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Child’s death a mystery FATALITY INQUIRY UNABLE TO SAY HOW JAMES ANDREW STAHL DIED BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF An inquiry into the death of a newborn child at Stettler Hospital was unable to determine how he died. Born a few week prematurely, at 36 weeks gestation, James Andrew Stahl

died on Aug. 9, 2011, at 6:40 a.m., within 12 hours of his birth. A two-day public fatality inquiry was held on Sept. 19 and 20, 2013, in Stettler provincial court before Judge Jim Mitchell. The final report to the minister of justice and the attorney general released on Wednesday said the medi-

cal cause of death was sudden unexplained death in infancy, but the manner is undeterminable. Matilda Stahl, 31, was admitted to the Stettler hospital at 6:18 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2011. At 7:41 p.m., she gave birth to the child. At 6:41 a.m. the following morning, a nurse entered the mother’s private room and found the infant and

the mother sharing the bed. Their was a space between the two. It was then that the infant was noted to be bluecoloured and no vital signs were apparent. Attempts were made to resuscitate the infant but they were unsuccessful.

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Thin ice prompts warning EVENTS RELOCATED, CANCELLED BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF This year’s wacky winter has not been kind to Sylvan Lake. Snow loads have been largely blamed SAFETY TIPS A2 for the collapse of one of the town’s two arenas and the cancellation of a bonspiel at the curling rink. And now snow is ruining the fun on the lake itself. A deep layer of snow has insulated the lake from freezing to its usual thickness in many places — a situation not helped by the recent freeze-thaw cycle. After an inspection from the fire department, the town has decided to close the provincial park gate and stop doing any maintenance on the rink on the lake. Town communication officer Joanne Gaudet said the lake is not freezing in a uniform pattern, leaving dangerous thin spots. “In some areas you can get 24 inches of ice and it’s great. You walk maybe three or four feet and you’ve got six inches of water and it’s not freezing.” It would be impossible to monitor the area closely enough to ensure people only went where the ice was safe so the decision was made to close the gates. “By not maintaining the ice surface we’re hoping that is a strong message to the residents it’s not suitable for us and it shouldn’t be for them either.” The rink that had been cleared was on a safe stretch of ice, but the town is worried people might stray into unsafe areas. A small rink was built this year on the pier, which will be maintained for skaters.

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Red Deer Rebel Aspen Sterzer sends Brandon Wheat King Taylor Green crashing to the ice during second-period action at the Centrium Wednesday. The Rebels defeated the Wheat Kings 4-3 in a shootout. See related story on page B4.

Homelessness strategy on the right track: research BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Early results from a Red Deer youth homeless research project indicate service providers are on the right track to provide better co-ordination of services and programs, and to create more collaboration. Yale Belanger, a University of Lethbridge associate professor of Native

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American Studies, is analyzing the data on a research study involving youth living on the streets in Red Deer. Interviews were recently conducted with stakeholders, politicians and homeless youth. He said co-ordination of services and circulation of information in order to respond to issues were two issues that came up frequently. “We have to respond to the youth more effectively,” said Belanger. “They were asking us the same ques-

tion: how do we do that when they have the answer right now? It’s simply more collaboration, more interaction and start to develop programs that youth really need as opposed to simply putting programs in place we think will help them.” There are an estimated 80 to 100 homeless youth living in Red Deer.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A colourful Spandex-clad street performer from Central Alberta says he has been denied a visa to travel to the Winter Olympics in Russia. Spandy Andy’s Sexy Beach Party in my Sparkly Speedo video has more than five million hits on YouTube. And a four-minute clip, Happiest Street Performer in the World Shown Up by Little Guy, has racked up more than a million YouTube views. It shows the colourfully clad Andy dancing with abandon along with a fleet-footed toddler at a Scottish fringe festival. He says he was refused entry to Russia when he asked for a visa at that country’s embassy in Australia. The Red Deer man says his U.S. girlfriend went with him and was also turned down. Andy says he was never given an official reason, but staff seemed quite concerned that he didn’t have a ticket to the Games and that he wasn’t an Australian resident. He says he just wanted to perform in Sochi and is disappointed he won’t get the chance. His YouTube videos feature him in colourful Spandex and dancing on the street to music blaring from a pink boom box. He’s gone so far as to officially change his name to Spandy Andy. The former Andy Rimer grew up in Red Deer but lives in Vancouver when he isn’t travelling the globe. Andy says he felt awkward as he was given the third-degree by officials. “Now I can’t go fulfil the dream I had of performing there,” said Andy.

INQUIRY: Two drugs found in child’s system

ICE: Anglers urged to be cautious The closure means the popular annual pond hockey tournament that was to run Feb. 28 to March 2 has been cancelled. Last year’s tournament featured 26 four-on-four teams going by names like the Hatrick Swayzes and Manchesthair. A Plan B will also be needed for the annual polar dip, which was to take When venturing onto ice, place on Feb. 15 as there are a few things to look part of the town’s for: Winterfest. Other ● Clear, blue ice is stronoptions, such as a gest dunk tank in Cen● White opaque or snow tennial Park, are ice is half as strong and being considered. formed by wet snow freezing Dodgy ice condion the ice tions had already ● Grey ice is unsafe and prompted organizindicates the presence of waers of the annual ter Sylvan Lake Speed As a general rule of thumb, Skating Marathon to ice thickness should be: move the venue to ● five cm for walking or Red Deer’s skating skating alone oval. ● 10 cm for skating parIce fishers are ties or games warned to be aware ● 12 cm for snowmobiles of the dangers and ● 25 cm for cars to check the ice ● 30 cm for trucks around their holes. The fire department has gone out and met with fishers to discuss the dangers. Most ice fishers do not access the lake from the provincial park. Ice fishing and other lake activities like snowmobiling have always been at the person’s own risk. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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A post-mortem examination found the presence of two drugs: acetaminophen and quinine. The medical examiner and toxicologist determined the acetaminophen was detected at a very low level and they felt its presence had no significance in the child’s death. The quinine was not administered at the hospital and is not suggested to be administered to pregnant women. The examination determined the amount in the infant’s blood was low and the medical examiner could not rule out the possibility it may have contributed to the child’s death in some fashion. There was no evidence presented to suggest cosleeping. According to Alberta Office of the Medical Examiner, co-sleeping was a factor in 42 per cent of deaths classified as sudden infant death syndrome and was a factor in 74 per cent of the other deaths between 2005 and 2010. A total of 172 unexplained infant deaths were recorded in that time frame. No recommendations were made in Mitchell’s report. However, it did say that, from testimony given, Alberta Health Services’ Safe Infant Sleep initiative is a positive, proactive effort to improve maternity care. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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mogeneous group of youth. It’s a heterogeneous community that has to be responded to in specific ways.” Belanger said ending homelessness is a tough task but it is realistic when you have the right people in the right positions and the communities are motivated across Alberta. Stephen Gaetz, associate professor with the Faculty of Education at York University, and director of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network, also provided some insight into the challenges of ending homelessness. Gaetz is behind the Homeless Hub, which provides projects dedicated to mobilizing homelessness research, planning and service provision in Canada. Gaetz said the response to youth homelessness in Canada isn’t working and this response needs to be revisited in a way that will actually end youth homelessness. “The good news is that we have learned a lot both in Canada and elsewhere in the world to do that,” he said. “We actually know what to do. We don’t have to scratch our heads and wonder what to do. “We know what to do. What we need now is communities and all levels of government to work together to plan and implement those solutions. I honestly believe we can end youth homelessness.” He is optimistic that youth no longer will be in emergency shelters for years because there will be systems in place that will prevent young people from becoming homeless in the first place. Early-intervention programs will also be in place to help youth return home or get into houses with supports. He said the province is on the right track to ending homelessness and leads the country with an engaged provincial government addressing youth homelessness. Alberta has a 10-year plan to end homeless by 2019 and is set to roll out a strategic plan to end youth homelessness. Parkland Youth Homes Society program director Sandy Proseilo said she appreciated the representation from the municipality, province and community at the workshop. “We are pretty excited about the future and the fact that things are rolling along and I have no doubt there will be change,” said Proseilo. Also speaking was Karen Stone, the executive director of the Alberta Interagency Council on Homelessness. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Cody Julian resorted to hacking away at the ice in front of his house on 40th Street in Red Deer with a pitchfork Wednesday. The melting temperatures late last week caused sidewalks to ice over around Red Deer, then the temperatures made another plunge into the frigid zone over the weekend.

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The province is considering changing its Health Information Act following the theft of a laptop last fall that held the private health records of 620,000 people. Last week, Clayton said there is nothing in the act that would require the company that had responsibility for the laptop to inform the people whose private information was on the machine. Clayton also said the law did not give her the authority to tell the government about the theft, which was reported in late September but was only made public last week. She has recommended the government look at amending the law to make such notifications possible. Health Minister Fred Horne said he would consider the changes. The province is also looking at part of the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act that bans the publication of the names of children who die in government care. This week the government is holding meetings on how to balance the need for openness and privacy when

dealing with child deaths. Eric Adams, a University of Alberta law professor, said the government should move carefully and avoid politics when it reviews its privacy-related laws. “I am always a proponent in these kinds of scenarios of slow legislative processes to get it right,” said Adams, whose background is in constitutional and labour law. “Legislating to put out fires is generally not the best way that the democratic process should produce long-lasting, good legislation for the province.” Adams said the danger of any quickfix is that the government might get it wrong and end up in court. “You might find out that in solving one set of problems that looked immediate, you have created 100 others.” Last summer the government wrapped up the public consultation part of a review into another privacy law called the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Service Alberta says feedback from that review will be used to improve the law

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta plans to amend one of its main privacy laws this fall to comply with a Supreme Court of Canada judgment that found the legislation unconstitutional. In a 9-0 decision in November, the high court struck down the entire Personal Information Protection Act and gave the province one year to bring the law in line with the Charter of Rights. The case focused on freedom of political expression and involved a union that took photographs and video of people crossing a picket line during a strike in 2006. “It is the government’s intention to pass the amendments early in the fall 2014 session to comply with the court’s ruling,” Gerald Kastendieck, a spokesman for Service Alberta, said Wednesday. He said the amendments would focus on unions and picketing. There won’t be a general review of the 10-year-old legislation this year. Under Alberta law, a special com-

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Occupy Red Deer protest is planned for Friday afternoon to decry more economic globalization with the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership. A trade agreement among some countries in the Asia-Pacific region is now being considered to include Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. According to the Occupy movement, the proposal will “expand the pro-corporate regime across this hemisphere

mittee of the legislature must begin a comprehensive review of the protection act by July 15, 2015. The government’s approach to the Supreme Court ruling follows advice from Alberta privacy commissioner Jill Clayton. Clayton sent a letter on Dec. 20 in which she strongly urged the government to focus strictly on unions and freedom of expression. She suggested that if the government did more than that, there could be calls for more changes to the law, which would make it difficult to meet the Supreme Court’s deadline. “I anticipate that some will see the enactment of corrective legislation as an opportunity to propose amendments . . . on unrelated issues, but I would caution against that at this time,” Clayton wrote. She also recommended the government include in its amendments the date for when a comprehensive review of its privacy legislation will begin. The legislation is only one of three privacy-related laws the Alberta government is under pressure to review.

and the Pacific Ocean.” Critics fear the NAFTA-like agreement will destroy livelihoods by accelerating the global “race to the bottom” in wages and working conditions. They claim it will hurt small farmers by further commodifying agriculture, attack environmental and consumer protection policies, and undermine global economic stability by prohibiting regulation of financial markets. All Canadians could be affected if the partnership results in hiking the cost of prescriptions by reducing access to generic medications, and in restricting freedom on the Internet. “With the Trans-Pacific Partnership in place, we are little more than prod-

ucts ourselves. It is absolutely unacceptable,” said Matt McKellar, facilitator for Occupy Red Deer. Local activists — both from Occupy movement and independent ones — plan to rally at 1 p.m. at City Hall Park in Red Deer. The demonstration is being held in more than 50 communities acros the world who are participating in an Intercontinental Day of Action against corporate globalization. The Day of Action coincides with a conference being held in Mexico City on the “catastrophic impacts of NAFTA on Mexico, and the need for a radically new trade model.

Fire destroys home east of Rocky Mountain House BY ADVOCATE STAFF A home just east of Rocky Mountain house was completely destroyed after a fire on Monday evening. Three people were inside the house when the blaze broke out but all escaped without injury. One person suffered minor injuries unrelated to the fire when attempting to get into a locked car to go seek help, said Clearwater Regional Fire Rescue Services deputy fire chief Paul Prevost. No firefighters were injured.

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Redford shrugs off criticism from ex-mayor Mandel EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford is shrugging off some sharp criticism delivered by former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel. Mandel has been attending Progressive Conservative party functions since retiring as mayor last fall. But he told the Edmonton Journal this week he wouldn’t run for the party while Redford is leader. He says Redford has failed to deliver on key issues such as helping develop municipalities. Redford say Mandel is an opinionated man and she enjoyed working with him as mayor. She says while she expects Mandel to fight for municipalities, premiers and provincial governments have to take a broader view of issues.

Inmates charged in death of inmate at Remand Centre EDMONTON — Police have charged three men in the death of an inmate at

Crews received the call around 5:15 p.m. and arrived to a find the house already engulfed in flames, Prevost said. The single-storey house with a developed basement was located on Tiami Road, just off of Range Road 65. According to Prevost, it took a couple of hours to gain full control of the situation due to water supply issues. “Being out of town, you have to use the tanker trucks to haul water from town to fight the fire and it was cold, around -20C the guys said,” he said. The house was a total loss, Prevost said, estimating damages at approximately $300,000. “It got to the point where we

couldn’t overhaul it because it was unsafe so we had to knock it down with a track hoe.” Crews were able to recover little items, such as photo albums, for the two women who were living at the property. The Red Cross said on Wednesday that it is helping the women with food, clothing and accommodations. The fire is still under investigation but Prevost said he believes it may have started because of cooking. Crews from Condor, Rocky Mountain House and Leslieville were all on scene.

Edmonton’s remand centre. Grant Lewis, who is 31, and 30-yearold Ryan Prystay are charged with first-degree murder. Matthew Anderson, who is 29, is charged with accessory after the fact to murder. Autopsy results concluded that 34-year-old Curtis Dale Hill died from blunt force trauma injuries on Christmas Eve. Witnesses told police inmates were fighting in a cell.

ematics for the Alberta Department of Education, says a new model of teaching math that was introduced in Alberta in 2008 acknowledges there are several ways to get an answer. A redesigned curriculum that will include mathematics is expected to be in place for spring 2016. Henzel says input from teachers, education experts, industry and parents will influence how it’s shaped.

Petition seeks return to basic arithmetic skills in classrooms EDMONTON — An Alberta mother who believes the current method of teaching mathematics doesn’t add up has brought forward a petition that calls for a return to basics in the province’s classrooms. The petition bearing thousands of signatures was delivered Tuesday to Alberta’s deputy education minister by Nhung Tran-Davies, a Calmar resident who says her daughter is in Grade 3 and has been struggling with math. Tran-Davies says she’s convinced students are not learning basic addition and subtraction because of changes to the curriculum and she wants a fast return to multiplication tables, long division and memorization. Christine Henzel, director of math-

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Redford says stated case for oilsands to Gore EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she stated her case to high-profile American oilsands critic Al Gore, but doesn’t have any illusions about the result. Redford says she and Gore agreed to disagree on points about climate change and what Alberta is doing to eradicate it.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s human services minister said Wednesday there will be changes to open up public reporting of deaths of children in government care. “The bottom line is I commit to the release of information,” Manmeet Bhullar said on the final day of a two-day discussion on the topic. “I’m just asking the experts, ’How do we protect others in the system while we do it?’ “There are some pieces (of the existing legislation) that my gut says just don’t make sense.” Bhullar and Premier Alison Redford sat in on the discussion with experts and policy-makers about how to change provincial laws to reveal more information about children who die in government care. The talk was sparked by a Postmedia newspaper series late last year that revealed the province has used its privacy laws to avoid revealing the deaths of 89 children in care since 1999. The laws currently prevent anyone — even the parents of a dead child — from speaking publicly about what happened. Critics say those laws can be abused to cover up government neglect or negligence. Bhullar recently revealed that there were hundreds more deaths of children who were not in direct care, but had been at one time, or who were in indirect care, or who had injuries under investigation. With those figures added in, the total number of deaths since 1999 stands at 741 out of 275,000 children. When asked why those numbers were not released previously, Redford said her government had to operate under existing privacy rules. “From our perspective ... they were not appropriate rules, so the question today is: ’What should the rules be?’ And we’re going to make sure that we get there, that we implement those rules and that we can continue to improve the system,” she said. When asked why it took so long to realize the rules needed to be changed, Redford declined to answer, but reiterated her faith in Bhullar.

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From Ukraine to Canada OTTAWA OWES KYIV MORE THAN JUST MORAL SUPPORT Critics of Canadian foreign policy have often accused the Conservatives of taking the easy way out, yelling from the rooftops rather than working in the diplomatic trenches. Sometimes, we yell because there is precious little else we can do. But when it comes to the TIM country’s supHARPER port of opposition protesters in Ukraine, we need to do much more than make noise. We owe it to people who have been bravely putting their lives on the line for freedom. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander summoned the cameras to the Commons foyer on Tuesday with the expectation that, with momentum appearing to swing behind the opposition, Ottawa would move to keep the pressure mounting on President Viktor Yanukovych. Instead, they essentially yelled a bit more. Baird has signalled that he wants any Canadian action to be undertaken in concert with Washington and the European Union, but this is a case in which Canada could get out in front, even if the situation in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities looks fluid. Alexander announced that those complicit in the oppression of Ukrainian citizens would be barred entry into this country and Baird demanded that the government hold an independent investigation into the killing of protesters. Ottawa’s ambassador for religious freedom, Andrew Bennett, has journeyed to Kyiv to investigate and publicize the persecution of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. All of these initiatives should be welcomed by Ukrainian Canadians, but more could be done. There was no move to try to identify assets held abroad so that sanctions could precisely target the Ukrainian

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leadership. There was no suggestion of freezing those assets, no offer of amnesty should protest leaders need such refuge, and a sense of a Canadian Parliament coming together to do the right thing seems ephemeral, no matter how impassioned some of the words in a late night debate on Monday or how many Conservatives were able to squeeze around the podium for the cameras on Tuesday. Canada has a special relationship with Ukraine. Canada was among the first countries to recognize Ukraine’s independence when it split from the former Soviet Union in 1991. There are an estimated 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian origin, and if you live in Toronto, Hamilton, Regina, Winnipeg or Edmonton, and countless smaller communities, you are likely to know them not as members of the diaspora, but as friends, schoolmates or work colleagues. The roots of this country’s relationship with Ukraine are so deep that we are home to the third largest Ukrainian population in the world. “Ukrainians were fighting for independence for hundreds of years, and

they deserve a free country, they deserve a democratic country and they deserve to be in charge of their own country,’’ said Wladyslaw Lizon, the heretofore anonymous Conservative MP for Mississauga East-Cooksville during the Monday debate, surely his most eloquent moment in the Commons. But this is about more than just tyranny in Kyiv, it is about a turning point in the post-Cold War era and the megalomania of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose wanton spending, corruption, hubris and Soviet-era rhetoric will be clearly on display for the world to see in eight days in Sochi. This is a man who doesn’t think twice about persecuting gays and lesbians, journalists and political opponents. He bought Ukraine by slashing prices on the gas it supplies to that country and propping up Yanukovych with US$15 billion in loans. This is a man who has cherry-picked some of the most authoritative elements of the communist system, and bringing Ukraine under that umbrella would have ripple effects throughout the entire region.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was correct when he characterized this as a battle between a “free and democratic Euro-Atlantic future” and “an anti-democratic Soviet past.’’ There is movement in Kyiv with the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and the lifting of a state of emergency that led to the bloody crackdown on protesters. But Yanukovych remains and Ukraine is at a crossroads. Baird may be accused of many things, but he cannot be accused of a lack of energy, awareness and vigilance as Harper’s foreign affairs minister. In December, when the mood was still one of defiance with little danger, the minister marched with the protesters. We are on the right side. But now, when things have turned perilous but progress is being made, Baird could have taken another step, on his own, to show the world that Canada’s special relationship with Ukraine means more than words. Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

Why candy-flavoured cigars aren’t a valid tax revenue source If you can admire nothing else about the tobacco industry, you can admire its hutzpah. Casa Cubana calls itself Canada’s fastest growing importer and distributor of quality cigars, tobacco accessories and convenience products. It has forwarded itself to lobby for the repeal of a law to ban candy-flavoured cigars — in a province that is suing the entire tobacco industry for $10 billion. And this, just days after the whole world was reminded of the health effects of smoking GREG with the death of Eric LawNEIMAN son. He was a famous Marlboro Man, who succumbed at age 72 to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a common cause of death among smokers. Back in the days when I was riding my bike to work in the wee morning hours, my previous former boss would call this kind of news story a “room service bounce.” It’s a story so self-evidently calling for comment, you just can’t resist. The Tobacco Reduction (Flavoured Tobacco Products) Amendment Act has made it through all the legislative stages of becoming law in Alberta. It only remains to receive royal proclamation, which Health Minister Fred Horne says will happen sometime this year. When that happens, big strapping Marlboro Men will no longer be able to pick up a couple of bubblegum smokes at the checkout counter, while filling their pickups for another day working the range. Nor will the teenagers from the middle schools and high schools just down the street. Luc Martial is the guy taking media calls for tobacco on this one.

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He said “legitimate industry stakeholders” (I hope that excludes all the illegitimate ones) are seeking a repeal of the ban. They say the government is making a mistake in forgoing $11 million a year in tax revenues from the sale of Casa Cuban cigars. The company recently sent a letter to Premier Alison Redford and a number of cabinet ministers on the matter. It says the government was “unfortunately duped” into thinking that little cigars containing one of the world’s most addictive and healthdestroying substances, which are available one at a time for pocket change, and which are soaked in fruit-flavoured chemicals, was a “relevant youth health priority.” Hmmm. Imagine that. In the same (long) sentence, the letter says Alberta is one the verge of “unjustifiably and without warrant undermining the rights of hundreds of thousands of voters in the province and throwing (away) millions of dollars in tax revenues.” Well, the government forgoes a lot more than $11 million a year in revenue for a lot of public policy reasons, not just the threat to health and the cost of health care for the customers of Casa Cubana. And as far as undermining the rights of hundreds of thousands of voters, we’ll not mention the government’s unilateral action on pay and pensions of its civil servants, nurses and teachers. Suffice to say that acting counter to the interests of specific voter groups is something governments sometimes do. Two years ago, when the province announced it was joining B.C., Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Quebec (headquarters of Casa Cubana) in their massive class action lawsuit against the tobacco industry, it was reported that 13 per cent of Alberta youth aged 12 to 19 were smokers. Among adults, it’s 20 per cent (and falling). The best hope for a lifetime addiction to tobacco is to hook customers when they are young. Luc Martial and his employers may deny it all they want, but small, cheap, single-issue, candy-flavoured cigars

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Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. Lawson, 72, died of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a common cause of death among smokers. are a quintessential gateway product. They may be obtained illegally by underage customers — just as youth illegally access alcohol and other drugs. But that is not an argument against this ban. Casa Cubana’s own website says a federal law regulating the sale of these little cigars “is about morality, not health.” How’s that for hutzpah? A tobacco firm claiming the moral high ground. Unfortunately for them, our “duped” governments sometimes act in “immoral” ways, too. My grandchildren will be well into voting age before the provincial lawsuits attempting to recover the health costs of caring for the tobacco industry’s victims is settled. A whole lot more than $11 million will be spent on legal fees to do it. In the meantime, I expect my government to consider my grandchildren and bounce Casa Cubana’s plea from the room, and their products off the shelves. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

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Trudeau turfs Senators from caucus ‘THE SENATE IS BROKE AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED’: LIBERAL LEADER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau handed out pink slips to Liberal senators Wednesday, kicking them out of the party’s caucus in what he called the most significant, concrete step ever to reform Canada’s scandal-plagued Senate. The surprise move — announced moments after Trudeau personally informed all 32 of them that they are now “formerly Liberal senators” — is aimed at reducing partisanship and restoring the Senate’s intended role as an independent chamber of sober second thought. “There are no more Liberal senators,” Trudeau told a news conference on Parliament Hill immediately after leaving the senators to mull over the implications of his decision. After the initial shock wore off, the senators emerged from a meeting declaring that they’d been “set free” and praising Trudeau for his bold, courageous move. They immediately used their new freedom to contradict Trudeau’s asser-

tion that they can no longer designate themselves as “Liberal” senators. And they went further off script by suggesting the move actually won’t change much in the upper house. “We have agreed that we will style ourselves as the Liberal Senate caucus,” said James Cowan, adding that he plans to continue leading the official Opposition in the Senate. Senators will remain Liberal party members and friends with elected Liberal MPs, he added. “I think not a lot will change,” Cowan said. Upon hearing that Trudeau was referring to them publicly as “formerly Liberal senators,” Cowan’s colleagues nodded approvingly as he said: “I’m not a former Liberal. I’m a Liberal. And I’m a Liberal senator.” However, Trudeau subsequently sent a letter to Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella informing him that Liberal senators are no longer members of the national Liberal caucus “and as such are independent senators.” The confusion allowed Stephen Harper to slough off Trudeau’s challenge to the prime minister to follow the Liberal lead and similarly cut

loose the 57 Conservative senators. “I gather the change announced by the leader today is that unelected Liberal senators will become unelected senators who happen to be Liberal,” Harper scoffed in the Commons. He called Cowan’s assertion that not much will change “the understatement of the year” and said Canadians want an elected Senate, not “a better unelected Senate.” Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative minister responsible for democratic reform, dismissed Trudeau’s gambit as “a smokescreen” designed to “distance himself” from potentially damaging news in an impending interim report by the auditor general. The spending watchdog is examining each senator’s expenses in the wake of a scandal over allegedly fraudulent expense claims that has rocked the upper chamber for more than a year. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair noted that Trudeau voted against an NDP motion last October which called on both the Liberals and Conservatives to cut their senators loose. He, too, suggested the looming auditor general’s report might have something to do with Trudeau’s

change of heart. Trudeau denied the imminent report had any bearing on his decision. And a spokesman for auditor general Michael Ferguson said no one has seen a draft of the interim report. Trudeau insisted his move was predicated on his belief that extreme patronage and partisanship are at the root of the Senate expenses scandal. “The Senate is broken and needs to be fixed,” he said. “If the Senate serves a purpose at all, it is to act as a check on the extraordinary power of the prime minister and his office, especially in a majority government. “The party structure in the Senate interferes with this responsibility. Taken together with patronage (appointments), partisanship within the Senate is a powerful, negative force. It reinforces the prime minister’s power instead of checking it.” If elected prime minister, Trudeau said he’d go further. He’d appoint only independent senators after employing an open, transparent process, with public input, for nominating worthy candidates — much the way recipients of the Order of Canada are chosen.

Canadian journalist charged in Cairo Minister sorry BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The family of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo issued an urgent appeal for Ottawa’s help Wednesday, as they learned the man had abruptly been charged with being a member of a terrorist group. Mohamed Fahmy was among 20 employees of satellite news broadcaster Al Jazeera who were charged with several offences in what’s believed to be the first time Egypt has referred journalists to trial for terrorism. Fahmy was charged with using illegal equipment, broadcasting false news that endangered national security and being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Egypt’s militaryled government has branded a terrorist organization, his family said. “It’s become a very desperate situation,” Fahmy’s brother Adel said. “We are very proud Canadian citizens. We became Canadian citizens because we know that Canada is the most decent country and always protects its people. We need the Canadian government to save my brother.” Mohamed Fahmy and his two colleagues — Australian Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohamed— were taken into custody on Dec. 29 at a hotel room in Cairo where they were working after authorities raided the offices of Al Jazeera English.

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Egyptian authorities characterized the arrest as part of a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, and depicted Al Jazeera as being biased towards former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi — who was ousted by the military in July — and his Muslim Mohamed Fahmy Brotherhoodled supporters. Al Jazeera, which no longer has journalists reporting in Egypt, has denied any bias and decried the latest developments. “The world knows these allegations against our journalists are absurd, baseless and false,” a spokesman said. “This is a challenge to free speech, to the right of journalists to report on all aspects of events, and to the right of people to know what is going on.” A statement from Egypt’s prosecutor said the journalists accused Wednesday — eight of whom are said to be in custody — had established a media network which used two suites in a luxury hotel in Cairo as a media centre, supported with cameras, broadcasting equipment and computers.

The statement said they allegedly “manipulated pictures” to create “unreal scenes to give the impression to the outside world that there is a civil war that threatens to bring down the state” and broadcast scenes to aid “the terrorist group in achieving its goals.” Fahmy, Al Jazeera English’s acting bureau chief in Cairo, was singled out by an official investigating the case. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the EgyptianCanadian was an alleged member of the Muslim Brotherhood, led the media operation that “fabricated footage” and aired it on Al-Jazeera and CNN with the “aim of harming Egypt’s reputation.” Fahmy’s family said evidence they and Al Jazeera had provided to refute those allegations didn’t appear to have been taken into account. “All the progress that we achieved with the lawyer, the interrogations, have become nullified today,” said Fahmy’s brother. “My brother is the furthest from such ideologies or such connections with these groups.” Fahmy’s parents — who travelled to Cairo from Montreal two weeks ago — informed Canadian officials of the latest developments but said they were aware there was only so much consular staff could do. Canadian officials have said they are providing consular services to Fahmy and his family.

answer is no.” Ford offered no comment when reporters asked him about the suit on Wednesday. None of the lawsuit’s claims have been proven in court.

the death of a Mexican woman held by the Canada Border Services Agency at Vancouver’s airport. The petition, authored by the group No One Is Illegal, is addressed to nine people, including CBSA officials, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It calls for a full, independent civilian inquiry into the death of 42-yearold Lucia Vega Jimenez and a comprehensive review of migrant detention policies. A release from the group says Vega Jimenez had a job as a hotel worker in Vancouver when she was arrested last month over an unpaid transit ticket, transferred to jail and then sent to the CBSA holding cells at the airport to await deportation. The group says it has confirmed that Vega Jimenez attempted to hang herself in the holding cells and died one week later at a Vancouver hospital. No One Is Illegal plans a vigil to honour the woman on Friday afternoon in front of the CBSA offices in downtown Vancouver.

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TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is being sued by his sister’s exboyfriend for allegedly conspiring to have the man beaten in jail. A statement of claim submitted by Scott MacIntyre alleges the mayor and two others were behind an assault at a Toronto jail which took place in March 2012. The suit also names Ontario’s Ministry of Correctional Services, which is responsible for the province’s jails. MacIntyre, who used to be in a relationship with Ford’s sister Kathy, is suing all the parties for more than $1 million. Ford’s lawyer confirmed Wednesday that the mayor was named in a statement of claim. “They’re without fact or foundation,” Dennis Morris said of MacIntyre’s allegations. When questioned further if the mayor had conspired in any way to harm MacIntyre, Morris bluntly said “the

L’ISLE-VERTE, Que. — Nineteen people have now been confirmed dead with another 13 still listed as missing after last week’s blaze at a seniors’ residence in eastern Quebec. Provincial police gave the update late this afternoon. Thursday’s fire destroyed the residence in L’Isle-Verte, about 240 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. A commemorative ceremony is scheduled in L’Isle-Verte this coming Saturday. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has confirmed his attendance.

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OTTAWA — Julian Fantino tried to offer an olive branch Wednesday to former soldiers left angry and insulted by the way the minister of veterans affairs dealt with their concerns about how they’re being treated by the federal government. The Conservatives were in full damage control mode as both opposition parties joined veterans in demanding Fantino be fired over his brusque handling of a meeting late Tuesday — something the minister later said he “absolutely regrets.” Some veterans, stung by the encounter, refused to accept his apology. At the centre of the controversy is the imminent closure of eight regional Veterans Affairs offices, which provide support and benefit services to veterans across Canada. It remains an open question just how far Fantino’s regrets will go towards mitigating a corrosive political debate about the government’s push toward more online and remote services for Canada’s ex-service members. Conservatives portray it as increased efficiency; the opposition, public service unions, and an increasing number of veterans groups call it cost-cutting to the detriment of those who put their lives on the line. Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood by Fantino, dismissing the growing public outcry as having been manufactured by the union that represents veteran affairs staff, which helped facilitate the meeting with the minister. “We have a small number — a small number — of duplicate veterans offices that have a very small caseload,” Harper told the House of Commons. “I know the unions don’t like it, (but) it makes a lot more sense to have 600 points of service for veterans,” he said, a reference to the government’s plan to move services from Veterans Affairs to less specialized — but more plentiful — Service Canada outlets. “I know why the unions and the NDP oppose that. This is in the best interest of veterans. They can play politics. We’re going to keep delivering for veterans.”

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Winter storm paralyzes Deep South PEOPLE STILL STRANDED ON HIGHWAYS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Students spent the night on buses or at schools, commuters abandoned their cars or idled Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in them all night and the highways-turned-parking lots iced over when a winter storm slammed the city, A teacher at E. Rivers Elementary school covers sleeping children in the gym Wednesday in Atlanta. A rare creating a treacherous traffic jam that lasted into snowstorm left thousands across the U.S. South frozen in their tracks, with workers sleeping in their offices, Wednesday. students camping in their schools, and commuters abandoning cars along the highway to seek shelter in It wasn’t clear exactly how many people were still churches or even grocery stores. stranded on the roads, a day after the storm hit the Deep South on Tuesday, paralyzing the region. 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Bitterness stirred by Syria’s civil war on full display at peace conference GENEVA — The bitterness and rancour stirred by Syria’s civil war were on full display this week at peace talks in Switzerland — and not just in the closed room where rival delegations are seeking a way to end the three-year conflict. For the first time since the country devolved into its bloody civil war, supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad — many of them journalists — are meeting face to face. The mix is producing more than just awkward moments between people with vastly different views. In the hallways of the UN’s European headquarters and on the manicured lawns outside, tempers have flared. Scuffles have broken out as journalists interrupt rival reporters, government officials have received extraordinary public grillings, and a distraught mother confronted the Syrian government delegation at their hotel. More than 130,000 people have died since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, and millions of people have been uprooted from their homes. The conflict has pitted neighbour against neighbour. People who were once friends have stopped talking to each other. Journalists who once worked together have been separated. Sectarian tensions, once tamped down under Assad’s grip, have exploded into the open. Many journalists have been forced to leave the country, either thrown out by the regime or going into self-imposed exiled in order to continue their work freely. Many have switched jobs to work with opposition or government outlets. “It has been a rare opportunity to meet and get to know each other again,� said Ibrahim Hamidi, a Syrian journalist working for the London-based Arabic regional newspaper, Al-Hayat. “It’s unnerving for both sides.�

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama set off Wednesday on a four-city tour to pound home his annual State of the Union message, a call to action by a divided Congress to reduce income inequality and a promise to get around legislative gridlock by using his executive powers wherever he can. The vast gap between the richest and regular Americans has only grown worse since the Great Recession and near collapse of the economy in 2008. Obama, after what is traditionally a president’s biggest speech of the year, was trying as well to help fellow Democrats ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections at a time when his popularity has fallen dramatically despite a steadily improving economy. Unemployment remains high. “America does not stand still, and neither will I,� the president said Tuesday night in an address to Congress on live television. “So whatever and wherever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that’s what I’m going to do.� Republicans, especially in the House of Representatives, have managed to block most of the president’s legislative agenda since they re-took the House of Representatives in 2010. Their leader, Speaker John Boehner, was quick to dismiss Obama’s plans for executive action. “The president must understand his power is limited by our Constitution, and the authority he has doesn’t add up to much for those without opportunity in this economy,� he said. Obama has acknowledged he faces constitutional limits in acting without Congress, and he renewed his calls for action on his legislative agenda of creating jobs, overhauling immigration laws, combating climate change and more. The president declared he would rely on executive orders where and when he could. Obama has some hope of winning support for an immigration overhaul, as Republicans try to build support among the country’s growing Hispanic population ahead of the election. But a Republican senator who’s a major player on immigration policy said Wednesday there’s no chance now of passing a broad overhaul. Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential White House contender in 2016, told reporters that Obama is to blame for causing

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President Barack Obama gestures while talking in front of rolls of steel, Wednesday, at the United States Steel’s Mon Valley Works in West Mifflin, Pa. Republicans to lose trust in him. While domestic issues dominated Obama’s speech, the president also warned Congress he would veto any sanctions bill that threatens to derail talks with Iran about its nuclear program, even as he acknowledged that the negotiations may not succeed. On the conflict in Syria, he pledged “to work with the international community to usher in the future the Syrian people deserve — a future free of dictatorship, terror and fear.� Obama reaffirmed that the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will formally conclude at the end of this year. But he said a small contingent of American forces could be left behind if the Afghan government quickly signs a bilateral security agreement, a prospect that looks increasingly uncertain.

Hundreds of living, dead pythons found in home after complaints of stench SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday after at least 300 living and dead pythons were found in plastic bins inside his stench-filled suburban home, police said. Officers found the snakes as well as mice and rats while searching the house after neighbours complained about the smell of something rotten, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. “The smell alone — I feel like I need to take a shower for a week,� Bertagna said. “They’re pretty much in all the bedrooms — everywhere.� The pythons were kept throughout the five-bedroom house. William Buchman, a 53-year-old teacher, was arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, Bertagna said. Animal control authorities had tried to work with Buchman for several months after neighbours reported the smell but sought a warrant after they were not allowed inside the home where Buchman lived alone, Bertagna said.

Ukraine parliament considers amnesty for protesters BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s parliament discussed an amnesty Wednesday for those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country — but some of the possible conditions attached to it would be unacceptable to the opposition. The amnesty bill is part of a series of concessions from embattled President Viktor Yanukovych, after a week of street clashes between police and protesters and protesters’ seizure of government buildings in western Ukraine. The prime minister has resigned and harsh anti-protest laws have been recalled but those moves did not address the protesters’ other key demands that Yanukovych resign and early elections be held. Two amnesty proposals were up for a parliamentary vote Wednesday, one of which says amnesty would be granted only if demonstrators leave their

massive street protests and vacate buildings they now occupy. Parliament was also discussing a political reform, sought by the opposition, which would strengthen the government at the expense of the presidency. Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the protesters will not agree to leave the streets in exchange for an amnesty and wanted the condition dropped. Over the course of two months, anti-government protesters have established a large tent camp in the main square of Kyiv, called the Maidan, and seized three buildings nearby as operation centres and sleeping quarters. They have also erected large barricades of ice, wood, furniture and other materials. “They have set a number of conditions, and the key condition under the draft bill is to let the Maidan go and only afterwards all protesters will get an amnesty,� Yatsenyuk said. “This is unacceptable for us.�

Bombings and a shooting kill 20 people in Iraqi capital BAGHDAD — Car bombs and a shooting, mainly in Shiite areas, killed 20 people in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, officials said. Police officials said the deadliest attack took place when two car bombs went off almost simultaneously in separate commercial streets in the Shiite neighbourhood of Shula in northern Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 19 others. A car bomb blast near a small restaurant in a Shiite neighbourhood in eastern Baghdad killed four people and wounded 13 others, said police.

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A big North Raven breeder brown trout taken two weeks after the Métis poaching incident.

When I retired from 37 years of law practice in 1998, I thought I was done with court dockets. Not so: I am constantly monitoring the progress (or not) of court cases of importance and interest to outdoors people. My current docket of four cases was recently halved by decisions in two of them, leaving two involving events I wrote about some time ago still awaiting trials in Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench. One of the still-pending cases involves the criminal negligence using a firearm charge against Herbert Stanley Meister of Lacombe, for allegedly killing Philip Moore, BOB while hunting west of Bentley SCAMMELL on Nov. 29, 2010. Adjournment has followed adjournment, and the trial has now been set for Sept. 2 to 9, when we might finally hear the facts on one of Alberta’s mercifully rare human hunting fatalities. Coming from even farther back than that one is what I understood to be a civil case for damages, etc., arising out of the decision, on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, of a respected legal colleague, Keith Conrad, QC, to go for a stroll on a Crown land grazing lease 30 km south west of Pincher Creek. During his walk, Conrad was charged and then gored to death by a bison. Now I understand the family will not be proceeding, for private reasons, and with that I sympathize even though I am disappointed that important public issues will not get an airing: a trial would have shed glaring light on the decision of the Alberta government to permit bison “ranching” on public land, and perhaps even cause the feds to reconsider their plans to introduce bison to Banff National Park. A long run through the courts ended recently when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the appeal of Garry Ivan Hirsekorn against his conviction by three Alberta courts for unlicensed hunting out of season for having shot a mule deer on Oct. 20, 2007, in the Cypress Hills. Hirsekorn, through the Métis Nation of Alberta, contended that he needed no licence, and seasons did not apply, because he is a Métis and was hunting for food on traditional hunting grounds. All courts rejected the arguments for interesting reasons too lengthy to deal with here, but I can say that the higher courts did not deal with one of the best reasons of all for conviction given in the lowest court, provincial court: that Hirsekorn was not hunting for food at all, but really just to set up a test case for the Métis Nation. Last May, I was visited by a lower North Raven angler who had a fascinating illustrated story to tell.

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Indoor plants improve air quality, help people relax Ever walk through a public building and take time to look at the indoor plants? They’re placed in buildings for two reasons: ambiance and air quality. Indoor plants take away the institutional feel of buildings, which in turn help people relax and feel more comfortable. People that are relaxed are much easier to deal with as they are more likely to think logically and understand what is happening. Commercial buildings such LINDA as malls add indoor plants, TOMLINSON seating and art to encourage people to relax and spend time, which can increase the amount of money people spend in the stores. Plants improve air quality by removing toxins during photosynthesis cycle. Carbon dioxide is taken in and broken down into components that are used by the plant. The waste product, oxygen, is released back in the atmosphere while the toxins remain in the plant. Public buildings have large spaces, which call for

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states how a company will deal with plants if they become infected by insects. The choices are to spray the plants, bring in predator insects or replace the infected plants. Many different plants can be used in indoor landscaping but Plant Décor finds that the most popular ones are: peace lily, spathiphyllum, umbrella plant schefflara, Chinese evergreen aglaonema, and pothos, epipremnum aureum. These plants are attractive, easy to maintain, thrive under most conditions and are known to clean the air. Plant Décor has contracts that are as low as $50 a month up into the thousands. For the minimal rate, a person will come into the building once a week and care for three or four plants. Price increases depend on the time required to maintain the plants properly. It isn’t just companies that hire people to maintain their indoor plants. Homeowners who like plants but do not have the time or knack to make them thrive also use the service. Prices compare to or are less than hiring a cleaner. Next time you walk through a public place, look for plants. They are put in place and kept healthy for your enjoyment. Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

HEALTH

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Are you healthy enough? If health is a matter of not just weight loss? proper nutrition but attaining Then we try to nourish our emotional stability, a healthy men- hearts or spirits and our sotal frame of mind, adequate social cial lives too. Will that ever be health, a sense of purenough? pose, happiness, strong There are those sense of self, healthy who eat the most nutrirelationships, positive tious of foods, exercise working environment, to maintain optimal a healthy spiritual or physique and are in religious practice, etc., great physical health. etc., etc., can you acShowing commitment tually have “enough” and discipline to make health? healthier choices has Is it something you its rewards, but then should be striving to isn’t there an element improve on an ongoing of spontaneity and basis or is even the act freeness that has its KRISTIN of always striving to imown rewards? FRASER prove unhealthy? Maintaining a sense Our food supply has of light heartedness, lost more and more excitement towards nutrients over the last life and feeling free to century with soil minenjoy tantalizing induleral depletion, travel gences without guilt. times from locations around the Can you have all of it and be world, cooking methods destroy- healthy enough? ing valuable nutrients, canning, There are also many who have refining, chemically preserving, lots of love, a strong sense of purbleaching, pasteurizing, hydroge- pose, minimal stress and lives full nating, over salting, over sugaring, of happiness and emotional stabilsynthetically fortifying, and just ity with extremely poor diets. Are generally exposing it to hundreds these people healthy enough? of man-made chemicals. To really determine whether So we seek to find nourish- you are healthy enough, ask yourment from more locally sourced, self the following questions: unrefined, more nutrient dense ● How do you feel? options. ● Are you OK with the choices For what? Longevity, improved you are making and the possible energy, weight loss ... will we ev- consequences of those choices? er have enough energy? Enough ● Do you have a strong sense

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of self-awareness around what is truly good for you? ● Are you able to let go of judgment and make appropriate choices to get the results you might be seeking? ● What are the results you are seeking? ● Do you try to rationalize your actions or justify your unhealthy choices with the word “balance” and is this an excuse to make less than optimal choices or does being accepting of not eating perfectly actually have its merit in being healthy enough? Maybe defining what health is to you is the first step to determine whether or not it is enough. Maybe it’s never enough. Recognizing the cliché that health truly is a journey, not a destination, is important to rid yourself of feeling like you have or don’t have enough. I believe that striving to improve your health on an ongoing basis in ways that work for you while simultaneously letting go of the expectation of perfection are key in supporting this journey. Are you healthy enough? I guess the choice is yours. Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday. She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

Walk this way, live longer If you’re a walker and utes; cool down for five you’ve been pacing along minutes. As you become doing 10,000 steps — stronger, try equal-length around an hour and a half bursts of fast- and reguof walking — almost every lar-pace activity. day, we have good news The benefits: Pushing (you’re slashing your risk yourself even for short for dementia, cardio probintervals of time during lems and mobility issues), a workout burns more followed by even better calories and more fat, imnews (read on). proves blood sugar levels But if you haven’t and enhances heart and joined the millions of blood vessel functioning. MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ North Americans who A livelier tempo also inpurposefully stride vites the power plants through parks, along city inside every cell in your streets and in malls evbody (mitochondria) to ery day, don’t lose heart work smarter, so you’re (that’s something we want more energetic. to help you protect!). If you start to put one foot in An important new study tracked the walking front of the other, you’ll not only discover that walk- speed and health of almost 39,000 walkers. It found ing is fun and relieves stress, but as you head toward that those with the very slowest speed had the worst a much younger RealAge, you’ll cut your risk of pre- health results. mature death by up to 50 per cent! But if you’re a slow walker and you’re willing to So, here’s how to get started and how to measure step it up, you don’t need to worry! the health benefits you gain: We loved learning from this study that bumping Step one: Assess your current walking pace for 400 up your speed just a little bit has huge health benmetres on a local running track or a treadmill. efits: Folks in the second-slowest walking group — in Your first “pace off” should be untimed; instead, some cases they walked just a minute faster per 1.5 monitor how your effort feels. On a scale of one to km than the slowest strollers — reduced their added 10 — one being “I’m barely moving,” and 10 being risk of early death by more than 50 per cent! Plus, “I’m breathing hard and sweating” — aim for about moving faster by just 60 seconds also translated into a seven. a two to six per cent lower risk for diabetes, demenIt should feel a little challenging, but you can talk tia, heart disease, high blood pressure and heart atcomfortably and are breathing more deeply than tacks. normal. If that’s too intense, dial it back to a six. As you get stronger and faster, the benefits pile Step two: Walk as quickly as you comfortably can up! In the study, the fastest walkers were 44 per cent on a treadmill or a track for six timed minutes. Check less likely to meet an early end compared with those your distance. Then multiply it times 10. That’ll give who took 24 minutes or more to cover 1.5 km. So grab you an estimate of your speed and how far you can go a walking partner (both of you stay motivated) and a in an hour. Depending on your age, how tall you are, pedometer (it lets you see your progress) and put on how much you weigh and the terrain you’re walk- those walking shoes (get fitted at a store where they ing, a normal walking pace varies between 4.8 and know about foot fall and how to make sure you’re 5.6 km/h. From there, you can build more speed and injury free)! intensity. You’ll walk your way into a longer life, a happier Step three: Step it up three times a week for 20 outlook and a better body (always fun!). minutes. Do a steady-pace walk on other days. Here’s the drill: Warm up for five minutes. Then move at Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike your regular pace for about a minute, followed by Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and Chair of Wella 20-to-30-second burst of faster walking. Repeat ness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthithis pattern (we call it interval training) for 20 min- est, visit sharecare.com.

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Three reasons you haven’t lost weight It’s a very frustrating calories, you are just gotime for any dieter — ing to keep maintaining the fat loss plateau. You that body without seeing were going about your further fat loss. program perDecrease fectly and then your current weight loss calorie intake just seemed to by 15 to 20 stop. per cent and Or perhaps you should you never exsee things perienced fat moving along loss in the first once again. place and it feels like your body must be broken. You wonder why you can’t seem to lose CABEL any weight at The last MCELDERRY all. reason you If you find might not be yourself in losing weight this situation, it’s im- is if you’ve just been diportant to stay calm and eting too long. really consider what it Remember, dieting is that could be keeping is a very hard process you from seeing the suc- for the body and you do cess you desire. need to make sure that Here are three things you are taking breaks to consider. from time to time. The body has strong defence mechanisms that it will put into place if you are not giving it the break time that it needs to restore calorie balance and make it think The very first reason that it isn’t in a period of you might not have lost starvation. the weight you want is if Every six to eight you are making errors in weeks on a diet plan, tracking. you should be taking one R e m e m b e r , e v e n week to eat at maintesmall increases in your nance level. serving size can mean an If you keep just plowadditional 200 to 300 cal- ing forward, you will ories consumed in your come to see your results day, depending on the slow, sometimes even foods you are overeating stop. in. A diet break may feel If you do this a couple like you’re going backtimes a day, that is more wards but don’t be misthan enough to com- led. pletely wipe out any fat It will actually help loss progress that should you move forward as far have been taking place. as fat loss is concerned. Tracking properly is a So there you have must for success. three key reasons why you may not be losing weight as you had hoped. Have a good look at your current plan and see if any of these may be playing a role in your lack of success. If you see that they Next, you might not be losing weight if you are, make a few adjusthaven’t re-adjusted your ments to get back on calorie intake after track again and your weight loss progress has frustration should be resolved. taken place. If you’ve lost 20 Cabel McElderry is a lopounds or more, you may now be eating at cal personal trainer and your true level to main- nutrition coach. For more tain this new lower body information on fitness and nutrition, visit the Fitness weight. Unless you lower your F/X website at www.fitnessfx.com.

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MERS in hospitals significant, underplayed STEPS NEEDED TO STOP SPREAD BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS The spread of MERS coronavirus infections in hospitals in affected countries is a significant but underappreciated problem, infection control experts wrote in a journal editorial published Monday. “The concentration of vulnerable patients, the frequent movement of patients, and the many daily contacts make health-care facilities the perfect breeding ground for MERS-CoV transmission,” the authors warned in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. “Focus on the health-care setting may prevent continued human-to-human transmission among at-risk patients.” The authors are three specialists who travelled to Saudi Arabia last spring to investigate a large outbreak of MERS in a hospital at Al-Ahsa in the eastern part of the country. One of the three is Dr. Allison McGeer, head of infection control at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Their publication came

on the same day as the World outbreak. Health-care workers make Health Organization conMcGeer was a key figure in up about 18 per cent of confirmed a doctor in Saudi Ara- Toronto’s battle against that firmed MERS cases so far. bia had succumbed to the vi- frightening new disease and The WHO said Monday that rus earlier this month. she actually contracted the there have been 180 confirmed The man, a Bangladeshi virus in the early days of the cases to date; 77 of those pawho practised in a Riyadh outbreak. tients have died. hospital, is In the SARS not known outbreak, healthto have had care workers contact with made up about a MERS pa20 per cent of tient or with cases globally. the types In Canada, of animals health-care work— bats and ers comprised 43 camels — per cent of prob— A UTHORS IN ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE able and suspect suspected of being inSARS cases. volved in the spread of the disThe authors cited a study “I think there’s a tendency ease. He had not recently trav- published last fall that noted to look at this and say ‘Well, elled outside the country. 30 of the first 161 known MERS SARS was much worse.’ And As it remains unclear how patients were health-care it’s true. It’s much better than people are contracting MERS, workers. SARS from a perspective of authorities would not be able Since then at least two health-care workers,” said Mcto rule out the possibility the more health-care workers Geer. doctor caught the virus out- have become infected with “But there is still clearly side the hospital. the virus. too much serious illness and But the possibility remains Just over a third of the death in health-care workers. that he was infected while health-care worker cases have And to my mind until we solve treating a patient who was not been described as asymptom- where this is coming from, we recognized as having been in- atic — showing no signs of ill- can’t effectively reduce that fected with MERS. ness. risk.” The editorial drew parallels But a number of healthMichael Osterholm, an into the role hospitals played in care workers have required fectious diseases expert who the spread of SARS — also a intensive care treatment and has been following the MERS coronavirus — during the 2003 at least three have died. outbreak closely, said he be-

‘FOCUS ON THE HEALTH-CARE SETTING MAY PREVENT CONTINUED HUMAN-TO-HUMAN TRANSMISSION AMONG AT-RISK PATIENTS.’

lieves people haven’t grasped the scale of MERS health-care infections, perhaps because the outbreak to date has remained in countries on the Arabian Peninsula. Toronto’s large SARS outbreak really drove home for western countries the risk the new disease posed, said Osterholm, who is the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “If we had a situation where we had a sizable outbreak in the western world, where 17 to 20 per cent of the cases where in health-care workers, I think you’d be seeing a very different attitude towards the concern about health-care workers and MERS.” The editorial was published in conjunction with a report on the disease course and symptoms of 12 MERS patients treated in the intensive care units of two Saudi hospitals. Three of the 12 were healthcare workers. Follow @HelenBranswell on Twitter

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He had bushwhacked in for some early North Raven fly fishing for big brown trout, when he encountered a group of worm fishermen with many dead brown trout, including some of the biggest and best breeders. They had apparently driven their vehicle in over private land. When my informant mentioned to these people that use of bait is illegal and that the trout limit is zero, one of them told him that those laws don’t apply to them, and gave an absurd excuse I could not divulge at that time, but can now disclose: they claimed to be Métis. That excuse is absurd because the law is that if a zero limit or bait ban applies to everyone, it also applies to aboriginals, including Métis. Fortunately, my informant is among the many outdoorsmen who now routinely carry excellent digital cameras. He shot a batch of good pictures: poacher portraits, still lives of their dead fish, their cans of worms, their vehicle, including licence plate; in short, a Report a Poacher’s dream of evidence. I was offered digital copies of his shots and would love to have some for this column but, back then, the lawyer deep inside me cautioned that might hurt whatever action Report a Poacher and Environment-Sustainable Resource Development might take on the evidence they were handed. Frankly, I had little hope. In 2009-10, there were 7,509 poaching tips in Alberta, resulting in only 241 charges. Many times, sometimes on behalf of clients, I reported incidents to Report a Poacher and suspect nothing was done; certainly we never received even the courtesy of a report. This time my informant was advised the accused did not mention Métis, possibly because they weren’t; certainly there were no brown trout in the North Raven back in the days when it is unlikely that Métis even fished the little river at all. They pleaded guilty, and were fined $800, which the informant considers absurdly low. It is — they were stealing from the anglers and hunters of Alberta who built and rebuilt the North Raven and its brown trout fishery. The fines should have been twice what they got and their equipment and vehicle should have been forfeited to the Crown and sold, with fine and funds ordered paid to Trout Unlimited for ongoing work on the North Raven. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@ telusplanet.net.

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Rebels move up with win NAB FIFTH WIN IN ROW BY BEATING WHEATIES BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 4 Wheat Kings 3 (SO) Bend, but don’t break. That’s not the manner in which the Red Deer Rebels hoped to prevail in Wednesday’s WHL meeting with the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings, but they rode the goaltending of Patrik Bartosak and got a decisive shootout goal from Brooks Maxwell to pull out a 4-3 win before a recorded Centrium gathering of 4,248. The Rebels were the better team in the opening period, but were dominated in the second — outshot 17-4 — and played well enough in the third to get the game to overtime and then a shootout that featured 14 shooters. Maxwell finally ended the marathon when he beat Jordan Papirny with a backhand after the Brandon netminder failed to swipe the puck away from the Red Deer forward. “I got the call there and I hadn’t participated in a shootout for a couple of years, so I was a little nervous, to be honest,” said Maxwell. “I kind of have that move that I usually go to, I try to go five-hole but as soon as I saw that he (Papirny) tried a poke check I kind of went to my backhand and put it over his pad.” The victory was Red Deer’s fifth in a row and moved the club into sixth place in the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the idle Regina Pats. The Rebels also gained ground on two teams below them in the playoff race as the Prince Albert Raiders fell 3-2 at Lethbridge and the Kootenay Ice were 6-2 losers to the host Medicine Hat Tigers. Still, it wasn’t a picture-perfect victory despite the fact the Rebels controlled the play in the opening frame, getting goals from Presten Kopeck and Scott Feser to take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission. But the Wheat Kings, who got an opening-frame goal from Rihard Bukarts while being outshot 16-10, were a different team in the second stanza despite failing to get a single shot past Bartosak. “In the first period we played with pace and that’s how we want to play,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We want to play a pace game and

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Red Deer Rebel Preston Kopeck clashes with Brandon Wheat King player Jens Meilleur during second-period action at the Centrium Wednesday. they made some adjustments and took some things away from us in the second and we never made the adjustments we needed to make to allow us to keep playing at the level we want to play at. “We dropped our guard and they came at us pretty hard in the second and gained momentum. We had to regroup in the third and got some of our game back.” With the Rebels two men short, Brandon defenceman and captain Ryan Pulock moved into the high slot and blasted a drive past Bartosak to even the count at 2-2 early in the third period. Rhyse Dieno restored Red Deer’s lead seven minutes later when he found himself all alone in front of the net and tipped Brady Gaudet’s point shot by Papirny. But the visitors pressed for another tying goal and were rewarded when Peter Quenneville went hard to the net and converted a centering feed from

Ryan Pilon at 18:18. “You can’t drop your guard at any point in the season, let alone at this time of the year,” said Sutter. “ The battle that we’re in, we have to keep the edge all the time and stay on top of it mentally and physically. You can’t have a roller coaster through a game. “There’s a certain level you have to play at and you have to stay at that level. When you deal with adversity during a game you have to handle it the right way and I didn’t think we handled it well at all in the second period. We were scrambling and no one outside of our goalie took charge. Patty was outstanding for us again, obviously.” Bartosak made 39 saves during regulation time, including a glove stop on Richard Nejezchieb in overtime. Just seconds later, Dieno broke in alone on Papirny and lost control of the puck while attempting a backhand deke.

Bartosak then thwarted six of seven Wheat Kings in the shootout. Papirny, a first-round pick of Brandon in the 2011 WHL bantam draft, came up with 26 saves through 65 minutes — including dandies on Feser and Dieno — and later stopped five of seven Red Deer shooters. “The main thing at this time of the year is to find a way to win,” said Maxwell. “These games are big when you’re battling for a playoff spot. We want to separate from the teams behind us and catch the teams in front of us and we’ve been doing a good job of that lately.” ● The game’s lone scrap, in the opening period, saw Brandon’s Kord Pankewicz gain a slight edge over Rebels forward Evan Polei before being dropped with a wicked right hand. Pankewicz left the game and although he returned in the second period he didn’t play another shift.

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BY JOHN KOROBANIK THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton 3 San Jose 0 EDMONTON — When the Edmonton Oilers traded for Ben Scrivens on Jan. 16 they did so in hopes the Spruce Grove, Alta., native would solve their inconsistent goaltending problems. The 27-year-old showed on Wednesday he may just be the solution. Scrivens stopped all 59 shots he faced to backstop the Oilers to a 3-0 win over the San Jose Sharks. The win matched Edmonton’s seasonhigh three-game winning streak. “Hats off to the goaltender, he was tremendous,” said San Jose coach Todd McLellan. “Probably first, second and third star. If he wasn’t he deserved it. Heck of a performance. In all my years in the league I don’t think I’ve seen that. We attempted 100 shots on goal, that doesn’t happen very often.” The 59-save shutout is an NHL record. The 59 shots tied the mark for the most ever given up by Edmonton and Scrivens’ 59 saves were a team record. Previously Edmonton gave up 59 shots to the New York Rangers in 1993, winning that game 4-3. The Oilers were outshot 20-7, 22-9 and 17-11 by periods as the Sharks, 7-3-0 in their previous 10 games, dominated play, territorially and by shots. But they couldn’t beat Scrivens, who made his fourth start for the Oilers and won his second game. He went into the game with an 8-7-4 record, a 2.03 goals-against average and .930 save percentage. He improved all three of those marks Wednesday. “I was seeing the puck well,” he said afterwards. “We got extremely lucky with a couple of posts in the second. “I had an awful, awful warm-up, it was an inauspicious start to it,” he added. “It’s one of those things where you try not to look at the forest while you’re in the trees. You try to focus on the process and give yourself a chance to make that save and when the puck drops again, you try to focus on the next one and don’t try to get too far ahead of yourself.” Other than Scrivens the team effort was spotty at best.

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San Jose Sharks’ Tyler Kennedy (81) and Edmonton Oilers’ Justin Schultz (19) battle for the rebound as goalie Ben Scrivens makes the save during first-period NHL hockey action in Edmonton, on Wednesday. “That’s how I thought our skaters were playing the game; they were watching Ben play,” said Oilers coach Dallas Eakins who wasn’t particularly happy despite the win. “It was an incredible thing to watch, I’ve never seen that before. I’m so happy for Ben and proud of him and then you’re mad at the same time.” The Oilers capitalized on San Jose mistakes to get the win they didn’t really deserve. Defenceman Justin Schultz in the first period and Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle in the third scored the Edmonton goals. Schultz scored on a shot from the blue line that defected off a San Jose player in front of goaltender Antti Niemi. Hall buried a shot just under the crossbar to finish off a two-on-one break with Eberle six minutes into the third and he assisted on Eberle’s goal in the final two minutes. The story was all Scrivens, who got a well-deserved standing ovation late in the second period and several more in the third. While the Sharks rattled two shots off

the goalpost in the second period, Scrivens had them shaking their heads with some of his spectacular saves. Among his best were point-blank stops off Patrick Marleau, Jason Demers twice, Bracken Kearns, Brent Burns and Tommy Wingels. “Usually when you put 20 shots on goal in the first period you get one goal,” said Wingels. “So at that point we knew we would have to keep going. We were saying get 20 more shots, get 20 more shots and you think that’s a recipe for success. Unfortunately tonight it wasn’t.” Hall said the Oilers skaters could sense towards the end of the first period that they were watching something special. “Obviously you don’t want to give up 59 shots, but sometimes a goalie has to stand on his head and that has to be one of the best performances by a goalie, I have ever seen.” The loss was San Jose’s first to Edmonton this year after winning 3-1 and 5-1 in their previous two games.

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VANCOUVER — Steve Yzerman can add another honour to his impressive resume. The former Detroit Red Wings captain was named to the Order of Hockey in Canada on Wednesday along with former women’s national team captain France St-Louis and legendary university coach Clare Drake. Yzerman, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009, won three Stanley Cups during his 22-year playing career. Now the general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Yzerman won gold with Canada as a player at the 2002 Olympics and served as the executive director of the goldmedal winning men’s team at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. The 48-year-old has the same post heading into next month’s Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “It was an extremely pleasant surprise for me and really a thrill,” Yzerman said during a conference call with all three recipients. “I’ve loved being a part of Hockey Canada as a player and (in) management throughout my career in the game.” The Ottawa native played five times for Canada at the world championships and was part of the country’s bronze medal-winning team at the 1983 world juniors.

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Detroit Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman skates off with the Stanley Cup in Detroit, June 7, 1997, after the Red Wings swept the Philadelphia Flyers in four games. Yzerman can add another honour to his impressive resume. The former Detroit Red Wings captain was named to the Order of Hockey in Canada on Wednesday along with former women’s national team captain France St-Louis and former university coach Clare Drake.

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YZERMAN: Also has world titles As a manager, he has also led Canada to three world championship medals — two gold and one silver. Yzerman sits sixth all-time in NHL scoring with 1,755 points, ninth in goals (692) and seventh in assists (1,063). “Steve Yzerman’s career was unbelievable,” said Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson, who was on hand to make the announcement. “One of the best to ever play the game.” Yzerman was nominated for the award by New York Rangers general manager Glen Sather, who coached him on the gold medal-winning 1984 Canada Cup team. “When he spoke about Steve, (Sather) was just saying that Steve was really a mentor for young general managers coming into the league,” said Nicholson. “You just watch how hard he works, how he communicates to other general managers and how he communicates to his players.” St-Louis, meanwhile, won five world championship gold medals in the 1990s and was the captain of Canada’s silver medal-winning team at the 1998 Olympics. “When you receive a call from Bob Nicholson it might be good or bad news,” St-Louis said with a laugh. “I was very happy to hear this announcement. “I realize how fortunate I am to be part of such an impressive group.” Nicholson said the 55-year-old from Laval, Que. — who will serve as Canada’s assistant chef de mission in Sochi — is revered in hockey circles in her home province. “(She) was such a leader,” said Nicholson. “In Montreal she’s seen as the Jean Beliveau of female hockey.” Drake’s credentials are equally impressive. The winningest coach in Canadian university hockey history with 697 career victories, he led the University of Alberta to six national titles. Drake also coached in the NHL and WHA, as well as internationally with both the men’s and women’s program.

“I’ve followed the work of Hockey Canada and I know the effort so many people have put into the game — and I guess I’m considered one of them,” said the 86-year-old native of Yorkton, Sask. “I feel humble about that and it’s just a very big honour for me. I’m very pleased about it.” Nicholson said Drake’s contribution to coaching in Canada can’t be understated. “He was involved in the Olympics in 1980 but at the University of Alberta he really mentored Dave King, George Kingston, Mike Babcock, Ken Hitchcock, Tom Rennie ... the list just goes on an on,” said Nicholson. “His record at U of A was something special.” Drake was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2013. “Our teams have always been quite consistent,” said Drake of the national program. “We’ve won quite a bit and we’ve lost occasionally, but we’ve never been one of those teams or organizations that were up for two or three years and down for two or three years.” Yzerman, St-Louis and Drake will be honoured at a ceremony in Vancouver in June The class of 2014 joins previous inductees Jean Beliveau, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Gordon Renwick, Paul Henderson, Dave King and Mark Messier. Candidates for the Order of Hockey Canada are chosen “on the basis of their outstanding contributions or service to the growth and development of the sport of hockey in Canada.”

REBELS: Face Hurricanes, Americans next ● The Rebels, who were minus the services of forwards Lukas Sutter (upper body, indefinite), Vukie Mpofu (lower body, day-to-day) and Wyatt Johnson (upper body, indefinite), host the Lethbridge Hurricanes Friday and take on the visiting Tri-City Americans 24 hours later. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — They sat on the tarmac just hoping for the chance at a meeting. Pete Carroll and John Schneider waited in the private plane in Denver, wondering if Peyton Manning would accept a request to meet with the brain trust of the Seattle Seahawks to see if that could be a potential landing spot for the free agent quarterback. This was March of 2012, before Manning decided Denver would become his permanent address and before Russell Wilson took up residency in Seattle. And as Carroll recalled on Wednesday, the entire process was “brief.” “We tried to get involved with that to see if there was a next stage to the process and there wasn’t,” Carroll said. The fact the paths of Manning and the Seahawks intersect in Sunday’s Super Bowl is no coincidence. The decision to bring Manning to Denver was the catalyst for the Broncos becoming an offensive marvel that set records on its way to an AFC championship. And his decision not to seriously consider Seattle as a landing point also was hugely important in the Seahawks finding the pieces both in free agency and the draft to build a team that was the class of the NFC. Manning recalled Wednesday how he wanted privacy in the process of figuring out his next team after being released by Indianapolis. “I remember it wasn’t very private. It was quite a public spectacle,” Manning said. “I could have done without that.” Manning eventually signed with Denver in late March. The process leading to his decision included a number of other franchises, including an early morning phone call that awoke Carroll. Manning had heard Seattle was interested and thus the process started. Seattle was in the market for quarterbacks at that point. They had gone through the trio of Matt Hasselbeck, Charlie Whitehurst and Tarvaris Jackson without satisfaction during Carroll’s first two seasons and now stood the chance to possibly make a pitch to Manning. They had yet to draft Wilson — who

Carroll said he now would have selected much higher than the third round — so it made sense for the Seahawks to try and get involved. “We talked about the basics of what it might mean for him coming to us and the process was underway,” Carroll said. “It was very early and he had said he didn’t know what he was going to do, where he was going to visit and what was going to come up and he wanted to gage what our interest was.” Seattle’s limited pursuit ended in Denver. Manning never took the meeting with Schneider and Carroll. Manning went on to have conversations with the 49ers, Cardinals, Dolphins and Titans before making the choice to join the Broncos. Seattle went on to sign Matt Flynn as a free agent from Green Bay two days before Manning’s deal was finalized with the Broncos. The Seahawks drafted Wilson in the third round a month later and kept around Jackson, the starter for most of 2011, to create a three-way QB competition Wilson eventually won during training camp. How the Seahawks are currently constructed would have drastically changed had the talks with Manning progressed beyond just those initial conversations. A number of roster moves the Seahawks have made — signing Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett as free agents, trading for Percy Harvin as examples — might not have happened if Manning had opted for Seattle. Seattle would have been limited with its salary cap space because of the money Manning would have commanded. Some of those moves are at the root of why Seattle is in the Super Bowl and are the ones Schneider said he thinks about when recollecting about their efforts with Manning. “I just think that we would have continued to do things the way we do it all the time,” Schneider said last week. “I know that we wouldn’t have been able to afford several players but we would have competed in other areas to compensate for it in where we were deficient. It’s a daily process.”

Players figuring out how to brace for cold BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERSEY CITY, N.J. — So much for all the hand-wringing about a snowedin Super Bowl. How would freezing spectators deal with the cold at MetLife Stadium? What sort of havoc would a big storm wreak on transportation and other game-day logistics? What if the NFL decided to postpone its championship game between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks for 24 hours? If the National Weather Service’s forecast is correct, the buzz about a blizzard at the first cold-weather, outdoor Super Bowl — the official host committee logo features a snowflake — will turn out to be just talk. As of Wednesday, no snow, or even rain, was being predicted for Sunday. “It would have been cool in the snow,” Seattle linebacker Heath Farwell said. “That’s, I guess, how football’s supposed to be played.” Players on both teams have experienced chilly conditions during games, of course, although they don’t regularly brace for the sort of brrrr that’s anticipated for this Super Bowl, even if there isn’t any snow. Sunday’s high temperature is expected to be 38 degrees, which would make it the coldest of the 48 Super Bowls so far. With the opening kickoff scheduled for about 6:30 p.m., the mercury could drop into the 20s by the time the game ends. The only time the temperature dropped below 40 degrees for a Super Bowl came when it was 39 in New Orleans in January 1972. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in

that game, and Miami’s scoring output remains the lowest for one team in a Super Bowl. “I was expecting unbearable cold,” Broncos safety Duke Ihenacho said, looking ahead to Sunday. “It’ll be cold, but it’s nothing we haven’t seen in Denver.” Similar to the setup for cold-site games during the regular season, there will be 70 feet worth of heated benches on each sideline, half for the offence, half for the defence, according to the NFL. (Attention, kickers: The league did not mention special teams.) The benches can reach a temperature that is 90 degrees warmer than the air; each club gets to decide how hot it wants to make them, the league said. The seats generate heat in the area surrounding the benches, so even standing nearby can help fight the freeze. There also will be “heated torpedo fans” on each sideline. Football uniforms have short sleeves, and only one of the 15 players interviewed for this story, Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril, said he would even consider wearing long sleeves underneath to provide some protection Sunday. “I’m a 315-pound man. The weather doesn’t bother me,” Broncos defensive tackle Sylvester Williams said, by way of explaining why he’d never go for the long-sleeved look. Instead, players did offer up various other options for finding warmth. The remedies range from commonsense solutions for when the temperature plunges, such as wearing extrathick jackets or gloves on the sideline, to more far-flung options such as spraying anti-perspirant on feet to keep them dry and prevent sweat from freezing.

Argonauts release QB Collaros ahead of free agency TORONTO — Zach Collaros won’t have to wait until the start of CFL free agency to find out how much he’ll be worth on the open market. The Toronto Argonauts released the backup quarterback Wednesday, more than two weeks before Collaros was scheduled to become a free agent. Instead of having to wait until Feb. 15 to begin weighing outside offers, Collaros is free to start testing the waters immediately and sign with the team of his choice. The move wasn’t a total surprise. Last week, Argos GM Jim

Barker suggested Collaros would test CFL free agency rather than re-sign with Toronto prior to the deadline. Barker said he tried re-signing Collaros and remains very interested in having Collaros back with the club. But by releasing him now Barker hopes to gain clarity on Collaros’ situation by Feb. 15 rather than having to deal with that uncertainty once free agency begins. “What’s difficult is when you have a player who isn’t sure how much he might be able to get on the open market,” Barker said. “That’s more difficult than dealing with having other teams talk to him. “This has nothing to do with our

relationship with Zach, we have a great relationship. He can now go and do the things he has to do to see where things are at and it will give us a little more clarity.” Collaros, 25, was solid last season, posting a 5-2 record as the starter while incumbent Ricky Ray was injured. Collaros also started Toronto’s 23-20 regularseason finale loss to Montreal — Ray didn’t dress because the Argos had already clinched first in the East Division — but was one of three quarterbacks to play that day. The second-year player was especially sharp in a 38-21 win over B.C. on July 30, finishing 21-of-25 passing for 253 yards and three TDs.

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Today’s games Prince George at Moose Jaw Medicine Hat at Swift Current Saskatoon at Regina Tri-City at Edmonton Brandon at Calgary Prince Albert at Kootenay Lethbridge at Red Deer Kelowna at Kamloops Spokane at Portland, Vancouver at Victoria Seattle at Everett SUMMARIES WEDNESDAY Rebels 4, Wheat Kings 3 (SO) First Period 1. Red Deer, Kopeck 9 (Feser) 6:15. 2. Brandon, Bukarts 19 (Pulock) 6:43. 3. Red Deer, Feser 6 (Fleury, Gaudet) 17:08 (pp). Penalties — Pankewicz Bra (fighting) 6:00, Polei RD (fighting) 6:00, Bukarts Bra (Major-Kneeing) 13:13, Bukarts Bra (game misconduct) 13:13, RD Bench (too many men) 14:17. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Lindgren Bra (hooking) 4:48, Pulock Bra (hooking) 7:56. Third Period 4. Brandon, Pulock 16 (McGauley, Quenneville) 3:15 (pp). 5. Red Deer, Dieno 17 (Gaudet, Maxwell) 10:28. 6. Brandon, Quenneville 16 (Pilon) 18:18. Penalties — Dixon RD (hooking) 2:03, Gaudet RD (delay of game) 2:07, Green Bra (roughing) 5:02. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Brandon : Quenneville miss, McGauley miss, Nejezchleb miss, Hawryluk miss, Pulock miss, Shmyr goal, Robinson miss. Red Deer : Sterzer miss, Bleackley miss, Dieno miss, Kopeck miss, Feser miss, Fleury goal, Maxwell goal. Shots on goal by Brandon 10 17 12 3 7 — 42 Red Deer 16 4 7 2 7 — 29 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (LS, 17-9-3); Red Deer: Bartosak (W, 25-17-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Brandon: 1-2; Red Deer: 1-4. Referees — Steve Papp, Colin Watt. Linesmen — Chris Carlson, Jory Lutzmann. Attendance — 4,248 at Red Deer. Americans 4, Hitmen 1 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Helgesen CAL (interference) 12:12, Plutnar TC (holding) 16:29, Chase CAL (roughing) 18:20. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Virtanen CAL (interference) 0:45, Wotherspoon TC (hooking) 5:09, McAndrews TC (inter. on goaltender) 10:38, Chase CAL (holding) 12:59. Third Period 1. Calgary, Chase 28 (Helgesen) 1:24. 2. Tri-City, Williams 30 (Carlo) 3:04. 3. Tri-City, Purtill 8 (Nickles, Tot) 11:34. 4. Tri-City, Comrie 3 (Tot) 16:46. 5. Tri-City, Williams 31 (McCue) 19:20 (-EN). Penalties — McCue TC (boarding) 6:57, Zipp CAL (delay of game) 13:52. Tri-City 10 5 16 — 31 Calgary 12 16 12 — 40 Goal — Tri-City: Comrie (W, 21-16-2); Calgary: Shields (L, 12-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances) Tri-City: 0-5; Calgary: 0-4. Tigers 6, Ice 2 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Valk 27 (Cox, Bredo) 1:32. 2. Medicine Hat, Koules 17 (Owre, Lewington) 6:16. 3. Medicine Hat, Sanford 22 (Cox, Lewington) 16:18. Penalties — Peel Koo (roughing) 10:50, Owre MH (roughing) 10:50, Lewington MH (roughing) 13:21, Cross Koo (roughing) 17:01. Second Period 4. Medicine Hat, Cox 15 (Bredo) 3:40 (pp). 5. Medicine Hat, Labelle 5 (Doty, Stanton) 6:43 (pp). Penalties — Reinhart Koo (tripping) 3:14, Martin Koo (tripping) 5:12. Third Period 6. Kootenay, Philp 19 (Reinhart, Dirk) 8:32 (pp). 7. Kootenay, Zborosky 7 (Valiev, King) 13:24. 8. Medicine Hat, Ast 7 (Lewington) 15:27 (pp). Penalties — Bredo MH (interference) 6:47, Cox MH (inter. on goaltender) 7:16, Bozon Koo (inter. on goaltender) 14:18, Bozon Koo (roughing) 19:54, Bozon Koo (roughing) 19:54, Doty MH (roughing) 19:54, Doty MH (roughing) 19:54. Kootenay 7 7 18 — 32 Medicine Hat 12 13 9 — 34 Goal — Kootenay: Hoflin (L, 9-8-0); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 12-7-2). Power plays (goal-chances)Kootenay: 1-3; Medicine Hat: 3-4.

Hurricanes 3, Raiders 2 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Morrissey 16 (unassisted) 3:28. 2. Prince Albert, Morrissey 17 (Draisaitl, Lange) 8:04. 3. Lethbridge, Watson 13 (Sayers, Foulk) 13:14 (pp). Penalties — Draisaitl P.A. (slashing) 11:23, Gennaro P.A. (tripping) 15:05. Second Period 4. Lethbridge, Cooper 10 (Estephan) 16:48. Penalties — Craig P.A. (interference) 9:26, Amson Let (holding) 14:05, Amson Let (holding) 14:05. Third Period 5. Lethbridge, Ramsay 12 (Sheen, Folk) 13:25. Penalties — Duke Let (cross-checking) 4:35. Prince Albert 17 16 10 — 43 Lethbridge 7 7 6 — 20 Goal — Prince Albert: Cheveldave (L, 18-17-2); Lethbridge: Hogue (W, 1-7-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Prince Albert: 0-3; Lethbridge: 1-3. Winterhawks 8, Silvertips 1 First Period 1. Portland, Bittner 15 (Petan, Leipsic) 1:15. 2. Everett, Bajkov 5 (Stadnyk) 5:25 (pp). 3. Portland, Bittner 16 (Dumba, Haar) 13:20. 4. Portland, De Leo 29 (Bjorkstrand, Leier) 16:07. Penalties — Texeira Por (tripping) 4:30, Boes Por (Goalie, Ineligible P) 7:15, Winquist Eve (tripping) 11:19, Pouliot Por (slashing) 19:00. Second Period 5. Portland, Bjorkstrand 34 (Pouliot, Dumba) 1:24 (pp). 6. Portland, Leipsic 30 (unassisted) 7:35. 7. Portland, Petan 25 (Bittner, Pouliot) 10:47. 8. Portland, Price 3 (Bittner, Rossignol) 12:09. Penalties — Bauml Eve (high-sticking) 0:23, Leedahl Eve (high-sticking) 0:32, Pufahl Eve (crosschecking) 5:50, Petan Por (slashing) 5:50, Deroose Eve (fighting) 10:00, Iverson Por (fighting) 10:00, Cochrane Eve (fighting) 14:58, Leier Por (instigator) 14:58, Leier Por (fighting) 14:58, Leier Por (10-minute misconduct) 14:58, De Leo Por (cross-checking) 16:01. Third Period 9. Portland, Turgeon 6 (Price, Haar) 16:47. Penalties — Pouliot Por (high-sticking) 0:45, Iverson Por (holding) 8:59, Cederholm Por (slashing) 9:13, Winquist Eve (slashing) 11:21, Low Eve (10-minute misconduct) 14:30, Pufahl Eve (10-minute misconduct) 14:30, Haar Por (cross-checking) 14:30, Leipsic Por (10-minute misconduct) 14:30, Texeira Por (10-minute misconduct) 14:30, Macdonald Eve (slashing) 20:00. Everett 10 8 10 — 28 Portland 17 14 6 — 37 Goal — Everett: Lotz (L, 18-16-3); Portland: Boes (W, 8-24-2). Power plays (goal-chances)Everett: 1-9; Portland: 1-4. Chiefs 6, Rockets 5 (SO) First Period 1. Spokane, Gow 3 (Stewart, Helewka) 7:47. 2. Kelowna, Heffley 6 (Severson, Chartier) 10:50 (pp). 3. Spokane, Holmberg 46 (Helewka) 14:58 (shorthanded-SH). Penalties — Elynuik Spo (hooking) 9:05, Proft Spo (roughing) 13:16. Second Period 4. Kelowna, Olsen 24 (Merkley, Severson) 3:40. 5. Kelowna, Schmidli 6 (Olsen, Tvrdon) 7:14. 6. Kelowna, Chartier 16 (Olsen, Linaker) 16:20 (pp). 7. Kelowna, Severson 12 (Wheaton, Linaker) 19:21. Penalties — Gow Spo (delay of game) 1:31, McIntosh Spo (slashing) 8:41, Cardiff Spo (interference) 14:41. Third Period 8. Spokane, Stewart 7 (Holmberg, Helewka) :25. 9. Spokane, Proft 7 (Fram) 4:53. 10. Spokane, Gow 4 (Holmberg, Fram) 15:24 (pp). Penalties — Stadel Kel (holding) 2:20, Rigby Kel (checking from behind) 12:41, Schmidli Kel (charging) 15:12. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Spokane : Holmberg miss, Helewka miss, Stewart miss, Zwerger miss, Yamamoto miss, Fram goal. Kelowna : Bell miss, Kirkland miss, Severson miss, Baillie miss, Lees miss, Schmidli miss. Spokane 11 6 13 1 6 — 31 Kelowna 7 20 4 4 6 — 35 Goal — Spokane: Hughson (W, 5-5-0); Kelowna: Cooke (LS, 29-4-0). Power plays (goal-chances) Spokane: 1-3; Kelowna: 2-5. Cougars 10, Blades 6 First Period 1. Prince George, Carvalho 2 (Olson, Pochiro) 5:20 (pp). 2. Prince George, Fiddler 31 (unassisted) 6:26. 3. Prince George, Bourke 17 (Morrison, McNulty) 8:32. 4. Prince George, Tkatch 14 (Morrison, Ruopp) 8:41. 5. Prince George, Harkins 7 (Wilson) 11:21. 6. Saskatoon, Hebig 5 (Zajac, Sherbak) 15:06 (pp). 7. Prince George, Morrison 6 (Bourke) 17:20. 8. Prince George, Olson 2 (Harkins, Carvalho) 19:05 (pp). 9. Saskatoon, Sanvido 15 (Nemecek, Harland) 19:57. Penalties — Tomchuk PG (hooking) 0:30, Clayton Sas (checking from behind) 4:43, Tomchuk PG (holding) 13:47, Busenius Sas (holding) 18:43. Second Period 10. Saskatoon, Harland 8 (Sanvido, Zajac) 4:45. 11. Saskatoon, Graham 6 (Clayton) 15:41 (shorthanded-SH). 12. Prince George, Pochiro 19 (Morrison, Olson) 16:05 (pp). Penalties — Tkatch PG (tripping) 1:24, Pochiro PG (hooking) 5:55, Adamson Sas (tripping) 8:50, Lipon Sas (holding) 14:48, Clayton Sas (interference) 18:02. Third Period 13. Prince George, Pochiro 20 (Roulston, Macklin) 3:11. 14. Saskatoon, Hebig 6 (Johnston, Sherbak) 3:42. 15. Saskatoon, Lipon 3 (Sanvido, Kirichenko) 8:04. 16. Prince George, Harkins 8 (Wilson, Tomchuk) 11:31. Penalties — Tomchuk PG (hooking) 5:48, Macklin PG (roughing) 19:18, Macklin PG (roughing) 19:18, Macklin PG (10-minute misconduct) 19:18, Pochiro PG (roughing) 19:18, Nikkel Sas (roughing) 19:18, Lipon Sas (roughing) 19:18, Nikkel Sas (roughing) 19:18, Nikkel Sas (10-minute misconduct) 19:18. Prince George 16 12 9 — 37 Saskatoon 9 21 12 — 42 Goal — Prince George: Edmonds (W, 15-15-1); Saskatoon: Alalouf (L, 0-1-0). Power plays (goalchances)Prince George: 3-5; Saskatoon: 1-5. Giants 5, Blazers 3 First Period

1. Vancouver, Sward 14 (Morrison) 4:16 (pp). 2. Vancouver, Atwal 4 (Franson, Sward) 9:11 (pp). 3. Vancouver, Volek 18 (Traber, Hamilton) 14:08. 4. Kamloops, Ully 21 (Souto, Revel) 15:34. Penalties — Ully Kam (hooking) 3:17, Kornelsen Kam (Penalty Shot) 7:11, Ully Kam (high-sticking) 8:19. Second Period 5. Kamloops, Ully 22 (Souto, Revel) 17:40. 6. Vancouver, Sward 15 (Morrison, Popoff) 19:16 (pp). Penalties — Atwal Van (high-sticking) 10:57, Bolduc Kam (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 13:03, Dosanjh Van (cross-checking) 13:03, Connolly Kam (hooking) 18:40. Third Period 7. Kamloops, Shirley 8 (unassisted) 13:40. 8. Vancouver, Franson 18 (Geertsen, Traber) 14:49. Penalties — Bellerive Kam (boarding) 19:16. Kamloops 5 8 6 — 19 Vancouver 8 14 9 — 31 Goal — Kamloops: Kehler (L, 0-2-0); Vancouver: Lee (W, 14-15-3). Power plays (goal-chances)Kamloops: 0-1; Vancouver: 3-4. NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts 52 34 15 3 71 53 31 17 5 67 55 28 21 6 62 53 28 20 5 61 53 23 19 11 57 53 23 20 10 56 53 21 25 7 49 52 14 30 8 36 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 53 37 14 2 76 N.Y. Rangers 55 29 23 3 61 Philadelphia 54 26 22 6 58 Carolina 53 24 20 9 57 Columbus 53 26 23 4 56 Washington 53 24 21 8 56 New Jersey 54 22 21 11 55 N.Y. Islanders 56 21 27 8 50 Boston Tampa Bay Toronto Montreal Detroit Ottawa Florida Buffalo

GF 159 157 158 131 135 150 129 101

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 56 33 10 13 79 199 156 St. Louis 52 36 11 5 77 180 119 Colorado 52 33 14 5 71 153 137 Minnesota 55 29 20 6 64 133 135 Dallas 53 24 21 8 56 154 157 Nashville 55 24 23 8 56 136 166 Winnipeg 55 25 25 5 55 155 162 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 55 39 11 5 83 184 134 San Jose 54 34 14 6 74 165 129 Los Angeles 55 30 19 6 66 133 116 Vancouver 55 27 19 9 63 139 143 Phoenix 53 25 18 10 60 154 160 Calgary 53 19 27 7 45 124 169 Edmonton 56 18 32 6 42 147 190 NOTE: Two points for a win, one for overtime loss. Wednesday’s Results N.Y. Rangers 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Edmonton 3, San Jose 0 Chicago 5, Vancouver 2 Today’s Games Montreal at Boston, 5 p.m. Florida at Toronto, 5 p.m. Washington at Columbus, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. New Jersey at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Colorado, 7 p.m. San Jose at Calgary, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. SUMMARIES WEDNESDAY Oilers 3, Sharks 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Schultz 7 (Schultz, Hall) 10:51. Penalties — Eberle Edm (hooking) 2:53, Gagner Edm (tripping) 7:32, Hendricks Edm (fighting) 19:17, Brown SJ (fighting) 19:17. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Vlasic SJ (hooking) 16:24, Burns SJ (roughing) 18:54, Marincin Edm (roughing) 18:54. Third Period 2. Edmonton, Hall 19 (Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins) 6:10. 3. Edmonton, Eberle 19 (Nugent-Hopkins, Hall) 18:40 (pp). Penalties — Belov Edm (cross-checking) 11:02, Boyle SJ (high-sticking) 17:51. Shots on goal by San Jose 20 22 17 — 59 Edmonton 7 9 11 — 27 Goal — San Jose: Niemi (L, 27-11-6); Edmonton: Scrivens (W, 9-7-4). Power plays (goal-chances)San Jose: 0-3; Edmonton: 1-2. Attendance — 16,839 at Edmonton. Rangers 2, Islanders 1 First Period No Scoring. Second Period 1. NY Islanders, Nelson 10 (Donovan, Clutterbuck) 18:33. 2. NY Rangers, Pouliot 9 (Brassard, Zuccarello) 19:13. Third Period 3. NY Rangers, Carcillo 3 (Moore, Boyle) 4:36. NY Rangers 6 14 14 — 34 NY Islanders 10 15 6 — 31 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 19-18-3); NY Islanders: Nabokov (L, 9-9-5). Power plays (goal-chances)NY Rangers: 0-1; NY Islanders: 0-4. Blackhawks 5, Canucks 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Higgins 15 (Kesler, Edler) :16. Penalties — Oduya Chi (hooking) 13:25, Burrows Vcr (tripping) 14:34. Second Period 2. Vancouver, Sestito 5 (Stanton, Kassian) 2:44. 3. Chicago, Hossa 23 (Versteeg, Saad) 6:30 (pp). 4. Chicago, Saad 16 (Brookbank, Handzus) 9:39. 5. Chicago, Toews 18 (Seabrook, Sharp) 10:47. 6. Chicago, Sharp 28 (Toews, Keith) 14:11. Third Period 7. Chicago, Saad 17 (Hossa) 19:22 (en-pp). 8. Chicago, Saad 17 (Hossa) 19:28 (en-pp). Chicago 13 17 11 — 41 Vancouver 7 13 10 — 30 Goal — NA Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 2-3; Vancouver: 0-3.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Brandon 50 26 18 5 1 191 183 58 Swift Current 51 25 18 2 6 172 151 58 Regina 51 25 21 3 2 169 187 55 Prince Albert 50 23 24 2 1 161 175 49 Moose Jaw 50 13 29 3 5 129 196 34 Saskatoon 52 14 34 1 3 151 214 32 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Edmonton 49 35 13 0 1 205 127 71 Calgary 50 31 13 3 3 184 137 68 Medicine Hat 49 29 17 3 0 169 136 61 Red Deer 50 27 21 0 2 154 147 56 Kootenay 50 25 21 2 2 156 153 54 Lethbridge 53 10 38 2 3 127 246 25 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 50 40 7 0 3 216 127 83 Victoria 51 33 16 0 2 156 120 68 Vancouver 52 25 19 5 3 178 176 58 Prince George 53 20 26 2 5 174 226 47 Kamloops 51 11 35 2 3 133 213 27 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Portland 51 34 12 2 3 230 161 73 Seattle 51 31 15 2 3 176 178 67 Spokane 50 31 15 2 2 175 145 66 Everett 51 25 18 7 1 149 153 58 Tri-City 51 25 21 2 3 133 137 55 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

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Gwen Tiggelaar dropped in 11 points to give the Xpress a 50-49 victory over the Triple Threat in Red Deer Women’s Basketball League play Monday. Melanie Callihoo had 11 points in a losing cause. ● The Young Gunns got 18 points each from Rachel Bystervel and Janelle Van Tetering in a 6444 win over The Bank, who had 12 points from Cianna Cameron. ● The Storm defeated Funk 5636 with Erika Pottage dropping in 14 points. Teighan Mallory had 10 points for the Funk. ● Ilana Zackowski had 16 points to lead the Shooting Stars to a 4738 victory over the Spartans, who got eight points from Carla Stewart.

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d-division leader Wednesday’s Results Oklahoma City 112, Miami 95 Toronto 98, Orlando 83 Philadelphia 95, Boston 94 Detroit at Atlanta, ppd. Minnesota 88, New Orleans 77 Phoenix 126, Milwaukee 117 Houston 117, Dallas 115 Charlotte 101, Denver 98 Chicago 96, San Antonio 86 Memphis 99, Sacramento 89 L.A. Clippers 110, Washington 103 Today’s Games Phoenix at Indiana, 5 p.m. Cleveland at New York, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Today College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC Queens, 7 p.m., Arena. Senior men’s basketball: Woodys vs. Alken Basin, 7:15 p.m.; Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Wells Furniture, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS.

Friday Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre. College basketball: St. Mary’s at RDC, women 6 p.m., men to follow. Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Sylvan Lake, 6:15 p.m. WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. Mixed martial arts: Havoc Fighting Championship 4, 7 p.m., Sheraton Events Centre. AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7:30 p.m. Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Steel Kings, 7:30 p.m., Colicutt Centre. Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena. Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Ponoka, 8 p.m. Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre. Skiing: Regional Red Deer GS, races at 10:10 a.m. and 1:25 p.m., Canyon Ski Hill. Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Aero Equipment vs. Calgary Canucks, 11:30 a.m.; Red Deer Northstars vs. Calgary Gold, 2

p.m., Arena. WHL: Tri-City at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. Peewee AA hockey: Foothills vs, Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Kin City A; Medicine Hat vs. Lacombe, 1:30 p.m., Clive; Okotoks vs. Red Deer Parkland, 4:45 p.m., Colicutt Centre. Bantam AA hockey: Southwest vs. Red Deer Steel Kings, 3 p.m., Kin City A; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. Midget AA hockjey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena College volleyball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

Sunday Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. start, Collicutt Centre. Skiing: Regional Red Deer GS, races at 10:10 a.m. and 1:25 p.m., Canyon Ski Hill. Bantam AAA hockey: Red Deer Rebels Black vs, Calgary Royals, noon, Arena. Bantam AAA female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund vs. Sherwood Park, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat vs. Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Colicutt Centre.; Wheatland vs. Red Deer TBS, 1:45 p.m., Kin City A. Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstars vs. Rockyview, 2:45 p.m., Arena. Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m.; Foothills vs. Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30,p.m., Arena. Bantam AA hockey: Taber vs. Red Deer Ramada, 4 p.m., Kin City A.

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11 bouts coming at Havoc MMA Eleven bouts, including a pair of championship professional fights, will highlight the Havoc MMA fighting card to take place at the Sheraton Events Centre at 7 p.m. Friday. Mike Davis of Red Deer, who has won his last eight bouts and sports an 11-3 record, meets Malcolm Gordon, 3-0, of London, Ont., in a 125-pound flyweight championship affair. Ryan Machan of Sylvan Lake, who has a 20-9 record, takes on Brendan Tierney of Tempe, Ariz., in the 170-pound welterweight championship contest. A quartet of Red Deer competitors are also involved on the pro side. Jeff Larkin, 4-2, meets Brandon MacArthur of Cranbrook, B.C., in a 185lb bout while Devon Neis, 3-3, meets Grayson Wells, 0-0, of Surrey, B.C., in a 210lb affair. As well Austin Ryan, 2-0, clashes with Blair Oster, 2-2, of Saskatoon, Sask., in a 135lb bout and Stephanie Essensa, 0-0, takes on Diana Atken, 0-0, of Edmonton in a 115lb contest. There are five bouts on the amateur side including Chris Lafantasie, 2-0, of Red Deer meeting Leeroy Johnson, 0-0, in a 265-pound fight.

Grizzlys out to avenge loss to Dragons OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys will be out for revenge when they host the Drumhellers Dragons for the second time in four days Friday. In an Alberta Junior Hockey League game that was postponed from Nov. 16, the visiting Dragons downed the Grizzlys 5-3 Tuesday before 403 fans at the Sportsplex, setting up Friday’s 7:30 p.m. rematch. Shane Gwinner, Dakota Zaharichuk, Ethan James, Mitchell Cook and Matt Saunderson — into an empty net — supplied the Dragons goals, while netminders Devin Buffalo and Curtis Skip combined to make 23 saves. Ty Mappin potted two goals for Olds. BJ Duffin also tallied for the Grizzlys, who got a combined 34-save performance from Ethan Jemieff and Jake Tamagi.

Cudillo scores TKO at Edmonton Lester Cudillo of the Red Deer and District Boxing Club continued his winning way at the Edmonton Southside Boxing Club’s Saturday Night Fights. Cudillo scored an early third round TKO over Mitchel Kubrak of Spruce Grove in the junior C 115-pound division. Cudillo and his brother, Lowie, will compete in the Alberta Winter Games, Feb. 6 in Banff.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER — Suspended Philadelphia LHP Christopher O’Hare (Lakewood-SAL) 50 games after a second positive test for a drug of abuse under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Acquired OF Carlos Peguero from Seattle for a player to be named or cash considerations. Designated LHP Everett Teaford for assignment. LOA ANGELES ANGELS — Announced the additions of orthopedic surgeons Dr. Robert Grumet and Dr. Michael F. Shepard to its medical staff. MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Matt Guerrier on a minor league contract. NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with RHP Bruce Billings, INF Russ Canzler, RHP Robert Coello, RHP Brian Gordon, RHP Chris Leroux, OF Antoan Richardson, INF Scott Sizemore, INF Yangervis Solarte and INF Zelous Wheeler on minor league contracts. SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Scott Baker on a minor league contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed LHP Pedro Figueroa off waivers from Tampa Bay. Designated RHP Chaz Roe for assignment. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with INF Ramon Santiago on a minor league contract. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with INF Daniel Descalso on a one-year contract.

Pacific League (Japan) ORIX BLUEWAVE — Signed INF Yuniesky Betancourt. American Association AMARILLO SOX — Traded RHP Cephas Howard and RHP Jorge L. Vasquez to Lancaster for future considerations. LAREDO LEMURS — Signed INF Robbie Rea. ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed INF Joey Becker and C Jake Taylor. WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed INF Jake Blackwood. Can-Am League TROIS-RIVIERS AIGLES — Released C Bubby Williams. Frontier League WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed LHP James Ferguson. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Assigned G/F Sergey Karasev to Canton (NBADL). NEW YORK KNICKS — Assigned C Cole Aldrich, G Toure’ Murry and F Jeremy Tyler to Erie (NBADL). NBA Development League IDAHO STAMPEDE — Signed F Derrick Caracter. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed K Danny Hrapmann to a reserve/future contact. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Named Steve Spag-

nuolo secondary coach and Brian Pariani tight ends coach. BUFFALO BILLS — Named Jim Hostler senior offensive assistant. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Announced assistant general manager Brian Gaine and the team have mutually parted ways. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Named Brendan Daly defensive assistant coach. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Named Ethan Casson chief revenue officer. ST. LOUIS RAMS — Fired defensive coordinator Tim Walton. Canadian Football League TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Released QB Zach Collaros. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Acquired DB Matt Bucknor from Hamilton for the rights to WR Giovanni Aprile. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with D Mark Fistric on a three-year contract extension. DALLAS STARS — Signed F Ryan Garbutt to a three-year contract extension. PHOENIX COYOTES — Announced the team will officially change their franchise name to the Arizona Coyotes beginning at the start of the 2014-15 season. WINNIPEG JETS — Assigned D Paul Postma to St. John’s (AHL) on a conditioning loan. American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Loaned F Artem Demkov to Elmira (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Signed D Myles Harvey to a professional try out contract. ECHL GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Traded F Brett Lyon to Ontario for D Art Bidlevskii and D Eric Springer. Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Formed LA Galaxy II to compete in USL PRO. NEW YORK RED BULLS — Re-signed D Jamison Olave. PHILADELPHIA UNION — Announced the resignation of assistant coach Brendan Burke. COLLEGE FLORIDA — Announced men’s freshman basketball F Chris Walker was cleared to play by the NCAA. FRESNO STATE — Named Lou Major football operations co-ordinator. GEORGIA SOUTHERN — Named Doug Ruse offensive co-ordinator/quarterbacks coach, Matt Barrett wide receivers coach, Johnny Jernigan defensive ends coach, Michael Mutz linebackers coach, Kevin Peoples defensive line coach, defensive secondary coach and Chad Lunsford tight ends coach. SAGE — Named Kristin Brown assistant softball coach. SYRACUSE — Announced the resignation of women’s tennis coach Luke Jensen. WAGNER — Named Jason Houghtaling associate head coach/offensive co-ordinator. YESHIVA — Named Ira Miller men’s tennis coach.

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Jets back in cellar but not losing confidence WINNIPEG — For centre Olli Jokinen, one loss does not a confidence-shaking setback make despite the Winnipeg Jets falling back into the Central Division cellar following a 4-3 loss to Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. “It’s not going to be our last game we lose, we’re not going to win every game,” Jokinen said Wednesday, joining most of his teammates taking the day off to rest or work out in preparation to face the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. “I think as a team we’re moving in the right direction and we just try to get our energy levels up and try to get a win Friday,” he added. The Jets’ coaches and a handful of players were on the ice Wednesday but things will get more serious Thursday as the squad gears up for another important game against a Western Conference rival. Although they’ve gone 4-5-1 in their last 10 games and lost 4-2 to Edmonton on Monday, the Canucks (27-18-9 before playing Chicago on Wednesday) are at least currently where the Jets want to be — holding down the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot. The Jets stand 12th, eight points behind the Canucks before Wednesday’s action. They have plenty of distance to cover and not much time to do it as they head into the Olympic break. After Friday’s game they play four more road contests before the Olympics, then return Feb. 27 at the MTS Centre. But with the hiring of new coach Paul Maurice, the Jets have already done some surprising things in a relatively short period of time. They earned road wins over both the league-leading Anaheim Ducks and defending Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks have won six-of-eight games with Maurice behind the bench. And neither Jokinen nor Maurice viewed Tuesday’s loss as a step backwards from the kind of defensive zone game he’s trying to teach. “This defensive zone concept, it’s not like you write it on the board you get it and you go and there’s your defence for the rest of your life, it’s a work in progress,” Maurice said. “There wasn’t a letdown (Tuesday night). “They weren’t run-

ning out of position, getting away from what they were trying to do to break a game open.” Maurice said players are starting to see things and there are fewer questions coming back. He’s pleased with the “compete level” of one of the NHL’s youngest teams. “The biggest thing he’s instilled in us is play for each other in every game,” said centre Mark Scheifele. That approach seems to be working for the 20-year-old Scheifele, who had a goal and an assist against Nashville and is third in scoring among NHL rookies. Four Jets are heading to the Olympics: goalie Ondrej Pavelec and Michael Frolik for their native Czech Republic, Jokinen for Finland and Blake Wheeler, currently tied for Winnipeg’s scoring lead, for the U.S. The others will have a long layoff and while Maurice says he’s had experience with Olympic breaks, with a young team like the Jets it might be different. “The last time I went through an Olympic break that I remember, we ended up going to the final (2001-’02 with Carolina) and came out fast and quick,” Maurice said. “We had a bunch of guys . . . that were older, fit men who used that break to rest but came back roaring.” Maurice said veterans like former Carolina Hurricanes captain Rod Brind’Amour and Martin Gelinas had the experience to know how to use the break. “The concern is there will be a bunch of these guys that haven’t gone through an Olympic break,” he said. “There’s not much we can do in terms of structuring anything that is mandatory for our players.” Maurice isn’t worrying about the four Jets heading to Sochi, Russia. “They’re going to go and play at a really, really high level and they’re going to get better from it,” he said. “I’d prefer to have more guys going than not.” Meanwhile, Maurice said left-winger Evander Kane’s hand was cleaned up by doctors after he was sidelined again by an infection that caused it to swell up. Kane cut his hand in a fight with Tampa Bay’s Eric Brewer on Jan. 7 and initially missed four games. He returned Jan. 21 to register a goal and three assists in the next four games but isn’t expected back until after the Olympic break.

Stampeders’ Tsoumpas retires THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders found out on Thursday that they will have a big hole to fill on their offensive line. After missing most of the 2013 season with a concussion he sustained in Week 7, offensive lineman Dimitri Tsoumpas decided to call it a career and accepted a job with the Stampeders as a strength and conditioning assistant. “We’ve got a wealth of experts in Calgary in regards to concussions and upon discussing with them and looking at things down the road, I figured that it was probably the best decision towards the end of the year just noticing how long it was taking to come back and heal and feel better,” said the 28-year-old Edmonton native, who the Stamps selected second overall in 2008. “Sometimes throughout your career you get little dingers here and

there and you tend to bounce back from them, but this one obviously took a while.” The four-time West Division all-star and threetime Canadian Football League all-star admitted that the effects of his concussion had him worried and concerned about returning to the game he loves.

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry defends against Orlando Magic guard Arron Afflalo during NBA action in Toronto on Wednesday. Lowry scored 33 points during the game as the Raptors won 98-83.

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Toronto 98 Magic 83 TORONTO — For the second straight night, Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry stated his case as an NBA all-star. But even after pouring in a game-high 33 points in a convincing win over the Orlando Magic, Lowry was managing expectations ahead of Thursday’s announcement of the reserves for next month’s game. “I would be very honoured. It would be a great individual accomplishment,” Lowry said when asked if the NBA coaches’ decision mattered to him. “But at the end of the day, it’s just another day for me.” Even though many would argue Lowry deserves a spot in New Orleans, he’s widely expected to be snubbed, a victim of a perceived abrasive personality rather than anything to do with his play. His play spoke volumes again Wednesday. Lowry had 11 assists to go with his 33 points in the Raptors’ 98-83 win before 17,694 fans at Air Canada Centre. It was Lowry’s second consecutive 30-plus point performance — a career first. The feat is even more impressive because it’s come in the absence of injured DeMar DeRozan, another potential all-star.

“He’s stepped it up,” Toronto head coach Dwane Casey said of Lowry, who hit all five of his three-point attempts in the first quarter as the Raptors built a 3320 lead and led all the way. “I keep my fingers crossed that the coaches voted him in because he deserves it,” Casey said. “I feel like both guys (Lowry and DeRozan) deserve it, because right now he’s one of the best point guards in the league.” Lowry, who had 31 points in a win over the Nets in Brooklyn on Monday, set the tone for the night by opening the scoring with a 26-foot jump shot 58 seconds into the game to make it 3-0. The Raptors led from there, winning their second straight game and fourth in five. “We’re just getting better and we’re grinding it out every day,” Lowry said. Amir Johnson added 22 points and 11 rebounds while Jonas Valanciunas, the second-year centre picked earlier Wednesday to suit up in the Rising Stars Challenge at the all-star weekend in New Orleans next month, added 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Raptors. The win moved Toronto (24-21) three games above .500 for the first time this season. The Raptors, who lead the

NBA’s Atlantic Division by three games over Brooklyn, were 16-29 after 45 games last season on their way to missing the playoffs for a fifth straight year. “We are hungry and we want to win every game we play,” said Johnson, who sat in front of his locker after the game with each foot in a bucket of ice nursing an ankle he rolled. “Nobody has an agenda on this team, everybody is sharing the ball.” Johnson said it would be “awesome” for Lowry to get his first career all-star nod. “He’s become our all-star and one of the main reasons why we have been so successful winning these games,” Johnson said. Facing the NBA’s worst road team, the Raptors jumped on Orlando from the start. Led by Lowry, Toronto matched a club record from November 2009 with eight three-pointers in a quarter in the first, and hit 11 of their first 12 shots of the night from beyond the arc. A stretch of nine straight was the first time the team made that many consecutively since February 2005 against the Los Angeles Lakers. “We made shots. We spaced the floor well,” Lowry said. The Raptors now head out West on a tough, five-game road trip starting Friday in Denver.

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VANCOUVER — Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson says there’s no Plan B if the NHL decides to pull its players out of the Sochi Olympics because of security concerns. Nicholson made the comments Wednesday after announcing the 2014 recipients of the Order of Hockey in Canada. “Our contingency plan would be everyone around this room today,” he said while speaking to reporters at Rogers Arena. “We have none.” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in an email this week the league would re-evaluate going to Sochi “if something significant were to transpire” before Feb. 9. That’s the date players are scheduled to leave for Russia. Daly added in the email he didn’t “expect that that will become necessary.” Nicholson said there has been no contact with Canadian amateur or European-based players in the event the NHL did decide against participating in Sochi. The threat of terrorism has been top of mind recently after two suicide bombers struck the

city of Volgograd in late December, killing 34 people. An Islamic militant group in Dagestan — which is located about 500 kilometres from Sochi — claimed responsibility for those attacks and has also threatened to strike at the Games. Nicholson said his organization has been working with the federal government and Canadian Olympic Committee on security. “We have people on the ground in Sochi. They feel it is very safe right now and we just want to make sure it stays that way,” said Nicholson. “This is something that isn’t new to the Olympics. “Certainly the location here heightens it but we feel comfortable.” Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo said last week he won’t be bringing any family members with him to Sochi, mainly because of safety. “It’s definitely on my mind, I’m not going to lie,” Luongo said. “I think we’re all a little bit concerned.” Nicholson said Hockey Canada has a blueprint for what it will do

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The February Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Ambassador Breakfast features an Alberta leader of surface water policy. Thorsten Hebben, section head of surface water policy with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, will present on emerging contaminants in receiving rivers. The breakfast takes place on Feb. 21 from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Quality Inn North Hill, at 7150 50th Ave., and costs $15 per person. The RDRWA asks people to RSVP by noon on Feb. 19 by calling Kelly at 403-340-7379 or emailing info@rdrwa.ca.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake RCMP have been working hard to change the community’s summer image from party town to family friendly. The latest crime statistics show those efforts are paying off, said detachment commander Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes. “The fact that all the crime types are going down means we’re being successful,” he said. One statistic that corresponds directly to the busy summer season is the number of prisoners. In 2012, there were 188 prisoners who found temporary accommodation at the detachment’s grey bar hotel. Last year, that number dropped to 72 — a 60 per cent drop. “That’s significant because a majority of our prisoners come to the detachment during the summer time; and most of them are intoxicated and people who have been involved in disturbances.

“The fact we’ve had a 60 per cent de- growing and crime stats are going down, crease in prisoners, I think that bodes well we’re very happy with that.” for the community.” A number of initiatives introduced in There are plenty of other encouraging recent years are playing a role, Rhodes besigns. Aslieves. s a u l t s T h e dropped town has 19 per cent approved to 145 coman annual plaints last enhanced year, compolicing pared with contract in 179 a year the last few earlier. years that — SYLVAN LAKE RCMP STAFF SGT. GARY RHODES p r o v i d e s “That’s signifi$60,000 cant,” he so Sylvan said. Lake deCriminal harassment charges were down tachment can bring in extra off-duty of30 per cent to 37 from 53 a year earlier. ficers from neighbouring detachments to Sexual assaults were up slightly to eight put more boots on the ground on summer complaints from six in 2012. weekends, during Checkstop season and for The total number of crimes against peo- special events. ple was down 17 per cent — 246 from 299. “Given the fact that Sylvan Lake is still Please see SYLVAN on Page C2

‘THE FACT WE’VE HAD A 60 PER CENT DECREASE IN PRISONERS, I THINK THAT BODES WELL FOR THE COMMUNITY.’

ENGAGEMENT COUNCILS NEED THE VOICES OF ALBERTANS People looking to make a difference and contribute to building Alberta are needed for family and community engagement councils. These councils were created out of provincial legislation last fall and they are now looking for members. They will work with communities to identify social issues, opportunities, challenges and potential solutions; build on relationships, co-operative spirit and common purpose developed through the province’s social policy framework; involve community partners and offer advice; make recommendations and report on social-based issues, needs, solutions and outcomes. The councils will include Albertans of all areas of interest and capabilities and have aboriginal co-chairs to reflect the perspectives of First Nations, Métis and Inuit. To apply, visit www. humanservices.albertab. ca/department/fcecapplication-process.html.

CORRECTION An item on Collective Soul that ran in Monday’s Advocate should have said tickets to the band’s April 9 show at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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Roger Shine, with facility maintenance at the Recreation Centre in Red Deer, makes yet another pass over the sidewalks with a snow blower Wednesday afternoon. With the snow falling through the day it became an all day job to keep the sidewalks clear.

Vehicles roll off roads in bad weather A combination of black ice and speed led to numerous vehicle rollovers on Hwy 2 on Wednesday. Innisfail and Ponoka RCMP freeway patrols were steadily called out to help motorists whose vehicles ended up in ditches. Many of these cars and trucks rolled once they hit a snowbank, leaving a few motorists with minor injuries. “It boils down to people going too fast for the conditions,” said Const. Vincent Hetu of Ponoka RCMP Freeway Patrol. He counted at least five single-vehicle collisions on Wednesday between the Hwy 11A intersection at Hwy 2 and Millet. Many involved pickup trucks and SUVs that weren’t carrying a lot of weight in the back.

These vehicles slipped off the highway while changing lanes. “The lanes are not (snow) covered,” said Hetu, who believes this fooled some drivers into assuming road conditions are dry, “when they are actually frozen over with typical black ice.” He urged all motorists to slow down, saying the posted highway speeds are for ideal conditions. “When the lanes are partially snow covered, or there’s inclement weather, there’s nothing to stop you from driving slower.” Lacombe fire department Chief Ed Van Delden assisted at four collisions. “There was a rash of them this morning,” he said. One was a two-vehicle crash, and the rest involved single vehicles that left

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Fire guts man’s mobile home A Blackfalds man is homeless after the mobile home he was renting was gutted by fire on Wednesday morning. At about 9 a.m., the Blackfalds fire department was dispatched to an older trailer home on Westwood Drive after neighbours reported seeing heavy smoke coming from a window. Flames were also visible when fire crews from Blackfalds and Lacombe arrived at the scene with a pumper truck and four emergency rescue vehicles, said Deputy Fire Chief Mike Elder of the Blackfalds fire department. “We didn’t know if anyone was home,” he added — so while several firefighters were spraying water at the blaze, two firefighters entered the other end of the trailer and started a search. No one was found inside. Fire officials later learned the lone resident of the home was at work when the fire broke out in the kitchen/living room area. The flames were extinguished by 1 p.m. While the exterior still looks intact,

BLACKFALDS BLAZE Elder said the mobile home’s interior is gutted. He estimates at least $100,000 in damage between the contents and structure. Fires in older trailer homes are tricky to extinguish, admitted Elder, because the wood panelling inside “goes up fast.” The metal cladding also tends to contain the heat. This was beneficial in this case because another rental mobile home, which shared a roof with the fireravaged one, was not damaged in the blaze. Elder said the two homes were set up something like a duplex. The affected tenant and landlord both had fire insurance and are waiting for an adjustor to survey the scene. Elder believes the occupant of the damaged home is staying at a hotel. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.

the road. Motorists in two rollovers had minor injuries. Besides people going too fast, distracted drivers are still a concern, added Van Delden, “but the roads were more of a factor today.” Const. Doug Dewar of Innisfail RCMP Freeway Patrol was also called to several collisions, including a two-vehicle crash at the Cottonwood Road overpass. Drivers were dealing with blowing and drifting snow, but nothing like the blizzard conditions near Didsbury. Sometimes people drive too fast for their abilities, road conditions — or the state of their vehicles, said Dewar, who noted bald summer tires were not cutting it on the highways on Wednesday.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Using multimedia and a compelling narrative, TED (technology entertainment and design) conferences modernize classic storytelling for a 21st century audience. With a time limit of 18 minutes, speakers share “ideas worth sharing,” according to the organization’s slogan. The local TEDX organization is gearing up for an event later this year, but work has to be put in now, including a call for speakers. Rene Michalak owns the licence for the local TEDX, which currently allows for a limited event to take place in Red Deer. To expand the budget and capabilities, he is attending an upcoming TED conference in Whistler.

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Body found in Rocky area identified as that of missing teen The body Rocky Mountain House RCMP found 30 km northeast of Rocky has been identified as that of a teenager reported missing from Eckville earlier this week. With the assistance of the Calgary Medical Examiner, the body that was discovered has been identified as the 16-year-

old male who was reported missing on Sunday. Police said there is no indication this incident was criminal in nature. Shortly after noon on Sunday, Sylvan Lake RCMP were notified of the missing teen. Police investigation into the disappearance led them to the ju-

risdiction of the Rocky RCMP. Police used Red Deer police dog services to search areas where the teen may have been seen, but they were unsuccessful. The following morning, Monday, Rocky RCMP, along with RCMP Air Services, found the teen near the intersection of

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Hwys 12 and 761. The Red Deer major crime unit, Rocky RCMP and the Calgary medical examiner continue to investigate this death and the cause of death is pending. Police will not release the name of the teen at the request of the family.

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BRIEFS Stabbing, arson accused to face trial A Maskwacis man accused of stabbing another man and then setting his house on fire is scheduled for trial in September. Ryan Okeynan, 26, was arrested on Dec. 21, shortly after emergency crews were called to a fire on the Samson Cree Nation. A 50-year-old man escaped the blaze and fled to a neighbouring home. He was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital to be treated for stab wounds. Okeynan is charged with attempted murder, arson and aggravated assault. His trial is set for Wetaskiwin provincial court on Sept. 9.

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Trial dates rescheduled for witness availability A police witness’s training schedule has forced rescheduling of trial dates for a man charged with a rash of violent crimes in Red Deer and surrounding communities during the spring of 2013. Garnet Colby Mcinnes, 23, was arrested in Lacombe on May 28 by police

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Brian St. Germain leads Grade 9 students Kenzie Lasante and Johannes Smith in a First Nations, Métis, and Inuit project at Ecole Camille J. Lerouge School. The FNMI project has been brought into both Red Deer Catholic and Red Deer Public Schools in Red Deer to promote identity, belonging, and as a way to foster pride in students’ heritage. All grade levels in both school districts take part in the program. investigating a number of incidents, including robberies, dangerous driving, assault, housebreaking, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, extortion and a variety of weapons offences. RCMP allege that Mcinnes was involved in a series of events, including a kidnapping and standoff in Red Deer on May 14, a carjacking and assault near Blackfalds on May 15, resisting arrest and assaulting police officers in Red Deer on May 24, and a home invasion in Red Deer on May 26. He was scheduled for a series of four trials in Red Deer provincial court, starting on April 16. However, the April 16 trial and a second trial set for May 7 have been rescheduled to April 1 and Sept. 18 respectively, at the request of Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson. In court on Wednesday, McPher-

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“That has really changed the flavour of the beach from kind of a party spot with out-of-control people to a very family-oriented (beach). We’ve noticed that, just visually while walking on the beach, what a change it’s been over the last few years.” Also, council has funded a crime reduction unit member specifically focused on drug traffickers, ongoing or serial crimes, and other emerging trends. “We’re also targeting habitual offenders in town. We get intelligence and information from data bases so we know which people we want to focus on. “So we go pay them a visit and make sure they’re abiding by court-imposed conditions and that sort of thing.” Two new officers have been approved for this year, boosting the detachment strength to 22, including six who are dedicated to surrounding communities and rural areas. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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that theme of Pushing Boundaries is what we’re aiming for,” said Michalak. “We want it to be as local as it can be, it just depends on who applies. It is intended to be Red Deer and Central Alberta. Because we hope to do a fullday event this time, it might by eight or 10 speakers.” Anyone who is interested in being a speaker can get in touch with the local organizing group through their website, www.tedxreddeer.com. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first TED conference, originally planned as a one-off event featuring demonstrations of the Sony compact disc and an early demonstration of the Apple Macintosh computer. The talks are now broadcast online, for free, and since the TED website opened, it has had more than one billion views. Red Deer’s first TED event was held in October 2011, followed by a second one last year. “It went well (in 2013), but not as well as we were hoping it could go” said Michalak. “About 60 people attended and they were aiming for 100. This time, they hope to sell about 300 tickets. “We had five presenters in 2013. The theme was Shut Up and Do It. We had people talk about ideas worth spreading, which is a theme of TED in general, but it’s one thing to talk about ideas, it’s another to implement them.” Presenters included Rob Aronson, from Calgary, talking about a sandwich company for feeding the homeless, and Damien Laliberte, a former Red Deerbased filmmaker, who was working on a documentary on teen suicide. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

“TED talks are excellent in terms of sharing information and hearing a story we wouldn’t necessarily have the chance or opportunity to hear,” said Michalak. “We, as a species, used to tell stories before we had television. We used to watch the stars in the sky and not the stars on TV. “Storytelling is such an important part of our culture. We’re returning to that, but using technology to give us a new approach to it.” While still very much in the early planning stages, the local TEDX committee is looking for speakers to fit the theme they have chosen, Pushing boundaries. “Anyone interested For more details go instore or online @thebrick.com. in presenting or telling their story, if it fits in

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The 2014 Mayor’s Recognition Awards recognize, celebrate and reward the achievement and volunteer services by those who, through their efforts and/or accomplishments, enhance the image of the city, or make significant contributions to the city. Residents have until Friday to nominate a person, group or team for the recognition awards, which will be present at a ceremony in June. Categories for the awards include athletics; fine and performing arts; citizenship for both distinguished voluntary service and continuous voluntary service; and the mayor’s special award. For nomination forms, award guidelines and more information, visit www. reddeer.ca. Nominations will be accepted up until 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

Alberta’s top Mountie says she has been treated with respect as gay officer BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s first topranking female RCMP officer says she has always been treated with respect as a gay officer in the force. While the RCMP have been rocked by allegations of harassment in recent months and face several lawsuits, newly appointed assistant Commissioner Marianne Ryan said she has been treated well. She choked back tears Wednesday as she thanked her partner during a change-of-command ceremony in Edmonton. “I think it’s important to be who you are and the RCMP is a very diverse and welcoming organization. And after 32 years, I’m very proud to be in the organization because of who we are,” she told reporters afterwards. “I’m very fortunate to be able to say the RCMP has always treated me with a great deal of respect.” An RCMP spokesman said Ryan is the first openly gay officer in charge of Alberta. Ryan told reporters that it’s “nice to know” she’s the first in the province. “I’m very proud of who I am and who my partner is and I’m especially proud to be the commanding officer of Alberta,” she said.

In 2012, the RCMP released an emotional video by gay and lesbian officers and civilian employees as part of a campaign to combat anti-gay bullying. Some of them talked about how they were bullied in school but said life got better as they got older. Ryan grew up on a farm in London, Ont., and joined the force in 1982, after graduating from university. She spent 19 years working her way up the ranks in Manitoba before transferring to Vancouver. In 2011, she became the officer in charge of criminal operations for Alberta. Last fall, she was appointed commanding officer of the province, taking over for retiring deputy commissioner Dale McGowan. Ryan believes her new job will encourage other women to sign up. She said some women have approached her to ask about being an officer, and she’s happy she can act as a marketing tool. “If I can make it, anyone can make it,” she said. “There are many, many women in the RCMP now. When I joined, not so many. “But behind me and with me there are a lot of women and there will be a lot more coming in.”

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Horror trickles down from past to present RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL TRAGEDY IN RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS STILL RELEVANT: DIRECTOR BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It’s 1976 on the Red Crow Mi’gMaq reserve and a toughas-nails teen is dealing dope so she can make money to pay off a corrupt Indian agent and avoid residential school. Though the plot from the new Canadian film Rhymes for Young Ghouls” is set in a fictional place nearly four decades ago, it’s still timely as the horrors of Canada’s aboriginal residential school system continue to cause ripples in First Nations communities, says writerdirector Jeff Barnaby. “I think just the self-esteem issues, that has to be the most resounding residual effect and, of course, the sexual abuse issues,” he said. “I mean, studies have shown that if you’re abused as a child you’re more likely to do something like that as you get older. “And just to get over the horrors of something like that, it’s not something that you can do in a generation or two. I think that residual effect just goes on and on and on.” Continued Barnaby: “I explain it like your great-great-grandmother goes to a residential school and she gets told that she’s worthless and nothing, and if she survives that experience, she has it ingrained in her head and then she tells that to her kids and they tell it to her kids and tell it to her kids. “And then next thing you know, it’s 2014 and you’re a young person growing up on a reserve and have this feeling and you have no real association as to where it comes from, because nobody teaches you about it; it more or less gets swept under the rug.” Opening Friday in Toronto and on Feb. 14 in Vancouver, Rhymes for Young Ghouls stars Native American/Mohawk actress Kawennahere Devery Jacobs as the heroine Aila, who has witnessed the accidental

death of her younger brother as well as the suicide of her mother and the incarceration of her father (Glen Gould). Left to fend for herself, the 15-year-old helps her uncle Burner (Brandon Oakes) with his drug business in order to pay her “truancy tax” to the Indian agent Popper (Mark Antony Krupa), who runs the residential school and takes bribes from those who want to avoid it. When Aila’s money is stolen, she and others exact revenge upon the agent, who has a long-standing history with the family. The unflinching drama has been lauded on the film festival circuit, and at the recent Toronto Film Critics Association awards, venerated filmmaker Norman Jewison deemed Barnaby the recipient of $50,000 in services donated by Technicolor. Barnaby wrote the story, his debut feature, after making short films including the Genie-nominated “File Under Miscellaneous.” He used women in his life as inspiration, including his grandmother who was in a residential school. “Nobody talks about what happened at that school,” said Barnaby, who grew up on the Mi’gmaq reserve in Listuguj, Que. “I don’t think that’s something they wanted their children or their grandchildren knowing that they went through. “Because why would you want to put that into a child’s brain — that there are individuals out there that hate you so much that they’re willing to do this to you? I think it just got this stigma or shame to it that it became impossible to talk about. “So I think that’s why, decades after the fact, we’re still talking about it and things are still being uncovered, because I think the victims of this horrible thing are just starting to come to terms with it now, and I think they want to kind of pass on this knowledge so that it doesn’t happen again.” File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

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cocaine possession. “He is not only threatening the safety of our people, but he is also a terrible influence on our nation’s youth,” the petition reads. “We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society.” The number of signatures zoomed to more than 101,000 early Wednesday, reaching more than 106,000 by midday. The White House instituted the 100,000-signature requirement after its website was flooded with spoof petitions — including one demanding that America build an “$850,000,000,000,000,000, Star Warsstyle Death Star.”

Lamar has no hard feelings about Grammys snub NEW YORK — Kendrick Lamar is taking a philosophical approach to being shut out at the Grammy Awards. Lamar, one of Sunday night’s top

nominees with seven nods, was shut out, prompting four-time winner Macklemore to send a text of apology later that night after winning best rap album. “It’s well-deserved. He did what he did, man,” Lamar told XXL magazine. “He went out there and hustled and grinded. Everything happens for a reason. The universe comes back around. That’s how it go.” Lamar made the remarks after a performance of Backstreet Freestyle at rapper Dom Kennedy’s show Tuesday night in New York.

Lambert, McGraw lead ACM Awards NASHVILLE — Miranda Lambert and Tim McGraw are the top nominees for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards. Lambert and McGraw are up for seven awards apiece at

the April 6 awards show. The nominations were announced Wednesday morning via social media. Keith Urban is up for six awards, and Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice have five apiece. Florida Georgia Line and Lady Antebellum are next with four nods. Lambert and husband Shelton are nominated for the top honour, the fan-voted entertainer of the year, with Swift, 2013 winner Luke Bryan and George Strait. The nomination continues something of a victory lap for Strait, who is wrapping up his final tour this year. He’s a former winner in the category who recently won the rival Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year trophy. Lambert will be going for a fifth straight win in the female vocalist of the year category and her Mama’s Broken Heart” earned nominations for single record, song and video of the year.

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LIFESTYLE Too few cancer patients enrol in studies; many trials end early, slowing progress THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One of every 10 clinical trials for adults with cancer ends prematurely because researchers can’t get enough people to test new treatments, scientists report. The surprisingly high rate reveals not just the scope and cost of wasted opportunities that deprive patients of potential advances, but also the extent of barriers such as money, logistics and even the mistaken fear that people won’t get the best care if they join one of these experiments. “Clinical trials are the cornerstone of progress in cancer care,” the way that new treatments prove their worth, said Dr. Matthew Galsky of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. When an experimental drug or other treatment fails to make it to the market, people often think it didn’t work or had too many side effects, but the inability to complete studies can doom a drug, too, Galsky said. He helped lead an analysis of 7,776 experiments registered on Clinicaltrials.gov, a government website for tracking medical experiments,

from September 2005 to November 2011. All were mid- or late-stage studies testing treatments for various types of cancer in adults. About 20 per cent of the studies were not completed for reasons that had nothing to do with the treatment’s safety or effectiveness, both legitimate reasons for ending a study early. Poor accrual — the inability to enrol enough patients in enough time to finish the study — led to nearly 40 per cent of premature endings. Company-sponsored studies were less likely to be completed than those sponsored by the government or others. Late-stage cancer trials can cost companies “tens to even hundreds of millions of dollars,” and that money is wasted if no clear answer on the drug’s value is gained, said Dr. Charles J. Ryan, a cancer specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. He heads the program for a conference later this week in San Francisco, where Galsky’s study will be presented. It was discussed Tuesday in a telebriefing by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, an organization for doctors who treat cancer. Ryan and Galsky

said they hoped the study would spur more research on why more patients don’t participate. In most cases, the treatment being tested is provided for free, but there can be other costs such as lab tests. Some states require insurers to cover these additional costs, but others do not, so money may be one hurdle for patients. Some doctors do not strongly encourage patients to participate in studies, and sometimes patients fear they’ll get a dummy treatment instead of real medicine. However, in cancer clinical trials, ethical standards require that all patients get the current best care, plus a chance at an experimental treatment. “Patients still have concerns about getting a placebo, but they’re always going to get at a minimum the standard of care,” said Shelley Fuld Nasso, head of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, a patient advocacy and education organization. Doctors need to encourage more patients to participate, and clinical trial designers need to make sure they are testing key questions and treatments to honour the contributions of study participants, she said.

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Cupcakes strike sweet success SOCIAL MEDIA SPREADING WORD ABOUT TODAY’S SWEET CAKERY AT CASTOR BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR With fewer than a thousand people living in Castor, demand for specialty cakes and cupcakes in the east-Central Alberta town might seem limited. Yet Eva Wylie and her fiancé Cody Borek have been churning out eye-popping baked goods in their 3,000-square-foot shop on Main Street for nearly a year and a half. Operating as Today’s Sweet Cakery, the couple first focused on local sweet-toothers and then extended their market by delivering to surrounding communities. “We realized right away that serving specialty coffees and cupcakes only, without food, we were going to have a really tough go of it,” said Borek, 22. Their delivery range now stretches as far as Edmonton and Calgary, and they’ve also shipped cakes and cupcakes to places like Vancouver and Winnipeg. An active Facebook page with photos of 21-year-old Wylie’s kitchen creations has helped boost sales. “It’s been amazing, the social media,” said Borek. “Some of our cakes have been seen by over a million people. They’re just shared and shared and shared. “We ended up getting 1,600 likes in one week. It was incredible.” In September, Today’s Sweet Cakery also hit the road with a 12-foot cupcake trailer. A Facebook request for suggested destinations in 2014 generated more than 350 replies, said Borek. “It looks like we’re going to have over 200 locations.” That’s prompted the partners to consider expanding their fleet. “The food truck craze is huge, but there are very few with des-

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Left: A birthday cake based on the minions from the Universal Pictures’ movie ‘Despicable Me.’ Right: A birthday cake based on the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ movie ‘Tangled.’ erts,” observed Borek. In fact, he and Wylie have aspirations to grow Today’s Sweet Cakery’s territory across North America. And they’re seeking some high-profile help to assist them. This Saturday, Borek and Wylie will be in Calgary to audition for a spot on CBC’s Dragons’ Den — a television program in which a panel of investment moguls hear and in some cases partner with Canadian entrepreneurs. Such a connection would help Today’s Sweet Cakery avoid many of the pitfalls that undoubtedly lie ahead, said Borek. “Having a smart business partner, they’re going to teach us those mistakes before we make them.”

Exposure on national TV wouldn’t hurt the business either, he acknowledged, and it would provide an opportunity to set an example for other young people. “We want to show that you can do it, even at a young age.” Borek already has another business a few doors down the street from Today’s Sweet Cakery: a traditional Wing Chun kung fu studio. The two ventures consume most of his waking time. “It seems like about 12 hours a day to the coffee shop and six hours a day to the studio.” Wylie, he said, created Today’s Sweet Cakery and provides most of the artistic talent.

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Dense urban cores will be last to lose door-to-door service, Canada Post says BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Densely populated urban centres in the country’s largest cities will be the last to lose their door-to-door delivery service, Canada Post said Wednesday. The postal service said the older neighbourhoods and smaller lots in urban cores present different challenges for locating community mailboxes than suburban areas. So, Canada Post says it will leave the majority of those areas until the final stage of its plan to phase out door-to-door mail delivery. “The postal service will take

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to-door service will be delivered to communal neighbourhood “superboxes.” About one-third of Canadian households receive their mail at their door. The rest pick up their mail at a central location, like an apartment lobby or community mailbox, or rural mailboxes. The federal Crown corporation has said it hopes to realize up to $900 million a year under the plan to replace home delivery with community mail boxes and by raising postal rates and cutting thousands of jobs. The move to community mail boxes is expected to account for $400 million to $500 million in savings once it is fully implemented.

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WASHINGTON D.C. — Canadian officials say they’re encouraged by what they’re hearing about a long-awaited report on the environmental impact of the Keystone XL pipeline that could be released imminently by the U.S. State Department. Those sources in Washington and Ottawa say they’ve been told the report could be ready for release within a few days — and that it will bolster the case for the controversial energy project. “What we’re hearing is that it’s going to be positive for the project — and therefore positive for Canada,” said one diplomat in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he hadn’t seen the report himself. “The rumours certainly are that it’s very thorough and that the analysis will support the project.” He said there was optimism amongst Canadian officials but no celebration just yet: “You’re not going to be seeing people high-fiving and toasting with champagne,” he said. “It’s just another step (in the process).” Earlier this month, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was in Washington pleading for a decision soon. He said enough time had been lost on the project and didn’t want to see another construction season wasted. His U.S. counterpart, John Kerry, responded that there would be no fast-tracking the process. The actual writing of the report began in August, according to the Canadian source in D.C. With the threat of almost-certain lawsuits looming, regardless of what the final Keystone decision might be, he said he’d heard from U.S. officials that the report authors were under pressure to be especially rigorous. “What we need is an (environmental impact statement),” he said, “that is so thoroughly done that it will stand up to litigation.” The report is the latest environmental impact statement on the $7-billion TransCanada project to come from the State Department, which has jurisdiction because the pipeline crosses an international boundary. The last report, released a year ago, concluded the project would not significantly impact the rate of oilsands development or crude oil demand, nor would it pose any greater risk to the environment than other modes of transportation. President Barack Obama has since declared that he will only approve the pipeline if it can be shown that it will not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions. A State Department spokesperson wouldn’t confirm anything.

Cash pledged towards battling deadly pig virus As a deadly pig virus continues to spread in Ontario, Alberta Pork is pledging $500,000 to help prevent porcine epidemic diarrhea from infecting Alberta farms. Officials from Ontario’s ministry of agriculture confirmed on Wednesday that the virus, known as PEDv, has been found on four farms in that province. An estimated two million to three million pigs in the United States have already died as a result of PEDv, which is highly contagious and kills virtually all of the piglets between the ages of three and five weeks that it infects. Health officials say the virus is not transmissible to humans and does not pose a threat to the food supply. The first Canadian case of PEDv was reported in Ontario last week. That prompted Alberta Pork to urge producers here to protect their operations by ensuring all vehicles that come onto their farms have been washed, disinfected and dried. It also recommended precautions be taken with respect to people and materials that enter pig barns. Yesterday, Alberta Pork said it was setting aside a half million dollars to help producers and industry with PEDv biosecurity strategies. “Our mission is to support pork producers in any way we can,” said Alberta Pork chairman Frank Novak. “This is an extraordinary measure, but PEDv is no ordinary disease. It represents the greatest threat to our industry in recent memory.” Novak expressed hope that additional financial support would come from other sources, including government. Alberta Pork has scheduled meetings on PEDv prevention across the province, as well as telephone town hall sessions that will be hosted by experts on the disease. A meeting was held yesterday in Red Deer, with others scheduled for the city on Feb. 20 and March 19 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites. Participants are asked to register by contacting Marlyn Dalmacio at 1-877-247-7675 or marlyn. dalmacio@albertapork.com.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 97.74 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.52 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.32 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.12 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.96 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.96 Cdn. National Railway . . 58.08 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 165.00 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.85 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.66 Cervus Equipment Corp 23.49 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 44.73 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.35 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 26.82 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.88 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.35 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.81 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.35 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.65 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.59 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.46 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.31 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.36 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 95.43 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.40 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.57 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.06 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.48 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Losses picked up on the Toronto stock market Wednesday afternoon after the Federal Reserve signalled it will further taper its key stimulus program, raising further concern about how emerging market countries can protect their currencies. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 44.44 points to 13,643.22 after the U.S. central bank said it would trim its massive, monthly bond purchases by another US$10 billion to $65 billion. TSX losses were limited by a rise in the gold sector as emerging market worries pushed bullion prices higher. The Canadian dollar was down 0.18 of a cent to 89.46 cents US. Losses were much more severe in New York on worries that further tapering could also persuade traders to take profits from a strong rally last year that was underpinned by Fed stimulus. The Dow Jones industrials tumbled 189.77 points to 15,738.79, also pressured by disappointing guidance from aircraft maker Boeing. Its shares fell more than five per cent. The Nasdaq composite index lost 46.53 points to 4,051.43 and the S&P 500 index was down 18.3 points to 1,774.2. Markets have been volatile since last week after Chinese data showed a contraction in manufacturing. And currencies in countries including India, Turkey, Russia and South Africa came under pressure as investors wondered how they’ll be affected by the Fed’s move to reduce its monetary stimulus. Nerves were initially soothed by the Turkish central bank’s aggressive interest rate hike to stabilize its currency, another rate hike in India and an injection of funds by China into its banking system. The Turkish central bank move gave an initial boost to its currency. But confidence was shaken as the effect gradually faded. A surprise rate increase by South Africa’s central bank also had only a short impact. The Fed’s bond purchases over the last few years have resulted in a stream of cheap money flowing into emerging markets as the stimulus kept long-term rates low. But now, that money is exiting many emerging markets as those rates head higher. The Fed had already tapered its asset purchases by $10 billion a month to $75 billion starting this month. Meanwhile, Canadian Pacific

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Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 70.21 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.35 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.95 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.00 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.51 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.65 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.00 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 66.89 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.50 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 83.80 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.90 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 68.77 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 36.37 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.44 TSX 60 — 783.31, down 2.92 points Dow — 15,738.79, down 189.77 points S&P 500 — 1,774.20, down 18.30 points Nasdaq — 4,051.43, down 46.53 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.46 cents US, down 0.18 of a cent Pound — C$1.8498, up 0.02 of a cent Euro — C$1.5264 up 0.14 of a cent Euro — US$1.3655, down 0.13 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.36 per barrel, down five cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,262.20 per oz., up $11.40 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.69 oz., up 4.9 cents $729.48 kg, up $1.57 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 958.76, up 0.13 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 172.55 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $2.60 lower $423.80; May ’14 $2.40 lower $433.90; July ’14 $2.20 lower $442.90; Nov. ’14 $1.90 lower $458.80; Jan ’15 $1.90 lower $464.30; March ’15 $1.80 lower $469.70; May ’15 $1.50 lower $472.20; July ’15 $1.90 lower $474.10; Nov ’15 $1.90 lower $470.30; Jan. ’16 $1.90 lower $470.30; March ’16 $1.90 lower $470.30. Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged $126.50; May ’14 unchanged $128.50; July ’14 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $128.50; March ’15 unchanged $128.50; May ’15 unchanged $128.50; July ’15 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $128.50; March ’16 unchanged $128.50. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 346,260 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 346,260

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CAKERY: Look, create “She can look at something and create it. Wylie’s sisters Melissa and Sarah help, and her parents Richard and Cathy also support the business. Borek said he’s settled into his role of providing the edible canvasses for his fiancée’s artwork. “I do just about 90 per cent of the baking now, because she has to do all of the decorating.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.20 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.56 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.63 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.79 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.24 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.14 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.180 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.65 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.44 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.08 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.75 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.12 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 60.93

Sears Canada plans to lay off 624 workers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) has announced a round of layoffs for the second time this month, eliminating 624 workers. The struggling company said Wednesday the cuts will help improve communication and encourage more consistency within its operations. Most of the reductions will be in middle management at Sears department stores, affecting an average of five employees per location, Sears Canada said in a release. The company also said it will rework its regional and head office structure to reflect the latest changes and to align it with the smaller business. Two weeks ago Sears Canada said about 1,600 positions would be affected as it moved ahead with plans to shutter its three Canadian call centres and reduce staff at its warehouses. Sears Canada is trying to reduce costs and improve its overall business as part of a three-year turnaround plan. Last year, the company made a similar round of cuts that has lowered its overall employee count to around 20,000 people. “The changes we are making in stores will not affect the number of front-line associates, and service to

our customers will not be impacted,” president and CEO Doug Campbell said in a release. “Our current structure results in inefficiencies and barriers to effective communication among store associates and the changes we are making are designed to result in better store execution and consistency of presentation and standards.” Campbell added that the layoffs are part of a broader effort that will allow the company to continue serving customers countrywide. Sears Canada has been dealing with heavy competition within the retail sector that appeared to intensify over the holiday shopping season. Earlier this month, Sears Holdings Corp., the department store retailer’s U.S. parent, said sales at its Canadian stores dropped 4.4 per cent between Nov. 3 and Jan. 6. Sears Canada has made an effort to shrink its operations by selling off leases for some of its most prominent locations and has been more aggressive in cutting the number of employees across its operations, from head office positions to customer service. The retailer operates 181 corporate stores, 241 Hometown appliance stores, more than 1,400 merchandise pickup locations and 101 travel offices.

Provinces counter on job grant BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The provinces and territories are firmly resisting a contentious federal skills training proposal, saying they want to see more flexibility before a deal can be reached over the much-touted Canada Job Grant. They’re presenting the federal Tories with an “alternative” proposition that would provide more flexibility to the provinces in how the proposed program would be funded, as well as how small businesses could participate, said Brad Duguid, Ontario’s minister of training, colleges and universities. “I think it speaks volumes that every province and territory remain united on this issue,” he said Wednesday in an interview with The Canadian Press. “We have been since Day 1 and continue to be.” The proposed grant, a centrepiece of the last Conservative budget, is supposed to provide $15,000 for each eligible worker, with the cost divided equally among Ottawa, the provinces and employers. Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney offered in December to cover the provincial portion, but there would be no new money allocated to do it. The Tories said the provincial portion of the grant would come through the existing Labour Market Development Agreement, that gives provinces money for programs that help jobless people who qualify for employment insurance.

To cover the federal portion, the Tories want to slice $300 million from the separate Labour Market Agreement, which provides provinces with money to train unemployed workers who aren’t eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels. Duguid said Kenney’s revised plan would still divert $300 million from existing programs for those workers. “We continue to remain united on the principle that the new program cannot be funded on the backs of our programs that serve our marginalized population,” he said. “I am perplexed by the fixation that the federal government seems to have to want to do damage to those programs that are working,” Duguid said. He declined to provide details on the counter-proposal, which was reached Tuesday but hasn’t yet been forwarded to Kenney. Duguid did say it would give the provinces more flexibility to be able to take those federal dollars from other non-priority programs, allow them to find the money in other areas, or take them from the Labour Market Development Agreement or Labour Market Agreement. It addresses weaknesses in the Tories’ original plan to provide more flexibility for small businesses, Duguid said, which may be excluded from the program because they can’t afford to participate.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says households spent an average of $56,279 on goods and services in 2012, up 2.0 per cent from 2011. The agency says shelter costs accounted for the largest share of this spending, at 28.1 per cent. Transportation took 19.9 per cent of the total, with food just behind at 13.8 per cent. These shares were little changed from 2011. Provincially, Alberta households spent the most on goods and services at $69,870, while Quebec households had the lowest average spending at $48,870. Couples with children had the highest average spending at $80,056, while one-person households headed by a senior had the lowest average spending at $27,546.

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Clifford Archer passed away at the Lacombe Nursing Home on Sunday, January 26, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Born in Taber, AB on December 1, 1935, our beloved father, grandfather, brother, and uncle is survived by his son James Archer (Melody) and Carolyn Strand of Calgary, AB, daughter Debbie Salmon (Brent) and being most proud of his grandchildren Tyler and Jenna Salmon all from Lacombe, AB. He will be lovingly remembered by brothers, Phil Archer (Karen) of Red Deer, AB; Don Archer (Louanne) of Killam, AB; Rob Archer (Chris) of Taber, AB; sister-in-law Myrna Archer of Innisfail, AB, in-laws Douglas and Leslie Brown, and Bunty and Peter Clark all of Glasgow, Scotland as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews. Cliff was predeceased by his wife Betsy Archer in 2011, parents Esther and James Archer, brothers Ray and Grant Archer, and nephews Kevin and Dan Archer. Cliff was a genuine man who had dedicated himself to his work and family. He enjoyed life, fishing, golfing, softball, hockey and camping, and a highlight was attending a family reunion. He had a big heart, was selfless and could strike up a conversation with anyone, and would meet a new friend everywhere he went. He was most rewarded with time spent with family and friends. He will forever be remembered as an honest, fun-loving man. A Funeral Service will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226-51 Avenue, Lacombe, AB, on Friday, January 31, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. A private family interment service will follow at the Lacombe Fairview Cemetery. Memorial Donations can be sent directly to the Lacombe Fish and Game Association, Box 5573, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1X2 or the Lacombe Palliative Care Society, Box 5576, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1X2. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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MURRAY Leane Michelle (Elson) 1973 ~ 2014 With great shock and sadness we announce the sudden passing of Leane Michelle (Elson) Murray in Mexico on January 12, 2014. Leane was born in Calgary, graduated from Eckville High school and later as a single parent, obtained her registered nursing degree from RDC. Leane is survived by her two sweet children, Andrew and Erin Williams of Red Deer, AB and her loving husband of 18 years, Glenn Murray of Warman, SK; her parents, Dwayne and Shelley Elson; as well as her sister, Dayna (Greg) Pimm; brothers, Michael (Tammy) Elson and David Elson; her grandparents, Margaret and Hugh Linden; her aunts and uncles: Liz and Ernie Pucci, Kent (Ellen) Linden, Gene and Loree Sears; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She is also survived by Sandra (Clare) Turner, Cliff (Marilyn) Sawa and Michelle (Dale) Lauf Mike (Gwen) Sawa, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her grandparents, Verner and Jennie Elson. Leane will always be remembered for her sweet generous spirit, her heartwarming laugh, her love for family and all animals (except strangely for monkeys). A memorial service for Leane will be held at the Eckville Community center on Saturday February 1, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made to a scholarship at Red Deer College School Of Nursing that will be set up in memory of Leane. SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

ROBERTS Violet Frances Born: Nov. 27, 1921, Knee Hill Valley Died: Jan. 24, 2014, Lacombe Beloved wife of Rev. James Roberts passed away at the age of 92. Vi’s greatest love was her family: husband, Jim; daughter Fran Lees; son, Jim Roberts (Bev), grandchildren, Linda (Mike); Audrey; Maureen (Lawrence), Ron (Brenda); Hollie (Dan) along with her great grandchildren Kodi, Tyler, Kassidy, Wayde, Shannon, Curtis, Scott, Dawson and Crosby. Vi is also survived by her sister, Mary Winchester (Allan). Vi was predeceased by her parents, Mary Ann and James McCabe; brothers, Charles and James as well as son-in-law Bill Lees. Vi’s zest for life forged many lasting friendships with the communities and church families which she touched in her career as a minister’s wife. She was a wonderful wife, mom, grandma and great grandma and will live in our hearts forever. A very special thank you to the Nurses, Doctors and staff from the Royal Oak; Lacombe and Red Deer Hospitals as well as the Lacombe EMS for your compassionate care given to Vi, through-out her journey. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at the Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.

WAITE Brad 1997 - 2014 With broken and saddened hearts we announce the sudden passing of our beloved son, Bradley John Russell Waite of Eckville, Alberta at the age of 16 years. Brad was born in Sarnia, Ontario on May 7, 1997 and passed on January 27, 2014. He will be lovingly remembered by his parents; Rachael and T-Jay Waite and his brothers; Zack and Drew Waite all of Eckville, Alberta, loving grandson of Russ and Nancy Zenick of Wilkesport, Ontario and Jean McGill of Sarnia, Ontario. Brad leaves fond memories as a dear nephew to Chris and Kelly Wells, Peter and Marielle Zenick, Bill and Sandra Zenick, J.J. McGill and Michelle McGill, all of Sarnia, Ontario, and Tim Waite of Wallaceburg, Ontario. Brad will also be sadly missed by many great aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. A public viewing will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive) Red Deer on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. A Memorial Service in Brad’s memory will be held at the Eckville Community Centre, 52 Street and 54 Avenue, Eckville, on Friday, January 31, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. with The Reverend Sandra Franklin-Law officiating. Donations may be made directly to the “Brad Waite Trust Fund Account # 722800064346” at the Eckville Credit Union, P.O. Box 278, Eckville, Alberta, T0M 0X0. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or1.800.481.7421.

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NATHAN NOW PLAYING Daniel Howard VLT’S AT (1990-2014) EAST 40TH PUB It is with great sadness that the family of Nathan Howard announces his passing on January 28, 2014, Nathan’s Lost 24th birthday. Nathan’s life BACKPACK, burgundy began and ended in Australia, (small child’s), contains but for 21 years Nathan lived wallet, keys & makeup. in Alberta, including 12 years If found please call in Sylvan Lake. Nathan was 587-272-1012 a graduate of H.J. Cody High LOST KEYS School in 2008, and an RDC Lanyard, Two rings, accomplished hockey player about 10 keys. having played for several One antique/skeleton key Overdown, GH Dawe/ local teams in Sylvan Lake Parkland area. and Red Deer. Nathan is Regis @ 587-876-3595 predeceased by his daughter, Emery Natalyn Howard, who LOST- “Live,Love,Laugh” passed away in August 2012 hoop with charms on it on Jan. 24/14 between at the age of 12 weeks. Friday 9 am & 1 pm. Sentimental Nathan is survived by his memories. If found please father and mother, Graeme call 780-806-1633. and Janice Howard, of Sylvan Lake and by brothers, Jordan and Logan, and his sister Mikayla, grandparent Henry and Erna Wilson, of Red Deer and Annette Howard of Australia. His also is missed by all his aunts, uncles, Our cat, Shadow, went cousins and many friends. missing on the morning of Nathan was a soft soul who January 21st. He is a 9 yr struggled with addictions in old all black male neutered w/his front paws declawed. his adult years, but by the cat Yellow-green eyes & a torn, grace of God found his way healed ear. Tattooed. With back to his savior in his last the temperature dropping, weeks in Australia and it is we are starting to fear the with the hope of eternal life worst. He normally only spends from a gracious God that his time outside sunning on the so his disappearance family bids farewell saying deck is very alarming. Reward “Nathan, we love you and we for his safe return. Anyone will see you again”. A w/information can contact Hayley at 403-506-7446 memorial service will be held any time of day. at Gospel Chapel, Sylvan Lake, at 10:00 am on Saturday, February 1, 2014 with Pastor Jamie McDonald officiating. Personals In lieu of flowers, donations ALCOHOLICS may be made to YWAM ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 International (Sydney Base).

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ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 THE GENTLEMAN that attended the JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL this past weekend - I would like to meet with you over a coffee if you are unattached. I am an active 64 year old Female. Reply to Box 1076, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., R. D., AB T4R 1M9

Welcome Wagon

has a special package just for you & your little one! For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

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Card Of Thanks

Welcome Home! RUNGE Victor (1929 - 2014)

TERNES Terry Joseph April 6, 1945 - Jan. 26, 2014 Terry passed away Sunday, January 26, 2014 at the age of 68 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 33 years, Donna; son, Justin (fianceé Melanie), and his children, Jadyn, Raylin and Jordyn; daughter, Kristine (fiancé Alain), and her children Alexis and Hunter; many close friends; and hunting and fishing buddies. At Terry’s request there will be no Service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Terry’s memory to Red Deer & District S.P.C.A. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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Victor Runge of Innisfail, Alberta, passed away on January 26, 2014 at the age of 84. He was survived by Caroline, his wife of 57 years, Also by his children, Grant (Sharon), David (Myriam), Tracy, and Marcia (Blair) and by seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren also by his brother, Ernest, John and Donnie and sister Helen. Vic was predeceased by his parents, John and Annie, his sister Mary and brothers George, Bill, and Charlie. Vic grew up in the Pine Lake area, later moving with his wife to southeast Saskatchewan, Vic was employed in the oil industry for most of his life. Moving in 1974 to the Peace River country where he continued working until his retirement then returning to the Red Deer area. He enjoyed travelling and playing his guitar. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 pm at the Innisfail United Church on Saturday, February 1st. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stoke Foundation. Arrangement made by Heartland Funeral Services.

Celebrating the birth of your child? Share your happy news with family & friends with a special announcement in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds “Announcement” section.

WILSON, ERIC Our family would like to thank everyone for the phone calls, cards, flowers and gifts of food and donations made in Eric’s name. We would especially like to thank Rev. Gary Sinclair of St. Leonards on the Hill Anglican Church for making Eric’s celebration so meaningful for our family, friends and work colleagues. Your heartfelt prayers and generosity on the passing of Eric has helped to ease our pain and help us remember what a kind and caring young man he was. Also special thanks to Joelle of Parkland Funeral Home for your care and attention. Thank you, Terry McBride, Nancy Wilson, Mary Corrigan and family.

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Computer Personnel

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MICROAGE MicroAge is again looking for dynamic individuals to assist with offering our customers a positive and timely response to their IT issues. We require and administration assistant to work with dispatching, shipping/receiving/ and some minor bookkeeping responsibilities. We need someone with an upbeat personality and willing to assist with a variety of tasks. Must be able to work in a team environment. Please send your resume to hr@microage.cc

Dental

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RDA LEVEL II / ORTHO F/T required for busy family practice in Rocky Mtn. House. We are looking for energetic, friendly, team-oriented individual. Competitive salary, benefits pkg., 4 day week. If you are this person please fax resume to: 403-845-7610 Attn: Darlene

Hair Stylists

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ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please call Laurie 403-350-4341 JUST CUTS is looking for F/T - P/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary. Christie 403-309-2494

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014

F/T or P/T EXP’D. HAIRSTYLIST REQUIRED. Phone 403-347-3010 Eileen’s Beauty Nook NEW IMPRESSIONS SALON & SPA Seeking F/T& P/T Hair Stylist Drop off resume to 190 Northey Ave. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Janitorial

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Professionals

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requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided. Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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BLACKFALDS Motor Inn -Housekeeping Supervisor Req’d. 1 F/T, $19 - $20 hr., 1 yr. exp. req’d. Fax resume: 403-885-5868 Attn: Jenny

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

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$12.25/hr. To provide Food & Beverage service, handle cashiering, arrange and setup the outlet. maintain cleanliness and hygiene.

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

Bearspaw currently has a Legal Assistant positions in position in our Stettler field Cook the areas of Litigation and operations for an intermediate $14.00/HR. Corporate/Commercial are oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a To prepare and cook all available. Minimum 2-5 heavy duty mechanic or food up to standard, clean years experience in the journeyman instrument kitchen and maintain hyrelevant fields is a mechanic and possess giene follow recipes, assist requirement. Cores III strong mechanical skills, in receiving and storing accreditation for the be quick learners, motivated Corporate/Commercial Kitchen Helper and hard working and live position is highly $11/hr or be willing to relocate recommended. To clean kitchen following Competitive salaries, great within a 20 minute commute safety and hygiene benefits in a good working to workplace location. This standards. Clean utensils, position offers a challenging environment on offer. cutlery, crockery and Please email your resume work environment, attractive glassware items. to the Office manager at benefits with competitive Clean floors. pay and significant room ssimmons@altalaw.ca. Assist in prep. for promotion. Only candidates on the All positions are short list will be contacted Please submit resumes Shift Work & Weekends. for interviews. Fax resume 780-702-5051 Attn: Human Resources Looking for a place email:kwolokoff@ HOLIDAY INN to live? bearspawpet.com EXPRESS Take a tour through the Fax 403-252-9719 RED DEER CLASSIFIEDS Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Is seeking Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations Oilfield * Check in/out Guests Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $14.00/hr.

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HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc. Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety stardands $14.00/hr. All positions are Shift work & weekends Fax Resume to: 780-702-5051

Experienced Oilfield PROVIDENCE Construction Trucking Inc Lead Hands Is now hiring experienced Picker Operator Experienced Oilfield Swamper Construction All candidates must be Labourers able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We Industrial Painters offer exceptional wages Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton. Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca

Modular Assembly Experience is an Asset If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please apply on our Career Section on our website www.alstaroilfield.com “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions”

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & DERRICK HANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a FLUID Experts Ltd. very competitive salary Fluid Experts of Red Deer and benefits package is seeking experienced along with a steady work schedule. Class 1 Operators Please submit resumes: to haul clean fluids for the Attn: Human Resources Oil & Gas Industry. Home Email: every night, company hr@bearspawpet.com benefits with exceptional Fax: (403) 258-3197 or pay structure. Must be able Mail to: Suite 5309, to work on their own with 333-96 Ave. NE minimal supervision. Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! Global Tubing Canada is currently looking for employees for our growing service company. We are looking for permanent/ fulltime employees with Coil Tubing experience or without. Lots of room for advancement for the entry level employee. Work full time in Red Deer, no travelling. Call 403-3469231 for more information or drop resume off at 7754 47th Avenue Close, Red Deer, Alberta.

LANGAN SITE SERVICES LTD.

in Ponoka county, supplies oilfield septic containment & disposal throughout AB. We require Driver Operators for small vac trucks. Oilfield exp. is an asset. Must have H2S, First Aid, TDG, clean driver’s abstract & Class 5 license, drug testing. $20/ hr. to start, home every night, benefits. Fax resume to Dan 403-704-1127 or email: dan@ langansiteservices.com

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TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive wages and benefits. admin@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers. Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales & Distributors

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

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EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers. Positions available immediately. Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants. MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits. Email resumes and tickets to: ken@ darkstarproduction.com

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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

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Truckers/ Drivers

• Coil Tubing Rig Managers • Coil Tubing Operators • Crane Truck Operators • Nitrogen Pump Operators • Fluid Pump Operators

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HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAULERS To Join Our Team! Candidates must: - Have at least three years experience loading and unloading all types of equipment - Jeep and Trailer experience - On road/off road experience - Gravel Hauling (end dump) - Basic Truck Maintenance

Kendrew Dr. Also Kennings Cres. & Kirby St. Mustang Acres

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

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(Reliable vehicle needed) ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 100 Papers $540/mo. Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer (Reliable vehicle needed.)

ANDERS AREA INGLEWOOD AREA MORRISROE AREA SUNNYBROOK AREA VANIER AREA

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting. Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

NOW HIRING WAREHOUSE LEAD HAND

Key Responsibilities: -Ensure accurate data and material transactions by applying the best, safe and efficient practices. -Lead the Warehouse Team in Continuous Improvement initiatives. -Maintain cross-training activities of key Warehouse Team roles. -Track and review performance of team and ensure timely performance evaluations. -Ensure efficient product flow and continuous improvements in all facets of warehouse operations. -Comply with all health/safety/security programs to ensure safety of all personnel, equipment and property. -Provide leadership and training to all material handlers to ensure high levels of inventory accuracy. -Perform root cause investigations when an inventory inaccuracy is identified and implement necessary corrective actions. Credentials & Experience: -1-3 yrs experience in inventory control; leading and supervising the work of others -Strong understanding of WMS with regard to material transactions is essential. -Strong skills in Microsoft Office Suite. -Strong communication, customer service, analytical and problem solving skills. -Forklift certification an asset. Work Environment: -7:30am - 4:00pm, Monday - Friday; with flexibility to work outside regular hours when necessary. Apply with resume to careers@chatters.ca Or fax 403-347-7759

CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo. CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo. DEERPARK AREA 74 to 129 Blosk of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo

If you have a positive attitude and are committed to providing the best customer service, then we are looking for you!

GRANDVIEW AREA 40A, 41 and 42 Ave. between 39 St. and 44 St. $111/mo.

We offer competitive wages, Year Round Work, Blue Cross Benefits and Room for Advancement. Contact:

Fax: 403-782-6846

Kentwood

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

Requires experienced, responsible and mature

Email: info@graysonexcavating.com or

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Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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Johnstone Crossing

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PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position Available

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

SPRING START

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Truckers/ Drivers

880

ACADEMIC Express

www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products is expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience. ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our products within central Alberta. ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive medical plan. Benefits include: Company provided Group Canadian Benefits Voluntary dental Life insurance Short-term and long-term disability Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) Paid Vacation Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check. Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: Advanced Drainage A Division of Systems Canada Inc. CORDY ENVIRONMENTAL 4316 Gerdts Ave. EXPERIENCED Blindman Ind. Park Vacuum & Water Red Deer County, AB. Truck operators T4S-2A8 Fax: req’d. to start immed. (403) 346-5806 $450/per day E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q Position closing date: All oilfield safety tickets Feb. 6, 2014 req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy. Business References Req’d. Exc. salary & benefits. Opportunities Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! doug.reinhart@cordy.ca Food/Lounge Services BUSY Central Alberta at the Penhold Grain Trucking Company Regional Mulitplex. looking for Class 1 Drivers The Multiplex is comprised and/or Lease Operators. of an indoor ice arena, We offer lots of home time, fitness center, running/ benefits and a bonus walking track, gymnasium, program. Grain and super dance & motion studio, B exp. an asset but not library, meeting rooms and necessary. If you have a the Town Office. clean commercial drivers A fully equipped concession/ abstract and would like to food service kitchen. start making good money. OPPORTUNITIES: fax or email resume and 2 Year Signed Lease for comm.abstract to A) Lounge Operation Only 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net B) The Café Operation Only C) Joint Use of both Café F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. & Lounge Minimum Class 5 with air For Detailed information and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key regarding this opportunity please visit our website @ Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. www.townofpenhold.ca Red Deer. Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $303/mo. ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo. ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Competitive Wages and Benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers License and Valid Oilfield Tickets

Pidherney’s requires experienced Drivers:

CLASS 1 & 3 DRIVERS

Wise Is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to Quality and Safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

Pidherney’s is busy and requires Water Truck, Gravel Truck and Lowboy Drivers. The majority of the positions available are based out of camp. H2S, First Aid, and the capacity to pass a pre-access Drug and Alcohol test are considered assets.

For more information see

We offer competitive wages, benefits package, and opportunities for advancement. 354296A30

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JOURNEYMAN Automotive Technician Eckville based mechanic and car wash shop looking for full time Journeyman Automotive Technician. We offer competitive wages for the right applicant. Full benefit package available after 3 months. Mon-Fri, weekends optional. Please send resume to 403.746.2594

Truckers/ Drivers

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CARPENTERS and laborers with exp. in farm buildings. 403-318-6406 DNR Powerline FRONT DESK CLERK Construction requires * Answer phone calls Journeyman/ * Take reservations Apprentices/Labourers for * Check in/out Guests various projects in Alberta. * Balance cash out Long term employment. & Attend to guest needs Excellent opportunity for $ 14.00/hr apprenticeship. Excellent HOUSEKEEPING ROOM benefit packages. Fax ATTENDANT resume to 403-742-5759 * Clean and vacuum rooms or email: dnrwelding1 public areas pool etc. @dnrwelding.ca Attention: * Replenish amenities, Noel. No Phone calls linens & towels please. Drug and Alcohol * Adhere to Holiday Inn program in effect. safety standards DNR Pressure Welding $ 14.00/hr requires B-Pressure All positions are Welder Crew Foreman, Shift Work & weekends lead hands, labourers for Fax resume various projects in Alberta. 780 - 702-5051 Long term employment. JJAM Management (1987) Excellent opportunity for Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s apprenticeship. Excellent Requires to work at these benefit packages. Fax Red Deer, AB locations: resume to 403-742-5759 5111 22 St. or email: dnrwelding1 37444 HWY 2 S @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: 37543 HWY 2N Ryan. No Phone calls 700 3020 22 St. please. Drug and Alcohol Food Service Supervisor 8 program in effect. Vacancies, 1-2 yrs. exp. DNR Pressure Welding & req’d. P/T & F.T. SHIFT Powerline Construction WORK, $9.95 - $13.50/hr. requires Journeyman Apply in person or fax Heavy Duty Mechanic with resume to: 403-314-1303 JJAM Management (1987) experience in fleet maintenance for Heavy & Light Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s duty trucks. Excellent Requires to work at these benefi t packages. Email Red Deer, AB locations: resumes to Harold@ 5111 22 St. dnrwelding.ca or fax 37444 HWY 2 S (403)742-5759 No Phone 37543 HWY 2N calls please. Drug and 700 3020 22 St. alcohol program in effect. Food Counter Attendant 8 Vacancies P/T & F.T. Experienced Siders SHIFT WORK, $9.95 Needed Call 403-588-3210 $10.98/hr. Apply in person F/T COMMERCIAL or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 GLAZIER LUAU Investments Ltd. Journeyman & apprentices (o/a Tim Hortons) We offer competitive Food Counter Attendant wages. Full benefits after FT and PT positions 90 days. Must have valid available for day, night, drivers licence. Email resume evening and weekend to: d.generationglass shifts. $9.95 to $11.25 per @platinum.ca hour depending on experior Fax: 403-886-5224 ence/availability. Apply in or Call 403-886-5221 person at any of these locations 4217 - 50 Ave GOODMEN 6721 - 50 Ave ROOFING LTD. 7111 - 50 Ave Requires 62 Carleton Ave or email timhire@telus.net SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS X-STATIC & FLAT ROOFERS is now accepting applications for P/T Valid Driver’s Licence MALE SEARCH preferred. Fax or email & SECURITY info@goodmenroofing.ca PERSONNEL or (403)341-6722 Apply in person after 3 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! REQUIRED: CARPENTER/DRYWALLER for restoration company. This is a F/T position. Must have a valid drivers license. Duties: Carpentry, drywall, painting & finishing work. Fax or email resume to 403-347-4037 or crr@telus.net or contact Al @ 403-347-4001

Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

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1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Portable iMassagers JOURNEYMAN H.D. Hiring Retail Sales Manager MECHANIC req’d immed. At Parkland Mall, 4747 for very busy heavy equip. 67th St, Red Deer, AB T4N sales lot in Innisfail. 6H3 F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Wage range $25. - $35/hr Weekends Salary - $24.00 to start, depending on exp. hourly. Skills requirements: Preference will be given Experience 2-3 years, to those with previous good English. Education: equipment rental service, Secondary school. Main lifts and off road duties: Plan, direct and construction equipment evaluate the operations of experience. Fax resume retail sales rder and receiv- to 403-227-5701 or email: ing goods. Responsible for bouvier9@telus.net customer refunds and exchanges.Resolve customer complaints Determine staffing requirements Hire or oversee hiring of staff. Company’s business address: 45 Boyce Street, Red Deer AB T4R 1P2 E-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com ELEMENTS is looking 5 MILLWRIGHTS & Beauty Treatment Operators. WELDERS Selling seasonal gift for work in Red Deer. packages & personal care Please fax resume to products in Parkland 1-403-229-4079 Mall-4747 67th St Red Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus Required Immediately bonus & commission, F/T, PARTS PERSON Beauty certification req’d Parts person required for email resumes: rapidly expanding HD elementsreddeerbto@ Parts Supply Store. gmail.com Must be able to work ELEMENTS is looking for unsupervised in a fast 5 retail sales reps. selling paced environment. season gift packages and Have experience in the personal care products in heavy truck/trailer industry. Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Must possess strong Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + customer service skills. bonus & comm. FT. No Above average wages, exp. req`d. Please email benefits package. elementsreddeer@gmail.com Apply with resume @ Artic Truck, Email: SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Fax: 403-348-5198 selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + You can sell your guitar bonus & comm. Beauty for a song... cert. req’d. Location or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Parkland Mall - 4747 67th and we’ll sell it for you! St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ Truckers/ gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 Drivers 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

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South, Gasoline Alley Is Seeking

NOW HIRING

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Please reply by fax: 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

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TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo. ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Place, Thomas Place, Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. & Thompson Cres. $307/mo. Call Jamie 403-314-4306

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 D3

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PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is now accepting applications for a full time Parts Person. Must have good communication and computer skills and have the ability to work independently. Excellent company benefits. Please email resume along with wage expectations to: philparts@gmail.com or fax to 403-347-3813 The Red Deer Public School District Invites applications for Educational Assistant at Various Locations. For more information visit our web site at: www.rdpsd.ab.ca

X-STATIC

MALE SEARCH & SECURITY PERSONNEL

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SAFETY

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Firewood

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Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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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

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R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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Homestead Firewood

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CHROME TABLE & 4 CHAIRS $100. MOTORIZED SCOOTER $1500. BOOK SHELVES, $50 ea. Call 403-318-9840 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino SNOWBLOWER, 1500 Noma, turbo thrower. $40. 403-347-8726

Collectors' Items

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COFFEE table set, 3 piece glass & wood. $100. 403-342-4442

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STARTER comic book collection, graphic novels, 50 comic books $200 Tim 403-340-8215

Travel Packages

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA

Lamont Close Lund Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres. VANIER AREA

1900

Wanted To Buy

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

KITSON CLOSE

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. immed. 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

Kyte/Kelloway Cres. Lovely 3 level exec. 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. immed. 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 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

Suites

3060

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE, Come see us at: 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab Pet Food, Horse, Poultry ALL THE FEED YOUR ANIMALS NEED! 403-782-3333 TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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Volks Place / Vanier Drive

rentals

Vanson Close / Visser St.

CLASSIFICATIONS

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4110

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs. 400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3020

2 BDRM. main floor of House. Newly reno’d. 403-872-2472

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900. Call Glen 403-588-2231

4430

Private Mortgages Our Rates start at 8%. We lend on Equity. Bus. For Self & Bruised Credit Ok. Ron Lewis 403 819 2436

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

2007 H2 hummer, mint condition, 59,000 kms, new tires & rims, original rims and tires to buyer. Call Art 403-304-0727.

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint $21,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

Locally owned and family operated Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

5040

SUV's

5000-5300

Antique & Classic Autos

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. 403-588-2550

Sport & Import 348 8788

8TH ANNUAL RED DEER COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION & SPEED SHOW. Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show. Exhibitors space available. Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event. Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

Cars

5030

NEW CONDO

Income Property

2011 FORD Fiesta. $8200, 5 spd, 11,000 km. Exc. cond. Great on gas. Medical reason. Ask for Doug 587-272-2543

2008 VW Golf City $9888 Sport & Import 348 8788

4100

12 UNIT apartment building located in quiet Red Deer neighborhood. Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc. Automotive

5240

2010 ACURA MDX tech package 91,000 km $30,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

2006 HONDA CVR. Loaded, 121,000 km. $12,500 obo. 403-341-5866

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Public Notices

6010

Estate of David Morten Jacobsen who died on August 20, 1977

www.laebon.com

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

5190

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

Laebon Homes 346-7273

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Auto Wreckers

Vehicles Wanted 2012 INFINITI G37X $27,888 To Buy

EXEC. 1/2 DUPLEX

near Coronation Park and trail system. 1484 sq.ft. 2 storey, 3 bedrooms up, hardwood, gas fireplace, fenced back yard, New shingles in last 5 yrs. Newly dev. bsmt. Dble.garage. Quick Poss. Avail. $349,900. 403-396-5516 Agent Chosen.

2005 HUMMER H2 $24,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

5020

2008 Audi A4 2.0T $19,888. Sport & Import 348 8788 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

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If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by March 1, 2014 and provide details of your claim with The Public Trustee for the Province of Alberta at 400 S J.E. Brownlee Building 10365 - 97 Street Edmonton, AB T5J 3Z8 Phone: (780) 427-2744 Fax: (780) 422-9136 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

SENTINEL SELF-STORAGE NOTICE of SALE Goods will be sold by online Auction at ibid4storage.com on Tuesday February 18, 2014 for Sentinel Self-Storage, 543347 Street, Red Deer, Alberta to satisfy outstanding charges for storage rental incurred by the following: Rachel Fick Adam E. Rodgers Ronnie L. Jefferson Cody Dufault Roger Bajzarowicz Asia Grant Danielle Morrell Peter Pagal Brent Berekoff Tom Willetts Amber McCanna Daryl Huff Alec Kabel Bids will be accepted from FRIDAY February 14, 2014 to TUESDAY February 18, 2014.

3090

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-346-7546 ROOM FOR Rent, access to kitchen. 403-343-0421 ROOM, all utils. and cable incld, $450/mo. 403-506-3277

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass $32,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995

at www.garymoe.com

AVAIL. - 1 bdrm. w/full bath, $600/mo. incl. all utils. + cable, washer & dryer. Call 403-343-3361

Rooms FOR RENT • 3000-3200 For Rent WANTED • 3250-3390 Houses/ Duplexes

Money To Loan

4020

Condos/ Townhouses NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955

2006 Acura RSX premium auto 57,000 km $12,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

5040

SUV's

4400-4430

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park. FREE Weekly list of 403-350-1620 Gloria properties for sale w/details, WANTED: SNOWBLOWER prices, address, owner’s 403-886-5194 BACHELOR suite avail. phone #, etc. 342-7355 immed. $775 + power. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 403-872-3400 www.homesreddeer.com GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. MASON MARTIN apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 HOMES Custom new homes LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. planning service. SUITES. 25+, adults only AGRICULTURAL Kyle, 403-588-2550 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Vickers Close

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Commercial Property

FINANCIAL

1930

Viscount Drive

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

LAST 2 remaining full duplex lots in desirable neighborhood in Central Alberta. Very well priced with 4 plex as a discretionary use. Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945

5030

Cars

CLASSIFICATIONS

HALMAN Heights

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1445 SD $1000 avail. Feb. 15. 403-304-7576 or 347-7545

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

Law Close / Lewis Close Langford Close

4100

32 HOLMES ST.

SOFA & loveseat, Sklar 1 1/2 blocks west of mall, Peppler, beautiful, like 3 bdrm. bi-level, blinds, lg. new, $500. 403-342-4442 balcony, 4 appls, no pets, n/s, rent $1245 SD $1000 WANTED Avail. Feb. 15th. Antiques, furniture and 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 estates. 342-2514

2 NATIVE Blackfoot medicine and war shields (keepsake) $80/ea. 403-347-7405

880

Income Property

4010

3030

AFFORDABLE

TRAINING CENTRE

3020

Rooms For Rent

Custom made pub style 3 BDRM. in Sylvan. 4 appls., ROOMS FOR RENT, dining table, 4 chairs. fenced yard. No pets. All close to uptown. Employed Tobacco colour for table utils. incl. RENTED gentleman. Rent $400/mo, top and chair seats with s.d. $250. 403-350-4712 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 CLASSIFICATIONS black legs and trim. Built in 3bath, new paint & carpets SMALL BDRM. Furnished. storage and hidden leaf to & deck at 7316-59 Ave. 1500-1990 $450. 403-342-4604 accomodate seating for 2 Avail. to over 30 tenants. more. High quality table No pets. Off street parking purchased from Sim’s. Mint for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, Building condition. $1650 obo. D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627 403-348-3514. Supplies SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm. ENTERTAINMENT Centre, fully furn. dishes, linen, Concrete forming equipsolid cherry. $50. cable & utils. incl’d. $1200. ment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 403-342-4442 403-880-0210 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of inside corners and fillers, LAZBOY MEDIUM BROWN SYLVAN LAKE main fl., CLASSIFICATIONS SOFA & two pillows. most of forms are in cages. clean 3 bdrm., garage incl., Excellent quality soft fabric N/S, small pets ok. $1500 4000-4190 To view call Randy in like new condition. Original 403-843-1099 cell incl. utils. 760-399-0224 price $1400. Asking $750. 587-679-2334. For pics Realtors Call 403-343-0746 and detailed equipt. list Condos/ & Services emai: thepelletiers@ LIKE new black leather xplornet.ca chair and matching foot Townhouses stool $90 403-986-1720

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Apply in person after 3

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Houses/ Duplexes

stuff

EquipmentHeavy

is now accepting applications for P/T

Employment Training

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Household Furnishings

If interested in bidding, for more info and to view units, register at:

www.ibid4storage.com Dated in the City of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta this 20 day of January 2014, Sentinel Self-Storage Corp., #1970, 10123 – 99 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3H1

Executive 1/2 Duplex near Coronation Park & trail system. 1484 sq.ft. 2 storey,3 bdrms up, hardwood, gas fireplace, fenced yard, garage. $349,900. 403-396-5516 agent chosen

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Misc. Help

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

You can choose to visit your doctor 12-15% more in a year* or just walk a dog. Make the healthy choice, adopt a dog today.

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Consulting

*Studies in Germany, Australia and China show that dog owners visit their doctors 12 to 15% less than their dog-less peers.

1090

Contractors

1100

DAMON INTERIORS

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured. Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

Escorts

1165

EDEN WCB HELP If you have been cut off benefits or feel 587-877-7399 10am-midnight you have not received the benefits you are entitled. Call Norman Zubot Handyman consulting(29yrs WCB Services exp) Ph: 587-521-4691. Cell: 780-982-9822 norman.zubot@shaw.ca ALL TRADES Home Maintenance 28 yrs. exp. Retired electrician. Call Rick 403-318-4267

1200

Contractors 4505 77th Street, Red Deer, AB | 403.342.7722 | www.reddeerspca.com

1010

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. Call Roger 403-348-1060

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

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Personal Services

1315

REIKO’S Finest Asian Massage

In call only. 587-377-1298 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St.

1372

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Seniors’ Services

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

HELP FOR SENIORS:

in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certificates avail. 403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! Snow 403-986-6686 Removal Come in and see why we are the talk ACE SNOW REMOVAL of the town. 403-596-5917 www.viimassage.biz

1380

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

APOLLO LANDSCAPING has skidsteer and tandem truck avail. for snow removal. Commercial or residential. 403-598-1589 SNOW ON ROOF?? Call Fred 403-504-6029

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

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LUANN Jan. 30 1991 — The Hudson’s Bay Company announces it is selling its fur business due to declining sales. The HBC was originally founded as a fur trading company in 1670. 1990 — Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets seven per cent goods

and services tax bill through first reading in the House of Commons. The tax is to start in January 1991. 1985 — The federal government states that metric measurement will continue to be mandatory. Retailers can use the Imperial system at the same time. 1969 — Canadian ISIS 1 satellite is launched, to continue ionospheric research from the Alouette series. It weighs 241 kg.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 2014

Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com will meet on Feb. 4, 9 a.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Shannon Stunden Bower, research director of Parkland Institute at University of Alberta, will speak on From Bad to Worse: Residential elder care in Alberta. Admission is $3. Contact Shirley at 403-343-0767, or Ron at 403-346-8115. ● Golden West Drop-In in Spruce View activities: Tuesday — line dancing, 10 a.m. to noon, and Bridge 1 to 4 p.m.; first and third Wednesdays — West Country Ink, and fourth Wednesday — cribbage, 2 p.m.; first Thursday — general meeting at 2 p.m.; Coffee every morning at 8:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 10 a.m. For more information, call Ruth at 403-728-3482.

CHESS CLUB

Wednesday ● Lego Builders Wednesdays is held at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Feb. 5 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Children ages six and up, and those under six with an adult are invited to enjoy a free LEGO activity using Brick Builders enormous inventory. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. On Feb. 5 hear a feature speaker discuss and show photos of his hike along the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James) in Spain. Share a 10 minute travel story for entertainment or get inspired by listening to others. Pictures welcome. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Alberta Gerontological Nurses Association Central Chapter presentation on Difficult Conversations: Helpful Strategies will be held on Feb. 5, at Dana Soltes Auditorium at Red Deer Regional Hospital South Complex lower level. Doors open at 5 p.m., presentation from 6 to 7 p.m. with Simone Schumacher, bereavement support coordinator of Red Deer Hospice Society. All health

care professionals and students welcome. Free. No preregistration required. Phone 403358-4328. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Badlanders II is on Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

Thursday ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The Feb. 6 event features A Taste of Russia with Banff residency soprano Michele Cusson and pianist Kathleen van Mourik as musical guests. Phone 403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● That Tween Thing is offered at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch on the second Thursday of each month from 4 to 5 p.m. Tweens ages nine to 12 years are invited to participate in games, crafts, food and prizes on the theme of Chocolate Party on Feb. 6 in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room. ● Red Deer College Theatre Productions presents ‘The Three Musketeers,’ Feb. 6 to 15 on the Mainstage, Arts Centre. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403-7556626, or 1-800-661-8793. ● Red Deer College music student showcases and concert series presents Thursday Live Concert on Feb. 6 on the Mainstage, Arts Centre at 1 p.m. See http:// www.rdc.ab.ca/showtime ● Red Deer College music student showcases and concert series presents Film Works by RDC Motion Picture Arts students at City Centre Stage, Feb. 6 to 10. See http://www.rdc.ab.ca/showtime

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Every Monday from September to June, the Chess Club meets for some instruction and matches at the Dawe branch of the Red Deer Public Library. The cost is $2 per year for an Alberta Chess Club membership. Children and adults are welcome and will receive strategic lessons from an instructor and the chance to play some games. The club meets from 5 to 6 p.m. each Monday (and can run longer if there is interest). Here Damon Yiu, eight, ponders a question posed by instructor Alexey Taranik during this weeks class.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School presents Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Red Deer Memorial Centre, Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 6, and 7 at 7:30 p.m., and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 2. Call 403-342-1059 for tickets. ● Irving’s Wish Fundraiser Charity Benefit will be held on Jan. 31 at Sylvan Lake Community Centre from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Penner Family are hoping to raise $35,000 with Yugoministries to build a feeding kitchen to feed more than 300 children a year in Tijuana, Mexico. Enjoy live band, silent auction, baked goods sale, goods and items sale, 50/50 draw, kids bouncy castle, refreshments and more. Contact jenthelibrarian@hotmail.com to find out more. ● Senior Citizen’s Downtown House karaoke night is on Jan. 31 from 7 to 10 p.m. Dance, sing, sing along, or listen. Tea, coffee and donuts served. Admission by donation. Contact Ruth at 403-347-9566. ● Drop-in Pre-school Storytime is offered from 10 to 10:45 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the children’s department. Stories, songs, and crafts for three to five year olds. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Central Alberta Theatre presents Sylvia by A.R. Gurney, the comic tale of a man who becomes obsessed with the stray dog he brings home. His wife really doesn’t want the dog and so the story is about this hilarious love triangle. The show Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at City Centre Stage, 7:30 p.m. Tickets available through the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre at (403) 755-6626 or online at www.blackknightinn.ca.

Saturday ● Characters from the Past Dessert Theatre will be presented by Alix Wagon Wheel Museum and Boomtown Trail on Feb. 1, 7 p.m. at Alix Community Hall. See Gabriel Dumont, Mrs. Bashaw, Barbara Cormack. Tickets are $15 in advance from Alix Home Hardware and from museum members, or $20 at the door. ● Sierra of Taylor Drive Music Jam is held the first Saturday of every month from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Everyone welcome to play an instrument, dance or simply listen to the music. Next jam session is Feb. 1. Each session $2. No jam session in July and August. Phone Chris at 403-341-3385. ● Nature Games Day will take place on Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Take in these drop in extreme family games of all kinds with a nature theme. Admission by suggested donation of $3 per person or $20 per family. Phone 403-3462010. ● Get that eBook. Find out how to borrow eTitle novels and more on Feb. 1, 12:30 to 3 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Bring your Wi-Fi enabled mobile device. ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Faculty Jazz Concert on Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m. in Studio A, RDC Arts Centre. Take in a history of rock from Elvis and the Beatles to funk and fusion. Tickets available through Black Knight Tickets, phone, 403-755-6626, go online to www.

bkticketcentre.ca, or in person at the Black Knight Inn. ● Heart Month Kick-Off will be Feb. 1, 7 p.m. at Red Deer Rebels Hockey Game at Enmax Centrium. Other events include Only Women’s Fitness Sweet 16 Heart Month featuring $16 enrollment donations and more. The Heart and Stroke Door to Door campaign will take place all month long, and booths will be at Parkland Mall on Feb. 7 and 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and at Bower Place Shopping Centre on Feb 28 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. accepting donations. Karma Night will be held at Bikram Yoga Studio on Feb. 13 starting at 7:30 p.m. For a minimum $5 donation, enjoy 90 minutes of yoga. Donations and information at www.heartandstroke.ca ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Feb. 1 session is called Build a Bat with artist Shannon Woolgar. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission.

Sunday ● Sunday Afternoons @ the MAG will be offered from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Drop in for snowshoeing in collaboration with Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Feb. 2. Equipment supplied. No hiking boots, please. Included with general admission to the museum. See www. reddeermuseum.com under programs. ● Ground Hog Day Supper will be held on Feb. 2, 5 to 7 p.m. at Delburne Hall. Supper costs $10 for adults, $5 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for preschoolers. Sponsored by Delburne United Church. Contact Lenora at 403-749-2083.

Monday ● MAGsparks is an inclusive and accessible visual art program connecting people with developmental disabilities to the Red Deer Arts Community and will be working on Dreamcatchers on Feb. 3 and 5. There is a drop-in fee of $3. Memberships are available for persons with disabilities for $50. For information, see www.reddeermuseum, or contact Janet at 403-309-8405, janet.cole@ reddeer.ca. ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Next meeting will be on Feb. 3. Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m.

Tuesday ● Storytime at Red Deer College will be held on Feb. 4 from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Preschoolers aged two to six years and their parents/caregivers are welcome to Red Deer College Library Information Common upstairs to enjoy stories and activities by Red Deer Public Library Children’s Services. Phone 403-346-4688 to find out details. ● Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held Feb. 4 and 18. Phone 403-7424273. ● Central Alberta Council on Aging

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● One-on-One Computer Instruction for Seniors is available through the Red Deer Public Library. Learn to use a laptop, eBook reader, or other devices. Contact Tatiana at 403-318-9312 to arrange an appointment. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has several upcoming events, regular card games and tournaments and special tournaments: Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Feb. 13; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Feb. 21; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Feb. 24; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3. Tournaments cost $6. There will also be a Flag Whist on Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. for a cost of $3. A regular pot luck supper will be held on Feb. 7 at 5:30 p.m. for a cost is $5. Please bring a main dish, salad, or dessert to share. There will also be a Spaghetti and Meat Balls Supper on Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. for a cost of $12. Phone 403346-4043. ● Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon will be presented by Cow Patti Theatre Company running Feb. 13 to March 2 at Lacombe Golf and Country Club. Dinner and Brunch Theatre shows available. Shows on the following dates will support the following local charities: Feb. 20 — Lending Cupboard; Feb. 22 — The Chatelaine Club; Feb. 27 — Ponoka Victim Services; March 1 — Open Benefit. Phone 403-782-3956, after hours and weekends 403-304-6329, 403-784-2294 or theatre@cowpatti.com. ● Singing Valentines by Wild Rose Harmonizers are available to serenade your loved one on Feb. 14. Four handsome men bearing a red rose will visit the recipient at home or work and perform two tender love songs. The cost is $40 in Red Deer and $45 outside Red Deer and a photo of the occasion will be included. For bookings, contact Fran at 403-347-0436, or Ron at 403-3422145. Book early as limited spaced are available. The deadline is Feb. 12. For more information visit www.harmonizers.ca. ● Sweetheart Gala — Fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House — will be held on Feb. 15 from 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at Heartland Room, Westerner Park. Tickets, $30. Event includes a silent auction, toonie bar, prizes, 50/50 draws and midnight lunch. For tickets and information contact Courtney or Chelsey at c.malone@hotmail.com. ● Canadian Blood Services has an urgent need for blood donations due to cancellations due to bad weather. Donate blood, save lives. Visit www.blood.ca or call 1-888-2-DONATE (1-888-236-6283) to make an appointment, or for eligibility information. ● Ponoka Moose Lodge Old-Time Dance will be held on third Saturday of each month — next Feb. 15 — with music by Chwill Brothers, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Cost is $12, ($10 for Moose members.) Potluck lunch. Top name bands. See www.AlbertaDanceNews. com, or call Jean or Fred at 403-783-8587. ● Family History Fair will be held Feb. 22 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in the Bower neighbourhood from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn how to start a family history, do more research, or find out what resources are available. Lunch provided. Please register at RedDeerFHF@gmail.com. Participants may attend up to five classes. Sponsored by Red Deer Branch of Alberta Genealogical Society. ● Art of Friendship is a program for those who feel lonely or isolated, or have lost friends, or who have experienced difficult experiences and need to brush up on their friendship skills. The course is offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association for eight weeks. One session is offered on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. from March 5 to April 23 at CMHA office, and another session is offered on Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library

from March 20 to May 8. Cost is $25 for either session. Scholarships may be available. For information visit www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca. Participants must speak with staff prior to enrollment at 403-342-2266. ● Inner Peace Movement Canada will hold presentations at Super 8 Hotel on Feb. 11 at 1 and 7 p.m., and again on March 18. The cost is $21 at the door. See www.innerpeacemovement.ca. ● Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Dinner at the Cronquist House features a six course dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $140 per couple, or $150 per couple served in a private room. Presented by Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society. To purchase tickets call 403-346-0055. ● GrammaLink-Africa Fabric Sale, in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother to Grandmother Campaign will be held on April 12 at Gaetz Memorial United Church. Donations of fabric, one metre or more, wool, yarns, notions and patterns are all accepted for this sale until April 4. For pickup of donations or information, call MaryEllen at 403-340-1365 or Shirley at 403-347-5958. ● Central Alberta Theatre presents The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, the story of five working girls who struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the life. The show runs Feb. 20 to March 8, upstairs at Nickle Studio next to the Memorial Centre with performances at 7:30 p.m., and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 23. Tickets available through the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre at 403-755-6626 or online at www.blackknightinn.ca. ● Perogy Supper at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church will take place Feb. 20 5:30 to 7 p.m. Adults are $11, children 10 years and under are $6. Tickets are available at the door. Call 403-347-2335. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Feb. 8 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Hot Spur. Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403341-7653 or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● Central Alberta Quilters’ Guild Annual Quilt Show now accepting entries until March 3 for the show happening on April 4 and 5 at Parkland Pavilion Westerner Park. Quilts made by residents of Central Alberta welcome. Entry forms at centralalbertaquilters.org. Send forms to Elizabeth Hanson, wehansons@xplornet.com or fax to 403-8873051. Show hours are Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Featured quilters are Donna Deis and Elizabeth Hanson, and guest artist Sherri Hisey of Border Creek Station Pattern Co., Ont. For more information, contact quilt show coordinator Briony Goddard at 403-782-6700, mousetrap50@shaw.ca. ● Medicine River Wildlife Centre 2014 calendar is now on sale for $20. Purchase a calendar and be entered to win a Great White Shark Adventure near San Francisco as grand prize. Contact Carol at 403-7283467, or see. www.mrwc.ca ● Red Deer Aboriginal Employment Services provides assistance to Aboriginal People including resumes, cover letters, research, and job postings. For more information call 403-358-7734 or drop in to #202, 4909 48 Street, Red Deer, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed noon to 1 p.m. or see www. rdaes.com ● Benalto Train Station project is seeking financial donors who will be permanently recognized in the station interior. Donors who donate amounts of $5,000, $3,000, $1,000, $100, and $25 will be recognized. Donations may be made to Benalto Booster Club Centennial Project, Box 135, Benalto, Alberta T0M 0H0, or contact Lynne at 403-746-5746, lynben_66@yahoo.ca, or Dave at 403-7463429, or dyben@telus.net

Listings open to cultural/non-profit groups. Fax: 341-6560; phone: 314-4325; e-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com by noon Thursday for insertion following Thursday.

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