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Safe injection site a must: CAANS

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A safe injection site in Red Deer could keep drug users off of private property, according to the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society.

Jennifer Vanders h a e g e , C A A N S HOMELESSNESS executive director, THE ROOT OF THE said on Wednesday PROBLEM AT THE that offering safe RIVER VALLEY A2 injection facilities should be in the future of local support for drug users.

“Safe injection programming in Central Alberta would be something we want within the next five or 10 years,” said Vandershaege. “I don’t think Red Deer would be first in Alberta, it may be second or third.

“The program would be one of the services we (CAANS) provide or one of the services the street clinic provides.

It’s one of the pieces.”

Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer is wary of a safe or supervised injection site.

“Whether it is allowing a safe injection site or a graffiti wall, there is often a halo effect of activity, which occurs when you legitimize one use within a specific location,” said Veer. “There is often an unanticipated halo effect of that negative activity.

“I would be cautious in pursuing solutions that may have unintended consequences.”

Tenants of the River Valley Apartments in downtown Red Deer are frustrated and fearful as the result of people coming into their hallways and stairwells, using needle-injected street drugs and then discarding the needles on the floor.

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Andrea Fox of the Babycakes Cupcakery is hoping her cupcake fundraiser for the Red Deer And District SPCA will be a great success. Fox, her business partner and staff have come up with two special cupcakes that customers can vote on. The cupcake that receives the most votes will be the official fundraising cake this month. From Feb. 17-28, all proceeds from the vote and the sale of the winning cupcake will go to the SPCA in Red Deer.

Eight Michener residents have moved out

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The number of residents moved out of Michener Centre stands at eight after one more move was completed in January.

Last week, one Michener resident moved to a home in Fort McLeod.

Of the people to have moved so far, four have relocated to group homes in Edmonton and two to homes in Red Deer. Another person moved into longterm care over the Christmas holidays.

Over 200 people remain at Michener, spread across 41 homes on both the north and south sites; 113 of those individuals are scheduled to be transitioned into community group and seniors homes. Two such moves are scheduled to occur in February.

Twenty-one group homes on the Michener south site and two others off site will continue to operate for 104 residents even after other Michener Services facilities close.

Transition planning for the residents still at Michener is continuing, with almost 80 formal plans completed, according to an update from Alberta Human Services.

However, a number of guardians of Michener residents have stopped co-operating with transition planners or are delaying in anticipation of a judicial review hearing relating to the closure scheduled for mid-March.

When the Michener closure was announced last March, the stated plan was to have completed all moves by early 2014.

Seventy-five residents were to be

transferred to group homes and 50 others to long-term care centres.

At this point, the transition team has referred 77 individuals to service providers across the province, including nine referrals to Alberta Health Services for long-term care.

Four of those referrals have been approved and residents are awaiting placement.

As residents move from Michener, services on the site are set to change.

A pharmacy run by Michener Services will be shuttered in the spring, and a community-based pharmacy will take over providing services to the 100-odd residents who will remain in Michener group homes.

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Province urged to leave West Country’s wild horses alone

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Critics of the province’s wild horse cull suggest Mother Nature is doing its own cull this winter.

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There’s no need to reduce Alberta’s wild horse population, especially during this harsh winter, says the Wild Horses of Alberta Society.

Bob Henderson, president of the society, said there have been high foal mortality rates in the past two summers. The harsh winter is also likely to keep birth rates down because mares are drawing on their energy reserves just to stay alive.

These conditions provide a good op-

portunity to leave the herds alone and do another count to see if they are in fact over-populating their ranges or Mother Nature is doing its own culling, said Henderson.

“Even in a good year, the population reproduction rate is only about 10 per cent.”

Henderson doubts the population which roams a large swath of the West Country will grow this year.

“It may go down, or may remain stable. That’s why we said just leave them alone.”

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF People looking for a place to stay and keep warm have found it in a downtown apartment, and it has scared the people who pay to live there.

The co-owner of the beleaguered River Valley Apartments, Stan Schalk, said the main issue is homelessness. Tenants aren’t the problem, but instead it is the people getting into the building and occupying the hallways and stairwells.

Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer, who campaigned on a platform of public safety, said a comprehensive strategy is needed where all of the root causes are looked at. She pointed that two per cent of the 3.9 per cent tax increase council approved is specifically allocated to policing and enforcement.

“In direct response to this incident my office has been in touch with the RCMP to determine the appropriate response with respect to what was outlined in the Advocate,” said Veer. “But also to take decisive action and find ongoing strategies to prevent it from happening again on an ongoing basis.”

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Urging fellow students to get active, Red Deer College students Tiffany Richmond, left, and Lolla Aluko play a little short stick floor hockey Wednesday afternoon. The college took part in a provincewide Winter Walk Day, with an Olympic twist. The event hosted by the college had several Olympic-inspired activities including hockey, a luge-inspired toboggan run, a bobsled simulation and a winter walk outdoors.

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tion.

“The reality is we have hundreds of injection drug users in town and in Central Alberta,” said Vandershaege.

“One thing we’d really like to do is have conversations with people who use drugs to support them in being good neighbours.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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SITE: Would offer support to people who use drugs Stan Schalk, co-owner of Potter’s Hands Developments, which includes the River Valley Apartments, said on Wednesday that they are going to get security at the building.

“We are hiring a security company to walk through the building a couple of times a night,” said Schalk. “The issue isn’t so much for the tenants we have, it’s the people getting into the building. It’s more of an issue of homelessness downtown and where do they go.”

Schalk said he is trying, but admits it is tough to keep up with the damage and the garbage, adding it’s not the only building with people coming in.

Vandershaege stressed that a safe injection site in Red Deer wouldn’t be like Insight in Vancouver, which is simply a place to do injections and dispose of needles. It would also offer support for people who use drugs.

The Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation would be closer to a model that could be implemented in Alberta, she said. That is an overarching support organization that provides safe and supervised injection site and other support services for drug users to deal with their addictions.

“The real piece that safe injection programming brings is around relationship building so that when people are ready to quit they have people in their world who are there for them,” said Vandershaege.

“People who use drugs are incredibly marginalized and people treat them very badly every day.

What we do is really try to build a relationship with them so they trust us and we can use that credibility and support for them so that when they are ready to quit or change what they’re using or make any positive impact in their life, we can do that.”

She said there aren’t a lot of people in the drug users’ world who don’t judge them.

“That’s the harm reduction philosophy — we’re not here to judge people who use drugs and it would be great if they quit,” said Vandershaege, adding the reality is they’re trying to prevent death and the spread of diseases like HIV or hepatitis C. A safe injection site would provide a way to properly dispose of needles and could prevent users from going to the River Valley Apartments as they would have another place to go.

She said CAANS gives out about 29,000 needles every month. There are nine needle drop boxes in Red Deer, with one ready to be moved to a new loca-

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A request for proposals went out for pharmacy services in the fall, and PDD Central is now in the process of selecting a provider.

“This is the exact same way that all other PDD service providers operate in the province — they use community pharmacies to provide their medications and pharmacist consultations,” said spokesperson Cheryl Chichak.

The Michener nursing department will also be replaced by home care nurses from Alberta Health Services in the coming months; positions have been phased out gradually as the Michener population declines. Chichak said the change will bring the care for those remaining in the Michener group homes in line with operations at other group homes in the province.

No decisions have yet been made about what will happen with the on-site dental and rehabilitation services, according to Chichak.

To accommodate the Michener residents in community group homes, 63 new spaces are being created in the province, including 51 in Central Alberta.

Funding was provided to 10 different agencies in the region to create those spaces through the acquisition or renovation of fully-accessible homes.

Two such homes are to be ready for occupancy this month and six others by April.

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Its decision took into account a growth in the horse population from 778 animals counted in March 2012 to 980 by the following spring. The population was around 200 horses in 2006, says Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, which does a helicopter count each March.

Wildrose environment critic Joe Anglin accused the PC government of going ahead “without a clear objective or enough scientific data to support a cull.

“Wildrose supports scientifically supported methods to manage and protect a health herd of feral horses,” he said in a statement released last Friday.

If it is necessary to reduce the horse population, Wildrose supports an adoption program “instead of the current slaughter method the government is endorsing,” he adds.

Alberta Environment spokesperson Nikki Booth takes issue with calling the roundup a cull, saying the horses are captured. While some are sent for slaughter, the province knows that horse owners and ranchers take some for personal, work and recreational use, although specific numbers are not available.

“People tend to make it sound like all of them are going to slaughter, and that’s not the case,” said Booth.

Booth said feral horses have few natural predators and numbers can rise quickly.

“When that happens it can put the land out of balance. Feral horses eat the same food as the livestock and the wildlife in the area.

“So when you have a population that grows significantly you are putting pressure on the food sources for all animals. You’re also putting pressure on the native plants, which is what they are eating.

“We are trying to maintain a balance.”

Booth said the province isn’t trying to get rid of the horses, only to maintain the population at a level that doesn’t damage the environment or harm other wildlife.

Henderson said it’s not the horses that do the damage. Tens of thousands of cattle are grazed in the area every summer, compared with fewer than 1,000 wild horses.

Clear cut logging is also responsible for a lot of environmental damage, he said.

Horses were last culled two years ago when 212 horses were rounded up, most of them going to slaughterhouses, said Henderson.

Henderson admits it is frustrating refighting the same battle almost every year to try to stop the roundup. His group believes educating the public about what is happening is the best hope for the horses. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Premier disappointed in $45K cost of funeral trip

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OKOTOKS — Alberta’s premier says it’s unacceptable that it cost taxpayers $45,000 for her to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral and she wouldn’t have gone had she known the price tag.

Redford, who once worked with Mandela before she entered politics, was invited to travel with Prime Minister Stephen Harper as part of a Canadian delegation attending the former South African leader’s funeral in December. The premier’s office confirmed she travelled with an assistant.

“I’m not challenging the number. I’m surprised by the number,” she said Wednesday after making an education announcement south of Calgary. “I don’t think it was acceptable. I was disappointed. You can appreciate that it was a very fluid week and you can appreciate I’m not making my own travel arrangements in those circumstances.”

Redford took a provincial government plane to Ottawa to catch the free flight with Harper to South Africa, but she flew home early on a commercial flight at a cost of $10,000 to attend the swearing-in of her new cabinet.

“I have to say that if, at that point of time, we had understood . . . what some of those actual costs were going to turn out to be, and also how fluid the prime minister’s schedule was, I think I would have chosen not to go,” Redford said.

Opposition leaders have noted that Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil billed taxpayers less than $1,000 to go to the funeral.

They say Redford’s lavish spending on travel abroad shows contempt for taxpayers.

Wildrose critic Rob Anderson said Wednesday that Redford ought to have known the cost of her trip, or at least could’ve taken a good guess.

“One might ask how the premier didn’t know taking a private jet to Ottawa wouldn’t be expensive,” said Anderson, who added that Redford needs to pay the money back.

He said the trip, along with Redford’s recent $120,000 journey to India and Switzerland, suggests she has delusions of royalty.

“She obviously thinks she’s the Queen of England.

There’s some kind of an identity crisis going on here.

She’s not. She’s the premier of Alberta,” he said.

“She needs to start showing respect for the taxpayers that she represents and spends the money from.”

Redford has also been criticized since the release of her government’s list of public-sector employees who make more than $100,000 a year, Redford’s chief of staff, Farouk Adatia, led the way on the political side, pulling in more than $357,000 in salary and benefits in 2013.

Peter Watson, the top civil servant who works for Redford’s cabinet, was the top money-earner among mandarins at $342,000 in base salary.

The numbers showed that deputy ministers — the top civil servants in each department — earned salaries ranging in the low $200,000s to just over $300,000.

“Quite frankly it is important to compensate people appropriately. I’m not going to get into negotiating or discussing individual contracts,” Redford said “It’s a very competitive economy in Alberta. People are well compensated. Many of the people who work in the government of Alberta are paid more than in other jurisdictions across the country and that will continue.”

The children were removed from the home, where the couple were living with three other adults.

Details of the hearing are withheld to protect the identities of the children and because of a publication ban on evidence introduced during the hearing.

Preliminary hearings may be held to weigh the evidence against an accused person or people before proceeding to trial.

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Preliminary hearing underway in child neglect case A preliminary hearing is underway in Red Deer provincial court for a Central Alberta couple accused of starving their two children — a newborn girl and a young boy.

Charges were laid by police called to investigate after the couple, both in their 20s at the time, sought medical help for the baby girl. Charges of failing to provide the necessities of life and criminal negligence causing bodily harm were laid against both parents. Police allege that the offences took place in the fall of 2011.

Bacon spread pulled from shelves: could contain bacteria OTTAWA — A bacon jam produced in Edmonton is being pulled from store shelves because it may allow the growth of a bacteria that causes botulism.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency warns consumers not to eat the spread which is labelled Bacon

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The product from food company Kitchen by Brad was sold in Alberta in 125-gram and 125-millilitre sizes.

Pilot lost control of chopper during wildlife flight: probe

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Transportation Safety Board has determined there was nothing mechanically wrong with a helicopter that crashed in Alberta last spring, killing the pilot and a government biologist.

An investigation by the board, released Wednesday, said the pilot lost control of the chopper while trying to find a spot to land in the Birch Mountain area near Fort McMurray. The aircraft, operated by Wood Buffalo Helicopters, collided with a tall stand of poplar trees before dropping to the ground.

The board found that the helicopter had slowed and wind created the flying phenomenon known as “loss of tail rotor effectiveness.”

“It is the result of the tail rotor not providing adequate thrust to maintain directional control,” the board said in its report. “If not corrected, (it) can result in the loss of the helicopter.”

Two wildlife biologists with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development were on board the May 29 flight to collect discarded radio collars from vanishing woodland caribou herds in the area. Equipment was tracking the lost collars and, when the helicopter landed close enough, the workers were to set off on foot and collect them.

Kristina Norstrom, 39, of Athabasca, was killed along with the pilot, Bryce Campbell, 35, of Golden, B.C. Both were sitting on the right side of the chopper, which hit the ground.

The second scientist, Simon Slater, was sitting in the front left passenger seat. Although he was injured, he was able to crawl out of the wreckage through a broken front window, said the report.

At the time of the crash, a colleague described Slater’s wounds as serious: internal injuries, cracked ribs and damaged vertebrae. A government spokeswoman said she couldn’t comment on how he has recovered.

Board investigator Fred Burow said aerial survey flights are usually slow and low to the ground. The pilot, who showed no signs of fatigue, had received proper training that included what to do in the case of loss of tail rotor effectiveness.

Pilots would typically reduce an aircraft’s power, he said. “The problem with that is if you’re close to the ground or close to obstacles, you will start descending and possibly contact those obstacles before you can arrest the rotation.”

Burow said such episodes are uncommon and occur with little warning.

“One day it might not happen. You change the winds a little bit and you could be in a different situation.”

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Some tenants of the downtown Red Deer apartment are afraid to go out at night, and in the morning find used needles, condoms, garbage, blood and feces in their halls and stairwells. At night entrances are jury-rigged so people can come and go as they please and homeless fill the foyer before the security door waiting for someone to open it, letting them in.

The mayor said homelessness is an issue Red Deer has demonstrated strong leadership on.

“Obviously we need to continue to ensure we have adequate, affordable housing stock in the long run,” said Veer.

Winter Inn, an overnight program for homeless people in Red Deer, closed down this winter. In its stead mats were added to the People’s Place, which added 12 mats bringing their total to 35, and Safe Harbour, which added six mats for people who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol on top of their normal 20. Safe Harbour also has an extra 20 spots ready for emergencies, bringing the total to 46.

Veer said right now the Safe Harbour program is running at about 90 to 100 per cent capacity, and have had space in recent nights. People’s Place also has capacity for more mats.

“Additional shelter space helps in the short term in terms of having a safe place, particularly when its cold out, but that’s not an ideal strategy for the community,” said Veer. “What we need is long term, sustainable, affordable housing stock.”

According to statistics from City Hall from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 503 people received assistance through the provincially run Outreach and Support Services Initiative grant and the federally run Homelessness Partnering Strategy Grant, of which 35 were youths.

“My preference at this point is we have unacceptable behaviour that needs to be enforced,” said Veer. “I think it is important that we take decisive action on that front, those are tools an mechanisms that are available to us right now.

“Obviously it is in the best interest of the community if we work on a broader strategy in the long run to prevent issues like this from happening in the first place. Until we get there we need to respond with the tools and the enforcement mechanisms available to us.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ottawa can cut spending now

BY SEAN SPEER AND CHARLES LAMMAM SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE With federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty poised to unveil his 2014 budget on Tuesday, early signs indicate it will be business-as-usual, with his government staying focused on eliminating the deficit in 2015 and creating the fiscal room to provide tax relief in next year’s budget — conveniently right before the 2015 federal election campaign.

But Flaherty could take a different approach and positively surprise Canadians.

First, he could put the plan to eliminate the deficit on firmer ground.

And second, he could announce a revenue-neutral tax reform plan that forms the basis of a bold, pro-growth policy agenda.

Let’s start with the federal government’s current plan to eliminate the deficit in 2015-16, which largely rests on strong revenue growth coming to fruition. Revenues for next year and 2015-16 are projected to grow by 4.6 per cent and 5.9 per cent. These rates far exceed actual revenue growth in the two previous years, which came in at 3.0 per cent and 3.4 per cent, respectively.

In a still uncertain global economy, it is a risky plan to rely on such robust revenue projections. Past forecasts have already and consistently been lowered.

A more prudent plan would use conservative revenue projections. Doing so would reduce the risk of further downgrades altering the government’s timeline for eliminating the deficit, which has shifted many times in recent years.

The government would also be wise to cut spending, rather than merely slow its growth. While the Conservatives have slowed spending growth since 2011-12, past stimulus spending has never been fully withdrawn. Program spending is currently $11.6 billion above the pre-stimulus trend level and it is still projected to increase to $259.4 billion in 2015-16 — approximately $13 billion or 5.3 per cent higher than the latest actual number.

There are many areas where the government could cut spending without negatively impacting the government programs that Canadians rely on.

Some low-hanging fruit includes corporate welfare spending and subsidies to inefficient Crown corporations such as Via Rail.

Bringing government employee compensation more into line with private sector norms is another option. Gov-

ernment workers in Canada enjoy a 12 per cent average wage premium for comparable positions. This is on top of more generous pensions, an earlier average age of retirement, and greater job security.

Further action on the spending side would lower the risk that a revenue blip causes the government to deviate from its balanced budget timeline.

With more prudent revenue forecasts and lower program spending, the Conservatives would better position themselves for actually delivering on their commitment to balance the budget in advance of the 2015 election.

They previously made a handful of tax-related commitments conditional on eliminating the deficit. Most notable is the plan to bring in income splitting for families with children. They also pledged to introduce new or augment existing tax credits for children’s fitness and other activities. Expectations are that the government will enact these measures in next year’s budget, assuming it remains on track to eliminate the deficit.

But there is a better way and it does not require delay. Rather than proceed next year with tax relief measures that aren’t broad-based, have little positive economic effect, and add complexity to the system, the government could use this year’s budget to introduce funda-

mental personal tax reform.

That means broadening the tax base by eliminating tax credits, deductions and other special preferences in exchange for lower marginal tax rates.

This type of tax reform could be implemented in a revenue neutral way without affecting the government’s budgetary position or its plan to return to balance.

And here’s the real upside: fundamental tax reform would encourage productive activity like increased work effort, saving, investment and entrepreneurship, and at the same time reduce the complexity of the system and the unproductive costs that Canadians spend on tax compliance.

With relatively weak economic growth expected for the foreseeable future, tax reform could provide a real economic boost and ultimately contribute to higher living standards for average Canadians.

Flaherty could defy conventional wisdom with a bold, pro-growth agenda including fundamental tax reform that positions the country well for longterm economic growth. This would be a welcome surprise.

Sean Speer is the associate director of fiscal studies and Charles Lammam is resident scholar in economic policy at the Fraser Institute. This column was provided by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Federal spending priorities are all wrong A balanced budget is good but at what cost?

How many of our veterans will suffer and/or die from undiagnosed symptoms from PTSD due to cutbacks? How many young people with treatable mental issues will die or become hardened criminals in our prison system due to cutbacks in our mental health support systems? How many people will become ill and/or die from digesting contaminated food and water due to cutbacks in our safety networks?

The list goes on and almost daily we are reminded of the suffering, due in part to our government’s desire to balance the budget.

Do not get me wrong, I too desire a balanced budget and look forward to possible surpluses to eliminate debt, but at what cost?

If we took the money we are spending on those signs telling us about projects being funded by the government and put it into Veterans Affairs, would we have to close those centres?

If we took the money we are spending on advertisements about programs that ended two years ago, or do not yet exist, and invested it in mental health programs, would it have kept our most vulnerable out of prison?

We will not supply parkas to cadets but we will fly dozens of people (the prime minister, aides, his hair stylist, ministers, MPs, etc.) around the country to make announcements. It boggles the mind.

We need to look at the value of our expenses, donations, charities, programs and operations regularly but keep in mind why we have a government.

We do not have a government so one man can be king, we do not have a government so people can play politics. We have a government so we can do things collectively what we cannot do individually. Governance needs to remain separate and vastly more important than politics, and while a balanced budget is an honourable goal, if it diminishes governing to enhance the game of politics it is too great a cost.

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Tories put enforcer in referee’s garb If opposition politicians were having trouble buying into sweeping election reforms introduced Tuesday by Pierre Poilievre on behalf of Stephen Harper, it was rooted in recent history.

Specifically, it was the recent history of the democratic reform minister, Poilievre, and the prime minister, Harper.

The minister has long been the attack dog when it came to charges of Conservative voting irregularity, but now he was taking on the guise of statesman. The prime minister has long been battling with ElecTIM tions Canada on behalf of his HARPER Conservative party and the bill would appear to emasculate the chief election officer, Marc Mayrand.

The Conservatives, in one fell swoop, are putting democracy back into the hands of the people, according to their talking points.

On the surface, there are some common sense moves here — they will invest power and independence in the elections commissioner under the guidance of the public prosecutions office, eliminate the antiquated ban on transmitting election results until

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West Coast polls closed, add a day of advanced polling, end the practice of vouching for voters without proper identification, and require mandatory public registry of all elections robocalls.

Penalties will be toughened for anyone impersonating elections officials or deceiving voters and the limit of individual political contributions will go to $1,500 from $1,200.

If Poilievre were a hockey player, he’d be the chirper, the guy showering the goalie with snow and providing face washes in the corner before skating away.

Now, he has been given the stripes and a whistle and is making the rules.

Now, he is introducing a bill to keep “everyday citizens in charge of democracy.”

But it was only months ago that he was the Conservative most often deflecting charges over election irregularities in his own nest, accusing the NDP of “subverting the electoral law” by accepting $340,000 in illegal union donations “forcefully taken out of the pocket of honest, hard-working Canadians.’’

The Liberals were the home to four leadership candidates who had, at the time, unpaid illegal loans that had become illegal donations, according to Poilievre.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter Penashue, who resigned over his acceptance of illegal 2011 campaign contributions, was dubbed “one of the greatest Labradorians’’ by Poilievre.

One of Poilievre’s greatest hits was his comic treatment of alleged robocalls voting irregularities when pressed in the Commons in 2012 by New Democrat MP Alexander Boulerice: “He is referring to robocalls, he is making roboallegations. If he has evidence, he should press one. If not, he should press two to apologize. If he has the wrong number,

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Tuesday in the Commons, Poilievre rose to promote a bill that he says will “uphold the great principles of democracy that built this country. It will keep this country strong.”

But the fact remains that Elections Canada and the Conservatives have been at loggerheads since, well, before they were the Conservatives, when Harper, as president of the National Citizens Coalition, famously declared, “the jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.”

Since that time, Conservatives have battled Elections Canada over the infamous In-and-Out scandal and lost Penashue over contribution irregularities.

Harper’s former parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Mastro left the Conservative caucus after Elections Canada charged him with intentionally overspending in his 2008 campaign, then trying to cover it up, and Mayrand called for the MP privileges of Heritage Minister Shelly Glover and Conservative MP James Bezan to be removed for their failure to correct campaign expense records from the 2011 election.

That power of the chief electoral office is gone under this bill.

Poilievre said he met with Mayrand for about an hour on Aug. 22, sat with him until discussion had been exhausted, told him to call anytime and accepted 38 of his recommendations.

Mayrand was not speaking on Tuesday. That a history of bad blood between the Conservatives and Elections Canada ends with power flowing to the independent elections commissioner and away from the chief electoral officer can only engender suspicion regardless of the merits of the bill.

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‘Unfair’ process denies vets benefits peals process.

“This is an area of unfairness which needs to be looked at,” Daigle said.

His comments echo complaints from the country’s veterans ombudsman, Guy Parent.

Daigle said he has had heard from former members directly, even though his mandate doesn’t extend to Veterans Affairs, and told senators one individual described the process “as the equivalent of being pushed off a cliff.”

The Harper government, in defending itself over a series of military suicides last fall, urged soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress to come forward and seek help. Last week longtime Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant declared that the mental illness stigma soldiers have to overcome “is a stigma within themselves.”

Stigma is an important obstacle, but the fear of what will happen to soldiers

and their families afterwards is real and justified, Daigle said.

He noted that 90 per cent of the soldiers assigned to defence support units, where they are supposed to get help, end up being dismissed. Many of them face not only a battle for benefits, but they are kicked out before qualifying for a fully indexed pension.

“This is very unfair,” he said.

The mechanism through which the soldiers are dismissed is the military’s universality-of-service rule, which requires all members to be physically and mentally fit to deploy.

Sen. Romeo Dallaire, a former general and a passionate advocate for soldiers with post-traumatic stress, says it’s time to revisit the rule.

He said he saw nothing wrong in allowing as many as 2,000 wounded or injured soldiers to continue to serve, over and above the existing ranks of

68,000 full-time members.

“If industry is going to employ them, why can’t we employ them and use that experience?” Dallaire asked.

There has been a barrage of stories about the poor treatment of veterans over the last several months. The issue was brought into sharp focus with the closure of eight Veterans Affairs district offices, and revelations that National Defence has failed to fill out its ranks of mental health professionals.

The sometimes bitter debate, set against the backdrop of recent suicides, saw calls for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino’s dismissal.

Dallaire said he’s been troubled by what he’s seen and announced that the Senate veterans committee will conduct an in-depth review of how soldiers with post-traumatic stress are treated.

Military procurement system to put greater emphasis on arms exports

Former election watchdog pans bill for campaign spending

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Some Canadian soldiers given medical discharges find they don’t qualify for benefits because Veterans Affairs uses different, more stringent criteria in an “unfair” process, the military ombudsman told a Senate committee Wednesday.

Pierre Daigle, whose term ends in a few weeks, testified many ex-soldiers have to fight to prove the conditions that made them ineligible to serve are a result of their service.

Once released, Veterans Affairs demands the ill and injured be subject to a separate assessment above and beyond whatever examination has been conducted at National Defence.

For veterans it can be a bureaucratic conundrum that often leads to a denial of benefits and a lengthy ap-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The equipment needs of the Canadian military will be assessed with a more skeptical eye under the Harper government’s new system of defence procurement.

The strategy, released Wednesday, also puts greater emphasis on arms exports by developing policies to “support international sales opportunities.”

The plan introduced by Public Works Minister Diane Finley and Defence Minister Rob Nicholson is meant to fix years of botched military purchases.

“Folks, I am pledging to you today that we are going to be managing things different and better,” Finley told an audience of mostly defence contractors and lobbyists at an Economic Club of Canada breakfast.

A series of delays and failed plans to re-equip the military have been a recurring embarrassment for the Conservatives.

The auditor general’s bruising 2012 assessment of the plan to buy 65 F-35 stealth fighters left the government’s reputation for good fiscal management in tatters, with allegations that De-

fence and Public Works low-balled the price tag.

“We know there have been issues in the area of defence procurement and we’re not going to just wish these problems away,” Finley said. “Canadians have every reason to expect more from their government.”

The inability to deliver long-promised supply ships for the navy, and maritime helicopters for the air force, have also caused political problems for the government.

A $2-billion plan to buy armoured fighting vehicles for the army was scrapped just before Christmas. The system has even failed to deliver something as straightforward as 1,500 trucks.

Finley said the government believes requirements set by the military “were too complex, and too often they appear to be set to achieve pre-determined outcomes.”

She was referring to the nearly decade-long effort to replace the country’s fixed-wing search-and-rescue planes in a process where the air force was accused of wiring the specifications to favour one bidder.

The new strategy introduces an independent challenge function within National Defence that will question the need for each major capability.

Affordability, especially in the face of declining defence spending, has been a key problem in many of the botched programs. The Conservatives have been repeatedly surprised by the price tags of some projects when it comes time to open the bids.

Another cornerstone of the plan will be consultation with defence industry contractors before projects go out the door. National Defence will begin posting an annual list of its equipment needs, beginning in June.

Tim Page of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries said the posting will be a critical improvement for companies who often struggle to anticipate the priorities of National Defence.

The new system will also see increased co-operation among Defence, Public Works and Industry officials under an umbrella secretariat at Public Works.

The plan rejects creating an independent military procurement board, as other countries have done, and instead builds on existing structures and practices.

The government will also become more involved in steering Canadian defence contractors toward individual procurements.

Only operating submarine on East Coast to undergo repairs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — The navy says its only operating submarine on the East Coast will have to undergo repairs for six to seven months because of a broken generator.

Capt. Peter Ryan says HMCS Windsor will be out of commission for repairs from March until September at a navy facility in Halifax.

Ryan says the generator is one of two on the submarine that provides a crucial source of power for the vessel.

He says it is a key piece of equipment that must be fixed before the

submarine can return to operations.

The submarine spent five years in a refit from 2007 until the middle of 2012, when it was returned to service.

The navy’s four submarines were once heralded as a great bargain for taxpayers, but the poor condition of the British-built, diesel-electric vessels has since tarnished their reputation. Prior problems with the fleet include extensive rust, flooding and hull dents.

HMCS Victoria — based on the West Coast — is now the navy’s only fully operational submarine, having completed the test firing of a live torpedo.

Windsor was in operation but remained under dive restrictions and

wasn’t certified to fire its weapons.

HMCS Corner Brook is in dry dock for life extension and repairs after hitting the ocean floor.

The navy recently said HMCS Chicoutimi — which was damaged in a fire 10 years ago that killed a sailor — has been rebuilt and is set to return to the fleet.

Johanna Quinney, a spokesperson for Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, said in an email that the navy remains operationally ready.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s former elections watchdog is panning the Harper government’s electoral reform bill for giving political parties both a front and back door route to significantly increase spending during campaigns.

And opposition parties say it’s no accident that will benefit the party with the deepest pockets — which happens to be Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.

Indeed, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair charged Wednesday that the bill is mostly about “loading the dice” in favour of the Conservatives, whom he called “serial cheaters.”

Jean-Pierre Kingsley, former chief electoral officer, is more charitable.

He believes the Fair Elections Act, introduced Tuesday, is relatively solid overall and contains numerous beneficial changes.

But he disagrees with at least one provision, which would allow political parties to exempt an untold amount of money spent on fundraising activities from their campaign spending limits.

“I don’t think that this is a good idea,” Kingsley said.

Spending money on fundraising is part of the cost of mounting a campaign “and that’s an expenditure,” he said.

“So why it would become an exception, I don’t know . . . The only reason I can think of is that it’s becoming an important expenditure. If they were spending peanuts on it, they would not exclude it.”

Kingsley called the provision “a reverse way of increasing the (spending) ceiling even further,” which he noted the bill is directly proposing to increase by five per cent.

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World’s intel agencies to ensure Olympics are safe: Putin

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCHI, Russia — President Vladimir Putin pointed Wednesday to the Boston Marathon bombings as a big reason for the intense security around the Winter Olympics that Russia is kicking off this week.

The Chechen brothers accused of the 2013 Boston attacks hailed from just a few hundred kilometres away from the Olympic sites at Sochi. This Black Sea town and neighbouring Caucasus Mountains are readying to host world leaders, thousands of athletes and many more spectators at the Feb. 7-23 games.

Twin bombings in another southern Russian city in December have heightened terrorism fears around the Sochi events.

Intelligence agencies from multiple countries will be working together around the clock at a special headquarters in Sochi, Putin said while visiting Olympic sites Wednesday.

“In the U.S., people died at a marathon, during the G-8 there were terrorist acts in the London subway,” he said, according to Russian news agencies.

Putin rose to power and popularity 15 years ago on law-and-order, hardon-terrorism policies that critics say go too far and suppress human rights. He had long warned the West about the dangers posed by Chechen rebels, and urged closer security co-operation with Washington after the Boston Marathon attacks.

Putin has made security central to the Olympic project, in which he has taken an unusual personal interest.

Despite hang-ups and criticism

and higher costs than any Olympics in history, Putin told athletes and staff Wednesday that “Russia is ready to host the games.”

The Olympic zone on the Black Sea shore still looks like a construction area. Some hotel rooms aren’t quite finished. And electricity outages occasionally disrupt the intense security measures.

Putin obliquely referred to the unfinished nature of some sites, calling Sochi “the world’s biggest construction project.” The construction started largely from scratch, as workers filled in swamp land on the shores of the Black Sea for the skating arena, hockey stadium and other key sites, and built up ski facilities on what had been largely untapped slopes.

Putin proudly oversaw the raising of a Russian flag in front of Olympic venues, but didn’t mention other criticism he and Russia have come under about the games: corruption in building projects, pressure on environmental activists, anger over a Russian law seen as infringing on gay rights, even a campaign to shoot stray dogs in Sochi’s streets.

Humane Society International sent Putin a letter urging him to stop targeting the dogs. Calling it “not only inhuman but ineffective,” the group in a statement recommended mass sterilization and vaccination instead.

Putin also gave a pep talk to Russia’s Olympic athletes, after the national disgrace of winning just 15 medals in Vancouver in 2010.

Fans “will be watching your every appearance with the greatest attention,” he is quoted as saying. “We are all counting on you.”

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In a devastating report hailed by abuse victims, the UN committee severely criticized the Holy See for its attitudes toward homosexuality, contraception and abortion and said it should change its own canon law to ensure children’s rights and their access to health care are guaranteed.

The Vatican promptly objected and its UN ambassador accused the committee of having betrayed the international body’s own objectives by allowing itself to be swayed by pro-gay ideologues. He said it appeared the committee simply hadn’t listened when the Holy See outlined all the measures it has taken to protect children.

The report puts renewed pressure on Pope Francis to move decisively on the abuse front and make good on pledges to create a Vatican commission to study sex abuse and recommend best practices to fight it. The commission was announced in December.

The committee issued its recommendations after subjecting the Holy See to a daylong interrogation last month on its implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the key UN treaty on child protection, which the Holy See ratified in 1990.

Critically, the committee rejected the Vatican’s longstanding argument that it doesn’t control bishops or their abusive priests, saying the Holy See was responsible for implementing the treaty not just in the Vatican City State but around the world “as the supreme power of the Catholic Church through individuals and institutions placed under its authority.”

In its report, the committee blasted the “code of silence” that has long been used to keep victims quiet, saying the Holy See had “systematically

placed preservation of the reputation of the church and the alleged offender over the protection of child victims.”

It called on the Holy See to provide compensation to victims and hold accountable not just the abusers, but also those who covered up their crimes.

“The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by, and the impunity of, the perpetrators,” the report said.

It called for Francis’ nascent abuse commission to conduct an independent investigation of all cases of priestly abuse and the way the Catholic hierarchy has responded over time, and urged the Holy See to establish clear rules for the mandatory reporting of abuse to police and to support laws that allow victims to report crimes even after the statute of limitations has expired.

No Catholic bishop has ever been sanctioned by the Vatican for sheltering an abusive priest, and only in 2010 did the Holy See direct bishops to report abusers to police where law enforcement requires it. Vatican officials have acknowledged that bishop accountability remains a major problem and have suggested that under Francis, things might begin to change.

The committee’s recommendations are non-binding and there is no enforcement mechanism. Instead, the UN asked the Vatican to implement the recommendations and report back by 2017. The Vatican was 14 years late submitting its most recent report.

The committee is made up of independent experts, not other UN member states — the case on the larger and often politicized UN Human Rights Council, which also sits in Geneva. The Committee on the Rights of the Child is one of 10 UN bodies that monitor implementation of the core UN human rights treaties, and its 18 members include academics, sociologists and child development specialists from around the globe.

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No changes needed to Ohio execution policy COLUMBUS, Ohio — Initial reviews of an execution in which an inmate repeatedly gasped and took 26 minutes to die found no reason to change the new way Ohio puts prisoners to death.

The reviews, required by prison rules, found that the state execution policy was followed and execution and medical team members did what they were supposed to.

The state still plans a longer review of Dennis McGuire’s Jan. 16 execution. It was the longest procedure since Ohio resumed putting inmates to death in 1999.

McGuire, 53, made repeated snorting sounds and opened and shut his mouth several times during his execution by a never-tried drug combination. He appeared to be unconscious during that time.

His family is suing, saying it was cruel and inhumane.

Lawyers representing Gregory Lott, scheduled to die March 19 for a 1986 arson death, are suing to stop that execution based on what happened to McGuire.

McGuire was executed for the 1989 rape and stabbing of a pregnant woman.

CVS Caremark plans to snuff out tobacco sales CVS, the secondlargest drugstore chain in the United States, is kicking the habit of selling tobacco products as it continues to shift its focus toward being more of a health-care provider.

The company said Wednesday that it will phase out cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco by Oct. 1 in its 7,600 stores nationwide, in a move that will help grow its business that works with doctors, hospitals and others to improve customers’ health.

The move is the latest evidence of a big push in the drugstore industry that has been taking place over several years. Major drugstore chains have been adding in-store clinics and expanding their healthcare offerings. Their pharmacists deliver flu shots and other immunizations, and their clinics now manage chronic illnesses like high blood pressure and diabetes and treat relatively minor problems like sinus infections.

Life-like sculpture of man wearing underpants causes stir WELLESLEY, Mass.

— A remarkably lifelike sculpture of a man sleepwalking in nothing but his underpants has some students at a U.S. women’s college protesting, but the school president says it’s part of the intellectual process.

The sculpture is part of an exhibit by sculptor Tony Matelli at Wellesley College. Its placement at a busy area of campus on Monday prompted a student petition to have it removed.

The sculpture is a “source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault” for many, according to the petition, which had nearly 300 signees on Wednesday.

But a joint statement issued Wednesday by President H. Kim Bottomly and museum Director Lisa Fischman says, “The very best works of art have the power to stimulate deeply personal emotions and to provoke unexpected new ideas, and this sculpture is no exception.” The sculpture “has started an impassioned conversation about art, gender, sexuality and individual experience, both on campus and on social media.”

Explosions kill 34 in heart of Baghdad in that attack, the officer said.

All the roads leading to the blast sites place were sealed off by police as workers cleared debris and washed away bloodstains from the sidewalks.

Another parked car bomb exploded in Khilani Square, a busy commercial area in central Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 11, another police officer said.

Security forces sealed off the area as firefighters struggled to put out the blaze ignited by the bombing. Smoke billowed from several stores and stalls as vendors hurriedly stuffed their goods into big bags and carried them away on their backs.

Shortly before sunset, a triple car bombing struck an outdoor market in the mainly Shiite suburb of Jisr Diyala in southeastern Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 24. Minutes later, a rocket landed near the western gate of the green zone, killing one passer-by and wounding seven others, police said.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks, but car bombings and suicide attacks targeting government buildings, security forces and Shiites are typically carried out by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq. In August 2009, the group claimed responsibility for massive suicide attacks on the Foreign Ministry as well as the Finance Ministry that killed more than 100 people.

The network now known as the Islam-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Multiple explosions rocked Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people and sending plumes of smoke into the sky across the street from a major government building in a brazen reminder of the ability of insurgents to penetrate the heart of the capital.

The attacks come as al-Qaida-led militants are battling for control of mainly Sunni areas to the west in the first test of the Shiite-led government to maintain security in the country more than two years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

The deadliest of Wednesday’s attacks took place across the street from the highrise building housing the Foreign Ministry, shattering the windows of nearby apartment buildings. Two parked car bombs went off simultaneously in different parking lots, killing at least 12 people, including three policemen, and wounding 22, a police officer said.

Shortly afterward, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a nearby falafel restaurant frequented by officials or visitors waiting for security escorts to take them inside the Green Zone, a walled-off area that houses the prime minister’s office and the U.S. and other foreign embassies.

Five people were killed and 12 wounded

ic State of Iraq and the Levant has been emboldened by the successes of its fellow militants in the civil war next door in Syria and by widespread Sunni anger at the government in Baghdad.

A bomb went off later inside a cafe in the mainly Sunni neighbourhood of Dora, killing two people and wounding six, officials said. It was unclear who was responsible for that attack. Sunni insurgents frequently target rivals within the community who have allied with the government. Shiite extremists also sometimes plant bombs in Sunni areas, raising fears of a new wave of retaliatory violence that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in the years following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.

Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim said the recent attacks in Baghdad represent “a futile reaction by the terrorist groups toward the defeats they are suffering at the hands of the security forces in the western Anbar province.”

Since late December, al-Qaida-led militants have taken over parts of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi and the centre of nearby Fallujah, prompting a standoff with government soldiers.

Inquiry accuses Sri Lankan forces of wartime abuses curity forces perpetrated the vast majority of alleged crimes during the investigation period,” the report said.

The investigation also found evidence that suggests the government “may have sought systematically to exhume and destroy evidence of mass civilian deaths.”

The report, called “Island of Impunity,” calls for an internationally mandated investigation into the allegations. It was produced by a five-member panel of experts who examined testimony from witnesses, documentary evidence and other reports.

The report comes at a time of great international pressure on the island nation.

On Tuesday, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said it would be a “grave crime” if anyone brings war crime allegations against his government over its con-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI — Sri Lankan security forces carried out arbitrary killings, torture and rape in the final months of the country’s quarter-century civil war and tried to destroy evidence of mass civilian deaths, according to the results of an independent investigation released Wednesday.

The Australia-based Public Interest Advocacy Center’s report also accuses Sri Lankan forces of broad human rights violations in 2008 and 2009 as they smashed a sustained Tamil rebellion for an independent homeland.

“Although violations were committed by both sides, the evidentiary material indicates that members of the Sri Lankan se-

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Rajapaksa did not mention any country in an Independence Day speech, but the United States has said that it is frustrated

by Sri Lanka’s lack of progress in postwar reconciliation and accountability, and that it will bring a third resolution to the United Nations human rights body calling on Sri Lanka to do more.

Details of the resolution have not been revealed.

“I see the allegations of war crimes attempted to be brought against Sri Lanka in Geneva as a victory for those who are opposed to peace,” said Rajapaksa, adding that it was a “grave crime” to make such accusations based on information provided by “separatists and losers.”

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ABOVE: Why do Alberta hunters need to hunt sand hill cranes when they’re not doing enough to control the overpopulation of the iconic Canada goose?

BOTTOM RIGHT: Prairie Rose, out and about on an April Fool’s Day. BOTTOM LEFT: Environment-Sustainable Resource Development Minister Robin Campbell, with a Maligne Lake rainbow.

Squabbling over a gut pile RESOLUTIONS UP FOR DEBATE AT THE AFGA 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE FAIL TO ADDRESS MAJOR THREATS TO ALBERTA’S WILDLIFE I didn’t even try to get to the West Country on Feb. 2 to check on Prairie Rose, my favourite Prairie Creek groundhog, or woodchuck, whatever.

I suspect that the two metres and more of snow that held me back also kept her from surfacing to do her weather forecasting duty; had she done so, she would surely have seen her shadow and, given us glad tidings of only six more weeks of winter.

Usually I don’t see Rose up and about until my traditional April Fool’s Day trip, also the opening day of fishing season.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, BOB Canadian Edition, for which SCAMMELL I write and respect for their uncanny long-range weather forecasts, says eight more weeks of winter, followed by a drier and warmer April and May than usual.

Deep snow is a mixed blessing. Rose is lucky to slumber, like the garlic we planted in late August, under that thick “mulch” of snow. People do not realize that the insulating effect of snow can be hazardous to ice fishermen who are reporting slush, water and very thin ice under the deep snow on the lakes.

Heavy snow can also be slow death for deer, which have been yarding-up for some time out there already; most will eat themselves out of yard and home, then slowly starve to death before we are done with this winter.

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Signs along the North Raven River tell the story of and Alberta Fish and Game Association resolution becoming Alberta’s first Bucks for Wildlife Project. hibernation, deep snow or not, to attend the annual renewal and recharging of the late February conferences of the Alberta Fish and Game Association. But this year I’ll be missing from what would have been my 48th straight, Feb. 20 to 22 at the Quality Hotel and Conference Centre in Fort McMurray.

Fort Mac is too much of a trip for me in my vehicle, and I can’t handle the steps up into the buses that are chartered to take delegates from Edmonton, for example. Either way, I have yet to find a hotel that offers adequate handicapped-friendly rooms and other facilities, without which few of us can survive three days.

Even many of the able-bodied are passing on the trek to Fort Mac, which is making it difficult for me to cover the proceedings of Alberta’s oldest (106 years), largest (25,000 members) and most widely representative (100 community clubs from all over Alberta) conservation organization. But cover it I shall, with the assistance of AFGA members and staff who have been family to me, even before I served as their president from 1973 to ’75, making me their oldest living past president in terms of when I served.

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Zone maps provide clues to what plants will grow where Flip through outdoor plant books, seed catalogues or plant tags and beside every plant there is the word zone and a number. These numbers correspond to a government map that was developed by the Department of Agriculture in 1967 and updated in 1990 and again in 2000.

Climatic information was gathered across Canada concerning the number of frostfree days, average minimum temperature in winter, average maximum temperature in summer, precipitation between June and November, average maximum snow depth and maximum wind gusts.

Information about 174 varieties of trees and shrubs from 108 locations across Canada LINDA was gathered. All the inforTOMLINSON mation was then plugged into a formula and zones were mapped.

Central Alberta is divided into Zones 2, 2a, 2b, 3, 3a. Zone 2 being the coldest and 3a the warmest. Plants that are rated for colder zones will also grow well in warmer areas.

The Department of Agriculture has never tested perennials or bulbs for zone hardiness.

Some new perennials are placed in trial gardens

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throughout Canada and the United States. These results are made public and give a fair indication of where the plant will thrive.

It would be prohibitively expensive to test all perennials and bulbs.

People within the plant industry rely on each other and their customers to find out what plant grows well in a given zone. This information will make its way into catalogues, books or tags, which is why the same plant can be classified under different zones depending on who is publishing the information.

The zone map is not an exact science. Microclimates are everywhere as they are influenced by a number of different factors. Areas that are sheltered by trees, fences or buildings are warmer than ones in the open. Low land has less frost-free days than slopes. A slope facing south or west is warmer than one facing north or east.

Snow cover of six inches (15 cm) or more offers insulation from the cold and fluctuating temperatures making a big difference to plant’s ability to overwinter.

Soil type also plays a huge part in micro climates.

Clay soil holds the heat at night while sandy soil warms up faster in the spring. Soil pH affects nutrient levels. A high pH often ties up nutrients, preventing plants from absorbing nutrients that are in the soil.

Sufficient moisture throughout the spring, summer and fall is needed to produce a healthy plant.

Plants that are stressed by improper amounts of water and nutrients will be less likely to survive regardless of the weather.

Temperature affects the plant’s ability to grow, flower and set seed. The warmer the temperature, the quicker a plant will mature.

In areas like Central Alberta where there are not a large number of days between frost, warm weather can make a difference between a plant maturing before the first frost or not.

Plants that start from seed each have a slightly differ genetic makeup than others that came from the same seed pod. Growers will plant seeds in hope that one of the seedlings has the desired characteristics that make it superior to what is already available.

Gardeners who start plants, perennials, annuals, trees and shrubs from seed have the same chance of finding a seedling that is better or hardier than others of the same variety. The results can be a plant rated as zone 4 growing in zone 2.

For a plant to be hardy in a zone, it has to do more than survive. It had to produce new growth that lasts for more than a season. It has to be attractive and worthy of space in the garden, not just an oddity. The plant should also grow for a number of years.

To look at the government zone map type, go to http://atlas.agr.gc.ca/agmaf/index_eng.html Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

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Obesity 67 per cent of Canadians is a symptom are vitamin D deficient

In my practice, I have been asked many times about herbs to help with weight loss. Up until now, I have been extremely cautious about using plant medicine specifically for weight loss for a number of reasons: ● Weight gain or obesity is a symptom. To simply address weight is to miss the underlying cause and provide a quick fix. Quick fixes rarely provide longterm support for serious health challenge and can be physically and mentally dangerous.

Obesity is a serious health challenge. To resolve the physiological and psychological causes of obesity requires a willingness to acknowledge deeply-held belief systems while making radical lifestyle changes including easing off on the viscous diet/binge cycle.

Making these kinds of changes requires commitment on behalf of both the individual working to balance their ABRAH weight and the persons supARNESON porting them. ● Many people who ask me HERBS FOR LIFE for support in weight loss do not have weight challenges other than sensitivity to the extreme societal pressure to be thin.

When someone needs to lose a few pounds, I always recommend exercise and home-cooked meals.

These lifestyle changes will bring long-term health benefits besides helping one lose a few pounds. ● A little extra weight can be a blessing. At one time in my life I was very ill. When I walked out (and my nurses were amazed that I was walking) of the hospital, I weighed 80 pounds. It was a good thing I carried an extra ten pounds when I became ill.

Those 10 pounds saved my life. ● Obesity is a new challenge for human beings.

Historically, herbal medicine was rarely offered to reduce weight. Herbals are full of plants that support weight gain, particularly during convalescence. ● Promoting quick-fix weight loss with medicinal plants has caused death and given herbal medicine a bad name. Ephedra (ephedra sinica) is one such plant. Ephedra, a Chinese herb called ma-haung, has help asthmatic breath for centuries. Never before 1980 was it used for weight loss. Then taking ephedra in high doses was promoted to increase metabolism and cause weight loss. The consequences of ignoring ephedra’s traditional uses and prescribing it for weight loss were death, heart attacks and temporary weight loss. Plants are as complicated as the conditions they treat and rarely provide a quick fix for chronic conditions.

Recently, I have been working with a number of obese clients. Listening to their stories and the extreme limitations that obesity has placed on their lives, I have rethought my approach to plant medicine for weight loss.

My research into obesity has given me to a new understanding of how herbal medicine can support an individual in weight loss while addressing the underlying causes.

Here are two things I have learned: ● The key to weight loss is regular maintenance of the body’s needs. This means regular bathroom visits, regular sleep, regular food, regular movement and regular fun! Within the body, an internal clock ticks that runs the body’s maintenance schedule.

This clock is called circadian rhythms and is run by hormones, including cortisol and melatonin.

When circadian rhythms are out of sync, sleep is irregular, bowels are irregular, appetite is irregular and the mood is irregular. This leads to erratic eating and exercise.

There are many herbs that can help the body find its rhythms. For example: rhodiola (rhodiola roscea) improves hormonal regulation of sleep, licorice root (glycyrrhiza glabra) moderates the effect of cortisol on fat storage, and devil’s club (oplpanax horridus) improves blood sugar balance. ● People who carry weight experience pain. The pain limits their ability to move and wears on their moods and motivation while interrupting sleep.

Pain is exhausting. To establish regular circadian rhythms, it’s necessary to offer pain relief that does not compromise either physical or mental health.

Plants like turmeric (curcuma longa) can ease pain while supporting circadian rhythms, while plants like willow bark (salix spp) ease the experience of pain in the body.

Obesity is an complex health challenge and I have barely touched on how plant medicine can support individuals severely affected by their size.

As with all complex medical conditions, individuals suffering with them need to be treated with care and compassion. I rarely find either of these virtues present in quick fixes.

Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. com.

Are you among the 67 per cent levels through your diet and supof Canadians who are vitamin D plementation. deficient?

Testing is done via blood and Everything from migraines to should ideally occur in the spring cancers, depression, osteoporosis, (when we typically have the lowpoor immunity and heart disease est levels) and in the fall (when can be linked to low we typically have the levels of vitamin D. highest levels).

A survey conducted Major sources of viby Statistics Canada tamin D can be found found evidence that in fortified foods. two-thirds of the CaThe only natural nadian population has sources of vitamin D in vitamin D levels below the Canadian food supthe required amount ply are fatty fish and associated with optimal egg yolks. health.

The optimal levAre you part of this els of vitamin D from statistic? blood testing have What is your vitamin been under debate in SHANE D level? the last few years, with Vitamin D is unique the most recent reJOHNSON because it can be made search suggesting that by the body through ex- NATUROPATHIC we should have a level posure to sunlight and of at least 75 nmol/L. MEDICINE is commonly known as The Vitamin D Sothe “sunshine vitamin.” ciety recommends that Considering the fact that Cana- in order to prevent the majority dian winters stretch close to six to of vitamin D-deficient diseases, a eight months of the year, you can level of 100-150 nmol/L is necesstart to see why so many of us are sary and went as far as declaring vitamin D deficient.

Nov. 2, 2013, as Vitamin D Day, The body’s ability to produce where they urged people to recvitamin D is affected by factors ognize the vitamin D deficiency such as latitude (distance from as a “world problem” and to take the sun), which is why I believe action and get tested. you should be tested at least once Yet, the Vitamin D Society’s per year, if not twice, to ensure research is drastically different that you are maintaining optimal than Health Canada’s recommen-

dation of 50 nmol/L, in which they believe a person would be considered “sufficient” in vitamin D in relation to bone health.

However, no recommendations were made specifically in regards to optimal health and disease prevention by Health Canada.

Realistically, almost all Canadians need to be supplementing vitamin D on a year-round basis to reach and sustain optimal health levels.

Vitamin D levels should always be tested first to ensure that toxic levels are not reached with supplementation.

Talk to your doctor today and do your due diligence to help prevent some of the most common chronic illnesses linked to vitamin D deficiencies.

Get tested and start incorporating this supplement into your daily life to help maintain overall health and wellness.

Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine.

He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

Are you single? Reach for these health bonuses Almost a third of North Americans — more than 103 million of you — are living single.

And despite the constant press about the health benefits of marriage (married people are 17 per cent more likely to catch cancers in earlier, more-treatable stages and 20 per cent more likely to survive cancer than unmarried folks, according to a new Harvard Medical School review of the health histories of 1.2 million people), there’s no reason you can’t enjoy healthy perks living on your own.

For example, one study found that couples in an antagonistic relationship have 40 per cent slower wound healing; so it’s not just any old marriage that makes your immune system stronger!

And another shows that single people tend to work out more and gain less weight over time, a surefire way to stay healthier and dodge everything from dementia and depression to breast or prostate cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

So if you’re looking for ways to boost your health and keep it there on your own (whether you’re single, in a stressful marriage or in a longterm, unmarried relationship), here are four steps that give you the health-protecting power of the much-touted “marriage health bonus.”

Step 1: Emphasize your single (or self-reliant) advantages.

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DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN Marriage increases a woman’s risk for being overweight by 3.9 per cent, and a guy’s by 6.1 per cent. The reason?

People eat up to 41 per cent more when they eat together!

That translates into more pounds and body fat.

So don’t despair if you’re eating meals alone, just make sure you take the time to cook for yourself all the healthy, sizzling flavours and foods that you deserve to enjoy. Don’t go the “zap a frozen dinner, watch TV, eat too fast, have ice cream from the container” route!

Singles also have more time and more inclination to get physical activity. So make sure you’ve included time for exercise in your daily schedule.

If you enlist a workout buddy, you’ll stick with it and reap the benefits of companionship — less stress, better mental health and improved cardio health!

Plus, being single after a difficult marriage automatically bestows a health boost by reducing chronic stress. (That former stress amped up inflammation and raised your risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, depression, reduced immunity and even diabetes.) So don’t focus on the negatives in your new life; do whatever you can to sustain a more stress-free, healthier lifestyle.

Step 2: Cultivate close connections with others and yourself, and de-stress daily. Friends give life meaning, and spending time with them switches on health-bestowing nerve pathways.

So make time to hang out with like-minded people in a community group or club, at work or volunteer to help others.

People with close friends are more likely to live longer without disability, keep their mental functions and have a healthy heart that can tolerate the exercise

of sex!

For stress reduction, practise a “loving kindness” meditation (wish yourself, then others, a healthy, happy life). It will increase your sense of connection to others — an experience that tones up your vagus nerve.

That’s a good thing. The vagus nerve relays information to your internal organs; when it’s tunedup, it helps you relax so your body can repair itself. Also, harness the stress-reducing powers of exercise and of spending time with a pet, listening to music or laughing every day.

Step 3: Eat more fruits and vegetables. Studies show that you munch less fruit and fewer veggies than your married pals.

Maybe because you’re busy, don’t want to cook spinach just for one, hate the idea of uneaten produce going bad in the fridge or have fewer food dollars to spend.

Bump up your quota (aim for at least five servings a day; nine is best) by investing in frozen vegetables and fruit (we love raspberries on oatmeal or in yogurt), canned varieties that are low in sodium and sugar, and seasonal goodies (usually riper and the best bargains in the produce aisle).

Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit www. sharecare.com.

Storms, floods, disasters demonstrate importance of home emergency plans

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS Last summer, surging flood waters forced the evacuation of a section of Calgary that is home to 80,000 people.

Over Christmas, an estimated three million people were affected by power outages caused by an ice storm that hit Central and Eastern Canada . Last month, 4,000 residents of polar vortex-gripped Niverville, Man., lost natural gas delivery as a result of a pipeline explosion.

If there was ever a teachable moment in which to drive home the importance of household emergency planning, this may be it.

Agencies like the Canadian

Red Cross as well as federal, provincial and municipal governments all urge Canadian households to have an emergency plan.

The idea they promote is that people need to be able to take care of themselves for three days — 72 hours — in case bad weather or other types of disasters force people to hole up in their homes or flee them in a hurry.

But few households seem to take the message on board, says John Bryne, director general for disaster management for the Canadian Red Cross.

That organization conducted a poll about 18 months ago in which it asked Canadians if they had experienced disruptions like floods, bad storms or major power outages.

Almost half of respondents said they had experienced at least two disasters or disruptive events.

But fully two thirds admitted they had taken no steps to prepare for emergencies or disasters. And one third of the respondents said they didn’t have disaster preparedness kits or emergency stores of non-perishable food and water.

“People don’t respond until they’re faced with it,” Bryne says.

Len MacCharles, deputy chief of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency says people who work in emergency planning and disaster management know that people do pay more attention to messages about household planning

when they’ve been primed by a recent event.

And people in his sector try to take advantage of it, he acknowledges.

The first thing people ought to do, he says, is think about the kinds of events they might face.

There’s no point preparing for hurricanes in places where they don’t hit.

But hurricane planning is important in some parts of the country.

And in much of Canada, winter storms and spring floods are risks people should be thinking about and planning for.

“These things don’t always happen half way around the world. They can easily happen and do happen right here at

home,” MacCharles says.

As many Canadians will have experienced this winter, trying to buy emergency supplies during an emergency is a stressful and often futile endeavour. Even finding road salt has been a challenge with this winter’s bouts of freezing rain.

Bryne recommends thinking ahead, preparing in October and November for the kinds of weather you might face in December and beyond.

“You know it’s coming,” he says.

After figuring out what risks you need to prepare for, experts suggest you devise a household plan — an emergency response plan.

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PLAN: Back up electronic gadgets with paper It should address things like who should be an emergency contact if your children get separated from you.

Your children need to know who the person is and how to reach him or her.

And just in case smart phones get lost or batteries die, the kids should memorize the person’s phone number.

Writing it down might also be a good idea.

“There’s a rule of thumb in the ... emergency management world: All electronics are great, when they work. But a good old paper back-up is never harmful to have,” Bryne says.

Emergency plans can also designate a meeting spot, if families get separated.

Once you’ve identified the risks and devised a plan, it’s time to put together an emergency kit. You can buy one — the Red Cross and other organizations sell them — or you can use lists agencies like Public Safety Canada have compiled and posted on the web to build your own.

This is the point at which you need to be thinking about non-perishable food, water, batteries, flashlights, water purification tablets, a radio that runs on a crank. Another important item: a manual can opener. Include a first aid kit, extra supplies of any medication you, your kids or your pets need.

Choose the foods you’re going to store carefully.

You need things you can eat that don’t require cooking. Bryne says people generally think about the wrong foods.

“Chocolate bars are great, but they’ll only sustain you for a very short period of time,” he says, suggesting protein — canned tuna or ham — vegetables and canned juices. Rotate the food in your emergency cache, so it doesn’t go to waste.

Make sure you keep a stash of cash on hand. If the power goes out, ATM machines don’t work and anything you try to buy may be a cash-only transaction, Bryne says, noting small bills are best.

MacCharles also suggest you put together an “important documents” bag. Make photocopies of key documents like passports, drivers licences, birth certificates, insurance policies, emergency contact numbers, and lists of any prescriptions drugs family members take. Store them in a sealable plastic bag.

Give one to a trusted friend for safe keeping, keep another in your emergency kit.

The effort may sound daunting. And some may feel the expense is too great to be able to put together an effective household plan. But Bryne says this kind of undertaking doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. Putting together an emergency kit can be done for $50 to $100, he says. And the emergency cash envelope doesn’t have to be bulging — $100 in small bills could be adequate.

EVERY 2 YEARS FOR OTHERS which more than 80 per cent of breast cancers are detected.

The B.C. Cancer Agency is also allowing women aged 40-49 to be screened every two years without a doctor’s referral, though it urges women in this age group to discuss the pros and cons of screening with a health-care provider.

The same is true for women aged 75 and older.

The Canadian Task Force for Preventive Health Care recommends against routine breast cancer screening in women aged 40 to 49. And Cancer Care Ontario says women in this age group who want to undergo screening mammography should talk with their doctors first.

Wilson says the B.C. Cancer Agency has decided to “take the more permissive stance.”

“The idea is that we want women to have that discussion with their family doctors or nurse practitioners about really, is screening right for them or not? And if they choose it, then it is,” says Wilson, a — DR. CHRISTINE WILSON radiologist and the medical director of Screening in the 40-to-49 age the B.C. Cancer Agency’s screengroup is contentious, with studies ing mammography program. suggesting there is less benefit for “The evidence shows there is women under age 50 and a high- still a benefit in terms of mortaler risk of false positive tests that ity reduction for the screened must be followed up. group.”

Previously, the agency perWomen under 40 would need mitted women aged 40 to 49 be a doctor’s referral to undergo screened every year. screening mammography.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A new breast cancer screening policy for British Columbia urges women aged 40 to 74 to have annual mammograms if their mothers, sisters or daughters have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

The B.C. Cancer agency released new guidelines Tuesday, describing the recommendation as a step toward personalized cancer screening.

Dr. Christine Wilson says research has shown that women who have a so-called first order relative with breast cancer have two times the risk of developing the disease than women who do not.

Wilson says the B.C. Cancer Agency will send women in this high-risk group recall messages.

The revised guidelines recommend screening every two years for other women between the ages of 50 and 74, the age group in

‘THE IDEA IS THAT WE WANT WOMEN TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION ... ABOUT REALLY, IS SCREENING RIGHT FOR THEM OR NOT?’

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RESOLUTIONS: Divvying up fish and wildlife among ‘consumers’ I would prefer to be there to see if, unlike Diana McQueen last year in Red Deer, the new minister of Environment-Sustainable Resource Development, Robin Campbell, cares enough to go to Fort Mac to deliver the traditional ministerial address to the AFGA and, if so, to hear what he has to say. There are high hopes for Campbell, an accomplished fly fisherman and occasional guide.

As an AFGA life member and past president, I get a sneak preview of the resolutions to be debated by the delegates. I know, things change, but I am shocked and disappointed: there are only 32 resolutions, the fewest I can recall, down from only 52 last year, and a far cry from 80 to 100 way back when, among which were often some gems that gave Albertans the Bucks for Wildlife Program and mandatory hunter training and testing, for example.

Considering the quality of the officers elected last year in Red Deer, I expected several important

On the web: The Red Cross has lots of advice on household emergency planning at: http://www.redcross.ca/whatwe-do/emergencies-and-disasters-in-canad a/forhome-and-family Public Safety Canada’s emergency planning website is at: http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/index-eng. aspx The Calgary Emergency Management Agency’s recommendations for emergency kits are at: http:// www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Fire/Pages/Calgary-Emergency-Management-A gency/72-hour-kit.aspx=

executive resolutions dealing with the major threats that fish and wildlife, public lands, etc., currently face in Alberta.

But no, virtually all of the resolutions deal with divvying up fish and wildlife among “consumers,” resolutions that one longtime conference attendee said of last year’s resolutions, “sound like a flock of ravens squabbling over a gut pile.”

Resolutions asking for hunting seasons on sandhill cranes and mourning doves are back again this year. A recent column mentioning former ERSD minister McQueen’s personally kyboshing a sandhill crane season brought this comment from reader Sandra Foss: “Just because a bunch of folks got together over a coffee and decided they wanted to shoot more stuff is not a good reason to introduce a new hunt.”

Well, hardly; McQueen was ignoring the advice of her own staff that a sandhill season was sustainable, feasible and was very unlikely to result in whooping cranes being mistakenly shot in Alberta, because their major flyway is in Saskatchewan.

If I were at the conference, I would vote no to a sandhill season for the kind of reason we are all going to have to start thinking about: because Alberta hunters are not doing enough to control over-populations of a species on which we already have hunting seasons: our iconic Canada goose.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

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Pidherney Curling Centre manager and ice maker Wade Thurber pebbles the ice surface at the curling Centre in Red Deer in preparation of the first games of the Farmers’ and Farmerettes’ Bonspiel on Tuesday. The 69th Annual event runs each day this week until Saturday.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Heart Month 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 ● Senior Citizens Downtown House 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 403-346-4043. ● Widow and Widower Support Network meets on the first Friday of every month at Remington’s Grill in Black Knight Inn at 6 p.m. for food and fellowship, and on the third Friday of each month at 7 p.m. at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar St. The group provides a safe place for men and women who have lost their spouse through death, to interact and support each other.

Upcoming dates are Feb. 7 and 21. Email to widowedsupportnetwork@gmail.com. or call 403-755-0977. ● First Friday’s lineup on Feb. 7 includes: Tiny Moments by Red Deer artist Paul Boultbee at Harris-Warke Gallery from 6 to 8 p.m.; The Love of Photography by Jessica Swainson at The Hub on Ross Gallery from 4 to 6 p.m. followed by Claude A. Godin jazz, blues, funk, concert starting at 7 p.m., $15 cash at the door.; The Best of the West Travelling Studio Art Quilts Associates Trunk Show at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch with Bradford Lawlor roots and folk music performance from 6:30 to 8:30 in the Snell Auditorium; and Untitled Paintings by Amber Jackson at Velvet Olive, and Untitled Photographs by Jim McKinley at Café Pichilingue. ● Forshee Community Hall old-time family dance nights are the first Friday of each month from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Country Gold North Band.

Next dance is Feb. 7. For more information, call 403-748-3378.

Saturday ● Children’s Chess Club is offered on Feb. 8 and 22 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the children’s department at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Children ages eight years and up, from beginners to experienced players are invited. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Easy Reads Book Club has a new topic each month. Adult participants pick the book that suits them: easy reads, novels, picture books, magazines. Read and come for discussion on winter activities at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Feb. 8 starting at 1 p.m. Contact lsheardown@rdpl. org. ● 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. 8 session is called Cupid’s Bows and Arrows — Valentines — with artist Maria Pors. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House musical jam session are held the second Saturday of each month at 1:30 p.m. Next session Feb. 8. Admission $2.50. Phone 403346-4043. ● 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. ● Red Deer Fish and Game horn measuring will be offered on Feb. 8, 1 p.m. at Quality Inn. To be eligible for trophies, participants must by 2013 RDFG members, and entries must be taken from province of Alberta. Youth trophies availalble in all categories.

Bird and fish entries may submitted. Contact Larry at 403-350-0647 or wildlarryb2002@ yahoo.ca, or Barry at barmar1@telus.net.

Photos may be emailed. ● Meet the Critter on Feb. 8 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. This is a family oriented drop in program with activities and a meet and greet with a live critter.

Admission by suggested donation is $3 per person or $10 per family. Call 403-346-2010 for more information. ● Red Deer Runners meet at the Red Deer Recreation Centre every Saturday at 9 a.m., and at the Collicutt Centre on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Distances and routes vary between 8 and 12 kms. After the Saturday run, the group meets at City Roast, and at Original Joe’s after the run on Wednesday. See www. reddeerrunners.org. Contact Matt at 403-3969262.

Sunday ● 100 Years of Animation at Red Deer Public Library features the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) on Feb. 9, 2 to 4 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown branch. ● Warehouse One — The Jean Store Denim Donor event concludes on Feb. 9.

Donate gently used jeans for a good cause and 20 per cent will be deducted from the entire purchase. Jeans will be donated to local families in need. Phone 403-340-8813. ● Family Planetarium is offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Feb. 9. Join an interpreter for a tour of the autumn sky starting at 1 p.m. The cost is $3 per person, or $10 per family at the door. Phone 403-346-2010. ● Interfaith Encounter and Friendship Dinner will be held on Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m. Consider bringing a potluck vegetarian dish and a list of ingredients for dietary inclusiveness.

For information and location contact 403-3073546, or Jeffrey.t.rock@gmail.com. ● Ukrainian community fundraiser for protesters of EuroMaidan will be held on Feb. 9 following the 10 a.m. divine liturgy service at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church. At approximately 11:30 a.m. a meal of borscht with bread and desserts will be offered, followed by statements from the Ukrainian Canadian Community. Contact omcintyre@shaw.ca or 403-340-8504.

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● Cover 2 Cover Adult Book Club will meet on Feb. 10 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library to discuss family and relationship literature. See www. rdpl.org/cover2cover. New members always welcome. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Learning Disabilities Association, Red Deer Chapter presents registered psychologist Chantel Walker on emotional intelligence and supporting young learners, Feb. 10, 7 to 8:15 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library, downtown branch. The cost to attend is free for LDA members, or $15 for non-members.

Phone 403-340-3885. ● The Parkland Handweavers and Spinners Guild meets the second Monday of each month at Sunnybrook Farm Museum at 7 p.m. Next meeting is Feb. 10. New and experienced weavers welcome. For more information contact Red Deer Weavers at reddeerweavers@gmail.com or Darlene at 403-749-3054, Amy at 403-309-4026 or Margaret at 403-346-8289.

Tuesday ● St. Skeletor’s Day: Cold Bodies, Warm Hearts — an anti-Valentine teen event — will be held on Feb. 11 in the Snell Auditorium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. Romance is dead, or is it? Celebrate by watching the flick Warm Bodies and decorate sugar skull masks. ● Techno Teens meet on Feb. 11 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library to discover how to enhance Instagram digital pictures by adding text, make a picture into a word photo, and more. Youth ages 12 to 18 years invited. ● Drop-in Pajama Storytime invites children aged two and their families to the children’s department at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch for stories, songs, finger plays, and crafts at 6:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Children under three years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Phone 403-3464688. ● The Parkland Cross Country Ski Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7:30 p.m.

The next meeting will be Feb. 11. Novice to experienced cross country skiers welcome.

Visit parklandxskiclub.org or phone 403-3461311. ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $17 for new members and $12 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit www.centralalbertamopar.ca/ ● Take Off Pounds Sensibly (T.O.P.S.) Innisfail meets every Tuesday in the basement of the Innisfail United Church. Weigh-in from 12:30 to 1 p.m., with meeting beginning at 1 p.m. Call Rose at 403-227-6903 or Elsie at 403-227-3508.

Wednesday ● Puppet Club is held on Wednesdays at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 3:30 to 5 p.m. for children ages seven years and up to make a variety of puppets, and take part in interactive plays. On Feb. l3 the theme will be My Valentine. ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch, next on Feb. 12 in the Snell Gallery Meeting Room. A documentary film called Age of Champions: winning never gets old will be shown, and then a staff-facilitated discussion will follow. Follow

five competitors in the U.S.A. National Senior Olympics. Free. Phone 403-346-2100. ● Central Alberta Photographic Society (CAPS) meets the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Phone 403-8721598, or see www.centralalbertaphotographicsociety.com for more information. On Feb. 12, ask and learn about photography, and swap meet will be held. on Feb. 26, image work flow and the internet will be the topics. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month (Feb. 12 and 26), 7 p.m., in the Elnora Drop-in Centre. Call 403-749-2047 or 403-773-3600. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is Feb. 12. Presentations on epilepsy are available for organizations. Phone 403358-3358 or email normak@epilepsycalgary. com. ● Sit and Be Fit exercise program is held on Wednesdays starting at 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. A $2 drop-in fee applies.

Phone 403-343-6074. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Five Plus One is on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Personal And Social Transformation Action (PASTA) Players meet on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Hub. Persons aged 12 years and up invited to explore theatre. Free to join. No experience required.

Phone 403-340-4869.

Thursday ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has 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 403-346-4043. ● Benalto and Area Rural Crime Watch Society Annual General Meeting will be held on Feb. 13, 7 p.m. at Benalto Leisure Centre, Agriculture Grounds. Guest speaker will be Sylvan Lake RCMP Cst. Erik Lieng, Security Task Force, 2010 Vancouver Olympics speaking on Olympics security.

BARCWS law enforcement partners in attendance. Contact Yvette at 403-746-3429. ● Thursday Storytime at Parkland Mall presents Love Books! on Feb. 13 from 10 to 11 a.m. Enjoy free snacks, stories, puppet shows and songs for toddlers and children up five years of age with their adults. Presented by Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. ● Rimbey Annual Women’s Conference will be held on Feb. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Rimbey Community Centre. Keynote speakers are George Boelcke and Bob Layton and there will be six concurrent sessions, catered lunch, vendors, prizes and more. Registration fee is $35 before Feb. 6 and $40 after. Register at Family and Community Support Services in the Rimbey. Call 403-843-2030. ● Join in a game of euchre every Thursday at Red Deer Legion. Registration at 6 p.m. Play at 7 p.m. Cost is $3. Contact Kate at 403-986-2666 to find out more.

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Utah school explains lunch seizures

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah school district that came under fire for taking away $2 school lunches from some 40 students whose parents owed money on food accounts are vowing to make systemic changes to ensure it never happens again.

Salt Lake City School District child nutrition department director Kelly Orton on Tuesday night delivered a brief, preliminary report to the school board pinning the incident on violations of agency procedure and a failure to notify parents that their children’s lunch accounts were empty or in the negative.

“We took food trays away and embarrassed students, and for that I am sorry,” Orton’s report says.

“No child will have their meal tray taken away ever again.”

To avoid that happening again, Orton said they’ve created new communication guidelines for kitchen

managers. The district also plans to notify parents when their balance is at $10, when its’ empty, and then every day after as it accrues a negative balance.

The incident occurred Jan. 28 at Uintah Elementary when students trying to buy lunch had their meals thrown away, angering parents and stirring outrage around the country. The district put a cafeteria manager and a district supervisor on paid leave as the investigation got underway last week.

The report didn’t indicate whose decision it was to toss the lunches.

The children who had their meals thrown out were given milk and fruit, a standard practice when students don’t have lunch money.

Several dozen parents attended the meeting, and some said the report was vague and that the cafeteria worker put on leave was being scapegoated, The Salt Lake Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/1kQdCaw).

Some parents urged district leaders to hold Orton and his staff accountable.

“The lunchroom staff should not be held account-

able for the policies implemented by their supervisors,” said Lynn Lonardo, who said her daughter’s lunch was confiscated last week.

But Heather Bennett, board vice-president, said the move wasn’t disciplinary.

District Superintendent McKell Withers said the leave is typical during investigations and was meant to protect the affected workers from threats. Police investigated several threatening phone calls made to the school following the incident, but determined they were not credible, Salt Lake City School District spokesman Jason Olsen said. School officials cited privacy concerns in not identifying the two workers on leave.

Bennett and other board members said they were as upset as the parents who attended the meeting.

“We share your real horror at the specific happening that’s brought us here,” she said.

Under board member questioning, Orton said his department didn’t properly tell parents about a new electronic payment system,.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS details, see http://rethinkreddeer.ca/events ● Support Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign with donations of Aeroplan Miles. Chris Hume — a local member of Gramma-Link Africa — has been selected as one of 20 Canadian grandmothers to go on an educational trip to sub-Sahara Africa organized by the Foundation on March 1 to 17. To donate Aeroplan Miles to help Chris, search Stephen Lewis Foundation/ways to give and follow links, and then contact Chris at 403-347-2776 to tell her about your donation. ● Red Deer and District SPCA National Cupcake Day is coming up on Feb. 24. Participants are asked to register at www.nationalcupdakeday.ca, bake cupcakes and host a National Cupcake Day Party on Feb. 24 with proceeds to support the Red Deer and District SPCA. A free Cupcake Host Welcome Package will be sent to participants in the mail.

Donations can be made online. Babycakes Cupcakery will offer two special flavours in support of the SPCA until Feb. 17. Participants are asked to vote on which flavour the store should add to their regular menu to continue to support the SPCA thereafter. Phone 403-342-7722 or development@reddeerspca.com. ● All You Need is Love — Beatles tribute band — is appearing at Innisfail Super 8 Hotel in Innisfail on Feb. 14.

Tickets are $50 in advance from the hotel front desk, or call 403-227-6660. Sponsored by Central Alberta Presenters Society, a non-profit dedicated to bringing quality entertainment to Central Alberta at reasonable prices. ● Lincoln Hall Society presents SaddleSores featuring Richard and Deborah Popovich, Feb. 14 at Lincoln Hall.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Supper catered by Bob Ronnie at 6:30 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. Cost is $45. Phone 403-782-4194. ● Red Deer Youth Justice Committee is actively seeking volunteers. Applications for membership may be picked up at Community Corrections, Room 103 at the Provincial Building. ● Shrove Tuesday pancake supper will be offered at Memorial Presbyterian Church in Sylvan Lake on March 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. Meals cost $5 for adults, $3 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for children under six years. Contact Diane at 403-887-2894. ● Red Deer Arts Council presents Rock the Books

II: Small Business Information Seminar for Artists on Feb. 27, 6 to 8 p.m. with a question and answer session following a presentation by Janis Richards formerly of Canada Revenue Agency, at the Main Meeting Room at Culture Services Centre. Registration at info@reddeerartscouncil.ca or 403-348-2787 by Feb. 19. Payments accepted at the door or the RDAC office. Arts Council members are $10 and nonmembers are $20. Limited space. ● Red Deer Watershed Alliance (RDRWA) will host Blayne West, Environmental Coordinator for Lacombe County, on Sept. 20 at the Ambassador Breakfast. Event goes from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Quality Inn North Hill. Cost is $15.

RSVP to info@rdwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 before Sept. 18. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Ambassador Breakfast will be held on Feb. 21, 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Quality North Hill Inn for a cost of $15 per person. A presentation on emerging contaminants will be given by Thorsten Hebben, Section Head of Surface Water Policy with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. RSVP to info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on Feb. 19. ● Royal Canadian Legion events in Sylvan Lake include a dance on Feb. 15 with Wise Choice Band, $5, and Atlantic Storm Night, March 1, featuring steak and lobster dinner, Newfoundland Screeching, Elvis and Johnny Cash impersonators. Atlantic Storm Night admission by advance tickets only for $45. For more information, call 403-887-2601, or 403-505-8601. ● Lacombe Leadership Prayer Breakfast will be held on Feb. 20 at Lacombe Memorial Centre from 7 to 8:30 a.m.

Guests of honour will be Mayor Steve Christie, Police Chief Steve Murray, and Fire Chief Ed van Delden. Special presentation by guest speaker Ian Hill on building strong communities. Tickets are $25 ordered online at www.lacombeprayerbreakfast.ca, or by phone at 403-782-2910, or 403-318-6271. ● Granny Cash Bonspiel goes March 26 at Pidherney Curling Centre. Two six-end games and lunch for $30 per person, or $120 per team. Please register by March 14 at 403-346-3777, or curling@reddeercurling.ca.

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● 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 403-3470436, or Ron at 403-342-2145. Book early as limited spaced are available. The deadline is Feb. 12. For more information visit www.harmonizers.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. ● Elnora Drop-in Centre features SaddleSores with Richard and Deborah Popovich, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. Enjoy comedy and a mix of famous western songs. Tickets are $10 and also available at the door. Contact Gwen at 403-773-2270 or elwest@wispernet.ca. ● Birdhouses with Bob welcomes children ages six to 13 years to build a birdhouse and learn about songbirds on Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. The cost is $7 for Kerry Wood Nature Centre members, or $8 for non-members per child. Adult must accompany child. Pre-registration required. Call 403-346-2010. ● Teachers’ Convention Day Camp will be held on Feb. 20 and 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre for school-aged children to join an interpreter and explore nature. Cost is $85 per child for both days. Pre-register by calling 403-346-2010. ● Hunting Hills High School presents Les Miserables, March 7 to 15 at Red Deer Memorial Centre. Tickets may be purchased from the school website http://huntinghills.rdpsd. ab.ca/ or from the school play website http://sites.google. com/a/rdpsd.ab.ca/les-miserables-hhh-2014/home/promotions-and-ticket-sales. Admission is $15 for adults, and $12 for students, seniors and children. ● ReThink Red Deer presents Introduction to Permaculture: Productive Pets Edition from 6 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 21 to 23, and March 7 to 9. Registration fee is $200 including lunch and refreshments with all profits to ReThink. To find out

SPORTS Rebels’ rally falls short against Rockets

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THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 2014 ALBERTA MEN’S PROVINCIAL CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

CAN’T ERASE EARLY FOUR-GOAL DEFICIT IN LOSS TO KELOWNA

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rockets 4 Rebels 3 KELOWNA — The Red Deer Rebels were the better team through the final two periods of Wednesday’s WHL game versus the host Kelowna Rockets.

Unfortunately for the visitors, they were dominated in the opening frame and the bad start proved costly as the Rockets struck for four unanswered goals and then hung on for a 4-3 victory before a crowd of 4,621 at Prospera Place.

Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter decided to start back-up goaltender Taz Burman, who has seen very little playing time this season, and the move didn’t pay off as the 16-year-old allowed two goals on the first three shots he faced before being replaced by veteran Patrik Bartosak just 94 seconds into the contest.

“The two early goals were bad goals on Taz and kind of put us on our heels,” said Sutter. “They came at us and we didn’t seem to regroup until the intermission and then we got going. We dominated the second and third periods and if it wasn’t for their goalie we win that game going away.”

Kris Schmidt opened the scoring 36 seconds into the contest and Marek Tvrdon made it 2-0 a mere 58 seconds later. The Rockets then got goals from Austin Glover and Tyrell Goulbourne before the period ended.

With the Rebels having played the night before — losing 3-2 in overtime at Vancouver — and with games set for Friday and Saturday in Prince George, Sutter gave Burman the start against the Rockets.

“It was a 13-hour trip to Vancouver and Patty played there, and he can’t play every game,” said Sutter. “Taz had to go in there tonight and he had to give us good goaltending. I know he’s 16 and I know he hasn’t played a lot, but he just wasn’t technically sharp on the goals he’s given up lately, just like the first two against Tri-City (in a 4-2 loss to the visiting Americans Saturday).

“It’s hard for a 16-year-old but it’s hard for any back-up goalie, but you have to use your talent. On the first goal their guy had a full net to shoot at from a bad angle. And on the second shot, he (Burman) just froze.”

Still, even with Bartosak between the pipes, the Rebels didn’t get their act together until — as it turned out — it was too late.

“We didn’t respond the way we needed to (after the goalie switch),” said Sutter. “We had to make the goalie change but we still spend too much time in our own zone.

“But then we regrouped and we outplayed and dominated the top team in the league.”

Indeed, the Rebels outshot their hosts 13-9 in the second frame without scoring, then potted three third-period goals while enjoying a 14-9 advantage in shots.

“We’ve found ways to beat ourselves the last four games, now we have to build off the last two periods,” said Sutter. ● The Rebels were zero-for-four on the power play and killed off all three Kelowna man-advantage chances . . . Bartosak made 36 saves after replacing Burman, while Whistle finished with 32 . . . The three stars were (1) Whistle, (2) Schmidt and (3) Sterzer . . .

The Rebels’ next home game is next Wednesday versus the Medicine Hat Tigers. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Playing on the Charley Thomas rink out of the Calgary Curling Club, Colin Hodgson calls in a shot as he plays in the Men’s Provincial Curling Championship in Lacombe on Wednesday.

Lacombe curler relishes chance to play at home in provincials

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR LACOMBE — For Colin Hodgson, playing for a provincial curling title in his hometown is not necessarily a dream come true for the simple reason that he never envisioned it occurring.

“I never thought this would happen. It’s such a treat,” the Lacombe native said Wednesday following the opening round of the Boston Pizza Alberta men’s championship at Barnett Arena.

“There’s a lot of distractions with playing here but it’s a great thing to have that extra support that you’re not really used to. It’s been excellent so far and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the week. Hopefully we can get some wins on the board and get the crowd behind us.”

Hodgson is tossing third stones for Charley Thomas and his Calgary-based foursome that includes lead Matt Ng, who lived in Lacombe as a child, and second Mike Westlund.

The Thomas foursome opened the 12-rink provincials on a negative note Wednesday morning, giving up a steal of two in the third end en route to a 6-4 loss to Matthew Blandford of Calgary.

“We didn’t come out as sharp as we wanted to,” said Hodgson, whose team was stuck with a tricky rock. “We didn’t catch on to a bad stone early and that hurt us and put us behind the eight-ball. We figured it out and used it to our advantage later in the game, but it was no one’s fault but our own and we have to come out stronger next game and play much better.”

The Thomas quartet will face Rob Schlender of Airdrie in the B-event of the triple-knockout provincials today at 2 p.m..

Hodgson, who lives in Edmonton and last winter was the manager of the Lacombe Curling Club, is new to the Thomas team this season. As the 2011 Alberta junior men’s curling champion, Hodgson, 23, faced his current teammates as junior opponents.

“We’ve known each other for years. They used to give me my lickings more than I gave them theirs,”

said Hodgson, in reference to the Thomas teams that captured an Alberta junior title in 2004 and Canadian and world championships in 2006 and ‘07. “I’m a little younger than these guys and I always looked up to them when I played them.”

Losing their first game was somewhat of a blow, but Hodgson and his teammates are used to pulling out victories when the heat is on.

“We never take the easy road in any way. We’re fine with that as long as we’re there at the end of the week,” said the third, whose squad qualified for the provincials out of the C event of the southern Alberta playdowns.

With the likes of Kevin Martin, Kevin Koe and Jamie King — with former world champions Blake MacDonald and Scott Pfeifer on board — in the provincial men’s field, Hodgson knows his team is looking at a steep ascent.

“The field is littered with world and Olympic champions on different teams,” said Hodgson, who played three seasons of senior men’s baseball with the Red Deer Riggers. “It’s never an easy time coming out of Alberta.

“Winning this would be great. The Alberta men’s provincials is definitely one of the pinnacles of curling.”

In Tuesday’s other morning draws, Schlender stole two points in an extra end to defeat Greg Pasichnuk of Grande Prairie 7-5, Mark Johnson of Edmonton was a 7-2 winner over Lloyd Hill of Calgary and Wade White prevailed 10-4 over Ted Appelman in an all-Edmonton contest.

Defending champion Kevin Martin of Edmonton scored one in the 10th end to get past Blandford 5-4 in the evening draw, while Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton downed Schlender 6-2, Jamie King of Edmonton emerged with a 6-5 win over Johnson and White doubled former world champion Kevin Koe of Calgary 12-6.

The provincial championship resumed at 9:30 a.m. today and concludes with Sunday’s 2 p.m. final. The winner will represent Alberta in the Tim Horton’s Brier March 1-9 at Kamloops. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Carey rebounds with strong play after Olympic trials disappointment

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — All things considered, Chelsea Carey would rather be in Sochi, Russia.

But qualifying for her first Scotties Tournament of Hearts after years of falling short in tough Manitoba provincial championships is as good as consolation prizes get for the 29-year-old from Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge Curling Club.

And Carey is making the most of it, taking her record to 7-1 after an 8-4 victory over New Brunswick’s Andrea Crawford (5-4) on Wednesday night.

Earlier, the Carey rink trounced Quebec’s Allison Ross (1-8) by 15-3.

The 15 points tied the Scotties record set in 1989, when Alberta beat Newfoundland 15-6.

Carey reached the Manitoba finals twice, losing in 2011 to Cathy OvertonClapham and in 2012 to Jennifer Jones, the four-time Scotties champion who will represent Canada at the 2014 Winter Games.

“We wanted to be here badly and lost a couple of heartbreakers and

SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS that’s no fun, but it wasn’t the only thing for us,” said Carey. “The (Olympic) trials was our first goal and this was our second goal.”

Her only loss so far was an 8-3 setback this week to defending champion Rachel Homan’s seemingly unstoppable Canada team. Homan’s Ottawa foursome extended its unbeaten string to eight games with a 9-4 victory over Prince Edward Island’s Kim Dolan.

They have outscored their opponents 62-26 and have yet to play a full 10 ends.

Saskatchewan’s Stefanie Lawton (71) posted an 8-6 win over Nova Scotia (3-6) and Ontario’s Allison Flaxey (3-5) completed a sweep of her side’s two games on Wednesday with a 12-2 victory over the Yukon’s Sarah Koltun (1-8). Flaxey had the upset of the day in the afternoon draw with a 6-5 win over Alberta’s Val Sweeting (6-3).

Carey put together her team with lead Lindsay Titheridge, second Kristen Foster and third Kristy McDonald

specifically to take a shot at the Olympics.

The rink has been among Canada’s best for a few years, winning often in national and regional events, and did well enough to earn an invitation to the Canadian Olympic trials in Winnipeg.

When that dream died with a fourthplace finish, Carey admits it was tough to find the energy to go to last month’s provincial championship, let alone win it.

“I took a week off and didn’t throw,” she said. “I forced myself to go back, but I wanted no part of it.

“I was just going through the motions. It took a long time to get our heads back there, but we’d played in a lot of provincials before and we knew going into the trials that it was something we’d have to transition to. It wasn’t easy, but we did a good enough job to pull off the win there.”

Once she got her Manitoba team jacket and got to Montreal, she was

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thrilled to finally have a chance to represent her province at the Scotties.

On the team website, Carey describes herself as “Unemployed, AKA Starving Curler.”

She worked as a sales representative for a mattress company for six years, but was finally told to choose between curling and her job.

“It was the year of the trials and I’m not going to pick that job over curling,” she said. “My initial thought was to get a new job, but with trials in December it’s hard to start a new job and say I need six weeks of holidays.

“I’ve been unemployed since then.

It will have to change after this because I can’t pay my bills.”

Manitoba’s win over Quebec had some wondering if curling needs a mercy rule. It was Quebec’s worst beating since a 13-1 setback to Alberta in 1991. A rule obliges teams to play at least eight ends no matter how badly they’re trailing.

“I’m not so sure I believe in the eight-end rule,” said Manitoba’s McDonald. “If things aren’t going well, the other team should be able to get out when they feel it’s time.”

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

Today

● Curling: Provincial men’s championship at Lacombe Barnett Arena, draws at 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/ Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Dream Team vs. Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Carstar, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● Curling: Provincial men’s championship at Lacombe Barnett Arena, draws at 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/ Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber tournament. ● Grade 9 basketball: Hunting Hills tournament. ● College volleyball: Grant MacEwan at RDC, women at 6 p.m, men to follow. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber tournament. ● Grade 9 basketball: Hunting Hills tournament. ● Gymnastics: Exalta Cup men’s artistic, Collicutt Centre. ● Curling: Red Deer Farmers/ Farmerettes Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 p.m., Arena; Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Curling: Provincial men’s championship at Lacombe Barnett Arena, draws at 1 and 6:30 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Mountainview at Stettler, 8:15 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday

● Curling: Provincial men’s championship at Lacombe Barnett Arena, draws at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. (final). ● Gymnastics: Exalta Cup men’s trampoline and tumbling, Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major midget female hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Monstars, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Triple Threat, Woody’s RV vs. Gord Scott Nissan, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs.

Orangemen, The Secret Runs vs.

Vikings, Alken Basin Drillers vs.

Rusty Chuckers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

Andre Touchette had 16 points and Brent Higgins 11 as Triple A Batteries stopped the Vikings 61-51 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Tuesday.

Les Winchester had 16 points and Kai Poffenroth 12 for the Vikings.

In other action, the Rusty Chuckers got 17 points from Kevin Buwalda and 12 from Rusty Gilchrist in defeating The Secret Runs 77-67.

Jeremy Parviance had 16 points and Chad Kelloway 13 in a losing cause.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 53 27 20 5 1 201 Swift Current 54 26 20 2 6 180 Regina 54 27 22 3 2 181 Prince Albert 52 24 25 2 1 167 Moose Jaw 52 13 31 3 5 132 Saskatoon 56 15 37 1 3 161 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Edmonton 52 38 13 0 1 217 Calgary 54 33 15 3 3 202 Medicine Hat 53 31 19 3 0 180 Kootenay 53 28 21 2 2 171 Red Deer 54 27 23 1 3 166 Lethbridge 55 11 39 2 3 136

GA 194 165 193 181 203 233

Pt 60 60 59 51 34 34

GA 130 159 148 159 164 257

Pt 77 72 65 60 58 27

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 53 43 7 0 3 231 135 89 Victoria 55 35 16 1 3 176 136 74 Vancouver 55 27 19 6 3 188 185 63 Prince George 55 22 26 2 5 182 229 51 Kamloops 54 11 38 2 3 139 228 27 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 53 36 12 2 3 239 161 77 Seattle 55 34 16 2 3 187 185 73 Spokane 53 31 17 3 2 179 160 67 Everett 54 26 20 7 1 158 164 60 Tri-City 53 26 22 2 3 138 142 57 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 Tuesday’s results Medicine Hat 4 Regina 1 Prince Albert 5 Swift Current 2 Kootenay 6 Saskatoon 3 Vancouver 3 Red Deer 2 (OT) Victoria 7 Calgary 2 Seattle 5 Everett 3

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Tvrdon Kel (tripping) 7:43, Bowey Kel (high-sticking) 11:52, Bleackley RD (fighting) 13:30, Stadel Kel (fighting) 13:30, Charif RD (hooking) 18:32, Schmidli Kel (holding) 18:50, Sterzer RD (roughing) 19:41, Severson Kel (roughing) 19:41.

Third Period 5. Red Deer, Polei 7 (Feser, Musil) 9:43.

6. Red Deer, Sterzer 23 (Gaudet, Kopeck) 10:22.

7. Red Deer, Sterzer 24 (Kopeck, Bleackley) 18:13.

Penalties — Maxwell RD (holding) 4:45.

Shots on goal Red Deer 8 13 17 — 38 Kelowna 23 9 9 — 41 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 25-18-1); Kelowna: Whistle (W, 12-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 0-4; Kelowna: 0-3.

Oil Kings 4, Blazers 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Kulda 19 (Mayo, Corbett) 10:53 (pp).

Penalties — Petryk Edm (boarding) 1:02, Baddock Edm (slashing) 3:39, Revel Kam (inter. on goaltender) 4:51, Moroz Edm (fighting) 8:50, Kornelsen Kam (fighting) 8:50, Grist Kam (Major-Interference) 10:12, Grist Kam (game misconduct) 10:12, Rehill Kam (delay of game) 12:38, Reinhart Edm (hooking) 18:13.

Second Period 2. Kamloops, Bellerive 10 (Connolly, Bolduc) 3:08.

Penalties — Kulda Edm (kneeing) 0:14, Edm Bench (served by Mills, too many men) 5:52, Reinhart Edm (roughing) 7:48, Rehill Kam (high-sticking) 10:18.

Third Period 3. Edmonton, Kieser 9 (Sautner) 2:05.

4. Edmonton, Samuelsson 24 (Kieser) 7:01 (shorthanded-SH).

5. Edmonton, Kieser 10 (Lazar) 18:07 (-EN.SH).

Penalties — Eller Edm (inter. on goaltender) 5:57, Irving Edm (fighting) 14:19, Douglas Kam (fighting) 14:19, Baddock Edm (tripping) 16:56.

Shots on goal Edmonton 10 7 21 — 38 Kamloops 15 12 6 — 33 Goal — Edmonton: Santos (W, 5-2-0); Kamloops: Pouliot (L, 6-17-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Edmonton: 1-5; Kamloops: 0-8.

Curtis Marouelli.

Wednesday’s results Medicine Hat 3 Brandon 2 Saskatoon 6 Lethbridge 3 Edmonton 4 Kamloops 1 Kelowna 4 Red Deer 3 Calgary 7, Victoria 6 OT Seattle 4, Spokane 0 Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Calgary at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Spokane at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Rockets 4, Rebels 3 First Period 1. Kelowna, Schmidli 7 (Bell, Severson) :36.

2. Kelowna, Tvrdon 4 (Baillie) 1:34.

3. Kelowna, Glover 2 (Heffley, Martin) 7:50.

4. Kelowna, Goulbourne 9 (Kirkland, Chartier) 19:44.

Penalties — Sterzer RD (delay of game) 5:13, Goulbourne Kel (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 19:44.

Blades 6, Hurricanes 3 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Bell 4 (Duke) 4:17.

Penalties — Kirichenko Sas (hooking) 1:37, Sheen Let (tripping) 5:42, Lipon Sas (cross-checking) 18:14.

Second Period 2. Lethbridge, Watson 14 (Duke, Estephan) 7:52.

3. Saskatoon, Adamson 1 (Harland, Gomerich) 16:23.

4. Saskatoon, Millette 14 (Clayton, Kirichenko) 18:32 (pp).

Penalties — Johnston Sas (unsportsmanlike cnd.)

4:24, Zajac Sas (inter. on goaltender) 4:24, Folk Let (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 4:24, Johnston Sas (tripping) 10:10, Folk Let (tripping) 14:20, Sheen Let (hooking) 16:36, Foulk Let (cross-checking) 19:21.

Third Period 5. Saskatoon, Lipon 5 (Millette, Hebig) 1:37.

6. Saskatoon, Busenius 8 (Nikkel) 9:21 (shorthanded-SH).

7. Lethbridge, Watson 15 (Estephan, Foulk) 10:19.

8. Saskatoon, Graham 7 (Sanvido, Hebig) 10:41.

9. Saskatoon, Stovin 12 (unassisted) 19:35 (-EN).

Penalties — Busenius Sas (high-sticking) 7:13, Graham Sas (kneeing) 8:00, Sayers Let (kneeing) 10:46.

Shots on goal Saskatoon 6 16 16 — 38 Lethbridge 9 23 21 — 53 Goal — Saskatoon: Trombley (W, 8-19-0); Lethbridge: Hogue (L, 2-8-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Saskatoon: 1-5; Lethbridge: 0-6.

Tigers 3, Wheat Kings 2 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Sanford 25 (unassisted) 6:04.

2. Brandon, Nejezchleb 26 (Bukarts, Pulock) 11:30 (pp).

Penalties — Eisenschmid MH (hooking) 10:40, Meilleur Bra (tripping) 16:19, Bredo MH (holding) 17:29.

Second Period 3. Medicine Hat, Cox 17 (Valk, Sanford) 10:47.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 4. Medicine Hat, Cox 18 (Sanford, Valk) :19.

5. Brandon, Hawryluk 16 (Lindgren, Pilon) 6:03.

Penalties — Doty MH (hooking) 9:16, Roy Bra (holding opp. stick) 11:46, Cox MH (holding) 15:51.

Shots on goal Medicine Hat 9 9 11 — 29 Brandon 5 9 9 — 23 Goal — Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 15-9-2); Brandon: Papirny (L, 18-10-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Medicine Hat: 0-2; Brandon: 1-4.

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT GF Boston 55 36 16 3 167 Tampa Bay 56 32 19 5 163 Montreal 57 30 21 6 139 Toronto 58 30 22 6 171 Detroit 56 25 19 12 146 Ottawa 57 25 21 11 164 Florida 56 22 27 7 137 Buffalo 56 15 33 8 108 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT GF Pittsburgh 57 40 15 2 183 NY Rangers 57 31 23 3 150 Columbus 56 29 23 4 167 Philadelphia 57 28 23 6 157 Carolina 55 25 21 9 138 New Jersey 57 23 21 13 133 Washington 57 25 23 9 164 NY Islanders 58 22 28 8 160

Montreal 2 Calgary 0 Florida 4 Toronto 1 NY Islanders 1 Washington 0 Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 1 Ottawa 5 St. Louis 4 (SO) Dallas 3 Phoenix 1 Wednesday’s results Pittsburgh 5 Buffalo 1 Chicago 2 Anaheim 0 Dallas at San Jose, late Thursday’s games Colorado at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Washington, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Calgary at NY Islanders, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

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

Friday’s games Edmonton at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at Carolina, 5 p.m.

NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Columbus at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries

GA 120 139 139 180 158 182 175 169

Pt 75 69 66 66 62 61 51 38

GA 134 141 156 165 153 142 173 191

Pt 82 65 62 62 59 59 59 52

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT GF GA Pt Chicago 59 35 10 14 207 161 84 St. Louis 55 37 12 6 189 130 80 Colorado 56 36 15 5 168 148 77 Minnesota 58 30 21 7 142 145 67 Dallas 56 26 21 9 161 161 61 Winnipeg 58 28 25 5 163 167 61 Nashville 57 25 23 9 142 172 59 Pacific Division GP W L OT GF GA Pt Anaheim 59 40 14 5 191 145 85 San Jose 57 35 16 6 170 139 76 Los Angeles 58 30 22 6 137 127 66 Vancouver 58 27 22 9 143 152 63 Phoenix 56 26 20 10 160 167 62 Calgary 56 21 28 7 132 175 49 Edmonton 58 19 33 6 150 196 44 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s results Boston 3 Vancouver 1 Winnipeg 2 Carolina 1 NY Rangers 5 Colorado 1

Penguins 5, Sabres 1 First Period 1. Buffalo, Stafford 9 (Ennis) 5:58.

2. Pittsburgh, Zolnierczyk 2 (Adams, Crosby) 15:01.

Penalties — Sulzer Buf (tripping) 3:14, Engelland Pgh (fighting) 12:17, Scott Buf (fighting) 12:17, Niskanen Pgh (high-sticking) 17:38.

Second Period 3. Pittsburgh, Crosby 28 (Niskanen) 2:08 (pp).

4. Pittsburgh, Malkin 17 (unassisted) 17:48.

Penalties — McBain Buf (tripping) 1:41, Weber Buf (stick holding) 4:08, Glass Pgh (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:24, Scott Buf (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:24.

Third Period 5. Pittsburgh, Gibbons 4 (Sutter) 5:22.

6. Pittsburgh, Neal 19 (Malkin, Orpik) 12:12.

Penalties — Ellis Buf (boarding) 19:13.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 13 15 6 — 34 Buffalo 11 9 5 — 25 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 31-13-1); Buffalo: Miller (L, 14-22-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Pittsburgh: 1-4; Buffalo: 0-1.

Blackhawks 2, Ducks 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Palmieri Ana (interference) 9:03, Shaw Chi (hooking) 12:00, Seabrook Chi (tripping) 13:21.

Second Period 1. Chicago, Hossa 24 (Sharp, Rozsival) :39.

Penalties — Shaw Chi (kneeing) 11:07, Rozsival Chi (high-sticking) 16:11.

Third Period 2. Chicago, Toews 19 (Hossa) 17:29.

Penalties — Beleskey Ana (goaltender interference) 9:48.

Shots on goal Chicago 9 9 7 — 25 Anaheim 15 8 6 — 29 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W, 22-8-10); Anaheim: Hiller (L, 24-9-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 0-2; Anaheim: 0-5.

Curling 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts MONTREAL — Standings and results Wednesday after the Draw 13 of the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship, Feb. 1-9 at Maurice Richard Arena: ROUND ROBIN Province (skip) W L Canada (Homan) 8 0 Manitoba (Carey) 7 1 Saskatchewan (Lawton) 7 1 Alberta (Sweeting) 6 3 N.B. (Crawford) 5 4 B.C. (Van Osch) 5 4 N.L. (Strong) 4 5 Ontario (Flaxey) 3 5 N.S. (Smith) 3 6 P.E.I. (Dolan) 2 7 Quebec (Ross) 1 8

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Wednesday’s results Draw 11 Alberta 9 Newfoundland & Labrador 5 New Brunswick 9 P.E.I. 6 Nova Scotia 7 Yukon/NWT 3 B.C. 6 Quebec 5 Draw 12 Manitoba 15 Quebec 3 Canada 7 B.C. 3 Ontario 7 Alberta 5 Saskatchewan 7 Newfoundland & Labarador 3 Draw 13 Ontario 12 Yukon/NWT 2 Saskatchewan 8 Nova Scotia 6 Manitoba 8 New Brunswick 4 Canada 9 P.E.I. 4

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 26 23 .531 — Brooklyn 21 25 .457 3 New York 19 30 .388 7 Boston 17 33 .340 9 Philadelphia 15 35 .300 11 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 34 13 .723 — Atlanta 25 23 .521 9 Washington 24 24 .500 10 Charlotte 22 28 .440 13 Orlando 14 37 .275 22 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 38 10 .792 — Chicago 24 24 .500 14 Detroit 19 29 .396 19 Cleveland 16 33 .327 22 Milwaukee 9 40 .184 29 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 36 13 .735 — Houston 33 17 .660 3 Dallas 29 21 .580 7 Memphis 26 22 .542 9 New Orleans 21 27 .438 14 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 40 11 .784 — Portland 35 14 .714 4 Denver 24 23 .511 14 Minnesota 24 25 .490 15 Utah 16 32 .333 22 Pacific Division W L Pct GB

Tuesday’s results Eighth Draw Saskatchewan 8 Quebec 4 B.C. 7 Ontario 3 Canada 10 Alberta 5 Manitoba 5 Newfoundland & Labrador 3 Ninth Draw B.C. 8 Yukon/NWT 7 Nova Scotia 10 Quebec 5 New Brunswick 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 6 Alberta 8 P.E.I. 5 Draw 10 Canada 10 Nova Scotia 3 Manitoba 10 Yukon/NWT 4 Saskatchewan 7 P.E.I. 3 New Brunswick 7 Ontario 4

Thursday’s games Draw 14, 7 a.m.

Quebec vs. Alberta; B.C. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador.

Draw 15, noon Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I; Ontario vs. Manitoba; Saskatchewan vs. Canada; Yukon/NWT vs. New Brunswick.

Draw 16, 5:30 p.m.

B.C. vs. Saskatchewan; Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Canada; Quebec vs. Ontario; Manitoba vs.

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Friday’s games Draw 17, 7 a.m.

Canada vs. New Brunswick; Yukon/NWT vs. Saskatchewan; Manitoba vs. P.E.I.; Ontario vs. Nova Scotia.

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Tuesday’s Games Indiana 89, Atlanta 85 Minnesota 109, L.A. Lakers 99 Chicago 101, Phoenix 92 Charlotte 91, Golden State 75 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 112, Detroit 98 Boston 114, Philadelphia 108 San Antonio 125, Washington 118,2OT L.A. Lakers 119, Cleveland 108 Houston 122, Phoenix 108 Oklahoma City 106, Minnesota 97 Dallas 110, Memphis 96 New Orleans 105, Atlanta 100 Portland 94, New York 90 Denver 110, Milwaukee 100 Sacramento 109, Toronto 101 Miami at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday’s Games San Antonio at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.

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

Friday’s Games Oklahoma City at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Portland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Washington, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named Dave Machemer special assignment scout, Jeff Stevens and Dan Durst amateur scouts, Ray Naimoli senior manager of corporate partnership sales, Cathy Jerome senior manager of partnership marketing and Bill Marriott manager of coporate partnership sales.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with 1B/OF Bryan LaHair on a minor league contract.

TEXAS RANGERS — Announced RHP Chaz Roe rejected outright assignment and elected free agency.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with INF Justin Turner on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK METS — Named Haeda Mihaltses executive director, external affairs.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with C Koyie Hill on a minor league contract.

Minor League Baseball MiLB — Promoted part-time field evaluator/ instructor Brian Sinclair to full-time status.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Recalled G Lorenzo Brown from Delaware (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Released CB Asante Samuel and LB Stephen Nicholas.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Named Romeo Crennel defensive co-ordinator and signed him to a threeyear contract. Retained Bob Ligashesky as special teams co-ordinator. Named Mike Vrabel linebackers coach, Paul Dunn offensive line coach, George Godsey quarterbacks coach, Sean Hayes assistant strength and conditioning coach, Stan Hixon wide receivers coach, Tim Kelly offensive quality control

coach, Will Lawing defensive quality control coach, Charles London running backs coach, Anthony Midget assistant secondary coach, John Perry tight ends coach, Anthony Pleasant assistant strength and conditioning coach, Jim Bernhardt director of football research, John Butler secondary coach, Doug Colman assistant special teams coach and Craig Fitzgerald strength and conditioning coach.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Named Mike Neu quarterbacks coach.

NEW YORK JETS — Named Thomas McGaughey special teams co-ordinator.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DE Mathieu Boulay.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released LB Henoc Muamba. Signed WR Quentin Sims.

HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD — Traded C Chad Rau to San Jose for RW Curt Gogol.

American Hockey League NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Returned F Chad Painchaud to South Carolina (ECHL).

TORONTO MARLIES — Signed F Kory Nagy to a professional tryout contract. Recalled F Mike Duco from Orlando (ECHL).

Central Hockey League MISSOURI MAVERICKS — Waived D Dean Moore. Signed D Jeff Buvinow.

QUAD CITY MALLARDS — Called up G Eric Levine from Peoria (SPHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Announced David Beckham exercised his option for an expansion team, which will be located in Miami. Signed M Benji Joya.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Acquired M/F Sebastian Fernandez on loan and M/F Nicolas Mezquida by transfer from Boston River (Uruguay).

Raptors can’t dethrone Kings in Sacramento THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kings 109 Raptors 101 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — DeMarcus Cousins had 25 points and 10 rebounds, Rudy Gay added 24 points and 10 rebounds, and the Sacramento Kings held off the Toronto Raptors in the fourth quarter for a 109-101 victory Wednesday.

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Kyle Lowry had 21 points, eight assists and seven rebounds for the Raptors, who had won four of their last five. Demar DeRozan scored 18 points, Patrick Patterson 14 and Steve Novak 12, all in the fourth quarter.

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DeRozan, who entered the game averaging 22 points, shot 5 of 17. He added six rebounds and four assists.

Isaiah Thomas added 23 points for the Kings and guard Marcus Thornton had 12, all in the first half.

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Riders’ Chamblin wins coach of year CFL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The moment Corey Chamblin first started thinking about becoming a CFL head coach came while he was breaking down game film with Jim Barker years ago when the two were with the Calgary Stampeders.

They were watching tape during the 2008 Grey Cup when Barker, himself a former coach, was then Calgary’s senior vice-president of football operations and player-personnel director. Barker turned to the young assistant and made what Chamblin thought at the time was a terribly bold prediction.

“He said, ‘You’ll be a better head coach than an assistant coach, and if you don’t decide to go to the NFL and you stay in this league, you’ll definitely be a head coach,” Chamblin recalls. “And I was like, ‘Jim, you’re crazy.’ ” But Barker’s words were prophetic. On Wednesday, Chamblin was named the CFL’s coach of the year.

The 36-year-old received the Annis Stukus Trophy after leading the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a Grey Cup win on home turf in only his second season with the club.

The Riders finished second in the West Division standings with an 11-7 record. They defeated B.C.

29-25 in the conference semifinal before upsetting first-place Calgary — which posted a league-best 14-4 record — in the West Division final 35-13.

That victory earned Saskatchewan home-field advantage for the Grey Cup game, which was held at Mosaic Stadium. Before a rabid gathering of 44,710, the Riders didn’t disappoint, capping their season with an impressive 45-23 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Kent Austin, Hamilton’s head coach/GM, and John Hufnagel, who also holds the same dual post with Calgary, were the award finalists.

In his first season with Hamilton, Austin led the Ticats to second in the East Division with a 10-8 record before the club posted playoff wins over Montreal and Toronto. Austin was named the CFL’s top coach in ’07 after leading the Riders to a Grey Cup title.

Hufnagel, who won the award in 2008, worked with Chamblin in Calgary. He said he saw in Chamblin many of the traits that have allowed him to make the transition from a position coach into a winning head coach.

“He was very organized but he also had an eye out for the entire program, not just the defensive backs,” Hufnagel said.

“His vision was far-reaching.

“He wanted to put a program together to help make the players’ transition, once they did make the roster, in finding homes in Calgary and all the type of things that provides the transition, makes it easier for the players. So early on, I knew Corey did have

a vision of more than just what was his particular area.” Chamblin bounced around the NFL until 2004 before embarking on his coaching career. The native of Birmingham, Ala., played defensive back at Tennessee Tech. After being bypassed in the NFL draft, he signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Ravens in 1999 but was waived before seeing any regularseason action.

Chamblin then signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He also spent time in Green Bay, Tampa Bay and Indianapolis and played in Germany with the Rhein Fire of the former NFL Europe.

His first coaching gig came in 2006 as an assistant at Tennessee’s Cumberland University. He got his first CFL job a year later as a defensive backs coach with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Chamblin moved to Calgary and spent three seasons as the Stampeders’ defensive backs coach — winning the Grey Cup in 2008 — before becoming Hamilton’s defensive co-ordinator in 2011.

The following season, he landed his first headcoaching job with the Roughriders. Chamblin credits Barker, currently the GM of the Toronto Argonauts, with inspiring him to become a head coach.

“It was one of those things where I was like, ‘Yeah, Jim, I don’t know why you’re saying this and I don’t believe you. Right now, I’m a defensive backs coach’,” Chamblin said.

“But I took that, and I think that was something that opened my eyes, that you know what, I should start preparing myself, and I did and I got it pretty soon.”

Fans pump up volume for Seahawks’ celebration HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FANS LINE STREETS AS SEAHAWKS VICTORY PARADE ROLLS THROUGH SEATTLE

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Marshawn Lynch throws candy from a duck boat during the parade for the NFL Super Bowl champions on Wednesday, in Seattle. The Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday. rolled by.

Thousands of students apparently skipped school to attend. Seattle Public Schools said more than 25 per cent of the district’s 51,000 students were absent in the morning. By comparison, about 5 per cent were absent the day before. The school district also said 565 teachers were absent, far more than usual.

“This is a historical event, once in a lifetime. To not show up would be blasphemy,” said Jesse Lake, 36, a carpenter from Port Orchard, who stood in the packed parking lot outside CenturyLink Field to greet the team as they arrived.

Shawn Cooper and Marlana Studebaker of Covington staked out a spot hours before the parade started and displayed supersized photo cutouts of

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BRIEFS Saunders solid at Cadet biathlon provincials Devin Saunders of Red Deer turned in a strong performance at the Cadet biathlon provincials in Canmore.

Saunders, who competes for the Penhold Squadron 7, placed second in both races in the junior male division and will compete for Team Alberta at the Cadet nationals in Nova Scotia in March.

Kelli Kosack, who introduced the Saunders family, which also includes Brad and Brielle, will be a coach for the Alberta team.

All three Saunders siblings will compete at the Alberta Winter Games, which open today in Canmore and Banff.

Wranglers take down Thrashers The Blackfalds Wranglers jumped into a 2-0 first period lead and went on to down the visiting Three Hills Thrashers 6-2 in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action Tuesday.

Bryce Boguski scored three times for the Wranglers with Wally Samson adding a pair of goals and Garrett Glasman one.

Connor Ablett had both Three Hills goals.

Thomas Isaman made 31 saves for the Wranglers, who had 46 shots on Brody Dirk.

Callihoo leads Triple Threat past Rampage Triple Threat got 14 points from Melanie Callihoo in downing the Rampage 47-38 in Red Deer Women’s Basketball League Pool B action Monday.

Shayna McCormick and Lindsey LeBoutillier had eight points each for the Rampage.

Wilson and cornerback Richard Sherman, prompting many fans to stop and take photos.

“This was a long-awaited win. It’s well worth the wait,” Cooper said.

“They’re years ahead of their time, which makes me believe there’s another one coming.”

Dakota Heaphy, 20, and friend Ellie Hergert, 20, drove all night from Cheyenne, Wyo. — more than 1,400 miles away.

“My boss is a Broncos fan and said we kicked their butts and deserved to go,” Hergert said.

Revelers packed the 2-mile route, wearing blue and green wigs, waving flags, scarves and signs, and breaking out into song and dance.

The Washington National Guard chauffeured many of the players in

Humvees and other military vehicles under blue, sunny skies in cold temperatures. Elected officials rode along in amphibious vehicles used to take tourists around the city.

Players enjoyed the celebration as much as the fans.

Running back Marshawn Lynch sat on the hood of a vehicle carrying the Sea Gals cheerleaders. He tossed Skittles — his favourite treat — into the crowd.

Other Seahawks players threw jerseys and T-shirts to fans while waving blue “12” flags as a sign of gratitude.

Boisterous fans observed a “moment of loudness” at 12:12 p.m. Crowds also gathered in Spokane, Olympia and elsewhere in the state to celebrate the first championship in the 38-year history of the franchise.

Let the games Stamkos not well enough to suit begin: Early up for Canada at Olympics start today in four Sochi Olympics events before opening ceremony THE CANADIAN PRESS

OLYMPICS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCHI, Russia — Competition at the Sochi Olympics was officially starting Thursday, 32 hours before the opening ceremony.

Early starts are needed with 12 men’s and women’s medal events added since the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Men’s snowboard slopestyle qualifying runs — without American star Shaun White, who withdrew Wednesday — were beginning 8 a.m. (0600 GMT) at X-Treme Park in the mountains above Sochi.

Women’s qualifying runs were following in the afternoon, and women’s moguls qualifying was scheduled to start freestyle skiing events at 4 p.m. (1400 GMT).

Men’s slopestyle and women’s moguls are among the first medals to be awarded Saturday.

Down in Sochi, the new team figure skating competition begins 5.30 p.m. (1530 GMT) at the Iceberg Skating Palace.

The men’s short program is to be followed by the pairs.

TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos will not play for Team Canada at the Sochi Olympics after tests revealed Wednesday that his broken right leg is not completely healed.

Tampa Bay Lightning doctors said they couldn’t clear him to play after examining his most recent CT scan and will re-evaluate his condition again in two to three weeks. It’s a big blow for the 23-year-old, who had been optimistic earlier this week that he might be able to play by as soon as Saturday.

“Today is obviously very disappointing for me,” Stamkos said. “I honestly believe that we did everything possible in order to have my injured leg ready in time for the Olympics, but I realize

you can’t force healing. I know, in the best interest of my long-term health, I cannot represent Canada in Sochi, as much as I would like to.”

Stamkos will further address the media in person Thursday.

Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman, who is also Team Canada’s executive director, said Stamkos “should not be participating in game action at any time in the near future.”

“Although the doctor was very pleased to this point with the healing process, he explained that the callus surrounding the fracture site is not 100 per cent consolidated, and Steven will not be cleared to play in a game until that happens,” said Yzerman. “It was a pretty clear-cut decision, no grey areas at all.”

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The mood in Seattle was electrified as the parade featuring the NFL champions began near the Space Needle and made its way to CenturyLink Field, the home of the team.

At a ceremony inside the stadium, the team thanked its loyal followers — the 12th Man — capping a day of boisterous celebration that drew an estimated 700,000 revelers to Seattle.

Players were introduced by the order of their jersey numbers and ended with No. 3, quarterback Russell Wilson, who walked onto the field pumping the Lombardi Trophy in the air to thunderous applause. “Our plan is to win another one for you next year,” Wilson said later.

Coach Pete Carroll led the crowd in a “Seahawks! Seahawks!” chant and said the team will be back.

“We’re just getting warmed up, if you know what I’m talking about,” he said.

Nick Sutton watched the parade from Westlake Center and considered it a highlight when he threw a football to one of the players who threw it back to him.

“It’s surreal. It’s hard to believe.

Seeing this now, it’s finally sinking in,” he said.

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FRONT Go stag or bring your partner and dance the night away at the Valentine’s Day Dinner and Dance at the Pidherney Centre (at 4725 43rd St.) on Feb. 14. Tickets are $60 per person. The fun gets underway at 6 p.m.

Dinner is served at 6:30 and the evening will wrap up at 1 a.m. There will be complimentary wine and a cash bar. Raffle and door prizes will also be up for grabs. All proceeds will go to the McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association’s Abuse Program for Youth.

For more information, contact Christine Stewart at christine.stewart@ mcman.ca or call 403-3092002.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Don’t derail other much-needed transportation projects to pursue a high-speed train link.

That was the message the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) gave a government standing committee that is looking at the potential for a high-speed rail link between Edmonton and Calgary.

Lacombe mayor and AUMA vice-president Steve Christie said Alberta communities, especially the large centres, want to ensure their transportation systems remain funded and future cash is not siphoned off to support high-speed rail.

Edmonton and Calgary both need light -rail transit links to their airports.

“It’s proven efficient and beneficial in cities around the world, and it should work here as well,” said Christie, who addressed the standing committee on Tuesday afternoon in Edmonton.

Building the airport links doesn’t mean high-speed rail has to be shelved.

The groundwork, such as land acquisition and feasibility studies, could be done

while other transportation gaps are filled.

Red Deer is expected to be a stop on a The AUMA says that filling regional high-speed rail line. transportation needs will require substanSennema said they made the case that tial financial support from the federal and the city could be well positioned for the provincial rail line’s governhead ofments. fice or for What the marshalorganizaling yards. tion wants Planto see is a ning docucomprem e n t s hensive already multi-modcontemal “hub plate the and spoke” — LACOMBE MAYOR AND AUMA VICE-PRESIDENT p o s s i b i l transportaSTEVE CHRISTIE ity of hightion system speed rail across the passing province that connects communities to the through and the unencumbered land is big cities and the high-speed rail terminals. available.

The City of Red Deer was among munici“Essentially what we were trying to tell palities to address the committee. the committee is we’re ready and we’re Land and Economic Development open for business when it comes to highmanager John Sennema said they rein- speed rail,” he said. forced the city’s strategic central locaThe city also encouraged the province to tion and its strong economic potential, get started on planning and mapping out a backed up by a population expected to potential route. double by 2041. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

‘IT’S (LIGHT-RAIL TRANSIT LINKS) BEEN PROVEN EFFICIENT AND BENEFICIAL IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD, AND IT SHOULD WORK HERE AS WELL.’

SUPPORT FOR PROTESTERS The Ukrainian Canadian Community in Red Deer will host an event to support the protesters in Ukraine on Sunday.

The fundraiser will be held at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church following the Divine Liturgy Service at 11:30 a.m. A meal of borscht with bread and desserts will be offered, followed by statements from the Ukrainian community. The civil unrest and violence began in November after the government backed out of an agreement with the European Union.

For more information, contact Oksana at 403340-3784/403-340-8504 or omcintyre@shaw.ca.

TALK ABOUT OUTSIDER ART Visual artist, designer and former Red Deer College instructor Aron Hill will talk about his outsider art at the next Art 101 lecture at RDC. Hill will speak at 7 p.m. on Monday in the Learning Common (outside the painting studio, room 2909). The Calgary-based artist and writer has written three novels and co-illustrated a children’s book. His contemporary, minimalist artworks have been exhibited internationally.

Hill graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2006 with a master’s in visual arts degree. He also attended the Alberta College of Art and Design, and is a former RDC art instructor and curator.

Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture, called El Brute.

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A pedestrian makes his way along Gaetz Avenue over sidewalks that have yet to be cleared after the recent snowfall.

Sidewalks watched after treatment OFFICIALS DON’T WANT TO EXPOSE ICE BY CLEARING AWAY THE SNOW

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer crews are keeping a close eye on city sidewalks after giving the walkways the recent traction control treatment.

Public Works manager Greg Sikora said crews wrapped up the recent round of sanding and salting on Monday.

Sikora said the city has been meeting its 10-day standard under normal snowfall conditions for sidewalk clearing this winter. Earlier this winter, the city pulled its sidewalk crews to address the extreme snowfall on main roads.

But in light of the recent warm weather followed by cold temperatures, the city is holding off on clearing the snow and instead providing traction control to maintain the sidewalks.

“If we go out and plow the sand and salt off of it, we may expose the ice,” said Sikora. “It

doesn’t allow the salt the opportunity to thermally break down the ice.

“We need to break down the ice so we can use our equipment to chip it off and peel the ice off the sidewalk.”

Sikora said there may be a period where the city is maintaining the sidewalks through traction control and salt application because of the frigid temperatures.

He said the equipment used primarily to remove snow and ice proves another challenge.

The city is reviewing ways of providing traction control with sand, salt or a bit of snow pack left over the ice.

“We are observing the process and watching it as it proceeds,” said Sikora.

“For us to come in right now with heavy equipment and try to pull off the snow, we may just be exposing the ice again.”

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RESIDENTIAL PLOWING TO CONTINUE INTO MARCH City crews are expected to finish plowing residential streets sometime in early March.

The plow will take longer than the projected 40 days because of the ice buildups on the streets. The campaign began on Jan. 14.

But the crews have nearly completed clearing and removing the snow from transit routes, collectors and residential streets next to schools (Priority 4). They are expected to finish these areas in midFebruary, weather permitting.

Once these areas are completed, the crews will move over to the rest of the residential streets (Priority 6).

Public Works manager Greg Sikora said the additional resources will help speed up the snow and windrow processes.

This winter, 43,000 tonnes of snow have been removed from the Priority 4 routes and another 24,000 tonnes have been removed from Priority 6 routes.

Sikora is reminding residents to move vehicles off the streets when the snow plow signs are placed in their neighbourhoods.

Residents can get up-to-date information on the progress at www. reddeer.ca, by calling 403-342-8238 or on Facebook or Twitter.

Officials hear update on school-within-college project

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A select group of high school students with dreams set on auto body and power engineering careers won’t have to wait until graduation to get more hands-on with their prospective industries.

An update on the new School Within a College initiative, also known as SWAC, was presented to board members of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools on Tuesday evening.

SWAC, to be piloted in September, is a

joint initiative between Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division, Red Deer Public School Division, Chinook’s Edge School Division and Red Deer College.

Four Grade 12 students from each division will attend the pilot program to obtain an Automotive Service Technician (AST) credential as well as their high school diplomas by June 2015.

They will attend all classes — including the regular necessary high school courses — within the college. Mornings will be col-

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lege based and high school courses will take place in the afternoons, said Dave Khatib, Red Deer Catholic Schools division principal.

“We’re just at the point where we’re starting to sign agreements with all the partners but we don’t think we’ll have an issue with finding four students to apply for a space in this program,” he said.

According to Khatib, staff working on the initiative are also “99 per cent” sure a similar pilot program for power engineering will be launched in September.

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BRIEFS County opts out of Sylvan Lake noise group A committee studying ways to cut the racket on Sylvan Lake will have to go without a Red Deer County representative.

County council opted on Tuesday not to appoint one of its members to the subcommittee of the Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society, which is taking on the issue of noisy boaters and personal watercraft riders.

Councillors felt since the county already has representatives on the Sylvan Lake Management Committee, there was no need to join the subcommittee named the Sylvan Lake Quiet Enjoyment Initiative.

The management committee also includes representatives from the Town of Sylvan Lake, Lacombe County and the five summer villages around the lake.

The committee has identified the worst noise polluters and discussed ways to tackle the problem.

Now, an action plan is being developed that is expected to recommend bylaws that to target noisy lake users.

Kids asked to name RCMP’s newest canine recruits The Innisfail-area Police Dog Training Centre is asking Canadian children for help in naming a bunch of their newest four-legged recruits.

Ten German shepherd puppies were recently born at the centre and police are encouraging anyone 16-years-old or younger to be “original and imaginative” in finding names that will serve these puppies in their careers as national police dogs.

Names will be selected by staff at the centre and a draw will determine the winning entry in the event of multiple submissions of the same puppy name.

Contestants can submit only one name and it must start with a G, be one or two syllables and no longer than nine letters.

Names not selected for the contest will be considered for other puppies born during the year.

The deadline for entries is March 5.

Contest winners and prizes will be announced on April 15.

The 10 children whose puppy names are selected will each receive a laminated photo of the pup, a plush dog named Justice and a RCMP cap.

Children can enter the contest by mail or online at www.rcmp-grc.ca/ depot/pdstc-cdcp/name-the-puppynomme-le-chiot-eng.htm.

For more information, call 403-2273346 or visit www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/depot/

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Taking a break from the frigid weather, many walkers and joggers have been utilizing the indoor track at the Collicutt Centre this winter to get in their exercise. The City of Red Deer, partnering with UWalk.ca and the Primary Care Network also launched a UWalk program Tuesday to encourage active lifestyles. Participants can log on to the program at www.uwalk.ca where they can join a Red Deer group and begin logging their steps, stair flights and activities. news-nouvelles/2014/20140205-namethe-puppy-nomme-le-chiot-eng.htm.

Artiques Roadshow coming to Red Deer The Canadian Artiques Roadshow is coming to the Parkland Mall for four days.

The event, by appointment only, is slated for Feb. 27, 28, March 1 and March 2. Appointments will be booked until Feb. 26.

Appraisers Amy Laucianio and Christie Lane for the Canadian Artiques Roadshow, Paul Pierson for Canadian Pickers and David Cole for Pawn Stars Canada will offer their services.

Registration for appraisals can be made by phoning guest services at 403343-8997.

Appraisals are $15 per item or three items for $40. This is a cash-only event and all appraisals will be provided verbally.

For more information, click “events and promotions” at www.parklandmall.ca.

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PROGRAM: Dual credit However, these students would not be in a college setting, working on their fourth class steam engineer ticket and high school diplomas while remaining in their current schools.

The logistics of the power engineering program are still being fine tuned, said Khatib.

“That will be a dual credit program. They’ll be taking that steam engineer credential right in Notre Dame High School and possibly Saint Dominic High School in Rocky Mountain House,” he said.

This program will consist of five credits of power engineering courses each semester, as well as summer work experience in order to obtain the required onsite hours for the first-year ticket.

A similar health care aide credential program is running at Notre Dame, where 24 Grade 11 students are taking that post-secondary credential while working on their high school diplomas.

The feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive, Khatib said.

“We’re hearing from industry they need workers so we’re trying to address that need,” he said.

“We’re able to offer students who show an aptitude in these areas the ability to get the accreditation while they’re still in high school. They don’t have to wait. That’s a tremendous advantage for us in Alberta because we are going to see a deficit in terms of qualified and skilled trades people and I believe this will eventually play role in boosting our economy.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

SIDEWALKS: New policy On the residential side, traffic and enforcement bylaw officers have been kept busy responding to complaints of residents not clearing their sidewalks within the required 48 hours.

Traffic and bylaw enforcement co-ordinator Pat Simper said they do not have concrete numbers but this year the officers have been busy since the first snowfall.

Simper said he did not want to guess how many complaints they have written but he said there have been more than last year. Residents are given a 24-hour written notice and usually comply after the first or second visit.

The bylaw officers have the option of contacting city crews, who will clear the sidewalks and then bill the homeowner. The city offers free sand, limited to two pails, to residents at its Civic Yards site at 7721 40th Ave. Starting next winter, the city sidewalk clearing and the residential clearing requirements will change. City council gave the go ahead to move to a three-day standard for clearing city sidewalks during the operating budget deliberations.

Sikora said the city is looking at the options to meet the new standard that will likely be in place next winter. They do not have the necessary resources now.

The overall snow clearing policy will get some tweaking before it comes to council in late June for final approval. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

ficking returns to Red Deer later this month to join events connected with the city’s First Annual Day of Awareness on Human Trafficking.

Conservative MP Joy Smith, representing the Manitoba riding of Kildonan-St. Paul, will speak on the effects of changes in Canada’s prostitution laws during a Day of Awareness event set for the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Smith visited Red Deer in 2012 to help members of the Magdalena House Society in an event to raise money for their efforts at finding and helping victims of human trafficking.

The Red Deer-based group is currently housed in a basement office in the Town Centre Mall, said local organizer David Bouchard.

Support and funds have grown considerably since Smith’s last visit and the society hopes to move into a bigger and better space in the near future, he said.

Along with Smith’s visit, events on Feb. 22 will include a variety of videos from the front lines of the war against human trafficking.

Feb. 22 was declared Red Deer’s Annual Day of Awareness on Human Trafficking through an official proclamation signed on Wednesday by Mayor Tara Veer.

Bouchard said he hopes the notion will spread outward from Red Deer to become a national day of awareness.

Hunting video submitted for Wild TV competition Going out with the gang for a week in the wilderness is spinning into a new business and video venture for a local group, coming soon to a television near you.

The nine members of Dark Timber Outdoors, based in Red Deer and Sylvan Lake with one member from Edmonton, have submitted a hunting video for an upcoming competition on Edmonton-based Wild TV. At stake is a chance to win a series of spots on the network for more of the hunting videos they have created, said member Mitch Lilley of Red Deer.

Their entry in The Search is set to air on March 3 and will be judged on merits including camera work, editing and viewer votes.

Six other groups are in the running, said Lilley.

Win or lose, he and his partners are jumping into the outdoor DVD and clothing business with both feet, selling their wares at trade fairs and in local sport shops.

Dark Timber has already cut a deal with Wild TV to air 13 new episodes during 2015, regardless of the outcome of the competition.

RCMP hunting for missing persons In two unrelated cases on Wednesday, police were seeking missing people who have ties to Central Alberta.

In Red Deer, City RCMP are looking for a 13-year-old girl, Skyler Abernethy. She was last seen on Jan. 30 in the Glendale area.

Abernethy is described as Caucasian, 1.65 metres (five feet, five inches) tall, 47 kg (105 pounds), dyed blond hair, hazel eyes and she has a nose piercing on the right side.

If you have any information on her whereabouts, you are asked Leah Rae Walker to contact Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575.

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Walker is believed to have recently moved to Grande Prairie but has lived in the Red Deer area in the past.

Walker is described as Caucasian, 1.70 metres (five feet, seven inches) tall, 59 kg (130 pounds), long black hair (approximately shoulder length without extensions), blue eyes, with a tattoo under the ear and down the side of her neck.

If you know where Walker is or have any information about her whereabouts, call the Grande Prairie RCMP detachment at 780-830-5700.

Anyone with information on any of these three people can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers.

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BY SABAA TAHIR ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES As I beheld the new book, I became nervous — as in really apprehensive, sweaty-palms nervous. I knew that it would be so easy for its creators to get this book wrong — and so difficult for them to get it right.

Why? Because the heroine of this new book, which debuts Wednesday, is highly uncommon — even for the comics world. She’s a 16-year-old superhero who is Pakistani American. And she’s Muslim.

Let’s be real: The word “Muslim” has certain connotations attached to it. We all know what they are, and when you say “Muslim girl,” you’ve now got a whole different set of misconceptions. And when you say, “Muslim girl who is a comic-book superhero,” well, people’s antennae tend to go up.

And I say that as a young woman who is Muslim.

And Pakistani American. And who reads graphic novels and grew up on the X-Men. On Wednesday, Marvel Comics will launch its rebooted Ms. Marvel character. The debut is part of a larger women’s “Characters and Creators” initiative — which, in and of itself, is remarkable in an often male-centered comic-book world — yet media attention focused on Ms. Marvel when the New York-based publisher announced that Kamala Khan would inherit the mantle of the old Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers (now the hero of Captain Marvel).

“People are trying to find something controversial in it,” Sana Amanat, the book’s Pakistani American editor, said.

Amanat came up with the idea for Kamala Khan after telling a story about her childhood to friend and fellow Marvel editor Steve Wacker. Members of the news media “want to know if we’re going to be talking about the oppression of women,” Amanat said. “I’ve had a lot of questions about whether we are going to be changing the face of Islam.”

Marvel editors insist they’re not trying to make a political statement. Editor in chief Axel Alonso, who spearheaded the enormously successful Marvel NOW! initiative, sees Kamala as a natural entrant into Marvel’s comic-book universe.

“She’s a teenager and she’s struggling to find her own path,” Alonso said. “She’s imbued with great power and she learns the responsibility that comes with it. That’s a universal story. The fact that she’s female and first-generation American, continuously struggling with the values and authority of her parents, gives the story extra nuance, but it’s a universal human story.”

As a Pakistani American woman, I can relate to Kamala. As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from The Baby-Sitters Club. At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.

When I first read the news about Kamala, I was excited . . . for two seconds. Then my natural paranoia set in. How would Marvel tell this story? Would they overplay the ethnic angles? Would they play it down? Would they make Kamala ashamed of her background or religion? Would they make her strong and independent enough? Would they stereotype her?

Even if Kamala’s creators managed to avoid the

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The Claude A. Godin Trio will perform jazz, blues and funk from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Hub at 4936 Ross St. The trio is comprised of local musicians: The award-winning Godin on saxophone (he was the Calgary Blues Music Association’s sax player of the year in 2011), Carlos Copaban on drums and Ricardo Villacorta on piano.

Tickets are $15 ($30 for families) at the door (cash only).

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ESSAY ‘KAMALA COMES OFF AS SWEET, CONFLICTED AND IMMENSELY RELATABLE. SHE COULD BE A LATINA OR AN AFRICAN AMERICAN, A DESCENDANT OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS OR A BLONDE DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. HER STRUGGLES WILL BE FAMILIAR TO ANYONE WHO HAS TRIED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY BELONG.’

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The new Ms. Marvel series, whose first issue cover is seen here, is part of Marvel Comics’ Characters and Creators initiative, which starts this month. obvious missteps, would they tell a good story? What if they focused so much on being politically correct and sensitive that they lost the magic that every superhero story needs to catch on?

When I asked myself what I’d want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was “relatable.” Yes, I wanted my 15-year-old self to be able to read the book and say, “Hey, this is totally me.” But I also wanted Kamala to be familiar to anyone, everyone. Because it’s not just the lonely, comic-book-loving Pakistani teen who needs a hero like Kamala. It’s the people who look at that teen and only see a Muslim or a Pakistani instead of a whole person.

Before starting the book, I figured I was asking for quite a lot. I told myself not to get my hopes up because I’d probably be disappointed.

But I wasn’t.

Somehow, the new Ms. Marvel managed to be everything I wanted her to be. We meet a 16-year-old girl living in Jersey City, N.J. with her family. She’s a fan of Captain Marvel and has a thing for sniffing BLTs. She’s trying to find her place in the world, survive high school and not tick off her parents. When she encounters a creepy, otherworldly mist, her life changes and we have the setup for her eventually becoming Ms. Marvel.

Kamala comes off as sweet, conflicted and immensely relatable. She could be a Latina or an African American, a descendant of Chinese immigrants talk from 6 to 8 p.m., followed by a question-andanswer session at the main-floor meeting room of the Culture Services Centre, at 3827-39th St. The workshop presented by the Red Deer Arts Council is geared to artists of all genres and is designed to help with tax questions and issues. “Have you ever done your taxes and realized that something is wrong, or something was left out, and it ended up costing you more in the end?” Richards, of JRich Business Services Inc., will instruct on how to do it right.

The cost is $10 for arts council members and $20 for non-members. To register before the Feb. 19 deadline, email info@reddeerartscouncil.ca, or call 403-348-2787.

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s autopsy inconclusive, further tests needed NEW YORK — Four people were taken into custody on drug charges after police investigating Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death executed search warrants, two people with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday, and the medical examiner’s office said more tests are needed to determine what killed him.

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Her struggles will be familiar to anyone who has tried to figure out where they belong.

Although Amanat created Kamala Khan, the book is illustrated by Adrian Alphona (Runaways) and written by G. Willow Wilson, an American Muslim convert known for thoughtfully addressing all manner of culturally sensitive topics in her past work (Alif the Unseen, Cairo).

In addition to deftly handling the family and cultural dynamic, Wilson is such a natural at dialogue that I’m wondering whether she herself is secretly a 16-year-old Pakistani superhero. Her skill is most apparent in a scene between Kamala’s progressive, streetwise father and her holier-than-thou elder brother. “Prayer is noble,” Kamala’s father says to his work-shirking son. “But when you spend all day praying, it starts to look like you’re avoiding something . . . like finding a job, for example.”

With that same wry humor, Wilson touches on the stereotypes that many Muslim women and girls deal with on a regular basis. “Your headscarf is so pretty, Kiki,” a well-meaning but culturally uneducated character says to one of Kamala’s friends. “But . . . nobody pressured you to start wearing it, right? Nobody’s going to, like, honor-kill you?”

Some expected comic-book tropes to make an appearance: the nagging parent, the rebellious child, the hint of a possible romance, a difficult lesson learned.

And there are suggestions of broader themes to come, many of which are commonly explored in comics (although the medium does not get enough credit for it). As teenagers, how do we balance the identity that our parents impose upon us with the person we want to be? What do we do when our friends try to protect us from things we don’t want to be protected from? What happens when we realize we don’t fit in, no matter how much we try? What happens to our hopes and dreams when it seems like there’s no way of ever attaining them?

For now, these themes are just suggestions. And that’s as it should be, because what matters most in any story, comic book or not, is whether the hero is someone you care about and can relate to. At its heart, the first issue of Ms. Marvel is a simple, familiar story about a girl who feels like the worst kind of misfit.

And that’s something that almost every comic book fan can understand. woman Julie Bolcer, who declined to discuss the pending tests. Toxicology and tissue tests are typically done in such cases.

Police have been investigating his death as a suspected drug overdose.

The Oscar-winning actor was found dead Sunday with a needle in his arm, and tests found heroin — but no traces of the potent synthetic morphine additive fentanyl, which is added to intensify the high and has been linked to 22 suspected overdose deaths in western Pennsylvania — in samples from at least 50 packets in his apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, law enforcement officials have said.

The four people were taken into custody Tuesday night after police executed search warrants at several New York City apartments based on a tip provided by a confidential source that the suspects may have supplied Hoffman with drugs, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — CN Rail and the Teamsters union have reached a tentative contract agreement, averting a potential strike by 3,000 workers that could have come as early as this weekend.

Both sides said late Wednesday that details of the three-year contract won’t be released until it is ratified by union members.

Teamsters spokesman Stephane Lacroix described the negotiations as a “bit chaotic,” but said CN came to the union with a series of proposals

late in the day. “As a result, we’re very happy to avoid a strike this weekend,” Lacroix said, adding he hopes union members will ratify the agreement this time.

Lacroix noted that Labour Minister Kellie Leitch’s announcement that Ottawa was preparing back-to-work legislation in the event of a strike likely helped move things along.

He said union members will soon get to see the agreement and likely vote on it in the coming weeks.

The union’s strike notice came days after Teamster members, representing conductors, train employees and yard workers, rejected a tentative contract

reached last fall with CN (TSX:CNR).

The federal government had said it was prepared to intervene and force CN workers back on the job should they go ahead with a walkout, which could have come as early as Saturday morning.

Leitch said that a strike at Canada’s largest railway would hurt farmers and the forestry sector.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall had called on Ottawa to step in before a strike even began.

In a letter to Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, Wall said a strike would be unacceptable at a time when farmers are already having trouble moving a

bumper crop of grain.

“Our agricultural producers deserve better than to be held hostage by one organization at a time when there is already tremendous frustration with the rail system’s failure to serve their needs adequately,” the premier wrote.

CN said it transports about $250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business, including natural resources and consumer goods.

A strike by competitor Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) in 2012 lasted just days before Ottawa legislated workers back on the job.

CN congratulated the union for averting a possible strike.

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Saputo Dairy Products Canada has received development approval for changes to its 5410 50th Ave. plant.

These include the addition of a 32-metre-high building on the southwest portion of the property.

Planners give go-ahead to changes at Saputo plant

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR It took 10 weeks and three tabling motions, but Red Deer’s municipal planning commission has given its blessing to a proposed addition to Saputo Inc.’s downtown dairy processing plant.

The commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve a new 21,075-square-foot building on the southwest portion of the 5410 50th Ave. property, plus a 3,250-square-foot addition to the existing plant.

Saputo also plans to demolish a warehouse on the west side of the site, with that building approximately 21,000 square feet in size.

The new building will be nine metres tall, with a 23-metre tower that will bring its total height to 32 metres. It will be constructed to look like a commercial building, with metal panels, glazing and brick accents.

The landmark brick Alpha smokestack, which dates back to 1936, has been formally recognized as having historical significance and will remain.

Saputo’s application first came before the commission on Nov. 27, but was tabled after members expressed concerns that nearby property owners had not been notified.

When notification requirements were clarified on Dec. 11, the commission voted to table the

application again so that property owners within 100 metres could be informed.

Fifty-six letters were sent out, resulting in one letter of support, one offering conditional support and one objecting to the development.

The application was tabled again on Jan. 15 so that city staff could review the landscaping, noise attenuation and parking elements in a revised plan.

The Saputo plant is located within Red Deer’s Railyards District, which contemplates a mix of high-density uses, including residential and commercial development.

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Permits off to quick start The City of Red Deer’s Inspections and Licensing Department is off to a running start in 2014, with $15.6 million worth of construction projects approved in January.

This total, which was up from $8.5 million for the same month in 2013, included $11.9 million in building permits issued for residential work.

The biggest of these was a $6.8-million permit for a 79-unit apartment building being built by Seymour Pacific Developments at 2450 22nd St. Seymour Pacific is also developing a 78-unit apartment building on the same site, the permit for which was obtained in December 2013.

Building permits for industrial work last month added another $3.6 million.

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Canada’s two main airlines both credit strong passenger traffic for helping them maintain healthy load factors in January.

In fact, Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) reported a record load factor of 80.0 per cent in January — up from 79.4 per cent in January 2012 — as a 3.7 per cent increase in revenue passenger miles more than offset a 3.0 per cent increase in capacity, or available seat miles.

“Air Canada generated greater traffic for the month of January in all markets the airline serves . . . led by increases in traffic in Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. transborder markets,” president and CEO Calin Rovinescu said.

WestJet, meanwhile, reported a load factor of 80.9 per cent, unchanged from January 2012 as passenger demand grew at the same pace as the airline added capacity.

The airline (TSX:WJA) said it flew 1.6 million passengers in the month, up 8.8 per cent or 129,000 from the same month last year.

Traffic measured in revenue passenger miles grew by 8.4 per cent, while capacity increased 8.3 per cent.

“We have had a great start to the year by tying our load factor record for January, as we saw strong traffic growth and welcomed more guests into our growing network,” WestJet president and CEO Gregg Saretsky said.

WestJet told analysts Tuesday that it increased fares by two per cent last week in response to the falling Canadian dollar, a move that was followed by Air Canada and other airlines.

Air Canada reportedly had tried to increase fares before, but they didn’t stick because WestJet, its main domestic rival, refused to match the increases.

The airlines are trying to adjust to the impact from the lower loonie on their costs. Saretsky said higher fares are a possibility as well as increased ancillary fees, including possibly a charge for a passenger’s first checked bag.

Much of WestJet’s increased capacity came from the expansion of its Encore regional service. The airline said 50 to 60 per cent of those passengers connect to its regular flights.

Industry analysts said the traffic results were stronger than expected and provided evidence of healthy demand.

Analyst Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said the new capacity has been “easily absorbed by robust demand.”

He said the data also confirms demand is strong enough to support further fare increases.

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Seymour Pacific Developments for Business-Work is underway on an apartment building at 2450 22nd St., the second of two being developed there by Seymour Pacific Developments. The 79-unit building contributed $6.8 million to the total value of construction work approved by the City of Red Deer last month.

The biggest approvals in this category included one valued at $1.9 million and issued to Camdon Construction Ltd. for renovations to a building at 7883 Edgar Industrial Way, and another worth $1.1 million and issued

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to Timcon Construction Ltd. for tenant improvements at 7465 45th Ave. Cl. Commercial and public permits issued by the city last month added $150,000 and $22,000 respectively.

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Central Alberta’s residential resale market picked up steam in January, with 104 homes in Red Deer and 136 in the surrounding region sold through the Multiple Listing Service system during the month.

Those numbers were up from 72 in Red Deer and 97 outside the city in December. During January 2013, MLS sales in the city totalled 99 and outside Red Deer the figure was 114.

The average resale price in Red Deer last month was $350,605, up from $303,515 in December and $317,919 in January 2013.

Outside the city, the average last month was $291,372. That compares with $246,627 in December and $242,735 in January 2013.

The Central Alberta Realtors Association has cautioned that average prices are not a good indicator of market trends, because the types and locations of properties sold from period to period can vary.

There were 186 new residential listings in Red Deer last month and 280 elsewhere in Central Alberta. A year ago, the corresponding numbers were 198 and 288.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 94.95 Atco Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.24 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.37 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.75 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.73 Cdn. National Railway . . 59.43 Cdn. Pacific Railway . . 164.15 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . 37.55 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.92 Cervus Equipment Corp 23.74 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 44.85 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.85 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 26.90 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.46 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.24 Parkland Fuel Corp . . . . 18.25 SIrius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.50 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.53 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 66.93 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 37.05 Transalta Corp. . . . . . . . 14.39 Transcanada . . . . . . . . . 47.82 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 94.50 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 41.94 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.95

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Wednesday as investors balanced a positive reading on the U.S. services sector with an unexpectedly weak report on private sector job creation in the United States.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 55.21 points at 13,559.69 while the Canadian dollar gained 0.01 of a cent to 90.25 cents US. New York indexes were off session lows as the Dow industrials came back from a 105-point slide to finish 5.01 points lower at 15,440.23 despite the Institute for Supply Management having reported that its non-manufacturing index came in at 54 last month, up a full point from December.

The Nasdaq fell 19.97 points to 4,011.55 while the S&P 500 index was off 3.56 points at 1,751.64.

Earlier, payroll firm ADP reported the U.S. private sector created 175,000 jobs in January, about 15,000 short of what economists had expected. The U.S. government’s employment report for January is expected Friday and economists have estimated a total of about 190,000 jobs were created.

An ISM survey on manufacturing sparked a drop on stock markets Monday after it came in lower than expected. The report followed other data that showed the pace of expansion of the Chinese manufacturing sector had also slowed.

The data raised questions about whether economic problems in emerging markets could spread to more developed economies.

The concerns come as the U.S. Federal Reserve moves to cut back its monthly bond purchases, a measure that helped keep the lid on longterm interest rates and encouraged

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.31 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.04 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 56.86 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.87 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.85

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 49.27 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.49 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . 31.79 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . 45.18 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.14 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.52 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . 0.160 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.93 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.21 Talisman Energy . . . . . . 11.82 Trican Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.98 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.29 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 60.98

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.56 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.56 First Quantum Minerals . 19.58 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.48 Hudbay Minerals . . . . . . . 8.71 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 5.07 Potash Corp. . . . . . . . . . 35.77 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 3.21 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 26.35

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 68.10 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . 60.94 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.60 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.46 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.30 Great West Life . . . . . . . 30.77 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . 53.63 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 66.75 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.95 National Bank . . . . . . . . 84.28 Rifco Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.80 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . 69.08 Sun Life Fin. Inc. . . . . . . 36.03 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.66

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 29.31 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 32.56 Baker Hughes . . . . . . . . 57.01 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.96 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . 53.10 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.63 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.16 Canyon Services Group. 10.71 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 28.91 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.810 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.83 Essential Energy . . . . . . . 2.42 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 89.58 traders to put their money in higher yielding securities such as stocks.

Emerging markets also benefited from a flood of cheap money which is turning against them as traders seek safer returns.

The uncertainty has triggered a steep downturn on stock markets, particularly in the U.S. where the S&P 500 is down almost six per cent from the start of 2014.

Most of the TSX strength came from the financial sector, up 0.98 per cent.

The energy sector was ahead 0.98 per cent as the March crude oil contract in New York gained 19 cents to US$97.38 a barrel.

The gold sector led decliners, down 1.49 per cent as April bullion gained $5.70 to US$1,256.90 an ounce.

The base metals group was down 0.4 per cent as the March copper contract closed unchanged at US$3.19 a pound.

Market highlights Highlights at close Wednesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,559.69, up 55.21 points TSX Venture Exchange — 942.50, down 5.21 points TSX 60 — 776.76, up 2.78 points Dow — 15,440.23, down 5.01 points S&P 500 — 1,751.64, down 3.56 points Nasdaq — 4,011.55, down 19.97 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.25 cents US, up 0.01 of a cent Pound — C$1.8071, down 0.22 of a cent Euro — C$1.4998 up 0.24 of a cent Euro — US$1.3536, up 0.23 of

a cent Oil futures: US$97.38 per barrel, up 19 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,256.90 per oz., up $5.70 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.868 oz., up 48.5 cents $735.21 kg, up $15.60 TSX Venture Exchange TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 942.50, down 5.21 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 351.27 million shares.

ICE Futures Canada WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $2.60 lower $427.00; May ’14 $2.50 lower $437.50; July ’14 $2.50 lower $446.50; Nov. ’14 $2.90 lower $461.30; Jan ’15 $2.90 lower $466.80; March ’15 $3.00 lower $472.00; May ’15 $3.40 lower $474.50; July ’15 $3.40 lower $476.80; Nov ’15 $3.40 lower $473.00; Jan. ’16 $3.40 lower $473.00; March ’16 $3.40 lower $473.00.

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: 489,040 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 489,040.

Economic recovery could stall, says NDP THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The New Democrats say the governing Conservatives’ rush to balance the books could delay the economic recovery from the recession.

NDP finance critic Peggy Nash says cuts and austerity measures risk slowing the economy and maintaining higher unemployment, or even increasing it. She says her party wants to balance the books as quickly as possible, but not at the risk of putting the brakes on the economy.

Nash says the NDP have some inexpensive ideas for next week’s budget, including reversing the controversial cuts to Veterans Affairs.

They also want the government to cap ATM and credit card fees, saying consumers shouldn’t have to pay two or three dollars to withdraw their own money from bank machines.

The New Democrats are also asking for measures they say will create jobs, such as providing a $1,000 tax credit to small businesses to offset the costs of hiring a new worker, at a cost of about $113 million.

saputo: Marginal boost in traffic expected However, existing uses can continue there on a discretionary basis.

The commission heard that the plant currently receives approximately 15 trucks a day, including about a dozen between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. These numbers are expected to remain the same or increase only marginally following the addition.

It was also disclosed that a complaint late last year prompted Saputo to make modifications to reduce noise from the plant.

There have been no subsequent complaints, and new equipment being installed as part of the addition is expected to be quieter.

Saputo has indicated that it wants to begin construction this spring, said city staff.

“We’re anticipating the project to take approximately 18 months from the start,” added Nicholas Lajoie, the com-

Tories look to Germany to do more on apprenticeship

By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Employment Minister Jason Kenney frequently lauds Germany as a nation that gets it right in terms of training workers via apprenticeship partnerships among government, schools and businesses.

The minister even took to Twitter on Wednesday, a week before the federal budget is to be tabled, to invite his provincial counterparts to travel to Germany with him to study the country’s “skills training model.”

As the Conservatives look for ways to deal with a shortage of skilled workers in Canada, there’s a growing insistence that more can be done on the apprenticeship file — possibly in next week’s budget.

If so, expect Germany to play a starring role in any new government initiatives on apprenticeships given the emphasis Kenney often places on that country’s economic prowess.

“Perhaps we should look at the example of Germany — where Canada has 14 per cent youth unemployment, Germany has five per cent youth unemployment and the strongest labour market in Europe,” Kenney said in a speech late last year.

“One half as many young Germans go and do academic post-secondary de-

grees, as is the case in Canada, but they have this very robust dual training system that encourages people, right from high school on, through a partnership between employers, unions, the state and federal governments to pursue a wide range of trades.”

Under Germany’s dual education system, classroom lessons are combined with hands-on technical experience. Children are streamed from a young age toward more than 300 trades in need of skilled workers — from sausage-making to car manufacturing and optician work.

The German apprenticeship system is indeed the envy of the world thanks to the country’s low youth unemployment rate, even though growing numbers of Germans graduating from high school are now opting to go to university instead of starting an apprenticeship.

The trend is causing small businesses in Germany to fear that they’ll soon struggle to fill skilled jobs.

The Tories, meantime, have been stepping up their efforts on a Canadian-style apprenticeship system.

The Atlantic provinces and Ottawa recently announced changes in the Maritimes’ local apprentice certification system so that apprentices from Atlantic Canada are able to work and train with greater ease.

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McINTOSH Patricia Joan 1958 - 2014 With incredible sadness we announce the very sudden death of our daughter and mother February 1, 2014.

Pat died at the age of 56 and will be forever missed. Her only wish after death was to have her body donated for scientific research. We are working towards this for her.

A celebration of her life will be held at a later date.

You know we love you Patti!

Angela McIntosh and Connie Barnaby

MILLER John Grant Miller passed away on Friday, January 31st, 2014 at the age of 66.

Grant was a devoted husband to Jacalyn (née Hudson) and father of nine children. He practiced law in Innisfail, Alberta for more than 37 years and was known by many through his work and service in the community.

Grant is the eldest child of Joyce Pauline (née Davies) and James Rex Miller of Cardston, Alberta. He was born in his mother’s hometown of Bilston, Staffordshire, England on 28 October 1947 and came to Canada by boat at 10 months old with his mother. The family settled in Cardston in 1954. After serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in England, Grant graduated first from the University of Lethbridge and then law school at the University of Alberta. In 1976 he settled in Innisfail to practice law at the firm that soon became Miller Lehane & Wild. Throughout his life Grant volunteered in many capacities both within the LDS Church and in the community. In his career as a lawyer, Grant always tried to be understandable and kind with his clients. Grant also helped those with limited resources, at times working pro bono or arranging to be paid by whatever means his clients could afford. He will be dearly missed by his wife Jacalyn and children David (Aimee), Cardston, AB; Janet (Darryl), Okotoks, AB; Logan (fiancé Rachel) Kelowna, BC; Chris (girlfriend Jamie Rowen), Toronto, ON; Steven (Andrea), Saskatoon, SK; Lisa (Dave), Edmonton, AB; Clare (boyfriend Ryan), Red Deer, AB; and Evan, Vancouver, BC; and his fourteen grandchildren.

He is also survived by his parents, Joyce and Rex, and brothers Scott (Janice), and Craig (Kathy). He is welcomed home by his beloved daughter Angela, who passed away in April 1978. A Memorial Service honoring Grant will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5698 55 Ave. Cres., Innisfail, Alberta on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m . with a luncheon to follow.

E-mail your condolences to: legacyfh@telus.net LEGACY FUNERAL HOMES LTD., Cardston Assisting the Family. Phone 403-653-3222.

Obituaries MYSHAK Lorraine (nee Stelmaker) Oct. 12, 1939 - Feb. 2, 2014 Lorraine Myshak passed away on February 2, 2014 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 74. She leaves behind her husband of 57 years Charles (Chuck) Myshak; 6 sons and 1 daughter Carl (Delores), Wayne, Brian (Deanna), Debbie (William), Dana, Paul, Darrell; 13 grandchildren; 4 great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her son Corey in 1991. Lorraine was a very loving, caring and giving woman and will be missed by all.

As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Lorraine’s name to the Cancer Research.

SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

ROSS Brenda It is with heavy hearts and immense sadness to announce the passing of Brenda Ross of Red Deer, AB, on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at the age of 53 years. Brenda is survived by her two loving children Ronnie and Brandy Ross; brother Randy Butlin; sisters Debra Buffalo (Danny) and Crystal Jones; along with many aunt, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, many friends and co-workers.

Brenda was predeceased by her husband Bernard Ross; father Percy Jones and her parents Andrew and Charlotte Butlin; sister Patricia Carriere; uncle Chester and aunt Cassie Mornson; fatherin-law Ronald T. Ross; brothers -in-law Arnold Ross and Victor Crier. Brenda will be fondly remembered for her caring nature, genuine sense of humour, and her ability to find the positive in anything.

She enjoyed being outside, gardening, socializing with good friends, reading a good book, and spending evenings around the fire pit. With a work ethic second to none.

For those who wish to pay their respects to Mrs. Brenda Ross, visitations will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, February 6, 2014 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel on Friday, February 7, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. Interment will follow at Alto Reste Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Brenda’s name may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4.

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YAKELASHEK Emil Charles Yakelashek, better known as “Frank” or “Goldie”, passed away peacefully on Monday February 3, 2014 at the age of 75 years. Frank was born November 2, 1938 on the home quarter in Minitonis, MB to the late Stanley and Joan Yakelashek.

Frank spent his early years working on the family farm and at the age of 15 he moved to Saskatchewan where he worked at the grain elevators.

He stayed there until “the rats chased him out.” His next move was to Prince George, B.C. where he worked in diamond drilling. While in B.C., he also found a hobby in stock car racing. For a short time, he moved to the Yukon where he continued in diamond drilling. He then moved to Alberta where he spent a few years at seismography and then began his career in the oil and gas industry. Frank worked in many places and in many positions on the oil patch and eventually became a self-employed oil field consultant. Frank was predeceased by his parents, his sister Pat Heibert, brother-inlaw Paul Petelski, infant brother Adolf, and infant triplet siblings. Frank is survived by his children Joanne (Robin) McQuaker, Michelle (Peter) Waycott, Grant (Kirsten) Macaulay, Wade (Sheree Mailer) Yakelashek and Cory (Pamela) Yakelashek and numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. He is also survived by his sister Agnes Petelski and brothers Phil, Florian, and Larry Yakelashek.

Funeral services will be held Monday February 10th at Brennen Funeral Home Chapel 4819 49th Street, Stettler, AB at 2:00 PM. Interment will follow at a later date. As an expression of sympathy and in loving memory of Frank, memorial donations may be made to S.T.A.R.S Air Ambulance or to a charity of your choice in care of Brennen Funeral Home and Cremation Services P.O. Box 193 Stettler, Alberta TOC 2LO. 403.742.3315 Condolences can be forwarded to the family by visiting our website at www.brennenfuneralhome.com

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WHITNEY 1931 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts and happy memories that we announce the passing of Donald George Whitney. Don passed away in Red Deer, Alberta on February 1st, 2014 at the age of 83. Don was born in Consort, Alberta January 10, 1931 to Ray and Jessie Whitney. Don embraced an active and full life enjoying his family, his work and his leisure. He was loved by many and lit up the room with his smile and dreamy blue eyes. Don is survived by his four children, Cheryl (Gordon) Blonke, Brenda (Robert) Claude, Dwayne (Sue) Whitney, Cindy (Troy) Pugh, eleven grandchildren, and fifteen great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Don was predeceased by his wife Gladys, his parents, and his sister Shirley Knockleby.

There will be a memorial tribute in Don’s honour held on February 8, 2014 at 2pm at Legacy Estates, 56 Carroll Crescent, Red Deer, Alberta and a Celebration of his Life will take place in May of 2014 (details to follow). In lieu of flowers please make donations to the Parkinson Alberta. 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.

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MILLER Lucy 1940-2014 Mrs. Lucy Miller of Red Deer passed away with a strong but valiant fight. She was determined not to let the cancer win. She drifted away peacefully with her family at her side on Sunday, February 2, 2014 at the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 73.

Lucy was born on March 2, 1940 at Picture Butte, AB as a daughter to 1st generation immigrants from Croatia (Yugoslavia). She enjoyed the simple and long-term rewards in life; Patience, (true) confidence and a noble heart were but a few of her most alluring traits. Along with this, the nature of “sacrifice” was understood and exercised without thought as if it were second nature to her very spirit. Lucy enjoyed life to the fullest through finding and fostering the strength in others, first and foremost through her family. For the many that knew her personally, this was an obvious accomplishment through her daily choices and the corporations (owners) she so chose to support in her career. Special thanks to those that supported her in those industrious times at Farmland, Phoenix Construction, Goodman Roofing and Van Alta Management. Among those most cherished was her spouse of 45 years Bill (William A.) Miller. They enjoyed many adventures together and had a wonderful retirement life. With the passing of her husband Bill (2006), she acquired newfound strength in socializing with many new and old acquaintances from her past. Warm blessings and thanks to her golfing friends, her wonderful neighbors, dress club ladies and the nurses who adopted her as an honorary nurse and provided solace to the heavy hearts of her surviving children. Lucy will be sadly and deeply missed but lovingly remembered and forever cherished in the hearts of her family and many friends. Lucy leaves to mourn her daughter Brenda (Darcy) Hall of Red Deer, AB and her son Craig (Audrey) Miller also of Red Deer, AB and her grandchildren; Payden, Chase and Nolan. She will also be missed by her sister’s, Doris Radisic of Edmonton, Stella (Rob) Evans of Vancouver, BC, Annie (Jim) Northsworthy of Vancouver, BC. Lucy was predeceased by her loving husband, Bill, of 45 years. Her parents Sam and Danica Radisic, two sister’s Mary Slovak, Helen Radisic and her brother Michael Radisic.

Lucy ( Mom) was a fighter she gave this battle her all! She will always be known for being everyone’s inspiration to being so positive. She will be truly missed by all. Thank you to Dr. Graham the Cancer Center in Red Deer and Dr. Daniel for the wonderful care you provided our mom over the years. Special thanks to the Red Deer Hospice for making our mom, and our family feel so at home. Thank you for taking such wonderful care of our mom. A Funeral Service will be held at CrossRoads Church, S.W. corner of Hwy. 2 and 32nd Street, Red Deer on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Interment will follow at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. Memorial Donations in Lucy’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6.

Arrangements in care of Lenore Jacobson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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LIVE-IN Caregiver for senior in the Rocky Mountain House area.

Call Dale at 403-846-5558

Clerical

720

P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE The Red Deer Advocate has an entry level opening in their Circulation Dept. for a Customer Service Representative.

This position is responsible for assisting circulation customers by phone or in person & compiling reports for the mailroom.

The successful candidate will possess: * Good telephone manner * Excellent communication skills * Basic Computer skills * Attention to detail * Ability to function in a fast-paced environment * A positive attitude

NOW HIRING

F/T or P/T EXP’D. HAIRSTYLIST REQUIRED. Phone 403-347-3010 Eileen’s Beauty Nook

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

JUST CUTS is looking for F/T - P/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary.

Christie 403-309-2494 NEW IMPRESSIONS SALON & SPA Seeking F/T& P/T Hair Stylist Drop off resume to 190 Northey Ave.

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

780

Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP Legal Assistants

SERVICE RIG

Legal Assistant positions in the areas of Litigation and Corporate/Commercial are available. Minimum 2-5 years experience in the relevant fields is a requirement. Cores III accreditation for the Corporate/Commercial position is highly recommended.

Competitive salaries, great benefits in a good working environment on offer.

Please email your resume to the Office manager at ssimmons@altalaw.ca.

Only candidates on the short list will be contacted for interviews.

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 very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have has a full time career current H2S, Class 5 with advancing position Q Endorsement, (No GDL available as a licenses) and First Aid. General Legal Assistant.

We offer competitive The successful applicant wages & excellent benefits. will have completed the Please include 2 work Legal Assistant Program, reference names and and have prior experience numbers. working in a law firm. This Please fax resume to: position requires someone 403-264-6725 who displays a team player Or email to: outlook, demonstrates tannis@treelinewell.com effective communication No phone calls please. skills, has the ability to www.treelinewell.com multi-task, and work in a fast paced environment.

ZUBAR Production We offer an excellent Services working environment, is currently taking resumes benefits, and the for experienced opportunity for personal Production Testing and professional growth.

Personnel Please respond in Email resume to: confidence with a cover rdzubaroffice@telus.net letter and resume to: or fax to (403)346-9420.

Attention: Human Must have all valid tickets.

Resources Johnston Ming Manning LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB Professionals T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 EYEWEAR Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca We thank all applicants for LIQUIDATORS their interest, however, requires only those selected for an OPTICAL ASSISTANT interview will be contacted.

Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. Oilfield Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

810

800

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.

Modular Assembly Experience is an Asset

Data Services Coordinator You provide the skills:

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• • • • •

Advanced to Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel Extracting & summarizing data into reports from Databases Critical thinking and problem solving Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment Detail oriented, extremely organized Ability to communicate in a professional manner Access Database experience an asset

We offer the rewards:

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Service recognition program Comprehensive benefits package Continuous training Salary based on credentials

Your next step: forward your resume by Feb. 21, 2014 to: Cascadia Motivation Inc. Attn:Gary Thorsteinson Suite 14, 4646 Riverside Dr. Red Deer, AB T4N 6Y5 Fax: 403.340.1314 E-mail: GaryT@ CascadiaMotivation.com

Dental

740

F/T RDA Level II assistant req’d. for Family Dental practice dedicated to exceptional patient care.

Contact Kelly with resume at the Lacombe Dental Clinic, 5015-51 St. Lacombe, AB T4L 2A3 (403)782-3755, Fax: (403)782-4081 by email: admin@lacombedental.com

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

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

770

Experienced Oilfield Construction customer service experience.

Lead Hands Approx. 20 hrs. per week Experienced Oilfield including weekend shifts.

Construction Please submit your Labourers resume to: Industrial Painters

We are seeking an individual interested in a full-time, professional career in our Merchandise Rewards division.

820

Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field $12.25/hr. operations for an intermediate To provide Food & oil and gas operator. Applicants Beverage service, handle must have experience as a cashiering, arrange and heavy duty mechanic or Janitorial journeyman instrument setup the outlet. maintain mechanic and possess cleanliness and hygiene.

ARAMARK at (Dow Cook strong mechanical skills, Prentiss Plant) about $14.00/HR. be quick learners, motivated 20-25 minutes out of Red and hard working and live To prepare and cook all Deer needs hardworking, or be willing to relocate food up to standard, clean reliable, honest person kitchen and maintain hywithin a 20 minute commute w/drivers license, to work to workplace location. This giene follow recipes, assist 40/hrs. per week w/some position offers a challenging in receiving and storing weekends, daytime hrs. work environment, attractive Kitchen Helper $14/hr. Fax resume benefits with competitive $11/hr w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 pay and significant room To clean kitchen following Attn: Val Black for promotion. safety and hygiene Please submit resumes standards. Clean utensils, Buying or Selling cutlery, crockery and your home?

Attn: Human Resources glassware items.

Check out Homes for Sale email:kwolokoff@ Clean floors. in Classifieds bearspawpet.com Assist in prep.

Fax 403-252-9719 All positions are Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Shift Work & Weekends.

Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Fax resume 780-702-5051 Legal

Preference will be given to those with previous

Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, T4R 1M9 Fax: 403-341-4772 Email: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com with CSR in subject line

Restaurant/ Hotel

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” Start your career!

See Help Wanted 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

Computer Personnel

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Trades

850

Trades

Construction Safety Manager

ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please call Laurie 403-350-4341

jobs CLASSIFICATIONS

800

MAPLE LEAF Environmental & Safety Ltd. is a proactive, dynamic and progressive company.

We are recruiting for the positions of: EMR’s, H2S Drilling Safety Advisors, Plant Shutdown Safety Personnel.

Please email or phone Luke Grayston; lgrayston@ mapleleafsafety.com Phone 780 520-1676 Reporting to the CFO, the Junior Accountant will be responsible for all of the accounting functions (i.e. inputting of supplier invoices, quarterly preparation of GST returns to be reviewed by CFO, preparation of monthly financial reporting package, payments of supplier invoices, bank reconciliations, etc.). This position plays a role in establishing financial policies, procedures, internal controls and reporting systems, ensuring that systems are in place to produce accurate and timely reporting of financial results. Candidate must have University degree or college diploma, with 3-5 years of relevant work experience. Email: dsmith@wiseisi.com

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced • SERVERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 • Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

• WANTED:

Kitchen Assistant Permanent Part time

Send resumes to: Fax: 403-722-3980 or Email: donna @campcaroline.ab.ca.

For further information please call Donna At 403-722-3939 ext. 205 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Sales & Distributors

830

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Portable iMassagers Hiring Retail Sales Manager At Parkland Mall, 4747 67th St, Red Deer, AB T4N 6H3 F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $24.00 hourly. Skills requirements: Experience 2-3 years, good English. Education: Secondary school. Main CALKINS CONSULTING duties: Plan, direct and o/a Tim Hortons evaluate the operations of Food Service Manager retail sales rder and receiv5 positions, F/T & P/ T, ing goods. Responsible for $9.95 - $18/hr. depending customer refunds and exon exp. and availability. changes.Resolve customer Permanent shift work, complaints Determine weekends, days, nights staffing requirements and evening shifts. 3-5 yrs.

Hire or oversee hiring of exp., completion of secon- staff. Company’s business dary school. Start date address: 45 Boyce Street, ASAP. Apply in person Red Deer AB T4R 1P2 6620 Orr Drive.

E-mail: Reachiesales Fax: 403-782-9685 @gmail.com Call 403-848-2356 ELEMENTS is looking 5 HOLIDAY INN Beauty Treatment Operators.

Selling seasonal gift EXPRESS packages & personal care RED DEER products in Parkland Is seeking Mall-4747 67th St Red FRONT DESK CLERK Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus * Answer phone calls bonus & commission, F/T, * Take reservations Beauty certification req’d * Check in/out Guests email resumes: Balance cash out elementsreddeerbto@ & Attend to guest needs gmail.com $14.00/hr.

ELEMENTS is looking for HOUSEKEEPING ROOM 5 retail sales reps. selling ATTENDANT season gift packages and * Clean and vacuum personal care products in rooms, public areas, pool Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. etc.

Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + Replenish amenities, bonus & comm. FT. No linens & towels exp. req`d. Please email * Adhere to Holiday Inn elementsreddeer@gmail.com safety standards SOAP Stories is seeking 5 $14.00/hr.

All positions are Shift work F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath & weekends products $14.55/hr. + Fax Resume to: bonus & comm. Beauty 780-702-5051 cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th HOLIDAY INN St. Red Deer. email Red Deer South, premierjobrdbto@ Gasoline Alley gmail.com

Is Seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK * Answer phone calls * Take reservations * Check in/out Guests * Balance cash out & Attend to guest needs $ 14.00/hr HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms public areas pool etc. * Replenish amenities, linens & towels * Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards $ 14.00/hr All positions are Shift Work & weekends Fax resume 780 - 702-5051

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com STORESMART Self-Storage seeking F/T Assistant Centre Manager for 40 hours per week. For job description and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

No phone calls please.

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: Trades 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Counter Attendant 8 Vacancies P/T & F.T. SHIFT WORK, $9.95 $10.98/hr. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 C & C COATINGS in Innisfail is seeking JJAM Management (1987) F/T Exp. Sandblaster.

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Competitive wages and Requires to work at these benefits. Fax resume to: Red Deer, AB locations: 403-227-1165 or email 5111 22 St. bslager@telus.net 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N Classifieds...costs so little 700 3020 22 St. Saves you so much!

Food Service Supervisor 8 DNR Powerline Vacancies, 1-2 yrs. exp.

Construction requires req’d. P/T & F.T. SHIFT Journeyman/ WORK, $9.95 - $13.50/hr.

Apprentices/Labourers for Apply in person or fax various projects in Alberta. resume to: 403-314-1303 Long term employment.

LUAU Investments Ltd. Excellent opportunity for (o/a Tim Hortons) apprenticeship. Excellent Food Counter Attendant benefit packages. Fax FT and PT positions resume to 403-742-5759 available for day, night, or email: dnrwelding1 evening and weekend @dnrwelding.ca Attention: shifts. $9.95 to $11.25 per Noel. No Phone calls hour depending on experi- please. Drug and Alcohol ence/availability. Apply in program in effect. person at any of these locations 4217 - 50 Ave Misc.

6721 - 50 Ave 7111 - 50 Ave Help 62 Carleton Ave or email timhire@telus.net

850

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Utility Construction Company seeking employee to manage and maintain all aspects of safety program in Red Deer/Olds area: Conduct training, new hire orientation and safety meetings Monitor all work for compliance with safety regulations Investigation, reporting and resolution of safety incidents Manage corporate WCB program including reporting, claims management and injury prevention Maintain COR Minimum 5 years’ experience Contact Wayne at 1-403-556-8563 or email resume to waynec@ b-lineutilities.com

DNR Pressure Welding requires B-Pressure Welder Crew Foreman, lead hands, labourers for various projects in Alberta.

Long term employment.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Ryan. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol program in effect.

DNR Pressure Welding & Powerline Construction requires Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic with experience in fleet maintenance for Heavy & Light duty trucks. Excellent benefit packages. Email resumes to Harold@ dnrwelding.ca or fax (403)742-5759 No Phone calls please. Drug and alcohol program in effect.

850

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

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Company Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

MILLWRIGHTS & WELDERS

for work in Red Deer.

Please fax resume to 1-403-229-4079 QUICKLINE CRANE INC. in Blackfalds is looking for a

MOBILE CRANE & HOISTING OPERATOR with experience.

Must be a minimum third year apprentice & have good knowledge of truck mount & all terrain cranes.

Competitive salaries includes benefits.

Must have a Class 1 license.

Please submit all resumes by email to: kyle@quicklinecrane.com

Required Immediately PARTS PERSON

Parts person required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store.

Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment.

Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry.

Must possess strong customer service skills.

DUE TO A LARGE Above average wages, INCREASE IN BUSINESS, benefits package.

Apply with resume @ PIKE WHEATON Artic Truck, Email: CHEVROLET ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com is currently seeking Fax: 403-348-5198 SERVICE ADVISORS. We offer competitive REQUIRED: wages, a great working CARPENTER/DRYWALLER environment, and a great for restoration company. benefit package.

This is a F/T position. Must Please email resume to have a valid drivers license.

Joey Huckabone Duties: Carpentry, drywall, joey@pikewheatonchev.ca painting & finishing work.

Fax or email resume to Experienced Siders Needed Call 403-588-3210 403-347-4037 or crr@telus.net or contact Al @ 403-347-4001 CELEBRATIONS SMALL Manufacturing HAPPEN EVERY DAY Company Looking for a IN CLASSIFIEDS Journeymen Framer or Equivalent with exp. Basic FLUID EXPERTS LTD. tools required: Steel Toed Boots and hard hats.

Is looking for experienced Indoors all year round TRUCKING DISPATCHER Mon-Friday work week, to start immed. occasional weekend Good Verbal, Writing, Please send resume to: Texting and Computer inquiries@sheltersrus.ca skills. Company Pickup, Fax:403-348-8109 benefits, above avg. salary and great atmosphere.

Clean Class 1 drivers Truckers/ license and abstract.

Completed Basic Training Drivers Courses. Will train the BUSY Central Alberta right individual.

Grain Trucking Company Fax Resume w/all tickets looking for Class 1 Drivers and Drivers Abstract to and/or Lease Operators.

403-346-3112 or email to We offer lots of home time, roger@fluidexperts.com benefits and a bonus GOODMEN program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not ROOFING LTD. necessary. If you have a Requires clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to SLOPED ROOFERS start making good money.

LABOURERS fax or email resume and & FLAT ROOFERS comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. info@goodmenroofing.ca Minimum Class 5 with air or (403)341-6722 and clean abstract. Exp. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Now Hiring Overhead Door Red Deer.

Tech & Helper for Ponoka overhead door company.

CLASS 1 Off Road Crude Pay DOE to $35/hr. Con- Haul in Central Ab. 7 On-7 tact Gerald 403-963-5000 Off. Must have all tickets. or email doorsondemand@ Email: hotmail.com haulingcrude@live.ca

860

Truckers/ Drivers

Truckers/ Drivers

PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position Available

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 Systems Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com Position closing date: Feb. 10, 2014

Business Opportunities

870

FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY.

For the Red Deer area.

Please contact memphisbluesprairies @gmail.com Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

860 Are you a Class 1 Driver with Heavy Equipment Operating experience that wants to be home at night?

ProMetal Management is a metal recycling company that over 20 years has built a great reputation servicing Central Alberta and beyond. We are in the midst of a growing curve, and are looking for experienced Class 1 drivers that can load and operate heavy equipment. The base of our operations located in Lacombe, AB.

We Offer: ± Local, year round work ± Sundays Off- Competitive wages ± Safety conscious work environment

You will bring:

± At least 3 years flat deck experience ± Oilfield tickets an asset ± Great attitude and strong work ethic ± At least 5 years Hoe experience (Shear or Magnet experience an asset)

ProMetal is a growing company that still offers the small business personal touch.

If you have the experience and skills we are looking for and we would like to secure one of these opportunities... Please send your resume via fax or email to:

PROMETAL MANAGEMENT INC. Email: erin@prometalscrap.com Fax: 403-782-0245

357306B8

CLASSIFICATIONS

Oilfield

880

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an experienced LINE COOK Must have References.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

730

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

- CONCRETE FINISHERS - GENERAL LABOURERS Requires an

Top Wages paid based on experience.

Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIST Pidherney’s is a progressive company that offers competitive wages, benefits and a pension plan.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at:

We require a full time Information Technologist for our Blackfalds office. MCSE/MSSA, CompTIA Network, Server, Security Certifications are preferred. CompTIA A+ Certification and experience are the minimum requirements for all applicants.

Please forward resumes to:

hr@pidherneys.com or fax to 403-845-5370

www.eaglebuilders.ca Please fax resumes to: 403-885-5516 Attn: Kevin, or email to: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca

357116B7

WHAT’S HAPPENING

760

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

364875B12

Hair Stylists

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 D3

880

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED PREPARATION Feb. 10 START

SPRING START •

Community Support Worker Program

•

Women in the Trades Program

•

Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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

ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 100 Papers $540/mo.

UNC LE

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

ANDERS AREA INGLEWOOD AREA

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

MORRISROE AREA

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

SUNNYBROOK AREA VANIER AREA

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

BOWER AREA

BEN

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wegot

WESTPARK AREA

PARTS

PERSON or APPRENTICE DUTIES INCLUDE: ATTRIBUTES:

- Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically inclined - Computer proficient - Previous experience preferred but willing to train • Full-time position.

• Must be able to work weekends.

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: 403-346-1055

- Customer Service rep - Receiving - Shipping - Inventory control

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1550

Building Please reply by email: Supplies

qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS 357214B5-11

or drop off resume, Attn Bill in Service

stuff

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

SUPERVISOR/Administrator req’d for busy downtown pharmacy. Flexible hours, part/full time. Please fax resume to 403-347-5454 or email: sproules2@shaw.ca

Concrete forming equipment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of inside corners and fillers, most of forms are in cages.

To view call Randy 403-843-1099 cell 587-679-2334. For pics and detailed equipt. list emai: thepelletiers@ xplornet.ca

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CARRIERS NEEDED ANDERS AREA

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

Anders St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

Anders Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close

DEERPARK AREA

Issard Close

74 to 129 Blosk of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo

LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close Langford Close

GRANDVIEW AREA

Lamont Close

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

Lund Close MORRISROE AREA

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $303/mo.

Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close

ALSO

Sherwood Cres.

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close

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.

Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

1010

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

Consulting

1090

WCB HELP If you have been cut off benefits or feel you have not received the benefits you are entitled.

Call Norman Zubot consulting(29yrs WCB exp) Ph: 587-521-4691.

Cell: 780-982-9822 norman.zubot@shaw.ca

Contractors

1100

Escorts

1165

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ALL TRADES Home Maintenance 28 yrs. exp.

Retired electrician. Call Rick 403-318-4267 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

Clothing

1590

2 PAIR New Men’s Size 10 lined safety toe boots. $30/ea.

1 PAIR New Men’s fleece lined zipper black boots, size 10. $25.

403-887-4981

Computers

1600

CORNER computer desk. $75. 403-343-6218 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

1280

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

BODY BALANCING, HOT STONE - 403-352-8269

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

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

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Personal Services

1315

REIKO’S Finest Asian Massage

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

Seniors’ Services

1372

Removal

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

1380

SNOW CLEARING, windrows, back yards, driveways etc.

403-550-7928

Property clean up 340-8666

HOW can you make your RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. phone ring and make some We travel. May pay cash quick cash?

Place your ad here . . . for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519 Phone 309-3300

1860

Pd. $1800. Asking $600 obo., some cat scratches on seat, but good cond.

403-597-3958 Cash Only Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Collectors' Items

1870

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

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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CARPET Steamer, Hoover Condos/ Used 3 times. $50.; New Townhouses Home depot sells $199.

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6010 NOTICE TO RICHARD DALE WITHAGE

A Statement of Claim numbered 1303 01303 was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, at Edmonton, Alberta, on January 25, 2013, and renewed for a further 3 months on January 15, 2014. The Plaintiff’s solicitor is John Belzerowski of Belzerowski Law Office #1100, 10025 – 102 A Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2Z2. The Plaintiff claims General damages, Special damages, Future damages, Interest and costs. The grounds alleged are stated in the Statement of Claim, a copy of which will be mailed to you upon request to the Plaintiff’s solicitor. If you wish to oppose the Statement of Claim, or seek other relief, you should immediately file in the Office of the Clerk of the Court, Law Courts Building, Edmonton, Alberta, a Statement of Defence or Demand of Notice or instruct your lawyer to do so. If within 25 days of this publication in a Red Deer Newspaper, you fail to file a Statement of Defence or Demand of Notice, the Plaintiff may proceed, according to the practice of the Court, to note you in default and you will not be entitled to notice of any further proceedings and the relief sought by the Plaintiff may be given in your absence. Your whereabouts being unknown, the Court ordered substitutional service upon you by this advertisement.

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THE EXPROPRIATION ACT R.S.A.2000, Chapter E-13, as amended NOTICE OF INTENTION TO EXPROPRIATE EXPROPRIATING AUTHORITY:

SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL WASTEWATER COMMISSION Bag 100 Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0

1. TAKE NOTICE that the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission intends to expropriate the leasehold interest of WM. Wyntjes & Sons Farms Ltd. in that portion of the following lands as shown on the Plan which is attached as Plan “A” to this Notice of Intention to Expropriate and legally described as follows: Short Legal 4;27;37;26;NW

THE EXPROPRIATION ACT R.S.A.2000, Chapter E-13, as amended NOTICE OF INTENTION TO EXPROPRIATE EXPROPRIATING SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL AUTHORITY: WASTEWATER COMMISSION Bag 100 Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0 1. TAKE NOTICE that the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission intends to expropriate those portions of the following lands as shown on the Plans which are attached to this Notice of Intention to Expropriate and legally described as follows: Plan A: Short Legal Title Number 4;27;37;22;SE 892 007 141 LEGAL DESCRIPTION MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 27 TOWNSHIP 37 SECTION 22 QUARTER SOUTH EAST EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AREA: 64.7 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS Plan B: Short Legal Title Number 4;27;37;26;SW 032 106 465 +1 LEGAL DESCRIPTION MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 27 TOWNSHIP 37 SECTION 26 QUARTER SOUTH WEST CONTAINING 64.7 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS EXCEPTING THEREOUT: HECTARES (ACRES) MORE OR LESS A) PLAN 0321487 - ROAD 0.402 0.993 EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS Plan C: Short Legal Title Number 4;27;37;15;NE 112 333 432 LEGAL DESCRIPTION MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 27 TOWNSHIP 37 SECTION 15 QUARTER NORTH EAST EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AREA: 64.7 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS Plan D: Short Legal Title Number 4;27;37;15;SE 112 333 431 LEGAL DESCRIPTION MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 27 TOWNSHIP 37 SECTION 15 QUARTER SOUTH EAST EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS AREA: 64.7 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS (such lands to be the subject of the taking hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Lands”).

2. The nature of the interests in the Lands to be expropriated is an easement and right-of-way.

3. The terms of the easements and right-of-ways shall be as follows: The registered owners of the Lands shall be the Grantors and the SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL WASTEWATER COMMISSION shall be the Grantee. The SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL WASTEWATER COMMISSION as Grantee shall have the following rights: (a) the right to enter into and on the Lands for any purpose relating to the easement and right-of-way; (b) the right to construct and install a sanitary pipeline including accessories and appurtenances on the Lands; (c) the right to operate and maintain the sanitary pipeline including accessories and appurtenances once the construction and installation is complete; (d) the right to repair or replace the sanitary pipeline including accessories and appurtenances; (e) the right for workers and any other persons to enter upon and access the Lands for any purpose related to the easement and right-of-way; (f) the right to have any necessary equipment and vehicles enter onto and access the Lands for any purpose related to the easement and right-of-way; (g) the right to occupy and utilize the Lands as a temporary working space in relation to conduct and completion of any or all of the foregoing; and (h) the right to register the easement and right-of-way at the appropriate Land Titles Office.

4. The purpose for which the interest in the Lands is required is for construction, operation, maintenance and replacement of a sanitary pipeline and related works to transmit wastewater to the City of Red Deer’s Wastewater Treatment Plant, as well as the occupation, use and enjoyment of temporary workspace for the purposes of facilitating the foregoing.

5. Section 6 of the Expropriation Act provides that: (1) No person may in any proceedings under this Act dispute the right of an expropriating authority to have recourse to expropriation.

(2) In any proceedings under this Act the owner may question whether the taking of the land, or the estate or interest therein, is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority.

6. Section 10 of the Expropriation Act provides that: (1) An Owner who desires an inquiry shall serve the approving authority with a notice of objection: (a) in the case of an owner served in accordance with section 8(2), within 21 days of service on him of the notice of intention; and (b) in any other case, within 21 days after the first publication of the notice of intention.

(2) The notice of objection shall state: (a) the name and address of the person objecting; (b) the nature of the objection; (c) the grounds on which the objection is based; and (d) the nature of the interest of the person objecting.

7. A person affected by the proposed expropriation does not need to serve an objection to the expropriation in order to preserve his or her right to have the amount of compensation payable determined by the Commission or the Court, as the case may be.

8. The approving authority with respect to this expropriation is: LAND COMPENSATION BOARD 1229 91 Street SW Edmonton, AB T6X 1E9

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Title Number 032 106 465 +2

Crosby shoots some advice to Canada’s flag-bearer Wickenheiser ‘wave it high and don’t trip’ 2014 winter olympics

by THE CANADIAN PRESS SOCHI, Russia — Sidney Crosby’s advice to Hayley Wickenheiser when she carries Canada’s flag Friday is to “wave it high and don’t trip.”

The Canadian men’s hockey team captain was among the first of her Olympic teammates to congratulate Wickenheiser following the announcement she would bear the Maple Leaf at the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

“We were just kidding back and forth and chatting a little bit about what Sochi might be like and what to expect,” Wickenheiser said Wednesday following a news conference at the main press centre in Sochi, Russia.

“It was nice for him to reach out and shoot me a text.”

The women’s hockey forward will be the first of Canada’s 220 athletes to enter Fisht Olympic Stadium, although not all Canadian athletes will participate because some are competing Saturday. The men’s hockey team arrives Monday.

Canada’s goal in Sochi is the win more medals than any other country and “maintain the gain” from 2010.

The host team won 26 medals, good for third overall, and the most gold with 14 in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C. Wickenheiser’s former teammate and current assistant coach Danielle Goyette also advised the flag-bearer to stay upright. Goyette was Canada’s flag-bearer at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy.

“The first thing I said was ’just make sure you don’t trip when you walk in,”’ Goyette said.

Goyette also gave Wickenheiser tips

Ricker vows to defend snowboard cross gold despite broken wrist

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

by THE CANADIAN PRESS

MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 27 TOWNSHIP 37 SECTION 26 QUARTER NORTH WEST CONTAINING 64.7 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS EXCEPTING THEREOUT: HECTARES (ACRES) MORE OR LESS A) PLAN 0321487 - ROAD 0.402 0.993 EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS (such lands to be the subject of the taking hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Lands”).

2. The nature of the interest in the Lands to be expropriated is an easement and right-of-way.

3. The terms of the easement and right-of-way shall be as follows: The registered owners of the Lands shall be the Grantors and the SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL WASTEWATER COMMISSION shall be the Grantee. The SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL WASTEWATER COMMISSION as Grantee shall have the following rights: (a) the right to enter into and on the Lands for any purpose relating to the easement and right-of-way; (b) the right to construct and install a sanitary pipeline including accessories and appurtenances on the Lands; (c) the right to operate and maintain the sanitary pipeline including accessories and appurtenances once the construction and installation is complete; (d) the right to repair or replace the sanitary pipeline including accessories and appurtenances; (e) the right for workers and any other persons to enter upon and access the Lands for any purpose related to the easement and right-of-way; (f) the right to have any necessary equipment and vehicles enter onto and access the Lands for any purpose related to the easement and right-of-way; (g) the right to occupy and utilize the Lands as a temporary working space in relation to conduct and completion of any or all of the foregoing; and (h) the right to register the easement and right-of-way at the appropriate Land Titles Office.

PLAN “B”

4. The purpose for which the interest in the Lands is required is for construction, operation, maintenance and replacement of a sanitary pipeline and related works to transmit wastewater to the City of Red Deer’s Wastewater Treatment Plant, as well as the occupation, use and enjoyment of temporary workspace for the purposes of facilitating the foregoing.

5. Section 6 of the Expropriation Act provides that: (1) No person may in any proceedings under this Act dispute the right of an expropriating authority to have recourse to expropriation.

(2) In any proceedings under this Act the owner may question whether the taking of the land, or the estate or interest therein, is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority.

PLAN “C”

6. Section 10 of the Expropriation Act provides that: (1) An Owner who desires an inquiry shall serve the approving authority with a notice of objection: (a) in the case of an owner served in accordance with section 8(2), within 21 days of service on him of the notice of intention; and (b) in any other case, within 21 days after the first publication of the notice of intention.

(2) The notice of objection shall state: (a) the name and address of the person objecting; (b) the nature of the objection; (c) the grounds on which the objection is based; and (d) the nature of the interest of the person objecting.

7. A person affected by the proposed expropriation does not need to serve an objection to the expropriation in order to preserve his or her right to have the amount of compensation payable determined by the Commission or the Court, as the case may be.

8. The approving authority with respect to this expropriation is: LAND COMPENSATION BOARD 1229 91 Street SW Edmonton, AB T6X 1E9 Plan “A”

PLAN “D”

To obtain a copy of the draft Plan of Survey, please contact the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission at (403) 507-5139.

To obtain a copy of the draft Plan of Survey, please contact the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission at (403) 507-5139.

on how to wave like the Queen and wave the flag at the same time.

“You just want to make sure it doesn’t roll around the post,” Goyette said.

Wickenheiser is a seasoned ceremonies veteran as she’s marched with the Canadian team in all five of her previous Olympic Games, including the 2000 Summer Games as a member of the softball team.

“A lot of what you remember is the hurry-up-and-wait moments before you actually go into the stadium,” she sad. “Marching actually goes by quite quickly. If there are friends and family in the stands, you try to pick out where they might be.

“The first Olympics I walked in I think I tried to take a picture every five feet and I missed most of it. This time I won’t be doing that.”

The choice of Wickenheiser by the Canadian Olympic Committee to carry the flag gives women’s hockey team a high profile in a third straight opening ceremonies.

In addition to Goyette carrying the flag in 2006, Wickenheiser recited the athletes’ oath at B.C. Place in Vancouver.

Women’s hockey continues to be front and centre on Canada’s Olympic team.

France St. Louis was Wickenheiser’s teammate the first time women’s hockey was an Olympic sport in 1998. St. Louis is now one of two assistant chef de missions of the Canadian Olympic team in Sochi.

“It’s incredible for women’s hockey,” Wickenheiser stated. “It’s great kudos to the game and to the women who play the game and the athletes who have come through hockey in Canada.”

The Canadian women open defence of their gold medal Saturday against Switzerland.

VANCOUVER — Maelle Ricker is confident she’ll be able to defend her women’s snowboard cross gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

The 35-year-old from West Vancouver, B.C., broke her wrist in training Jan. 28 and required surgery to repair the compound fracture.

“I’ve been training everyday, I’ve been doing physio everyday. My arm is getting better and better, it’s getting more range and getting the swelling out,” Ricker said during a conference call Wednesday.

“Everybody’s done such an amazing job just as a team, as a whole support network to get me out the door and get me on the plane Saturday to get me over to Russia.”

Snowboard cross involves four athletes racing down a course at the same time, often jockeying for position. Ricker’s accident happened when she lost her balance during a training run on the X Games course in Vail, Colo.

“It was in a section that I’ve ridden dozens of times previous to that run. It was nothing new or surprising. I didn’t control my speed as I should have,” said Ricker, who won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. “I did the exact opposite of what you’re supposed to do — I put my arm out to break the fall and unfortunately it broke me.”

Despite having a bone sticking of the side of her arm that “was crazy looking” less than three weeks before she was scheduled to compete in Sochi, Ricker said she was never concerned about her ability to participate.

“I wasn’t worried about that because I had so much support and reassurance right away that I was getting the absolute best medical care on the planet,” she said.

“I definitely felt that support and reassurance right away.”

Ricker said she won’t get back on her snowboard until she reaches Sochi. She expects there to be some pain when

she competes, mainly at the top of the course when she pulls herself out of the start gate.

She said some of the exercises she’s been doing since the injury involve simulating a snowboard cross start using bungee cords and pulleys.

“I think it’s going to be better than maybe what I think, based just on my progress the last few days,” said Ricker.

“Everything is moving so

much better than what I would ever imagine a week (post-operation) from breaking an arm.

“I think it’s going to go quite well. I’m really positive about this.”

Ricker and her fellow women’s snowboard cross competitors will get their first look at the Sochi course Feb. 12, with the initial training session scheduled for two days later.

The race is scheduled to go Feb. 16.

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LIFESTYLE Husband should be ashamed

HOROSCOPES Thursday, Feb. 6 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Axl Rose, 52; Natalie Cole, 64; Kris Humphries, 29 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The astral planet that rules our speech skills and all sorts of self-expression through communication means, Mercury is going retrograde as of today.

Yes, it’s officially that time of the year where startASTRO ing anything new will not bring us DOYNA success, but rather push us to rethink our life and put a pause on its current activities. The Taurus Moon sits comfortably here. Bring in the oldfashioned!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this will be a highly dynamic year for you! As much as you will focus on your domestic front, there will be lots of action going on. If you are doing repairs around the home or if you want to relocate to a more comfortable space, this is the year to do it all!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A strong impetus will make you want to escape your day-to-day duties and responsibilities. Things might seem stagnating for now. Thoughts become introverted

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Dealings with others may not show you much progress. Avoid pushing matters further than they can go.

There is a time and place for everything, and today, simply slow down the pace of things and take the time to smell the roses.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You might have more than one reason to smile today as the Moon is visiting your own sign, which brings more stamina and energy to your day.

If possible, try to postpone crucial decisions for later.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may unintentionally find yourself in some entanglements today. You are not quite sure of the messages you are receiving right now and how to decipher them.

You might act too confidently or out of emotional impulses.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You have a spirit of camaraderie and you want to be part of a group. This is not a day to stay home alone, but to rather engage in the company of others. Chattiness and some juicy gossip can lighten the mood of the day.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do not expect quick results or progress. Even if your relationships with others do not bring you much expected growth, do not let disagreements get to you but rather, let things cool down for a while. Be patient and do not be so tough on yourself either.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You want to explore the bolder side in you today.

The need to expand your horizons to new intellectual levels knows no bound-

aries. At the same time, there’s too much confusion reigning around you today making you wonder of the next steps ahead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may feel overly emotional today and might manifest the need to be with a partner right now. Superficial talks and unimportant issues do not appeal to you.

Whatever experience you might live, it has to have a certain level of intensity to it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You like to live life in the fast lane, but today you will have to stay on the sidewalk. Do not expect others to react too quickly to your warm gestures or affectionate mood either. A little pause can be beneficial.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have plenty of tasks and responsibilities to take care of today. Do not rush things as you may encounter more confusion.

Your priorities might seem jumbled or simply, hard to pin down. Give yourself a well-deserved break.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A great desire to manifest your unique talents may present itself today. You crave new experiences and you can easily tap into your creative side. Enjoy your share of fun without expecting too much in return.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a strong drive, which tends to want you to escape reality or your everyday duties. Do not let this escapism tendency get to you simply because you are bored with the ordinary life. Work on your fighting spirit.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Dear Annie: I recently found out that my husband has been calling escorts who advertise online. I am not sure whether he ever hooked up with any of them. I am just shocked that he is doing this and that it has been going on for quite some time.

I feel stupid that it took me so long to pick up on it.

It appears he and his buddies had this system going to cover for each other when they comMITCHELL municated & SUGAR with these w o m e n .

And then he gives me a Christmas card that says how much he loves me. It’s the same as cheating. Let this be a heads up to all the women out there: Check your husband’s cellphone bills. You may be surprised to find out who they are talking to. Why am I the one to feel ashamed because of what he did? — Pennsylvania Dear Pennsylvania: You feel ashamed because you think he made a fool of you. The man you loved and have been married to for so long was behaving in a way that shocked and humiliated you. He is the one who should be ashamed of being so disrespectful toward you and your marriage.

Dear Annie: Whenever we are at a party, especially during the holiday season, my usually responsible husband invariably drinks to excess. He gets loud and then louder. A jolly drunk, but still a drunk.

I’m not a teetotaler, but I stop at one or two glasses. I get that I’m not responsible for my husband’s behavior, but it is both embarrassing and frightening. Who is this guy? When I express my concerns (the day after), he becomes petulant or surly.

We’ve been married for 43 years, and this behavior has developed only over the past few.

Other than being the designated driver, how do I deal with my party animal? —His Wet Blanket Dear Wet Blanket: If this behavior is fairly recent, please suggest to your husband that he get a complete checkup. Ask to go with (so you can mention your concerns to the doctor). Most offices will also permit you to alert the doctor by phone or letter. Another suggestion is to videotape his drunken behavior so he can see for himself how out of control he is. We hope it helps.

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When I was a bank teller in Miami, the Federal Banking Commission held a mandatory information workshop on how to prevent bank holdups. Two segments in particular apply to this issue. All greeters and tellers were instructed to: 1. Look the customer in the eye while greeting him/her. This will deter any motive other than banking. ™ * 2. Carry on a very brief, pleasant conversation while handling all transactions. This puts any intentioned robber ill at ease because they know you will be able to identify them.

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