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NELSON MANDELA 1918-2013
‘Our people have lost a father’ — JACOB ZUMA PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
CITY FIELDS HUNDREDS OF CALLS BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Almost halfway there. After Day 3 of the City of Red Deer’s snowplowing blitz, 100 km of roadways have been plowed, just short of the halfway point, city spokeswoman Julia Harvie-Shemko said Thursday. A small army of equipment has been out on city streets including 16 graders, 16 dump trucks, 13 sanders, 10 skid steers, eight loaders and six tractors among other pieces of heavy equipment. In the office, staff have been fielding about 500 calls a day and responding to 50 to 60 emails. Hot topics are road and lane plowing schedules and windrows. Thursday night the city turned its attention to industrial areas and will be back on residential roads beginning at 8 a.m. this morning. The city is trying to keep windrow heights to less than 40 cm, but in some areas where drifting has occurred they may get higher. Unfortunately, windrows can’t be cleared from in front of driveways if the city is going to stay on a schedule that will see the entire city plowed in less than a week.
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, 87, is in a jovial mood at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, where he met with the winner and runner-up of the local “Idols� competition, on Dec. 7, 2005. South Africa’s president announced on Thursday that Mandela had died. He was 95. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela was a master of forgiveness. South Africa’s first black president spent nearly a third of his life as a prisoner of apartheid, yet he sought to win over its defeated guardians in a relatively peaceful transition of power that inspired the world. As head of state, the former boxer, lawyer and inmate lunched with the prosecutor who argued successfully for his incarceration. He sang the apartheid-era Afrikaans anthem at his inauguration and travelled hundreds of miles to have tea with the widow of the prime minister in power at the time he was sent to prison.
MANDELA ‘DEEPLY ATTACHED’ TO CANADA A10 SOUTH AFRICANS CELEBRATE MANDELA’S LEGACY A11 MANDELA WAS A REVERED FIGURE IN SPORTS B7 It was this generosity of spirit that made Mandela, who died Thursday at the age of 95, a global symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation in a world often jarred by conflict and division. Mandela’s stature as a fighter against apartheid — the system of white racist rule he called evil — and a seeker of peace with his enemies was on a par with that of other men he admired: American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, both of whom were assassinated
while actively engaged in their callings. Mandela’s death deprived the world of one of one of the great figures of modern history and set the stage for days of mourning and reflection about a colossus of the 20th century who projected astonishing grace, resolve and good humour. Dressed in black, South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement on television. He said Mandela died “peacefully,� surrounded by family, at around 8:50 p.m. “We’ve lost our greatest son. Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father,� Zuma said. “Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss.�
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Alberta to offer HPV vaccine to boys BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF
Today’s snow plowing targets are: � Riverside Meadows � Fairview � Oriole Park � Oriole Park West � Mountview (for completion) � Morrisroe � Deer Park Estates � Devonshire Crews are also working on Priority 4 roads (bus routes and streets next to schools) in Inglewood, Vanier Woods and Anders. Residents should watch for No Parking signs on those routes. Untended vehicles will be towed.
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Alberta was the last province in Canada to make HPV vaccines available to girls; it will be the second in the country to offer the cancer-preventing vaccine to boys. Health Minister Fred Horne announced Thursday that boys in Grade 5 will be able to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for free in their schools starting next school year. The vaccine has been available to Grade 5 and Grade 9 girls in the province since 2008. HPV is a common sexually transmit-
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ted infection that can cause a number of cancers, the most common being cervical cancer in women. To a lesser extent it can cause anal and penile cancers in men, and recent provincial data shows that almost all head and neck cancers in men under 40 are HPV-related. The vaccine’s delivery in schools has attracted opposition in Alberta, particularly among religion-based school jurisdictions based on concerns about vaccine delivery leading to promiscuity. Other safety concerns have been raised, but the province’s chief medical officer of health said the “jury is in� on the vaccine’s value. “We have lots of studies and it’s been used in other places enough that
we know it’s a very safe and it’s very effective. For the 70 per cent of the cervical cancers that are caused by the two strains, the vaccine is almost 100 per cent effective at preventing that,� said Dr. James Talbot. “There aren’t many things that parents can do for their children that guarantee that they’re going to have a lower risk of cancer, and this is one of them, so we would really like them to make sure that their children are immunized. We’ve done everything we can . . . to make it as easy as possible for them to make the healthy choice,� he added.
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