wranglers, who got a combined 18 saves from losing netminder Conner Zenchuk and Thomas Isaman, were Jordan Freake, Wally Samson, Garrett Glasman, Trent Hermary and Robin Carlson. ● In another Friday outing, Stettler doubled visiting Ponoka 8-4. Details were unavailable.

Grizzlys get three unanswered goals in third period to get win over Canucks CALGARY — The Olds Grizzlys fired three unanswered third-period goals Saturday en route to a 5-2 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Calgary Canucks.

Landon Kletke paced the Grizzlys with two goals, in-

cluding an empty-net marker in the final minute. Spencer Dorowicz, who also added two assists, Jack Goranson and BJ Duffin also scored for Olds.

Replying for the Canucks in front of 219 fans at the Max Bell Centre were Connor Mc-

Callum and Jordan Kancsal. Ethan Jemieff made 34 saves for the Grizzlys, who improved to 12-14-6, while Canucks netminder Colin Cooper blocked 27 shots.

The Grizzlys host the Camrose Kodiaks Wednesday.

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McIroy denies Scott the Crown BIRDIE ON LAST HOLE GIVE MCILROY FIRST WIN OF 2013 AND DENIES SCOTT THE TRIPLE CROWN OF AUSTRALIAN GOLF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY, Australia — Rory McIlroy birdied the 18th hole to beat Adam Scott at the Australian Open on Sunday, winning for the first time in 2013 and denying Scott the Triple Crown of Australian golf.

McIlroy started the last round four shots behind Scott, but drew even when he eagled the seventh and birdied the eighth.

Scott went a shot ahead with a birdie at the ninth. The pair then went shot for shot over the back nine before the dramatic finish.

Scott’s approach shot went over the back of the green and his chip went well past the hole, with two putts bringing a bogey. McIlroy hit his approach to 10 feet and sank the putt to win by a shot.

“I wanted to get a win and finally I’ve been able to get one,” McIlroy said. “But more satisfying than that is being able to take one of the best players in the world down the stretch and come out on top.

“Adam is a phenomenal golfer, a great competitor and probably an even better guy and I feel a bit sorry that I was the one that ruined the triple crown for him.”

Scott was attempting to become only the second player after compatriot Robert Allenby in 2005 to win his country’s Triple Crown by taking the Australian Open, Australian Masters and Australian PGA titles in the same season.

He carried his form from the Masters and PGA tournaments into the Open, shattering the course record with a 10-under 62 in his opening round.

He came into the final day at 16 under, with rounds of 62, 70 and 68, four shots ahead of McIlroy, who was four ahead of the next closest challenger.

That, in effect, made Sunday’s final round a shootout between the No. 2-ranked Scott and Northern Ireland’s McIlroy, who was the world’s topranked player last year.

Scott was left to rue a series of missed birdie opportunities, failing to make six putts from within 12 feet during his final round.

“Nothing was going my way on the greens today,” Scott said. “I could have put this thing away early on if the putter was behaving how it should have, how it did the rest of the week.”

Both players took irons from the tee on the last hole and landed their shots adjacent to each other on the fairway.

Scott’s approach landed ahead of the hole, but a bounce sent the ball flying through the back of the green.

Rather than pitch and run back onto the green, Scott chose to give his chip some loft. It failed to pull up, rolling onto the lower tier of the green and he did well to salvage a bogey.

McIlroy stood assessing his 10-foot putt during Scott’s excursions. After Scott holed out, McIlroy rolled in a slow putt that just made it to the hole.

“I didn’t think it was going to unfold the way it did,” McIlroy said. “It’s hard not to feel some guilt in the way I won it. Having a one-shot lead going into the last having it taken away from you right at the very end, it’s tough.”

McIlroy finished with an 18-under 270. Scott finished six shots ahead of Australian John Senden (11 under).

Senden and Australians Bryden MacPherson and Rhein Gibson, who tied for fourth at 9 under, all qualified for next year’s British Open.

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Rory MacIlroy of Northern Ireland holds his arms high as he celebrates after winning the Australian Open golf tournament in Sydney, Australia, Sunday.

Schwartzel retains title at Dunhill with four-shot win EUROPEAN PGA TOUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MALELANE, South Africa — Charl Schwartzel retained his title at the Alfred Dunhill Championship with a 4-under 68 Sunday for a four-shot win and his first European Tour victory in a year.

Schwartzel finished with a 17-under total of 271 at Leopard Creek in northern South Africa to secure his third Alfred Dunhill title. Richard Finch was second ahead of a three-way tie for third between Simon Dyson, Ross Fisher and Romain Wattel.

Schwartzel held the overnight lead and made four birdies in a bogey-free final round on a course where he has a history of success.

The South African has four second-place finishes

Finch, who finished on 13 under.

Finch opened with four birdies in his first nine playing alongside Schwartzel to challenge for the lead, but paid for a wayward tee shot with a bogey on No. 11 and then made a double-bogey six on No. 14 to effectively end his challenge after Schwartzel had birdied No. 13.

English pair Dyson and Fisher were tied alongside France’s Wattel seven shots behind Schwartzel, with Dyson finishing with a 67 to push up into a share of third.

Denmark’s Soren Hansen (71) was in sixth on 9 under while Zimbabwe’s PGA Tour player Brendon de Jonge finished with a two-over 74 to slip to a tie for 16th on 4 under, 13 strokes behind Schwartzel.

Two-time major winner John Daly of the United States missed the cut at Leopard Creek in his second tournament back following right elbow surgery in July.

here to go with his now-record three titles. This was the former Masters champion’s second title on the European Tour since winning at Augusta National in 2011.

“This tournament has been very good to me,” Schwartzel said. “I’ve had lots of seconds here as well. Probably for the rest of my golfing career this will always be a special one. I don’t think that will change.”

After the victory, Schwartzel’s ninth career win on the European Tour, he now leads the tour’s 2014 Race to Dubai money list and returns to the top 20 in the world rankings.

The 29-year-old Schwartzel went the last 62 holes of the Alfred Dunhill without dropping a shot after a double bogey on No. 10 in his first round — his last slip.

He birdied No. 5, No. 6, No. 8 and No. 13 in his final round for a comfortable win from England’s

Alfredsson has big game in return to Ottawa THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — On the day Daniel Alfredsson returned to Ottawa, the Senators got yet another reminder that things aren’t the same this season without him.

Despite an empty-net goal and an assist, Alfredsson wasn’t primarily responsible for the Senators’ second straight loss and fourth straight at home. But in helping the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-2 victory Sunday night at Canadian Tire Centre, the long-time captain contributed to the continuation of his former team’s woes.

“The result makes it a lot sweeter,” said Alfredsson, who was named the third star in his return. “You could tell our team was motivated today and played hard and I thought we got better as the game went on. But

if we would have lost, for me personally I think it would still have been a night I’ll always remember.”

Like so many times in their previous 27 games in the post-Alfredsson era, something was just missing for the Senators (10-13-4). Botched line changes hurt badly.

“They catch us on three line changes and they get the odd-man rush and they don’t miss,” Ottawa coach Paul MacLean said.

“They’re a team that if you give them those opportunities, they’re going to take advantage of them. They took what we gave them and they made it the difference in the game.”

The other difference was Ottawa’s power-less power play, which went 0-for-4 and put up just four shots.

And when the Red Wings had the puck at even strength, they got the job done. Alfredsson assisted on Johan Franzen’s opening goal for

Detroit (14-7-7), and Drew Miller scored twice.

Clarke MacArthur scored his eighth goal of the season for the Senators, and Mika Zibanejad made things interesting late, but it wasn’t enough to make them a perfect 3-0 against the Red Wings this season.

Ottawa won the first two meetings, both coming at Joe Louis Arena.

Alfredsson had himself a night with his 590th and 591st points in his 596th game in Ottawa. The empty-net goal brought boos from the crowd of 20,011, but it generated plenty of relief for the Red Wings.

“It was nice kind of to seal the game there,” Alfredsson said.

“They were pushing, and I was thinking, ’Here comes the Pesky Sens again.’ But we were lucky to get a good bounce there.”

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Kocher finished in 23 minutes, 21.3 seconds, well back of winner Ann Kristin Aafedt Flatland of Norway, who shot clean to win with a time of 20:41.2.

Meanwhile, Lyndon Rush of Sylvan Lake piloted the Canada 1 crew of Edmontonians David Bissett and Neville Wright, along with Calgary’s Lascelles Brown, to a sixth-place finish (1:48.88) in a four-man World Cup bobsleigh competition in Calgary.

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Erik Guay of Canada gets some air as he navigates the course during the Men’s downhill ski race in Lake Louise, Saturday.

Total prize money at the World Cup was 100,000 Swiss francs ($117,000 Cdn) with 30,000 going to the downhill and super-G winners.

The Canadian team departs without a medal at their home race. Osborne-Paradis was the last Canadian man to stand on the podium at Lake Louise when he won the super-G in 2009.

“When you look at the results on paper, it’s not quite where we wanted to be, but for the most part the three guys, Erik, Manny and Jan have good speed and they’re going to be building through the season,” said Paul Kristofic, Alpine Canada’s vice-president of sports.

“It’s good to see Erik up to speed so quickly. We didn’t actually expect that.”

Guay tied for 18th in the super-G. Knee surgery in July kept the 2011 world downhill champion off snow until November. The 32-year-old said Lake Louise gave him positive feedback on his progress.

“It was to see how the knee reacted, how the back reacted, how the skiing is in race situations,” Guay said. “There’s good things that came out of this weekend and I have to build off of that.”

Hudec and Osborne-Paradis were 22nd and 28th respectively in Saturday’s downhill. Hudec rapped his knuckles on the side of his helmet after crossing the super-G finish line Sunday.

“That was the old fashioned ’I’m an idiot,”’ Hudec explained.

“Even though I’m not on the podium today, I knew I could have been.

“Even though I’m not quite in there, I’m happy because I was skiing towards a podium finish. I just made a huge mistake. The reason I was hitting my head is I didn’t trust myself for a split second to take a tighter line than what I expected. I ended up out in the weeds as they say.”

Osborne-Paradis was at a disadvantage with a No. 45 start bib. Courses generally get beaten and chopped up by the first 30 racers down the hill. So finishing 12th was the performance of the day for Canada, according to Kristofic.

“That’s great. I needed it,” Osborne-Paradis said.

“I was really bummed yesterday. I’m super-pumped with today. It’s good to walk away from here with that Olympic spot.”

Survey find Canadians don’t want NFL here if it mean demise of CFL

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NFL franchise north of the border if it meant the death of the CFL. The margin of error in the survey is plus or minus three per cent.

Only 19 per cent of participants would be happy to see the NFL come to Canada even if it meant the demise of the CFL. “We don’t have many things that are Canadian when you think about it,” Bibby said. “The CFL, for better or worse, seems to be one of them.”

On Sunday, the Buffalo Bills host the Atlanta Falcons at Rogers Centre a week after the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 45-23 in the Grey Cup at Mosaic Stadium.

Toronto has long been mentioned as a potential landing spot for an NFL club, but the survey says only 15 per cent of Torontonians would want a franchise here at the expense of the CFL. Eighteen per cent would be happy to see the NFL in Canada only if the CFL continued to operate with only seven per cent not wanting the NFL on Canadian soil at all.

A larger percentage than in the rest of Canada, some 60 per cent, say they don’t care much either way.

The survey states 21 per cent of Canadians are following the NFL compared to 26 per cent for the CFL. Fourteen per cent of each fan base follows both leagues.

However, the results show a large number of Canadians have a protective view of the CFL and relatively few want the NFL to come north, especially if its arrival means the demise of the CFL. “People aren’t troubled about the NFL coming but there’s a big asterisk that they have to be assured the CFL is going to continue to live,” Bibby said.

“To come in and just be triumphant about the fact that ‘We’re going to

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TORONTO — An overwhelming majority of Canadians don’t want an NFL team in Canada, especially if it means the demise of the CFL, a survey suggests.

Forty per cent of 1,007 on-line participants said they didn’t want an NFL team in Canada at all while another 41 per cent added they’d welcome an NFL franchise in this country only if it co-existed with the CFL. The survey, released Sunday, was conducted in mid-November by Reginald Bibby, a professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge, and pollster Angus Reid Global.

“They’d have to coexist, that’s the simple bottom line,” Bibby said in a telephone interview.

“Compared to 1995, if anything, that viewpoint seems to have solidified.

“People are feeling stronger about it.”

According to the survey, since ’95 Canadians have become more insistent that they’d only want the NFL here if the CFL continued to exist (41 per cent versus 32 per cent).

Also, more care about the issue now than 18 years ago (50 per cent compared to 33 per cent).

And in Bibby’s mind, Vancouver is a good example of where that shift seems to have happened.

“I sat there one night watching a game in about 1997 and there were 12,800 people there,” he said. “You go out there now and you feel like the whole thing has come alive.

“It just wouldn’t surprise me that now in B.C., for example, they’re feeling a lot stronger about the fact that they want to see the CFL survive and don’t want to see it disappear at all.”

Atlantic Canada is the only region of the country without a CFL team. However, the survey says only three per cent would welcome an

bring the NFL to Canada, three cheers you should all be excited,’ isn’t going to go over with Canadians.

“In fact, that could result in a significant backlash. I just think people would have to come in and really be respectful of the importance of the CFL to Canada as a whole and make sure that they take steps to ensure the viability of the CFL.” There’s also been persistent talk of the NFL eventually expanding into London.

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LAKE LOUISE — Manuel Osborne-Paradis and Jan Hudec didn’t want to leave home without securing their spots on Canada’s Olympic team.

The two men bounced back from disappointing downhill races at the Lake Louise World Cup to finish in the top 12 in Sunday’s super-G. Calgary’s Hudec was 10th and Vancouver’s Osborne-Paradis finished 12th, which met the criteria to be nominated to the 2014 Olympic team.

“We were both talking about how frustrated we were so I’m glad I got that out of the way now,” Hudec says. “It takes the pressure off. The longer you leave it, the more pressure you put on yourself on tougher courses.”

They followed Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., in meeting the Olympic team standard in Lake Louise. Guay was eighth in Saturday’s downhill to qualify for his third Winter Games. The 2014 Winter Olympics are in Sochi, Russia, in February.

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the super-G at Lake Louise for the third straight year. He’s won six World Cup races at the Alberta resort during his career.

His fifth super-G win broke the record of four previously held by Austrian legend Hermann Maier.

Svindal’s lone downhill victory was last year.

“Lake Louise has been good to me,” Svindal said.

“I won my first World Cup ever here in 2005 and it’s the one destination where I have the most wins. The super-G just seems to suit me well.

“The snow in North America, especially here, and the snow in Scandinavia is more similar than from Scandinavia to Central Europe. I think that has something do to with it. Norwegians tend to do well in North America.”

Austrians were second and third with Matthias Mayer .24 seconds back of Svindal and Georg Streitberger .38 seconds behind.

The men head to Beaver Creek, Colo., and the second stop on the World Cup circuit this 2013-14 season. They trade places with the women, who are travelling from Beaver Creek to Lake Louise this week for downhill races Friday and Saturday and a super-G on Sunday.

U.S. ski star Lindsey Vonn has won a record 14 times at Lake Louise and swept all three races the last two years. But the 29-year-old crashed in training last week and partially tore a reconstructed ligament in her right knee.

Vonn free skied, but didn’t participate in the women’s races at Beaver Creek on the weekend. She told The Associated Press she wants to race in Lake Louise.

The first of three women’s training runs scheduled for Tuesday has been called off because the women were delayed travelling from Colorado to Alberta.

In addition to medals and prize money, medallists at Lake Louise were given white cowboy hats to wear for podium pictures and to take home.

“It’s pretty hard to walk around in Europe and think you’re a cowboy,” Svindal said. “It’s one of those things where you wear them here and think it’s really cool and you get off the plane in Germany and it’s not that sweet anymore unless you are a real cowboy.”

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Limited positions available.

Darkstar will provide work visa.

Submit Resume, passport, criminal record check and current tickets to ken@darkstarproduction. com Applicants missing any of the above criteria will not be considered.

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. $14/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

Oilfield

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LaBORDE (Hermary) Ryan Michael May 1, 1979 - November 27, 2013 God took Ryan home on November 27 in Peace River, Alberta. Ryan leaves to mourn his loving family: Mom (Loretta), Dad (Hugh), siblings Chris (Jessica), Valerie (Reggie), Aaron (Lynsey), Luke, Trent (Madisen); his Gramma Bets, and Grampa Hermary; his special auntie Gayle; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and two beautiful nieces Lyndon Rose and Madden Grey whom he loved with all his heart. Ryan made friends wherever he went. His infectious laugh and willingness to help was never ending. Ryan graduated from École Notre Dame High School in Red Deer. Ryan spent many years working the oil rigs. His last adventure was consulting with Murphy Oil. Ryan was “Born to Be Wild” and brought happiness and laughter wherever he went.

His love of sports knew no bounds, playing ball in the summer and watching hockey and football. The Oilers, 49ers and Bombers all the way! An informal viewing will be held at the Chapel of the Sylvan Lake Funeral Home on Sunday, December 1st at 7:00 - 8:00 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church, Sylvan Lake on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 a t 1 : 0 0 P. M . C r e m a t i o n entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House with inurnment in the Sylvan Lake Cemetery. Lunch will be served at the Best Western Motel on Lake Shore Drive, Sylvan Lake at 2:00 P.M. As an expression o f s y m p a t h y, m e m o r i a l contributions in Ryan’s name, may be made to the Canadian Mental Health Association Central Alberta, 5017 50 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4B2.

Condolences may be forward to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your IMMEDIATE OPENINGS reno needs. 403-506-4301 Night Foremen, Day & Night Operators RMD RENOVATIONS Must have H2S, First Aid, Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. valid driver’s license.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with Escorts references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 BACK by popular demand.

Practicing sex therapist, Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted escort & practicing massage.

Couples welcome 403-704-5659 JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING EDEN now hiring Day Supervisors, 587-877-7399 10am-midnight Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* 5 drivers license. RSP’s INDEPENDENT w/own car and benefits pkg. incenClassifieds...costs so little tives. Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com Saves you so much!

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Flooring

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WILL install floor & wall tile 403-335-6076 / 352-7812

Handyman Services

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ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617 GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089 TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Massage Therapy

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Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Massage Therapy

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FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.biz

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Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving Central AB. 403-318-4346

Start your career!

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PRO-PAINTING & REPAIRS 403-304-0379

Seniors’ Services

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HELP FOR SENIORS: in home or facility - family business est. 1999 - bondable staff, great rates, gift certs avail for Christmas - HELPING HANDS Home Support Services Ltd. 403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com

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Snow Removal

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YOUR SNOW’S GOTTA GO. It away I’ll blow.

Call me, I’ll show.

403-598-3857

Yard Care

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RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 2, 2013 B9

DAD’S PIZZA

Full Time / Part Time COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave. POST-TIME LOUNGE is now accepting resumes P/T Kitchen help, Evenings & weekends Apply w/resume 3731 50 TH AVE. No phone calls please.

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 THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations.

MUST HAVE: • 2-3 yrs. post secondary education.

• 2-5 yrs. training • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

• Provide references The hourly rate will be $13.10 per hour.

Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161

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Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

Concrete finisher

needed to perform detailed and quality finishing as well as other related tasks, minimum 5 years experience. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Own transportation to work is needed.

Wage will be based on experience, attitude and willingness to commit to long term employment.

Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca Thank you to all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Tar-ific Construction has a F/T position avail. for a H.D. Mechanic Apprentice. We offer competitive wages, combined with a deluxe benefit pckg. Drop resume at 7809 48 Ave. or fax to 403-340-1246 email tarific@telusplanet.net Looking for a place to live?

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The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

VIC 8888 LTD. needs F/T cook, 40 hrs. a week, $13.50/hr. Must be willing to relocate. Drop resume to 3731 50 TH AVE. or email: sampang17@gmail.com

Sales & Distributors

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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 ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & apparel, at our Parkland Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus & comm. F/T Position. No exp. req’d. Email Flurriesrd@gmail.com 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.”

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com Wholistix Wellness Shoppe! perm P/T store clerk,15-20 hrs/wk, $14/hr email: denise.wholistix@ gmail.com

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United Tank Inspections Inc. is currently looking for a Full-Time Heavy Duty Mechanic for our Stettler, AB shop. You will be doing repairs, overhauls, maintenance, service, and CVIP’s on Heavy Trucks & Trailers. We offer competitive wages, group health benefits and group RSP. Please call 403-7424747 or email jobs@ unitedtank.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net 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

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Truckers/ Drivers

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Central AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Company Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

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.

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* SANDBLASTER * POWDER COATER *GENERAL LABORER

WE OFFER: * Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages

Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5.

No Phone Calls Please.

Netook Construction Ltd. is a heavy equipment contractor based out of Olds, Alberta.

We are seeking a

JOURNEYMAN HEAVY EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN with several years experience working with on-off road earthworks equipment.

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.

Qualified applicants please apply by email at

careers@netook.ca or fax to (403) 556-6231

Academic Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED PREPARATION Jan. 14 or Feb. 10 STARTS Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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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.

GRANDVIEW AREA 73 Papers $439/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres., Root Cl., 100 to 800 Ramage Cl., and Ralston Cres. area $359/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.)

Monday - Saturday in: Upper Fairview & Highland Green

a subsidiary of AltaGas Ltd., owns and operates natural gas transmission and distribution systems.

Utilityman II is responsible for the installation and maintenance of customer gas utility services. The position is located in our Dawson Creek, BC office.

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QUALIFICATIONS: Grade 12 or equivalent education Valid driver’s license, class 1 or class 3 with air Minimum of three years experience in the installation of plastic and/or steel natural gas piping distribution systems.

PE fusion Distribution line locating (underground) Backhoe, bobcat, excavator and plow experience Directional drilling experience asset.

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 Looking for a new pet?

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JOURNEYMAN AND B PRESSURE WELDERS

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

LANCASTER AREA

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

for full-time permanent shop positions

Law Close / Lewis Close

We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Logan Close

DISPATCHERS req’d.

Day/Night. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Lund Close

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MORRISROE AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Pidherney’s requires experienced local:

Class 1 Drivers

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill a full-time precast concrete erecting

For afternoon delivery once per week

laborer position

at our company. Must be physically fit as this labourer position requires constant heavy lifting and involves fast paced, on the job training. Applicant must be able to travel and must have reliable transportation to and from work as well as a valid class 5 driver’s license. All meals and hotel expenses are paid when out of town. Successful applicant must provide an up to date drivers abstract. Construction experience an asset. Full benefits provided. Starting wages based on experience. Fax resumes to 403 885 5516 , must flag attn: Craig or e-mail to c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

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 SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help 3 pm-11 pm. weekends Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

Employment Training

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

SORTERS for recycling also required.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

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Niven St. & Newton Cres.

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com

Health Care Aide Medical Office Assistant Health Unit Coordinator Veterinary Administrative Assistant Dental Administrative Assistant and more!

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

Somerset Close Springfield Ave.

For work in the Red Deer/Rocky Mountain House area, as well as some out of town locations. Priority will be given to those candidates with Truck and Wagon experience.

Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA

• Top wages paid based on experience • Flexible work schedule • Possible career advancement opportunities • Based out of Blackfalds & Rocky Mountain House, AB

Valentine Cres.

Vanson Close / Visser St.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Valid First Aid and H2S tickets an asset

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Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Oilfield

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

HEALTHCARE

Inglewood Ave.

Truckers/ Drivers

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

YOUR CAREER IN

Normandeau

Inglis Cres.

Lamont Close

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Adamson Ave. / Arthur Close

Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

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www.trican.ca

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

...Join our Team!

Scan to see Current Openings

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This position is within the bargaining unit (IBEW) with a current hourly rate of $35.69.

Pacific Northern Gas offers a comprehensive defined benefit pension and benefits package in addition to work/life balance and opportunities for career growth. Email resumes in confidence to the Human Resources Department; careers@png.ca

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If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking both -

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PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS LTD.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

INGLEWOOD AREA

Instrument Hands

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

DEERPARK AREA Donlevy Ave. & Danielle Dr. area. $185/mo

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Close

McIntosh Ave.

req’d. for work in Central Alberta. Oilfield exp. an asset. Please forward your resume to jobs@ nexsourcepower.com or fax 403-887-4945

CLEARVIEW ARE Clark Cres., Crawford St. & Castle Cres. $141/mo.

ALSO Cole Street $61/mo.

ALSO Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Lord Close

BOWER AREA

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INNISFAIL

Addinnell Close / Allan St.

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

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Anders St. / Armstrong Close

Vista Village

JOURNEYMAN Electricians

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

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.

Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca

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Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

ANDERS AREA

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

CARRIERS NEEDED 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.

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ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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Restaurant/ Hotel

WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 2, 2013

stuff

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ANTIQUE PIANO STOOL. Has swivelling/rotating seat.

In excellent condition.† $185 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Firewood

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AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances

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ELECTRIC heater (Comfort Zone) oak cabinet, portable, remote and thermostat control, child and pet safe $150 403-314-2026

Household Furnishings

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4 KITCHEN CHAIRS - brown metal w/padded seats. $80.

TV STAND 27” wide $25.

403-346-2070

2000-2290

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Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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PS2 w/10 games, $60 firm.

Game Cube w/Mario game, $60 firm.

PS1 w/5 games, $45 obo.

403-782-3847 TWIN GAMING CONSOLE w/14 Super Nintendo Games & 7 NES games, $200. 403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

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LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

2 BDRM. in tri-plex, main floor, washer/dryer, everything incld’. $1400.

Avail. imed. 403-872-2472

PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water. $695 avail. Jan. 1, or sooner. 403-348-6594

3 BDRM. Duplex in Penhold.

Reno’d. Tenants pay utils. $1050/mo. No pets.

403-342-0407 or 505-1252 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627 GRANDVIEW 2 BDRM, main flr of house. Very clean.

Reno’d, brand new bath rm. appealing yard, 5 appls, $980 rent & 2/3 utils., Avail. now. 403-598-1733

ROSEDALE

Realtors & Services

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Condos/ Townhouses

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townhouse in well kept condominium complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. 5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 40 w/references & quiet living.

Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627 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

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Manufactured Homes

CHRISTMAS tree 2’, prelit/decorated in box $10; box of hangers, wooden/plastic/metal $10; household items, box full inclds. lamp, coffee maker, place mats and more, all $20 403-314-9603

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Terrie 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

GLENDALE

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1075. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Dec 15/Jan. 1 403-304-5337

42,000 sq ft Office/ Residential Building, Red Deer, AB Built in 2011. 21 separately titled units consisting of 16 executive condos and 4 commercial suites, Zero Tenant Vacancy, 10 year triple net leases in place, expiring 2021. Assumable mortgage.

Price - $8,400,000.00 Accepting Offers Christine@ andersonbuildersgroup. com

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Houses For Sale

THE NORDIC

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3090

ROOM for rent. $500rent, d.d. $300. 403-343-0421

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Offices

Executive Place 4900 50 Street Red Deer ‘AAA’ OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Only 2,000 Sq Ft Remaining Jones Lang LaSalle Please call +1 (403) 4562104 Calgary +1 (780) 668-9269 Edmonton Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Warehouse Space

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4900 sq. ft. bay, heated, (2)O/H.14’ doors, windows, room for mezzanine. 403-318-4848 edmakrd@telus.net

Mobile Lot

Condos/ Townhouses

Trucks

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DOG KENNEL, 2’ long, 17” wide. $50 obo.

403-314-0804

Cats

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4 FRIENDLY MALE ORANGE KITTENS. Litter trained. Desperately need loving homes. FREE. 403-782-3130 CATS TO GIVE AWAY 1 M., 1 F. both spayed/ neutered. M. is white with black spots, loves people, F. is white with gold spots.

Hopefully to separate homes. 403-886-4885

Collectors' Items

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TRAIN SET 7 FEET LONG $50. 403-346-2070 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

5050

2004 GMC Canyon, 2.8 L, 4 cylinder, 103,000 KM. New tires, brakes, rotors & command start. $7000.

Dale 587-876-0623 (Red Deer)

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

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Tires, Parts Acces.

2008 FORD F-250 XL 4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms., $26888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

309-3300

BRAND NEW HITCH - 3 ft.

Fits Chevy. $180 obo.

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LOOKING FOR A REWARDING CAREER?

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

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Manufactured Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Terrie 403-340-0225

Boston Pizza in Red Deer is undergoing aggressive expansion.

We are looking for bright, energetic and fun mid-level Managers to join us into the future.

Locally owned and family operated

THE

We offer above average compensation, career advancement, a great work environment and the satisfaction of working with one of Boston Pizza’s most successful Franchise groups!

BUSINESS IS BUILT ON INFORMATION

If you think you’ve got what it takes, send your resume to: bostonpizzareddeer@shawbiz.ca You must have at least 1-2 years of restaurant management experience to be considered for our teams.

Everything you need to know to keep your business humming . . . every day in the Business Section of the Red Deer Advocate.

We are excited to be growing in our community - come join us!!

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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

Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

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CAD DESIGNER / DRAFTSPERSON Essential Job Functions • design/draft tanks, vessels and piping packages • create detailed fabrication drawings using inventor software • interpret customer and engineering markups and make changes to drawings • create drawing files for parts to be cut by the plasma table • administrate autodesk vault, inventor content center libraries and autocad plant 3d specs The incumbent must possess the following; • diploma in Engineering Design and Drafting Technology or equivalent • certified Engineering Technologist (CET) • minimum 3 year’s experience designing/drafting piping packages, pressure vessels, tanks and skids • proficient with using AutoCAD, plant 3d, and inventor • experience with creating BOM’s and utilizing an ERP software (M2M preferred) • experience using a nesting software (ProNest preferred)

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.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

We offer competitive wage and benefits packages Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Full Time Permanent

Please forward your resume via fax to (403) 227-7796 or e-mail to hr@bilton.ca

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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 by adding an office in Calgary, Alberta.

We employ over 180 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

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Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

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• Review mechanical specifications, design drawings for vessels, pumps, equipment etc.

• Possess knowledge with respect to design and specifications of tanks, vessels and attached structures.

• Work with Bilton estimating group to provide quote calculations. Engineering design including review of client data sheet and specifications.

• Provide calculations as required to meet client Vendor Documentation requirements • Work closely with Project and Sales Managers to develop design basis and cost estimate.

• Carry out shop inspection and solve design issues when identified.

• Liaise with clients and 3rd party Inspectors as required.

• Indicate to internal departments when specific quotes have been completed by engineering.

• Engineering related tasks as required.

Qualifications: • Familiarity with all applicable codes such as API, ASME, CSA, etc.

• Minimum of a graduate degree with a B. Sc. in Engineering • P.Eng in Alberta (APEGA) or working toward this designation. EIT’s will be considered.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 2, 2013 B11

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LUANN Dec. 2 1933 — Newfoundland gives up self-governing Dominion status and suspends its constitution, as the result of a disastrous financial situation.

1995 — Goaltender Patrick Roy resigns from the Montreal Canadiens and is suspended the following day by general manager Réjean Houle. He is later traded to Colorado Avalanche.

1973 — The rock group The Who and some pals are jailed overnight for $6,000 worth of hotel damage, after a show at the Montreal Forum. The incident is later profiled in the John Entwistle song, Cell Block Number Seven.

1970 — James Cross is discovered, as police surround a Montreal house where is held captive. The British Trade Commissioner in Montreal was kidnapped by FLQ terrorists.

1969 — Canada, U.S., Denmark and U.S.S.R. set up permanent secretariat to deal with problems of the Inuit.

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MONDAY, DEC. 2, 2013

Man wants ex-wife to stay away from his family

PAINTING FETCHES A FORTUNE

Dear Annie: In 1988, I had a wife and and cut me out of their lives. When I three beautiful children. Then my wife became pregnant several months latdecided to be “liberated.” She wanted er, they got back in touch because they to spread her wings and be indepen- wanted to be a part of the baby’s life. dent. She engaged me in a particularly My husband recently returned to acrimonious divorce and lived on child college, and so we moved back into my and spousal support until she discov- mother’s house in order to save money. ered that being independent was not This angered my father and his wife, working for her. She remarried and who said I am a bad mother and need to moved my children hundreds of miles grow up. They shut me out again. away, effectively excising them from My parents have been divorced for a my life, even though she admits I was a long time. I was never close to my father great father. Needless to say, I harbor or his new family. Dad is not a particuconsiderable animosity toward her. larly nice guy, but I feel I should keep in I’ve since remarried a wonderful contact. Now I’m wondering whether it’s woman. My children are grown and worth trying to mend this relationship, starting their own families. I or should I just admit it’s recognize that I must endure toxic and cut my losses? the unpleasantness of having Had Enough in Michigan to see my ex at my children’s Dear Michigan: This weddings, etc., but I never exdoesn’t have to be eitherpected that my brother and or. You don’t have to turn sister would invite my ex to yourself into a pretzel to their own children’s weddings stay in his good graces, but and other family functions. you also don’t need to cut I feel that because my ex him out entirely. Send him divorced me, she is no lonphotos of the baby. Invite ger a part of my family and him to the birthday parties. should not be invited to atBut otherwise, limit contact tend family gatherings. I have and learn to ignore his critmade this point very clear to icisms.

MITCHELL my siblings, along with the Dear Annie: I read the & SUGAR fact that seeing my ex causes letter from “Too Late To me significant pain. Further, Try Again,” whose relative my new wife feels she’s being cut her off without explanaupstaged by my ex at these tion. The same thing hapevents. Yet, my siblings insist pened to me. on including this woman.

I attended a family reunion in MichiIs it unrealistic for me to believe that gan four years ago. A cousin’s wife was when my ex divorced me, she also di- the organizer, and I thought she did a vorced my family? Am I expecting too great job. The next year, I didn’t receive much to ask that my siblings not em- an invitation. I contacted the wife, who brace the woman who devastated my blocked me on Facebook. I then conlife? - Divorced in Oregon tacted my cousin, who said, “The inviDear Oregon: Sorry to say, but what tation was probably lost.” But when it your siblings do is not something you happened the next two years, I knew it can dictate. Their children may still was intentional. consider this woman to be their aunt, I haven’t a clue what I did, but I’m and their relationship to her does not glad I read that column. It saved me include the bitterness and rancor you years of frustration. - Thankful in Kanare hanging onto. sas Please let it go. Allowing your ex to Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy rattle you after all these years gives her Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edipower over you. You don’t have to enjoy tors of the Ann Landers column. Please her company, but you can work on mak- email your questions to anniesmailbox@ ing her presence insignificant. comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, Dear Annie: Two years ago, my father c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Herand his wife became irritated with me mosa Beach, CA 90254.

ANNIE ANNIE

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Emily Carr’s The Crazy Stair is shown in an image made available on Thursday November 28, 2013. The Crazy Stair (The Crooked Staircase) by Emily Carr which commanded $3,393,000, setting multiple auction records: the most ever paid at auction for an Emily Carr painting, the most achieved for the work of a Canadian female artist and the fourth most valuable piece ever sold in Canadian art auction history.

Monday, Dec. 2 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Lucy Liu, 45; Rena Sofer, 45; Britney Spears, 32 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: A New Moon in Sagittarius opens us a window of great opportunity! We are in a quest for truth. We allow ourselves to be positive and think of possibilities, rather than risks. We have faith in what freedom can offer us and we believe in the importance of remaining true to ourselves. This astral configuration calls for a prosperous new beginning. It is time to spread our wings and to instigate a new adventurous journey instilled by our eagerness to live life to the maximum.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this is a significant year for you, which signals an urge to commence something exciting and adrenaline-charged for your five senses. A new flame may start much to your surprise leading you to forget the mundane issues of your being. There is no question that you will be living life at large!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You awaken to new spheres of realizations.

You question yourself a lot about your purpose and reason in this lifetime. The discovery of the truth can illuminate your path and guide you towards the right direction. Take it as a breath of fresh air.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Sincerity and honesty can go a long way between you and your alliance. This is the time when you owe each other transparency within your communication in regards to your deepest fears, concerns and secrets. A truthful revelation can guide towards a closer bond.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Partnerships of all kinds will be on your mind today. Your attitude towards them will determine the course of your future actions. Do not be afraid to cooperate by clarifying openly the rules of your alliance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It is imperative that you maintain a healthy relationship with your own body and that you

preserve suitable attitudes in dealing with on-going daily issues. They will ask of you to take on the necessary care and attention. You radiate once you find the appropriate solution to both.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You find yourself highly creative and imaginative.

Use this altered mood to enjoy yourself and start an artistic endeavour. Your affinity towards such issues can bring you prosperous benefits and a sunny predisposition.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are seeking for new alternatives to recover your ASTRO freedom within your own DOYNA living space. Right now you might be thinking of other ways to expand your current domestic situation or

SUN SIGNS

to find a more liberating environment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The more open and sincere you present yourself with others today, the more you can cultivate from this positive, enlightening attitude. Keep your relationships with your siblings rather simple, lighthearted and you will be able to carry on just fine.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your personal values and your worth will come into picture during this New Moon.

You will be questioning yourself the true meaning that lies within your core. What makes you genuinely happy and fulfilled?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your exhilaration and enthusiasm are so contagious that others will be naturally drawn to you, wanting to follow your guidance or just be around you.

You want to invigorate your entire self.

Be as authentic as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This

is an excellent time to start working on the deeper side of you. Review your present and make peace with your past. Nostalgia might manifest itself bringing along a few instances of great souvenirs that you long to remake.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is undoubtedly a great boost of floating energy and enthusiasm that can be marked in your composition. Associations with others will promote your awareness in terms of what others need of you. You will grasp your crowds’ needs and desires.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This can mark the beginning of a newly rejuvenated you or at least of establishing an image you wish to convey out there. Be truthful and sincere about your intentions and the reputation you wish to expose.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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